ME CURRICULUM ELECTIVES

 

GENERAL EDUCATION ELECTIVES (15 CREDITS)

Freshman Electives  (3 Credits)	History Elective  (3 Credits) Pre 2012 ONLY
UNIV 101E, ENCP 101	Any HIST course numbered below 600; ARMY 406, 407 (army cadets only); NAVY 303 (midshipmen only)
Note for Transfer Students
Ethics Elective   (3 Credits) Pre 2012 ONLY	Fine Arts Elective  (3 Credits) Pre 2012 ONLY
Recommended: PHIL 325 Engineering Ethics.	ARTE 101, Any ARTH course numbered below 600 ; MUSC 110, 140, 145, any MUSC history course above 300 and below 600; THEA 200, 561, 562, DANC 101
Alternatives:  PHIL 211, PHIL 321, PHIL 322, PHIL 323, PHIL 324, AERO 402, ARMY 402, NAVY 402
Liberal Arts Elective  (3 Credits) Pre 2012 ONLY
Any course numbered below 600 with a prefix of AERO (cadets only), AFRO, ANTH, ARTE, ARTH, ARTS, MART, CPLT, ECON, ENGL, FILM, CLAS, FROL, FREN, GREK, LATN, GEOG, ARAB, CHIN, GERM, HEBR, JAPA, KORE, RUSS, GINT, HIST, LASP, LING, ARMY(cadets only) , NAVY (midshipmen only), PHIL, PSYC, RELG, SPCH, SOCY, SOST, ITAL, PORT, SPAN, THEA, WOST, or MUSC
Following is for students starting Sept. 2012 or later
GSS: Global  Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Social Sciences  (3 Credits)	AIU: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding (3 Hours)
Any course approved by the Univsersity for Social Science.	Any course approved by the Univsersity for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding.
For Fall 2012 ONLY any course with a prefix of AFRO, ANTH, ECON, ENGL beyon 102, PHIL and SOCY if taken Fall 2012.	For Fall 2012 ONLY course listed in Fine Arts Elective above can be used if taken Fall 2012.
	The following courses have been approved as of May 2012: FREN 290, MUSC 110, MUSC 115, MUSC 140
GHS: Global  Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Historical Thinking (3 Hours)	VSR: Values, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (3 Hours)
Any course approved by the Univsersity for Historical Thinking	Any course approved by the Univsersity for Value, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
For Fall 2012 ONLY course listed in History above can be used if taken Fall 2012.	For Fall 2012 ONLY course listed in Ethics Elective above can be used if taken Fall 2012.

 

TECHNICAL ELECTIVES (3 CREDITS)

CHEM 333, 334, 541, 542; MATH 520, 521, 526, 544, 550, 552; PHYS 501, 502;
All College of Engineering and Computing courses NOT LISTED BELOW of three (3) credits or more numbered GREATER than 101 and below 600.
COURSE THAT CAN NOT BE USED AS TECHNICAL ELECTIVE
ENCP 102, 200, 201, 210, 260, 290, 360, 491, 492; ECHE 310, 320, 321, ECIV 111, 200, 201, 210, 220, 360, BMEN 211, 260, CSCE 102.
Completion of the Air Force or Navy ROTC program will satisfy the three (3) hour requirement normally met by technical electives. A student taking EMCH 330 and ENCP 330 may use only one of the two courses towards their degree requirement.

EMCH ELECTIVES (9 CREDITS)

Students seeking a broad-based mechanical engineering program may choose any EMCH course numbered 500 or higher and/or EMCH 308 and EMCH 330 to satisfy their EMCH electives. Students who want to emphasize a particular area of mechanical engineering during their undergraduate studies should select courses from the divisions shown below. Students can use these course listings to plan their program of study. Because some courses overlap two or more areas please discuss your EMCH elective selections with your advisor.

Design and Manufacturing Electives	Thermal-Fluid  Systems Electives
EMCH 507--Computer-Aided Design EMCH 508--Finite Element Analysis EMCH 509--Computer-Aided Manufacturing EMCH 516--Control Theory in M.E. EMCH 521--Concurrent Engineering EMCH 522--Design for Manufacture and Assembly EMCH 527--Design of Mechanical Systems EMCH 528--Product Safety Engineering EMCH 529--Sustainable Design and Development EMCH 535--Robotics in Mechanical Engineering	EMCH 497--Design of Thermal Systems EMCH 544--Compressible Fluid Flow EMCH 554--Intermediate Heat Transfer EMCH 560--Intermediate Fluid Mechanics EMCH 592--Introduction to Combustion EMCH 594--Solar Heating EMCH 597--Thermal Environmental Engineering
Engineering Materials Electives	Mechanics of Solids Electives
EMCH 571--Mechanical Behavior of Materials EMCH 572--Physical Metallurgy EMCH 575--Adaptive Material Systems and Structures EMCH 585--Nature of Composite Materials	EMCH 308-- Finite Element Stress Analysis EMCH 330--Mechanical Vibrations EMCH 532--Intermediate Dynamics EMCH 584--Advanced Mechanics of Materials EMCH 586--Experimental Stress Analysis
Nuclear Engineering
EMCH 551--Nuclear Energy in the Hydrogen Economy EMCH 552--Introduction to Nuclear Engineering EMCH 553--Nuclear Fuel Cycles EMCH 555--Instrumentation for Nuclear Engineering EMCH 557--Introduction to Radiation Shielding and Sources EMCH 558--Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Systems
Other Approved EMCH Electives
EMCH 441--Automotive System Fundamentals EMCH 460--Special Problems * EMCH 501--Engineering Analysis I EMCH 502--Engineering Analysis II EMCH 561--Current Topics in Mechanical Engineering* EMCH 580--Mechanics of Solid Biomaterials   *NOTE:  All EMCH 460 and EMCH 561 courses are Technical Electives, but not all are EMCH Electives. Please check with the department office for the category of a particular course offered.