School of Mechanical Engineering (Graduate)

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Department/School Head:

Head: Dr. Eckhard Groll, William E. and Florence E. Perry Head of Mechanical Engineering and Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Associate Head for Graduate Studies: Dr. Nicole Key, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Contact Information

(765) 494-5730

Email: MEgradoffice@purdue.edu

School of Mechanical Engineering

Overview

Mechanical Engineering is, simply, applying engineering principles to machines that have movement. If you think that sounds all-encompassing, well, you’re right. Mechanical Engineering is the broadest of all Engineering majors, and their students can do just about anything because they have a broad understanding of the principles of physics, design, thermodynamics, and control systems.

In the job world, you can take these skills to almost any industry. Many Mechanical Engineering students end up in the automotive or manufacturing industries, but many also pursue biotech, law, renewable energy, electronics, or any number of emerging industries. NASA loves Purdue students, and many mechanical engineers find places in the aerospace and defense industries. And some ME graduates don’t go into engineering at all but use their problem-solving skills to start a business or go into sales or management. The foundational know-how of Mechanical Engineering will serve you, wherever in the world you choose to go.

Academic Programs:

Master’s Program: Thesis or Non-Thesis

Students admitted to the Master’s program can choose to complete either the thesis option or the non-thesis option. The thesis option is highly recommended because it includes conducting independent research and a publishable report or thesis. The non-thesis option (see Professional Master’s program below) allows for a more predictable completion time frame of coursework so students can more accurately plan a graduation date.

Professional Master’s Program

A full-time on-campus program blending 21 credits of technical specialties with 9 credits of management and professional development classes. This option is perfect for current undergrads who want a graduate degree, but still want to jump into industry quickly, or students who want a more practice-oriented engineering degree; or for busy professionals who want specialized expertise to advance in their careers.

Online Master’s Program

You can get a Master’s Degree from Purdue University Mechanical Engineering entirely online. Online engineering graduate students take courses asynchronously, meaning course content can be accessed from anywhere at any time. Students view the lectures and course materials weekly on their own schedule in order to complete the assignments and tests dates set on the course syllabi. Lectures are available for download and viewing two hours after the “live” lecture has been captured.

Combined Degree Program (5-Year Plan–Undergraduate Degree/Master’s Degree)

The combined BSME/MSME Program is an integrated five-year degree program in which qualified students can receive a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering. The program provides a seamless transition from the BS to MS programs for Purdue students where up to 12 approved graduate credits taken as undergraduate electives could be counted toward both the BS and MS degrees, thereby reducing the overall time required for the MS degree. This program is available at either the West Lafayette or Indianapolis campus.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Mechanical Engineering’s PhD program requires a minimum of 21 credit hours of coursework beyond the Master’s Degree. A minimum of 90 graduate course and research credit hours is required for graduation, along with dissertation defense and deposit.

Direct Ph.D. Degree Program

Students with a strong performance in coursework and some research experience at the undergraduate level may be admitted to our Direct to a PhD program at the time of admission to graduate students at Purdue.  Students enrolled in this program have the option of seeking a Master’s Degree “along the way” to the Ph.D.

Research areas include:

• Acoustics and Noise Control
• Advanced Materials
• Biomedical
• Combustion
• Computational Engineering
• Convergent Manufacturing
• Design & Manufacturing
• Dynamics and Vibration
• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat and Mass Transfer
• High Performance Buildings
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Micro & Nanotechnology
• Particles & Powders
• Propulsion
• Robotics
• Semiconductors
• Solid Mechanics
• Sustainable Energy
• Systems, Measurement, & Controls
• Thermodynamics
• Transportation

Graduate Certificate

Hybrid Vehicle Systems ME Graduate Certificate is available to online or residential graduate students in good standing in the College of Engineering. The certificate program is focused on providing students with a framework for gaining relevant expertise in the area of advanced hybrid vehicle systems.

Faculty

Mechanical Engineering has more than 90 faculty members, pursuing research in numerous fields.  Are you interested in doing research as an undergrad? Contact a faculty member whose research interests you.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor:

