The following is only a partial list of courses in each of the major areas proposed. Many of the courses are regularly offered at the master's level.

Required Courses

AE 502: Modeling of Automotive Systems
ENGR 798: Seminar
ENGR 799: Doctoral Dissertation

Concentration Area 1: Materials and Materials Processing

ME 582: Injection Molding
ME 583: Mechanical Behavior of Materials
ME 584: Mechanical Behavior of Polymers
ME 585: Cast Metals in Engineering Design
ME 587: Automotive Composites
ME 589: Composite Materials
ME 591: Degradation of Materials
AE 582: Powertrain Materials and Design
AE 586: Design and Manufacturing with Lightweight Automotive Materials
AE xxx: Fuel Cell Materials and Manufacturing (under development)
AE xxx: Advanced Forming Analysis (under development)

Concentration Area 2: Energy Systems, Powertrains, Combustion and Thermal Management

AE 598: Energy Systems for Automotive Vehicles
ME 532: Combustion Processes
ME 597: Internal Combustion Engines II
ME 598: Engine Emissions
ME xxx: Advanced Topics in Engine Emissions (under development)
AE 547: Powertrains I
ME 548: Powertrains II
ME 525: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
ME 537: Automotive Air Conditioning Systems
ME 571: Conductive Heat Transfer
ME 572: Convective Heat Transfer
ME xxx: Turbulent Flow (under development)

Concentration Area 3: Dynamics, Controls and Electronics

ME 540: Mechanical Vibrations
ME 542: Advanced Dynamics
ME 565: Mechatronics
AE 555: Vehicle Stability and Control
ME 640: Advanced Vibration Theory
ME xxx: Dynamics and Vibration of Rotating Components (under development)
ECE 515: Vehicle Electronics II
ECE 531: Intelligent Vehicle Systems
ECE 532: Automotive Actuators and Sensors
ECE 560: Modern Control Theory
ECE 565: Digital Control Systems
ECE 567: Nonlinear Control Systems

Concentration Area 4: Vehicle Design, Manufacturing and Systems Integration

AE 545: Vehicle Ergonomics I
AE 546: Vehicle Ergonomics II
ME 545: Acoustics and Noise Control
AE 565: Vehicle Acoustic Interior System Design
AE 550: Design of Automotive Body and Chassis Systems
ME 556: Stress and Strength Considerations in Design
ME 567: Reliability Considerations in Design
ME 558: Fracture and Fatigue Considerations in Design
IMSE 513: Robust Design
IMSE 534: Intelligent Manufacturing System
IMSE 583: Design for Assembly and Manufacture
ME 554: Theory of Gearing and Applications
AE xxx: Vehicle Crashworthiness (under development)
AE xxx: Durability Analysis of Automotive Components (under development)
ME 610: Finite Element Methods-Nonlinear
IMSE xxx: Advanced Automotive Manufacturing Processes (under development)
IMSE xxx: Advanced Scheduling (under development)
IMSE 561: Total Quality Management
IMSE 659: Advanced System Simulation

Concentration Area 5: Informatics and Communication

ECE 550: Communication Theory
ECE 552: Fuzzy Systems
ECE 554: Embedded Systems
ECE 570: Computer Networks
ECE 5701: Introduction to Wireless Communications
ECE 580: Digital Signal Processing
ECE 581: Architecture for Digital Signal Processing
ECE 582: Introduction to Statistical Digital Signal Processing
ECE 650: Information Theory in Electrical Communication

Other Graduate Courses

MATH 504: Dynamical Systems
MATH 5055: Integral Equations
MATH 514: Numerical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations
MATH 516: Partial Differential Equations
MATH 520: Stochastic Processes
MATH 523: Linear Algebra with Applications
MATH 554: Fourier Series and Boundary Problems
MATH 555: Functions of Complex Variable with Applications
MATH 562: Mathematical Modeling
MATH 573: Matrix Computation
STAT 530: Applied Regression Analysis
STAT 535: Data Analysis and Modeling
STAT 545: Reliability and Survival Analysis