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 Mechanical
engineering is concerned with conversion of energy from one
form to another, design of all types of machines, instrumentation
and control of all types of physical and chemical processes,
and control of human and machine environments. Mechanical
engineers conceive, plan, design, and direct the manufacture,
distribution, and operation of a wide variety of devices,
machines, and systems used for energy conversion, environmental
control, materials processing, transportation, manufacture
of consumer products, materials handling, process control,
and measurement. Mechanical engineers find employment opportunities
in every branch of industry and in a variety of governmental
agencies. Work may involve design, development, research,
manufacture, marketing or management.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) offers graduate programs leading
to the MS and the PhD. Students may choose to specialize in
the following areas:
- thermal and fluid sciences conversion
— heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, combustion,
thermal environmental engineering;
- materials/manufacturing — composite
and smart materials, mechanical properties, electrochemistry
and corrosion, solid-state ionics, processing, marine materials;
- mechanics, systems, and controls —
robotics, dynamics, control, continuum mechanics.
Facilities for course instruction and research are available
in the following areas:
- adaptive structures and devices
- autonomous systems
- composites manufacturing
- computational fluid dynamics
- convective heat transfer
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- corrosion and electrochemistry
- intelligent and composite materials
- materials
- renewable resources
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The department's faculty conduct research categorized under
the department's three primary areas:
Fluid and Thermal Sciences
Applied math and perturbation methods in heat and mass transfer,
solidification, thermodynamics, combustion, fluid dynamics,
multiphase flows, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
Mechanics and Design
Robotics, mechatronics, acoustics, dynamics, control, machine
vision, microelectromechanical systems, rehabilitation engineering,
biomedical engineering, and mechanical design.
Materials and Manufacturing
Mechanical behavior, manufacturing, and processing of advanced
materials; composite, marine, intelligent, and superconducting
materials; solid-state ionics, electrochemistry, and corrosion.
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MS Degree Requirements
In general, students are required to follow Plan A (thesis).
Under special circumstances, however, students may select
Plan B (non-thesis) by petitioning the graduate faculty.
- Plan A requires 30 credits (including eight credits of
thesis research), a written thesis and defense of the thesis.
- Plan B requires 30 credits, a culminating research project
and a final exam.
PhD Degree Requirements
The PhD program requires the following:
- 50 credits of course work beyond the BS level*,
- qualifying exam (oral),
- comprehensive exam,
- dissertation,
- final oral exam, defense of dissertation
* Students are required to select one major and one minor
graduate program within the following three areas of concentration:
1) materials/manufacturing, 2) mechanics/systems/controls,
or 3) thermal/fluid sciences. All courses shall be selected
by students and must be approved in writing by their doctoral
committees. A minimum of two credits in ME 691 or its equivalent
must be included in every PhD program.
Courses
To view a listing of courses offered, visit www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/me.htm.
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