The MENG curriculum consists of 28 graduate credit hours of course work, culminated by a capstone project. Specifically, 13 of the credit hours are common to all of the engineering disciplines, 12 credit hours are chosen as a specialty from one field of study, and 3 credit hours form the basis of the capstone project work.
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Course Details
Common Core Courses (required courses) - (13 credits): Completion of 5 courses (four three-credit courses and one one-credit course).
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-Professional Communication
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(3 credits - ENGR
311)
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-Eng. Project Planning
and Management
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(3 credits - ENGR
312)
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-Engineering Analysis
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(3 credits)
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-Computer Methods
in Engineering
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(3 credits)
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-Professional Practice
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(1 credit)
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(Note: Students who can demonstrate mastery of up to two of the above common courses can request replacing these courses with other suitable graduate courses.)
Concentration Courses: Selection of 4 three-credit graduate courses (total of 12 credits) from an approved list in each department in the School of Engineering.
Professional Communication (ENGR311): Development of the advanced communication skills required of engineers and engineering managers in industry, government and business. Focus on (1) the design and writing of reports, proposals and memoranda that address the needs of diverse organizational audiences; (2) the preparation and delivery of organizational and technical oral and multimedia presentations and briefings; and (3) the writing of journal and conference articles. Engineering Project Planning (ENGR 312): This course focuses on subjects covering industrial and team-shared project management, benchmarking, system thinking, control and evaluation, scheduling and optimization, project organization, resource management and allocation, risk analysis, project monitoring and evaluation, task assignment, and engineering economics. The influence of technological uncertainties on costs, execution and investment returns of engineering projects will be studied. Illustrations by computation of case studies according to different sets of such factors. Engineering Analysis: Advanced applied mathematics for engineering applications, including vector and matrix analysis, complex analysis, differential and partial differential equations, real analysis, modeling, and problem solving with computer mathematical tools. This course is designed to give the mathematical background needed to study advanced engineering sciences, in the context of applied and contemporary engineering problems facing industry today. Computer Methods in Engineering: Computer methods and application of modern computer-based tools in engineering analysis, including numerical methods, optimization, statistical analysis and computer-aided engineering. Case studies in various engineering disciplines. In this course the fundamentals of various advanced computer tools (such as Finite Element Analysis) used in industry will be examined and the underlying methods and their limitations will be studied. Professional Practice: A series of workshop-based lectures on professional engineering practice-related topics, including team dynamics, professional ethics, product liability, intellectual property and safety. Engineers who have taken or are taking similar workshops in their companies may request a waiver from this course. Project (ENGR 300-xx): A culminating experience for graduate students to demonstrate their ability to perform individual and original research, and to demonstrate technical writing skills. The Project is a 3-credit course that may require more than one semester to complete, based on the following criteria:
- A project report must: (i) describe, in full, the technical issues involved; (ii) include a complete literature survey of the current state of the art; and (iii) contain original and non-trivial analysis, computation and/or experimentation as defined by faculty advisors.
- A project topic may be selected from faculty suggestions, industrial suggestions, or personal interest. Topic selection is finalized in consultation with faculty advisors.
- A project must be performed independently by the student, with faculty guidance.
- A project report must be written in professional, journal format publication style.
- While publication is not a strict requirement, dissemination of the project report must not be constrained by proprietary issues.
- Presentation and oral defense of the project are required.
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