The Engineering Systems program offers a graduate multidisciplinary education with the option of including a specialization in one of the three disciplines: civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering. The program demands academic
rigor and depth, yet also addresses the real-world problems of advanced engineering and technology.

Research

The Division of Engineering is always on the cutting edge of research. Much of the research occurs at the intersections of the traditional civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering disciplines. It is also common to pursue research and education that is at the intersections of the other disciplines represented at CSM. Our main research focus lies in the following six areas.

• Geotechnical Engineering: Computational and analytical geomechanics, probabilistic geotechnics, experimental and theoretical investigations into coupled flows and unsaturated soil behavior, and intelligent geo-systems including geo-construction sensing and automation.
  
• Structural Engineering: High strength and self-consolidating concrete, experimental and computational structural dynamics, vibration control, damage diagnosis, and advanced data processing and analysis for sensory systems, disaster assessment and mitigation, and structural nondestructive evaluation and health monitoring.
  
• Sensing, Communications and Control: Robotics, mechatronics, intelligent structures and geosystems, energy and power, materials processing, telecommunications, bioengineering, mining and construction.
  
• Material Mechanics: Microstructural evolution and control, nano-mechanics, functionally graded materials, biomaterial analysis and characterization, artificial biomaterial design, and fracture mechanics.
  
• Energy Systems and Power Electronics: Industrial issues associated with power, power electronics and renewable energy systems, intelligent control systems, fuzzy control, real-time monitoring and advanced diagnostic systems, transformer and breaker monitoring, smart substations, power quality, advanced power electronics, and remote sensing, security, and control.
  
• Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences: Clean energy systems, materials processing, combustion, and bioengineering.
  

Degree Programs

The Division of Engineering offers a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Systems with specialties in civil, electrical or mechanical engineering.

Graduate students in Engineering Systems may elect not to declare a specialty. These students, whether masters or doctoral, must complete a core curriculum:

• EGES 501 - Advanced Engineering Measurements (4 credits)
• EGES 502 - Interdisciplinary Modeling and Simulation (4 credits)
• EGES 504 - Engineering Systems (Mechanical) Seminar (1 credit)

Master of Science

The MS degree (thesis or non-thesis option) requires 36 credit hours. In addition to the above core, masters (non-thesis) students must take 27 credits of approved technical electives to complete their program. Masters (thesis option) students complete 15 hours of approved technical electives, 12 hours of research, and write and defend a thesis.

Combined BS/MS Program

Undergraduate engineering students in any of the four specialties are eligible to enter the Combined BS/MS in Engineering Systems. Students must maintain a B average in their undergraduate program and declare interest in their mid-Sophomore or beginning Junior year. A formal graduate application is completed first semester senior year. Students are automatically admitted if in good-standing. Students must meet all master's degree requirements as listed above, however six 400-level credits from the undergraduate program may be double-counted.

Doctor of Philosophy

The Ph.D. program requires 72 credit hours beyond the bachelor's degree. All doctoral students must pass a qualifying examination, which is intended to gauge the student's capability to pursue research in Engineering Systems. Students must also successfully write and defend a dissertation of his/her research. To complete a doctoral program, students must take 15 credits in a minor area of study, 27 credits of technical electives, and 24 credits of research in addition to the above core curriculum.

Admissions/Entrance Requirements

The requirements for admission for the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Systems are a baccalaureate degree in engineering, computer science, a physical science, or math with a grade-point average over 3.0/4.0; Graduate Record Examination score of 650 (quantitative) and a TOEFL score of 550 or higher (paper based), 213 (computer based) for applicants whose native language is not English. Applicants from an engineering program at CSM are not required to submit GRE scores. The Engineering Graduate committee evaluating an applicant may require that the student take undergraduate remedial coursework to overcome technical deficiencies, which does not count toward the graduate program.

Fall Admission	Yes
Financial support priority deadline	Jan. 15
U.S. citizen application deadline	July 1
International application deadline	April 1
Spring Admission	Yes
U.S. citizen application deadline	Nov. 1
International application deadline	Sept. 1
GRE required	Yes
Subject Test required	No
Average accepted Verbal	493
Average accepted Quantitative	747
Average accepted Analytical Writing	4.2

Financial Assistance

Applicants seeking financial support should indicate such within the Application for Admission. Support may be in the form of teaching assistantships (TA), research assistantships (RA), or fellowships. TAs are generally offered by March 15 for the next academic year; hence, are not available beginning with the spring semester.

RAs are offered by individual faculty to students whom they expect will contribute quickly to a particular funded research project. Applicants interested in RAs should contact directly the faculty members whose research interests parallel their own.

Western Regional Graduate Program

The M.S. and Ph.D. programs in the Division of Engineering are participants in the Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP). The program offers students access to many high-quality graduate programs at reduced costs. Residents of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming are eligible to enroll in our Engineering graduate programs at resident tuition rates. Students do not have to meet specific financial criteria, but they must meet all admissions requirements and deadlines set by the institution. All students who indicate residency of one of these states on the admission application will automatically be included in this program.

Contacts

Dr. Graham Mustoe, Graduate Program Chair
Division of Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-273-3650
FAX: 303-273-3602