In this grad track option, the Mechanical Engineering Technology, BSET student can take a maximum of nine (9) credit hours of graduate courses while completing the bachelor’s degree. After earning the bachelor’s degree, these credit hours can be counted toward the Mechanical and Energy Engineering, MS. Prior to registering for these courses, the student must be admitted to the grad track option and obtain approvals from the undergraduate and graduate coordinators.

Admission requirements and program policies

Application requirements and procedures

• Mechanical Engineering Technology, BSET major.
• Junior status (must have completed at least 75 credit hours and be ready to enroll in the Senior Design course the following fall semester).
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 at the time of application submission, with an average grade of 3.5 or higher in Mechanical Engineering Technology, BSET core courses.
• Two letters of recommendation from ME faculty members.
• The student’s application will be reviewed by both the ME undergraduate advisor and the ME graduate advisor.
• Once the application is approved by the ME advisors, the student must apply to the Toulouse Graduate School within the first semester of the senior year.

Application procedures and program policies

The student must earn a grade of B or higher in each graduate course for the course to be counted toward the master’s degree.

• After being admitted to the grad track program and having completed at least 90 credit hours, the student can start taking the specified graduate courses in place of the technical electives in the bachelor’s program.
• The student admitted to the grad track option will be admitted into the master’s program on a conditional basis.
• Once the student has satisfied all course work for the bachelor’s degree and maintained a 3.0 GPA or higher, they will be fully admitted into the master’s program.

Program policies

• The student accepted to the grad track option should complete all requirements for the bachelor’s degree and graduate within 12 months from the beginning of the semester in which first enrolled in a graduate course. If requirements are not completed within 12 months, enrollment in graduate-level courses will be suspended.
• The student must enroll in the graduate program the long semester after finishing the bachelor’s degree and should take the remaining graduate-level courses in the following year(s) to complete the Mechanical and Energy Engineering, MS. If the student does not enroll in the graduate program the long semester immediately following completion of the bachelor’s degree, the graduate-level courses applied to the undergraduate degree may not be counted toward the Master of Science, even if the student returns to UNT for graduate school in the future.

Program requirements

Graduate courses that may be applied to the bachelor’s degree should be selected with the approval of the ME undergraduate coordinator and graduate advisor.

Grad track students can take six (6) credit hours of graduate courses from the following Mechanical and Energy Engineering, MS core courses that can be used as electives toward their bachelor’s degree.  

• MEEN 5140 - Advanced Mathematical Methods for Engineers
• MEEN 5410 - Advanced Solid Mechanics
• MEEN 5520 - Manufacturing Concepts for Mechanical Engineers
• MEEN 5440 - Finite Element Analysis
• MEEN 5600 - Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems
• MEEN 5740 - Robotics and Automation
• MEEN 5610 - Sensors and Actuators
• MEEN 5300 - Advanced Thermodynamics
• MEEN 5311 - Convective Heat Transfer II      
• MEEN 5340 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics       
• MEEN 5000 - Energy: The Fundamentals       
• MEEN 5110 - Renewable Energy
• MEEN 5150 - Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications

Additionally, grad-track students can take three (3) credit hours of graduate course that can be used as elective toward both their bachelor’s degree and the Mechanical and Energy Engineering, MS degree.

All remaining courses for the Mechanical Engineering Technology, BSET  program must be completed.