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ME 123 Introduction to Design and
Ethics 3 cr
An introduction to the
techniques used in the design of engineering systems, including problem
identification, brainstorming alternative solutions, establishing
criteria and constraints, implementing and evaluating solutions, and
communicating the results. Professional engineering codes will be
used as the staring point to discuss ethics in engineering design.
One and one-half hours of design. Prerequisites: EG 110 and EH 101.
ME 135 Engineering Graphics 3 cr
Graphical representation
of objects. Isometric, oblique, and auxiliary views. Sketching and
computer aided graphics. Introduction to descriptive geometry: points,
lines and planes. One-half hour of design. Prerequisites: MA 112 and
MA 113 or MA 115.
ME 211 Materials, Manufacturing and
Design (W) 1 cr
Investigate some general
principles of materials science and some general concepts in manufacturing
to solve real-world design problems in manufacturing. One hour of
design. Prerequisites: ME 123, ME 135, and PH 201.
ME 312 Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics
3 cr
Thermodynamic power and
refrigeration cycles, gas mixtures, psychometrics, and combustion.
One-half hour of design. Prerequisites: EG 270 and ME 123.
ME 314 Machine Component Design 3
cr
Analysis and optimization
of machine elements to accomplish given tasks within limits of stress
and size. One hour of design. Prerequisites: EG 284, EG 315, and ME
123.
ME 316 Instrumentation (W) 3 cr
Measuring system analysis
and design, signal conditioning, analysis of data, statistical error
analysis, communication of results. Prerequisites: MA 238 and PH 202.
ME 317 Heat Transfer 3 cr
Steady and transient
multi-dimensional conduction, forced and natural convection, radiation
and heat exchangers. One-half hour of design. Prerequisites: EG 270,
MA 238, ME 324, and ME 328.
ME 326 Materials Science 3 cr
Mechanical, chemical,
and physical properties of materials. Relationship between structure,
processing, and properties of engineering materials. One-half hour
of design. Prerequisites: CH 132, PH 202, and ME 211.
ME 328 Mechanical Engineering
Analysis 3 cr
Numerical solutions of
differential equations with applications to ME simulation and design.
Introduction to Finite Elements. One-half hour of design. Prerequisites:
CIS 227, EG 315, MA 227, MA 237, MA 238 and ME 123.
ME 336 Materials Science Laboratory
1 cr
Experimental study of
the effect of thermal and mechanical processings of properties. Prerequisite:
ME 326.
ME 365 Design of Fluid Power Systems
3 cr
Fluid power components
are studied in detail. Design of complete hydraulic systems is stressed.
One hour of design. Prerequisites: EG 284, EG 315, ME 324 and ME 328.
ME 411 Thermal System Design
3 cr
Thermal system design
using principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer,
and numerical simulation. Communication of results. Three hours of
design. Prerequisites: ME 312, ME 317, ME 324, and ME 328.
ME 412 Thermal Science Laboratory
1 cr
Experimental study of
thermal science principles and systems. Communication of results.
Prerequisites: ME 312, ME 316, ME 317, and ME 324.
ME 414 ME Capstone Design 3
cr
Capstone design course
for mechanical engineering students. Team-oriented design projects
from industry and the disabled community. Three hours of design. Prerequisites:
EG 230, ME 312, ME 314, ME 317, ME 324, and ME 328.
ME 417 Dynamics of Machines
3 cr
A study of the effects
of external forces and moments on the motion of machines. Topics include
the study of the position, velocity and acceleration of machine components
during operation and the determination of forces on the connections
and members. One hour of design. Prerequisites: EG 284, EG 315, ME
328.
ME 421 Mechanical Systems Design 3
cr
A study of design techniques
as applied to mechanical components and systems. Computer simulation
and numerical techniques. Communication of results. Three hours of
design. Prerequisites: ME 314 and ME 328.
ME 422 Gas Turbines 3 cr
Introduction to gas turbines covering
thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, combustion, cycle analysis, compressors,
turbines, and component matching. One hour of design. Prerequisites:
ME 312 and ME 324.
