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Selection Guidance for Students with Interests in Materials, Solid Mechanics or Structural Mechanics

What is "solid mechanics"?
• The mechanics and physics of materials
• Mechanics of structures and solid mechanics,
• Computational science and statistical mechanics & physics
• Analytical, experimental and computational methods,
• Continuum, multi-scale and non-continuum approaches
• And some materials that are not so "solid"

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Suggested core courses:

• Fundamentals of Structural Engineering (F) - CEE 6710
  or Foundations of Solid Mechanics I (F) - MAE 6110/TAM 66301
• Finite elements (F) MAE 5700 or CEE 6720
• Composite Materials (S) MAE 4550

• MAE 6110 Foundations of Solids Mechanics (Fall)
• MAE 5700 Finite Element Analysis for Mech and Aero Design (Fall)
• MAE 4130 Mechanics of Composite Structures (Fall)

Typically, students take two or more of these core courses.

Follow-on courses include:

• MAE 5130 - Mechanical Properties of Thin Films (Spring) (not offered 2019-20)
• MAE

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  5200 Dimensional Tolerancing in Mechanical Design (Spring)

Most students could benefit from taking a course in Applied Mathematics such as:

• MAE 3100 Intro to Applied Math (Fall) (not offered 2019-20)
• MAE 6810 Methods of Applied Mathematics I (Fall)
• CEE 6000 Numerical Methods for Engineers (Fall) (not offered 2018-19)

Additional courses to broaden engineering knowledge

• MAE 5730 Intermediate Dynamics and Vibrations (Fall)
• MAE 5230 Intermediate Fluid Dynamics with CFD (Spring)

 All students should try to broaden their knowledge of mechanics and materials by studying additional mechanics topics such as dynamics (MAE 5735), or fluid mechanics (MAE 6010), advanced solid mechanics topics (TAM 6550), advanced computational mechanics courses, (CEE 7750), materials science (MSE 6020), or biomedical mechanics (BME 5810, BME/MAE 6640, BME/MAE 5690)