Curriculum
Additional resources:
- Bulletin
- Bulletin archives
- Course sequence; students entering Fall 2005-Spring 2007 [pdf]
- Course sequence; students entering Fall 2007-Spring 2008 [pdf]
- Course sequence; students entering Fall 2008 [pdf]
- Course sequence; students entering general track Fall 2009 and beyond.
- Course sequence; students entering nuclear track Fall 2009 and beyond.
This curriculum applies to students who entered the Mechanical Engineering program during the 2008-2009 academic year.
Starting Fall 2009, students entering the department and seeking a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering can choose one of two tracks, the general track and the nuclear engineering track. The core curriculum and technical electives required to complete either track are listed below.
Click here to scroll down to the Nuclear Engineering Track
General Track in Mechanical Engineering
Core
curriculum
Technical
electives
Life
sciences
Core curriculum
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Freshman year, fall semester |
Credits |
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CHEM 101 General Chemistry |
3 |
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CHEZ/FRSZ 101L General Chemistry Laboratory I |
1 |
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EGRM 101 Introduction to Engineering |
3 |
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MATH 200 Calculus with Analytic Geometry |
4 |
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UNIV 111 Focused Inquiry I |
3 |
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14 |
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Freshman year, spring semester |
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EGRM 215 Engineering Visualization and Computation |
3 |
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MATH 201 Calculus with Analytic Geometry |
4 |
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PHIL 201 Critical Thinking About Moral Problems (university core: humanities) |
3 |
|
PHYS 207 University Physics I |
5 |
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UNIV 112 Focused Inquiry II |
3 |
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18 |
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Sophomore year, fall semester |
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ENGL 200 Writing and Rhetoric Workshop II or other research and academic argument course |
3 |
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EGRM 309 Material Science for Engineers |
3 |
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ENGR 102 Engineering Statics |
3 |
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MATH 301 Differential Equations |
3 |
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PHYS 208 University Physics II |
5 |
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17 |
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Sophomore year, spring semester |
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EGRE 206 Electric Circuits |
4 |
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EGRM 201 Dynamics and Kinematics |
3 |
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EGRM 202 Mechanics of Deformables |
3 |
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EGRM 204 Thermodynamics |
3 |
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MATH 307 Multivariate Calculus |
4 |
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17 |
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Junior year, fall semester |
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EGRM 300 Mechanical Systems Design |
3 |
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EGRM 311 Solid Mechanics Lab |
1.5 |
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EGRM 321 Numerical Methods |
3 |
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EGRM 420 CAE Design |
3 |
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ENGR 301 Fluid Mechanics |
3 |
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STAT 541 Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists |
3 |
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16.5 |
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Junior year, spring semester |
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ECON 205 The Economics of Product Development and Markets |
3 |
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EGRM 303 Thermal Systems Design |
3 |
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EGRM 312 Thermal Sciences Lab |
1.5 |
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EGRM 421 CAE Analysis |
3 |
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ENGR 302 Heat Transfer |
3 |
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ENGR 315 Process and Systems Dynamics |
3 |
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16.5 |
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Summer |
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The summer between the junior and senior years is devoted to either a full-time university, industrial manufacturing floor or industrial research laboratory internship. This summer experience is intended to be intense and to have a major component of ?hands-on? practice of engineering, which will bring the life of ?real-world? engineering practice to the classroom. |
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Senior year, fall semester |
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EGRM 410 Mechatronics |
3 |
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ENGR 402 Senior Design Studio |
1 |
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ENGZ 402L Senior Design Laboratory |
2 |
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ENGR 410 Review of Internship |
1 |
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Social science elective (university core: social science) |
3 |
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Technical electives |
6 |
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16 |
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Senior year, spring semester |
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ENGR 403 Senior Design Studio |
1 |
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ENGZ 403L Senior Design Laboratory |
2 |
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MGMT 319 Organizational Behavior |
3 |
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Life science elective* (university core: science) |
3 |
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Technical electives |
6 |
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15 |
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Minimum total requirement |
130 |
Technical electives
Mechanical engineering students must complete a total of 12 credit hours of technical electives (typically four courses). All technical electives must be approved in writing by the department chair. A list of pre-approved courses is available in the department office. Students may count up to three credit hours toward the required 12 by selecting from the physics or business courses in the approved list. Note that some technical elective courses outside the department may have prerequisites that are not part of the required curriculum and are not accepted as technical electives. Special topics and independent study courses may be used as technical electives with prior written approval of the department chair.
