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
April 15, 2026
Cross-campus collaboration leads to materials breakthrough
Mizzou researchers have introduced a novel bioadhesive material platform that will enable next-generation devices with shape memory behavior.
April 13, 2026
Hashemi, Kannan inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Election is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top 2% of engineers in these fields.
April 10, 2026
Prorok named chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Prorok currently serves as program chair for materials engineering at the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University. He will join Mizzou Engineering July 1.
April 9, 2026
Practical knowledge to drive real-world solutions
At Mizzou, graduate and professional students find support and community on the path to their degrees