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Course recommendations for M.Eng. students interested in materials, solid mechanics or structural mechanicsSelection Guidance for MEng Students
with Interests in Materials, Solid Mechanics or Structural Mechanics
What is "solid mechanics"?
• The mechanics and physics of materials
• materials• Mechanics of structures and solid mechanics,
• Computational science and statistical mechanics & physics
• physics• Analytical, experimental and computational methods,
• Continuum, multi-scale and non-continuum approaches
• approaches• And some materials that are not so "solid"

Course recommendations

Baseline Suggested core courses:

• Fundamentals of Structural Engineering (F) - CEE 6710
  or Foundations of Solid Mechanics I (F) - MAE 6110/TAM 6301
• Finite elements (F) MAE 5700 or CEE 6720
• Composite Materials (S) MAE 4550

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• MAE 6110 Foundations of Solids Mechanics (Fall) or CEE 6710 Fundamentals of Structural Engineering (Fall)
• MAE 5700 Finite Element Analysis for Mech and Aero Design (Spring)
• MAE 4130 Mechanics of Composite Structures (Fall)
• MAE 4140 Mechanics of Lightweight Vehicles (Fall)

Typically, students take two or more of these core courses.
Follow-on courses include:

• MSE 5120/MAE 5130 - Mechanical Properties of Thin Films (Fall)
• MAE

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  5200 Dimensional Tolerancing in Mechanical Design (Fall)
• MSE 6020 Elasticity, Plasticity, and Fracture(Spring)

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

• MAE 3100 Intro to Applied Math (Fall)
• MAE 6810 Methods of Applied Mathematics I (Fall)
• CEE 6290 Numerical Methods for Engineers (Fall)

Additional courses to broaden engineering knowledge

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