Arezoo Ardekani
Anil K. Bajaj
Ilias Bilionis
J. Stuart Bolton
James E. Braun
Richard Buckius
Mukerrem Cakmak
David Cappelleri
Luciano Castillo
Jun Chen
George T. C. Chiu
Jong Hyun Choi
Hamid Dalir (Indianapolis)
Patricia Davies
Xiaoping Du
Shirley Dyke
Hector Gomez
Jay P. Gore
Eckhard Groll
Bumsoo Han
E. Daniel Hirleman
Martin Byung-Guk Jun
Nicole Key
Klod Kokini
Marisol Koslowski
Charles M. Krousgrill
Chi Hwan Lee
Guang Lin
Robert P. Lucht
Ajay Malshe
Amy Marconnet
Peter H. Meckl
Terrence R. Meyer
Issam Mudawar
Partha P. Mukherjee
Liang Pan
Jitesh H. Panchal
Guillermo Paniagua
Arvind Raman
Karthik Ramani
Xiulin Ruan
Farshid Sadeghi
Cagri A. Savran
Fabio Semperlotti
Gregory M. Shaver
Yung C. Shin
Thomas Siegmund
Steven F. Son
Ganesh Subbarayan
Andrea Vacca
Pavlos Vlachos
Carl Wassgren
Justin A. Weibel
Steven T. Wereley
Benxin Wu
Xianfan Xu
Bin Yao
Huidan (Whitney) Yu (Indianapolis)
Song Zhang
Fu Zhao
Kejie Zhao

Associate Professor:

Babak Anasori
Andres Arrieta
Shubhra Bansal
Thomas Beechem
Edward Berger
Adrian Buganza Tepole
Ivan C. Christov
Sadegh Dabiri
Xinyan Deng
James Gibert
Christopher S. Goldstein
Marcial Gonzalez
Yan Gu
Daniel Guildenbecher
Neera Jain
James D. Jones
Carlos Larriba-Andaluz
Nina Mahmoudian
Aaron Morris
Gordon R. Pennock
Carlo Scalo
Michael Sealy
Davide Ziviani

Assistant Professor:

Eduardo Barocio Vaca
Riley Barta
Laura Blumenschein
Alex Chortos
Rebecca Ciez
Kevin Kircher
Junfei Li
Tian Li
Heather Liddell
Yangfan Liu
Monique McClain
Davin Piercey
Lizhi Shang
Luz Sotelo
David Warsinger
Tiwei Wei

Research Professor:

Mikhail Slipchenko - Research Prof
Ryan Wagner - Research Asst Prof

Professors of Engineering Practice:

Eric Adams
Chrisotpher Finch
Beth Hess
Beth M. Holloway
Eric Holloway
Greg Jensen
Daniel Williams

Lecturers:

Kartik Ariyur
Euiwon Bae
Satish Boregowda
Jason Elliott
Tina Han
Todd Lillian
Min Liu
Francisco Montalvo
Morgan Murphy
Sameer Naik
Todd Nelson

Courtesy Professors:

Sally Bane
Darcy M Bullock
Weinong Chen
Carlos Corvalan
Jennifer DeBoer
John Evans
Ahmed Hassanien
Eric Holloway
W. Travis Horton
Joseph Jewell
Karen Marais
Nesrin Ozalp
Timothy Pourpoint
Li Qiao
Mo Rastgaar
Vitaliy Rayz
Shirley Rietdyk
Tom Shih
Carson Slabaugh
Hong Tan
Athanasios Tzempelikos
Chenn Zhou

Emeritus Faculty:

David Anderson
Qingyan Chen
Raymond J. Cipra
Stephen Citron
Suresh Garimella
Victor Goldschmidt
Keith Hawks
Galen B. King
Mel L’Ecuyer
Werner Soedel
Paul E. Sojka
John Starkey

Programs

• Mechanical Engineering, PHD

• Mechanical Engineering, MSME (Modality: Residential & Online)
• Motorsports Engineering, MSENGR

• Hybrid Vehicle Systems ME, Post Baccalaureate Certificate (Modality: Residential & Online)
• Hybrid Vehicle Systems MSE, Post Baccalaureate Certificate

