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Take a graduate-level course to build essential knowledge right when you need it, or even get a start on a master's degree or certificate program!

  • Courses are open to working professionals, as well as Tufts graduate students and employees.

  • If you'd like to ease into graduate studies, you are eligible to transfer up to two School of Engineering graduate-level courses, including those listed below, to fulfill the requirements for the Certificate in Manufacturing Engineering or the MS in Mechanical Engineering. The total tuition paid for the courses will be deducted from the tuition rate at the time of enrollment.

Contact Briana Bouchard for additional information on how individual courses transfer to mechanical engineering degree programs and permission to enroll. Once approved, students may enroll directly through University College

Courses Available in Fall 2020

  • Credits: 3 credits

    Instructional Mode: Virtual

    Description: Strain tensor, stress tensor, elastic stress analysis, isotropic and anisotropic materials, torsion problem, inelastic behavior of materials, elements of plasticity and creep.

    Recommended Pre-Requisites: College level strength of materials course

    Instructor: Mark Kachanov

  • Credits: 3 credits

    Instructional Mode: Hybrid (both in-person and fully virtual options available)

    Description: Interaction between basic components of matter: atoms, molecules, nano- and micro particles. Forces that occur between surfaces/particles at the nanoscale including Van der Waals, dipole, electric, electric double layer, hydrogen, ionic, and adhesion forces. Modern achievements in studying these forces with the help of the force apparatus and atomic force microscopy. DLVO theory, Derjaguin approximation. Analysis of experimental data to extract the force parameters.

    Recommended Pre-Requisites: Senior standing in college or completion of a Bachelor's degree in engineering

    Instructor: Igor Sokolov

  • Credits: 3 credits

    Instructional Mode: Hybrid (both in-person and fully virtual options available)

    Description: Wave propagation in fluids and solid structures; sound sources and sound radiation by vibrating structures; fluid-structure interaction; sound transmission and attenuation; laboratory and field measurements; design criteria and methods.

    Recommended Pre-Requisites: College level dynamics course

    Instructor: Robert White

  • Credits: 3 credits

    Instructional Mode: Virtual

    Description: Advanced topics in fluid mechanics. Viscous and inviscid flows. Strain rate, vorticity and streamline coordinates. Differential conservation laws for mass, momentum and energy. Dimensional analysis. Lubrication flows. Momentum and thermal laminar boundary layers. Laminar-turbulent transition. Reynolds stress and turbulence modeling. Turbulent boundary layers. Flow modeling.

    Recommended Pre-Requisites: College level dynamics course

    Instructor: Marc Hodes