Graduate IPD

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics offers a 30-credit Masters of Engineering degree with an IPD concentration. This flexible program allows students to continue to develop their ideas with 18 credits of graduate courses in engineering design and manufacturing and the remaining courses taken from engineering, business, design or other courses of interest to the student. Students take ME 401-IPD and ME 402-Manufacturing, ME 461-IPD Projects-design, ME 462-IPD Projects-manufacturing, an advanced math course and one other ME graduate Course of their choice completing 18 credits in graduate Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics courses. The remaining 12 credits can be taken in engineering, business or design. Students work on industry sponsored projects or student entrepreneurs develop their own products and start their own companies as shown below with Eco Tech Marine founders Tim Marks (BS CEE '05, MEngr MEM-IPD '07) and Pat Clasen (BS MSE '05, Current Ph D candidate in MSE).