Students interested in earning the Engineering Mechanics doctoral minor should first contact the EM Graduate Coordinator to learn the requirements, process, and complete the required paperwork.
All Graduate School students must utilize the Graduate Student Portal in MyUW to add, change, or discontinue any doctoral minor. To apply to this minor, log in to MyUW, click on Graduate Student Portal, and then click on Add/Change Programs. Select the information for the doctoral minor.”
- A minimum of 10 credits in E M A courses, including 3 credits in courses numbered 700 or above
- All courses used for the minor must be numbered 300 or above taken after the bachelor’s degree.
- Ordinarily only one course (maximum of 3 credits) of independent study is allowed (E M A 599 Independent Study, E M A 690 Master's Research).
- Research and thesis courses may not be used for the minor.
- No more than 5 credits completed five or more years prior to admission to the Ph.D. major may be used.
- Courses taken 10 or more years ago may not be used.
- Courses taken pass/fail or for audit may not be used.
- Courses with grades of S given in courses graded on a credit/no credit basis are acceptable.
- A GPA of 3.0 must be maintained for the minor.
- A maximum of 6 credits may be transferred from other institutions to satisfy these requirements.
- The minor program must be approved by the Mechanical Engineering Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. The approval form is available from the ME Department’s College of Engineering Intranet site (NetID required) here or please contact Graduate Student Services.
- A student who has earned an M.S. degree in engineering mechanics will be considered to have fulfilled the minor requirements.
PROFESSORS
Darryl Thelen (Chair) Peter Adamczyk Mark Anderson Riccardo Bonazza Wendy Crone Christian Franck Jaal Ghandhi Sage Kokjohn Roderic Lakes Dan Negrut Gregory F. Nellis Tim Osswald Frank Pfefferkorn Xiaoping Qian Douglas Reindl David Rothamer Scott T. Sanders Krishnan Suresh Mario F. Trujillo Lih-sheng Turng Fabian Waleffe
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Lianyi Chen Melih Eriten Katherine Fu Tom N. Krupenkin Ying Li Franklin Miller Sangkee Min Wenxiao Pan James Pikul Pavana Prabhakar Alejandro Roldan-Alzate Michael Zinn
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Joseph Andrews Jennifer Franck Corinne Henak Eric Kazyak Allison Mahvi Luca Mastropasqua Jacob Notbohm Josh Roth Shiva Rudraraju Stephan Rudykh Eric Tervo Ramathasan Thevamaran Dakotah Thompson Michael Wagner Wei Wang Michael Wehner Jinlong Wu Xiaobin Xiong Xiangru Xu Lei Zhou