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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanics of Materials Track (previously Applied Mechanics)

A total of 30 hours are required for the M.S. degree. At least 18 must be in MCEN courses, or 15 must be in MCEN courses with 6 MCEN thesis hours.

In addition to the coursework for each track, M.S. students are required to take two semesters of Graduate Seminar, MCEN 5027. This class is pass/fail and is attendance based. It does NOT count towards the 30 credit hours required for the degree. Attendance is required at 2/3 of the seminars for a passing grade.

Core Courses (15 hours)
MCEN 5020 Methods of Eng Anal (3)
MCEN 5021 Fluid Mechanics (3)
MCEN 5023 Solid Mechanics (3) or CVEN 5131 Continuum Mechanics & Elasticity (3)
MCEN 5173, ASEN 5007 or CVEN 5511 Finite Element Analysis (3)
Choose one of the following three:
MCEN 5228 Materials Chemistry & Structure (3)
MCEN 5228 Mechanical Behavior of Materials (3)
MCEN 5228 Thermodynamics & Kinetics of Materials (3)

Elective Courses (9 hours)

Thesis Requirements (Optional)
MCEN 5208 Intro to Research (3)
MCEN 6959 Masters Thesis (3)
MCEN 6959 Masters Thesis (3)

Enrichment Courses (min 6 hours from the list below)
Additional courses may be approved on a petition basis. Some courses may have prerequisites.

Recommended for Micro/nanomechanics Interest
MCEN 5228 Materials Chemistry & Structure (was MCEN 5024 "Materials Science 1")
PHYS 5250 Intro Quantum Mechanics 1
PHYS 3220 Quantum Mech/Atomic Phys 1
PHYS 4410 Quantum Mech/Atomic Phys 2
PHYS 4230 Thermodynamics/Stat. Mech.
PHYS 4340 Solid-State Physics
CHEM 5571 Surface Science

Recommended for Mechanics Interest
MCEN 5183 Mechanics of Composites
CVEN 6835 Damage and Plasticity
CVEN 6831 Fracture Mechanics
PHYS 5210 Theoretical Mechanics

Recommended for Materials Interest
MCEN 5228 Materials Chemistry & Structure
MCEN 5228 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
MCEN 5228 Thermodynamics & Kinetics of Materials
MCEN 5228 Introduction to Polymers
MCEN 6184 Structure & Properties of Polymers
ASEN 5519 Advances in Materials Processing

Recommended for Design Mechanics Interest
MCEN 5248 Microsystems Design
MCEN 5125 Optimal Design
ASEN 5519 Design Optimization
ASEN 5218 Large Space Structure Design
ASEN 5148 Spacecraft Design

Recommended for Computational Mechanics Interest
ASEN 5367 Advanced Finite Element Meth.
ASEN 5517 Comp. Meth. in Dynamics
CVEN 6525 Finite Element Anal. Structures
ASEN 5417 Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
ASEN 5327 Computational Fluid Dynamics
MCEN 6228 Numerical Methods

Updated 09/09