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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Department of Mechanical Engineering
2540 Dole Street
Holmes 302
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7167
Fax: (808) 956-2373
Web: www.me.hawaii.edu/

Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad, PhD
Graduate Chair
E-mail: nejhad@wiliki.eng.
hawaii.edu

 
Degrees Offered
 

MS in mechanical engineering

PhD in mechanical engineering

 
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Application Deadlines
 
Fall Spring
I — January 15
D — March 1
I — August 1
D — September 1
 
I = international applicants
D = U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents
 
 
Admissions Requirements
 

Click here for link to online application or to download paper application. Applicants need to meet:
1) Graduate Division admissions standard and documentation requirements, and
2) program specific admissions criteria and documentation requirements
    (see below).

 

MS Program

  • undergraduate degree in engineering or equivalent course work
  • graduate program supplemental information form (download form)
  • statement of objectives (download form)
  • three letters of recommendation
  • official GRE General Test scores
  • official TOEFL scores — 550/213/79 or above (Required of most non-native speakers of English. Click here for information on exemptions.)

PhD Program

  • completion of the MS program in mechanical engineering at UHM or equivalent course work
  • graduate program supplemental information form (download form)
  • statement of objectives (download form)
  • three letters of recommendation
  • official GRE General Test scores
  • official TOEFL scores — 550/213/79 or above (Required of most non-native speakers of English. Click here for information on exemptions.)
 

Submission of Program Specific Documentation Requirements
With the exception of TOEFL and GRE scores, all program specific documentation requirements should be sent directly to the graduate program.

If required, official TOEFL and GRE scores should be sent to the Graduate Admissions Office. Please note that GRE scores may be required by the graduate program (see above) or by the Graduate Division (more info.)

 
 
Program Overview
 

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
  • corrosion and electrochemistry
  • intelligent and composite materials
  • materials
  • renewable resources

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.

 
 
Degree Requirements
 

All graduate students at UHM need to meet degree requirements set by the Graduate Division and their graduate programs. For general Graduate Division requirements, see Degree Requirements. Below is an overview of the degree requirements for this graduate program.

 

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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