List of courses pre-approved as technical electives, academic year 2009?2010
Electives taught by mechanical engineering faculty
EGRM 401 Mechanical Engineering Leadership
EGRM 425 Introduction to Manufacturing Systems
EGRM 426 Manufacturing Processes
ENGR 427 Robotics
EGRM 436 Engineering Materials
EGRM 510 Solid Mechanics and Materials Behavior
EGRM 512 Engineering Mathematics
EGRM 515 Vibrations
EGRM 525 Feedback Control
EGRM 545 Energy Conversion Systems
EGRM 551 Experimental Methods for Engineers
EGRM 561 Advanced Fluid Mechanics
EGRM 565 Design Optimization
EGRM 568 Robot Manipulators
EGRM 570 Computational Fluid Dynamics
EGRM 580 Flow Control
EGRM 602/ENGR 591 Convective Heat Transfer
EGRM 609/ENGR 591 Characterization of Materials
EGRM 627/ENGR 591 Advanced Manufacturing Simulations
EGRM 630/ENGR 591 Technology, Security and Preparedness
EGRM 690/ENGR 591 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Special topics (ENGR 491/591) and independent study (ENGR 492) courses may be used as technical electives with approval of the department chair.
Electives typically taught by other school of engineering faculty
Note that some approved technical elective courses outside of mechanical engineering may have prerequisites that are not part of the required curriculum and are not accepted as technical electives.
ENGR 334 Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication
ENGR 430 Process Modeling and Simulation
ENGR 454 Automatic Controls
ENGR 461 Stem Cell Engineering
ENGR 505 Characterization of Materials
EGRB 307 Biomedical Instrumentation
EGRB 308 Biomedical Signal Processing
EGRB 310 Biomechanics
EGRB 403 Tissue Engineering
EGRB 406 Artificial Organs
EGRB 407 Physical Principles of Medical Imaging
EGRB 409 Microcomputer Applications in Biomedical Engineering
EGRB 420 Rehabilitation Engineering
EGRB 421 Human Factors Engineering
EGRB 427 Biomaterials
EGRB 507 Biomedical Electronics and Instrumentation
EGRC 312 Chemical Reaction Engineering
EGRC 325 Bioengineering
EGRC 405 Process Synthesis
EGRC 409 Chemical Process Control
EGRC 543 Advanced Reaction Engineering
EGRC 544 Applied Transport Phenomena
EGRC 549 Process Biotechnology
EGRC 554 Molecular Thermodynamics for Engineers
EGRE 303 Electronic Devices
EGRE 307 Integrated Circuits
EGRE 309 Electromagnetic Fields
EGRE 310 Microwave and Photonic Engineering
EGRE 335 Signals and Systems I
EGRE 336 Introduction to Communication Systems
EGRE 337 Signals and Systems II
EGRE 364 Microcomputer Systems
EGRE 365 Digital Systems
EGRE 426 Computer Organization and Design
EGRE 427 Advanced Digital Design
EGRE 429 VLSI Design
EGRE 435 Semiconductor Processes
EGRE 436 Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication
EGRE 444 Communication Systems
EGRE 445 Digital Signal Processing
EGRE 455 Control Systems Design
EGRE 520 Semiconductor and Quantum Electronics
EGRE 521 Advanced Semiconductor Devices
EGRE 522 Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
EGRE 525 Fundamentals of Photonics Engineering
EGRE 526/CMSC 506 Computer Networks and Communications
EGRE 533 VLSI Design
EGRE 535 Digital Signal Processing
EGRE 555/MATH 555 Dynamics and Multivariable Control
CMSC 301 Introduction to Discrete Structures
CMSC 311 Computer Organization and Assembler Language Programming
CMSC 312 Introduction to Operating Systems
CMSC 355 Program Design
CMSC 391 Topics in Computer Science
CMSC 401 Algorithm Analysis with Advanced Data Structures
CMSC 403 Programming Languages
CMSC 419 Software Development Methods
CMSC 502 Parallel Programming
CMSC 504 Compiler Construction
CMSC 505 Computer Architecture
CMSC 506/ENGR 526 Computer Networks and Communications
CMSC 508 Database Theory
CMSC 509 Artificial Intelligence
CMSC 511 Computer Graphics
CMSC 519 Software Engineering: Specification and Design
CMSC 520 Software Engineering Practicum
CMSC 521 Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CMSC 525 Introduction to Software Analysis, Testing and Verification
CMSC 526 Theory of Programming Languages
Special topics (ENGR 491/591) and independent study (ENGR 492) courses may be used as technical electives with approval of the department chair.
Technical electives in math, physics and business
Students may use only one of the following courses as a technical elective.
PHYS 320/PHYZ 320 Modern Physics and Lab
FIRE 311 Financial Management
INFO 360 Business Information Systems
FIRE 520 Financial Concepts of Management
*Life sciences (three credits)
Mechanical engineering students should have an understanding of the life sciences and will select one course that appears on both the university-approved list of core science courses and the following list. Other sciences courses from the university-approved list may be selected with the approval of the department chair.
