MEAM Graduate

MS

Specialty areas and courses

• Graduate study in the department may be highly focused in a single area or be an individually designed interdisciplinary program.
• There are nine areas of specialty in the program, including:
• Thermal Sciences
• Fluid Mechanics
• Solid Mechanics
• Systems, Design and Controls
• Dynamics and Vibrations
• Computational Methods
• Materials Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D.

Specialty areas

• There are six areas of specialty in the program, including:
• Thermal Sciences
• Fluid Mechanics
• Solid Mechanics
• Systems, Design and Controls
• Dynamics and Vibrations
• Computational Methods

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics degree option allows students to earn a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics while working toward their Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

Certificate

Additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly changing the face of manufacturing, especially in the U.S. Metal AM is the future due to the use of metals and alloys in a wide variety of industries. Notably, defense, aerospace, and biomedical industries will be transformed by metal AM. Also, AM is quickly expanding into new areas, including electronics and tissue engineering where printing of biological soft matter will lead to unforeseen innovations. As a result, the AM certificate program provides students with the vital knowledge and fundamental skills to enable them to compete in this fast-changing field.

The certificate program equips students with core competency and technical skills across the breadth of AM, including:

1. Manufacturing process fundamentals;
2. Materials and materials testing;
3. Modeling and simulation of process phenomena;
4. Quality and measurement;
5. Design for AM

These aspects are covered within a series of courses that provide both fundamental understanding of AM and hands-on opportunities—theory and practice—and provide a competitive advantage to students. The courses offer broad appeal for various engineering majors and areas of practice.

To earn the Graduate Certificate in Additive Manufacturing:

• Apply and be admitted
• Work with a faculty member to develop a plan of study
• Complete 12 credit hours (courses described below)

Course Number	Certificate Credit # Credit Hours
MECH 872-Additive Manufacturing	3
Any three of the following:
MECH 822-Industrial Quality Control	3
MECH 820-Heat Transfer	3
MECH 851-Introduction of Finite Element Analysis	3
MATL 860-Mechanical Aspects of Materials	3
MATL 865-Applied Physical Metallurgy	3
Total	12