Program details
All students admitted to the M.S. program in mechanical engineering are required to designate their thesis supervisor and thesis topic at the start of their program.
Master's students are required to take 7 courses having a total of minimum 21 credits. The course program of each student is designed by the student and his/her thesis supervisor according to following rules:
- In order to satisfy the mathematics requirement, ME 521 should be taken.
- At least 2 courses must be selected from the following pool of courses: ME 502, ME 503, ME 504, ME 505, ME 511, ME 517, ME 526 (ME 532 after semester 2022-1), ME 537, ME 541, ME 543 or ME 547.
- At least 4 courses must have ME 5XX codes, excluding ME 521, totaling a minimum of 12 credits.
- The program may contain at most 2 courses (subject to the approval of departmental Graduate Programme Committee) selected from the three groups of courses listed below:
- graduate courses offered by other departments,
- undergraduate technical elective courses offered by the Mechanical Engineering Department,
- undergraduate technical elective courses offered by other departments.
The maximum period to complete course work is 4 semesters.
- pass ME 590 Thesis Seminar (non-credit) course before the end of their fourth semester,
- * pass ME 599 Ethics (non-credit) course before the end of their fourth semester and
- complete, write, and defend a thesis sucessfully before the end of their sixth semester.
For offering frequencies of graduate courses please follow this link.
For rules and regulations regarding the registration to the Master's program of the Department, please see the registration rules document.
* This rule is relevant for students who started graduate studies on 2016th first semester or later.
Curriculum
| Graduate Courses | |||
| Code | Title | Credit | Catalog Page |
| ME 500 | M.S. Thesis | NC |  |
| ME 501 | Numerical Methods in ME I | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 502 | Advanced Dynamics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 503 | Advanced Gas Dynamics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 504 | Advanced Heat Transfer | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 505 | Advanced Heat Tansfer II | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 506 | Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 507 | Applied Optimal Control | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 508 | Thermal Radiation | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 509 | Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 510 | Numerical Methods for ME II | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 511 | Modern Control | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 512 | Aerothermochemistry of Rocket Propulsion Systems | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 513 | Vehicle Dynamics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 514 | Advanced Solar Energy Utilization | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 515 | Application of Electrical Analogy to Heat Transfer Problems | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 516 | Fluid Power Control | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 517 | Advanced Fluid Mechanics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 518 | Boundary Layer Theory | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 519 | Kinematic Analysis of Mechanisms | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 520 | Analysis and Measurement Techniques for Random Vibrations and Noise | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 521 | Analytical Methods in Engineering I | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 522 | Principles of Robotics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 523 | Impact Mechanics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 524 | Industrial Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Design | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 525 | Analytical Methods in Spatial Mechanisms | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 526 | Vibration of Continuous Systems with Computational Methods | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 527 | Advanced Internal Combustion Engine Design | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 528 | Flexible Multibody Dynamics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 529 | Advanced Internal Combustion Engines | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 530 | Introduction to Fluidized Bed Combustion | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 531 | Machine Tool Design | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 532 | Advanced Machinery Vibrations | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 533 | Computer Aided Design | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 534 | Computer Control of Machines | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 535 | Metal Cutting | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 536 | Design of Intelligent Machines | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 537 | Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics I | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 538 | Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics II | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 539 | Hydrodynamic Instability, Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 540 | Analytical Methods in Engineering II | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 541 | Plasticity and Computer Aided Metal Forming | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 543 | Theory of Elasticity | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 544 | Beams, Plates and Shells | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 545 | Advanced Thermodynamics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 546 | Diffusion Problems in Thermal-Fluid Sciences | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 547 | Introduction to Continuum Mechanics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 549 | Experimental Stress Analysis I | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 550 | Experimental Stress Analysis II | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 551 | Design of High Precision CNC Machinery | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 552 | Micro and Nanoscale Heat Transfer | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 553 | Technical and Economical Aspect of Nuclear Power Plants | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 560 | Tribology | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 570 | Advanced Topics in Radiative Transfer | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 575 | Non-Traditional Production Processes | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 579 | Nonlinear Vibrations | (3-0) 3 |
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| ME 581 | Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 582 | Finite Element Analysis in Thermofluids | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 583 | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 584 | Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 586 | Variational Principles in Elasticity | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 587 | Perturbation Methods in Enginnering | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 588 | Impulsive Loading of Solids | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 590 | Thesis Seminar | (0-2) NC | |
| ME 599 | Research Methods and Ethics in Engineering | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 705 | Computational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 708 | Techniques for Vibration Control and Isolation | (3-0) 3 | |
| ME 710 | Higher Order Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations | (3-0) 3 | |
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