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MAE 4620 Mechanical Engineering Design II
Fall 2026

A continuation of MAE 4610 that applies the design process to projects. Organization of design teams to work on specific semester-long design projects, including oral presentations and written reports. Pre- …

Rating
Difficulty
3.84
GPA
MAE 4650 Aircraft Design I
Fall 2024

Analyze design requirements for and produce conceptual design of an aircraft. Includes synthesis of materials, structures, propulsion, flight mechanics, stability and control, interior and external configuration, cockpit design and all …

Rating
Difficulty
3.89
GPA
MAE 4660 Aircraft Design II
Spring 2024

A continuation of MAE 4650. Completion of preliminary aircraft design, with cost analysis and manufacturability considerations. Submission of final report. Prerequisite: MAE 4650.

Rating
Difficulty
3.88
GPA
MAE 4690 Spacecraft Design I
Fall 2023

This course will examine the multidisciplinary aspects of spacecraft design for a NASA mission. Students will work in teams on an open ended multidisciplinary design problem using industrial methodologies. Students …

Rating
Difficulty
3.96
GPA
MAE 4700 Spacecraft Design II
Spring 2024

The course will result in the detailed design of the spacecraft, the fabrication of a full scale prototype and a proposal to NASA for funding of the real spacecraft and …

Rating
Difficulty
3.95
GPA
MAE 4710 Mechatronics
Spring 2026

Presents the synergistic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and computer control in the design of industrial products and processes. Surveys basic electronics, electromechanical actuators, analog and digital signals, sensors, …

4.6
Rating
3.7
Difficulty
3.37
GPA
MAE 4720 Advanced Mechatronics
Fall 2025

Mechatronics studies synergistic integration of mechanical engineering, electronics, and intelligent control in the design and manufacture of devices. Advanced Mechatronics follows MAE 4710 Mechatronics and dives deeper into circuits, electromechanical …

Rating
Difficulty
4.00
GPA
MAE 4730 Introduction to Automatic Controls
Spring 2026

Discusses the mathematics of feedback control systems; transfer functions; basic servo theory; stability analysis; root locus techniques; and graphical methods. Applications to analysis and design of mechanical systems, emphasizing hydraulic, …

4.7
Rating
5.0
Difficulty
3.73
GPA
MAE 4740 Mechanical Vibrations
Fall 2025

Studies free and forced vibration of damped and undamped single and multiple degree of freedom systems. Includes modeling of discrete and continuous mass systems; application to vibration measurement instruments; analysis …

Rating
Difficulty
3.64
GPA
MAE 4790 Aerospace Engineering Design I
Fall 2026

Analyze design requirements for and produce the conceptual design of an aircraft or a spacecraft. Includes synthesis of materials, structures, propulsion, flight mechanics, avionics, data handling and telemetry, stability and …

Rating
Difficulty
3.92
GPA
MAE 4800 Aerospace Engineering Design II
Spring 2026

A continuation of MAE 4790. Completion of the design topics. Includes the option to advance the design to the critical design stage and build prototypes. Final report and oral presentations. …

Rating
Difficulty
3.94
GPA
AM 6020 Continuum Mechanics With Applications
Fall 2023

Introduces continuum mechanics and mechanics of deformable solids. Vectors and cartesian tensors, stress, strain, deformation, equations of motion, constitutive laws, introduction to elasticity, thermal elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, and fluids. Cross-listed …

Rating
Difficulty
3.54
GPA
MAE 6020 Continuum Mechanics with Applications
Fall 2026

Introduces continuum mechanics and mechanics of deformable solids. Vectors and cartesian tensors, stress, strain, deformation, equations of motion, constitutive laws, introduction to elasticity, thermal elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, and fluids. Cross-listed …

4.0
Rating
3.0
Difficulty
3.59
GPA
MAE 6070 Theory of Elasticity
Spring 2026

Concepts of stress, strain, equilibrium, compatibility; Hooke's law (isotropic materials); displacement and stress formulations of elasticity problems; plane stress and strain problems in rectangular coordinates (Airy's stress function approach); plane …

Rating
Difficulty
3.74
GPA
MAE 6080 Constitutive Modeling of Biosystems
Fall 2024

The course covers state-of-the-art mechanical models to describe the constitutive behavior of hard and soft tissues with emphasis on biological form following physiological function. The course will cover linear and …

2.3
Rating
5.0
Difficulty
3.72
GPA
MAE 6100 Thermomechanics
Spring 2026

Review of classical thermodynamics; introduction to kinetic theory; quantum mechanical analysis of atomic and molecular structure; statistical mechanical evaluation of thermodynamic properties; chemical thermodynamics and equilibria. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Rating
Difficulty
3.52
GPA
MAE 6110 Heat and Mass Transport Phenomena
Spring 2025

Fundamentals of conduction and convection heat and mass transfer. Derivation and application of conservation equations for heat and mass transfer in laminar and turbulent flows. Steady, unsteady and multidimensional transport. …

Rating
Difficulty
3.83
GPA
MAE 6120 Microscale Heat Transfer
Fall 2026

This course will begin with a study of the fundamental microscopic energy carriers (definitions, properties, energy levels and disruptions of photons, phonons, and electrons.) Transport of energy will then be …

Rating
Difficulty
3.84
GPA
MAE 6130 Kinetic Theory and Transport Properties
Spring 2021

Derivation of Boltzmann equation; Molecular derivation of Navier-Stokes equations; dynamics of molecular collisions; Chapman-Enskog solution of Boltzmann equation; transport properties of gases; analyses of shock structure, flows with chemical reactions, …

Rating
Difficulty
4.00
GPA
MAE 6210 Analytical Dynamics
Spring 2025

Classical analytical dynamics from a modern mathematical viewpoint: Newton's laws, dynamical variables, many particle systems; the Lagrangian formulation, constraints and configuration manifolds, tangent bundles, differential manifolds; variational principles, least action; …

Rating
Difficulty
3.75
GPA