M.Eng.ME program shows significant growth

Now heading into its ninth academic year, the highly ranked Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering program (M.Eng.ME) has become a firmly established and successful professional, non-thesis graduate degree program. For the second year in a row, the online M.Eng.ME is ranked in the top three programs in the country.

Showing significant growth over the last several years, the program is on track to welcome as many as 100 students in Fall 2023 – a dramatic increase from approximately half that number just three years ago. MechSE has seen an impressive 205 students graduate from the program since its inception in Fall 2015.

The program has enabled its alumni to launch exciting careers at companies including SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Tesla, Microsoft, Navistar and Abbott Laboratories, to name just a few. M.Eng.ME graduates are also more likely to be hired in or promoted to leadership and/or senior engineering positions.

“We are so proud of our students,” said Dr. Jiajun He, the program’s Faculty Director. “Clearly, our M.Eng.ME program has had a tremendous impact on many careers and on emerging technology.”

Winston Zhang teaching in front of a white board with writing. — Giants of industry: Dr. L. Winston Zhang (PhD ME 1996) joined the M.Eng.ME faculty last fall, teaching Electronics Cooling in ME 598. In 2004, Zhang founded thermal management company Novark Technologies in Shenzhen, China, and his decades of industry expertise has proved to be an invaluable asset to the program and its students.

“The M.Eng.ME program has been a turning point for me. It has allowed me to learn invaluable skills while working on a variety of projects and helped further my understanding of topics I learned as an undergraduate. I have also been able to witness how each student is important within the M.Eng.ME community and how staff and professors are supportive of us through this rigorous but fruitful journey.”

Saba Setayeshi, on-campus student