ME EN Technical Elective Options

Technical electives are the final phase of undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering. Considerable latitude is allowed in the selection of technical electives. The objectives of the technical electives are to synthesize the knowledge and skills acquired in required ME EN courses and to broaden the student’s knowledge in other related technical areas.

To see a list of approved courses outside Mechanical Engineering, click here.

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 and ME EN 5930 Undergraduate Research);
    3. Satisfactorily completed with a C or better (B or higher to be used for an emphasis).
  3. Six of the twelve technical elective credits must be completed with lecture-based 5000-level courses within the Mechanical Engineering department, 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.)
  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 4999591059305950, 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:

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

Design, Ergonomics, Manufacturing & Systems Group

Course
Title
F22
S23
Su23
F23
S24
Su24
ME EN 5000 Engineering Law and Contracts F23
ME EN 5010 Principles of Manufacturing Processes S24
ME EN 5011 Additive Manufacturing F22 F23
ME EN 5035 Design of Experiments S23 S24
ME EN 5050 Fundamentals of Micromachining Processes F22 S23 F23 S24
ME EN 5051 Microsensors F22 F23
ME EN 5053 Microactuators S23 S24
ME EN 5055 Microsystems Design and Characterization S23 S24
ME EN 5060 Sustainable Product and Processes () (S23)
ME EN 5070 Electromechanical Energy Harvesting ()
ME EN 5100 Ergonomics F22 F23
ME EN 5110 Introduction to Industrial Safety S24
ME EN 5130 Design Implications for Human-Machine Systems F23
ME EN 5150 Product Safety & Engineering Ethics F22 F23
ME EN 5160 Fund of Systems Engineering F22 F23
ME EN 5166 Model-Based Systems Engineering
ME EN 5170 Systems Eng and Integration S23
ME EN 5181 Systems Definition and Modeling S23
ME EN 5182 Design of Production and Service Systems Su23 Su24
ME EN 5183 Discrete Event Systems Simulation F22 F23
ME EN 5184 Operations Research for Systems F22 F23
ME EN 5185 Data Analytics for Engineers S23 S24
ME EN 5186 Engineering Economic Analysis Su23 Su24
ME EN 5730 Microfluidic Chip Design and Fabrication F22

Robotics and Controls Group

Course
Title
F22
S23
Su23
F23
S24
Su24
ME EN 5200 Classical Control Systems F22 F23
ME EN 5205 System Dynamics F22 F23
ME EN 5210 Linear Control Systems/State Space Control S23 S24
ME EN 5220 Robotics F22 F34
ME EN 5230 Introduction to Robot Control S23 S24
ME EN 6240 Advanced Mechatronics (instructor consent needed) ( ) S24
ME EN 5250 Object-Oriented Programming for Interactive Systems F22 F23

Solid Mechanics Group

Course
Title
F22
S23
Su23
F23
S24
Su24
ME EN 5300 Advanced Mechanics of Materials S23 S24
ME EN 5400 Vibrations F22 F23
ME EN 5410 Intermediate Dynamics
ME EN 5500 Engineering Elasticity F23
ME EN 5510 Applied Finite Element Analysis F22 Su23 F23 Su24
ME EN 5515 Theory of Linear Finite Element Method F22 F23
ME EN 5520 Mechanics of Composite Materials S23 S24
ME EN 5530 Introduction to Continuum Mechanics F22 F23
ME EN 5535 Intro to Biomechanics/Biomechanics I F22 F23
ME EN 5540 Biomechanics II (Soft Tissue Mechanics) S23 S24

Thermal Fluids and Energy Systems Group

Course
Title
F22
S23
Su23
F23
S24
Su24
ME EN 5600 Intermediate Thermodynamics S23 S24
ME EN 5630 Nanoscale Heat Transfer F23
ME EN 5650 Intermediate Heat Transfer F22 F23
ME EN 5700 Intermediate Fluid Dynamics F22 F23
ME EN 5710 Aerodynamics F23
ME EN 5740 Wind Energy S23
ME EN 5790 Energy System Analysis S23
ME EN 5800 Sustainable Energy Engineering F22 F23
ME EN 5810 Thermal Systems Design F23
ME EN 5820 Thermal Environmental Engineering (HVAC) S24
ME EN 5830 Aerospace Propulsion