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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUI has started a five-year combined degree program in which the students receive both BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Through a seamless transition from the BSME to the MSME curriculum, the program is designed to graduate students who meet all the BSME and MSME requirements. By taking four graduate courses (12 credits) as ME electives during their senior (or fourth) year and counting these four courses for both B.S. and M.S. degrees, the students who qualify for this program are able to complete the Master's degree requirements within five years. Total credit hour requirements of this program are 148, while the traditional programs require 130 credits for BS 30 credits for MS.

The total credit hours required for this dual degree program are 148 hours. For reference, the traditional BSME requires 130 hours, and the MS in ME requires 30 hours, for a total of 160 hours. The integrated program is constructed to exploit an overlap of 12 credit hours, thereby reducing the number of required hours to 148.

There are two plans of study for students to maintain in this program: 1) BS plan of study that is to be filed no later than one semester before completing the BS degree requirements (normally in the seventh semester), including the 12 credit hours of graduate courses to be taken in place of the ME electives, and 2) MS plan of study that is to be completed after the completion of the BS plan of study (normally in the ninth semester), which will include the four graduate courses (12 credit hours) taken.

The two plans of study to be maintained are attached to this document, where the four overlapped graduate courses (12 credit hours) are to be indicated in both BS and MS plans. Granting of BS diploma will be delayed until the MS (i.e., 148 credit hours) is completed, unless the student withdraws from the program. Semester-by-semester distribution of the courses are also attached.

The final admission to the graduate program are not be made unless the student meets the minimum 3.00 GPA requirement and receives at least a B grade in each of the four graduate courses in his/her BS plan of study.