Resources

Department of Mechanical Engineering

• Undergraduate Departmental Electives for 2011/2012 [pdf]
• Undergraduate Program of Study 2011/2012 [pdf]

College of Engineering

• Information about College of Engineering petitions
  • Petition to Add/Repeat a Course [pdf]
  • Petition to Withdraw from a Course [pdf]
  • Petition for Change of Major/College [pdf]
  • Petition for a Double Major [pdf]
  • Petition to Recieve Degree Credit for Extension Courses [pdf]
  • Petition for Graduation Matters [pdf]
• College of Engineering 2011-2012 Announcement
• College of Engineering General Education Requirements [pdf]
• Why Choose Mechanical Engineering? [pdf]
• Career Resources for Undergrads
• Tau Beta Pi Tutoring Schedule Fall 2010

UCSB

• 2011-2012 UCSB General Catalog
• Office of the Registrar
• Approved Academic Calendar for 2011-2012
• GOLD (Gaucho On-Line Data)
• Money Matters - How to Survive College with Some Change Left in Your Pocket

Engineer in Training Exam

• California Dept of Consumer Affairs Board for Professional Engineers

Engineering Inspiration or Caution...

• The NanoCar from Rice University

• The Most Bad-Ass Tumbleweed Ever

• Rockwell Retro Encabulator

• The Robot that Flies Like a Bird

• Spacesuit Ballet

• The Lyrical Engineer

• From Gyroscopes to Gecko Glue: An Inventor's Guide to Loving Life  ME Department Chair, Dr. Kimberly Turner is an engineer, inventor, competitive cyclist and dog trainer

• Parking Structure Concept

• Disaster on the Yenisei - Yikes! Hydropower plant explosion

• 10 Profound Innovations Ahead - from TechNews Daily

• Google LunarXPrize - $30 million to the first privately funded team to send a robot to the Moon

• Engineering Paradise - Another great one from our own Dom Dal Bello

• Tom Cruise, the most famous Traffic Engineer

• Great stuff from Alan Hancock College Engr Dept - Even Elvis was an engineer!

• West Point Bridge Design Contest

• China's Amazing Bridges

• Flying Car to Start Production in 3 Months

• Accidental Inventions and Discoveries

• Engineering firm to pay $52.4 million in 2007 bridge collapse

•  XPrize Foundation announces $1.4 million for oil cleanup ideas

• The 2010 IDSA Student Design Awards - A better mousetrap and a Le Parkour shoe win Gold

• 20 Crazy Concept Phones - No iPhones here, these ideas include a "snake" phone. Courtesy of PC World

• Build a Tower, Build a Team - Tom Wujec on "The Marshmallow Challenge"

• Copper Rods That Swarm Like Fish - From Science Fridays

• A Pool Filled with Non-Newtonian Fluid

• German Engineering and Advertising in Action