In the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, we deal with production, control, or utilization of energy and motion in systems that benefit society and enhance the quality of life. The cars, trucks, airplanes, and trains that take us from one point to another are the creation of MEM engineers. Keeping your home cool or warm, washing and drying your clothes, making your coffee or toast, packaging the food you eat, and producing the pants, shirts, and coats you wear is done by machines created by MEM engineers. We are the technological artisans that apply scientific principles, in concert with mathematics, computations, and experimentation, to produce all of the products in your lives that get hot, cold, or move.

MEM is the broadest area of engineering, and our curriculum prepares students for careers in industries as diverse as aerospace, transportation, bioengineering, communications, electronics, computers, energy, environment, machinery, and manufacturing, among others. Our curriculum integrates engineering sciences with engineering practice, along with considerations of business and societal issues, to prepare students for the globally competitive and increasingly science-based, high-tech environment of the coming millennium. Many of our graduates pursue careers directly in industry, in jobs ranging from working with computer simulations, to testing aircraft integrity, to test driving the newest Ferrari (We have graduates working for Car and Driver magazine!). A number of our other graduates continue their education in graduate school, with many pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. in engineering, but a significant number also pursue degrees in Business, Law, and Medicine. As I stated earlier, MEM is the broadest of the engineering disciplines, and can prepare you for any of the technological challenges of today's world.