Undergraduate Major
On Campus
Location: John F. O'Connell Technology Center 419
Phone: 530-898-5346
Email: mmem@csuchico.edu
From cars to rockets to toasters, mechanical engineers design, develop, build, and test products essential to society. By choosing this major, you can help solve problems and shape the technology that powers the world and meets human needs.
Choose from several fields to work in, like automotive engineering, aerospace, and renewable energy, and help tackle society’s most pressing challenges in areas such as housing, healthcare, manufacturing, climate change, and more. You will graduate from this program prepared for whatever field you choose to pursue.
Your courses are based on engineering fundamentals. You’ll learn about math, physics, automation, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics, among other topics. Our project-based program will teach you how to work with teams, and you will complete a senior capstone project of your choosing.
Your abilities to innovate and think critically will propel you into a career designing and advancing technologies used in the automotive, aerospace, energy, medical, and agricultural industries, among others. Our alumni are making their mark for companies like Pacific Gas and Electric, Medtronic, KLA Corporation, and Benchmark Electronics.
• Median annual wage for mechanical engineers is $99,510
• Employment is projected to grow 10 percent from 2022 to 2032
We have alumni from all around who ensure we have a high job placement and internship rate—we send them resumes and get jobs out of the connection.
Practice innovative research and apply your knowledge and practical skills while working on real-world projects for industry partners. We have partnered on projects with Lawrence Livermore National Lab, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and more.
You design, build, and test solutions to real-world problems in our industry-sponsored program. Recent examples include a smart pool sweeper created for Raypak and a water flow test system built for CamelBak.
Get involved. Conduct research with supportive, expert faculty to find your passion and publish in peer-reviewed journals and present at conferences.
Build an off-road vehicle, join a BattleBots challenge, or design high-powered rockets. You’ll make friends while growing your skills and network through student groups like the Alternative Energy Club, Chico Rocketry and Energy Club, and many more.
Take your idea and make it real in our facilities that feature the same kinds of equipment used by professionals for manufacturing, plastics production, and robotics. The Omron CoLab has various robots, programmable logic controllers and electronic test equipment.
Whether focused on clean drinking water or eliminating single-use plastics, engineering students spent the last year tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges.
Kirsten Welch’s perseverance and hands-on experience landed her the internship of her dreams at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Whether focused on clean drinking water or eliminating single-use plastics, engineering students spent the last year tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges.
Kirsten Welch’s perseverance and hands-on experience landed her the internship of her dreams at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Location: John F. O'Connell Technology Center 419
Phone: 530-898-5346
Email: mmem@csuchico.edu