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Overview

The agri-food sector is one of Ireland’s most important indigenous manufacturing sectors, accounting for the employment of around 170,000 people. Enterprise Ireland (EI) has identified Agricultural Machinery as one of the dominant engineering sub sectors within Irish Engineering, recognising this area as having significant growth potential in the coming years.

If you have a particular interest in the design, manufacturing, operation and maintenance of agricultural machineries, then Agricultural Engineering is for you.

Combining Agricultural Science and Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on power, this degree is designed to deliver high-quality engineers to the agricultural and agri-food industry.

Students will gain transferable knowledge and skills in the following areas:

Design
Manufacturing
Agricultural Sciences
This degree is very hands-on with weekly practicals classes, workshop practice, individual and group projects as well as work placement experience. Over the duration of the programme, each student will receive, on average, 24 hours of tuition per week. Students will be based between the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at ATU Galway campus and ATU Mountbellew campus.

Career opportunities

It is envisaged that graduates from the programme will be employed in a wide diversity of agricultural engineering related disciplines both nationally and internationally, namely;

Technical/engineering drafting, field technicians
Agricultural engineering design/systems design
Agricultural systems (destructive and non-destructive testing)
Agricultural processing, engineering sales, service etc.
Cognate disciplines which involving heavy machinery design (i.e. Forestry, Peat & Mining)
Bioenergy/biomass sector
Some graduates may also become self-employed.

Apply now! UG First Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG Second Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG Third Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG Fourth Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG First Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG Second Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG Third Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025
Apply now! UG Fourth Year 2025/26
Application deadline
31 Jul 2025, 23:59:59
Ireland Time
Studies commence
1 Sept 2025