Elective Courses

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.

Exclusions

A class can be applied toward one requirement in your major only. For example, if a class is approved as both a Humanities & Social Sciences elective and a mechanical technical elective, it can only count toward one requirement, not both.
 

Technical elective & graduate courses information, schedule, and instructor PowerPoint (non-exhaustive) 

Graduate Courses PowerPoint and Syllabi Repository (non-exhaustive)

  • 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. 

Spring 2027 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.
Classes indicated with the   symbol are approved for the Materials Science minor.
 

MCEN 4012/5012 Renewable Fuels, Fuel Cells, & Internal Combustion Engines  
MCEN 4111/5111 Intro to Microfluidics    
MCEN 4113/5113 Mechanics of Cancer  
MCEN 4117/5117 Anatomy and Physiology  
MCEN 4128/5128 Advanced Biotransport
MCEN 4128/5128 Electromechanical Biomaterial
MCEN 4128/5128 Fluids in the Human Body  
MCEN 4133/5133 Intro to Tissue Biomechanics    
MCEN 4135/5135 Wind Turbine Design   
MCEN 4138/5138 Control Systems Analysis
MCEN 4173/5173 Finite Element Analysis
MCEN 4193/5193 Design of Coffee
MCEN 4228/5228 Biohybrid Robotics
MCEN 4228/5228 Materials Science of Sports Gear
MCEN 4228/5228 3D Printing w/ Polymers
MCEN 4228/5228 Space Thermal Design
MCEN 4228/5228 Thermofluids Lab
MCEN 4228/5228 Design Theory and Methods
MCEN 4228 Climate Action Plan
MCEN 4228/5228 Mechatronics 2
MCEN 4231/5231 Computational Fluid Dynamics
MCEN 4279/5279 Aesthetics in Design
MCEN 4291/5291 PBL in Rural Schools
MCEN 5042 Grad Heat Transfer
MCEN 5044 Mechanical Behaviors of Materials
MCEN 5045 Manufacturability
MCEN 5055 Advanced Product Design
MCEN 5075 Grad Design 2
MCEN 5158 Design of Beer
MCEN 5161 Aerosols
MCEN 5228 Fracture Mechanics
MCEN 5228 Advanced Dynamics
MCEN 5228 Intro to Wildfires
MCEN 5228 Membrane Technologies