The aerospace industry provides job opportunities each year for many mechanical engineering graduates. The aerospace engineering area of concentration is intended to provide specialty courses which focus the application of basic mechanical engineering skills on aerospace systems.

The courses that comprise this area of concentration:

• ME 305 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
• ME 405 Theoretical Aerodynamics*
• MA 330 Vector Calculus*
• ME 411 Propulsion Systems
• ME 427 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ME 461 Aerospace Design
• ME 503 Viscous Flow
• ME 510 Gas Dynamics
• ME 512 Light Weight Structures
• MA 336 Boundary Value Problems
• PH 322 Celestial Mechanics and Solar System Physics

Any student who completes five of these recommended courses may recieve, upon request, a letter from the Department Head attesting to the fact that the student has completed the requirements in the aerospace engineering area of concentration in the Mechanical Engineering Department. With proper planning, students should be able to take at least five of these course offerings without overload.

* Select only one, either ME405 or MA330 will count toward the Aerospace concentration.

Many mechanical engineering graduates will work in tasks related to the manufacture of various products. The manufacturing and production engineering area of concentration is intended to bridge the gap between the analytical and design courses which are the heart of the professional program and the practical problems of producing acceptable hardware, on time, at a profit.

The courses that comprise this area of concentration:

List 1:

• EMGT 330 Introduction to Engineering Management
• EMGT 427 Project Management
• EMGT 588 Quality Management
• EMGT 589 Manufacturing Systems
• MA 385 Quality Methods
• ME 317 Design for Manufacturing
• ME 417 Advanced Materials Engineering
• ME 435 Robotics
• ME 520 Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing

When chosing humanities and social science electives, we suggest that the following are most pertinent to the manufacturing/production working environment:

List 2:

• SL 151 Principles of Economics
• SL 171 Principles of Psychology
• SL 350 Managerial Accounting
• SL 351 Managerial Economics
• VA 353 Industrial Organizations
• VA 453 The Entrepreneur
• VA 454 Financial Economics

With proper planning, students should be able to take the elective offerings in this area without overload. Any student who completes five courses from List 1 and three of the recommended HSS courses from List 2 may receive, upon request, a letter from the Department Head attesting to the fact that the student has completed the requirements in the manufacturing and production engineering area of concentration in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

The broad field of solid mechanics prepares the mechanical engineering graduate with many career opportunities in areas such as stress analysis, dynamics, vibrations, materials, and the design of mechanical components and systems.

The courses that comprise this area of concentration:

• ME 417 Advanced Materials Engineering
• ME 422 Intro. Finite Element Fund.
• ME 512 Light Weight Structures
• ME 513 Environmental Noise
• ME 518 Advanced Kinematics
• ME 522 Advanced Finite Element Analysis
• EM 403 Advanced Mechanics of Materials
• EM 406 Vibration Analysis
• EM 502 Advanced Dynamics
• EM 503 Advanced Vibration Analysis
• EM 505 Theory of Elasticity

With proper planning, students should be able to take five elective courses in the area without overload. Any student who completes five of these recommended courses may request a letter from the Department Head attesting to the fact that the student has completed the requirements in the solid mechanics area of concentration within the M.E. Department.

Many Mechanical Engineering graduates will work with engineering systems that are based on the principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. The Mechanical Engineering curriculum offers an opportunity for the student to concentrate his studies on the analysis and design of these systems. The courses that comprise the thermal fluid area of concentration may be classified according to whether the main emphasis is on the system or on the thermal or fluid concepts which underpin its design and operation.

Thermal Fluid Systems

• ME 407 Power Plants
• ME 408 Renewable Energy
• ME 409 Air Conditioning
• ME 410 Internal Combustion Engines
• ME 411 Propulsion Systems
• ME 426 Turbomachinery

Thermal Fluid Sciences

• ME 402 Advanced Heat Transfer
• ME 403 Numerical Heat Transfer
• ME 405 Theoretical Aerodynamics
• ME 427 Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ME 501 Advanced Thermodynamics
• ME 502 Topics in Heat Transfer
• ME 503 Viscous Fluid Flow
• ME 510 Gas Dynamics
• EM 501 Topics in Fluid Mechanics

In order to complete the requirements in the thermal fluid areas of concentration a student must select five electives from the lists such that at least one course is taken from the "Thermal Fluid Systems" list and at least two courses are taken from the "Thermal Fluid Sciences List".

With proper planning students should be able to take five elective courses in the area without overload. Any student who completes these requirements may recieve, upon request, a letter from the the Department Head attesting to the fact that the student has completed the requirements in the thermal fluid area of concentration in the Mechanical Engineering Department.