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**University Feedback: Why Mechanical Engineering at UC Riverside?**

Welcome to the ME department, where students receive an ABET-accredited undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Engineering is a social enterprise and our curriculum is designed to include not only ethics, engineering economics, technical communication, and teamwork, but also a significant exposure to the humanities and the social sciences so students can appreciate and realize the impact of engineering on society.

All undergraduate students receive personal attention from staff advisors or faculty mentors throughout their academic careers. Most junior and senior undergraduates participate in cutting-edge research activities in faculty labs, at one of the College’s interdisciplinary research centers, or during internships with industry or agencies.

In addition, our students have access to numerous resources through BCOE including academic assistance, study and time management workshops, career guidance, professional development training, membership in professional societies and social activities.

Why Mechanical Engineering: There were 277,500 Mechanical Engineering job positions in 2014 and that is expected to grow yearly at 5% between 2014-2024; Median salary of Mechanical Engineering is $83,590;

The curriculum is structured so that most of the required courses in mathematics and the basic sciences (physics and chemistry) are completed during the first two years.

In addition, two four-unit courses, an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Graphics & Design are offered in the first year. These classes focus on basic engineering concepts and computational engineering tools required for mechanical engineers.

Engineering topics are covered primarily in courses offered during the second, third and fourth years. Additional science topics (Biology) are covered in the third year.

Students may also take elective courses in specialized topics such as Applied Finite Element Methods, Transport Phenomena in Living Systems, Vibrations, Environmental Impacts of Energy Production, Mechatronics, Combustion and Energy Systems, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, etc., in the senior year.

Several ME courses, including laboratory courses, incorporate design. Design addresses real-world problems whose solution requires creativity and consideration of alternatives to achieve stated objectives.

The design component can occupy a significant fraction of course time and is usually conducted in teams. The culmination of the students’ design experience is a three-quarter capstone design course, in which students draw upon various aspects of their previous engineering science and design knowledge to address a meaningful design problem.

The first quarter focuses on engineering economics, engineering/professional ethics, and review of fundamental design concepts. In the second quarter, project (concept) analysis, preliminary evaluation (economical and technical), data and literature collection, and preliminary process design and evaluation is carried out.

The third quarter of the capstone design course focuses on the final detailed technical design of the process (equipment sizing and specification, etc.), followed by prototyping and construction of hardware, and detailed technical analysis of the final design. The course concludes with a formal oral presentation and written technical report.

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering

Following are the quick facts about UC Riverside:

- Ranked #85 in Mechanical Engineering by US News and World Report
- Tuition $41,931
- SAT 940-1190

In our shortlisting, we would place University of California Riverside as follows:

- Affordability, based on tuition and living expenses: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Reputation, based on research, academic strength and ranking: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Outcome, based on career success of alumni: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Depending on your academic, extra-curricular and other aspects of your profile, you could shortlist University of California Riverside as your Safe School with a chance of getting admission as 75% or more.

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**University’s feedback: Why Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago?**

The College of Engineering consists of six academic departments offering 10 undergraduate majors.

As the only public research university offering engineering education in Chicago, the College of Engineering prepares students for classroom and career success and its strong ties to the Chicago engineering community ensure that UIC students become experts in engineering fundamentals and emerging technology. UIC engineering faculty are leaders in their respective fields and serve as teachers, faculty advisers, and mentors to undergraduate and graduate engineering students.


Following are the key facts about Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s program, at UIC:

- Average SAT range 990-1230
- Ranked #145 by US News and World Report
- Tuition fee: $27,672
- High student-faculty ratio (18:1)
- Relatively easy to get in (76.7% acceptance rate)

In our shortlisting, we would place University of Illinois Chicago as follows:

- Affordability, based on tuition and living expenses: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Reputation, based on research, academic strength and ranking: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Outcome, based on career success of alumni: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Depending on your academic, extra-curricular and other aspects of your profile, you could shortlist University of Illinois Chicago as your safe school with a chance of getting admission as 75% or more.

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**University’s Feedback: Why Study Mechanical Engineering at WSU?**

In our classrooms and laboratories, future engineers study Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (MME) face-to-face with MME’s world-class faculty.

Educational programs incorporate industry-sponsored, real-world design problems, resulting in working prototypes designed and constructed by interdisciplinary teams of student engineers.

