THE MASTER’S PROGRAM - COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

The comprehensive examination is required of all MS students in Mechanical Engineering.  Students must show competence in four of the following areas:

Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Conduction Heat Transfer, Classical Thermodynamics, Compressible Fluid Flow, Finite Element Analysis, Advanced Engineering Dynamics, Advanced Vibrations, Applied Elasticity, Mathematics.

The comprehensive examination is given twice a year in the fall and spring.  Students will have two opportunities to pass the comprehensive examination.

Students failing this examination may try a second time not sooner than 12 weeks after the first attempt. Students failing the second time will be academically dismissed from the program.