ME 426 Dynamic Systems and Control
3 cr
Modeling dynamic systems.
Introduction to the principles of feedback control systems. Analysis
of linear systems. Prerequisites: MA 238, ME 316, and ME 328.
ME 429 Controls Laboratory 1 cr
Design and implementation
of analog and digital feedback control systems. Introduction to Programmable
Logic Controllers. Control applications for microprocessors. One-half
hour of design. Prerequisite: ME 426, and ME 441.
ME 430 Mechanism Synthesis 3 cr
Kinematic synthesis of
planar linkages for function, path, and motion generation. Topics
include: degrees of freedom; graphical, linear analytical, and nonlinear
analytical methods; and curvature theory. This course is dual-listed
with an equivalent 500-level mechanical engineering course. One hour
of design. Prerequisites: EG 284 and ME 328.
ME 431 Gas Dynamics 3 cr
Introduction to compressible
fluid flow. Conservation laws, is entropic flow, adiabatic flow, flow
with heat transfer, and normal shock. One hour of design. Prerequisites:
ME 312 and 324.
ME 432 Advanced Thermodynamics 3 cr
Continuation of mechanical
engineering thermodynamics to develop a broader and deeper understanding
of thermal energy transformations. One hour of design. Prerequisite:
ME 312.
ME 438 Finite Element Analysis 3 cr
Introduction to the finite
element method. Engineering application to stress-strain analysis
is emphasized. Other field problems are also considered. This course
is dual-listed with an equivalent 500-level mechanical engineering
course. Prerequisite: ME 328.
ME 441 Microprocessors for Mechanical
Engineers 3 cr
Basic concepts of programming
and applying microprocessors to the control of mechanical systems.
Assembly language programming. Memory decoding and use. Input and
output circuits. Interfacing with the PIA. Prerequisites: EG 220 and
ME 316.
ME 450 Heating, Ventilation, and Air
Conditioning 3 cr
Addresses the heating
and cooling of buildings. Covers related engineering sciences, cooling
and heating loads, systems, and equipment. One hour of design. Prerequisites:
ME 312, ME 317, and ME 324.
ME 451 Refrigeration Systems 3 cr
Study of refrigeration
systems including solution of typical engineering design problems.
Concepts from fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer are
used. One hour of design. Prerequisites: ME 312, ME 317, and ME 324.
ME 452 Combustion 3 cr
Introduction to the theory
of combustion processes, chemical equilibrium, adiabatic flame temperatures,
reaction kinetics. This course is dual listed with an equivalent 500-level
mechanical engineering course. Prerequisite: ME 312.
ME 453 IC Engines 3 cr
Fuel-air cycles. Fuel,
air and exhaust flows. Heat and mass losses. Engine performance. One
hour design. Prerequisites: ME 312, ME 317, and ME 324.
ME 472 Vibration Analysis and Synthesis
3 cr
Steady state and transient
vibration analysis of discrete and continuous systems. Vibration problems
as related to design are also included. One hour of design. Prerequisites:
EG 284, EG 315, MA 238, ME 316, and ME 328.
ME 474 Noise and Vibration Control
3 cr
Principles of acoustics;
human response to noise; control of noise and vibration by means of
isolation, sound barriers, and absorption. One hour of design. Prerequisite:
ME 472.
ME 490 Special Topics 1-3 cr
Topics of current mechanical
engineering interest. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 494 Directed Independent Study
1-3 cr
Selected mechanical engineering
topics of special or current interest not available in regularly scheduled
courses. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 518 Advanced Mechanical Engineering
Analysis 3 cr
Application of numerical
methods including finite difference; finite element and boundary element
techniques to the solution of problems in Mechanical Engineering.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 520 Advanced Fluid Mechanics 3
cr
Analysis of steady and
unsteady motion of a viscous fluid. Topics include: conservation equations,
Newtonian fluids and the Navier-Stokes equations, vorticity, analytical
solutions, boundary layers, instability of viscous flows. Prerequisite:
Consent of instructor.
