Qualified students holding an M.S. or a B.S. degree can be admitted to the Ph.D. program in mechanical engineering. All students admitted to the Ph.D. program are required to designate their Ph.D. thesis supervisor before the end of the registration period in their second semesters.
Ph.D. students admitted with a Master's degree, are required to take minimum 8 courses (minimum 24 credits). The course program of each student is designed by the student and his/her thesis supervisor according to following rules:
All courses must be at graduate level.
At least 4 courses must be graduate courses offered by the Mechanical Engineering Department, excluding ME 521 and ME 510.
The program may contain at most 4 courses (subject to the approval of departmental committee on doctoral program) offered by other departments.
The maximum period to complete course work is 4 semesters.
Upon completion of their course work successfully, Ph.D. students are required to take a doctoral qualifying examination before the end of their fifth semester, the latest.
A Ph.D. student who passes the doctoral qualifying examination is required to submit a written thesis proposal to his/her thesis supervising committee, which consists of the student's thesis supervisor and two other faculty members. The thesis proposal should also be presented to this committee orally by the student. Upon the acceptance of their thesis proposals by their thesis supervising committees, Ph.D. students should submit a progress report on their thesis work to the committee which will meet periodically in every semester.
Ph.D. students are required to complete, write, and defend their Ph.D. thesis successfully before the end of their 12th semester.
Graduate Courses
ME 501 Numerical Methods in ME I (3-0) 3
ME 502 Advanced Dynamics (3-0) 3
ME 503 Advanced Gas Dynamics (3-0) 3
ME 504 Advanced Heat Transfer (3-0) 3
ME 505 Advanced Heat Tansfer II (3-0) 3
ME 506 Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems (3-0) 3
ME 507 Applied Optimal Control (3-0) 3
ME 508 Thermal Radiation (3-0) 3
ME 509 Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow (3-0) 3
ME 510 Numerical Methods for ME II (3-0) 3
ME 511 Modern Control (3-0) 3
ME 512 Aerothermochemistry of Rocket Propulsion Systems (3-0) 3
ME 513 Vehicle Dynamics (3-0) 3
ME 514 Advanced Solar Energy Utilization (3-0) 3
ME 515 Application of Electrical Analogy to Heat Transfer Problems (3-0) 3
ME 516 Fluid Power Control (3-0) 3
ME 517 Advanced Fluid Mechanics (3-0) 3
ME 518 Boundary Layer Theory (3-0) 3
ME 519 Kinematic Analysis of Mechanisms (3-0) 3
ME 520 Analysis and Measurement Techniques for Random Vibrations and Noise (3-0) 3
ME 521 Analytical Methods in Engineering I (3-0) 3
ME 522 Principles of Robotics (3-0) 3
ME 523 Impact Mechanics (3-0) 3
ME 524 Industrial Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Design (3-0) 3
ME 525 Analytical Methods in Spatial Mechanisms (3-0) 3
ME 526 Vibration of Continuous Systems with Computational Methods (3-0) 3
ME 527 Advanced Internal Combustion Engine Design (3-0) 3
ME 528 Flexible Multibody Dynamics (3-0) 3
ME 529 Advanced Internal Combustion Engines (3-0) 3
ME 530 Introduction to Fluidized Bed Combustion (3-0) 3
ME 531 Machine Tool Design (3-0) 3
ME 532 Advanced Machinery Vibrations (3-0) 3
ME 533 Computer Aided Design (3-0) 3
ME 534 Computer Control of Machines (3-0) 3
ME 535 Metal Cutting (3-0) 3
ME 536 Design of Intelligent Machines (3-0) 3
ME 537 Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics I (3-0) 3
ME 538 Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics II (3-0) 3
ME 539 Hydrodynamic Instability, Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence (3-0) 3
ME 540 Analytical Methods in Engineering II (3-0) 3
ME 541 Plasticity and Computer Aided Metal Forming (3-0) 3
ME 543 Theory of Elasticity (3-0) 3
ME 544 Beams, Plates and Shells (3-0) 3
ME 545 Advanced Thermodynamics (3-0) 3
ME 546 Diffusion Problems in Thermal-Fluid Sciences (3-0) 3
ME 547 Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (3-0) 3
ME 549 Experimental Stress Analysis I (3-0) 3
ME 550 Experimental Stress Analysis II (3-0) 3
ME 551 Design of High Precision CNC Machinery (3-0) 3
ME 552 Micro and Nanoscale Heat Transfer (3-0) 3
ME 553 Technical and Economical Aspect of Nuclear Power Plants (3-0) 3
ME 560 Tribology (3-0) 3
ME 570 Advanced Topics in Radiative Transfer (3-0) 3
ME 575 Non-Traditional Production Processes (3-0) 3
ME 581 Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics (3-0) 3
ME 582 Finite Element Analysis in Thermofluids (3-0) 3
ME 583 Engineering Fracture Mechanics (3-0) 3
ME 584 Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (3-0) 3
ME 586 Variational Principles in Elasticity (3-0) 3
ME 587 Perturbation Methods in Enginnering (3-0) 3
ME 588 Impulsive Loading of Solids (3-0) 3
ME 590 Thesis Seminar (0-2) NC