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2026-2027 Catalog
Course Descriptions - ENGR, ME, MET
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
EEN 1200 - Introduction to Energy Engineering Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Introduction to the field of energy engineering. Energy sources, electrical power generation, renewable and non-renewable energy, environmental and economic issues, the energy future.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1060 or MATH 1080 or equivalent.
EEN 2600 - Engineering Economics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Emphasizes the systematic evaluation of the costs and benefits of engineering solutions. Topics include equivalence, simple and compound interest, cash flow diagrams, present worth, equivalent uniform annual worth, rate of return, payback period, depreciation, income taxes, and inflation.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1050 or equivalent placement.
EEN 3000 - Design, Ethics & Entrepreneurship Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamentals of the engineering design process. Design modeling, simulation, documentation and communication. Engineering ethics and entrepreneurship.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 1200 .
EEN 3200 - Sustainable Energy Credits: (3)
Description: Introduction to sustainable energy. Energy conservation and efficiency. Renewable energy systems and energy storage. Economic, societal and environmental aspects of sustainable energy.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 1200 .
EEN 4100 - Senior Project I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: An energy engineering project will be selected for team participation. Team assignments will lead to the completion of a preliminary design phase which includes concept generation, engineering analysis and design, prototype testing, and preliminary economic analyses. Senior Project I culminates in a preliminary design review based on formal student presentations of documented engineering drawings of the proposed design.
Pre-requisite(s): Departmental permission.
EEN 4200 - Senior Project II Credits: (3)
Description: Continuation of EEN 4100 . Team assignments will lead to the construction, testing and optimization of the design. This includes detailed engineering analysis and testing of prototypes, final parameter and tolerance design, and economic analysis of the project. Senior Project II culminates in a final design review based on formal student presentations of the documented final product and verification that the final product meets all requirements.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 4100 .
EEN 4300 - Energy Auditing Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Introduction to energy auditing of buildings and industrial processes. Energy assessment, conservation, efficiency, and cost analysis of energy systems. End of semester project includes an energy assessment of a building on campus.
Pre-requisite(s): (EEN 2600 or ECON 2010 ) and ENGR 2300 .
EEN 4420 - Renewable Energy Systems Design I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Introduction to renewable energy systems. In-depth coverage of the analysis and design of solar and wind energy systems.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 3200 and ME 4000 .
EEN 4430 SUS - Renewable Energy Systems Design II Credits: (3)
Description: Follow-on course to EEN 4420 . Analysis and design of hydroelectric, geothermal, marine, and biomass energy systems. Environmental and economic impacts of these renewable energy technologies.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 4420 .
EEN 4440 - Introduction to Energy Systems Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Introduction to systems engineering as applied to the energy industry. Systems definition, attributes and properties. Command and control, mission modeling, verification and validation, documentation.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 3000 .
EEN 4450 - Electric Vehicles Engineering Credits: (3)
Description: Introduction to electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Alternative fuels, powertrains, battery technologies, vehicle dynamics, propulsion, energy management, braking and controls.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 3200 .
EEN 4460 - Energy Management Credits: (3)
Description: Energy management design, utility rates, economic analyses, mechanical and electrical systems, safety, green technologies and sustainability.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 3000 .
EEN 4470 SUS - Energy and Environmental Issues Credits: (3)
Description: Environmental impacts of energy systems, fossil fuels, renewable and green technologies, nuclear energy, energy conservation and climate change.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 3200 .
EEN 4480 - Energy and Legal Issues Credits: (3)
Description: Legal issues of energy systems, regulations, case law pertaining to development and implementation of energy systems, climate change, political influences.
Pre-requisite(s): EEN 3000 .
ENGR 1000 - Introduction to Engineering Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to purchase design project parts
Description: ENGR 1000 (2) Introduction to Engineering is a required course in the Pre-engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs. A major part of ENGR 1000 is a design project in which the students participate on a team basis. Costs for this design project fall into one category only, consumables, which are mechanical and electrical components for their projects. The project is called a Stop-Shoot Vehicle (SSV). The components and associated costs per student per semester are summarized below:
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: MATH 1060 or MATH 1080 or equivalent.
