Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Regional Engineering Program

Program Description

The Program Educational Objectives of the undergraduate program are aligned with both the mission of the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus and the goal enunciated in the College of Engineering’s Strategic Plan: 

“Georgia Tech-Savannah seeks to be a technology-enabled academic enterprise of diverse students, faculty and staff that is globally recognized for innovation in engineering-centered education, scholarship and economic development.”
Mission of Georgia Tech-Savannah

“Develop rigorous, innovative, experiential educational programs that integrate disciplines and that engage students in the excitement of learning, motivate their passion for positive societal impact and develop leaders for the future.”
College of Engineering’s Strategic Plan – Goal 1

The Program Educational Objectives are similar to those adopted by the Woodruff School faculty in 2005 with Objective C being slightly different for the Atlanta and Savannah programs. The Program Educational Objectives adopted on December 11, 2006, after input from and consultation with various constituencies, are:

  1. To graduate engineers prepared for successful careers and empower them to be life-long learners;
  2. To graduate engineers who are able to solve problems using analysis that is anchored in the engineering sciences and / or computational tools;
  3. To graduate engineers who are able to design engineering systems for a global economy. This necessitates the development of skills that include the ability to formulate problems, to think creatively, to communicate effectively, to synthesize information, and to work ethically and collaboratively in a distributed engineering environment;
  4. To graduate engineers who are able to use experimental and data analysis techniques to understand engineering phenomena and / or validate them; and
  5. To graduate engineers who understand their professional and ethical responsibilities to society;

The current undergraduate curriculum in mechanical engineering is similar to that which is offered by the Woodruff School in Atlanta. The emphasis is on ensuring that students internalize basic principles and learn how to determine solutions to engineering problems.

Our intent, moving forwards, is to evolve the curriculum to one that is focused on product creation in a Culturally Diverse World. One in which design is at the core of an engineering-centric curriculum that is anchored in scholarship thereby facilitating experiential learning and the development of human competencies for creating value through the realization of products and systems that are sourced and marketed globally.

Satisfactory completion of the curriculum leads to the degree Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Regional Engineering Program (BSME - REP).

In addition to the Institute's academic requirements for graduation with a bachelor's degree, the following are required for a BSME - REP degree:

  1. A C or better must be earned in MATH 1501, MATH 1502, MATH 2401, and MATH 2403. The aggregate GPA of all mechanical engineering courses taken must be 2.0 or higher.