ME 522 Hydrodynamic Instability 3
cr
Normal mode analysis;
linear stability analysis; Raleigh-Benard, Taylor, Raleigh-Taylor,
Kevin-Helmholtz, Gortler instability; Orr-Sommerfield equation and
TS Wave; Bifurcation. Prerequisite: ME 520, Consent of instructor.
ME 525 Boundary Layer Theory 3 cr
Development of Navier-Stokes
and boundary layer equations, perturbation theory application and
boundary layer transition. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 530 Mechanism Synthesis 3
cr
Kinematic synthesis of
planar linkages for function, path, and motion generation. Topics
include: degrees of freedom; graphical, linear analytical, and nonlinear
analytical methods; and curvature theory. This course is dual-listed
with an equivalent 400-level mechanical engineering course. Prerequisite:
Consent of instructor.
ME 538 Finite Element Analysis
3 cr
Introduction to the finite
element method. Engineering application to stress-strain analysis
is emphasized. Other field problems are also considered. This course
is dual-listed with an equivalent 400-level mechanical engineering
course. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 540 Advanced Heat Transfer 3 cr
Steady and transient
conduction, external and internal forced convection, natural convection,
radiation with participating media, boiling heat transfer, Stefan
condition. Prerequisite: ME 317, Consent of instructor.
ME 541 Conduction Heat Transfer 3
cr
Closed form analytical
and approximate numerical solutions of one, two- and three- dimensional
steady state and transient problems in conduction of heat transfer.
Prerequisites: MA 507, Consent of instructor.
ME 542 Convection Heat Transfer 3
cr
Fundamental laws of motion
and energy balance for a viscous fluid, classical solution of the
Navier-Stokes and energy equations, laminar/turbulent hydrodynamic
and thermal boundary layers, convection heat transfer in laminar/turbulent
internal flows. Prerequisites: ME 317, ME 324, Consent of instructor.
ME 543 Radiation Heat Transfer 3 cr
Blackbody radiation,
diffuse-gray surfaces, radiative exchange in a multi-surface enclosure,
gas radiation in enclosures with participating media, introduction
to available numerical methods. Prerequisites: ME 317, Consent of
instructor.
ME 544 Heat Transfer with Change of
Phase 3 cr
Boiling heat transfer
and critical heat flux, condensation heat transfer, Stefan problem,
freezing and melting, ablation, introduction to available numerical
techniques. Prerequisites: ME 540 or ME 542, Consent of instructor.
ME 545 Experimental Methods in Fluid
Mechanics And Heat Transfer 3 cr
Uncertainty analysis,
system response, sampling theory and FFT, differential pressure measurement
and multi-hole probes, thermocouple and RTD, thermal anemometry, LDV
and other non-intrusive optical methods, flow visualization. Prerequisites:
ME 316, ME 317, ME 324, Consent of instructor.
ME 550 Combustion 3 cr
Introduction to the theory
of combustion processes, chemical equilibrium, adiabatic flame temperature,
reaction kinetics, flame structure. This course is dual-listed with
an equivalent 400-level mechanical engineering course. Prerequisites:
ME 312, Consent of instructor.
ME 551 Classical Thermodynamics 3
cr
Postulational treatment
of the physical laws of equilibrium, equations of state, processes,
equilibrium, stability, reactive systems, phase transition. Prerequisite:
Consent of instructor.
ME 552 Statistical Thermodynamics
3 cr
Principles of kinetic
theory, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics with particular
reference to thermodynamic systems. Conclusions of classical thermodynamics
are established from the microscopic viewpoint. Prerequisite: Consent
of instructor.
ME 560 Compressible Fluid Flow 3 cr
Foundations of fluid
dynamics and thermodynamics of one dimensional flow and heat transfer,
isentropic flow, shock waves and method of characteristics. Prerequisite:
Consent of instructor.
ME 561 Turbomachinery 3 cr
Energy transfer between
fluid and rotor; fluid flow in turbomachines, centrifugal and axial-flow
pumps and compressors; radial and axial flow turbines. Prerequisite:
Consent of instructor.