 
ENGR 2010 - Statics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Vector mechanics, force and moment systems, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, friction and moments of inertia.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1210 and PHYS 2210 .
ENGR 2030 - Dynamics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamentals of position, velocity and acceleration. Kinematics and kinetics of particles. Newton’s laws, conservation of momentum and energy. Dynamics of rigid bodies.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGR 2010 with a grade of “C” or higher.
ENGR 2140 - Mechanics of Materials Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamentals of stress and strain, Hooke’s law, torsion, bending of beams, combined stresses and design of members.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGR 2010 with a grade of “C” or higher.
ENGR 2160 - Materials Science and Engineering Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $40.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fee for replacement of lab equipment and consumable parts
Description: A lecture course that introduces the fundamentals of atomic and microscopic structure of metals, polymers, ceramics and composite materials, and how these structures affect mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties.
Pre-requisite(s): CHEM 1210 .
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: ENGR 2140 .
ENGR 2165 - Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Laboratory course to accompany ENGR 2160 Materials Science and Engineering. Fundamenal concepts of mechanical measurement, reporting technical data, procedures for measuring material properties and measurement standards.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGR 2160 .
ENGR 2300 - Thermodynamics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Thermodynamic properties, equations of state, first and second laws of thermodynamics. Analysis of open and closed systems, availability and irreversibility, power and refrigeration cycles.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1210 and PHYS 2210 .
ENGR 2920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes, and Special Programs Credits: (1-6)
Workshop
Description: Consult the class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
ME 3040 - Dynamic System Modeling Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamentals of analysis, design and control of physical engineering systems. Analytical and numerical modeling of mechanical, electrical, fluid and thermal systems with applications.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 2250 or (MATH 2270 and MATH 2280 ) and ENGR 2030 .
ME 3050 - Machine Design Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Design and analysis of machine elements and machines. Material selection, connections and joints, shafts and bearings, fits and tolerances, fasteners, material failure and reliability.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGR 2030 and ENGR 2140 .
ME 3300 - Fluid Mechanics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamental principles of fluid statics and dynamics. Fluid properties, flow regimes, pressure, velocity, flow rate, internal and external flow, and dimensional analysis. Applications of fluid mechanics. Lecture plus laboratory.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1220 , ENGR 2030 and ENGR 2300 .
ME 3350 - Engineering Computing Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Introduction to engineering computing with applications to the analysis and design of engineering systems using an industry-standard software platform.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 2250 or (MATH 2270 and MATH 2280 ).
ME 3500 - Numerical Methods for Engineering Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamental methods for the numerical solution of engineering problems. Topics include root finding, interpolation, curve fitting, differentiation, integration, differential equations and curve fitting.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3050 and ME 3350 .
ME 4000 - Heat Transfer Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $30.00
Course Fee Purpose: Replacement of lab equipment and consumable parts.
Description: Fundamental principles of conduction, convection and radiation. Heat transfer with phase change, heat exchangers, and applications of heat transfer. Lecture plus laboratory.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 2250 or MATH 2280 and ME 3300 .
ME 4050 - Thermal-Fluid Laboratory Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $75.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to maintain and periodically replace necessary laboratory equipment and instruments and to purchase required consumable materials.
Description: This laboratory course provides experiences observing, predicting, and measuring fundamental phenomena in the thermal-fluid sciences. The course focuses on hands-on learning through weekly laboratory activities. Key concepts include measurement techniques, uncertainty analysis, sensor calibration, and other measurement-related important topics.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3300 .
Co-Requisite(s): ME 4000 .
ME 4060 - Control Systems Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $75.00
Course Fee Purpose: Maintenance and replacement of instruments and replacement of sensors and other consumable parts.
Description: Fundamental principles of feedback control theory. Stability considerations and performance analysis in time and frequency domains. Root-locus and frequency response techniques for system analysis and design. Lecture plus laboratory.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3040 and ME 3350 .
ME 4100 SUS - Senior Project I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $75.00
Course Fee Purpose: Maintenance of machine tools and hand tools. Replacement of mills, drills, reamers, bores, etc.