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering has an active research faculty, conducting research over a wide range of topics. Students have the opportunity to work on leading-edge research, presenting and publishing research results along with our research faculty.

Mechanical engineering, in combining a variety of disciplines like physics and materials science, is concerned with the development, application and management of machines.

With the planning and development of machines themselves, mechanical engineers often work on issues related to energy, which include low-cost energy conversion from natural resources and managing energy systems, machines, and resources.

Outside of energy, mechanical engineers also deal with the design and production of automated machines, as well as the processing of materials into the commercial and industrial products of tomorrow.

Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

As a graduate, you will be equipped with the skills necessary for successful professional practice or advanced studies. Many students are offered employment by industry leaders even before they graduate.

Employment opportunities exist in a multitude of areas including: Mechanical and Systems design, Manufacturing, CAD/CAM, and Production Management


Following are the quick facts about WSU:

- Ranked #57 in Mechanical Engineering by US News and World Report
- Tuition $25,817
- Average SAT 930-1165

In our shortlisting, we would place Washington State University as follows:

- Affordability, based on tuition and living expenses: 5 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Reputation, based on research, academic strength and ranking: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Outcome, based on career success of alumni: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Depending on your academic, extra-curricular and other aspects of your profile, you could shortlist Washington State University as your Safe School with a chance of getting admission as 75% or more.

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Mechanical Engineering is one of the broadest areas of engineering, covering dynamics and control, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, structures and solid mechanics and design and manufacture.

Core to Mechanical Engineering process is the ability to formulate a problem, identify potential solutions, analyze and model solutions and select the most appropriate solution within constraints.

This approach is integrated within the program and is applicable across a range of professions, making graduates well prepared for a changing world.

Why study Mechanical Engineering?

Mechanical engineering is perhaps the most “broad-based” of the engineering disciplines.

The graduates from mechanical engineering can find exciting careers in aerospace, automobile design, consumer electronics, biotechnology and bioengineering, software engineering, and business.

Following are the major field areas:

**Biomechanical Engineering** 
Biomechanical Engineering is focused on the application of mechanical engineering principles to human healthcare problems.

This area has undergone dramatic growth during the last decade and seek to improve healthcare — and thus people’s lives — by identifying and working on important medical problems that can be addressed by improved technology.

Research in Biomechanical Engineering spans from long-term basic science questions to the practical development of translational technologies.

Highly multi-disciplinary in nature, and funded by NIH, NSF, other federal agencies and industry, these research are conducted with a variety of collaborators across different engineering departments at universities, and with faculty and students from different medical schools and research centers.

**Controls** 
Tracing its origins to J. C. Maxwell’s early work on speed governors (1868), control theory has evolved to play an integral role in the majority of modern engineering systems.

Mechanical systems are becoming ever more complex, yet performance requirements are increasingly stringent.

At the same time, dramatic developments in microelectronics and computers over the past few decades make it possible to use sophisticated signal processing and control methodologies to enhance system performance.

The area addresses the broad spectrum of control science and engineering from mathematical theory to computer implementation.

On the theoretical side, faculty and graduate students pursue research on adaptive and optimal control, digital control, robust control, modeling and identification, learning, intelligent control and nonlinear control, to name a few.

On the application side, research teams engage in projects involving a variety of mechanical systems such as robot manipulators, manufacturing systems, vehicles and intelligent vehicle highway systems, motion control systems, computer storage devices and biomedical systems.

Courses in this area cover linear system theory, digital control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, modeling and identification, multivariable robust control theory, real time use of microcomputers for signal processing and control, and control of robot manipulators.

Graduate students also take courses offered in other departments such as Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

**Design** 
Faculty in the Design field of Mechanical Engineering work on problems affecting the analysis, synthesis, design, automation, fabrication, testing, evaluation, and optimization of mechanical systems.

Research activities include the following: design of mechatronic devices; sport equipment and safety gear; multi-media design case studies that improve a designer’s efficiency; tribological studies of computer disk-drive and micromechanical devices; design and fabrication of composite materials; fracture analysis; design and computer control of robotic systems for manufacturing and construction environments; design of bioengineering devices for studying back pain; and the development of automated manufacturing environments.

Students learn to develop integrated manufacturing cells and machines that contain automated material handling systems, machining, tool path planning, sensor systems, quality control, and error handling.

Students are exposed to broad fields including composite materials, micro electromechanical systems, laser machining and laser processing of materials, thin film fabrication, and tool wear.

