Undergraduate Designated Minors in Carnegie Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon recognizes the broader role mechanical engineers play in society, as leaders in business, government and education. In addition to their majors, students in the mechanical engineering program are encouraged to pursue a minor in order to foster a healthier, more well-rounded education.

Undergraduate students in the Carnegie Institute of Technology can elect to complete an interdisciplinary Designated Minor in addition to their regular majors for B.S. degrees. Designated minors have been added to the curriculum of the Carnegie Institute of Technology to promote flexibility and diversity among the college's engineering students. Independent of a student's major, he or she is able to pursue a selected designated minor from the following list:

• Automation and Control
• Biomedical Engineering
• Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces Technology
• Data Storage Systems Technology
• Electronic Materials
• Engineering Design
• Environmental Engineering
• International Engineering Studies
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Behavior of Materials

Guidelines for Minors
An engineering student may elect to complete a CIT designated minor. Generally, the student takes all the required courses in an engineering major but uses electives to take courses needed to fulfill the requirements of the designated minor. Upon completion of the requirements of a CIT designated minor and the engineering degree, the minor is a formally recognized on the student's transcript.

Each of the CIT designated minors is administered by a Program Committee consisting of faculty from all major engineering departments who serve as faculty advisors. Each Program Committee certifies the completion of requirements of the designated minor. But the student's major department is responsible for approving the degree with a designated minor after reviewing a student's entire academic record. Any substitution or departure from the published curriculum should be avoided. For example, non-technical courses may not be substituted for required technical courses or electives. Equivalent technical electives offered by a designated minor as substitutions for required courses in a major must be approved by the Head of the student's major department.

Although a student generally can complete a designated minor without increasing the number of required units for graduation, early planning in electing a designated minor is important. A student also may find that some minors are more compatible than others with his/her major because of different relations between various major and minor requirements. Learn more about CIT minors.