Description: A mechanical engineering project will be selected for team participation. Team assignments will lead to the completion of a preliminary design phase which includes concept generation, engineering analysis and design, prototype testing, and preliminary economic analyses. Senior Project I culminates in a preliminary design review based on formal student presentations of documented engineering drawings of the proposed design.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 4060 , ME 3500 , ME 4000 .
ME 4200 SUS - Senior Project II Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $75.00
Course Fee Purpose: Maintenance of machine tools and hand tools. Replacement of mills, drills, reamers, bores, etc.
Description: Continuation of ME 4100. Team assignments will lead to the construction, testing and optimization of the design. This includes detailed engineering analysis and testing of prototypes, final parameter and tolerance design, and economic analysis of the project. Senior Project II culminates in a final design review based on formal student presentations of the documented final product and verification that the final product meets all requirements.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 4100 .
ME 4300 - Material Failure Analysis Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: A survey of material failure modes, including fatigue, fracture, wear and corrosion. Introduction to damage tolerant design methodologies. Case studies in material failure.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGR 2160 and ME 3050 .
ME 4350 - Intermediate Mechanics of Materials Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Intermediate topics in mechanics of materials such as three-dimensional combined stress fields, stress concentrations, dynamic loads, torsion of non-circular members, plates and shells, stability and buckling of columns, and energy methods.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGR 2140 .
ME 4500 - Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Principles of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) of buildings. Refrigeration systems and indoor thermal environmental control system analysis and design.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 4000 .
ME 4600 - Intermediate Thermal-Fluids Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Intermediate topics in thermal-fluid sciences built upon knowledge from thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Topics include thermodynamic cycles, psychrometrics, piping systems, boundary layers, heat transfer with phase change, radiation, and thermal design.
Lecture plus laboratory.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 4000 .
ME 4800 - Individual Research Problems Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: With permission and under the direction of faculty, the student researches a specific problem in the mechanical engineering field.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of department.
ME 4830 - Readings in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: With permission and under the direction of faculty, the student studies a topic taken from the mechanical engineering literature.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of department.
ME 4890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for engineering work experience. Permission of department required.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of department.
ME 4900 - Special Topics Credits: (1-3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: A special topic in mechanical engineering is selected by the faculty to be taught on a one-time basis. With departmental approval, may substitute for a technical elective.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of department.
This course may be taken three times for a total of nine credits.
ME 4920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes, and Special Programs Credits: (1-6)
Workshop
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of department.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
ME 4990 - Seminar in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees in ME 4990 are used to cover the cost of class handouts, consumable materials in the labs, lab computing equipment, and related software.
Description: Seminar is designed to prepare the student for professional engineering employment. Topics include resumes, interviewing techniques, engineering ethics, professionalism, patent law, social issues, lifelong learning, diversity, communication, timeliness, and continuous improvement. Lectures and presentations by faculty, staff, and guests from local engineering industry.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 4100 .
ME 5120 - Mechanisms and Machines Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Planar motion; Mobility analysis; Analytical kinematic synthesis of common planar mechanisms; Kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechanisms by using graphical and analytical methods and engineering software tools.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3040 and ME 3350 . (Prerequisites are waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5150 - Vibrations Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamental principles of free and forced vibrations of discrete linear systems with and without damping. Multiple-degree-of freedom systems, continuous systems, shock isolation and vibration control. Study of dynamic response using modern computational tools.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3040 and ME 3350 . (Prerequisite is waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5180 - Experimental Measurement and Uncertainty Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: A detailed study of fundamental concepts governing modern measurement systems, data acquisition and uncertainty analysis. Coursework covers system models (zero, first, and second order), essential system components and engineering instrumentation (thermocouples, strain gauges). A core focus is on the theory and practice of quantifying and propagating measurement uncertainty using statistical methods.
Pre-requisite(s): ECE 2210 and ME 3500 . (Prerequisite is waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5210 - Finite Element Analysis Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $60.00
Course Fee Purpose: Maintenance of software license.
