ME EN Technical Elective Schedule

Schedule Overview

ME EN technical electives offer the opportunity to dive deeper into mechanical engineering topics, often with an application-focus and smaller class sizes. Because of this and the variety of technical elective courses, they are offered less-frequently and typically once per academic year. Please refer to the schedule below for the tentative schedule of technical elective offerings. Due to teacher availability, the schedule below is subject to change.

Technical Elective Requirements

1. Twelve technical elective credit hours are required.
2. All technical electives must be:
   1. Upper division courses (3000-5999);
   2. Taken for a letter grade (except ME EN 5910 Co-op);
   3. Satisfactorily completed with a ‘C’ or better
3. Six of the twelve technical elective credits must be completed with lecture-based 5000-level courses within the Mechanical Engineering department (includes ME EN, ROBOT, & SIME), excluding ME EN 4999, 5910, 5930 and 5950. (This requirement is waived for students pursuing the Data Science Emphasis or Computer Science Minor. These students can complete all 12 technical elective credits from the list of approved courses outside of Mechanical Engineering below.)
4. Each of the nontraditional ME courses (ME EN 4999, 5910, 5930, 5950) are capped at 3 credit hours each.
5. No more than 6 credits total may be taken from the following course numbers: ME EN 4999, 5910, 5930, 5950, plus the below lists of non-ME technical elective courses.

Co-op, Design, & Research Options

Technical elective credit may be earned for co-op, design, and research experiences through the following courses:

• ME EN 4999 – Honors Thesis/Project
• ME EN 5910 – Cooperative Education/Internship– Apply here
• ME EN 5930 – Undergraduate Research– Apply here
• ME EN 5950 – Independent Study– Apply here

These courses allow the student to have experiences not normally available in regularly scheduled classes.