Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineers design, analyze, and improve mechanical systems across industries like automotive, aerospace, energy, and manufacturing. They apply expertise in physics, mathematics, and materials science, using CAD software and simulations to optimize designs for functionality and efficiency. Involved in every product stage from design to maintenance, they collaborate with teams to address challenges in mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics, aiming to create safer, sustainable, and advanced products.

Degrees Offered

12/1

Student to Faculty Ratio

600

Students Enrolled (2024)

116

Undergrad Degrees Awarded (2023)

10

Grad Degrees Awarded (2023)

$2.36M

Research Expenditures

Career Outlook

Our personalized approach not only enhances your skills and knowledge but also ensures that your education is relevant and fulfilling, positioning you for success in your engineering career.

What You Can Do

  • Manufacturing Engineer
  • Engineering Consultant
  • Design Engineer
  • Aerospace Engineer

Industries You Can Work In

  • Aerospace
  • Transportation
  • Manufacturing & Materials

  • Consulting
  • Design

Research Areas

Aerospace

Aerospace engineers are creating better aircraft to help humans travel around the world and into outer space more easily. Ongoing areas of aviation and space research include materials and coatings, design, processes, modeling, manufacturing, electronics, and logistics.

Design

Faculty is this area focus on integrating theories, such as decision theory, network theory and game theory, to develop explanatory models of individual entities' behaviors in supporting complex systems modeling, analysis and design.

Energy

Faculty are researching thermal and energy systems to improve power systems, processing plants, and energy storage and efficiency.

Fluids

Faculty are researching thermal and energy systems to improve power systems, processing plants, and energy storage and efficiency.

Manufacturing

Researchers are using design theory, systems engineering and artificial intelligence to understand failures that affect complex systems like airplanes, manufacturing equipment and power generators in order to design new systems that can adapt to failure.

Materials

Faculty in this area are researching materials and manufacturing processes relevant to electronic packaging in order to improve reliability, performance, and behaviors within electronic systems. Researchers are also focusing on computational modeling of materials to understand the mechanical and surface properties of different material systems.

Mechanics and Controls

Faculty in this area focus on computational modeling of materials to understand the mechanical and surface properties of different material systems. Faculty also research electronic packaging in order to improve reliability, performance and thermal/mechanical behaviors within electronic systems.

Micro/Nano

Researchers in this area use experiments and computational modeling to design next generation nanoscale materials and fluidic systems, create nanomaterial coatings, improve photovoltaic and thermoelectric technologies, and address problems ranging from everyday products to medical solutions.

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