Required Emphasis Courses: 12 units
The Mechanical Engineering program requires each student to select one of technical emphasis courses. Two emphases, Mechanical Design, and Energy Systems are available to the students in order to satisfy this requirement of graduation. Each Mechanical Engineering student is required to specify three courses out of one of the two emphases as listed below and must adhere to that emphasis, no substitutions between emphases will be allowed. No other courses from any other department or university will be accepted as substitutes for these courses. The courses included in the two required technical emphasis courses pool are as follows:
General Education Requirements: 68 units
Students should consult the catalog website www.csupomona.edu/~academic/catalog/ for current information regarding this requirement. Unless specific courses are stated under Support Courses, see the list of approved courses under General Education Requirements, Areas A through E.
An alternate pattern from that listed here for partial fulfillment of Areas A, C, and D available for students in this major is the Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) Program. Please see the description of IGE elsewhere in this catalog.
Area A. Communication and Critical Thinking (12 units)
- Oral Communication
- Written Communication
- Critical Thinking
Area B. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (16 units)
- Physical Science
- Biological Science
- Laboratory Activity
- Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
- Science and Technology Synthesis
Area C. Humanities (16 units)
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Philosophy and Civilization
- Literature and Foreign Languages
- Humanities Synthesis
Area D. Social Sciences (20 units)
- U.S. History, Constitution, and American Ideals
- History, Economics, and Political Science
- Sociology, Anthropology, Ethnic and Gender Studies
- Social Science Synthesis
Area E. Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development (4 units)