Specializations and Course Listings

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: 

  • Dynamics and Mechatronics – electromechanical system dynamics, mechanical vibrations, rigid-body dynamics, MEMS/NEMS, acoustic measurement techniques, mechatronics, robotics, microscale vibrations and acoustics, nonlinear dynamics, sensors and actuators, control systems
  • Manufacturing and Materials - computer-aided design, design with reliability, additive manufacturing, materials characterization, microstructure/property relationships, thin films, computational materials, interfacial phenomena, functional materials, materials processing, micro-and nano-fabrication
  • 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
  • Thermofluid and Energy Sciences - heat and mass transfer in biological/environmental/industrial applications, microfluidics/nanofluidics, complex fluids, 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

Dynamics and Mechatronics courses include:

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Faculty associated with this: Gu, Miles, Selleck, Towfighian, Younis, Yu,  J. Zhou

Manufacturing and 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, Ke, Schiffres, 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, Park, Pitarresi, Razavi, Wagner, Zhang, Zhao

Thermofluid and Energy Sciences courses include:

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Faculty associated with this: Chiarot, Daskiran, Gu, Huang, Sammakia, Schiffres, Singler, Tan

*Graduate students admitted prior to Fall 2025 follow respective Bulletin Year requirements.