MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

530.101 (E)

FRESHMEN EXPERIENCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (2) Okamura Limit 40  Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Undecided Engineering Majors, and others with permission of instructor An overview of the field of mechanical engineering along with topics that will be important throughout the mechanical engineering program. This one-year course includes applications of mechanics, elementary numerical analysis, programming in Matlab, use of computer in data acquisition, analysis, design, and visualization, technical drawing, the design process and creativity, report preparation, teamwork, and engineering ethics. Co-requisites are 530.103 and 530.105. DESIGN AND COMPUTING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING   The course description for this freshman introduction course is under construction.  Please check the Registrar’s website for future updates.

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530.103 111 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICS I (2)Sharpe Okamura Limit 40  Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Majors only  A one-year course offering in-depth study of elements of mechanics, including linear statics and dynamics, rotational statics and dynamics, thermodynamics, fluids, continuum mechanics, transport, oscillations, and waves. This is an alternative to 171.101, designed specifically for Mechanical Engineers and Engineering Mechanics students taking 530.101/102 concurrently. Co-requisites are 530.101 and 530.105 (laboratory). FORMERLY 530.111 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FRESHMEN LABORATORY The course description for this freshman introduction course is under construction.  Please check the Registrar’s website for future updates.

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530.105 3 (E)

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FRESHMAN LABORATORY I (1)  Okamura  Limit 15 10 per section Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Undecided Engineering Majors, and other with permission of instructor   Hands on laboratory complementing 530.101 and 530.103, including experiments, mechanical dissections, and design experiences distributed throughout the year. Experiments are designed to give students background in experimental techniques as well as to reinforce physical principles. Mechanical dissections connect physical principles to practical engineering applications. Design projects allow students to synthesize working systems by combining mechanics knowledge and practical engineering skills. Co-requisites are 530.101 and 530.103. FORMERLY 530.103 The course description for this freshman introduction laboratory is under construction.  Please check the Registrar’s website for future updates.

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530.201 (E)

STATICS AND MECHANICS OF MATERIALS (4) Graham-Brady      Limit 10 per section (Lab)  Freshman by Perm. Only  Equilibrium of rigid bodies, free-body diagrams, design of trusses. One-dimensional stress and strain, Hooke’s law. Properties of areas. Stress, strain, and deflection of components subjected to uniaxial tension, simple torsion, and bending.  Co-listed with 560.201

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530.231 (E)

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS (4) Katz Limit 70  Prereq: 110.109, 171.102    Properties of pure substances, phase equilibrium, equations of state. First law, control volumes, conservation of energy. Second law, entropy, efficiency, reversibility. Carnot and Rankine cycles. Internal combustion engines, gas turbines. Ideal gas mixtures, air-vapor mixtures. Introduction to combustion.

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530.327 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS (4) Su   Limit 60   Prereq: 530/560.202 and either 110.302 or 550.291 Physical properties of fluids. Fluid statics. Control volumes and surfaces, kinematics of fluids, conservation of mass. Linear momentum in integral form. Bernoulli’s equation and applications. Dimensional analysis. The Navier-Stokes equations. Laminar and turbulent viscous flows. External flows, lift and drag.

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530.352 (E)

MATERIALS SELECTION (4) Hemker   Limit 50   Prereq: 530.215 or Perm.  Req’d.  An introduction to the properties and applications of a wide variety of materials: metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Considerations include availability and cost, formability, rigidity, strength, and toughness. This course is designed to facilitate sensible materials choices so as to avoid catastrophic failures leading to the loss of life and property.

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530.403 (E)

ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT (4) Hemker   Limit 25 per section   Prereq: ME Majors: 530.215, 530.327 EM & BME Majors: 530.215 or 530.405, and 530.327   This senior year “capstone design” course is intended to give some practice and experience in the art of engineering design. Students working in teams of two to four will select a small-scale, industry-suggested design problem in the area of small production equipment, light machinery products, or manufacturing systems and methods. A solution to the problem is devised and constructed by the student group within limited time and cost boundaries. Preliminary oral reports of the proposed solution are presented at the end of the first semester or sooner. A final device, product, system, or method is presented orally and in writing at the end of the second semester. Facilities of the Engineering Design Laboratory (including machine shop time) and a specified amount of money are allocated to each student design team for purchases of parts, supplies, and machine shop time where needed.

