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This page contains the current requirements for the bachelor degree in mechanical engineering. These requirements have been revised most recently in October 2009. Please remember that one should be following your own catalog year, which may differ slightly from the requirements below.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM
Total requirement - 48 courses

MATHEMATICS - 4 courses

Math 220,224,230 Calculus
Math 234  Multiple Integration and Vector Calculus

ENGINEERING ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER PROFICIENCY - 4 courses

Gen Eng 205-1,2,3,4 Engineering Analysis

BASIC SCIENCES - 4 courses

Phys 135-2,3 General Physics
Chem 101, 102 General Inorganic Chemistry or Chem 171 Accelerated General Inorganic Chemistry

DESIGN AND COMMUNICATIONS - 3 courses

Dsgn 106-1,2 Engineering Design and Communication and English 106-1,2 Writing in Special Contexts
Gen Comm 102 or 103

BASIC ENGINEERING - 5 courses
Thermodynamics:

ME 220  Thermodynamics

Fluids and Solids:

ME 241  Fluid Mechanics I
CEE 216  Mechanics of Materials

Materials Science:

MSc 201  Principles of the Properties of Materials

Electrical Science:

ME 233  Electronics Design
(Students planning to take advanced EECS courses as electives may substitute
EECS 221 - Fundamentals of Circuits)

SOCIAL SCIENCES/HUMANITIES THEME REQUIREMENT - 7 courses

UNRESTRICTED ELECTIVES - 5 courses

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM - 16 courses

Required - 7 courses

ME 202     Mechanics II
ME 224     Experimental Engineering I
ME 240     Intro. to Mech. Design and Manufacturing
ME 315     Theory of Machines - Design of Elements
ME 340-1  Computer Integrated Manufacturing
ME 377     Heat Transfer
ME 390     Introduction to Dynamic Systems

Advanced Study - 4 courses

One course from
ME 314     Theory of Machines – Dynamics
ME 363     Mechanical Vibrations
ME 391     Fundamentals of Control Systems I or EECS 360 Introduction to Feedback Systems

One course from
ME 362     Stress Analysis
ME 365     Finite Elements for Stress Analysis
CEE 327    Finite Element Methods in Mechanics

One course from
ME 370     Thermodynamics II
ME 373     Engineering Fluid Mechanics

One design course from
ME 340-2 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
ME 366     Finite Elements for Design & Optimization
ME 398     Engineering Design

Electives - 5 courses (no more than 2 units of 399 are allowed)*

2 300-level Mechanical Engineering courses
2 200- or 300-level engineering, science or mathematics technical elective
1 300-level engineering or an approved science or mathematics technical electives*

*One elective must be in mathematics or the basic sciences.  It may be any:

• 300 level course in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics or Statistics
• IEMS 201 or IEMS 202
• 200 or 300 level course in Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth & Planetary Sciences or Biological Sciences with the following exceptions: PHYS 301, CHEM 393, BIOL 307.

Students are encouraged to concentrate technical electives in an area of interest.  Seven areas of concentration, including appropriate courses and descriptions, are listed in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum.  In the case that the student wishes to count as technical electives five courses that do not satisfy the conditions above, the student must file a petition with the department listing the five courses to be counted toward the technical electives.  If the five courses satisfy the requirements of one of the suggested areas of concentration and meet the basic science requirement, the petition will be granted automatically.