Specialization requirements

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a program of study leading to the Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
 

Admission Requirements

Students are admitted into the department after fulfilling the following requirements:

1. Completion of the following faculty requirements with a cumulative average of not less than 70% : Mathematics 131,132, physics 131, 132, and Mechanical Engineering 121.

2. Consent  of  the  department.
 

Requirements for the Major

Completion of the following sets of course with accumulative  average not less than 70%:

I. Twelve credit hours from Mathematics Department:
 

• 231 Calculus & Analytic Geometry.

• 234 Introduction to Linear Algebra.

• 331 Ordinary Differential Equation.

• 330 Methods in Numerical Analysis.

II. Three credit hours from Civil Engineering Department
 

• 233  Mechanics of Material.

III. Fourteen credit hours from  Electrical  Engineering Department
 

• 211 Basic Electrical Engineering Lab.

• 231 Introduction to Electrical Engineering.

• 331 Probability and Engineering Statistics.

• 410 General Electrical  Machines Laboratory.

• 430 General Electrical Machines.

IV. Three credit hours from the faculty of Commerce and Economics
 

• 337  Engineering  Economics.

V. Fifty eight obligatory credit hours from the Mechanical Engineering
       Department

• 223   Mechanical Drawing.
• 232   Dynamics.
• 321   Measurements Laboratory.
• 331   Material Science.
• 332   Machine Dynamics.
• 333   Thermodynamics.
• 334   Applied Thermodynamics.
• 335   Fluid Mechanics -I-
• 336   Fluid Mechanics -II-
• 401   Practical Training.
• 411   Mechanical Engineering Laboratory.
• 431   Heat  Transfer.
• 432   Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
• 433   Production Engineering -I-
• 434   Production Engineering -II-
• 435   Machine Design -I-
• 436   Machine Design -II-
• 437   Mechanical Vibrations.
• 520   Introduction to Graduation Project.
• 530   Graduation Project.
• 532   Control Theory.
• 535   Internal Combustion Engines.

VI. Thirteen concentration credit hours from the Mechanical Engineering Department
 

• Completion of ten obligatory credit hours from either Power or Design and  Production concentration courses.

• Completion of three elective credit hours from the elective courses or from the other concentration courses.

A. Obligatory courses in the power concentration:

• 511    Power Laboratory.
• 531    Energy Conversion.
• 534    Design and Operation of Power Stations.
• 537    Turbomachinery.

B. Obligatory Courses in the Design and Production Concentration:

• 512     Design and Production Laboratory.
• 533     Quality Control.
• 536     Computer  Application in Mechanical Engineering Design.
• 538     Industrial Automation.

C. Elective Courses:

• 5311    Refrigeration Engineering.
• 5321    Renewable Energy.
• 5331    Special Topics in Power.

• 5312    Plant Layout and Management.
• 5322    Elasticity and Plasticity.
• 5332    Special Topics in Design and Production.

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