The Department of Mechanical
Engineering offers a Master of Science and Ph.D. in
the fields of thermal-fluid science and engineering mechanics.
Admission is based on an appropriate baccalaureate degree
and the requirements of the Graduate School. Persons holding
a bachelor's degree in another engineering discipline or
in a science may be admitted. In such cases it may be required
that some undergraduate courses be taken without graduate
credit.
An individual program of study is
planned by each student in consultation with his or her graduate
committee. The program will include courses from both the engineering
mechanics and thermal science fields. Ordinarily only six credits
of acceptable 400-level courses may be included in a M.S. degree
program. The primary focus of the Ph.D. is on independent
research and thus course work is a smaller portion of the total
consideration.
For students with a strong interest
in other disciplines, the opportunity exists for a M.S. degree
program of study in which at least 60 per cent of the required
work is done within the Mechanical Engineering Department.
The remaining work may be taken in the other discipline if
the student's advisory committee approves it as part of a coherent
degree in Mechanical Engineering.
