Degree Requirements
In addition to meeting the Lyle School of Engineering degree requirements for an M.S. degree, candidates are required to complete 30 credit hours of graduate-level courses or 24 credit hours of courses and a master’s thesis. Credit hours are distributed as follows:
Students complete 12 credit hours in one of three areas of specialization:
- Design and Dynamic Systems and Controls
- Mechanics, Materials, and Manufacturing
- Thermal and Fluid Sciences
Six of these credit hours are required core courses.
Students complete 6 additional credit hours in mechanical engineering or prepare an MS thesis. The thesis must be approved by the student’s thesis committee.
Students complete 9 credit hours in one of the below areas of specialization:
| Advanced Controls |
Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship |
| Bioengineering |
Manufacturing Management |
| Data Science and Machine Learning |
Mechanics |
| Dynamic Systems |
Project Management |
| Fluid Dynamics |
Signal and Image Processing |
| Environmental Engineering |
Structural Engineering |
| General Management |
Sustainability |
No classes can be double counted when meeting either specialization or ME credit hour requirements.
The remaining 3 credit hours are fulfilled by an unrestricted graduate elective.