Plans of Study – Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Systems

MENG Core Courses (12 credits) 

  • ENGR 5311 – Professional Communication and Information Management 
  • ENGR 5312 – Engineering Project Planning and Management 
  • ENGR 5314 – Advanced Engineering Mathematics 
  • ENGR 5315 – MENG Capstone Project – Students are encouraged to work on a company-sponsored project 


AMES Concentration Course (3 credits) 

  • AMES 5111 – Computer Aided Engineering 


Technical Electives (15 credits total) 

A minimum of five elective courses from the following list are required. Other courses may also be substituted if mutually agreed by the student, advisor and the program director.  

Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Systems (AMES) 

  • AMES 5410 – Introduction to Energy Management in Manufacturing 
  • AMES 5420 – Introduction to Smart and Green Manufacturing 
  • AMES 5461 – Production Systems Engineering for Energy Efficient Manufacturing 
  • AMES 5451 – Optimization-based Production Management 
  • AMES 5441 – Reliability Engineering 

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CE) 

  • CE 5164 – Finite Element Methods in Applied Mechanics I 
  • CE 5166 – Finite Element Methods in Applied Mechanics II 

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) 

  • ECE 5101 – Introduction to System Theory 
  • ECE 5510 – Power System Analysis 
  • ECE 5512 – Power Distribution 
  • ECE 5520 – Advanced Power Electronics 
  • ECE 5530 – Modeling & Control of Electric Drives 
  • ECE 6102 – Optimal & Model Predictive Control 
  • ECE 6104 – Information, Control, and Games 
  • ECE 6108 – Linear Programming and Network Flows 
  • ECE 6161 – Modern Manufacturing System Engineering 
  • ECE 6437 – Computational Methods for Optimization 
  • ECE 6439 – Estimation Theory & Computational Algorithms 

Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) 

  • MSE 5001 – Principles of Materials Engineering 
  • MSE 5320 – Investigation of Special Topics 
  • MSE 5322 – Material Characterization 
  • MSE 5336 – Material Selection in Mechanical Design 
  • MSE 5787 – Behavior of Composites 

Mechanical Engineering (ME) 

  • ME 5110 – Advanced Thermodynamics 
  • ME 5120 – Advanced Thermo-Fluids I 
  • ME 5130 – Advanced Heat & Mass Transfer 
  • ME 5140 – Heat & Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems 
  • ME 5160 – Theory & Design of Automatic Control Systems 
  • ME 5180 – Dynamics 
  • ME 5190 – Advance Solid Mechanics 
  • ME 5311 – Computational Fluid Dynamics 
  • ME 5320 – Flow of Compressible Fluids I 
  • ME 5341 – Radiation Heat Transfer 
  • ME 5430 – Mechanics of Composite Materials 
  • ME 5443 – Composites Manufacturing 
  • ME 5511 – Principles of Optimum Design 
  • ME 5522 – Adv. Analysis of Comp Mat & Structures 
  • ME 5895 – Fuel Cells 
  • ME 5895 – Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering 
  • ME 6130 – Adv. Thermo-Fluids II 
  • ME 6170 – Combustion and Air Pollution Engineering 

Your Plan of Study is determined by your catalog year. Please use your Advisement Report or Academic Requirements Report in StudentAdmin to determine your catalog year.