Traditional topics such as stress analysis, tribology, fracture mechanics, gear-design, transmissions, mechanics of materials, and basic manufacturing process analysis, are also thoroughly covered.

**Dynamics** 
At its heart, the study of dynamics is the study of motion. Whether this motion involves automobiles, aircraft or the change of economic indicators, dynamics can be used effectively to gain insight and understanding.

Research addresses a range of topics, including dynamical systems theory, vehicle dynamics, bubble dynamics, computer simulation of dynamical systems, vibration and modal analysis, acoustics and acoustic control, and the development of efficient computational methods.

Such research synthesizes numerics, experiments and theory, allowing researchers to address fundamental questions while staying aware of real life limitations. Courses are offered in linear and nonlinear dynamics, deterministic and random vibrations, and continuous systems.

**Energy Science and Technology** 
Energy related research in Mechanical Engineering encompasses a broad range of science and technology areas spanning a variety of applications that involve storage, transport, conversion, and use of energy.

Specific areas of ongoing research include hydrogen energy systems, combustion of biofuels, pollution control in engines, development of next generation compression ignition engine technologies, radiation interaction with nanostructured surfaces, laser processing of materials, nanofabrication using lasers, combustion in microgravity environments, development of nanostructured thermoelectric materials, concentrating photovoltaic solar power, solar thermal combined heat and power systems, energy efficiency and sustainability of data centers, waste energy recovery, high performance thermal management systems for electronics, and ocean energy technologies.

Research in these areas ranges from fundamental research, that aims to understand and/or model critically important processes and mechanisms, to applied research that explores new energy technology concepts at the application level.

**Fluids** 
Training in the Fluid Mechanics group provides students with an understanding of the fundamentals of fluid flow.

At the graduate level, all students are typically required to complete a one-year course in fluid dynamics before specializing in particular areas.

In addition, students get a firm foundation in analytical, computational and experimental essentials of fluid dynamics.

Research activities span the Reynolds number range from creeping flows to planetary phenomena.

Topics of study include suspension mechanics, dynamics of phase changes (in engineering and in geophysical flows), earth mantle dynamics, interfacial phenomena, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, biofluid mechanics, vascular flows, chaotic mixing and transport of scalars, bubble dynamics, flow in curved pipes, environmental fluid dynamics, external aerodynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, bluff-body aerodynamics, vortex dynamics and breakdown, aircraft wake vortices, vortex merger, vortex instabilities, rotating flows, stability and transition, chaos, grid turbulence, shear turbulence, turbulence modeling, shock dynamics, sonoluminescence, sonochemistry, reacting flows, planetary atmospheres, ship waves, internal waves, and nonlinear wave-vorticity interaction.

**Manufacturing** 
There has been a resurgence of manufacturing in this this dynamically-changing field, which encompasses several subdisciplines including Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Materials Science and Engineering.

Manufacturing covers a broad range of processes and modeling/simulation/experimentation activities all focused on the conversion of materials into products.

Typical processes range from conventional material removal by cutting to semiconductor and nanomaterial processing techniques such as chemical mechanical planarization to additive processes such as 3D printing and spray processing.

Modeling and simulation attempts to predict the behavior of these processes to insure efficient and optimal performance.

A companion set of activities in sensors and process monitoring, automation, internet based design to manufacturing, cyber-physical infrastructure, quality control, reliability are part of manufacturing.

Manufacturing is receiving special attention at the moment in the United States as a driver of innovation and competitiveness and a major contributor to employment.

Overall, manufacturing combines classical topics in design, controls and materials processing.

The activity in manufacturing today is built on a long history of fundamental research and education by pioneers such as Erich Thomsen and Shiro Kobayashi.

Recent activities have moved away the more traditional areas of metal forming and plasticity to design and advanced manufacturing integration, new manufacturing technologies, specially for energy reduction and alternate energy technologies, precision manufacturing, computational manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing.

Much of the research includes development of tools for engineering designers to include the impact of manufacturing in the design process as well as, more recently, the life cycle impacts for the product.

Education and research in manufacturing is exceptionally well integrated with industry in terms of internships, research support and student placement.

Manufacturing continues to be a critical field for research and industrial development over many sectors.

All future energy, transport, medical/health, life style, dwelling, defense and food/water supply systems will be based on increasingly precise elements and components produced from increasingly challenging materials and configured in complex shapes with demanding surface characteristic.

