Required 128 credits (36 of which must be numbered 300 or above) including:
I. Essential Studies Requirements (see University ES listing).
II. Mechanical Engineering required courses*:
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
ME 101 | Introduction to Mechanical Engineering 1,2 | 3 |
ME 201 | Student Design 1, 2 | 2 |
or ME 201C & ME 201L | Student Design Lecture and Student Design Lab |
ME 301 | Materials Science | 3 |
ME 306 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 |
ME 322 | Design of Machinery | 3 |
ME 323 & 323L | Machine Component Design and Machine Component Design Laboratory | 4 |
ME 341 | Thermodynamics 1 | 3 |
ME 418 & 418L | Manufacturing Processes and Manufacturing Processes Laboratory 4 | 4 |
or ME 418C & ME 418L | and Manufacturing Processes Laboratory |
ME 474 | Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer | 3 |
ME 480 | Mechanical Engineering Seminar 4 | 3 |
ME 483 | Mechanical Measurements Laboratory 4 | 3 |
ME 487 | Engineering Design 4 | 2 |
ME 488 | Engineering Design 4 | 3 |
Total Credits | 39 |
III. Program Required Electives
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
Total Credits | 21 |
IV. College of Engineering and Mines requirements
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
ENGR 200 | Computer Applications in Engineering 1,2 | 2 |
ENGR 201 | Statics 1 | 3 |
ENGR 202 | Dynamics 1 | 3 |
ENGR 203 | Mechanics of Materials 1 | 3 |
ENGR 206 | Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering | 3 |
ENGR 340 | Professional Integrity in Engineering 2 | 3 |
ENGR 460 | Engineering Economy | 3 |
Total Credits | 20 |
V. Requirements outside of the College of Engineering and Mines
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
CHEM 121 & 121L | General Chemistry I and General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 | 4 |
MATH 165 | Calculus I 1 | 4 |
MATH 166 | Calculus II 1 | 4 |
MATH 265 | Calculus III 1 | 4 |
MATH 266 | Elementary Differential Equations | 3 |
MATH 321 | Applied Statistical Methods 5 | 3 |
PHYS 251 | University Physics I 1 | 4 |
PHYS 252 | University Physics II 1 | 4 |
Total Credits | 30 |
Technical Electives and Optional Concentrations
One technical elective must be taken from each stem from UND unless the student is pursuing the Aerospace Concentration (see below). Students may receive an optional concentration, documented on the transcript, in one of the listed stems as indicated. Students who satisfactorily complete two full-time (40 hours/wk) or three part-time (20 hours+/wk) ME 397 Cooperative Education experiences for a combined total of at least three credit hours are granted a waiver for one technical elective, provided one of the Cooperative Education experiences lasts for the duration of either a fall or spring semester. The waived technical elective is considered as elective at large and is not specified into any one of the three stems listed below.
Mechanical Design Stem
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
ME 424 | Systems Dynamics and Control (#) | 3 |
ME 426 | Mechanical Vibrations (#) | 3 |
ME 429 | Introduction to Finite Element Analysis (#) | 3 |
ME 439 | Introduction to Robotics | 3 |
ME 484 | Ground Vehicle Dynamics | 3 |
ME 485 | Multiphysics Modeling | 3 |
ME 523 | Advanced Machine Design (#) | 3 |
ME 525 | Metal Fatigue in Engineering (#) | 3 |
ME 526 | Advanced Vibrations (#) | 3 |
ME 529 | Advanced Finite Element Methods (#) | 3 |
ME 532 | Advanced Dynamics (#) | 3 |
ME 530 | UAS in Engineering Design and Applications (#) | 3 |
ME 566 | Introduction to Machine Vision (#) | 3 |
ME 580 | Introduction to Autonomous Robotics (#) | 3 |
Mechanical Design Concentration - 128 hours
Requires ME 323 Machine Component Design/ME 323L Machine Component Design Laboratory and any four of the Mechanical Design Stem technical electives.
Thermal Sciences Stem
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
ME 342 | Intermediate Thermodynamics (#) | 3 |
ME 446 | Gas Turbines (#) | 3 |
ME 449 | Internal Combustion Engines (#) | 3 |
ME 451 | Heating and Air Conditioning | 3 |
ME 464 | Computational Fluid Dynamics (#) | 3 |
ME 476 | Intermediate Fluid Mechanics (#) | 3 |
ME 477 | Compressible Fluid Flow (#) | 3 |
ME 542 | Thermodynamics of Materials | 3 |
ME 545 | Fluidized-Bed Combustion Engineering | 3 |
ME 574 | Advanced Heat Transfer (#) | 3 |
ME 575 | Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer (#) | 3 |
ME 576 | Convective Heat Transfer (#) | 3 |
ME 466 | Aerodynamics (#) | 3 |
Thermal Sciences Concentration - 128 hours
Requires ME 306 Fluid Mechanics, ME 341 Thermodynamics and any four of the Thermal Sciences Stem technical electives.
Manufacturing and Materials Stem
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
ME 313 | Material Properties and Selection | 3 |
ME 417 | Friction, Wear and Lubrication | 3 |
ME 420 | Composite Materials (#) | 3 |
ME 428 | Advanced Manufacturing Processes | 3 |
ME 439 | Introduction to Robotics | 3 |
ME 524 | Deformation and Fracture (#) | 3 |
ME 525 | Metal Fatigue in Engineering (#) | 3 |
ME 542 | Thermodynamics of Materials | 3 |
ME 514 | High Temperature Materials (#) | 3 |
ME 515 | Advanced Processing of Materials and Biomaterials | 3 |
ME 580 | Introduction to Autonomous Robotics (#) | 3 |
Manufacturing and Materials Concentration - 128 hours
Requires ME 418 Manufacturing Processes and any four of the Manufacturing and Materials Stem technical electives.
Aerospace Concentration - 133 hours
Requires students to complete AVIT 102 Introduction to Aviation (5 credits) plus seven technical electives. AVIT 102 Introduction to Aviation includes earning a private pilot license and is recommended for the summer session between the freshman and sophomore years. 6
Technical electives must be chosen from the aerospace group of electives as identified by # in the above technical elective listing. One of the technical electives must be either ME 429 Introduction to Finite Element Analysis or ME 464 Computational Fluid Dynamics. ME 490 Special Laboratory Problems or an ME 590 Special Topics may also be included in the aerospace group at the discretion of the Mechanical Engineering Chair.