Professors: Ames, Bandyopadhyay, Bibel, Cavalli, Grewal, Kulkarni (Chair and Graduate Director), Semke and Zahui
Program Description
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers graduate programs leading to either the Master of Science (M.S.) or Master of Engineering (MEngr) degrees. The M.S. degree is a research-oriented degree that is available in either thesis or non-thesis options. The non-thesis M.S. degree requires completion of an independent study. The MEngr degree is an engineering practice-oriented degree that requires completion of an engineering design project.
The department offers combined B.S./Master’s programs that allow a student to complete a master’s degree in as little as one year beyond the bachelor’s degree. The master’s degree may be either an M.S. or MEngr. See “Combined Degree Program” under the School of Engineering and Mines section for additional details.
Admission Requirements
- Students who hold a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited program and have an acceptable GPA are accepted without the need for the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
- Students who hold an undergraduate engineering or science degree other than mechanical engineering may be admitted to provisional or qualified status with an obligation to acquire additional background in mechanical engineering as appropriate.
- The GRE general test will be required for those applicants with undergraduate degrees from other than ABET accredited programs.
- Students seeking admission to the M.S. program must have an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 2.75 or a GPA of at least 3.00 for the junior and senior years of their undergraduate program.
- Students seeking admission to the MEngr program must have an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 2.50 or a GPA of at least 2.75 for the junior and senior years of their undergraduate programs.
- Students seeking admission to a combined B.S./Master’s program must have a GPA of at least 3.0 at the time of admission.
Degree
Requirements
The minimum degree requirements will be those listed by the Graduate School. Additionally, the following requirements must be satisfied.
Master of Science
Thesis option—ompletion of a research project and its presentation in a thesis.
Non-thesis option—ccompletion of an independent study.
Master of Engineering
- Completion of a design project.
- At least 12 credits of engineering design and at least 9
credits of engineering science, basic science and/or
mathematics.
The research project, independent study, or design project may be from interdisciplinary areas such as bioengineering or environmental engineering, or they may be topics in design, manufacturing processes, vibrations, stress analysis, materials, power, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, or combustion.
Course Offerings
A minimum of one 500-level course will be offered each semester. The courses will alternate between the thermal science-fluids-energy areas and the mechanics-materials-manufacturing-processes areas. All graduate students who have not completed their coursework will be required to enroll in these courses. A course will not be repeated in less than two years unless by student demand. All other courses listed will be taught on appropriate student demand.
Courses
514. Processing of Advanced Materials. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Engr 203, ME 301. Structural ceramics, metal matrix composites, superalloys are considered as advanced materials because of their high specific strength. Modulus and high temperature resistance. However, machining of these materials presents a big challenge to manufacturing engineers. The course will discuss in detail the latest achievements for cost effective machining of these materials.
523. Advanced Machine Design. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Mechanical Engineering 322 and 323. Advanced design and analysis of machine components; kinematic synthesis and analysis of mechanisms, force analysis, rotor dynamics, gyrodynamics, stresses in thick cylinders and flywheels, lubrication, statistical considerations, energy methods, curved beams.
524. Deformation and Fracture. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 301 or consent of instructor. Aspects of elasticity theory, continuum mechanics and fracture mechanics. Fundamental relationships between material structure and engineering properties. Principles and properties of composite materials.
526. Advanced Vibrations. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 426. Advanced vibration theory including the solutions of multi-degree of freedom coupled systems, continuous systems, energy methods, non-linear vibrations.
529. Advanced Finite Element Methods. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 429 or consent of instructor. Computer-aided techniques for finite element analysis of engineering systems. Topics include solution algorithm for nonlinear methods, large deflection, inelastic and contact analysis, and analysis of vibrating systems.
532. Advanced Dynamics. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Engr 202 and Math 266. Kinematics and kinetics of plane and three-dimensional motion, vector mechanics, general methods of linear and angular momentum, generalized coordinates, and variational methods including Hamilton’s and Lagrange’s equations.
545. Fluidized-Bed Combustion Engineering. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 306, Mechanical Engineering 474, or consent of instructor. Fluidized-bed hydrodynamics and heat transfer. Design of fluidized-bed coal combustors. Combustion models and their significance.
574. Advanced Heat Transfer. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Mechanical Engineering 474, or consent of instructor. Advanced conduction in isotropic media in two and three dimensions steady and unsteady problems. Advanced convection including solution of Prandtl Boundary layer equations. Numerical methods, Fourier series, Bessel functions, LaPlace transforms, and error functions. Radiative heat transfer.
590. Special Topics. 1 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Investigation of special topics dictated by student and faculty interests. May be repeated up to a total of 6 credits.
591. Research in Mechanical Engineering. 1 to 6 credits.
595. Design Project. 3 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Restricted to Master of Engineering students and subject to approval by the student’s advisor. A three to six credit course of engineering design experience involving individual effort and formal written report. S/U grading only.
998. Thesis. 1 to 9 credits. Development and documentation of scholarly activity demonstrating proficiency in Mechanical Engineering at the master’s level. S/U grading only.
426. Mechanical Vibrations. 3 credits.
428. Advanced Manufacturing Processes. 3 credits.
429. Intro to Finite Element Analysis. 3 credits.
446. Gas Turbines. 3 credits.
449. Internal Combustion Engines. 3 credits.
451. Heating and Air Conditioning. 3 credits.
464. Computational Fluid Dynamics. 3 credits.
476. Intermediate Fluid Mechanics. 3 credits.
477. Compressible Fluid Flow. 3 credits.
490. Special Laboratory Problems. 1 to 3 credits. |
