530.106 (E,Q)

COMPUTING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (3) Su   Limit 60
Coreq: 110.109     Elementary numerical analysis including differentiation, integration, and solution of ordinary differential equations.  Fundamentals of computer operation.  Programming in Matlab.  Introduction to the use of computers in data acquisition, analysis, and visualization.

Sec. 01

MTW 9

530.215 (E)

MECHANICS-BASED DESIGN (4)
Ramesh  Prereq: 530.201 Limit 18 per lab section (all Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering majors may enroll over stated limit)    Stresses and strains in three dimensions, transformations. Combined loading of components, failure theories. Buckling of columns. Stress concentrations. Introduction to the finite element method. Design of fasteners, springs, gears, bearings, and other components.

Lec.
Lab Sec: 01
02
03

MTW 11
                        M 4-6pm
Th 10-12
Th 12-2

530.241 (E)

ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION (4) Cowan  Limit 25 per lab section  Introduction to basic analog electronics and instrumentation with emphasis on basic electronic devices and techniques relevant to mechanical engineering. Topics include basic circuit analysis, laboratory instruments, discrete components, transistors, filters, op-amps, amplifiers, differential amplifiers, power amplification, power regulators, AC and DC power conversion, system design considerations (noise, precision, accuracy, power, efficiency), and applications to engineering instrumentation.

Lec.

Lab 01

02

MTW 10 9

W T 3-6pm 2-5

Th 3-6pm F 10-1

530.328 (E,N)

FLUID MECHANICS II (3) Meneveau Limit 30 Linear and angular momentum in integral form, applications to turbomachines. The Navier-Stokes equations. Inviscid flow. Laminar viscous flow. Boundary layers. Turbulence. Compressible flows. Projects using computational tools, design of pipe network.

Sec. 01

MTW 1

530.334 (E,N)

HEAT TRANSFER (4) Herman
Prereq: 530.231 and 530.327 Limit 40
Conduction in one, two, and three dimensions. External and internal forced convection, convection with change in phase. Performance and design of heat exchangers. Black-body radiation, Stefan-Boltzmann law. Computational modeling and experimental study of selected topics in conduction, convection, and radiation.

Sec. 01

Problem Session

MTW 2

Th 2

530.343 (E)

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (4) Busch-Vishniac Limit 25 per section    Prereq: 110.108, 110.109, 110.202 and 550.291, and 530.341     Modeling and analysis of damped and undamped, forced and free vibrations in single and multiple degree-of-freedom linear dynamical systems. Introduction to stability and control of linear dynamical systems.

Sec. 01
Lab
    
Sec. 02
Lab

Problem Session

MTW 10
Th 9-12

MTW 10
F 1-4

T 4

530.344 (E)

DYNAMIC SYSTEMS LABORATORY (1) Okamura Limit 50 This is an alternate laboratory course for the lab component in 530.343 (Design and Analysis of Dynamic Systems). This lab course is required for students who have taken the course abroad or outside JHU. Course added 01/02/07

Sec. 01

TBA

530.404 (E,Q,N)
(W)

SENIOR ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT II (4) Chirikjian Limit 30 per section 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.

Sec. 01
02

F 9-11:30
Th 9-11:30

530.420 (E)

ROBOT SENSORS AND ACTUATORS (3) Whitcomb Limit 20 per section   Prereq: 171.101, 171.102, 110.108, 110.109, 110.202, 550.291 and 530.341 or 520.345     Introduction to modeling and use of actuators and sensors in mechatronic design. Topics include electric motors, solenoids, micro-actuators, position sensors, and proximity sensors. 

Lec.
Lab Sec. 01
02
03
Problem session

M 3-5
                          W 3-6pm
Th 12-3 9-12
F 9-12
M 5

530.424 (E)

DYNAMICS OF ROBOTS AND SPACECRAFT (3) Chirikjian
Limit 50 Prereq: 560.202
An introduction to Lagrangian mechanics with application to robot and spacecraft dynamics and control. Topics include rigid body kinematics, efficient formulation of equations of motion, stability theory, and Hamilton's principle.

Sec. 01

ThF 1-2:20

530.425 (E, N)

MECHANICS OF FLIGHT (3) Prosperetti   Limit 30   Prereq: 530.231, 530.327, 530.328 (may be taken concurrently), or permission of the instructor.  Elements of flight dynamics: aerodynamics forces, gliding, cruising, turning, ascending, descending, stability, etc. Review of the pertinent fluid mechanic principles. Application to two-dimensional airfoils and theory of lift. Three-dimensional airfoils. Boundary layers. Effects of compressibility. Subsonic and supersonic flight.

Sec. 01

MTW 12

530.457 (E, N)

INTRODUCTION TO ACOUSTICS (3) Busch-Vishniac   Limit 60   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. Course canceled 11/08/06

Sec. 01

MTW 12

530.487 (E,N)

INTRODUCTION TO MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) (3) Sharpe Limit 70
Juniors and Seniors only This course deals with processes, systems, instruments and equipment for aerospace systems. Issues of energy conversion and thermal design are emphasized. Topics include thermodynamic concepts and heat transfer processes for aerospace systems (with emphasis on radiation), the space environment, influence of gravity on heat transfer, power generation for space systems (energy sources, solar cell arrays, energy storage), thermal control (analysis techniques, design procedures, active versus passive design, heating and refrigeration), environmental effects.

