Departments
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Develop Your Skills
Learn to research, design, develop and manufacture tools, machines and devices that make a difference in the world.
Explore New Possibilities
Study objects, systems and complex machinery in motion, applying key concepts to mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Choose Your Future
Launch into your career with a mechanical engineering degree from Mizzou, where you can gain hands-on experience with competition teams such as Mizzou AeroTigers, Mizzou Space Program, Mizzou Racing and more. By learning through doing, students engage in engineering as soon as they step onto campus.
See our Work
Meet our students, alumni and faculty and learn more about our work.
ABET Accreditation
The University of Missouri program, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (www.abet.org), under the General Criteria and Program Criteria for Mechanical and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
MAE News Feed
Oct. 24, 2025
Mizzou scholars spearhead multidisciplinary research on team dynamics, knowledge exchange
Here’s light-hearted take on a real doctoral retreat and how it might look as an article in a completely fictitious academic journal.
Oct. 22, 2025
Mizzou adds additive manufacturing printer to its toolbox
A significant step forward in advanced manufacturing and material science, the technology will be an asset for campus researchers and local industries.
Oct. 10, 2025
Zia named as an American Physical Society Fellow
The honor recognizes Zia’s pioneering contributions to the physics of soft and biological matter.
Sep. 29, 2025
Mechanical engineering major trades stadium for construction site
Drake Heismeyer applied lessons from the classroom and the gridiron in his summer internship with Murphy Company.