Curriculum and Courses
Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Requirements
Select the curriculum below based on your entering year. Check with your faculty advisor if you are unsure which requirements you are following.
Catalog years 2018-19 to present:
- Curriculum (PDF)
- Flow Chart (PDF)
- Advising Matrix (XLSX)
- Honors Tracking Sheet (Catalog years 2020-21 to present) (PDF)
The Advanced Manufacturing Concentration (AMF) is offered to students who are interested in the broad area of manufacturing, and wish to expand their education on applications of AMF, including additive manufacturing and manufacturing automation.
The AMF concentration can be declared at any time but in order to graduate with the concentration, students are required to have a cumulative GPA of 2.70 or better in all AMF courses, and a GPA of 2.000 in the Mechanical Engineering Major.
Students in the Manufacturing Concentration complete the requirements for Mechanical Engineering and choose three of their four technical electives from the approved list of courses below.
Manufacturing Foundation Core Courses - completed as part of the MNE major. All three courses required:
- EGR 303 Engineering Economics (3 credits)
- MNE 231 Material Science (4 credits)
- MNE 345 Design for Manufacturing (4 credits)
Advanced Manufacturing Core Course - completed as a technical elective. One course required:
- MNE 476 Manufacturing Quality Control (3 credits)
- MNE 482 Robotics (3 credits)
- MNE 560 Methods of Experimental Research (3 credits)*
- MNE 591 Special Topics in Advanced Robotics (3 credits)*
Advanced Manufacturing Elective Courses - completed as a technical elective. Two courses required:
- EAS 531 Advanced Materials and Applications (3 credits)
- MNE 446 or MNE 546 Finite Element Method for Additive Manufacturing (3 credits)
- MNE 490 or MNE 591* Special Topics (3 credits) - must be a manufacturing related topic
- MNE 495 Independent Study (3 credits) - must be a manufacturing related project
- MNE 533 Manufacturing Automation (3 credits)
- MNE 560 Methods of Experimental Research (3 credits)*
- MNE 563 Facility Planning (3 credits)
- MNE 565 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects (3 credits)
*Courses listed in both AMF Core and AMF Elective categories can only be used to meet one requirement area.
MNE Department Advising Handouts and Policies
- MNE Undergraduate Career Advising (DOCX)
- MNE Science Electives (DOCX)
- MNE Policy Enclosure 2: Academic Requirements and Standards (PDF)
- MNE Enclosures 3 & 4: Petition to Graduate and Summary of Academic Requirements (PDF)
- MNE Enclosures 3 and 4 for students in Honors (PDF)
- MNE Undergraduate Student Handbook (PDF)
University Studies Requirements for MNE
MNE students are required to meet the University Studies requirements by choosing an approved course from the following University Studies Clusters:
- Cluster 3A: Literature
- Cluster 3B: Visual and Performing Arts
- Cluster 4A: Human Questions and Context
- Cluster 4B: Nature of US Society
Students who transferred to the University with 24 or more transfer credits will follow the Transfer Substitution policy (PDF) for University Studies.