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530.407 (H,E)
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THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (3) Weiss / West   Limit 5  The history, technology, and performance of Western European musical instruments, their precursors, and their non-western counterparts, addressed by experts and explored on visits to historic collections. Co-listed with 376.404

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530.414 (E)

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (3) Stoianovici   Limit 22 21   Prereq: 530.215 or Perm. Req’d if 530.215 is not taken
The course outlines a modern design platform for 3D modeling, analysis, simulation, and manufacturing of mechanical systems using the “Pro/E” package by PTC. The package includes the following components:
Pro/ENGINEER: is the kernel of the design process, spanning the entire product development, from creative concept through detailed product definition to serviceability.
Pro/MECHANICA: is the main analysis & simulation component for kinematic, dynamic, structural, thermal and durability performance.
Pro/NC: is a numeric-control manufacturing package. This component provides NC programming capabilities and tool libraries. It creates programs for a large variety of CNC machine tools.
This course attempts to integrate the concepts developed in 530.215 with the use of the computer as a design tool. The topics covered include the design of mechanical systems. Extensive use is made of computer-aided design software, including object modeling, system assembly, and mechanism solution procedures. Computer-aided drafting and dimensioning.

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530.418 (E)

AEROSPACE STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS (3) Joshi Hemker  Limit 50  
Prereq: 530.215 and 530.352 or consent of instructor  An introduction to the design of aircraft and spacecraft structures and components. This course will build on skills learned in 530.215, Mechanics-Based Design and 530.352, Materials Selection.

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530.421 (E,N)

MECHATRONICS (3) Chirikjian  Limit 50  Mechatronics is the synergistic integration of mechanism, electronics, and computer control to achieve a functional system. This interdisciplinary course includes lectures, lab assignments, and projects that teach the student to design and build mechatronic devices, building upon the themes of 530.420 Robot Sensors & Actuators. We expand on the topics of mechanism design, motors and sensors, interfacing and programming microprocessors, mechanical prototyping, and creativity in the design process. Course labs and projects are performed in small student groups. Each group develops a microprocessor-controlled electromechanical device, such as a mobile robot or art-making machine. Project topics vary from year to year.  

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530.449 (E,N)

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW (3) Prosperetti  Limit 50   Prereq: 530.327  One-dimensional flow: acoustic, expansion and shock waves.  Rankine-Hugoniot relations.  Quasi-one-dimensional flow: variable area duct, de Laval nozzle choking.  Unsteady waves.  Shock tube.  Two-dimensional flow: expansion fans, oblique shocks, characteristics.  Linearized flow.  Transonic and supersonic flight.

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530.451 (E,N)

CELLULAR AND TISSUE ENGINEERING LAB (2)   Haase/ Wang   Limit 8   Seniors and Graduate Students only others Perm. Req’d   This laboratory course will consist of three experiments that will provide students with valuable hands-on experience in cell and tissue engineering.  Experiments include the basics of cell culture techniques, gene transfection and metabolic engineering, basics of cell-substrate interactions I, cell-substrate interactions II, and cell encapsulaton and gel contraction.  Co-listed with 580.451

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530.454 (E)

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING (3) Sharpe     Limit 50 Prereq: 530.215 and 530.352 An introduction to the various manufacturing processes used to produce metal and nonmetal components. Topics include casting, forming and shaping, and the various processes for material removal including computer-controlled machining. Simple joining processes and surface preparation are discussed. Economic and production aspects are considered throughout.       

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530.457 (E,N)

INTRODUCTION TO ACOUSTICS (3) Prosperetti / Dickey Busch-Vishniac  Limit 50  This course is an introduction to the science of sound and its applications to music, speech communication, science, and engineering. Topics include hearing, speech, wave propagation, microphones and loudspeakers, noise control, underwater sound, and room acoustics.  Assignments will include laboratory and field measurements of acoustic phenomena.       

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530.461 (E)

ENGINEERING BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (3) Rothman Limit 50  An introduction to the business and management aspects of the engineering profession.  The course will focus on the process of product definition and development, the structure and functioning of engineering organizations, project management, intellectual property protection, and the management of project teams.

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T 4-6:30pm

530.470 (E)

SPACE VEHICLE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL (3) Guzman     Limit 50    In this course we study applied spacecraft orbital and attitude dynamics and their impact on other subsystems. In the orbital dynamics part of the course, we discuss some the issues associated with orbital insertion, control and station keeping. Focus is on the two-body problem regime where conic solutions are valid. Orbit perturbations are also considered. For attitude dynamics, different attitude representations such as of direction cosines, quaternions, and angles are introduced. Then we look at the forces and moments acting on space vehicles. Attitude stability and control considerations are introduced.

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530.491

SPECIAL TOPICS (1) Staff   Selected topics for third- and fourth-year students in mechanical engineering and other engineering departments. Offered by arrangement with faculty adviser and instructor in charge.

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530.495 (E,N)

MICROFABRICATION LABORATORY(4) Andreou/Wang Sec. 1-Limit 4/Secs. 2,5-Limit 2    Seniors only or Perm. Req’d  This laboratory course is an introduction to the principles of microfabrication for microelectronics, sensors, MEMS, and other synthetic microsystems that have applications in medicine and biology. Course comprised of laboratory work and accompanying lectures that cover silicon oxidation, aluminum evaporation, photoresist deposition, photolithography, plating, etching, packaging, design and analysis CAD tools, and foundry services. Co-listed with 520.495 & 580.495 Secs. 03 & 04 canceled 7/18/07

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530.525

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH  Students pursue research problems individually or in pairs. Although the research is under the direct supervision of a faculty member, students are encouraged to pursue the research as independently as possible.

