Mechanical Engineering
Among the most popular subfields of engineering, mechanical engineering is also one of the most broad and versatile disciplines, with job opportunities ranging from the nuclear power and defense sectors to medical and environmental fields.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
Mechanical engineers shape the world around us.
From designing autonomous robots and sustainable energy systems to developing life-saving medical devices, this field combines creativity, problem-solving, and technology to improve lives.
At Randolph College, you’ll gain hands-on experience, industry connections, and a foundation for innovation.
Why Study Mechanical Engineering at Randolph?
Degrees offered
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The Randolph Experience
Faculty Mentorship
From your first day on campus, you will work closely with your faculty advisor to identify and shape your academic interests and vision into your own personal Randolph Plan.
Together, you will create an experience that allows you to develop your skills, challenge yourself, explore your interests and achieve your goals.
This includes both curricular and co-curricular experiences.
A Community of Scholars
Small Classes
Randolph classes are full of engagement and interaction. Students get the full attention of their professors and develop camaraderie with their classmates.
The Honor Code
Randolph students live by our Honor Code and act with the highest integrity in both academic and social life.
Intercultural Competence
All Randolph students learn global citizenship with the capability to accurately understand and adapt to cultural differences and find commonality.
Unique Opportunities
An emphasis on “learning by doing” is one reason Randolph students graduate with skills that prepare them for life and work.
Research
Participation in real world research and creative work is one of the hallmarks of a Randolph College education.
The Center for Student Research helps students at Randolph College engage in meaningful research that enhances their education and their preparation for careers, graduate studies, and other opportunities after college.
They will even help you secure funding.
Randolph’s Innovative Student Experience (RISE) awards up to $2,000 to support research, creative works, and other scholarly activities to students, who may apply at any time to use a grant for projects beginning in their second year.
Summer Research Program
Spend the summer working closely with a professor and focused on a specific aspect of comparative thought.
Randolph’s intensive eight-week Summer Research Program enables students to work with professors on a research of their own design; live in a residence hall on campus, participate in on-campus summer events, attend special seminars with guest speakers; and share the progress and results of their research.
Internships
Randolph students put classroom learning into practice by participating in internships.
Internships at companies in the mechatronics field help to provide not only a firsthand experience of engineering practice, but in many instances lead to full-time jobs upon graduation.
The Career Development Center works closely with industry representatives to provide listings of engineering jobs and internships that connect students to exciting work experiences.
Symposium of Artists and Scholars
Modeled after a traditional academic conference, the SAS brings together students of all disciplines to share the results and highlights of the best work being produced at the College – oral presentations, readings of creative works, performances, exhibitions of student artwork, and poster presentations.
The symposium provides students with valuable experience in public speaking to large audiences and making one-on-one professional presentations experts and decision makers.
Society of Physics Students
The College has an active chapter of the Society for Physics Students, dedicated to celebrating the fun side of science and promoting STEM through community service.
Consistently recognized as one of the most outstanding chapters in the nation by the national organization, recent activities include
- creating imaginative wheelchair halloween costumes for local children,
- building a human-sized hamster wheel and a giant Newton’s cradle,
- organizing the SCIFEST science festival for local schoolchildren, and
- attending conferences of the American Physical Society.
Community Service : SCIFEST
Every year the Society of Physics Students organizes and hosts SciFest, a 3-day science and learning festival for local schoolchildren.
Randolph student and faculty volunteers lead activities, exhibits, labs, and talks designed to get young girls and boys interested in and excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
In addition to science activites for both elementary and preschool students, guests enjoy national guest speakers, a Pi Day fun run, women in science panel, poetry jam, LEGO league, drones and robots, petting zoo, and more.
The free event draws thousands of children and families to campus every year.
Faculty
Peter Sheldon
Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division Head
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Assistant Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering
Read More... Siavash SattarJonathan Skelton
Assistant Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering
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Randolph students can take advantage of unique programs which give them a more enriching education than can be found anywhere else.
Randolph students work with faculty mentors to explore a broad range of disciplines as they chart their academic path.
The Randolph Innovative Student Experience (RISE) program provides every student a $2,000 grant to fund research, creative work, experiential learning or other scholarly pursuits.
Two courses per half-mester means you get to focus in and dig deep into your coursework while still having time for the rest of the college experience. Two classes. Seven weeks. Repeat.
Randolph graduates learn to think critically, solve problems and work well with others. They are prepared to succeed in all aspects of life.
