Undergraduate Degrees

Mechanical Engineering Minor

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences is offering a minor for students in the School of Engineering who are not currently majoring in mechanical engineering. Fifteen units are required to complete the minor. Students must obtain a GPA of at least 2.0 for the courses taken.

Requirements

For a background in mechanical design, the following two courses are required for the mechanical engineering minor:

• MEMS 0024: Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design (3 units)   Pre-req: ENGR 0011
• MEMS 1028: Mechanical Design 1 (3 units)
      Pre-req: ENGR 0145 or ENGR 0141

Options

Students must choose one of the four options below to complete the courses required for a mechanical engineering minor.

Thermal-Fluids option

• MEMS 0051: Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Engineering (3 units)
      Pre-reqs: PHYS 0175 and CHEM 0960
      Co-req: MATH 0290
• MEMS 1051: Applied Thermodynamics (3 units)
      Pre-req: MEMS 0051
• MEMS 1072: Applied Fluid Dynamics (3 units)
      Pre-req: MEMS 0051

Dynamic Systems option

• MEMS 1014: Dynamic Systems (3 units)
      Pre-req: MEMS 0031 or ECE 0031
• MEMS 1015: Rigid-Body Dynamics (3 units)
      Pre-reqs: MATH 0240 and ENGR 0135 or ENGR 0131
• MEMS 1045: Automatic Controls or ECE controls course (3 units)
      Pre-req: MEMS 1014

Mechanical Design option

• MEMS 1029: Mechanical Design 2 (3 units)
      Pre-reqs: MEMS 0024 and MEMS 1028
• MEMS 1033: Fracture Mechanics for Manufacturing and Performance (3 units)
      Pre-reqs: ENGR 0022 and MEMS 1028
• MEMS 1047: Finite Element Analysis (3 units)
      Pre-reqs: MEMS 1028, MEMS 1052 and MEMS 1072

Mechanical Measurements option

• MEMS 1014: Dynamic Systems (3 units)
      Pre-req: MEMS 0031 or ECE 0031
• MEMS 1041: Mechanical Measurements 1 (3 units)
      Pre-reqs: ENGR 0145 or ENGR 0141
                     and MEMS 0031 or ECE 0031; 
      Co-req: MEMS 1014
• MEMS 1042: Mechanical Measurements 2 (3 units)
      Pre-req: MEMS 1041

Minor application

Admissions

Undergraduate students are admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science through the School of Engineering Admissions Office.