Engineering, BS/Mechanical Engineering, MS

Program Coordinator: Brian Sylcott (208 Slay Hall; 252-737-4652; sylcottb15@ecu.edu)

The Engineering, BS/Mechanical Engineering, MS accelerated program is initiated while undergraduates are completing the bachelor of science (BS) in engineering degree and is intended for outstanding engineering undergraduates who have worked with a thesis advisor during their undergraduate studies. Graduate student coursework begins in the students’ fourth year of undergraduate study and is completed with one academic year of study beyond the bachelor’s degree. A full year of study beyond completion of undergraduate engineering requirements is required to complete the program. Engineering students apply to the program after completion of a minimum of 80 eligible undergraduate credit hours, and enter the program after completion of a minimum of 95 eligible undergraduate credit hours (a minimum of 128 credit hours is required for the Engineering, BS degree). The minimum GPA at the time of admission and entry to the program is 3.5.

No graduate course in which a grade of “C” is earned may count toward the graduate degree. It may, however, count toward the undergraduate degree. Students who do not maintain a GPA of 3.0 at the time of matriculation into the master of science (MS) degree will be placed on academic probation in their first semester in the master’s program and subject to dismissal from the program if they do not achieve a graduate GPA of 3.0 in courses related to their program of study after 9 s.h. of graduate credit attempted.

Students accepted into the Engineering, BS/Mechanical Engineering, MS accelerated program may take 6 s.h. of technical electives as approved by the advisor from the following:

Admission Process

Students interested in the accelerated program should speak with the graduate program director to determine admissibility into the program. Following this discussion, the student and graduate program director should follow the procedures outlined in the Admission and Readmission section of this catalog.