Courses:
Note: One (1) unit of credit corresponds to one (1) hour of class per week during an academic semester. For example, a 4-credit course corresponds to 4 hours per week over 15 weeks (one academic semester), totaling 60 hours of instruction.
To fulfill the credit requirements of the Master’s Program, the student of the PPG-EM must complete, at minimum, 30 (thirty) credit units, corresponding to 450 (four hundred and fifty) hours, as follows:
- 4 (four) credits in Group A courses;
- 4 (four) credits in Group B courses;
- 8 (eight) elective credits in courses within the area of concentration;
- 8 (eight) elective credits in any courses offered by the Program;
- 4 (four) credits in the Master’s Seminars course;
- 2 (two) credits in the Teaching Internship Program I.
To fulfill the credit requirements of the Doctoral Program, the student of the PPG-EM must complete, at minimum, 31 (thirty-one) credit units, corresponding to 465 (four hundred and sixty-five) hours, as follows:
- 4 (four) credits in Group A courses;
- 4 (four) credits in Group B courses;
- 16 (sixteen) elective credits in any courses offered by the Program;
- 4 (four) credits in the Doctoral Seminars course;
- 3 (three) credits in the Teaching Internship Program II.
The selection of courses must be made with the approval of the advisor or area coordinator.
Class Schedule:
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Mandatory Activities
- Master’s Thesis - 0 credits
- Doctoral Dissertation - 0 credits
- Doctoral Qualification Exam - 0 credits
- Master’s Qualification Exam - 0 credits
- Teaching Internship Program I - 2 credits
- Teaching Internship Program II - 3 credits
Mandatory Courses
- Master’s Seminars - 4 credits
- Doctoral Seminars - 4 credits
Thermosciences Concentration Area Courses
- Multiphase Flows - 4 credits
- Turbulent Flows - 4 credits
- Flow in Porous Media - 4 credits
- Fluid Mechanics (Group B) - 4 credits
- Computational Fluid Mechanics I (Group A) - 4 credits
- Computational Fluid Mechanics II (Group A) - 4 credits
- Experimental Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer - 4 credits
- Boundary Layer Theory (Group B) - 4 credits
- Advanced Thermodynamics (Group B) - 4 credits
- Heat Transfer – Conduction (Group A) - 4 credits
- Heat Transfer – Convection (Group B) - 4 credits
- Heat Transfer – Radiation - 4 credits
- Computational Methods in Transport Phenomena (Group A) - 4 credits
- Finite Element Method in Transport Phenomena (Group A) - 4 credits
- Fluid Transients - 4 credits
- Renewable Energy - 4 credits
Solid Mechanics and Materials Technology Concentration Area Courses
- Fracture Failure Analysis and Prevention - 4 credits
- Fracture Mechanics (Group B) - 4 credits
- Finite Element Method in Solid Mechanics (Group A) - 4 credits
- Experimental Methods in Solid Mechanics - 4 credits
- Composite Materials - 4 credits
- Theory of Elasticity (Group B) - 4 credits
- Structural Dynamics (Group B) - 4 credits
- Solid-State Phase Transformations (Group B) - 4 credits
- Mechanical Vibrations (Group A) - 4 credits
- X-Ray Diffraction I - 4 credits
- X-Ray Diffraction II - 4 credits
- Scanning Electron Microscopy - 4 credits
- Introduction to Nanotechnology - 4 credits
- Focused Ion Beam Microscopy and Nanofabrication - 4 credits
- Image Analysis and Processing Applied to Quantitative Stereology (Group A) - 4 credits
- Welding - 4 credits
General Courses
- Advanced Calculus I (Group A) - 4 credits
- Advanced Calculus II (Group A) - 4 credits
- Continuum Mechanics I (Group B) - 4 credits
- Continuum Mechanics II (Group B) - 4 credits
- Machine Learning - 4 credits
- Computational Methods (Group A) - 4 credits
- Finite Element Method (Group A) - 4 credits
- Statistical Methods (Group A) - 4 credits
- Hybrid Analytical-Numerical Methods (Group A) - 4 credits
- Mathematical Modeling in Mechanical Engineering (Group B) - 4 credits
- Symbolic Computation - 4 credits
- Optimization (Group A) - 4 credits
- Ordinary Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra (Group A) - 4 credits
- Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering I - 1 credit
- Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering II - 2 credits
- Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering III - 3 credits
- Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering IV - 4 credits