机械工程研究生课程旨在培训那些能够在工程和科学领域的前沿领域（无论是工业，研究还是学术界）取得成功职业生涯的工程师。在培训期间，学生将学习基本知识和基本技能，这将使他们在整个职业生涯中继续成长。我们的课程强调工程和科学的基本方法，在该方法中，学生将熟练地清楚地确定问题，然后将其基本原理和技术知识带入设计和实施最佳解决方案中。从课程设计到教学，再到我们学院的研究活动，这一哲学都被纳入研究生课程的各个方面。该系提供两个研究生学位课程：理学硕士（MS）和哲学博士（PhD） ）。硕士课程提供论文和非论文选项，而博
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers two graduate degree programs: the Master of Science (MS) and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The graduate program in mechanical engineering is designed to provide students with the necessary tools to begin a productive career in engineering practice or research, a career that probably will span a period of three to five decades. Although it is not possible to teach everything that one needs to know in the graduate program, the program provides the students with the skills, knowledge and philosophy that will enable them to continue to grow throughout his/her career. The graduate training a student receives emphasizes a fundamental approach to engineering whereby the student learns to identify needs, define problems and apply basic principles and techniques to obtain a solution. This philosophy is incorporated in classroom lectures, laboratory activities, design projects, and research.<br><br>It is essential that a successful department cultivates and maintains a diverse and dynamic program that is nationally recognized. The department is actively involved in basic research, which expands the frontiers of knowledge, as well as applied research designed to solve both present and future technological needs of society. The major research activities are focused in three primary areas: fluid mechanics and heat transfer, solid mechanics and materials science, and dynamic systems and controls (including mechatronics and robotics). State-of-the-art laboratories are associated with each of these areas. In addition, much of the research is conducted in cooperation with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, (NHMFL), the Department of Scientific Computing, the Center for Material Research and Technology (MARTECH), and the Center for Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Aero Science.