Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty
Professors: Matthew J. Goeckner, Hongbing Lu, Mario Rotea
Assistant Professors: Fatemeh Hassanipour,
Wooram Park, Walter Voit.
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Professors: Andrew J. Blanchard, Cyrus D. Cantrell III, Yves .J.
Chabal, Bruce E. Gnade
Louis R. Hunt (Emeritus), Moon J.
Kim, Mark. W. Spong, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, Robert
M. Wallace
Associate
Professors: Gerald O. Burnham, Kyeongjae Cho, Jiyoung Kim, Jeong-Bong Lee
Assistant Professor: Walter Hu
Objectives
The program leading to the M.S.M.E.
degree provides advanced studies for both recent baccalaureate graduates and
experienced engineers in the following core areas: control & dynamic
systems, design innovation & manufacturing, mechanics & materials, and
thermal & fluid sciences. It is designed to serve the needs of mechanical
engineers for advanced skills in industry and provides the foundation for a Ph.D.
degree in engineering or closely related discipline.
Facilities
The Engineering and Computer Science
Building and the new Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory
provide extensive facilities for teaching and research. These include wind
tunnels, material test systems, nanoindenter, DMA, XPS, FTIR, NMR, TGA, DSC,
XRD, ยต-Raman, Fluorescence Spectrometer, FIB/SEM, and TEM. A Class 10000
microelectronics clean room facility, including e-beam lithography, sputter
deposition, PECVD, LPCVD, etch, ash and evaporation, is available for student
projects and research.
In addition to the facilities on
campus, cooperative arrangements have been established with many local
industries to make their facilities available to U.T. Dallas graduate
engineering students.
Master of Science in
Mechanical Engineering
Admission Requirements
The University’s general admission
requirements are discussed here.
A student lacking undergraduate
prerequisites for graduate courses in mechanical engineering must complete
these prerequisites or receive approval from the graduate adviser and the
course instructor.
A diagnostic exam may be required.
Specific admission requirements follow.
The student entering the M.S.M.E.
program should meet the following guidelines:
•
An
undergraduate preparation equivalent to a baccalaureate in mechanical
engineering from an accredited engineering program,
•
A
grade point average in upper-division quantitative course work of 3.0 or better
on a 4-point scale, and
•
GRE
scores of 500, 700 and 4 for the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing
components, respectively, are advisable based on our experience with student
success in the program.
Applicants must submit three letters
of recommendation from individuals who are able to judge the candidate’s potential
for success in pursuing a program of study leading to the master’s degree.
Applicants must also submit an essay outlining the candidate’s background,
education and professional goals. Students from other engineering disciplines
or from other areas of science or mathematics may be considered for admission
to the program; however, additional course work may be necessary to complete
the master’s program.
Degree Requirements
The University’s general degree
requirements are discussed here.
The M.S.M.E. requires a minimum of 33
semester hours.
All students must have an academic
advisor and an approved degree plan. These are based upon the student’s choice
of concentration (Control
& Dynamic Systems (CDS), Manufacturing & Design Innovation (MDI),
Mechanics & Materials (MM), Thermal & Fluid Sciences (TFS)). Courses
taken without advisor approval will not count towards the 33 semester-hour
requirement. Successful completion of an approved course of studies leads to
the M.S.M.E. degree.
The M.S.M.E. program has both a thesis
and a non-thesis option. All part-time M.S.M.E. students will be assigned
initially to the non-thesis option. Those wishing to elect the thesis option
may do so by obtaining the approval of a faculty thesis supervisor.
All full-time, supported students are
required to participate in the thesis option. The thesis option requires six
semester hours of research, a written thesis submitted to the graduate school,
and a formal public defense of the thesis. The supervising committee
administers this defense and is chosen in consultation with the student’s
thesis adviser prior to enrolling for thesis credit. Research and thesis hours
cannot be counted in a M.S.M.E. degree plan unless a
thesis is written and successfully defended.
M.S.M.E.