Description: Implementation of FEA into the design process. Application of engineering design and analysis using CAD and FEA software starting with basic fundamentals to advance topics in FEA. Stress analysis topics to include Machine Design, Tool Design, Structures, Linkages, and Assemblies. This course will be taught on the lab computers using a hands-on learning methodology.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 2250 or (MATH 2270 and MATH 2280 ) and ME 3050 . (Prerequisite is waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5400 - Aerodynamics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course introduces a detailed study of the core principles of aerodynamics, aerodynamic forces and moments, airfoil characteristics, flow regimes, governing equations, ideal flow - inviscid and incompressible flows, compressible inviscid flow and boundary layer flows.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3300 . (Prerequisite is waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5440 - Compressible Fluid Flow Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Core principles of compressible fluid flow. Normal shock waves, Fanno flow and Rayleigh flow. Two-dimensional supersonic flows with oblique shocks and Prandtl-Meyer expansion fans. Compressible flow in nozzles and supersonic wind tunnels.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3300 and ME 4000 . (Prerequisite is waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5530 - Mechatronics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Maintenance of equipment, software license and replacement of consumable parts.
Description: Study of the design, analysis, and implementation of mechatronic systems. Topics include microcontrollers, digital signals and logic, motor control, mechanical and electrical actuation, and feedback controls using computer vision. Students collaborate in teams on hands-on project focused on designing mechatronic systems.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3040 and ECE 2210 . (Prerequisite is waived for enrolled MSME students).
ME 5890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for a cooperative engineering work experience for students working towards their degree. Students need to work in an engineering-related role and regularly check in with a specific ME faculty mentor and their workplace supervisor. They will document student’s learning outcomes, progress, and professional growth. To earn academic credits for ME tech electives students will need to take this course for two semesters (1 credit in first semester and 2 credits in the second semester).
An exit evaluation by the department is required. A maximum of 3 credits from coop may count toward ME technical electives, and up to 6 total credits may be taken to meet missing credits or maintain full-time status.
Permission of the department is required to register.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 3050 and ME 4000 .
ME 6060 - Control System Design and Applications Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Control system modeling, analysis, and design using classical and state-space techniques. Stability considerations and performance analysis in time and frequency domains. Root-locus and frequency response techniques for system analysis and design. Control applications in aerospace such as flight, attitude, guidance and navigation controls. Challenges in aircraft and spacecraft controls.
ME 6065 - State-Space Control Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Modern control strategies including frequency-domain compensator design, state-space controller and observer synthesis, and implementation of control systems for sampled-data environments. Students will design lead, lag, and lag-lead controllers, perform pole placement, and analyze system stability.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 6060 .
ME 6100 - Design Project I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Design project guided by a faculty project advisor. Students will conduct preliminary experimental and/or theoretical investigations on an approved topic in mechanical engineering. The project involves the design, development, modeling, or analysis of components, devices, or engineering systems. Student will set project goals, conduct background research, create an initial design, prototype and/or method, and outline a completion plan for ME 6200 Design Project II. A formal written report to the project advisor is required. This report should document the problem definition, literature review, preliminary design work, and proposed methods.
ME 6200 - Design Project II Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Design project guided by a faculty project advisor. This is a continuation of ME 6100 Design Project I. This work involves detailed engineering analysis, prototype development (using computational methods, experimental methods, or both), iterative design improvement, risk management, and validation of the proposed design or research method. The course ends with a formal written report and an oral defense of the finished project presented to a committee of at least three faculty members for evaluation and approval.
May be repeated four times for a maximum of six credit hours.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 6100 .
ME 6210 - Fracture Mechanics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Fundamental principles and approaches to understating the mechanics governing fracture in solid bodies. Linear elastic fracture mechanics, elastic-plastic stress field in cracked bodies, energy balance approach to crack growth, critical stress-intensity factor fracture criterion, J-integral and crack opening displacement fracture, mixed-mode crack growth, environmental factors, fracture in composite materials, experimental methods, and numerical methods.
ME 6230 - Mechanics of Composite Materials Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts underlying the mechanics of composite materials. Students taking this course will be introduced to composite materials learning about their definition, constituent components, and applications, with particular focus on polymer matrix composites and ceramic matrix composites. Students will learn lamina stress-strain relationships, the effective moduli of continuous fiber-reinforced lamina, strength and mechanical properties of continuous reinforced lamina, and analysis of laminates including hygrothermal behavior and fracture properties.
