Programs

Mission

To serve society, the public sector, and private industry by:

Providing undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering education that prepares students with the knowledge, modern applications, and lifelong learning skills required to serve the engineering profession and industry.
Contributing to the development and application of knowledge through faculty scholarship
Preparing students for the modern professional-practice environment.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Program Education Objectives

Within a few years of graduation, our ME graduates are expected to have:

  1. Applied engineering knowledge and skills to make positive impact on society through employment in industry, advanced study, entrepreneurship, and/or public service;
  2. Communicated effectively and performed professionally in both individual and multi-disciplinary team-based project environment;
  3. Engaged in and continue to engage in lifelong self-directed learning, including gathering and evaluating information independently, to maintain and enhance their professional skills; 
  4. Determined and responded to ethical implications on issues such as public safety and intellectual property protection, and also weighed global and societal impacts of engineering solutions to contemporary problems.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Student Learning Outcomes

(revised Spring 2018)

By the time they graduate, our students are expected to have acquired the following: 

  1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
  2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
  3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
  5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
  6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
  7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

For more details on each of these learning outcomes, including performance criteria used to analyze attainment of each student learning outcome, see ABET Student Learning Outcomes with Performance Criteria [pdf].

The SJSU Office of Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics manages student enrollment and graduation data, as well as other academic information. To access the information, please refer to the links below:

You can find enrollment data here:  Enrollment by Department
You can find graduation data here: Graduation and Retention Rates by Department

The Mechanical Engineering Bachelor of Science degree program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the General Program Criteria and the Mechanical and Similarly Named Engineering Programs Program Criteria.