Concurrent Majors, Minors, and Certificates

Multiple Majors

As a Mechanical Engineering student, you may earn degrees in more than one major. The majors may be within the same college or in different colleges. For more information, please visit the College of Engineering's Multiple Majors webpage.

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

To pursue concurrent Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering majors, you must first be admitted to the ME program and then add BME as a second major. A request to pursue concurrent majors should be submitted through LionPATH as early as possible after entering the Mechanical Engineering major.

A suggested academic plan for the concurrent ME/BME major is available at our Academic Plans page. For more information about declaring BME as your second major and developing an academic plan, please contact your academic adviser.

Minors and Certificates

A minor consists of at least 18 credits that supplement a major. For the ME degree, required courses and technical electives can often be used to satisfy some requirements for a minor within Engineering. If carefully planned, some of these minors can be completed with only a few additional credits. For detailed policies and requirements regarding minors, please refer to Senate Policy 59-00 and 59-10 .

A certificate is intended to foster incremental or targeted development in an area of specialty or competency within a discipline or field of study. Certificates typically consist of 9–15 credits of coursework. For detailed policies and requirements regarding certificates, please refer to Senate Policy 59-20 .

For the Mechanical Engineering degree, required courses and technical electives may be used to satisfy some of the requirements for engineering minors/certificates. The ME Technical Electives webpage provides insight into how courses may be used to fulfill both major and minor/certificate requirements.

See the Undergraduate Bulletin to learn more about minors offered at Penn State