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 the required core courses in each specialization. Core courses are noted in the Catalog with the word “core” in parentheses following the course title.
Students complete 6 additional credit hours in mechanical engineering or complete 6 credit hours of thesis research and prepare an MS thesis.
- The six credit hours in mechanical engineering can be any graduate mechanical engineering classes.
- They do not have to be classes that are listed with the 12-credit hour specializations.
- If opting for a 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
- Bioengineering
- Data Science and Machine Learning
- Dynamic Systems
- Fluid Dynamics
- Environmental Engineering
- General Management
- Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
- Manufacturing Management
- Mechanics
- Project Management
- Signal and Image Processing
- Structural Engineering
- 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, which can be any graduate credits from the university catalog.
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