Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Schedule of Electives

The tables below represent a sampling of professional elective, MEAM upper level, and TBS courses being offered through the MEAM department and its faculty. If you need help distinguishing which requirement a course might fulfill, please see the Undergraduate Coordinator (Towne 229) for assistance.

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Fall 2020 Electives
MEAM 101 Intro to Mechanical Design
MEAM 220/MSE 220 Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
MEAM 415, IPD 515, OIDD 415* Product Design
MEAM 421/ESE 421 Control for Autonomous Robots
MEAM 502 Energy Engineering in Power Plants & Transportation Systems
MEAM 506/MSE 506 Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials
MEAM 507 Fundamentals of Materials
MEAM 508 Materials and Manufacturing for Mechanical Design
MEAM 514 Design for Manufacturability
MEAM 519*** Elasticity & Micromech of Materials
MEAM 520 Intro to Robotics
MEAM 527 Finite Element Analysis
MEAM 535*** Advanced Dynamics
MEAM 545 Aerodynamics
MEAM 555, CBE 555, BE 555 Nanoscale Systems Biology
MEAM 570*** Transport Processes I
MEAM 690 Special Topics: Order of Magnitude Estimation
ENGR 105 Intro to Scientific Computing
EAS 401/501** Energy and Its Impacts
EAS 545/IPD 545** Engineering Entrepreneurship I
EAS 546** Engineering Entrepreneurship II
Spring 2021 Electives (tentative)
MEAM 101 Intro to Mechanical Design
MEAM 201 Machine Design and Manufacturing
MEAM 415, IPD 515, OIDD 415* Product Design
MEAM 505, MSE 405, MSE 505 Mechanical Properties of Macro/Nanoscale Materials
MEAM 510 Design of Mechatronic Systems
MEAM 513, ESE 505 Feedback Control Design & Analysis
MEAM 530 Continuum Mechanics
MEAM 536 Viscous Fluid Flow
MEAM 537 Nanotribology
MEAM 538 Turbulence
MEAM 561 Thermodynamics
MEAM 580 Electrochemistry for Energy, Nanofabrication and Sensing
ENGR 105 Intro to Scientific Computing
ENM 512 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
ENM 531 Data-driven Modeling and Probabilistic Scientific Computing
EAS 402/502** Renewable Energy & Its Impacts
EAS 545, IPD 545** Engineering Entrepreneurship I
EAS 546** Engineering Entrepreneurship II

*MEAM 415/IPD 515/OIDD 415 does not count as a MEAM Upper Level for students who entered Fall 2010 or after

**These courses may only be used to satisfy Technology in Business and Society (TBS) or free elective requirements. They may not be used in the engineering or professional elective categories.

***Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of the instructor required.