Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 66.6 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 66.6 k / Year(s) Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
9 place StudyQA ranking:4284 Duration:4 years

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Mechanical and Aerospace engineers design, build and test devices and vehicles, such as cars, aircraft, satellites, engines, robots, and control systems. Increasingly, electronics, computers, and mechanical devices are more and more integrated, and mechanical and aerospace engineers must have very broad knowledge and training in order to perform their jobs at the highest level. Our program emphasis is to provide an education in the fundamentals of engineering as required for the understanding and application of physical phenomena. We follow a broad system approach, where engineering decisions are made with a full appreciation of the opportunities and limitations presented by advanced technologies and their integration.

The Department recognizes that our students follow a variety of career paths. Some enter industry directly as practicing engineers while others continue their studies in graduate school in the fields of engineering or applied science. Others follow our program in preparation for careers in business, law or medicine. Some students enter the military.   For the Class of 2015, 17% of graduates decided to continue their studies in graduate school in engineering such as Cal Tech, Stanford, Yale, and Cornell. 60% chose a technical career in industries such as Ford Motor Company, Creative Edge Products, Dassault Falcon Jet, Lockheed Martin, Virgin Galactic, Facebook, Delta Airlines, SpaceX, Universal Creative, Ad Energy, Pratt and Miller, JRI-America, and Telnyx.  Some entered a career in the military with the U.S. Navy and the Naval Surface Warfare Center.  Others began careers in management consulting, finance or environmental consulting with such companies as Boston Consulting Group, Strategy & Company, Black Rock, UBS, Oliver Wyman, Bridgewater Associates and McKinzie.

We respond to our student's varied interests by offering interdepartmental programs and topical programs.  Sufficient flexibility is provided to meet a range of career objectives while providing a foundation of the engineering disciplines and associated problem solving skills.

AST 309 
MAE 309 
PHY 309 
ENE 309

Science and Technology of Nuclear Energy

ELE 523 
MAE 548

Nonlinear System Theory

ENE 308 
MAE 308 
GEO 308

Engineering the Climate: Technical & Pol

ENE 453 
MAE 453

Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Technology

MAE 206

Introduction to Engineering Dynamics

MAE 222 
CEE 208

Mechanics of Fluids

MAE 224

Integrated Eng'g Science Laboratory

MAE 305 
MAT 391 
EGR 305 
CBE 305

Mathematics in Engineering I

MAE 306 
MAT 392

Mathematics in Engineering II

MAE 322

Mechanical Design

MAE 328 
EGR 328 
ENV 328 
ENE 328

Energy for Greenhouse-Constrained World

MAE 340

Independent Work

MAE 340

Independent Work

MAE 340D

Independent Work with Design

MAE 340D

Independent Work with Design

MAE 342

Space System Design

MAE 354

Unmaking the Bomb:Science and Technology

MAE 424 
ENE 424

Energy Storage Systems

MAE 426

Rocket and Air-Breathing Propulsion Tech

MAE 427 
ENE 427

Energy Conversion and the Environment

MAE 433

Automatic Control Systems

MAE 442

Senior Thesis

MAE 442

Senior Thesis

MAE 442D

Senior Thesis with Design

MAE 442D

Senior Thesis with Design

MAE 444

Senior Project

MAE 444

Senior Project

MAE 444D

Senior Project with Design

MAE 444D

Senior Project with Design

MAE 502 
APC 506

Mathematical Methods II

MAE 511

Experimental Methods I

MAE 511

Experimental Methods I

MAE 528 
AST 566

Physics of Plasma Propulsion

MAE 529

Advanced Topics in Applied Physics I: The Physics and Engineering of Sound: From basic acoustics to 3D audio

MAE 531 
ENE 531

Combustion

MAE 534

Energy Storage Systems

MAE 552 
CBE 557

Viscous Flows and Boundary Layers

MAE 562 
MSE 540

Fracture Mechanics

MAE 574

Unmaking the Bomb:The Science &Technolog

MAE 598

Grad. Seminar in Mech & Aerospace Eng.

  • The Common Application or the Universal College Application
  • Princeton Supplement
  • Transcript
  • School Report
  • Guidance Counselor Letter
  • Two (2) Teacher Recommendations
  • SAT with Essay or ACT with Writing
  • Two (2) SAT Subject Tests (recommended, but not required)
  • TOEFL, IELTS Academic or PTE Academic (nonnative speakers of English without 3 years of high school in English)

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