This includes manufacturing products for an energy and environmentally aware consumer (such as autos, consumer products, buildings, etc.), manufacturing alternate energy supply systems (e.g. fuel cells, solar panels, wind energy systems, hybrid power plants, etc.), machine tools and the “machines that build the products” requiring less energy, materials, space and better integrated for efficient operation and efficient factory systems and operation.

This is all required in an environment of increasing regional, national and international government regulations covering all aspects of the manufacturing enterprise.

This means that for the foreseeable future, the field is expected to be well supplied with challenges to drive innovation in research and education.

In summary, modern manufacturing can be characterized by three basic processing strategies – additive, subtractive and near-net shape.

These are somewhat self explanatory in their names.

Near-net shape, aka forming/forging and molding techniques. Subtractive, for example, machining, is the “old standby” process used extensively in basic machine construction but is quite limited as applied to higher technology products.

Additive manufacturing, ranging from deposition processes to the more recent rapid prototyping approaches, is an area that offers much future potential for both accurate and fast creation of complex products.

Additive manufacturing (AM) and Rapid-Prototyping (RP) have received a great deal of attention for a number of years. In particular, the idea of 3-D Printing (3DP) has received quite a large amount of press.

According to ASTM, AM is defined as the “process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies.”

In many cases, this process is referred to as additive- fabrication, processes, techniques, layer manufacturing and freeform fabrication. The basic term is used in conjunction with the product life cycle from rapid-prototyping pre-production to full scale production.

**Mechanics** 
Having its roots in the classical theory of elastic materials, solid mechanics has grown to embrace all aspects involving the behavior of deformable bodies under loads.

Thus, in addition to including the theory of linear elasticity, with its applications to structural materials, solid mechanics also incorporates modern nonlinear theories of highly deformable materials.

This includes synthetic polymeric materials, as well as biological materials.

Courses and research topics include linear and nonlinear elasticity, plasticity at large deformations, shell theory, composite materials, directed (or Cosserat) continua, media with microstructure, continuum electrodynamics, and continuum thermodynamics.

Students also take courses in related areas, such as dynamics, fluid mechanics, and mathematics.

A major research area involves finite deformation of highly deformable materials including computational aspects pertaining to the development of constitutive theories, special solutions, and theoretical predictions of material response.

Examples of this work include: ductile metals under special loading programs (e.g., strain cycling); microcrack growth in brittle materials; constructing new theories of inelastic behavior in the presence of finite deformation which explicitly incorporate microstructural effects such as dislocation density; and thermodynamical developments for deformable media undergoing finite motion.

Material and stress characterization issues in a wide range of solids, including metals, composites, electronic materials, and geologic materials.

Both experimental and analytical research are conducted in the areas of nondestructive stress evaluation, characterization of thin solid films, large deformation material behavior, and microstructure evaluation.

Stress and property evaluation are topics being pursued for bulk materials and thin films. A variety of approaches are involved including ultrasonics, X-ray diffraction, and custom designed micro-electro-mechanical structures (MEMS).

Particular emphasis is directed to the relationship between material processing and its effect on the resulting microstructure and the mechanical response.

Similarly, work in the fields of plasticity and quantitative texture analysis is directed toward providing descriptions of the macroscopic, observable behavior of polycrystalline materials in terms of the microstructure inherent within these materials.

**Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)** 
Over the past 20 years, the application of microelectronic technology to the fabrication of mechanical devices has revolutionized the research in microsensors and microactuators.

Micromachining technologies take advantage of batch processing to address the manufacturing and performance requirements of the sensor industry.

The extraordinary versatility of semiconductor materials and the miniaturization of VLSI patterning techniques promise new sensors and actuators with increased capabilities and improved performance-to-cost ratio, which far surpass conventionally machined devices.

Research applies to a broad range of issues in miniaturization, including solid, materials, design, manufacturing, fluidics, heat transfer, dynamics, control, environmental, and bioengineering.

**Nanoengineering** 
Significant breakthroughs over the past two decades in a wide range of disciplines have generated new interest in science and engineering at nanometer scales.

The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, the discovery of the fullerene family of molecules, the development of materials with size-dependent properties, and the ability to encode with and manipulate biological molecules such as DNA, are a few of the crucial developments that have changed this field.

Continued research in nanoscale science and engineering promises to revolutionize many fields and lead to a new technological base and infrastructure that will have major impact on world economies.

