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 starting 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. Intro-duction 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 a real-world design problems in manufacturing. One hour of design.
Prerequisites: ME 125, ME 135 and PH 201.
ME 312 Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics 3 cr
Thermodynamic power and refrigeration cycles, gas mixtures and psychrometrics,
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 324 Fluid Mechanics 3 cr
Fluid statics, integral and differential relations for mass, momentum and energy, dimensional analysis, flow in ducts, and boundary layer flows. Prerequisites: MA 238 and EG 284.
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 on 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 M E Capstone Design I 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 424 M E Capstone Design II 1 cr
Continuation of ME 414. One hour of design. Prerequisite: ME 414.
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.
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, isentropic 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 transfor-mations. 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 equip-ment. One hour of design. Prerequisites: ME 312,
ME 317 and 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 of 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-Sommerfeld 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.
Prerequisites: 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, intro-duction 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, thermo-couple 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 com-pressors; radial and axial flow turbines. Prerequisite: consent of
instructor.
ME 562 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer I 3 cr
Derivation of conservation equations, numerical solution of inviscid and viscous
incompressible flow problems, emphasis on finite volume method, introduction to finite element
and spectral methods. Prerequisites: ME 324, consent of instructor.
ME 563 Computational Fluid Dynamics and 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, hydrodynamic and gas lubrication. Design of
bearings. Prerequisites: ME 317, ME 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; Hill's 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 MA 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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