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What Is Mechanical Engineering?

• Mechanical engineers are trained to solve problems.
• Mechanical engineering provides an excellent general education for today's technological world.
• Mechanical engineers conceive, construct, test, and operate all kinds of mechanical, thermal, and biological devices.
• Mechanical engineers are the backbone of the profession and work in every industry - from transportation, communications, and electronics to bioengineering, commerce, and manufacturing - in business, government, universities, finance, law, and medicine.

• Mechanical engineers work with motion, energy, and force, and are involved with manufacturing the products they design.

What Can Mechanical Engineers Do?

• Develop new devices or operations;
• Conceive and design systems and mechanisms;
• Test experimental devices;
• Perform research;
• Determine how to manufacture a system;
• Know how to operate and maintain equipment.
• Study mechanical engineering if you want to:  be an astronaut, search the ocean floor with an underwater robot; work on developing systems to program robots for manufacturing; build a prototype of an electric car; develop computer systems for cars; build a commercial jet or an acoustical chamber; build and test turbojets or design and produce materials for supersonic travel; operate a power plant; design interfaces between computers and systems; design and manufacture printed circuit boards; or design instruments for medicine and high-performance sporting equipment.

Introduction to the Woodruff School

• Mechanical Engineering is the oldest degree program at Georgia Tech.
• Classes began in October 1888 and Tech graduated its first two students with degrees in ME in 1890.
• Today, we are the second largest unit in the College of Engineering.
• The Woodruff School offers undergraduate programs in mechanical engineering (B.S.M.E.) and nuclear and radiological engineering (B.S.N.R.E).
• We are one of the largest producers of bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering in the country.
• Both our undergraduate and graduate degree programs in mechanical engineering are ranked in the top ten in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Other Programs

• Five-Year BS/MS Degree Program
• Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication
• International Degree Plan
• Professional Internships
• Study-Abroad Programs
• The Cooperative Program (both national and international)
• Undergraduate Research

The Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

• The freshman and sophomore years include basic classes such as engineering graphics, introduction to design, and introduction to mechanics.
• The junior and senior years are devoted to the mechanics of materials, applied mechanics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, systems and control, design, and manufacturing.
• The design sequence contains hands-on experience, including a formal design competition during the sophomore year.  The last course in the sequence is a senior design project.  Work in these classes is often done in teams.
• The laboratory sequence includes basic instrumentation, and the measurement and analysis of various types of systems and phenomena.

Student Organizations

• View www.me.gatech.edu/me.students/organizations
• Student Competition Groups
• gt motorsports
• GT Off-Road
• RoboJackets/FIRST
• Wreck Racing
• Student Chapters of Professional Societies
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Nuclear Society
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers
• Society of Automotive Engineers International
• Society of Manufacturing Engineer
• Umbrella Groups
• Woodruff School Student Advisory Committee
• Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Students Advisory Group
• Honor Society
• Pi Tau Sigma

To Apply

•  Go to www.apply.gatech.edu or www.me.gatech.edu (check out the Buzz icon)

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