ME-MSME - Mechanical Engineering

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 and Materials
• Thermal and Fluid Sciences

Six of these credit hours are the required core courses in each specialization. 

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 these 14 areas of specialization: 

Management and Entrepreneurship

• General Management
• Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
• Manufacturing Management
• Project Management

Cross-Disciplinary

• Bioengineering
• Data Science and Machine Learning
• Environmental Engineering
• Signal and Image Processing
• Structural Engineering
• Sustainability

Advanced ME Specializations

• Advanced Controls
• Dynamic Systems
• Fluid Dynamics
• Mechanics​

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.