Bachelor of Science/Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

The department offers a five-year combined bachelor'smaster's pathway leading to the Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Science (MS) degrees. The objective of this pathway is to produce, in five years of full-time study, an engineer who is fully qualified to enter into professional practice in industry. Students begin taking core graduate courses in their fourth year. Successful completion of the fourth year of the five-year curriculum will give the student enough credit and breadth of subject matter to satisfy university requirements for the BS degree, should individual circumstances arise that preclude a student from taking the fifth year. This pathway also includes a Summer internship in industry between the fourth and fifth years.The original BS-MS program is now BSplus1 MS Professional Traineeship track under the ME MS (Non-thesis Option):You take two-additional graduate-level courses (during senior year – no double-counting) to be transferred to graduate-degree program (6 Credit Hours (CHs)). Take required summer internship in industry or approved research laboratories while taking the internship course (3 CHs). Returning to school to take 2 sponsored project courses (with industry or research lab partners - 6 CHs) plus 5 more graduate-level courses (15 CHs) to graduate in two semesters with your master's degree.