Career Opportunities
Graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree
The graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering is an expert technician qualified to:
- Design efficient mechanical systems to be functional, productive, and energy-saving;
- Sketch of innovative machines and their requirements;
- Analyse functioning and resistance of the machine components;
- Select materials and technological processes to produce components and products;
- Identify and analyse problems and work in a team to find the right solutions;
- Efficiently manage and use machinery in an industrial plant.
Graduates with a Bachelor’s Degree usually work for:
- Manufacturing companies;
- Production and service plants;
- Service networks;
- Public administration;
- Research Centres.
Graduates with a Bachelor’s Degree can decide to take ESAME DI STATO – a national exam to assess your education and knowledge of the professional regulations – and then obtain your Professional Registration (ALBO DELL’ ORDINE DEGLI INGEGNERI – SEZIONE B).
Employment rate
Graduates employed 1 year after graduation, except postgraduates
Employed within 6 months
Percentage of graduates employed within 6 months after their graduation
Employees
Contract types
Company size
SOURCE: The Career Service coordinates the survey in collaboration with the Servizio Studi di Ateneo e the Alumni Association of Politecnico di Milano.
Graduate with a Master’s Degree
The graduate with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering is an expert technician qualified to:
- Design and manage industrial production systems, technological processes, industrial installations, manufacturing and logistics systems;
- Manage maintenance, industrial technologies, and automation of industrial systems;
- Design and oversee integrated production systems using a quality-oriented approach;
- Design mechanical systems equipped with active and smart high-tech systems;
- Solve problems using a systemic approach product-oriented and efficiently implementing simulation methods and technologies based on prototyping, factory, and virtual-humans models;
- Autonomously develop and manage projects that deal with size, development, choice ad usage of internal combustion engines and turbomachinery;
- Design mechanical components and systems through innovative methods;
- Work in environments in which solving problems through innovative and technological solutions is a highly-valued competitive skill;
- Design, build and manage safe and eco-friendly vehicles.
Graduates with a Master’s Degree usually work for:
- Manufacturing companies;
- Production and service plants;
- Service networks;
- Public administration;
- Research Centres.
Graduates with a Master’s Degree can decide to take ESAME DI STATO – a national exam to assess your education and knowledge of the professional regulations – and then obtain your Professional Registration (ALBO DELL’ ORDINE DEGLI INGEGNERI – SEZIONE A).
Employment rate
Graduates employed 1 year after graduation, except Ph.d. students
Employed within 6 months
Percentage of graduates employed within 6 months after their graduation
Employees
Contract types
Company size
SOURCE: The Career Service coordinates the survey in collaboration with the Servizio Studi di Ateneo e the Alumni Association of Politecnico di Milano.
Doctor of Philosophy
The Ph.D. Programme in Mechanical Engineering combines research, technology, and innovation to provide high-skilled scientific education.
The Doctor of Philosophy can:
- Work in international forefront industrial companies;
- Work for different Universities, both national and international.
For further information on the career path after your Ph.D., visit the website http://www.dottorato.polimi.it.
Job search
The Career Service aims at informing and preparing students about the labour market. Over the academic year, the Career Service organises several events and meetings in collaboration with some companies.
3 ANNUAL JOB FAIRS: Career Day, International Career Day e Career Day SME
- Career Day is the biggest career fair in Italy for technicians. Each year more than 150 enterprises meet more than 5.000 students and graduates.
- International Job Fair is an international fair exclusively for international companies offering internships and jobs abroad.
- Career Day SME is a fair that involves domestic SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises).
RECRUITING WEEK
Every last week of the month, aka Recruiting Week, companies present their open job and hold a one-to-one interview with students and graduates that comply with the job profile.
CAREER EVENTS
Round Tables, Career Path, Career Talk, Career Competition, and other meetings are a series of events for students to understand the logic of the labour market, to meet companies and learn about their offers, and discuss with company managers. During the meetings, students cover specific themes and carry out analysis on unique case-study. This helps raise awareness about the labour market requirements and how to improve their soft skills.
PREPARATION FOR THE INTERNSHIP
Held on 4 different days, the Preparation for the Internship modules are a tool for professional orientation to prepare third-year students attending the professional track to serve their compulsory internship.
ASSESSMENT MEETINGS
During the Assessment Meeting, students simulate a group interview carried out by company assessors. The objective is to become familiar with the most required “soft” skills, learn personal strengths and mimic the whole selection process.
CAREER SERVICE AWARDS
The Career Service Awards programme is a certified and customised orientation process, especially for students. After taking part in 4 different events (Orientation programme with enterprises, Try an Assessment, Create your Career Plan, Meet your Career Advisor), participants obtain an online badge to make their cv unique.
CAREER ADVISOR
Moreover, the service Meet your Career Advisor is always available. Through it, students receive support to improve their cv, learn how to carry out a successful interview and get advice on entering the labour market, better understand every industry, job, and required skills.
On the Career service website, you will find the updated calendar with the upcoming events, the Employment Figures, and the platform where job and internship offers are posted.
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