Mechanical Engineering

Minor Contact

• Statler College

Minor Code - U221

Any student may take a minor in mechanical engineering by passing the following courses and maintaining a 2.0 GPA or better in these courses.

The minor is open to all students with the prerequisite coursework, which includes MATH 155, MATH 156, and PHYS 111. Students also may need to complete MATH 251 and MATH 261 for completion of the minor.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
A minimum of 9 credits must be 300 or 400 level
MAE 241	Statics	3
Select 12 credit hours from the following courses. **		12
MAE 242	Dynamics
MAE 243	Mechanics of Materials
MAE 244L	Dynamics and Strength Laboratory
MAE 253	Fundamentals of Materials Engineering
MAE 254L	Materials Engineering Laboratory
MAE 271S	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Design 1 *
MAE 312	Introduction to Mechanical Design
MAE 316	Analysis-Engineering Systems
MAE 320	Thermodynamics
MAE 321	Applied Thermodynamics
MAE 322L	Thermal and Fluids Laboratory
MAE 331	Fluid Mechanics
MAE 342	Dynamics of Machines
MAE 353	Intermediate Mechanics of Materials
MAE 371S	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Design 2 *
MAE 422L	Energy Conversion Laboratory
MAE 423	Heat Transfer
MAE 425	Internal Combustion Engines
MAE 427	Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
MAE 433	Computational Fluid Dynamics
MAE 442	Mechanical Vibrations
MAE 446	Mechanics of Composite Materials
MAE 454	Machine Design and Manufacturing
MAE 456 & 456L	Computer-Aided Design and Finite Element Analysis and Computer-Aided Design and Finite Element Analysis Laboratory
MAE 459	Hybrid Electric Vehicle Propulsion and Control
MAE 460	Automatic Controls
Total Hours		15

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MAE 271S and MAE 371S require departmental approval. Contact the instructor of record for more details.

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Related Special Topics courses (MAE 393 and MAE 493) may be used if approved by the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Committee.