Doctor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering disciplines you can enter. A mechanical engineer is involved in making almost anything manmade that you encounter-whether it be the car you drive to work, the potato chips you eat at lunch, or the heating and air-conditioning system that keeps you comfortable at home, an ME helped create it. Thus with an ME degree you can work in a wide spectrum of industries-the aerospace, automotive, bioengineering, communications, food processing, petroleum and product manufacturing industries are just a few. Diversity in work environments goes hand-in-hand with the scope of industries from which you can choose. You might find employment in a small, local company doing highly design-oriented office work, or on the plant floor of a large international firm, working closely with a manufacturing operation. If you become a project manager, you'll take projects from initial conceptualization all the way to production, integrating your technical knowledge with management skills. Whatever your interests may be, you'll have the opportunity to seek the type of work environment in which you're most comfortable. A candidate for the degree of doctor of engineering must complete the equivalent of three years (six semesters) of full-time work beyond the bachelor's degree for a total of at least 90 semester hours. The six semesters must include a minimum of two semesters in residence at Missouri S&T with a graduate registration of at least 12 hours per semester. At least two semesters above the M.S. must be in residence at Missouri S&T with a registration of at least six hours per semester. The course work must be directed toward two major engineering areas plus one area from the physical sciences, mathematics, or another field of engineering. In addition, a non-technical group of courses of 9 to 12 hours is required. The formal course work is expected to consist of at least 65 hours (the average is 72 hours). In addition to the formal course work, the candidate is expected to complete an internship with an industrial organization. This internship will consist of a minimum of one year of planned and approved high-level engineering experience. At the end of the internship period, the candidate will prepare a dissertation which will earn from 18 to 25 hours credit and will be included in the total of 90 hours for the degree of doctor of engineering.