Mechanical Engineering Program
Mission of the Program
The Mechanical Engineering program is a four-year project-based curriculum that balances theory, simulation and laboratory exercises needed to model, analyze, design, and realize physical systems, components, and processes. Key elements of this program include a curriculum with open-ended team-based design problems that may include students from other disciplines. These real-world experiences and practical problem-solving techniques are organized to stress a design/simulate/test development cycle. The program applies Wentworth’s educational model of a laboratory-based curriculum along with two cooperative work experiences to foster a state-of-the-art learning environment. Students gain the educational background necessary to pursue a professional career, including professional license registration and advanced degrees.
The Mechanical Engineering program integrates applied engineering design and extensive use of computers with a faculty committed to a curriculum that parallels industrial challenges and changes. The cornerstone of a Wentworth education is hands-on experience, which means BSME students spend a great deal of time working in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Students use computers and test equipment extensively to verify and develop principles of engineering in diverse areas such as statistics, thermodynamics, material science, data acquisition, structural analysis, and machine design. The curriculum provides students with a balanced foundation of mathematics, science, engineering principles, and incorporates the humanities and social sciences.
Graduates are prepared for traditional industries of mechanism design and power generation as well as emerging opportunities including the development of biomedical and electromechanical devices.
Mechanical Engineering Outcomes
Educational Objectives
Curriculum
Freshman Year
Fall Semester
- MECH110 Introduction To Engineering
- ENGL100 English I
- MATH285 Engineering Calculus I
- MECH130 Engineering Graphics
- Total Credits: 16
Spring Semester
- ENGL115 English II
- MATH295 Engineering Calculus II
- CHEM380 Engineering Chemistry
- MECH165 Mechanical Engineering Design
- PHYS310 Engineering Physics I
- Total Credits: 19
Sophomore Year
Fall Semester
- ELECTIVE Humanities or Social Science
- MATH515 Multivariable Calculus
- MECH505 Engineering Thermodynamics I
- PHY320 Engineering Physics II
- MECH252 Engineering statics
- Total Credits: 19
Spring Semester
- Elective Humanities or Social Science
- MECH302 Mechanics of Materials
- ENGL350 Writing Competency Assessment
- MATH625 Differential Equations
- MECH317 Mechanical Analysis and Design
- MECH527 Engineering Thermodynamics II
- Total Credits: 18
Summer Semester
- COOP393 Cooperative Work Term (Optional)
Total Credits: 0
Junior Year
Fall Semester
- MATH505 Probability and Statistics For Engineers
- MECH420 Design of Machine Elements
- MECH565 Engineering Fluid
- ELECXXX Fundamental Circuit Theory
- ELECTIVE Humanities or Social Science
- Total Credits: 19
Spring Semester
- COOP465 Cooperative Work Semester I
- Total Credits: 0
Summer Semester
- MECH496 Material Science
- MECH596 Engineering Heat Transfer
- ELECTIVE Mechanical Elective
- MECH350 Instrumentation and Measurements
- MECH573 Dynamics
- Total Credits: 17
Senior Year
Fall Semester
- COOP670 Cooperative Work Semester II
- Total Credit: 0
Spring Semester
- MECH610 Vibrations
- ELECTIVE Humanities or Social Science
- MECH625 Simulation Based Design
- MANFXXX Manufacturing Engineering
- Total Credits: 14
Summer Semester
- GEN Elective General Elective
- ELECTIVE Humanities or Social Science
- ELECTIVE Mechanical Elective
- MECH650 Mechanical Senior Design
- Total Credits: 14
BSME students must take an Economics and Ethics course in meeting
the requirement of the 5 Humanities and Social Science electives.
Mechanical Electives
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- MECH405 Gas Dynamics
- MECH490 Aerodynamics
- ELME805 Advanced Mathematical Modeling for Engineers
- MECH440 Mechanisms and Machines
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Mechanical Electives or Other Elective Approved by Advisor and Department Chair
