Honors Program

The Department of Mechanical Engineering requires honors students to complete four courses for a total of 16 credit hours to satisfy the upper division honors requirement. One course is at the junior level, two courses are at the graduate level, and the final course is the honors thesis. Each of these courses are four credit hours.

1. One (1) junior level honors contract course chosen from:
• MCE 305HC Honors Kinematics & Dynamics of Machines.
• MCE 324HC Honors Introduction to Heat Transfer.
• MCE 367HC Honors Machine Design I.
• MCE 371HC Honors Vibrations.

2. Two (2) graduate level courses chosen from:
• MCE 521 Applied Thermodynamics.
• MCE 541 Introduction to Linear Controls.
• MCE 5XX (Any departmental 500 level course will also substitute for a senior technical elective).

3. One (1) honors thesis course:
• MCE 499H Honors Thesis (This course substitutes for the second senior technical eletive).

All engineering honors students are also required to take MTH 281 Multivariable Calculus. in place of MTH 283. Honors students will be graded in the graduate courses according to graduate level standards and on the graduate grading scale (no "D" grade). Honors students are encouraged to enroll in the M.E. 4+1 accelerated masters program during their junior year. In this program, the graduate coursework will apply towards the student's undergraduate degree as well as the masters degree. Note however, while grades of "C" in graduate coursework will apply towards the undergraduate degree, they will not be accepted for graduate credit in the 4+1 program.

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