Join a Research-Intensive, Nationally Recognized Department.
When you earn your PhD at Michigan Tech, you'll be part of of one of the nation's largest mechanical and areospace engineering departments. You'll work with scholars who are striving to achieve technological, environmental, industrial, and societal sustainability.
In our top-ranked graduate program, eighty percent of our PhD graduates go to work in industry. Michigan Tech's distance-learning, research-based PhD maintains the high standards of Michigan Tech graduate education.
Customize Your Online Education.
Choose a mechanical engineering–engineering mechanics focused area of study to get the most out of your accredited PhD degree. Areas include:
- Design and Dynamic Systems
- Autonomous Systems
- Intelligent Systems
- Molecular Dynamics Modeling
- Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy
- Combustion
- Mechanics of Multiscale Materials
- Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Systems
See all mechanical and aerospace engineering interest areas.
"I can assure online students that they will be able to go toe-to-toe with any on-campus student in terms of the topics I teach. I'm extremely committed to ensuring that any student who succeeds in my class will be able to use their new skills confidently and properly regardless of on-campus or online."
Advance Your Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Career.
Enhance your mechanical and aerospace engineering career by opening new job opportunities with an advanced degree.
Commit to growing your knowledge areas and to becoming an expert. Employers recognize advanced training—a PhD may qualify you for leadership opportunities, project management responsibilities, or the chance to work on more complicated or sophisticated projects.