Coursework and Courses

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Handbook

A petition to waive any of the requirements in this section requires approval of the graduate faculty through your Advisory Committee and the ME Graduate Program Director. Equivalency of courses offered as substitutes will be determined by the last faculty member to teach the required course.

Transfer to the thesis option may be done at any time. However, all of the requirements of that degree program must be met. This includes the appointment of a new advisory committee and possibly a new major professor, the formulation of a new plan of study, and the identification of a research area from which a thesis can be produced. Courses taken in the non-thesis program may be applied to the thesis program only at the discretion of the new advisory committee.

Course Requirements

Declare a primary specialization in one of the following areas: Thermal Sciences, Mechanical Systems, or Materials Science and Engineering.

Take a minimum of 3 core courses within your primary area of specialization. The list of approved core courses are the following:

* Required for all Materials Majors

Take 1 course from the following list:

Mathematics

MATH 4038 Mathematical Methods in Engineering

MATH 4340 Partial Differential Equations

MATH 4036 Complex Variables

ME 7533 Numerical Methods in Applied Mechanics

Other course requirements include:

Take a minimum of three core courses within your primary area of specialization
Take one core course from one of the other two ME specialization areas outside your primary area
Take a minimum of five ME courses
Take a minimum of twelve (12) credit hours of course work at the 7000 level (4 courses)
Register for ME 7901 (ME Graduate Seminar); required to register and attend every semester (excluding summers).