The impact will be felt in areas as diverse as computing and information technology, health care and biotechnology, environment, energy, transportation, and space exploration, to name a few.

Some key areas of research include nanoinstrumentation nano energy conversion, nano bioengineering and nano computing storage.

The field of nanoengineering is highly interdisciplinary, requiring knowledge drawn from a variety of scientific and engineering departments.

In addition to traditional courses covering fundamentals of mechanical engineering, there are specialized courses in microscale thermophysics, micro and nanoscale tribology, cellular and sub-cellular level transport phenomena and mechanics, physicochemical hydrodynamics of ultra-thin fluid films, and microfabrication.

**Ocean Engineering** 
The oceans have long been recognized as an essential part of our global environment. Covering more than 70 percent of the earth’s surface, the oceans affect all life on earth directly as well as indirectly.

Ocean Engineering involves the development, design, and analysis of man-made systems that can operate in the offshore or coastal environment.

Such systems may be used for transportation, recreation, fisheries, extraction of petroleum or other minerals, and recovery of thermal or wave energy, among others. Some systems are bottom-mounted, particularly those in shallower depths; others are mobile, as in the case of ships, submersibles, or floating drill rigs.

All systems should be designed to withstand a hostile environment (wind, waves, currents, ice) and to operate efficiently while staying environmentally friendly.

Ocean Engineering study as a major field of study within Mechanical Engineering requires satisfying core requirements in marine hydrodynamics and marine structures.

Disciplines supporting ocean engineering include materials and fabrication, control and robotics, continuum mechanics, dynamical system theory, design methodology, mathematical analysis, and statistics.

Ocean Engineering can also be used as a minor subject with one of the other major field disciplines.

Contemporary research issues include: vortex and free surface interaction, roll-motion damping and dynamics of ships, dynamic positioning of mobile offshore bases, hydroelastic behavior of floating airports, waves in a two-layer fluid, high-speed multi-hull configuration optimization, marine composite materials, reliability-based structural design, fatigue behavior of marine materials, Bragg scattering of waves, computational methodologies for nonlinear waves, tsunami propagation, sea-bed mechanics, and alternative renewable energy: floating offshore wind park, ocean wave and tidal energy, loads on floating turbines.

**Transportation Systems** 
An important aspect of mechanical engineering is the planning, design, and operation of transportation systems.

As society recognizes the increasing importance of optimizing transportation systems to minimize environmental degradation and energy expenditure, engineers will need to consider major innovations in the way people and goods are moved.

Such innovations will require competence in vehicle dynamics, propulsion and control, and an understanding of the problems caused by present-day modes of transportation.

What are the Research Areas and Major Fields in Mechanical Engineering?

**Top Schools for Mechanical Engineering** 
 - MIT	 
- Stanford University	 
- Harvard University	 
- University of California Berkeley	 
- University of Michigan Ann Arbor	 
- Georgia Institute of Technology	 
- California Institute of Technology	 
- UCLA	 
- Purdue University West Lafayette	 
- UC Urbana-Champaign	 
- Cornell University	 
- University of Texas Austin	 
- Princeton University	 
- Northwestern University	 
- Texas A&M University	 
- Carnegie Mellon University	 
- Brown University	 
- Columbia University	 
- Duke University	 
- John Hopkins University	 
- Michigan State University	 
- The Ohio State University	 
- Pennsylvania State University	 
- UC San Diego	 
- University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

**Canada** 
- University of Toronto
- McGill University
- University of British Columbia
- McMaster University
- University of Waterloo
- Queen’s University
- University of Alberta
- University of Calgary

**Australia**
- University of Melbourne
- University of New South Wales
- The Australian National Univesity
- Monash University
- University of Sydney
- RMIT
- University of Queensland
- University of Western Australia

**Europe & UK** 
- University of Cambridge (UK)
- University of Oxford (UK)
- Imperial College London (UK)
- ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
- Lund University (Sweden)

Schools for Mechanical Engineering

**What are the different degree offered under Mechanical Engineering?** 

**M.S. in Mechanical Engineering** 
M.S. degrees are granted after completion of programs of study that emphasize the application of the natural sciences to the analysis and solution of engineering problems.

Advanced courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and the life sciences are normally included in a program that incorporates the engineering systems approach for analysis of problems.

