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The St. Thomas College of Engineering offers master’s degrees, graduate certificates and individual courses designed to help working professionals and career changers build skills, advance their careers and stay current in a changing industry. Learn from experienced faculty in rigorous, applied programs that connect what you learn in the classroom to real-world engineering challenges.
Designed with busy professionals in mind, our graduate programs offer the flexibility to fit your schedule and goals. Start in fall, spring or summer, with weeknight classes offered in person and online. Choose the pace and program that works for you while gaining knowledge you can put to work right away.
Read our Graduate Engineering Brochure.
Our graduate curriculum focuses on educating individuals to become industry leaders. Flexible evening class schedules allow students to achieve their educational goals.
Our programs are industry focused in the following areas:
We are committed to providing students with a dynamic graduate education that integrates engineering technologies into workplace solutions.
Our graduate certificates are designed to help working professionals enhance their career. In just four or five classes students will earn a graduate certificate to bolster their resume.
We offer the following graduate certificates:
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Attend an online information session to get details on our graduate programs, learn about the admissions requirements and application process.We look forward to meeting you and answering your questions.
Flexible evening class schedules allow both industry professionals and career changers to achieve their educational goals.
Entrance exams are not needed to apply (like GRE or GMAT). You can apply If you have completed a bachelor’s degree from a U.S. institution or international equivalent in ANY discipline with an overall GPA of 2.7 or higher.
We serve working professionals with busy lives. Set your own pace with convenient start terms fall, spring and summer. Classes are offered weeknights, in-person and online.
All applicants pay the same tuition and fees regardless of residency or citizenship status.
Each master’s degree program in Engineering has its own program director. Program directors are chosen as leaders in industry, passionate about their program and their students. This person will be your advisor and mentor throughout your graduate program. Meet each of them below.
Dr. Cheol-Hong Min is an associate professor and program director of the M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering program at St. Thomas. His research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning to large-scale data analysis for National Science Foundation (NSF) funded fluid dynamics analysis, biomedical, wearable systems, industrial automation, autonomous navigation, intelligent robotics and precision agriculture.
Dr. Tiffany Ling is a clinical faculty in mechanical engineering and serves as M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering Program Director. Prior to joining the University of St. Thomas in 2015, Tiffany worked for Honeywell Aerospace. As a Lead Senior Process Engineer at Honeywell, Tiffany led a team of engineers in continuously improving and supporting the supply chain and process flow of pressure sensor manufacturing lines.
Dr. Thomas Secord is an associate professor and program director of the M.S. in Mechanical Engineering program at St. Thomas. Prior to joining St. Thomas in 2016, Tom spent six years at Medtronic working on the development and testing of bio-prosthetic trans-catheter heart valves. His work at Medtronic encompassed many aspects of structural design, accelerated testing, and regulatory approval for implantable devices.
Dr. Monson serves as the Program Director of the Systems Engineering program at the University of St. Thomas. Bob has focused his work in mechanical design, software development, controls development, modeling and simulation, thermal systems, shock and vibration systems, systems design and engineering management. He is currently employed at Medtronic in the Systems Engineering group.
All graduate Engineering students are encouraged to contact faculty if they are interested in doing a collaborative research project. Several of our students are selected each year to work with faculty on research projects.
The Center for Microgrid Research is a resource for the power community to transition to carbon free electricity. Through our research, partnerships, and educational programs we produce innovative engineers and technology leaders for the 21st century. Our vision is to be one of the premiere applied engineering research centers in the area of distributed energy resources and microgrids enabling a secure, resilient and carbon-free electric grid for the 21st century.
Many local industries reach out to us to hire our students for employment. Students can seek on-campus employment with the University of St. Thomas, and review outside job postings through the St. Thomas Career Development department.
Students have the option to do a master’s project as an independent study. This project may be an applied project to solve a problem for industry or compliment an existing research project that a faculty member is currently pursuing. Depending on the size and scope of the project, students will complete their master’s project in one or two semesters.
Approximately 25% of the students that attend graduate classes in the College of Engineering are international. Our culturally diverse student body enhances the experience and produces a global environment rich with networking opportunities.
All graduate Engineering students are encouraged to contact faculty if they are interested in doing a collaborative research project. Several of our students are selected each year to work with faculty on research projects.
The Center for Microgrid Research is a resource for the power community to transition to carbon free electricity. Through our research, partnerships, and educational programs we produce innovative engineers and technology leaders for the 21st century. Our vision is to be one of the premiere applied engineering research centers in the area of distributed energy resources and microgrids enabling a secure, resilient and carbon-free electric grid for the 21st century.
Many local industries reach out to us to hire our students for employment. Students can seek on-campus employment with the University of St. Thomas, and review outside job postings through the St. Thomas Career Development department.
Students have the option to do a master’s project as an independent study. This project may be an applied project to solve a problem for industry or compliment an existing research project that a faculty member is currently pursuing. Depending on the size and scope of the project, students will complete their master’s project in one or two semesters.
Approximately 25% of the students that attend graduate classes in the College of Engineering are international. Our culturally diverse student body enhances the experience and produces a global environment rich with networking opportunities.