ME 6250 - Testing and Repair of Composite Materials Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Methods and approaches for assessing the mechanical, thermal, and material properties of composite materials. Assessment and repair methods for damaged in-service composite materials.
ME 6270 - High-Performance Aerospace Materials Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course explores the selection, properties, and performance of materials used in aerospace applications, with a special focus on surface engineering and protective coatings. Students will gain insight into the challenges of operating in extreme environments and the role of advanced materials and coatings in enhancing durability, performance, and safety.
ME 6300 - Advanced Heat Transfer Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course provides an in-depth study of heat transfer mechanisms with an emphasis on complex, real-world engineering applications. Building on fundamental principles of conduction, convection, and radiation, the course explores multidimensional and transient heat conduction, turbulent convective heat transfer, phase-change phenomena, and radiative exchange between surfaces and participating media. Analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches are introduced to model and analyze advanced thermal systems. Students will develop and apply modeling techniques to design and evaluate heat transfer system applications, such as aerospace, energy, and industrial systems.
ME 6440 - Aerospace Propulsion Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Design and analysis of gas turbine engines and rocket motors. Liquid and solid fuel propulsion systems. Thermodynamics of flow associated with aerospace propulsion systems. Introduction to fuel combustion processes, hybrid rocket, and gas turbine engines.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 5440 .
ME 6460 - Turbulence Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Equations of fluid motion, origin and nature of turbulence, energy cascades, spectrum of scales, turbulent shear flows, statistical descriptions to turbulence, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations, turbulence modeling, large-eddy simulation (LES), and direct numerical simulation (DNS).
ME 6480 - Computational Fluid Dynamics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: In-depth study of numerical methods for the solution of fluid flow and heat transfer problems encountered in mechanical and aerospace engineering applications. Include governing equations (Navier-Stokes, continuity, energy), finite volume discretization technique, mesh generation and grid quality, time-marching and steady-state solution schemes, pressure-velocity coupling, compressible/incompressible flows, validation and verification of simulations, and the effective use of commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for engineering design and research.
ME 6500 - Thesis Research I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Approval of a thesis advisor is necessary for registration. Experimental and/or theoretical investigation of a relevant topic in mechanical engineering that can lead to a quality publication. A written thesis proposal and a preliminary research report must be submitted to the thesis advisor. This course is the first part of the two-semester thesis sequence. It prepares students for ME 6600 Thesis Research II, where they must complete and defend a written thesis before a committee of at least three faculty members.
ME 6550 - Robotics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Maintenance of equipment, software license and replacement of consumable parts.
Description: Fundamentals of kinematics, dynamics, and control of robotic systems. Key topics include spatial transformations, forward and inverse kinematics, Jacobians, singularities, trajectory generations, and manipulator mechanisms. Students will also explore human-robot interfaces, modern computer vision applications, robot programming, and communications.
ME 6560 - Robot Dynamics and Controls Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Advanced methods of robot manipulator dynamics, trajectory generation, and orientation representation with quaternions. Joint space planning and cartesian trajectories using interpolation, robot dynamics using Lagrangian and Newton-Euler methods, and design linear controllers for trajectory tracking and stability. Integrating modeling, planning, and control for real-world robotic applications through simulation and project-based learning.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 6550 .
ME 6590 - Agentic AI for Robotic Systems Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Advanced methods of robot manipulator dynamics, trajectory generation, and orientation representation with quaternions. Joint space planning and cartesian trajectories using interpolation, robot dynamics using Lagrangian and Newton-Euler methods, and design linear controllers for trajectory tracking and stability. Integrating modeling, planning, and control for real-world robotic applications through simulation and project-based learning.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 6550 .
ME 6600 - Thesis Research II Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Approval of a thesis advisor is necessary for registration. This is a continuation of ME 6500 Thesis Research I course. Students carry out the experimental or theoretical research outlined in their thesis proposal. This work includes gathering data, modeling or simulating, analyzing results, and putting together findings into a thesis that meets publishable standards. A written thesis must be defended and approved by a committee of at least three faculty members.