Students must have a bachelors degree in one of the accredited engineering curricula or satisfy the equivalent of a bachelors degree in engineering as determined by the department concerned for admission to this program.

**M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering** 
M.Eng. is an inter-disciplinary field and is offered in collaboration with several other engineering departments for the purpose of developing professional leaders who understand the technical, environmental, economic and social issues involved in Mechanical Engineering.

This program could be both full-time or part-time. In many schools, M.Eng students cannot be appointed to Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) or Reader positions.

**Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering** 
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering can be done in conjunction with a PhD (for the MS/PhD option) or alone.

Degrees are granted after completion of programs of study that emphasize the application of the natural sciences to the analysis and solution of engineering problems.

Advanced courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and the life sciences are normally included in a program that incorporates the engineering systems approach for analysis of problems.

Students must have a bachelors degree in one of the accredited engineering curricula or satisfy the equivalent of a bachelors degree in engineering as determined by the department concerned for admission to this program.

**Five Year B.S./M.S. in Mechanical Engineering** 
This program is for ME undergraduates that allows them to broaden their education experiences.This is a terminal, full-time program.

In contrast to the regular M.S. program, it is a course-based program. Students in the 5 year B.S./M.S. program are also able to take some courses in professional disciplines such as business or public policy. This two-semester program is NOT for students with the desire to continue to the Ph.D. These students are advised to apply directly to the M.S./Ph.D. or Ph.D. program.

The program is geared primarily toward students who intend to join industry after receiving their Master’s degree, rather than pursuing a Ph.D. and/or academic career.

**Should I apply for an M.S. degree or M.S./Ph.D. degree?** 
If you are admitted to the M.S. degree, it is a terminal degree. In many universities, if a student finds that s/he wants to go on for the Ph.D. after completing the M.S., they would need to petition to add the degree and the petition is not guaranteed to be approved.

The M.S./Ph.D. is a continuous program in which a student, after having completed the degree requirements, can earn the M.S. and automatically move forward to the Ph.D.

Where you should apply for the M.S. or the M.S./Ph.D, is completely up to you.

If you want to join industry and build your career, M.S. may be a better option for you. If you aim for research and move to teaching, M.S./Ph.D. may be a better option for you.

**What type of academic career opportunities are available for a M.S./Ph.D. student?** 
After completing your M.S./Ph.D., you can apply for various Assistant, Associate and Full professors positions at various universities such as University of Central Florida, Case Western Reserve University, PennState, University of Michigan and Colorado School of Mines.

You can also seek research positions at various companies and labs such as Ventions, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., Xcell Biosciences, 44 Energy Technologies, Modern Electron, Nanoscience Instruments, Nexkey, Sky H20, DMG, North Inc., 3D Systems, Supplier Link Services, KLA Tencor, Novasentis, ADINA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Clear Science Corp.

To find more academic opportunities after completing your M.S./Ph.D. degree, please check out Computeroxy.com that is the leading academic web portal for careers of professors, lecturers, researchers and academic managers in schools of computer, electrical, mathematical sciences and engineering worldwide.

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Top MS programs in Mechanical Engineering

The capacity to frame a problem, find alternative solutions, evaluate and model options, and select the best appropriate solution within limits is central to the Mechanical Engineering process. This technique is included throughout the programme and may be used for a variety of vocations, ensuring that graduates are well equipped for a rapidly changing world.

Mechanical engineering is perhaps the most “broad-based” of the engineering disciplines. The graduates from mechanical engineering can find exciting careers in aerospace, automobile design, consumer electronics, biotechnology and bioengineering, software engineering, and business.

What are the career options in Mechanical Engineering?

Some of the major fields in mechanical engineering are - Biomechanical Engineering, Controls, Design, Dynamics, Energy Science and Technology, Fluids, Manufacturing, Mechanics, Nanoengineering and Ocean Engineering.

MIT, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales are some of the top universities to pursue Mechanical Engineering

What are the top Schools for Mechanical Engineering?

If you are admitted to the M.S. degree, it is a terminal degree. In many universities, if a student finds that s/he wants to go on for the Ph.D. after completing the M.S., they would need to petition to add the degree and the petition is not guaranteed to be approved. The M.S./Ph.D. is a continuous program in which a student, after having completed the degree requirements, can earn the M.S. and automatically move forward to the Ph.D. Where you should apply for the M.S. or the M.S./Ph.D, is completely up to you. If you want to join industry and build your career, M.S. may be a better option for you. If you aim for research and move to teaching, M.S./Ph.D. may be a better option for you.

