The faculty of the department strives to offer graduate courses that
will challenge the students’ capabilities, inform them of cutting-edge
innovations, and develop in them an appreciation of the deep beauty
and history of our discipline. Toward these ends, our curriculum has
three goals:
- To ensure that all graduates possess a broad knowledge of the
fundamentals that underlie Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
- To ensure that all graduates have a deep knowledge within one
of the department’s three disciplines.
- To provide sufficient flexibility within our program for interdisciplinary
students, acknowledging the great diversity within MAE and its emerging
areas.
Graduate students in our program choose a field of study from one of
the following three disciplines:
- Solid Mechanics
- Dynamical Systems & Control
- Thermofluids
To ensure depth, students in the MS and PhD program are required to
take three Core courses from the selected Discipline chosen. A
description of the Core courses for each discipline is given below.
To ensure breadth, students must take courses from disciplines outside
their field of study (one for MS and two for PhD). Students must
also take an Engineering Analysis course from an approved list covering
a broad array of analytical and computational techniques. These requirements
do not apply to Masters of Engineering students (see below for details
regarding this program).
The Core course requirement in the
Thermofluids track are the
following three courses: MAE 610 – Thermomechanics, MAE 631 – Fluid
Mechanics I, and MAE 611 – Heat and Mass Transport Phenomena The Core
course requirement in the
Solid Mechanics track are: MAE
602 – Continuum Mechanics with Applications AND any
two courses
from the following list:
MAE 607 - Theory of Elasticity
MAE 608 - Constitutive Modeling of Biosystems
AM 708 - Inelastic Solid Mechanics
AM 714 - Nonlinear Elasticity Theory
The Core course requirements in the
Dynamical Systems and Controls
track are one course from each of the following three categories:
| Category
|
Courses |
| Dynamics |
MAE 621 - Analytical
Dynamics
MAE 625 - Multibody Mechanical Systems
|
| Systems |
MAE 652 -
Linear State Space Systems
MAE 623 - Vibrations
|
| Control |
MAE 651 -
Linear Automatic Control Systems
MAE 755 - Multivariable Control
|
The approved Engineering Analysis courses cover a variety of analytical
and computational results useful for investigation across the department’s
disciplines:
MAE 641: Engineering Analysis I
MAE 642: Engineering Analysis II
MAE 643: Probability & Statistics for Engineers
MAE 671: Finite Element Analysis
MAE 672: Computational Fluid Dynamics
- 30 credits of graduate coursework
- 18 credits from Mechanical and Aerospace (MAE) graduate classes
- No more than 9 credits from 500 level classes
- No more than 6 credits from 500 level MAE classes
Course Requirements – Master of Science
- Three Core courses from the Discipline defined as the students
field of study (as detailed for each Discipline)
- One Core course from a MAE Discipline outside the students field
of study
- One Engineering Analysis class
- Any three graduate classes
- No more than 9 credits from 500 level classes
- No more than 6 credits from 500 level MAE classes
Course Requirements – Doctor of Philosophy
- Three Core courses from the Discipline defined as the students
field of study (as detailed for each Discipline)
- One Core course from a MAE Discipline outside the students field
of study
- Either one Core course from the third
MAE Discipline or a graduate course in either another SEAS department
or a Math or Science graduate course outside the SEAS
- One Engineering Analysis class
- Any six graduate classes
- No more than 9 credits from 500 level classes
- No more than 6 credits from 500 level MAE classes
Updated: May 2007