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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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FIND YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS

Your journey starts here, with one of our graduate or undergraduate programs in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering or biomedical engineering.

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Aerospace Engineering

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Amy Lebanoff

Mechanical Engineering

THE POTENTIAL FOR GREATNESS

As a department, we constantly evolve and always strive to provide the highest quality education in engineering. We serve more than 4,000 of UCF’s 68,000 students through our undergraduate and graduate programs in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering and biomedical engineering. We boast an esteemed international faculty and a dedicated staff who ensure that our students are supplied with the skills necessary to achieve life-long learning and professional development.

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No. 1

No. 1 supplier of graduates to the aerospace defense and industries

75th

UCF is ranked the 75th best graduate school for mechanical engineering education

26

Faculty hired over the past
six years

$6.5 million

$6.5 million research funding

2018-19

Aerospace Student in Class of 20 Twenties

Aerospace graduate student Perla Latorre Suarez has been named one of the 20 top aerospace-bound students at the Aviation Week Network 20 Twenties Class of 2022!

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Students

UCF Mechanical Engineering Student Named Station1 Frontiers Fellow

Samir Ali considers himself a builder and fixer by nature. He believes those skills are what every person needs to not make their own lives…
Alumni

Benafan Named ASM International Fellow

As an undergraduate student in Professor Raj Vaidyanathan’s Structures and Properties of Materials course, Othmane Benafan ‘08, ‘09MS, ‘12PhD became fascinated with the concept of…
Faculty

Millions in Grant Money Headed to UCF for Space Research

An army of Knights is among the researchers charging their way into final frontier with innovative projects shaping the future of space travel. Perhaps it’s…
News

UCF Signs Educational Partnership Agreement with U.S. Space Force

UCF, the nation’s Space University, has now entered an agreement with the U.S. Space Force to help develop technology and an agile workforce ready for…
Faculty

Another Record Year for UCF — 8 NSF CAREER Award Winners

The U.S. National Science Foundation has named eight UCF professors 2022 NSF CAREER award recipients. One of those winners, Assistant Professor Kawai Kwok, is from…

UPCOMING EVENTS

MAE Seminar Series -- Battery Safety
Join the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for the first Seminar Series of the fall semester. Jun Xu of UNC Charlotte will discuss "Understanding Battery Safety From a Multiphysics Perspective," All UCF grad students and faculty are welcome to…