The mechanical engineering ME graduate program offers Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering. It strives to help students to develop professional independence, creativity, leadership, and the capacity for continuing professional and intellectual growth. The aim of the program is to prepare graduates for research and professional practice in an era of rapidly advancing interdisciplinary technology. Graduates with advanced research and education in all ME relevant fields can contribute effectively to the development of various national and international industries and academia. They will be qualified and specialized in various disciplines of ME such as materials, design, manufacturing, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, control and dynamic. Specialized PhD topics include materials processing and characterization, fracture mechanics and fatigue, composite materials, polymers, tissue engineering, biomechanics, nanomechanics, biomedical engineering, energy conversion, combustion, microfluidics, micropower generation, mechanisms, mechatronics, robotics engineering, MEMS, vibrations, and nanotecknology. The award of the Ph.D. degree in ME requires successful completion of a minimum of 25 credit hours of graduate coursework and 30 credit hours in research in addition to passing comprehensive and prospectus exams.

Required Credit Hours: minimum hours