Professors: Andrew J. Blanchard,
Cyrus D. Cantrell III, Yves .J. Chabal, Bruce E. Gnade, Matthew J. Goeckner, Louis
R. Hunt, Moon J. Kim, Robert M. Wallace
Associate Professors: Gerald O.
Burnham, Kyeongjae Cho, Jiyoung
Kim, Jeong-Bong Lee
Assistant Professors: Walter Hu
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.
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 U.T. Dallas graduate engineering students.
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:
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An undergraduate preparation
equivalent to a baccalaureate in mechanical engineering from an accredited
engineering program,
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A grade point average in
upper-division quantitative course work of 3.0 or better on a 4-point scale,
and
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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.
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.