Should I apply for an M.S. degree or M.S./Ph.D. degree?


**University Feedback: Why Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State?**

Mechanical engineering students can customize their program to meet unique interests and career goals by choosing concentrations in biomechanical engineering, engineering mechanics, global engineering or manufacturing engineering.

Teaching labs include a full-service Engineering Machine Shop and Industrial Project Lab, and labs providing hands-on experience in vibrations and controls, heat transfer, fluids and experimental mechanics.

Research labs focuses on cardiovascular and tissue mechanics, thermal engineering, biomechanical design and research within the Composite Vehicle Research Center and the Energy and Automotive Research Lab.

Alumni work at: Ford, GM, Fiat Chrysler, Dow Corning, GE Aviation, Bosch, Eli Lilly; Alumni work as automotive engineer, application engineer, aerospace engineer, manufacturing engineer, product development engineer, research and development engineer.

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Following are the quick facts about Michigan State: 

- Ranked #42 Mechanical Engineering by US News and World Report
- Tuition $39,405
- Average SAT 990-1260
- 92% of Michigan State graduate land jobs or go on to advanced degree right out of college
- 25 Michigan State programs ranked in the top 20 nationally
- 200+ academic programs are available
- 17:1 student faculty ratio

In our shortlisting, we would place Michigan State as follows:

- Affordability, based on tuition and living expenses: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Reputation, based on research, academic strength and ranking: 4 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Outcome, based on career success of alumni: 5 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Depending on your academic, extra-curricular and other aspects of your profile, you could shortlist Michigan State University as your reach school with a chance of getting admission as 50% or more.

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Mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University can customize their program to meet unique interests and career goals by choosing concentrations in biomechanical engineering, engineering mechanics, global engineering or manufacturing engineering. Teaching labs include a full-service Engineering Machine Shop and Industrial Project Lab, and labs providing hands-on experience in vibrations and controls, heat transfer, fluids and experimental mechanics. Research labs focus on cardiovascular and tissue mechanics, thermal engineering, biomechanical design and research within the Composite Vehicle Research Center and the Energy and Automotive Research Lab. Alumni work at: Ford, GM, Fiat Chrysler, Dow Corning, GE Aviation, Bosch, Eli Lilly; Alumni work as automotive engineer, application engineer, aerospace engineer, manufacturing engineer, product development engineer, research and development engineer.

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**University’s Feedback: Why Mechanical Engineering at UMass Lowell?**

University of Massachusetts Lowell is a national research university committed to preparing students for work in the real world— solving real problems and helping real people— by providing an affordable, high-quality education.

In the high-tech hub of northeastern Massachusetts, students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Francis College of Engineering can earn an undergraduate degree accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

A major strength of the program is its emphasis on hands-on experience through its base in the methodology of Design-Build-Test, where students can build and test their theoretical designs.

Graduates are fully prepared to pursue work in industry, or to continue on for graduate education in engineering, business, and medicine. The curriculum is designed to graduate engineers who can apply fundamental principles of mechanical engineering with competence and sensitivity to the needs of society.

To achieve this goal, students follow a sequence of courses beginning with basic mathematics and science, followed by their application to courses in engineering science and engineering design.

Relevant clusters of studies in the humanities and social sciences are included within the context of engineering education to create well-rounded graduates.

The department offers several tracks for students with different levels of preparation in mathematics and English. It may take some students five years to complete their degree.

At graduation, students of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering for Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell should:

- Be able to apply the principles of advanced engineering math and science to the solution of problems in engineering.
- Be able to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
- Be able to design, build, and test a system, component, or process to meet required needs.
- Be able to integrate the use of modern computer-based engineering tools into engineering practice.
- Be able to communicate effectively and function on multi-disciplinary teams
- Understand the need to assess the impact of engineering designs on society. This should include factors such as economics, ergonomics, the environment, and sustainability.
- Understand the concept of the engineering profession through an exposure to professional societies, professional registration, the need for lifelong learning, and professional ethics.

