University of Cyprus aims to establish itself as a Pioneer Research Institution achieving International Scientific Recognition in European Higher Education, offering Competitive Programmes and to become a Centre of Excellence in the wider Euro - Mediterranean Region.
Since the early days of Hephaistos, Daedalos, Archimedes and Heron, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering has played a key role in serving the needs of modern society. Manufacturing Engineering focuses on inventing, designing and making an enormous variety of novel useful products such as airplanes and spacecraft, robots and computer chips, sporting goods and medical instruments, while Mechanical Engineering deals with studying, understanding and improving their operation. The field of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering is also the gateway for rising interdisciplinary areas of research, such as Nanotechnology and Biomedical Engineering, which promise to dramatically transform our lives and society in the near future. In addition to automobiles, air conditioners and water-bikes that we use and work with every day, society depends on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineers to provide new technologies and tools for its needs in health, safety, information, industry, space exploration, transportation, agriculture and food, and power production, along with education, research and professional employment of young people.
Applicants to the M.Sc. programme must possess the equivalent of a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical and/or Manufacturing Engineering, or in a related field of science or engineering, from the University of Cyprus or other accredited institution or programme.
Candidates must submit an application form to the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering within the announced time limits. All applications are evaluated by the Graduate Studies Committee of the MME Department, which makes suggestions to the Council of the Department for final approval of the selected candidates. The applicants to the M.Sc. programme are selected according to the following criteria, while the MME Department reserves its right to fill only as many announced graduate student positions as the Department deems appropriate:
• Quality of the applicant’s background in breadth and depth, and past performance in his/her undergraduate or graduate studies
• Evidence of ability for original and innovative research in the proposed area of study
• Relevance of the proposed field of research to the interests of the department, the University and the society
• Availability of graduate positions in the programme and the necessary infrastructure and resources to support the proposed M.Sc. work