ME 562 Computational Fluid Dynamics
& Heat Transfer I 3 cr
Derivation of conservation
equations, numerical solution of inviscial and viscous incompressible
flow problems, emphasis on finite volume method, introduction to finite
element and spectral method. Prerequisites: ME 324, Consent of instructor.
ME 563 Computational Fluid Dynamics
& Heat Transfer II 3 cr
Governing equations in
general coordinates, differential geometry for curvilinear coordinates,
grid generations, numerical uncertainties. Prerequisites: ME 562,
Consent of instructor.
ME 564 Turbulent Flow 3 cr
Reynolds equations, statistics
of turbulence, analysis of free and wall turbulence, turbulence models.
Prerequisites: ME 520, Consent of instructor.
ME 565 Lubrication 3 cr
Friction of solids and
fluids. Lubricants. Theory of sliding bearings. Multi-dimensional
bearings with constant forces and velocities. Solid, hydrodyamic and
gas lubrication. Design of bearings. Prerequisites: ME 317 and 324,
Consent of instructor.
ME 571 Advanced Engineering Dynamics
3 cr
Three-dimensional kinematics
and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies, energy, momentum, and
stability; application of Lagrange’s equations to machinery and
gyrodynamics. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 572 Advanced Vibrations 3 cr
Free and forced vibrations
of mechanical systems having lumped mass and elasticity; introduction
to vibrations of continuous systems; engineering applications. Prerequisite:
Consent of instructor.
ME 573 Vibrations of Continuous Systems
3 cr
Equations of motion for
strings, membranes, bars, and plates with various boundary conditions,
steady state and transient solutions, exact and approximate methods;
wave propagation in elastic media. Prerequisites: ME 472, MA 507,
consent of instructor.
ME 574 Nonlinear Vibrations 3 cr
Vibrations of damped
and undamped systems with nonlinear restoring forces; free and forced
oscillations in self-sustained systems; Hills equation and its application
to the study of the stability of nonlinear oscillations. Prerequisites:
ME 572, MA 508, Consent of instructor.
ME 575 Continuum Mechanics 3 cr
Cartesian tensor analysis.
Analysis of stress and strain, fundamental laws of continuum mechanics.
Constitutive equations, application to solid and fluid mechanics.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 582 Advanced Materials Science
3 cr
Classical and quantum
mechanical model of atoms, bonding, magnetism, superconductivity,
high strength low density materials, corrosion, biomedical materials.
Prerequisites: ME 326, MA 507 and 508.
ME 583 Applied Elasticity 3 cr
Classical problems in
elasticity, torsion and bending theory, plane problems in rectangular
and polar coordinates; axisymmetric problems, thermoelasticity. Prerequisite:
consent of instructor.
ME 584 Introductory Metal Theory 3
cr
Theories of metals to
explain electrical conductivity and scattering process, electronic
and lattice heat capacity, magnetic behavior, cohesion and lattice
constant. Prerequisites: MA 507, Consent of instructor.
ME 585 Theory of Plates 3 cr
Basic equations of rectangular
and circular plates with various boundary conditions; classical solutions
and approximate methods in the theory of thin plates. Prerequisites:
ME 583, MA 507, Consent of instructor.
ME 586 Theory of Shells 3 cr
Introduction to differential
geometry; general equations for arbitrary shells; shallow shell theory
with applications; solutions to membrane and bending theory for shells
of revolution. Prerequisites: ME 585, Consent of instructor.
ME 589 Biomechanics 3 cr
Discrete mass and continuum
mechanics description of biological materials; biodynamics of limb
and gross body motions, various models for injury to head, neck, torso,
and extremities. Prerequisites: EG 284, 315, MA 238, Consent of instructor.
ME 590 Special Topics 3 cr
Topics of current mechanical
engineering interest. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
ME 594 Projects in Mechanical Engineering
1-3 cr
May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Approved proposal and consent of director of engineering
graduate studies.
ME 599 Thesis 1-6 cr
Thesis research, may
be taken more than once. Prerequisite: Approved prospectus and consent
of director of engineering graduate studies.
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