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: 

  • Design and Manufacturing - computer-aided design, optimal design, design with reliability, additive manufacturing, micro- and nano-fabrication

  • Dynamic Systems – multiphysics phenomena, microstructural vibrations, MEMS/NEMS, novel acoustic measurement techniques, noise control, microscale vibrations and acoustics, nonlinear dynamics, sensors and actuators, control systems, robotics
  • Materials - materials characterization, microstructure/property relationships, thin films, computational materials, interfacial phenomena, functional materials, materials processing
  • Solid Mechanics - mechanics of materials and structures, computational mechanics, biomechanics, waves and vibration, 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:

Faculty associated with this: Chiarot, Ke, Liu, Murray, Park, Razavi, Schiffres, Zhang

Dynamic Systems courses include:

Faculty associated with this: Homentcovschi, Miles, Pitarresi, Selleck, Towfighian, Younis, Yu, Zaychik

Materials courses include:

ME/MSE 516X Intro to Nonlinear Solid Mech (new course for Spring 2024)

Faculty associated with this: Cho, Liu, Murray, Singler, Yong, Zhou

Solid Mechanics courses include:

ME/MSE 516X Intro to Nonlinear Solid Mech (new course for Spring 2024)

Faculty associated with this: Ke, Park, Razavi, Schiffres, Zhang

Energy and Transport Phenomena courses include:

Faculty associated with this: Chiarot, Daskiran, Huang, Liu, Murray, Sammakia, Singler, Yong, Schiffres

New Course for Fall 2023:

ME 531X Applied Machine Learning for Mechanical Engineering (applied to all Specializations)