Areas of Concentration
Students
who complete recommended courses in an
area of concentration may receive, upon
request, a letter from the Department
Head attesting to the fact that the student
has completed the requirements in the
selected area of concentration in the
Mechanical Engineering Department. With
proper planning, students should be able
to take these course offerings without
overload.
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.