Sec. 01  

MTW 9

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.

530.526

INDEPENDENT STUDY

530.602

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS Sun    Limit 20   An introduction to elasticity, plasticity, viscoelasticity, and fracture, using the mathematical tools developed in 530.601 Continuum Mechanics. Stress and equilibrium. Kinematics. Principle of virtual work. Constitutive relations: linear elasticity, plasticity, and viscoelasticity. Illustrative boundary value problems. Linear elastic fracture mechanics. Micromechanics of inelastic deformations.

Sec. 01

MTW 1

530.616

INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (4) Cowan/Vidal   Limit 20 30  Prereqs: undergrad courses in control systems and linear algebra Perm Req'd. for undergrads A beginning graduate course in linear, time-invariant systems. Topics include state-equation representations, input-output representations, response properties, controllability, observability, realization theory, stability, and linear feedback. Co-listed at 580.616 Course added 11/15/06

Sec. 01

MW 8:30-10 TW 3:30-5:30 MW 1-2:30 3-4:30

530.622

FLUID DYNAMICS II Katz  Limit 20   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.

Sec. 01

MTW 12

530.631

CONDUCTION AND RADIATION Herman    Limit 30 In the first part of the course, the focus is on steady and transient two- and three-dimensional heat conduction. Energy balances and the energy equation are reviewed, and mathematical methods for solving partial differential equations are discussed. Heat transfer with a phase change and contemporary conduction problems are discussed. In the second part of the course radiative properties and thermal radiation exchange are reviewed. The equation of transfer for participating media is developed, and simplification is discussed. 

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12, F 1-2:30

530.635

MIXING AND COMBUSTIONSuLimit 30 Mixing of fluids, covering ideas from dynamical systems and mixing in turbulent flows. Combustion of gaseous and liquid fuels; chemistry, kinetics, deflagrations and detonations, premixed and non-premixed flames, effect of turbulence, spray and droplet combustion, combustion systems.

Sec. 01

MTW 1

530.656

MECHANISMS OF DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE Hemker   Limit 30     An advanced course on the microscopic mechanisms that control the mechanical behavior of materials.  Methods and techniques for measuring, understanding, and modeling:  plasticity, creep, shear banding, and fracture will be addressed.  Subjects to be covered include dislocation theory and strengthening mechanisms, high temperature diffusion and grain boundary sliding, shear localization, void formation, ductile rupture, and brittle fracture.

Sec. 01

T 10, Th 9-11 TTh 8:30-10

530.672

BIOSENSING & BIOMEMS Wang     Limit 20     The course discusses the principles of biosensing and introduces micro- and nano-scale devices for fluidic control and molecular/cellular manipulation, measurements of biological phenomena, and clinical applications.    Co-listed as 580.672

Sec. 01

MW 11-12:30

530.710

OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES Katz   Limit 30 Optic-based techniques are being utilized as measurement and data transmission tools in a growing number of applications. The objective of this course is to introduce graduate students with limited background in optics (but with background in graduate-level mathematics) to the fundamentals of optics and their implementation. Topics covered include reflection, refraction, fluorescence, phosphorescence and diffraction of light; review of geometric optics, lenses, lens systems (microscope, telescope), mirrors, prisms; aberrations, astigmatism, coma, and methods to correct them; light as an electromagnetic wave; Fourier optics; spectral analysis of optical systems; coherent and incoherent imaging, holography, interferometry, diffraction grating; lasers, polarization, light detectors; elements of non-liner optics, birefringence; optical fibers, data transmission, and networking.

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:30

530.730

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS Anandarajah Limit 15   The basic concepts of the FEM are presented for one, two-, and three-dimensional boundary value problems (BVPs). Problems from heat conduction and solid mechanics are addressed. The key topics include relationships between strong, weak, and variational statements of BVPs, weighted residual methods with an emphasis on the Galerkin method, specialization of Galerkin approximations of weak statements and Ritz approximations of variational statements to obtain finite element formulations, specific element formulations, convergence properties, solutions of linear systems of equations, and time-dependent problems.  
Co-listed as 560.730

Sec. 01

ThF 1:30-3

530.759

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN PLASTICITY AND FAILURE Ramesh Permission of instructor and advisor required     Limit 20    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.

Sec. 01

F M 8-10

530.762

ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF ENGINEERING Prosperetti   Limit 20  A unified view of the classical methods of applied mathematics based on the theory of finite-dimensional and Hilbert spaces. Matrix theory, systems of ordinary differential equations, Fourier series, eigenfunction expansions. Green's functions. Designed to follow either 530.661 or 530.761.

Sec. 01

MW 9-11

530.767

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS  Chen  Limit 20    Advanced introduction to major approaches in the simulation of the incompressible flow: finite-difference, finite-element, finite-volume, boundary-element, spectral, and Lagrangian discretizations.  Computer project requiring programming.

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:30

500.602

SEMINAR: ENVIRONMENTAL AND APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS Meneveau   Cross-listed with DOGEE, Earth and Planetary Sciences and General Engineering

Sec. 01

F 11

530.800

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

530.802

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

530.804

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Prosperetti  Limit 100

Sec. 01

Th 3