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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department Chair: Dr. Mark V. Bower The Program The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department offers both Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree programs in both mechanical and aerospace engineering disciplines. In addition, the MAE department administers a PhD. program Chemical and Materials Engineering (CHE). The mission of the MAE Department is to achieve excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research, and public service in the engineering profession in general and in the mechanical and aerospace disciplines in particular. The department seeks to provide an educational environment that will: 1) inspire students to attain the highest levels of intellectual and personal growth throughout their lives, 2) enable students and faculty to make lasting contributions to the advancement of knowledge and the creative practice of engineering, and, 3) engage the faculty in service that enhances the public's understanding of technology for the betterment of society. The MAE Department seeks to provide leadership and continuing engineering education, research, and practice; promote equality of opportunity for engineering education; and, produce graduates who are prepared to support the diverse needs of Huntsville, the State of Alabama, the region, our nation, and the international community. The department maintains national recognition for research in selected areas of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The department faculty (fifteen members) develops research programs that attract external funding, which enable the department to achieve and maintain national prominence in areas that are important to the economy of the region. In particular, our emphasis in research includes heat transfer, aerodynamics, propulsion systems of aerospace vehicles, computer applications in fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, experimental mechanics, controls, and the space environment, among others. MAE Graduate students take courses and write theses in diversified subject areas of mechanical and aerospace engineering. These subject areas include acoustics, aerodynamics, applied mechanics, atmospheric fluid dynamics, combustion, computational methods in mechanics, controls, cryogenic fluids management, dynamics, energy/power, experimental mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, optical engineering, propulsion, solids mechanics, space environment, and thermodynamics. Admission Requirements For unconditional admission to the graduate program,
a student must hold a bachelor’s degree from an ABET accredited
program, have a grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale,
and a GRE score of at lease 1500, or a passing score on the Fundamentals
of Engineering (FE) Examination. The TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign
Language) is required of all students whose native language is not English.
Outstanding students from other technical fields may gain admittance
to the graduate program by completing certain undergraduate courses.
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