Studies in the department may be supplemented by courses offered by other departments in the College of Engineering and in other colleges.

Courses and research opportunities are available in the following areas: fluid mechanics, combustion, heat transfer, thermodynamics, bioengineering, internal combustion engines, turbomachinery, computational fluid dynamics, system dynamics, controls, vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, mechatronics, manufacturing, computational design, computational solid mechanics, mechanics and processing of composite materials, elasticity, nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, experimental mechanics, and micromechanics.

MS degree program students complete 30 credits of graduate work, including in most cases a Master’s thesis requiring 6-8 credits. The MS program can be completed in four semesters. Students with BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics or a related area can be admitted into the MS program.

• Master’s Plan A

There is a Master’s plan A for degrees in either Engineering Mechanics or Mechanical Engineering. Master’s plan A has these components: (1) prescribed course work, (2) research, (3) a master’s thesis, and (4) the oral defense of the master’s thesis.M.S. Degree Examination Committee

• Master’s Plan B

There is a Master’s plan B for degrees in either Engineering Mechanics or Mechanical Engineering. The Master’s plan B has two components: (1) prescribed course work, and (2) a final evaluation by the academic advisor and graduate advisor.