Graduate Program

The City College offers the following graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering:

• M.E. (M.E.) Professional Master's Degree
• M.S. (Engineering)
• Ph.D. (For continuing students, redirect to the Graduate Center of CUNY)

Starting in Fall 2008, City College is admitting students for the doctoral degree (New students contact admissions office at CCNY)

Degree Requirements

I. Professional Master's Degree

Engineering Core Courses 9 Cr.

• Mechanical Engineering:
  G0200: Applied Fluid Mechanics
  G4000: Applied Stress Analysis
• Engineering:
  I1100: Introduction to Engineering Analysis

Technical Electives 15-21cr. (Five to seven courses from the following list:)

• Mechanical Engineering:
  G0300: Computer Aided Manufacturing
  G0500: Mechanical Vibrations
  G0600: Thermal Systems Design
  G0700: Computer Aided Mechanism Design
  G2300: Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
  G4100: Mechatronics: Principles and Practice
  G4300: Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  G4400: Nano/Micromechanics
  G4500: Mechanics and Physics of Material Behavior
  G4600: Computational Fluid Dynamics
  G4700: Physical Properties of Material
  G4800: Auto Safety Design
  G4900: Advanced Topics in Fluid Dynamics
  G5000: Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
  I3100: Steam and Gas Turbines
  I3600: Conduction Heat Transfer
  I3700: Convection Heat Transfer
  I6200: Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Vibrations
  I6500: Computer Aided Design
  I6700: Composite Materials
  I6900: Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics
• Engineering:
  I1700: Finite Element Methods in Engineering
  I4200: Continuum Mechanics

Any graduate course in the Grove School of Engineering with the approval of the departmental advisor.

One course from list below may be taken in place of a technical elective:

• Engineering Management Courses 3 cr.
  F3800: Management Concepts for Engineers
  F9300: Economics and Investment Analysis of Engineering Projects
  G7600:Engineering Law
  G8500: Project Management
  I8000: Decision and Planning Techniques for Engineers

Report/Project/Thesis 0-6 cr.

• Mechanical Engineering:
  I9700: Report (0 cr.)
  I9800: Project (3 cr.)
  I9900: Research for the Master's Thesis (6 cr.)
  G0400: Industry Oriented Design Project (3 cr.)

Total Credits 30 cr.

Note: With departmental approval, students may register for two 50000-level undergraduate courses towards the master's degree. However, students must receive a grade of B or better and these courses will not be included in their G.P.A

II. The M.S. Degree
The M.S. Degree is awarded to students who do not have a bachelor's degree in engineering

Advisement
Master's Program Advisor
Charusheel N. Bapat

Doctoral Program Advisor
Yiannis Andreopoulos