Mechanical Engineering Enterprise BS Degree Typical Four-year Outline

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First Year

Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

Grand Total = 128 Credits

Essential Education Requirements

• 24 total credits.
• Required courses are
  • UN 1015-Composition (3 credits),
  • a Foundations in the Human World course (3 credits),
  • a Communication Intensive course (3 credits),
  • an Arts and Culture course (3 credits),
  • an Intercultural Competency (3000+) course (3 credits),
  • a SHAPE course (3 credits),
  • an Essential Education Experience (3000+) course (3 credits),
  • and 3 credits of Activities for Wellbeing and Success.

Activities for Well-being and Success

• Mainly physical education courses with some additions.
• Three credits are required for graduation.
• These credits will be included as earned hours and may be used to determine full-time enrollment status.
• The Activities for Wellbeing and Success list is also available in the MAE Advising Center.

Technical Electives

• At least 6 credits of tech electives must be ME or AE 4000+ course numbers (exceptions below).
• Otherwise, any 4000+ level courses in the College of Engineering except MET courses are acceptable for ME technical electives; with the exception of MET 4377.
• Allowable COE prefixes include AE, BE, CM, CEE, EE, ENG, GE, ME, MSE and may be used by BSME students for technical elective credits (if allowed to enroll in the course by the offering department) with the following exceptions:
  • BE 4000, BE 4900, BE 4901, BE 4910, BE 4930, BE 5000, BE 5900, BE 5930,
  • CEE 4510, CEE 4900, CEE 4905, CEE 4910, CEE 4915, CEE 4916, CEE 4920, CEE 4930, CEE 4990, CEE 5190, CEE 5250, CEE 5390, CEE 5490, CEE 5560, CEE 5561, CEE 5562, CEE 5563, CEE 5590, CEE 5690, CEE 5890, CEE 5920, CEE 5930, CEE 5990, CEE 5991, CEE 5992, CEE 5994, CEE 5997, CEE 5998, CEE 5999,
  • CM 4000, CM 4020, CM 4040, CM 4060, CM 4080, CM 4855, CM 4860, CM 4861, CM 4900, CM 4910, CM 4990, CM 5900, CM 5950, CM 5990,
  • EE 4000, EE 4800, EE 4805, EE 4870, EE 4901, EE 4910, EE 5290, EE 5805, EE 5900, EE 5990, EE5991, EE 5992, EE 5994,
  • ENG 4060, ENG 4070, ENG 4900, ENG 4905, ENG 4910, ENG 4990, ENG 5060, ENG 5100, ENG 5200, ENG 5300, ENG 5400, ENG 5990, ENG 5998,
  • GE 4000, GE 4900, GE 4910, GE 4916, GE 4930, GE 4931, GE 4933, GE 4934, GE 4961, GE 4962, GE 4970, GE 5187, GE 5930, GE 5940, GE 5950, GE 5960, GE 5970, GE 5994, GE 5995, GE 5998, GE 5999,
  • ME 4990, ME 4901, ME 4911, ME 4999, ME 5010,
    ME 5990, ME 5994, ME 5995, ME 5999, ME 6000,
  • MSE 4130, MSE 4131, MSE 4140, MSE 4141, MSE 4970, MSE 4990, MSE 5100, MSE 5900, MSE 5970, and MSE 5990
  • or any other research/special topics/seminar/senior design/etc. credits (courses without a specific course description and/or syllabus).
• Undergraduate students cannot typically enroll in 6000-level courses.
• Special topics courses (4990, 5990, etc.) may be approved on an individual section/semester basis if a student/faculty member submits or creates a course syllabus for evaluation.
• OSM 4300 is also acceptable.

Prerequisites

• The prerequisite course must be successfully completed prior to taking the subsequent course.
• A grade of ‘C’ or better in MA 2160 is required as a prerequisite for ME 2110 and ME 2201.

Concurrent Prerequisites

• Courses that may be taken at the same time, although it is not necessasry if the prerequisite course is completed first.

Required Corequisites

• Courses must be taken together in the same semester.

Engineering Fundamentals

• MA 1160/1161 is a concurrent prerequisite for ENG 1101 and ENG 1102.
• ENG 1102 project content varies by section number.

Math

• Students are placed into an initial math course based on ACT/SAT math score, the online ALEKS assessment,
  or a math placement exam score for credit (AP, IB, CLEP).
• MA 1160 (4 credits) or MA 1161 (5 credits) satisfy the Calculus 1 requirement.
• MA 2320 and MA 3520 are offered as full semester courses for students taking these courses in separate semesters.
• The Math department also teaches MA 2321 as an accelerated course (equivalent to MA 2320) in the first half of a given semester and MA 3521 as an accelerated course (equivalent to MA 3520) in the second half of the same semester (registration must be for the same section number of both MA 2321 and MA 3521 in that semester).
• MA 2320, MA 2321, and MA 2330 are all equivalent and are approved prerequisites for MA 3520 or MA 3521.
• MA 3530 and 3560 are also equivalent to MA 3520/3521.
• MA 2710, 2720 and 3715 are all acceptable in place of MA 3710.

Free Electives

• Any credits that are 1000-level or above, not on the Activities for Well-being and Success list, and not non-repeatable duplicated or equivalent courses, are acceptable towards free elective credits. UN 3002, UN 3003, etc.
• Cooperative Education credits can be used as free elective credits in the BSME curriculum

Transfer, Advanced Placement, or Study Abroad Courses

• Not included in credit hours used for GPA calculations.
• Transfer credit is awarded for Michigan Tech equivalent course work only if a grade of ‘C’ or better (2.00/4.00) or
  equivalent is earned at a transfer institution.
• Study abroad credit will be awarded based on passing a course according to equivalent international standards.
• Advanced Placement credit is awarded according to published AP Exam score standards (also IB and CLEP).

Revised Spring 2025 for 2025-2026 acdaemic year.