All students must take one designated
core course from each of the four core concentrations on Mechanical
Engineering, MECH 6300, MECH 6303, MECH 6305, MECH
6307. Only grades of B or better are acceptable in these four required core
courses. In addition, students must take at least 3 courses from one
concentration area and four graduate level electives subject to approval by a
graduate adviser.
|
CORE CONCENTRATIONS |
Main Concentration courses (All students must take these courses) |
Students must take at least 3 courses from one concentration area. |
|
Dynamic Systems &
Controls (DSC) |
ME6300 Linear
Systems |
1. ME6313 Nonlinear Systems 2. ME6323 Robust Control Systems 3. ME6312 Stochastic Processes 4. ME 6311 Mechanical Vibrations 5. ME 6324 Robot Control 6. ME6v29 Special topics in CDS |
|
Manufacturing &
Design Innovation (MDI) |
ME6303 Computer Aided Design |
1.
ME6330 Multiscale Design
& Optimization 2.
ME6333 Materials Design & Manufacturing 3.
ME6341 Micro & Nano Manufacturing 4.
ME6347 Intro to MEMS (EEMF6382) 5.
ME6348 Semiconductor Processing (EEMF 6322; MSEN
6322) 6.
ME6v49 Special topics in MDI 7.
ME6369 Special topics in MDI |
|
Mechanics &
Materials (MM) |
ME 6306 Continuum Mechanics |
1. ME6350 Mechanics of Solids and
Structures 2. ME6353 Computational Mechanics 3. ME6354 Experimental Mechanics 4. ME6355 Viscoelasticity 5. ME6367 Mechanical Properties of
Materials (ME 6305 ) 6. ME6368 Imperfections in Solids
(ME 6305 ) 7. ME6v69 Special topics in MM |
|
Thermal & Fluid
Sciences (TFS) |
ME6307 Thermal
& Energy Principles |
1.
ME6370 Fluid Mechanics 2.
ME6371 Computational Fluid Mechanics 3.
ME6382 Applied Heat Transfer 4.
ME 5383 Plasma Processing (EEMF5383 Phys5383; MSEN
5383) 5.
ME 6380 Heat Transfer 6.
ME 6383 Plasma Science (EEMF6383,
PHYS6383) 7.
ME 6v89 Special topics in TFS |
|
Common Math courses |
|
1.
ME6391 Computational Methods
(EEGR6381) |
Control & Dynamic Systems (CDS)
This concentration is focused on the
fundamental principles of the control of dynamic systems.
Each student electing this
concentration must take three prescribed elective courses within this
concentration and four free electives to make a total of 33 hours.
The prescribed elective courses for
this concentration are MECH 6370, MECH 6371, MECH 6372, MECH 6373, MECH 6388,
MECH 6V89, MECH 6391.
Manufacturing & Design Innovation (MDI)
This concentration is focused on the
fundamental principles of design, fabrication and analysis of complex
mechanical systems.
Each student electing this
concentration must take three prescribed elective courses within this
concentration and four free electives to make a total of 33 hours.
The prescribed elective courses for
this concentration are MECH 6350, MECH 6351, MECH 6352, MECH 6353, MECH 6354, MECH
6367, MECH 6368, MECH 6V69, MECH 6391.
Mechanics & Materials (MM)
This concentration emphasizes the
fundamentals of Mechanics and Materials.
Each student electing this
concentration must take three prescribed elective courses within this
concentration and four free electives to make a total of 33 hours.
The prescribed elective courses for
this concentration are MECH 6330, MECH 6333, MECH 6334, MECH 6335, MECH 6347, MECH
6348, MECH 6V49, MECH 6391.
Thermal & Fluid Sciences (TFS)
This concentration emphasizes the fundamentals
of Thermal and Fluid Sciences.
Each student electing this
concentration must take three prescribed elective courses within this
concentration and four free electives to make a total of 33 hours.
The prescribed elective courses for
this concentration are MECH 5328, MECH 6310, MECH 6311, MECH 6320, MECH 6321,
MECH 6328, MECH 6V29, MECH 6391.
