Mechanical Engineering

BSE

Our students have had many hands-on opportunities to develop their skills and to determine what type of career experience they would like after graduation, while often earning a significant paycheck over summer breaks and even during the academic year.

Here are some of the businesses where our Mechanical Engineering degree students have had internships, co-ops or begun their careers:

• Briggs & Stratton Corporation
• Caterpillar, Inc.
• GE Healthcare
• Generac Power Systems, Inc.
• General Motors
• Harley-Davidson Motor Company
• HUSCO International, Inc.
• Milwaukee Tool
• Rexnord
• Rockwell Automation
• STRATTEC Security

In your senior year, you’ll choose either a Capstone/Senior Design Project or Project Realization Course as part of your plan of study, which means you earn credit for completing these projects outside of the classroom that build important career skills.

Capstones/Senior Design Projects

In this course you’ll team up with other students to complete a Capstone Project or Senior Design Project, during which you’ll use what you’ve learned in class to complete an experience similar to a real-world employer project.

American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics

AIAA is the largest aerospace professional society in the world, and its members help make the world safer, more connected, more accessible, and more prosperous.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME promotes knowledge of the theory and practice of mechanical engineering, and offers the opportunity to participate in activities that promote a professional awareness of mechanical engineering.

Prototyping Club

PC provides students the tools, knowledge, and support to develop an idea into an invention.

Society of Automotive Engineers

SAE provides members an opportunity to gain insight into the engineering profession by offering hands on engineering experience through student design competitions like the BAJA vehicle challenge, monthly meetings with engineering professionals, and local industry tours.

Supermilage at UW-Milwaukee

SM at UWM allows the theoretical knowledge learned in the classroom to be applied to a real-world problem – to design and build a high efficiency vehicle to burn as little fuel as possible over a high amount of mileage.

For full descriptions and contact information for all Mechanical Engineering and other engineering-related student organizations and clubs, click here.

UWM students have a wealth of additional resources available to them within the College of Engineering & Applied Science. From computer labs and tutoring resources to teaching labs and spaces to create or collaborate. Details here.

We’re a top tier R1 research university and our students have the opportunity to work with faculty engaged in cutting-edge research in areas such as:

• Batteries
• Energy
• Optics
• Rehab Robotics
• Sensors
• Tribology

As a top tier R1 research university, our students have the opportunity to work with faculty engaged in cutting-edge research and to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program which has a profound impact on students’ preparation and advancing to graduate programs. The SURF program helps students to improve professional preparation through research by closely working with our faculty to explore, discover, and transform ideas into reality.

Both graduates and undergraduates have the opportunity to participate in the annual Student Research Poster Competition to see who can best represent their research visually on a poster and verbally by describing it to judges.

This course is co-taught by an engineering professor and an art professor. As part of an interdisciplinary student project team of engineers, artists and designers, you will learn how to work in teams, present ideas professionally, deliver presentations and take an idea from concept to design to prototype. Your team will be sponsored by an industry member, who will provide engineering a mentor to the team. More detail here.

Directed by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, the UWM Student Startup Challenge is an optional, co-curricular program that fosters our students’ innovative and entrepreneurial ideas. You can work alone or as part of a team as you gain the skills that come from entrepreneurial experience. More detail here..