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Getting on Track

Graduate tracks offered by the faculty

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering offers four MSc tracks – two thesis tracks and two non-thesis
tracks. In addition to the regular PhD track, there is also a direct PhD track for outstanding students.

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M.Sc. Mechanical M.Sc. ME Mechanical ME Engineering Direct PhD Track
Engineering Graduates of other Engineering Identical curriculum M.Sc. students
This track is made engineering or This program is to the program with especially
up of a combination science faculties with based on credits above. Anyone with a good academic
of coursework and a non-mechanical only and does not bachelor’s degree in and research
thesis work. Students engineering B.Sc. and involve submitting a engineering is eligible achievements can
are required to study suitable grades are thesis. The program is for this program, even transfer into the
subjects according eligible for this track. designed for external if it is not mechanical direct PhD track, on
to a unique program Students accepted to students with a engineering. the recommendation
and to conduct this track are required B.Sc. in mechanical of the departmental
research or prepare to take additional engineering who Graduate Studies
an engineering undergraduate already have Committee. This track
project or a final mechanical engineering does not require
paper. Students engineering courses. experience. The students to complete
accepted to the program prepares all the requirements
program are required students for advanced for the M.Sc.
to find a thesis work in applied
advisor and submit engineering or
a thesis proposal to development.
the department’s
graduate studies
committee.

There’s Nothing Like the Lab the reactions of materials at the nanometer level, to
the progress of cracks in metals, to the movements
“Our research is fascinating and breaking new of tectonic plates – which, among other things, caus-
ground” es earthquakes like those that recently occurred in
Turkey and Syria. The research in this field can be
Students who choose to work in research do it in projected to large engineering and mechanical struc-
one of the faculty’s labs; and as far as they’re con- tures that are destined to malfunction or collapse. If
cerned, that’s when the real fun starts. Bronstein did I can understand how a specific mechanism works in
his MSc at Prof. Doron Shilo’s Micro- and Nano-Me- a small research sample in the lab, this can then be
chanics of Materials Laboratory and is continuing at projected onto similar mechanisms on a larger scale,
the same lab for his PhD. He also has a co-advisor and we might even be able to see how to prevent or
from the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineer- minimize the next malfunction. In my research, I de-
ing at the Technion, Prof. Ronen Talmon. “I work with velop innovative experimental tools for the research
the mechanics of materials – more specifically with and evaluation of these avalanches, using machine
mechanical avalanches,” he explains with gleam- learning to analyze the measurements.
ing eyes. “Though the field has been extensively re-
searched, there are still plenty of unknowns. It’s a fas- “The combination of experimental research and
cinating and very important field, because it appears advanced analysis methods leads to new insights
in a huge range of materials and mechanisms – from about the avalanches, which cannot be obtained in

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