Admission to the Undergraduate Program
Entering as a pre-major in Mechanical Engineering
UNM applicants who are interested in the Mechanical Engineering major are admitted to the School of Engineering with pre-major status in Mechanical Engineering. Students in the pre-major status are required to complete specific courses with a minimum 2.75 GPA in order to be admitted into the Mechanical Engineering program.
Acceptance to the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program
Students must be admitted for study at the University of New Mexico and must have completed approximately one year of the freshman year subjects before applications are processed for admission to the Baccalaureate Program in Mechanical Engineering. Approval from the Mechanical Engineering Department is required. Applicants must consult the appropriate departmental advisor for evaluation of academic work before admission can be completed.
At least 18 credit hours of freshman-year technical subjects are required by the School of Engineering for admission into degree programs. For the Mechanical Engineering degree program, these courses must include the following 14 credit hours:
MATH 1512 Calculus I (4); MATH 1522 Calculus II (4); ME 160L Mechanical Engineering Design I (3); PHYS 1310 Calculus-Based Physics I (3).
Four other credit hours may be taken from:
CHEM 1215 General Chemistry I for STEM Majors (3); CHEM 1215L General Chemistry I for STEM Majors Laboratory (1); ENG 130L Introduction to Engineering Computing (3); PHYS 1310L Calculus-Based Physics I Laboratory (1)
A minimum GPA of 2.75 in these 18 credit hours of technical courses is required for admission to undergraduate study in Mechanical Engineering.
A cumulative GPA of at least 2.30 (in technical plus non-technical courses) is also required for admission to the program. All applicants must have completed ENGL 1110 or the equivalent before admission. As of Fall 2016, all courses listed in the B.S.M.E. curriculum program must have grades of "C" or better for satisfying both admission and graduation requirements. The same applies to required General Education curriculum courses.
Students transferring to the undergraduate program (from any institution, including UNM) must also meet the GPA and admission course requirements stated above.
Starting in Fall 2016 and for admission into the program, any course specifically listed in the B.S.M.E. curriculum cannot have been attempted more than three times. An attempt includes receiving any letter grade ("A" through "F"), W, CR, NC, I or AUDIT. For the purposes of this requirement, coursework taken at other institutions is treated the same as coursework at UNM.
After each term, once grades are officially posted through the Registrar’s office, the status of those students who have been accepted will change from pre-major to BSME.
Students will be notified that they have been officially accepted into the Mechanical Engineering program via their UNM email address. The BSME degree is a total of 121 credit hours.
Applying to the Shared Credit Program
Students apply to the shared credit program during the undergraduate junior year, one year prior to graduation from the BSME program. At least 64 credit hours need to be mathematics, science and engineering courses (ME, CE, ECE, CS, Chem, Math, Stat and Phyc) applicable to the BSME degree. A cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 is normally required, counting only the completed courses applicable to BSME at the time of application.
The application deadline is November 30 in the Fall semester and April 30 in the Spring semester. The departmental decision will be made by the beginning of the following semester. Admission to the graduate portion of this program is provisional, and is not finalized until the student satisfactorily completes the requirements for the BS degree.