Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Riverside (Engineering)

UCR ME's curriculum is structured around building the fundamentals of the discipline augmented by hands-on experience that employers have found to be critical. Explore the examination, design, use, and manufacture of mechanical devices. Students have the opportunities to put their skills into real-world practice.Several ME courses, including laboratory courses, incorporate design. The culmination of the students' design experience is a three-quarter capstone design course, in which students draw upon various aspects of their previous engineering science and design knowledge to address a meaningful design problem. The first quarter focuses on engineering economics, engineering/professional ethics, and review of fundamental design concepts. In the second quarter, project (concept) analysis, preliminary evaluation (economical and technical), data and literature collection, and preliminary process design and evaluation is carried out. The third quarter of the capstone design course focuses on the final detailed technical design of the process (equipment sizing and specification, etc followed by prototyping and construction of hardware, and detailed technical analysis of the final design. The course concludes with a formal oral presentation and written technical report.

Department of Mechanical Engineering