Technical Electives for Mechanical Engineering

ME Tech Electives

As of March 11, 2024

Students should determine the area of ME that most interest them as early as possible in their undergraduate careers and consider elective courses whenever they qualify. To assist in that endeavor, the following themes are offered with potential Tech Electives to support your interests (including the upcoming semesters they will tentatively be offered):

  1. Advanced Fluids:
    • MIE 440 – Aerospace Fluid Mechanics: S25
    • MIE 441 – Internal Combustion Engines: every fall
    • MIE 442 – Propulsion Systems Performance, Analysis & Design: S25
  2. Biomedical:
    • MIE 458 – Connections in Medicine, Biology, & Engineering: F25
    • MIE 443 – Mechatronics: every spring
    • MIE 687 – Practical Medical Device Design: F24 (requires instructor approval)
  3. Design:
    • MIE 414 – Industry-Sponsored Mechanical Design (prior to MIE 415): every fall
    • MIE 550 – Vehicle Automation: TBD
    • MIE 556 – Augmented and Virtual Reality Design: F24
    • MIE 562 – Power Systems Design: S25
  4. Dynamic Systems and Control:
    • MIE 379 – Deterministic Operations Research: every fall
    • MIE 485 – Vibrations: S26
    • MIE 510 – Feedback Control Systems: F24
  5. Energy Conversion:
    • MIE 570 – Solar & Direct Energy Conversion: every spring
    • MIE 573 – Engineering Windpower Systems: every fall
    • MIE 649 – Coastal & Ocean Waves: S26 (requires instructor approval)
    • MIE 652 – Ocean Renewable Energy: S25 (requires instructor approval)
  6. Manufacturing:
    • MIE 422 – Statistical Quality Control: every fall
    • MIE 477 – Production Quality and Control: every spring
    • MIE 524 – Machine Learning for Dynamic Decision-Making: F25
    • MIE 553 – Industrial Automation: F24
    • MIE 578 – Supply Chain Logistics: S26
    • MIE 690 STB – Industry 4.0 Tech & Systems: S25
  7. Materials (certificate program):
    • MIE 571/572 – Physical & Chemical Processing of Materials with Project
    • MIE 579 – Advanced Materials Engineering (or other 500-level advanced materials course)
    • ChE 573 – Materials Science & Engineering Project
    • ChE 590c – Mechanical Behavior of Materials
  8. Industrial Engineering (some of these courses may have pre-reqs that MEs will not have satisfied; please read the course description in SPIRE for enrollment requirements):
    • MIE 360 – Human Factors Engineering; every spring
    • MIE 373 – Intro to Simulation Methods; every spring
    • MIE 380 – Operations Research II; every fall
    • MIE 621 – Descriptive Analytics; every fall
    • MIE 522/622 – Predictive Analytics and Statistical Learning; every spring
    • MIE 623 – Prescriptive Analytics; every spring

Note that these electives will be capped at 40 students and some are only offered every 2 years.  

Other technical courses in Engineering, Math, CS, Kinesiology, OIM, and science departments may be acceptable as Tech Electives; however, only one ME Technical Elective can be satisfied with a non-MIE course; e-mail your student number, major, and a course description to the Chief Undergraduate Advisor (CUA), Dr. Schliemann , for approval. Examples of previously approved non-MIE technical electives are:  Building & Construction Technology 540; Chemical Engineering 555, 589; Civil & Environmental Engineering 310, 331, 430/530, 462; CICS 210; Computer Science 335, 403; Electrical & Computer Engineering 241, 331; Kinesiology 460, 530; and Math 425, 456, 545, 551, 552. Note that students can take 600-level graduate courses only with e-mail permission of the instructor before an override(s) can be processed by Kevin Romani. 

 

MIE Elective

ME students can take one of the following courses to satisfy their MIE Elective requirement: Computer Science 119, CICS 110, or ECE 122 (if not used to satisfy MIE 124); Building & Construction Technology 550; Chemistry 112; Engineering Management Minor (EMM) courses; Kinesiology 236, 430; Math 235; and MIE 381, 398C, 398T and MSEM courses MSEM courses (645, 646, 664, 670, 671, etc.). Other technical courses in Engineering, Math, CS, Kinesiology, OIM, and science departments may be acceptable as the MIE Elective; e-mail your student number, major, and a course description to the CUA for approval.