Pre-requisite(s): ME 6500 .
ME 6800 - Individual Research Problems Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Study and explore a particular mechanical engineering topic through independent research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Student researches a chosen topic, uses suitable engineering methods, and shares the findings in a written or oral report.
Department approval is required for enrollment.
ME 6890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for a cooperative engineering work experience for students working towards their degree. Students need to work in an engineering-related role and regularly check in with a specific ME faculty mentor and their workplace supervisor. They will document the student’s learning outcomes, progress, and professional growth. To earn academic credit for ME tech elective students will need to take this course for two semesters (1 credit in first semester and 2 credits in the second semester). Academic credit cannot be granted to students who have previously applied 3 credits of ME 5890 toward their MSME degree.
An exit evaluation by the department is required. A maximum of 3 credits from ME 6890 may count toward ME technical electives, and up to 6 total credits may be taken to meet missing credits or maintain full-time status.
Permission of the department is required to register.
ME 6900 - Special Topics Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: A special graduate-level topic in mechanical engineering selected by ME faculty to address emerging areas, advanced methods, or current industry and research topics. The course content varies and covers specialized subjects that is not covered in other MSME courses. Upon departmental approval, ME 6900 can substitute a 6000-level course in the MSME degree. This course may be taken three times for a total of nine credits.
MET 1000 - Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Technology Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $30.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to cover materials needed to complete the semester project and to replace small tools in the Freshman Project Lab as needed.
Description: Introductory course for students majoring in mechanical engineering technology. The role of mechanical engineering technology and its place in the occupational spectrum. The experimental and analytical tools used in mechanical engineering technology and fundamentals of mechanical design and problem solving. College algebra and trigonometry strongly recommended.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1010 or Math ACT score of 23 or higher or placement test.
MET 1500 - Mechanical Design for Engineering Technology Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $45.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used for paper and toner for course handouts and maintenance of computer hardware and software. The fees also cover consumable materials needed for the semester project.
Description: This course will focus on understanding the engineering design process within the MET discipline. Students will develop problem statements and use brainstorming techniques to generate design concepts. These design concepts are evaluated and implemented for possible solutions to bring a factious engineered product to market.
Pre-requisite(s): (MATH 1060 or MATH 1080 ) and MET 1000 .
MET 1890 INT - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Description: Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience. Grade and amount of credit will be determined by the department. Prior consent of the department chair and the employer are required.
Pre-requisite(s): PDD 1010 , MATH 1080 and Permission of Instructor.
MET 2500 - Modern Engineering Technologies Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used for paper and toner for course handouts and maintenance of computer hardware and software.
Description: A survey of modern engineering technologies including, but not necessarily limited to, energy generation, nano systems, smart materials, robotics, lasers, transportation systems, and bioengineering.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 1500 .
MET 2890 INT - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience. Grade and amount of credit will be determined by the department. Prior consent of the department chair and the employer are required. May be repeated for credit up to 3 times for a max of 3 credit hours total.
Pre-requisite(s): Credit or concurrent enrollment in MFET 2300 .
MET 3050 - Dynamics for Engineering Technology Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used for paper and toner in computer lab and for maintaining computers and software.
Description: Fundamentals of force, mass and acceleration, work and energy, and impulse and momentum applied to particles and rigid bodies.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1210 and PHYS 2210 and (MFET 2300 or MFET 2310 ).
MET 3150 - Engineering Technology Materials Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course Fees to cover disposable lab testing coupons.
Description: Material properties, processing and selection of materials for technological applications. Design parameters for material selection of metals and nonmetals. Mechanical behavior and service failures of metallic alloys and other engineering materials at high and low temperatures. Lecture plus laboratory work in materials testing.
Pre-requisite(s): CHEM 1110 and (MFET 2300 or MFET 2320 ) .
MET 3300 - Computer Programming Applications of Mechanical Engineering Technology Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to purchase class handouts, consumable materials in the labs, lab computing equipment, and related software.
Description: Applications of computer programming and computer software to problems in mechanical engineering technology. Lecture plus computer-based laboratory work.
Pre-requisite(s): MFET 2300 or MFET 2310 .
