Meet the MECHuman
This page outlines the strategy and research flagships for the operationalization of the mission of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Our strategy
We research, teach, develop and create solutions that are safe and efficient, targeting social need and shaping a sustainable future, based on scientific know-how, and experimental analysis with digital design, data-driven processing and advanced control in:
- Marine and Arctic Technology
with Aalto Ice and Wave Tank as key infrastructure - Materials (and manufacturing) to Products
with Aalto University Design Factory and ADDLAB as key infrastructure - (engineering mechanics and) Mechatronics
with Center of Excellence on High-Speed Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems and Aalto Industrial Internet Campus as key infrastructure

inDEPthMEC
inDEPthMEC is a strategic platform, operated in a transversal approach to the department's research groups. Through inDEPthMEC, we enhance and collect the fundamental research produced within MECHuman. Other characteristics of the department's strategic platform are:
- It collects and applies the department's strategic funding for the operationalisation of its strategic research flagships.
- It is aligned with the university's strategy towards fundamental research with societal impact.
- It is the platform for disseminating good practices and installed capacities in the modelling, simulating and measuring of materials, structures, energy flows and machine performance.
- It is the platform for the management of the Aalto Seminar Series on Mechanical Engineering Sciences.