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