Below you will find a list of Mechanical Engineering graduate specializations and a course listing for each area. In each specialization, students develop skills in the following:
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Design and Manufacturing - computer-aided design, optimal design, design with reliability, additive manufacturing, micro- and nano-fabrication
- Dynamics and Mechatronics – electromechanical system dynamics, microstructural vibrations, rigid-body dynamics, MEMS/NEMS, novel acoustic measurement techniques, mechatronics, robotics, microscale vibrations and acoustics, nonlinear dynamics, sensors and actuators, control systems
- Materials - materials characterization, microstructure/property relationships, thin films, computational materials, interfacial phenomena, functional materials, materials processing
- Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Design- mechanics of materials and structures, computational mechanics, biomechanics, waves and vibration, computer-aided design, design optimization, design with reliability, design for additive manufacturing
- Energy and Transport Phenomena - heat and mass transfer in biological/environmental/industrial applications, microfluidics/nanofluidics, complex fluids, mechanobiology, interfacial phenomena/wetting, additive manufacturing, energy generation, energy storage, energy efficient space heating and cooling, smart electronics and data center cooling, small-scale power harvesting
Design and Manufacturing courses include:
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Faculty associated with this: Chiarot, Ke, Liu, Murray, Park, Razavi, Schiffres, Zhang, Zhao
Dynamics and Mechatronics courses include:
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Faculty associated with this: Gu, Miles, Pitarresi, Selleck, Towfighian, Younis, Yu, J. Zhou
Materials courses include:
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New course in spring 2025: ME/MSE 545X Intro to Mech of Soft Matter
Faculty associated with this: Cho, Liu, Murray, Singler, Wagner, Zhao, G. Zhou
Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Design courses include:
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New course in spring 2025: ME/MSE 545X Intro to Mech of Soft Matter
Faculty associated with this: Ke, Lee, Park, Razavi, Schiffres, Wagner, Zhang
Energy and Transport Phenomena courses include:
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Faculty associated with this: Chiarot, Daskiran, Gu, Huang, Liu, Murray, Sammakia, Singler, Schiffres, Tan