Admissions
Students interested in earning the Engineering Mechanics doctoral minor should first contact the Engineering Mechanics 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.
Requirements
Students must fulfill the following requirements to earn a doctoral minor.
- Earn a minimum of 10 credits in Engineering Mechanics (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 a bachelor's degree has been completed.
- Ordinarily only one course (maximum of 3 credits) of independent study is allowed (E M A 599 Independent Study).
- Research and thesis courses may not satisfy minor requirements.
- No more than 5 credits completed five or more years prior to admission to the PhD major may satisfy minor requirements.
- Courses taken 10 or more years ago may not satisfy minor requirements.
- Courses taken pass/fail or for audit may not satisfy minor requirements.
- Courses with grades of S given in courses graded on a credit/no credit basis are acceptable.
- Maintain a GPA of 3.0 for the minor.
Approval Form
The minor program must be approved by the Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. The approval form is available from the College of Engineering: Department of Mechanical Engineering Intranet site (NetID required) here or please contact Engineering Mechanics Graduate Coordinator.
Engineering Mechanics MS
A student who has earned an MS degree in Engineering Mechanics (and is currently in a different doctoral program) will be considered to have fulfilled the minor requirements.
Prior Coursework
Up to six credits of coursework completed at other institutions may transfer and be applied towards minor requirements.
People
Professors
Darryl Thelen (Chair) Peter Adamczyk Mark Anderson Riccardo Bonazza
Curt Bronkhorst
Wendy Crone Christian Franck Jaal Ghandhi Sage Kokjohn 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
Yunus Alapan Joseph Andrews Jennifer Franck Corinne Henak Eric Kazyak Allison Mahvi Luca Mastropasqua Jacob Notbohm Josh Roth Shiva Rudraraju Eric Tervo Ramathasan Thevamaran Dakotah Thompson Michael Wagner Wei Wang Michael Wehner Jinlong Wu Xiaobin Xiong Xiangru Xu Lei Zhou