Cornell University

This program is specially designed to provide a broad background in the fundamentals of this discipline as well as to offer an introduction to the many professional and technical areas with which mechanical engineers are concerned. The program is appropriate for a wide range of career objectives, including supervised engineering practice, advanced professional engineering education, and other professorial education such as business, law, or medicine. Two main areas of concentration, corresponding to the two major streams of mechanical engineering discipline, are offered in the field program.

The undergraduate field program is a coordinated sequence of courses beginning in the sophomore year. During the first semester of that year, students who plan to enter the field of mechanical engineering take ENGRD 202 as an engineering distribution course. They also are encouraged to complete ENGRD 221 which is a field requirement that may simultaneously satisfy Common Curriculum requirements as an engineering distribution course.

Mechanical systems and materials processing are concerned with the design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing of machinery, vehicles, devices, and systems. Particular areas of emphasis include mechanical stress analysis, control systems, computer-aided design, vehicle engineering, dynamic systems, biomechanics, and materials processing and precision engineering. Engineering of fluids, energy, and heat-transfer systems is concerned with the experimental and theoretical aspects of fluid flow and heat transfer and the sciences of thermodynamics and combustion. Specific areas of concentration include aerospace engineering; heat energy and power engineering; and thermofluid sciences.