BIOL 101 Biological Concepts
BIOL/ENVS 103 Environmental Science
ENVS 201 Earth System Science
INSC 201 Energy!
Nuclear Engineering Track in Mechanical Engineering
Core
curriculum
Technical
electives
Life
sciences
Core curriculum
|
Freshman year, fall semester |
Credits |
|
CHEM 101 General Chemistry |
3 |
|
CHEZ/FRSZ 101L General Chemistry Laboratory I |
1 |
|
EGRM 101 Introduction to Engineering |
3 |
|
MATH 200 Calculus with Analytic Geometry |
4 |
|
UNIV 111 Focused Inquiry I |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
14 |
|
|
|
|
Freshman year, spring semester |
|
|
EGRM 215 Engineering Visualization and Computation |
3 |
|
MATH 201 Calculus with Analytic Geometry |
4 |
|
PHIL 201 Critical Thinking About Moral Problems (university core: humanities) |
3 |
|
PHYS 207 University Physics I |
5 |
|
UNIV 112 Focused Inquiry II |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
18 |
|
|
|
|
Sophomore year, fall semester |
|
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ENGL 200 Writing and Rhetoric Workshop II or other research and academic argument course |
3 |
|
EGRN 210 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering |
3 |
|
ENGR 102 Engineering Statics |
3 |
|
MATH 301 Differential Equations |
3 |
|
PHYS 208 University Physics II |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
|
|
|
|
Sophomore year, spring semester |
|
|
PHYS 320 Modern Physics |
3 |
|
EGRM 201 Dynamics and Kinematics |
3 |
|
EGRM 202 Mechanics of Deformables |
3 |
|
EGRM 204 Thermodynamics |
3 |
|
MATH 307 Multivariate Calculus |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
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|
Junior year, fall semester |
|
|
EGRM 300 Mechanical Systems Design |
3 |
|
EGRM 311 Solid Mechanics Lab |
1.5 |
|
EGRM 321 Numerical Methods |
3 |
|
EGRM 420 CAE Design |
3 |
|
ENGR 301 Fluid Mechanics |
3 |
|
EGRN 310 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering |
3 |
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16.5 |
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Junior year, spring semester |
|
|
EGRE 206 Electric Circuits |
4 |
|
EGRM 303 Thermal Systems Design |
3 |
|
EGRM 312 Thermal Sciences Lab |
1.5 |
|
ENGR 302 Heat Transfer |
3 |
|
EGRN 320 Reactor Design and Systems |
3 |
|
EGRN 330 Radiation Safety and Shielding |
3 |
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17.5 |
|
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Summer |
|
|
The summer between the junior and senior years is devoted to either a full-time university, industrial manufacturing floor or industrial research laboratory internship. This summer experience is intended to be intense and to have a major component of ?hands-on? practice of engineering, which will bring the life of ?real-world? engineering practice to the classroom. |
|
|
|
|
|
Senior year, fall semester |
|
|
ENGR 402 Senior Design Studio |
1 |
|
ENGZ 402L Senior Design Laboratory |
2 |
|
ENGR 410 Review of Internship |
1 |
|
Social science elective (university core: social science) |
3 |
|
EGRM 309 Material Science for Engineers |
3 |
|
EGRN 410 Economics of Nuclear Power Production |
3 |
|
EGRN 420 Nuclear Power Plants |
3 |
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16 |
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Senior year, spring semester |
|
|
ENGR 403 Senior Design Studio |
1 |
|
ENGZ 403L Senior Design Laboratory |
2 |
|
MGMT 319 Organizational Behavior |
3 |
|
Life science elective* (university core: science) |
3 |
|
ENGR 315 Process and Systems Dynamics |
3 |
|
Nuclear engineering elective |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
15 |
|
|
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|
Minimum total requirement |
130 |
Nuclear engineering electives
Mechanical engineering students completing the nuclear engineering track will choose one nuclear engineering elective course from the following list. A special topic, independent study, or other course may be used as the nuclear engineering elective with prior written approval of the department chair.
EGRN 430 Processing of Nuclear Fuel
EGRN 440 Nuclear Safety and Security
EGRM 545 Energy Conversion Systems
*Life sciences (three credits)
Mechanical engineering students should have an understanding of the life sciences and will select one course that appears on both the university-approved list of core science courses and the following list. Other sciences courses from the university-approved list may be selected with the approval of the department chair.
BIOL 101 Biological Concepts
BIOL/ENVS 103 Environmental Science
ENVS 201 Earth System Science
INSC 201 Energy!