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NMSU’s Mechanical Engineering (ME) department has been educating mechanical engineers since the university opened in 1888. Beginning in Fall 2006, the ME Department expanded to include an undergraduate degree program in Aerospace Engineering (AE), the first and the only Aerospace program in New Mexico and west Texas, to form the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department.
If you are interested in joining MAE as an undergraduate or a graduate student, click the links on the right to become a part of our diverse, vibrant, and growing department and experience our unique setting of “small-school education with extensive research.”
If it is a machine, a mechanical engineer designed it.
Mechanical Engineering (ME) is the most diverse of all engineering disciplines, finding application in almost all industries and product markets. Modern engineering has a role in almost every aspect of life – from home appliances to transportation systems, biomedical devices and power generation. [more…]
Aerospace engineers design, develop and test aerodynamic systems.
As an aerospace engineer, you may work on earth or in space, on aircraft or spacecraft. Or your field may be in water vessel development of ships and submarines, or ground transportation for fuel efficiencies and high speed-high tech vehicles. [more…]
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MAE is one of the largest departments on the campus in terms of student enrollment. Below are the enrollment numbers for Fall 2018. ME Undergraduate: 481 |
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MAE faculty have published 108 papers in archival journals in the first ten months of the year 2018. Of these 108 papers, Dr. Sevostianov and Dr. Abdelkefi have published 35 papers each. |
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MAE faculty members have submitted 30 research proposals (>$9.6M) to federal agencies in FY18 and received 19 grants. |