The Mechanical Engineering Program at Arkansas Tech University is designed to cultivate opportunities for our graduates. We provide students with a strong background in mechanical engineering that they can use to do great things. The Mechanical Engineering Program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org/.
The curriculum creates a solid grounding in the machine design and thermal systems areas to prepare students for practicing engineer positions.
Learn MoreThis degree is designed to allow students to obtain the knowledge base and training necessary to work in one of the many areas in the nuclear field.
Learn MoreThe faculty in mechanical engineering are highly qualified, experienced, and most importantly dedicated to education. They are responsible for all the course content and evaluation - very little if any grading (and no lecturing) is done by teaching assistants.
Our graduates continue to graduate schools around the nation or work in manufacturing, HVAC or other thermal-fluid related industries, power industries, consulting firms, oil and gas industries, and other areas.
The Mechanical Engineering Department is housed in the Corley Building and has up-to-date lab equipment. Our classes are small with 30-35 students in most sections which allows for more interaction between the professors and students.
While our emphasis is on teaching, research is not forgotten and many of our faculty are actively pursuing research interests with many possibilities for students to become involved.
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Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
If you would like to learn more about the Mechanical Engineering Department at Arkansas Tech University, give us a call at (479) 964-4223 or e-mail us at cmitchell45@atu.edu.
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For Program Educational Objectives, Student Outcomes, Enrollments, and Degrees Awarded
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The mission of Mechanical Engineering at Arkansas Tech University is to develop and educate students to become mechanical engineers exhibiting professional competency and ethics, with a desire for life-long learning.
The vision of the Mechanical Engineering Program is to be one of the region's exceptional accredited programs of mechanical engineering producing professionals for the state, nation, and world.
College Distinction provides exceptional current Arkansas Tech students an opportunity to challenge themselves academically and gain recognition for their outstanding work in the college classroom. Students with at least sixty hours of college credit and thirty hours of course work at Arkansas Tech with a minimum 3.5 GPA are invited to participate in the program. Students who accept the invitation to pursue College Distinction will have the opportunity to take two courses designated as distinction courses. The first is an enrichment course. This course provides an extra educational experience related to the student’s field of study and could include, among other experiences, study abroad, internship, service learning, or mentor-guided research. The second is an enhanced capstone course. This course demonstrates a student’s ability to work at an exceptional level in a given field and is enhanced by an advanced or accelerated curriculum.
Students’ successful completion of the course requirements and a graduating GPA of 3.5 or better will allow for graduation “with distinction.” This will be noted on student transcripts and diplomas.
Each department will identify distinction courses for each major.
Once the mechanical engineering student has completed a College of Distinction Letter of Intention in Mechanical Engineering, the student, his or her advisor and the ME department director will meet to designate two classes to fulfill College of Distinction course requirements: an enrichment course and an enhanced capstone course. Typically the enrichment course will be MCEG 3000 Engineering Internship/Research Experience. This zero credit hour course may be taken at any time after the student qualifies for the program and meets the course pre-requisites. The required capstone course MCEG 4492 Mechanical Design Project II, will be modified by the professor to contain special assignments for college distinction to fulfill the enhanced capstone requirement. Other courses may fulfill the enrichment and capstone requirements with the permission of the Department Director. Courses meeting college distinction requirements will be designated on the student’s degree audit.
The curriculum creates a solid grounding in the machine design and thermal systems areas to prepare students for practicing engineer positions.
Learn MoreThis degree is designed to allow students to obtain the knowledge base and training necessary to work in one of the many areas in the nuclear field.
Learn MoreThe educational objectives of the engineering program of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Arkansas Tech University are:
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers degrees at the Associate, Bachelors and Masters levels.
The Associate of Science in Nuclear Technology is a two-year program designed to allow the student to obtain the knowledge base and training necessary to work in one of the many areas in the nuclear field. Unlike many two-year associate degree programs, the ASNT program is a rigorous set of courses designed to fulfill the requirements of the first two years of a nuclear engineering bachelors program and the course requirements fit well with the BSME program at Arkansas Tech.
The program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The program is designed to help satisfy the engineering manpower needs of industry in Arkansas and the mid-south region. The required courses provide a basic foundation in mechanical engineering with a significant cross-disciplinary component. Elective courses allow students to concentrate their studies during their Junior and Senior year in one of four areas: mechanical/machine design, thermal systems, nuclear systems, or materials/metallurgy.
The Masters of Mechanical Engineering program is designed to allow students to further their engineering expertise in a focus research area. Currectly, the department conducts research in the areas of Soft Robotics, Combustion, Renewable Energies, Machine Learning, Computational Solid Mechanics and Advanced Fuel Systems.
Mechanical Lab I
Corley 113
Mechanical Lab II
Corley 119
Radiation Detection Lab
Corley 270
Thermal Systems Lab
Corley 128
Carla Mitchell
Administrative Specialist
Corley Hall 111
1811 N Boulder Ave
Russellville, AR 72801-8803
Phone: (479) 964-4223
Email: cmitchell45@atu.edu
