Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering impacts nearly every aspect of technology. It is the discipline that creates the machines, products and technological systems that improve and benefit society. The Department of Mechanical Engineering, ranked 22nd in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, has been recognized for the quality of its academic and research programs.
Opportunities for Students
Mechanical engineering has a structured undergraduate honors program that allows our undergraduates one-on-one student research interaction with faculty members, as well as a combined bachelor's/master's program that allows early entry into either the nuclear or mechanical engineering graduate program.
Many of our senior capstone design projects have industrial sponsors that specify design problems and provide liaisons within their organizations for the student teams, in addition to providing financial resources. Our students participate in co-op and internship programs and play leadership roles in automotive team projects and competitions, including the Buckeye Bullet, which set the new national land speed record for electric cars in 2004.
Why Study Mechanical Engineering?
Mechanical engineering is a diverse field in engineering; in fact, it's the most broad of any of the engineering disciplines. Students in mechanical engineering study topics ranging from numerical methods to fluid dynamics, heat transfer to automatic control systems and many more. ME graduates find jobs in an equally diverse market, working closely with industrial systems engineers in manufacturing, doing product design for automakers, working for toy companies, designing roller coasters and performing cutting-edge research at agencies such as NASA. Within each of these broad job classification headings, mechanical engineers find themselves as managers, researchers, applied mathematicians and, of course, performing purebred mechanical engineering duties.
Krishnaswamy Srinivasan
Department Chair
srinivasan.3 [@osu.edu]
614-292-2289
Degrees Offered
Bachelor of Science in
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineer
Master of Science
Doctor of Philosophy