Twin Cities Campus Mechanical Engineering Minor Mechanical Engineering College of Science and Engineering

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Contact Information: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, 1120 Mechanical Engineering, 111 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-2009; fax: 612-624-2010) Email: [email protected], [email protected] Website: http://www.me.umn.edu

•Program Type: Graduate minor related to major •Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2020 •Length of program in credits (Masters): 6 •Length of program in credits (Doctorate): 12 •This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.

Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the General Information section of the catalog website for requirements that apply to all major fields.

Coursework is offered in advanced & additive manufacturing; bioengineering; combustion; computer-aided design; computer-aided manufacturing; control systems; energy conservation; environmental control; environmental engineering; fluid mechanics; heat and mass transfer; lubrication; machine design; manufacturing engineering; nanoengineering & nanotechnology; particle technology; plasma chemistry; plasma heat transfer; power, propulsion, and applied thermodynamics; solar energy; sprays & multiphase flows; systems dynamics; thermal energy storage; thermal environmental engineering; thermodynamics; transportation; tribology; vibration; wind energy; and interdisciplinary finite element methodology. Additional instructional and research programs can be formulated.

Program Delivery This program is available: •via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)

Prerequisites for Admission Special Application Requirements: Students interested in the minor are strongly encouraged to confer with their major field advisor and director of graduate studies, and the Mechanical Engineering director of graduate studies regarding feasibility and requirements.

For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of the catalog website.

Program Requirements Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.

Courses must be taken on the A/F grade basis, unless only offered S/N, with a minimum grade of B- earned for each course.

The minimum cumulative GPA for the minor is 3.00.

Minor Courses (6-12 credits) Master's students select 6 credits, and doctoral students select 12 credits from the following in consultation with the Mechanical Engineering director of graduate studies: ME 5103 - Thermal Environmental Engineering (4.0 cr) ME 5113 - Aerosol/Particle Engineering (4.0 cr) ME 5133 - Aerosol Measurement Laboratory (4.0 cr) ME 5221 - Computer-Assisted Product Realization (4.0 cr) ME 5223 - Materials in Design (4.0 cr)

© 2005 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Information current as of October 02, 2021 ME 5228 - Introduction to Finite Element Modeling, Analysis, and Design (4.0 cr) ME 5229 - Finite Element Method for Computational Mechanics: Transient/Dynamic Applications (4.0 cr) ME 5241 - Computer-Aided Engineering (4.0 cr) ME 5243 - Advanced Mechanism Design (4.0 cr) ME 5247 - Applied Stress Analysis (4.0 cr) ME 5248 - Vibration Engineering (4.0 cr) ME 5281 - Feedback Control Systems (4.0 cr) ME 5286 - Robotics (4.0 cr) ME 5312 - Solar Thermal Technologies (4.0 cr) ME 5332 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics (3.0 cr) ME 5341 - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering and Design (4.0 cr) ME 5344 - Thermodynamics of Fluid Flow With Applications (4.0 cr) ME 5351 - Computational Heat Transfer (4.0 cr) ME 5446 - Introduction to Combustion (4.0 cr) ME 5461 - Internal Combustion Engines (4.0 cr) ME 5462 - Gas Turbines (4.0 cr) ME 5666 - Modern Thermodynamics (4.0 cr) ME 8113 - Advanced Aerosol/Particle Engineering (3.0 cr) ME 8221 - New Product Design and Business Development I (4.0 cr) ME 8222 - New Product Design and Business Development II (4.0 cr) ME 8228 - Finite Elements in Multidisciplinary Flow/Thermal/Stress and Manufacturing Applications (4.0 cr) ME 8229 - Finite Element Methods for Computational Mechanics: Transient/Dynamic Problems (4.0 cr) ME 8243 - Topics in Design: Advanced Fluid Power (4.0 cr) ME 8253 - Computational Nanomechanics (3.0 cr) ME 8254 - Fundamentals of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (4.0 cr) ME 8255 - Introduction to Nanotechnology (3.0 cr) ME 8281 - Advanced Control System Design-1 (3.0 cr) ME 8283 - Design of Mechatronic Products (4.0 cr) ME 8285 - Control Systems for Intelligent Vehicle Applications (3.0 cr) ME 8287 - Topics in Dynamics and Control (2.0 - 4.0 cr) ME 8332 - Advanced Fluid Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering (3.0 cr) ME 8337 - Experimental Methods in the Thermal Sciences (3.0 cr) ME 8341 - Conduction (3.0 cr) ME 8342 - Convection (3.0 cr) ME 8343 - Radiation (3.0 cr) ME 8345 - Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (3.0 cr) ME 8350 - Heat Transfer Physics (3.0 cr) ME 8361 - Molecular Gas Dynamics (3.0 cr) ME 8362 - Introduction to Plasma Technology (3.0 cr) ME 8363 - Introduction to Reactive Flow Systems (3.0 cr) ME 8381 - Bioheat and Mass Transfer (3.0 cr) ME 8390 - Advanced Topics in the Thermal Sciences : Biostabilization in Biomedicine, and Biotechnology (1.0 - 3.0 cr) ME 8446 - Advanced Combustion (3.0 cr)

Program Sub-plans Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans. Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.

Masters

Doctoral

© 2005 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Information current as of October 02, 2021