Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty
Professors: Andrew J. Blanchard,
Cyrus D. Cantrell III, Yves .J. Chabal, Bruce E. Gnade, Matthew J. Goeckner,
Louis R. Hunt (Emeritus), Moon J. Kim, Mario Rotea, Mark
W. Spong, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, Robert M. Wallace
Associate Professors: Gerald O.
Burnham, Kyeongjae Cho, Jiyoung
Kim, Jeong-Bong Lee
Assistant Professors: Fatemeh Hassanipour, Walter Hu
Visiting Assistant
Professors: Greg Lee.
Objectives
The program leading to the M.S.M.E.
degree prepares both recent baccalaureate graduates and experienced mechanical
engineers for advanced micro-scale and nano-scale mechanical and thermal design
and development. It is designed to serve the needs of engineers who wish to
continue their education. Courses are offered at a time and location convenient
for the student who is employed on a full-time basis.
Facilities
The Engineering and Computer Science
Building and the new Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory
provide extensive facilities for research on micro-scale and nano-scale
systems. 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 UT 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
probability of 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, some additional course work may be necessary
before starting 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 (Microelectromechanical Systems or Mechanical Systems Engineering). Courses taken
without advisor approval will not count toward 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.
One of the two concentrations listed
below, subject to approval by a graduate adviser, should be used to fulfill the
requirements of this program. Only grades of B or better are acceptable in the
five required core courses, MECH 6305, MECH 6340, MECH 6301, MECH 6310, and
MECH 6331.
Microelectromechanical Systems
This concentration emphasizes the
mechanical and thermal design, fabrication and testing of micro-scale and nano-scale
microelectromechanical systems.
Each student electing this
concentration must take four prescribed elective courses and two free electives
to make a total of 33 hours.
The prescribed elective courses for
this concentration are MECH 6382, MECH 6302, MECH 6315, MECH 6320, MECH 6321,
MECH 6322, MECH 6381, MECH 6385, MSEN 5300, MECH 6310, MSEN 5340, MSEN 5353,
MSEN 6310, MSEN 6361, and PHYS 6377.
Mechanical Systems Engineering
This concentration is focused on the
fundamental principles, design, fabrication and analysis of complex mechanical
systems.
Each student electing this
concentration must take four prescribed elective courses and two free electives
to make a total of 33 hours.
The prescribed
elective courses for this concentration are MECH 6302, MECH 6315, MECH 6320,
MECH 6321, MECH 6332, MECH 6336, MECH 6381, MECH 6385, MSEN 6310, MSEN 6361,
and PHYS 6377.