Graduate Programs in Mechanical Engineering

Our graduate degrees have limited formal course requirements. You and your adviser can tailor a program to your needs and educational goals. With our many tenured faculty and the breadth of mechanical engineering focus areas, you can pursue an area in the mechanical engineering field that is important to you.

Our research programs are especially strong in areas such as energy conversion and storage, combustion, controls, biomedical devices, design and manufacturing, bioinspired engineering solutions, and future transportation systems.

Students usually select courses and write a thesis or paper in one or more of the following general fields:

Thermal Sciences

Heat Transfer
Combustion
Fluid Mechanics

Mechanical Sciences

Systems and Controls
Dynamics, Vibrations and Noise Control
Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Design

Suggested Core Courses

The following listing of suggested core courses is provided for guidance. Your adviser and/or committee may suggest alternative or additional courses. Most of the courses listed below are offered on a regular basis. New courses may be offered occasionally and numbered as ME597x. Check the schedule of courses on LionPath for a list of courses offered each semester.

Heat Transfer

ME 512 Heat Transfer--Conduction
ME 513 Heat Transfer--Convection
ME 514 Heat Transfer--Radiation
ME 521 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics I
ME 523 Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Problems

Combustion

ME 521 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics I
ME 530 Fundamentals of Combustion
ME 532 Turbulent and Two-Phase Combustion
ME 535 Physics of Gases
ME 537 Laser Diagnostics for Combusion

Fluids

ME 512 Heat Transfer--Conduction
ME 513 Heat Transfer--Convection
ME 520 Compressible Flow II
ME 521 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics I
ME 522 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics II
ME 523 Numerical Solutions Applied to Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Problems
AERSP 423 Introduction to Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics