MECH at Rice University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MECH coursework.

• MECH 202MECHANICS/STATICSopens 61 courses (6 directly)
• CEVE 211Engineering Mechanicsopens 44 courses (11 directly)
• MECH 211Engineering Mechanicsopens 44 courses (8 directly)
• MATH 222Honors Calculus IVopens 31 courses (7 directly)
• MECH 371Fluid Mechanics Iopens 29 courses (17 directly)
• MECH 315Stress Analysisopens 19 courses (13 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate MECH work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 120 MECH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 55 more MECH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on MECH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in MECH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 12 courses deep, ending at MECH 474

  1. MECH 654Advanced Computational Mechanics
  2. MECH 474Advanced Computational Mechanics

• 10 courses deep, ending at MECH 585

  1. CEVE 400Advanced Mechanics of Materials
  2. MECH 400Advanced Mechanics of Materials
  3. MECH 585Textile Engineering and Manufacturing

• 9 courses deep, ending at MECH 411

  1. MECH 501Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  2. MECH 411Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems

• 9 courses deep, ending at MECH 427

  1. CEVE 427Physics Guided Machine Learning & Data Driven Modeling Fem
  2. MECH 427Physics Guided Machine Learning & Data Driven Modeling Fem

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MECH yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MECH yet.

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Department events

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