530.527

INDEPENDENT STUDY

530.601

CONTINUUM MECHANICS   Staff Limit 20  An introduction to the foundations of continuum mechanics. Vectors and tensors; properties and basic operations. Kinematics of deformation; Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress in a continuum. Conservation laws; mass and momentum balance. Thermodynamics; energy balance and entropy. Constitutive equations; invariance under a change of observer and material symmetry. Fluids and solids; viscous and elastic response. The Navier-Stokes equations. Finite elasticity. Linear elasticity. Course canceled 9/12/07

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530.621

FLUID DYNAMICS I Knio  Limit 25 Kinematics. Stress. Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Newtonian fluids. The Navier- Stokes equations.  Inviscid flows. Laminar viscous flows. Vorticity. Instability.  Turbulence. Boundary layers. External flows. Compressible flows. Introduction to non-Newtonian fluids.

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530.646

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS Whitcomb  Limit 30  Graduate-level introduction to robotics with emphasis on the mathematical tools for kinematics and dynamics. Topics include forward and inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, position sensing and actuation, and manipulator control.
Course cancelled 8/17/07

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530.687

FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS Sun   Limit 25 This course presents the fundamental concepts in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and apply them to optics in modern molecular computational biology.  Monte Carlo and statistical ensembles are presented.  Field theories are introduced to describe the mechanics of membranes, cytoskeleton and biofluids.  Kinetic theory, master equations and Fokker-Planck equations are discussed in the context of ion channels and molecular motors.

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T 3:30-5pm, F 2-3:30 TF 2-3:30

530.713

KINEMATIC SELF-REPLICATING SYSTEMS Chirikjian   Limit 10   Prereqs: Graduate standing or instructor's consent  This course reviews the science and history of man-made systems that are capable of reproducing. The emphasis will be on the scientific principles behind electromechanical (robotic) systems that are able to assemble functional copies of themselves, though some review of self-replication and self-repair in biological systems will be provided. Complexity measures that describe the degree to which a system can be called self-replicating are derived. The configurational entropy reduced during assembly serves as one such measure. Topics such as group theory and kinematic error propagation will be reviewed. This course is intended for specialists. Weekly reading assignments and small projects will be assigned. Each week two students will give oral reports.   Course added 8/16/07

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530.759

RESEARCH SEMINAR: PLASTICITY Ramesh   Limit 25   A weekly research seminar featuring ongoing research as well as reviews of new papers of interest in the general areas of plasticity and failure. The course will have an emphasis on dynamic phenomena, but will consider both engineering materials and biological systems. Students will be expected to make two presentations during the semester.

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T 2-4 F 8-10

530.730

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS Nakata   Limit 10 7    Perm Req'd. Co-listed with 560.730 Course added 7/10/07

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530.763

TOPICS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS: CHAOS, FRACTALS, AND SELF-ORGANIZATION
Meneveau Limit 30 Chaos in low-dimensional dynamical systems: maps and ordinary differential equations. Lagrangian chaos and mixing in two-dimensional laminar flows. Fractal geometry, Julia sets, collage theorem, multifractals. Applications to growth processes, turbulence, and Brownian motion. Self-organized criticality.
Course added 3/21/07

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M 2, T 2-4

530.766

NUMERICAL METHODS KnioLimit 25   Elementary introduction to numerical methods for the solution of fundamental problems in engineering. Computer assignments requiring programming.

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MW 3-4:20

500.602

SEMINAR: ENVIRONMENT & APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS Meneveau  Cross-listed with Geography & Environmental Engineering, Earth & Planetary Sciences, and General Engineering

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F 10:30-12:30

530.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY(Refer to 530.801 for registering with faculty)

530.801

GRADUATE RESEARCH    Use the following section when registering with a faculty member:

Sec. 01 Staff
Sec. 02 Meneveau
Sec. 03 Stoianovici
Sec. 04 Chen
Sec. 05 Herman
Sec. 06 Ramesh
Sec. 07 Taylor
Sec. 08 Prosperetti
Sec. 09 Sharpe
Sec. 10 Knio
Sec. 11 Hemker
Sec. 12 Chirikjian
Sec. 13 Whitcomb
Sec. 14  Okamura
Sec. 16 Molinari Canceled 07/09/07
Sec. 17 Staff
Sec. 18 Chao
Sec. 19 Su
Sec. 20 Wang
Sec. 21 Sun
Sec. 22 Cowan
Sec. 23 Busch-Vishniac
Sec. 25 Katz
Sec. 26 Fichtinger
Sec. 27 Belkoff Fichtinger

530.803

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Wang Prosperetti  Limit 100

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