机械工程（ME）对于广泛的活动至关重要，包括对工程系统，子系统及其组件的研究，设计，开发，制造，管理和控制。机械工程师使用工程力学，能源，热流体科学和材料科学的基础知识来设计和分析执行社会所需的有用任务的机械系统。例如，机械工程师在制造，加工，发电和运输（航空，陆地，海洋和太空）领域中研究机器，设备和结构的设计和功能。近年来，由于技术的迅速发展，机械工程师越来越精通计算机辅助设计，机器人技术，生物工程，环境工程，太阳能，风能和海洋能以及太空探索。该领域的广度为毕业生提供了令人满意的职业生涯的许多可能性。
The Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree does not adhere to the standard general education program required by other majors. Rather, it requires a special distribution of communication, humanities, and social science courses. Courses may be chosen to satisfy the university cultural diversity requirement concurrently.Required Humanities and Social Science Courses (minimum of 16 credits) To satisfy this requirement, the courses selected must provide both breadth and depth and not be limited to a selection of unrelated introductory courses. Each student should discuss with his/her mechanical engineering advisor the selection of courses to meet this requirement early in their academic career. A current list of acceptable courses is posted in the department office and on the department web site. Specifically, the minimum requirements consist of (a) three credits of microeconomics or macroeconomics, (b) at least 6 credits in the humanities area, and (c) at least 6 credits in the social science area, again, (a), (b), and (c) must total at least 16 credits.<br>To provide the measure of depth to the course of study, at least 3 credits at the 300-level or above must be included in the 16 credit requirement. At least one upper division course must follow a course in the same subject area as a course at the 100