JUMP - Mechanical Engineering, B.S.M.E.

Joint Undergraduate to Masters Program (JUMP)

Undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga who are classified as seniors and are within 30 hours of completion of their first bachelor’s degree with an overall GPA of at least 3.25 are eligible to participate in a joint undergraduate to masters program. Please refer to the specific JUMP program requirements as some GPA requirements are higher. This Joint Undergraduate to Masters Program allows a student to take graduate classes early and potentially complete a graduate program in less time and for less cost than the traditional graduate program which is completed after the undergraduate degree is awarded. 

Find more information in Academic Regulations .

Program Requirements

See Mechanical Engineering, B.S.M.E.  

Specific JUMP Requirements

Undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) who are within 30 hours of completion of their first bachelor’s degree and have an overall GPA of at least 3.4 are eligible to participate in the combined undergraduate to graduate programs. A combined undergraduate to graduate program allows a student to gain early admission to and potentially complete a graduate program in less time and for less money than required of traditional graduate students.  Application to the combined undergraduate to graduate program and the Graduate School, including all program specific requirements, may be submitted for review during a student’s junior year.  With the approval of the program coordinator, department head, the dean of the college housing the graduate program, and the dean of the Graduate School, the student will be admitted to the program as a rising senior, after completion of 90 credit hours.  With the permission of the program coordinator and department head, a student may enroll in up to a total of 9 hours of graduate course work.  Programs may limit the number of graduate credit hours taken; refer to specific information in the program section of this catalog.  Undergraduate students must complete all undergraduate major requirements. All graduate courses for which a grade of B or better is earned may be applied to both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs, provided the academic program completes and submits a course substitution for the graduate hours. Subsequent admission to the graduate program as a regular graduate student will require completion of the undergraduate degree, an application to Graduate School, and approval of the program coordinator, department head and dean of the Graduate School.

Graduate courses eligible to apply to both degree programs:

ENME 5010 - Intro to CFD
ENME 5030 - Principles of Turbomachinery
ENME 5032 - Mechanics of Composite Materials
ENME 5033 - Fracture Mechanics
ENME 5034 - Advanced Dynamics
ENME 5035 - Analysis of Advanced Power Plants
ENME 5037 - Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Thermal Systems
ENME 5055 - Advanced Energy Systems
ENME 5100 - Computational Fluid Dynamics I
ENME 5130 - Introduction to Theory and Formulation of Finite Elements
ENME 5300 - Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
ENME 5320 - Advanced Thermodynamics
ENME 5350 - Viscous Flow Theory
ENME 5380 - Heat Conduction and Radiation
ENME 5449 - Engineering Analysis of Renewable Energy Resources