These totals include a maximum of 16 credit hours of professional internship. The Master of Engineering program requires 36 credit hours of course work and of which approximately one-third of them should be outside of the major field of study. Admissions Admissions criteria include academic performance, GRE scores, and recommendation letters. Application forms to the graduate program can be requested by filling out a preliminary application. Currently over 210 students are enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program.
Additional fellowships are available for highly qualified students.
The department s research is supported equally by federal, state, and industrial sources. Various industries sponsor their research through turbomachinery , polymer , and drying research consortiums. Within the department active research facilities exist for fracture testing, composite materials, plastics, metallurgical studies, corrosion, experimental stress analysis, ultrasonics, nondestructive testing, vibration, shock, rotating machinery, turbomachinery, seals, fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, turbulence, heat transfer, power generation, tribology, combustion, in situ lignite gasification, solar energy, wind tunnel studies, computer-aided design and manufacturing. Computer facilities available to graduate students included the University s Cray and Silicon graphics supercomputers, College of Engineering s VAX cluster, and the Department s PC lab with over seventy-five high performance PCs and twenty high performance workstations. The department has a group of over fifty scholarly faculty members supported by an outstanding staff.