The Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a wide range of upper-level courses designed to increase students’ knowledge and allow them to pursue more advanced career opportunities. View the Mechanical Engineering Graduate and Elective Courses guide to view full descriptions of our current courses.

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ME Technical Elective & Graduate Courses

  • 4000-level courses are open to mechanical engineering undergraduate juniors and seniors. 
  • 5000-level are open to engineering graduate students and mechanical engineering undergraduate juniors and seniors. 
  • 6000-level and above courses are recommended for graduate students. 

Fall 2023 Course Offerings

Classes indicated with the symbol are approved for the Biomedical Engineering minor.
Classes indicated with the  symbol are approved for the Energy Engineering minor.

MCEN 4032/5032: Sustainable Energy 
MCEN 4115/5115: Mechatronics 1
MCEN 4127/5127: Biomedical Ultrasound
MCEN 4131/5131 Air Pollution Control Engineering
MCEN 4138/5138: Feedback Control
MCEN 4141/5141: Indoor Air Pollution
MCEN 4151/5151: Flow Visualization
MCEN 4152/5152: Intro to Combustion 
MCEN 4157/5157: Modeling of Human Movement 
MCEN 4174/5174: Failure of Engineering Materials
MCEN 4195/5195: Bioinspired Robotics 
MCEN 4228-001: Thermal Systems, Analysis, and Innovation 
MCEN 4228/5228-002: Practical Electronics
MCEN 4228/5228-004&005: Design of Coffee 

MCEN 4228/5228-021: Intro to Nanoscale Transport
MCEN 4238: Design for Community
MCEN 4291/5291: PBL in Rural Schools* (see flyer)
MCEN 4293/5293: Mechanics of Soft Matter
MCEN 5020: Methods of Engineering Analysis
MCEN 5021: Intro to Fluid Dynamics
MCEN 5023: Solid Mechanics
MCEN 5044: Mechanical Behavior of Materials
MCEN 5055: Advanced Product Design (priority goes to MS Design Track students, but students can submit an Intent to Enroll to be considered)
MCEN 5183: Mechanics of Composite Materials
MCEN 5208: Intro to Research
MCEN 5228-001: Regenerative Biology and Tissue Repair
MCEN 5448: Linear Systems

 

Non-MCEN Options

At least one of the two ME Technical Electives must be completed as an MCEN class in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum, and undergraduate students may choose to apply one of the following courses toward an ME Technical Elective:

APPM 4350 Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems
AREN 4830/AREN 5020 Building Energy Audits
ASTR 3730 Astrophysics 1 - Stellar and Interstellar
ATOC 4720 Atmospheric Dynamics
CHEN 4521 Physical Chemistry for Engineers
COEN 3210 Climate Change and Engineering
CSCI 3287 Design & Analysis of Database Systems
CSCI 3302/ECEN 3303 Intro to Robotics
CSCI 3308 Software Development Methods and Tools

CSCI 4229 Computer Graphics
CVEN 4333 Engineering Hydrology
ECEN 3250 Microelectronics
Any 3000+ Engineering Management (EMEN) class
ENEN 4600 Interdisciplinary Energy Engineering Projects 
GEEN 3400 Invention and Innovation
PHYS 3210 Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods 2
PHYS 3220 Quantum Mechanics 1
PHYS 3320 Principles of Electricity and Magnetism 2

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