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Every ME student has the opportunity to take concentrations and minors,
such as
Mechatronics,
Bioengineering,
and other disciplines
in Engineering, Business, and Arts and Sciences. The specific courses
must be selected in conjunction with the appropriate departmental office
and the student's academic advisor. Requirements for a minor are set by
the appropriate department. All concentrations and minors must be approved
by the Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering department.
The Department seeks to provide a fundamentally sound, well-rounded,
and flexible educational program for its students. To this end, the faculty
very strongly encourages students to take only mechanical engineering technical
elective courses. However, also understood is the value of expanding the
student’s base of knowledge into areas that are not directly related to
mechanical engineering but believed by the student, with their academic
advisor, to serve their long term interests. This value can be added by
taking a minor.
To accommodate students taking minors, the Department allows students
to substitute one course from their minor in place of the ME/Career Elective
in spring of senior year. In addition, all ME students, with or without
a minor, may take a technical elective course from the sciences or another
engineering department that is appropriate to the student’s senior standing
and approved by the academic advisor. This elective course may be placed
in the ME/Career Elective slot in spring of senior year.
Those students taking minors may also place one of the courses from their
minor in the Free Elective slot in the spring of senior year. In some cases,
one course from the minor may also be fit into the Humanities/Social Science
Elective in the spring of junior year. Students enrolled in the combined
bachelor/master program are expected to take all of their technical electives
as 7000-level graduate courses in their senior year.
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ME students can take minors or concentrations.
A concentration requires that the student complete fifteen credit hours
of appropriate courses.
Examples -Minors Taken for Mechanical Engineering
Students
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