Mechanical Engineering (MEng)

Admission Standards

Since the Mechanical Engineering MEng is accredited as part of a five-year program with one-year of co-op experience, it is only available for students who have matriculated through the Mechanical Engineering bachelor degree program at J.B. Speed School of Engineering.

The application form is available online.

The requirements for admission or readmission to a master of engineering program are:

1. Submission of a completed MEng application for the field of specialization in which the student is earning a bachelor degree from the J.B. Speed School of Engineering. Students can be admitted to the MEng program with fewer than thirteen (13) credit hours of BS degree requirements remaining and no later than two years post conferral of their baccalaureate degree;

2. Recommendation by the faculty and chair of the student’s department for admission or readmission to graduate studies;

3. Cumulative baccalaureate grade point average of 2.75. However, those students with cumulative baccalaureate grade-point averages from 2.50 to 2.75 may be admitted upon petition and approval of the chair and faculty of the department.

A student becomes a candidate for the master of engineering degree upon admission to graduate studies and initial registration as a graduate student.

Students are only permitted to enter the MEng ME program with a maximum of one D grade in ME prefixed courses from the BS ME curriculum. A student who accumulates more than one D in ME courses during the BS ME program must repeat courses for which grades of D were earned until only one D grade in an ME prefixed course remains. 

Program Requirements​

The Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering degree requires the following over and above the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Degree.
ME Electives 115
Technical Electives 1,29
Select one of the following: 6
Thesis Option:
Master of Engineering Thesis or Paper in Mechanical Engineering 3
Non-Thesis Option:
Mechanical Engineering Structured Research Project
ME Elective 1
Minimum Total Hours30

The Master of Engineering degree must be completed with a 3.00 GPA or better for all graduate courses used to satisfy degree requirements. Additionally, the Master of Engineering degree must be completed with a 3.00 GPA or better for all academic work attempted in graduate studies.

A maximum of eight (8) credit hours of graduate level courses taken as an undergraduate may be used to satisfy MEng degree requirements; these courses cannot have been used to also satisfy BS degree requirements. 

1

Electives must be chosen so that at least one-half of the total credits counted toward the degree, exclusive of thesis, are 600-level

2

Technical Electives can be ME or non-ME courses. Technical Electives must be approved by the student's research advisor or the ME Director of Graduate Studies.

3

For the thesis option, a student is required to select both an approved MEng thesis topic and the director and members of the thesis committee during the first term of Graduate Studies. The thesis director must give approval for enrollment in ME 697.