You can do more than just use technology. You can design it. Build it. Bring it to the workplace. Our Mechanical Engineering Technology program requires cooperative education (co-op). Our graduates have a 98 percent placement rate, with salaries among the highest of all UC baccalaureate degrees. How do we do it? The answer lies in a long tradition of combining quality academic instruction with state-of-the-art industrial applications.

UC's OMI College of Applied Science (CAS) has its roots in the Ohio Mechanics Institute, founded in 1828. It's been said that Thomas Alva Edison referred to OMI as his alma mater, which gives some perspective to our innovative and industrial tradition.

The CAS Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program is growing and benefits from the support and involvement of prosperous, multi-national corporations – Procter and Gamble (P&G), R.A. Jones, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), Cincinnati Machine and Milacron, to name a few.

The MET program's dynamic, hands-on approach is coupled with rigorous academic preparation, both for the professional engineers (PE) exam and for enrollment in prestigious MSc and MBA programs (allowing students to pursue more advanced degrees, such as the PhD).

MET graduates routinely start their professional careers within the product development, production development, energy production and energy distribution functions of industry. Employers are especially attracted by the MET grad's ability to take entire projects from the design stage all the way through to implementation. As a result, the majority find themselves independently managing industrial projects during their first professional years. Many choose to move to upper management later on in their careers.

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