| The core coursework is made of six required courses spread over the first two quarters. The core courses include Continuum Mechanics, Structural and Solid Mechanics, Finite Element Method I, Vibrations, Fluid Mechanics and Finite Element Method II. Each of the above courses has 45 hours of instruction time and is equivalent to 4.5 quarter- or 3 semester-credit hours. Two additional research short courses are offered each year from a list that includes Smart materials and structures, Mechanical Models of Material Behavior, Random Vibrations, Perturbation Methods, Turbulence and Turbulent Flows, Biomechanics, and Optimization of Structures. Each of these short courses has 15 hours of instruction time and is equivalent to 1.5 quarter- or 1 semester-credit hours. The thesis research work will count for 1.2 quarter- or 0.8 semester-credit hours.
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