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. Download the Mechanical Engineering Graduate and Elective Courses guide to view full descriptions of the fall 2022 offerings, as well as all of the classes taught by the department in the past 2-3 years that are anticipated to continue being offered.

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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 2022 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 4117/5117: Anatomy and Physiology 
MCEN 4141/5141: Indoor Air Pollution**
MCEN 4151/5151: Flow Visualization
MCEN 4152/5152: Intro to Combustion 
MCEN 4228-001: Design for Community*
MCEN 4228/5228-005: Design of Coffee 
MCEN 4228/5228-007: Nano Science and Engineering
MCEN 4228/5228-009: Intro to Microfluidics 
MCEN 4228/5228-012: Feedback Control*
MCEN 4228/5228-015: Modeling Human Movement 
MCEN 4228/5228-019: Fluid Mechanics in the Human Body

MCEN 4228/5228-021: Intro to Nanoscale Transport
MCEN 4228/5228-030: Thermofluids Lab 
MCEN 4228/5228-800: PBL in Rural Schools* (see flyer)
MCEN 5020: Methods of Engineering Analysis
MCEN 5021: Intro to Fluid Dynamics
MCEN 5023: Solid Mechanics
MCEN 5055: Advanced Product Design
MCEN 5065: Graduate Product Design 1
MCEN 5147: Mechanobiology 
MCEN 5208: Intro to Research
MCEN 5228-023: Linear Systems*
MCEN 5228-025: Fracture Mechanics
MCEN 5228-027: Optical Sensing

*Listed with temporary course numbers for Fall 2022.  Permanent course numbers are pending and are listed on course slides.
**Tentatively scheduled. May shift to Spring 2023.

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
ATOC 4720: Atmospheric Dynamics
COEN 3210: Climate Change and Engineering
CSCI 3302: Intro to Robotics
CSCI 3308: Software Development Methods and Tools
CSCI 4229: Computer Graphics

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

MCEN Course Catalog