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To develop as an engineer, scholar and teacher under the guidance of mentors who can help you navigate the channels of a high-level mechanical engineering career is to become someone who can move the world forward on its most persistent problems.
In this supportive intellectual environment, you will have the opportunity to develop as a scholar in your own right alongside world-class researchers working across diverse projects ranging from wind energy and wildfire pollution to computational modeling that can answer previously unanswerable questions.
About Mechanical Engineering at UW
Informed in part by the resource-rich state in which we’re located, the mechanical engineering groups emphasize research in areas such as combustion and heat transfer, aerodynamics, fluid mechanics and wind energy and mechanics and materials.
This is a research-focused Ph.D. in which you will also take coursework that will provide a strong base of mechanical engineering knowledge. The degree prepares you for research careers in academic positions and at national laboratories but also for leading R&D in the industry.
Learn about the graduate program application requirements and process.
The mechanical engineering Ph.D. program offers a strong underpinning in the principles of mechanical engineering while providing a close-knit research environment in which you can thrive as a scholar. These are some characteristics of the UW doctoral program in mechanical engineering:
Mechanical engineering research groups. Ongoing mechanical engineering research takes place in UW’s Advanced Materials Lab, Materials Computation & Data Science Group, Physics based Multi-Scale Modeling, Thermo-Chemical Conversion Lab, and the Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Group, among others.
Learn more about UW’s research in mechanical engineering.
Graduate assistantships. Investigate research and teaching assistantships in mechanical engineering. Most mechanical engineering graduate students receive funded assistantships to support their course of study.
Faculty mentors. Work closely with a faculty mentor. All graduate mechanical engineering students are assigned a faculty mentor prior to enrolling based on research interests. Your mentor will advise you on your program of study, graduate committee formation, research, professional development and journal article writing. Research group sizes are small to foster this kind of mentorship.
Sample mechanical engineering dissertation titles:
Facilities. Take advantage of UW’s amazing facilities. UW houses equipment and facilities that are among the best in the world. Mechanical engineering maintains 21 research labs along with robust computing resources with software that supports our research.
University of Wyoming’s doctoral program in mechanical engineering prepares you for senior level positions in industry, academic appointments and research at the highest levels of science and technology.
Mechanical Engineering Careers
UW mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduates have worked as the following:
Recently, two Ph.D. students from UW’s Computational Microstructure Science Group interned at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre and the Idaho National Laboratory. They worked with the scientists to understand radiation damage processes and materials properties under nuclear environments as a part of their dissertation work.
The mechanical engineering Ph.D. requires 42 credit hours in formal coursework out of a minimum of 72 credit hours required for the degree. These are some classes you might take at the University of Wyoming:
View the full Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering degree program curriculum.
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