Example Plan of Study to earn both Design FA and Naval Science and Technology Certificate

The Design FA requires 21 s.h. of courses, as prescribed by the Design focus area courses. The Certificate in Naval Science and Technology requires 18 s.h. of courses, as prescribed on the Naval S&T Certificate webpage. The following table illustrates example plans of study that students can use to earn both the Design FA and the Naval S&T Certificate.

Design FA Requirement Naval S&T Requirement Course
ME:4111 Autonomous Systems & Machine Learning 1 ME:4111 Scientific Computing and Machine Learning
Design Elective 1 Elective ME:5143 Computational Fluid and Thermal Engineering
Design Elective 2 N/A Not applicable to the certificate. Any Design Elective may be completed
General Elective 1 Naval Hydrodynamics 1 ME:4125 Biomimetic Fluid Dynamics, or* ME:4175 Computational Naval Hydrodynamics
General Elective 2 Naval Hydrodynamics 2 ME:4125 Biomimetic Fluid Dynamics, or* ME:4175 Computational Naval Hydrodynamics
ME:4186 Capstone course ME:4186 Enhanced Design Experience (Naval section)**
General Elective 3 Autonomous Systems and Machine Learning 2 ME:5114 Nonlinear Control in Robotic Systems

*Note that ME:4125 and ME:4175 are offered in alternating spring semesters.

**Students who complete this course must apply to the PEDE (Program for Enhanced Design Experience) during the application period in the spring before their senior year. ME:4086 (section 0004 Naval) must be completed in the fall of the senior year, followed by ME:4186 (section 0003 Naval) in the following spring. Projects are offered on a competitive basis. It is strongly recommended to list Naval PEDE as your highest priority if you wish to complete a naval PEDE project.