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Following are the quick facts about UMass Lowell:

- Ranked #105 in Mechanical Engineering by US News and World Report
- Tuition $31,865
- SAT 1070-1260

In our shortlisting, we would place University of Massachusetts Lowell as follows:

- Affordability, based on tuition and living expenses: 5 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Reputation, based on research, academic strength and ranking: 3 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Outcome, based on career success of alumni: 3 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Depending on your academic, extra-curricular and other aspects of your profile, you could shortlist University of Massachusetts Lowell as your Safe School with a chance of getting admission as 75% or more.

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Learn about tuition, ranking etc to know if University of Massachusetts Lowell fits your background, budget and goals for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.

Read our blog to find out if University of Massachusetts Lowell's Mechanical Engineering degree fits your background, budget and career goals.

Review: University of Massachusetts Lowell

University of Massachusetts Lowell is a national research university committed to preparing students for work in the real world— solving real problems and helping real people— by providing an affordable, high-quality education. In the high-tech hub of northeastern Massachusetts, students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Francis College of Engineering can earn an undergraduate degree accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. A major strength of the program is its emphasis on hands-on experience through its base in the methodology of Design-Build-Test, where students can build and test their theoretical designs. Graduates are fully prepared to pursue work in industry, or to continue on for graduate education in engineering, business, and medicine. The curriculum is designed to graduate engineers who can apply fundamental principles of mechanical engineering with competence and sensitivity to the needs of society. To achieve this goal, students follow a sequence of courses beginning with basic mathematics and science, followed by their application to courses in engineering science and engineering design. Relevant clusters of studies in the humanities and social sciences are included within the context of engineering education to create well-rounded graduates.

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**University’s Feedback: Why Mechanical Engineering at City College of New York** 

Mechanical Engineering is perhaps the broadest and most diverse of the engineering disciplines, playing a centrol role in many areas from the automotive and aerospaces industries to biotechnology, computers, electronics, micoelectromechanical systems, energy conversion, enviromental control, automation and manufacturing.

The Mechanical Engineering Faculty carry out advanced research in experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, materials processing and solid mechanics, advanced materials, nanofabrication and biomechanics. Students benefit through the opportunity to work in these labs with internationally known mentors.

Mechanical Engineering students at City College pursue undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees through carefully designed programs that meet accreditation and industry criteria for successful careers.

he Department of Mechanical Engineering provides separate teaching laboratories for the study of measurement techniques and instrumentation, fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, thermal sciences, material science and processing, solid mechanics, machine design, robotics, computer-aided design and manufacturing and a modern machine shop, as well as a laboratory for the use of micro computers and workstations in mechanical engineering.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has established several laboratories where advanced research related to mechanical, aerospace and bioengineering disciplines is carried out.

The Department of International Student & Scholar Services provides services and advocacy for the international students and scholars who are not permanent residents of the United States. Additionally, it provides pre-semester orientation programs and semester long workshops that assist with adapting to life in the United States while pursuing their education. Professional counseling assistance is available for students with immigration concerns, or academic and personal difficulties.

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Following are the quick facts about City College of New York CUNY:

- Ranked #133 in Engineering by US News and World Report

In our shortlisting, we would place City College of New York CUNY as follows:

- Affordability, based on tuition and living expenses: 5 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Reputation, based on research, academic strength and ranking: 3 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Outcome, based on career success of alumni: 3 (on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable)
- Depending on your academic, extra-curricular and other aspects of your profile, you could shortlist City College of New York CUNY as your Safe School with a chance of getting admission as 75% or more.

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Review: City College of New York CUNY

The Mechanical Engineering Faculty carry out advanced research in experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, materials processing and solid mechanics, advanced materials, nanofabrication and biomechanics. Students benefit through the opportunity to work in these labs with internationally known mentors. Mechanical Engineering students at City College pursue undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees through carefully designed programs that meet accreditation and industry criteria for successful careers. The Department of Mechanical Engineering provides separate teaching laboratories for the study of measurement techniques and instrumentation, fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, thermal sciences, material science and processing, solid mechanics, machine design, robotics, computer-aided design and manufacturing and a modern machine shop, as well as a laboratory for the use of micro computers and workstations in mechanical engineering. The Department of Mechanical Engineering has established several laboratories where advanced research related to mechanical, aerospace and bioengineering disciplines is carried out. The Department of International Student & Scholar Services provides services and advocacy for international students and scholars who are not permanent residents of the United States. Additionally, it provides pre-semester orientation programs and semester long workshops that assist with adapting to life in the United States while pursuing their education. Professional counseling assistance is available for students with immigration concerns, or academic and personal difficulties.