Wilkes University College of Business and Engineering 6 courses 30 total credits
Points of Contact: Yong Zhu, PhD, Woojun Lee, PhD The Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)program requires 30 credits of graduate-level course work. The program consists of 15 credits of mandatory core courses. Students have the option of a six-credit thesis or a three-credit project with an additional three-credit technical elective. Students may select nine (9) or twelve (12) additional credits from the list of technical electives. The required courses and typical course sequence of the normal two-year MSME program is shown below.
| Total Credits | 30 credits |
First Semester
Technical Elective.
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 401 | Applied Engineering Analysis | 3 |
| ME 415 | Programmable Logic Controllers | 3 |
Second Semester
Technical Elective.
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 436 | Solid Mechanics | 3 |
| ME 480 | Advanced CADD | 3 |
Third Semester
Technical Elective. Technical Elective (if project option)
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 427 or ME 599 | Transport Phenomena or Thesis/Project | 3 |
Fourth Semester
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 599 or ME 599 | Thesis/Project or Thesis/Project | 3-6 |
Junior or Senior Year
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 401 | Applied Engineering Analysis | 3 |
First Semester, Fifth Year
Technical Elective. Technical Elective (if project option)
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 415 | Programmable Logic Controllers | 3 |
| ME 427 | Transport Phenomena | 3 |
| ME 599 | Thesis/Project | 3-6 |
Second Semester, Fifth Year
Technical Elective.
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ME 436 | Solid Mechanics | 3 |
| ME 480 | Advanced CADD | 3 |
| ME 599 | Thesis/Project | 3-6 |
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