• Our goal is to broaden the graduate degree offerings to meet the needs of industry and local professional engineers for updated skills. To this end the Department develops graduate certificate programs consisting of four courses each.
  • The mission of the graduate program in Mechanical Engineering is to conduct cutting edge engineering science research and provide students at the graduate level with a strong fundamental education in Mechanical Engineering to prepare them for life-long contributions to the field, and for leadership positions in academics, industry, and government agencies and laboratories.
  • The M.S. program focuses on providing students advanced training in the fundamental sciences and technology of Mechanical Engineering to enable them to pursue careers in applied research and development. The Ph.D. program focuses on training engineering scientists who will devote their professional careers to the development of fundamental knowledge and technology from which applications will emerge.