MET 3400 - Machine Design for Engineering Technology Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used for paper and toner for course handouts and maintenance of computer hardware and software.
Description: Application of engineering technology fundamentals to machine design. Techniques involved in designing and selecting individual machine parts.
Pre-requisite(s): MFET 2300 or MFET 2320 .
MET 3500 - Mechanical Measurements and Instrumentation Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to purchase class handouts, consumable materials in the labs, lab computing equipment, and related software.
Description: Principles of temperature, pressure, strain, flow, force, and vibration measurements. Techniques of computerized data acquisition and reduction. Students will learn how to specify instrumentation systems, take data and interpret the results. Lecture plus laboratory work in selected topics.
Pre-requisite(s): MFET 1820 and (MFET 2300 or MFET 2310 ).
MET 3700 - Testing and Failure Analysis Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to cover paper and toner for class handouts and to maintain computer hardware and software.
Description: Mechanical testing of materials, fatigue, fracture, wear, corrosion, embrittlement, failure mechanisms and analysis, case studies of failures. Lecture plus laboratory work.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 3150 and (MFET 2300 or MFET 2320 ).
MET 3890 INT - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience. Grade and amount of credit will be determined by the department. Prior consent of the department chair and the employer are required. May be repeated for credit up to 3 times for a max of 3 credit hours total.
Pre-requisite(s): Credit or concurrent enrollment in MET 3400 .
MET 4200 - Mechanical Design with FEA Credits: (3)
Course Fee: $60.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fee’s are used for ANSYS software licence.
Description: Application of engineering technology fundamentals in mechanical design using Finite Element Analysis. Lecture plus computer-based laboratory work.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 3400 and (MFET 2300 or MFET 2320 ).
MET 4300 - Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning Credits: (3)
Description: Principles of heating, ventilating and air conditioning of buildings. Refrigeration systems, air and water distribution and solar energy. Indoor thermal environmental control.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of instructor.
MET 4500 SUS - Senior Project I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to purchase class handouts, consumable materials in the labs, lab computing equipment, and related software.
Description: A mechanical engineering technology project will be selected for team participation. Projects will require planning, analysis, design, development, production, testing, and documentation.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 3400 ; AAS or AS Degree.
MET 4510 SUS - Senior Project II Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used to purchase class handouts, consumable materials in the labs, lab computing equipment, and related software.
Description: A mechanical engineering technology project will be selected for team participation. Projects will require planning, analysis, design, development, production, testing and documentation.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 4500 .
Note: MET 4500 and MET 4510 are a two-course sequence, with MET 4500 only taught in fall semester and MET 4510 only taught in spring semester. The courses must be taken back-to-back.
MET 4650 - Thermal Science Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: 25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used for paper and toner for course handouts and maintenance of computer hardware and software.
Description: Fundamental principles of thermal science for mechanical engineering technology. Basic thermal science theory with an emphasis on technological applications and systems.
Lecture plus laboratory work in selected thermal science topics.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1210 , PHYS 2210 and CHEM 1110 or CHEM 1210 .
MET 4800 - Individual Research in Mechanical Engineering Technology Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Special individual research and development projects in mechanical engineering technology. Credit and time determined by the student and the faculty project supervisor. May be repeated for credit up to 3 times for a max of 3 credit hours total.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of instructor.
MET 4830 - Directed Readings Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Directed individual readings in mechanical engineering technology. Topic selected in consultation with instructor.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of instructor.
MET 4890 INT - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience. Grade and amount of credit will be determined by the department. Prior consent of the department chair and the employer are required. May be repeated for credit up to 3 times for a max of 3 credit hours total.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 3400 and Permission of instructor.
MET 4920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes, and Special Programs Credits: (1-6)
Workshop
Description: Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title with the credit authorized for the particular offering will appear on the student transcript.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
MET 4990 - Seminar in Mechanical Engineering Technology Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Fee Purpose: Course fees are used for paper and toner for course handouts and maintenance of computer hardware and software.
Description: Guest lectures from local industry, professionalism and engineering ethics, technology and society, and employment preparation.
Pre-requisite(s): MET 4500 .
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