Courses

• ME 59800 - Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

• ME 50000 - Advanced Thermodynamics
• ME 50100 - Statistical Thermodynamics
• ME 50101 - Energy Assessment Of Industrial Processes
• ME 50102 - Energy Management Principles
• ME 50103 - Industrial Energy Assessment: Tools And Applications
• ME 50104 - Powertrain Integration
• ME 50105 - Hybrid And Electric Transportation
• ME 50106 - Industrial Energy Audit
• ME 50300 - Micro-And-Nano-Scale Energy Transfer Processes
• ME 50400 - Automotive Control
• ME 50500 - Intermediate Heat Transfer
• ME 50600 - Two-Phase Flow And Heat Transfer
• ME 50601 - Design Optimization Methods
• ME 50700 - Laser Processing
• ME 50800 - Heat Trans In Biological Systems
• ME 50801 - Orthopaedic Tissue Mechanics
• ME 50900 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
• ME 51000 - Gas Dynamics
• ME 51100 - Heat Transfer In Electronic Systems
• ME 51201 - Energy Storage Devices And Systems
• ME 51300 - Engineering Acoustics
• ME 51400 - Fundamentals Of Wind Energy
• ME 51800 - Analysis Of Thermal Systems
• ME 52000 - Imaging-Based Computational Hemodynamics For Cardiovascular Assessment
• ME 52200 - Indoor Environmental Analysis And Design
• ME 52301 - Nanosystems Principles
• ME 52500 - Combustion
• ME 52600 - Spray Applications And Theory
• ME 52601 - Integrated Nanosystems Processes And Devices
• ME 52900 - Sustainable Energy Options And Analysis
• ME 53100 - Characteristics Of Particles, Powders, And Compacts
• ME 53101 - Particle, Powder, And Compact Characterization
• ME 53102 - Particle, Powder, And Compact Characterization Laboratory
• ME 53300 - Turbomachinery II
• ME 53500 - Design And Modeling Of Fluid Power Systems
• ME 53501 - Introduction To Systems Engineering
• ME 53502 - Systems And Specialty Engineering
• ME 53503 - Model-Based Systems Engineering
• ME 53504 - Systems Driven Product Development
• ME 53800 - Air Breathing Propulsion
• ME 53900 - Introduction To Scientific Machine Learning
• ME 54000 - Internal Combustion Engines
• ME 54100 - Engineering Design: A Decision-Based Perspective
• ME 54200 - Introduction To Renewable Energy
• ME 54510 - Advanced Finite Element Analysis
• ME 54600 - CAD/CAM Theory And Advanced Applications
• ME 54800 - Fuel Cell Science And Engineering
• ME 55000 - Advanced Stress Analysis
• ME 55100 - Finite Element Analysis
• ME 55200 - Advanced Applications of Finite Element Method
• ME 55300 - Product And Process Design
• ME 55400 - Intellectual Property For Engineers
• ME 55401 - Design For IP Protection And Commercialization
• ME 55600 - Lubrication, Friction & Wear
• ME 55700 - Design For Manufacturability
• ME 55800 - Composite Materials
• ME 55801 - Composite Materials For Automotive Applications
• ME 55802 - Design And Analysis Of Materials And Structures In Lightweight Vehicles
• ME 55900 - Micromechanics Of Materials
• ME 56000 - Kinematics
• ME 56200 - Advanced Dynamics
• ME 56300 - Mechanical Vibrations
• ME 56500 - Vehicle Dynamics
• ME 56802 - Ceramic Materials
• ME 56900 - Mechanical Behavior Of Materials
• ME 57000 - Machine Design
• ME 57100 - Reliability Based Design
• ME 57101 - Probabilistic Engineering Design
• ME 57200 - Analysis And Design Of Robotic Manipulators
• ME 57201 - Analysis And Design Of Robotic Manipulators
• ME 57301 - Air Pollution And Emission Control
• ME 57401 - Additive Manufacturing
• ME 57500 - Theory And Design Of Control Systems
• ME 57600 - Computer Control Of Manufacturing Processes
• ME 57700 - Human Motion Kinetics
• ME 57800 - Digital Control
• ME 57900 - Fourier Methods In Digital Signal Processing
• ME 58000 - Nonlinear Engineering Systems
• ME 58100 - Numerical Methods In Mechanical Engineering
• ME 58400 - System Identification
• ME 58600 - Microprocessors In Electromechanical Systems
• ME 58700 - Engineering Optics
• ME 58800 - Mechatronics - Integrated Design Of Electro-Mechanical Systems
• ME 58901 - Optimal Design Of Mechatronic Systems: Robots And Interactive Structures
• ME 59100 - Mechanical Engineering Project
• ME 59500 - Special-Topic Minicourses
• ME 59700 - Advanced Mechanical Engineering Projects I
• ME 59999 - PMP Professional Development
• ME 60101 - Computational Modeling Of Turbulence
• ME 60500 - Convection Of Heat And Mass
• ME 60600 - Radiation Heat Transfer
• ME 60601 - Optimal Design Of Complex Mechanical Systems
• ME 60800 - Numerical Methods In Heat, Mass, And Momentum Transfer
• ME 61000 - Boundary Layer Theory
• ME 61100 - Principles Of Turbulence
• ME 61200 - Continuum Mechanics
• ME 61201 - Continuum Mechanics
• ME 61300 - Advanced Engineering Acoustics
• ME 61400 - Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ME 61500 - Aeroacoustics

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