Mechanical Engineering: Accelerated Master's 4+1 Option

Degrees:  BE(ME) / ME(ME)

Admissions requirements:

1. ME major
2. GPA at least 3.2
3. Apply once completed ME 47200 (Mechanical System Design) and ME 37100 (Computer Aided Design)
4. Two faculty recommendation letters
5. Statement of purpose
6. Personal statement

Maximum transferable graduate courses (B grade or higher):
6 credits

Advisor:  Prof. Niell Elvin

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Courses

Undergraduate students accepted to the Accelerated ME 4+1 option will be able to apply up to 6 credits of graduate courses from the list below to both their undergraduate and master's degree.

Students must find an ME 4+1 advisor among the full-time faculty and (1) register for ME 59003 (Special Project, 3 credits) with the advisor, and (2) complete a 6 credit Master’s Thesis ME i9900 with this advisor.

ME 4+1 option students must complete the following while in the 4+1 option:  (1) ME i0200 (Applied Fluid Mechanics);  (2) ME 54100 (Advanced Stress Analysis);  and (3) Engr i1100 (Introduction to Engineering Analysis).

• ME G0600    Thermal Systems Design    
• ME G2300    Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
• ME G4300    Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
• ME G4900    Advanced Topics in Fluid Dynamics
• ME G5100    Vehicular Power Systems    
• ME i3100    Steam and Gas Turbines    
• ME i3400    Advanced Heat Transfer    
• ME i4400    Nano/Micromechanics    
• ME i4500    Mechanics and Physics of Solids
• ME i4800    Accidental Injury Biomechanics
• ME i4900    Vehicle Safety Design and Biomechanics
• ME i5000    Advanced Computational Fluid Mechanics
• ME i5800    Trajectories and Orbits    
• ME i6100    Wind Energy Fundamentals and applications
• ME i6200    Mechanical Vibration    
• ME i6500    Computer Aided Design    
• ME i6600    Boundary Element Method    
• ME i6700    Composite Materials    
• ME i6800    Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
• ME i6900    Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics & Combustion
• Engr G5200    Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering
• Engr G5300    Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics    
• Engr G5600    Nuclear Reactor Design, Operation and Safety
• Engr i1700    Finite Element Methods in Engineering    
• Engr i1400    Applied Partial Differential Equations    
• Engr i1500    Introduction to Numerical Methods    
• Engr i2400    Turbulent Flows    
• ME i4200    Applied Stress Analysis    
• Engr i5200    Behavior of Inelastic Bodies and Structures
• Engr i6400    Wave Propagation in Fluids and Solids    
• ME i0200    Applied Fluid Mechanics
• Engr i1100    Introduction to Engineering Analysis

Any graduate course in the Grove School of Engineering, with the approval of the departmental Master's advisor.