Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Curricula

The Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Nuclear & Radiological Engineering (NRE) curricula are below. A student's catalog year is determined by the semester that the student started at Georgia Tech. The following videos will help you navigate the curriculum guides.

  • Understanding the Curriculum Videos:  ME Part 1  ME Part 2  NRE Part 1  NRE Part 2
  • Use the Curriculum Guide for Schedule Planning (Video)
  • If you use the Excel versions of the ME or NRE curriculum guide and the Pre-req Chart, make sure you download it to your computer from DropBox and run it off your personal version of Excel to get the macros to work. 
  • Excel Information
    • Students can download the desktop version of Excel using these instructions
    • View the directions from Microsoft to set your macro settings to 'DISABLE ALL MACRO SETTINGS WITH NOTIFICATION.' This will allow you to enable the macros.  
    • Be sure to open the file from your downloads location, save it to a new location and re-open the file. Excel may restrict the macros in a download folder. 

Catalog Year

Students Who Started...

ME Curriculum

NRE Curriculum

Pre-req Charts in Excel

2024-2025
(see note 6)
Summer '24, Fall '24, Spring '25 PDF  Excel  PDF  Excel  ME  NRE
2023-2024 Summer '23, Fall '23, Spring '24 PDF  Excel PDF  Excel  
2022-2023 Summer '22, Fall '22, Spring '23 PDF  Excel PDF  Excel  
2021-2022 Summer '21, Fall '21, Spring '22 PDF  Excel PDF  Excel  

Curriculum Notes

  1. All required ME, COE, MATH and PHYS courses are offered every semester including summer.  The only exception to that is ME 4315 which is offered in fall and spring only.
  2. NRE classes are only offered one time per year, fall or spring.
  3. Declare a concentration (required for NRE and optional for ME): Declare a Concentration
  4. Major GPA Calculators are found in the Excel files above starting with the '24-'25 academic year.
  5. View the Math/Science Electives options for the NRE Curriculum.
  6. View the curriculum changes introduced in the 2024-2025 academic year:  ME Changes  NRE Changes

Archived Curricula

2020-2021 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2020-2021 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel

2019-2020 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2019-2020 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel 

2018-2019 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2018-2019 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel  Transition Plan

2017-2018 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2017-2018 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel 

2016-2017 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2016-2017 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel

2015-2016 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2015-2016 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel 

2014-2015 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2014-2015 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel

2013-2014 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2013-2014 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel

2012-2013 ME Curriculum PDF  Excel         2012-2013 NRE Curriculum PDF  Excel

Curriculum Conversion to 2012-2013