MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

530.102 (E)

FRESHMAN EXPERIENCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING II (2) Okamura   Limit 50  Prereq: 530.101 An overview of the field of mechanical engineering along with topics that will be important throughout the mechanical engineering program.  This is the second half of a one-year course that includes applications of mechanics, elementary numerical analysis, programming in Matlab, use of computer data acquisition, analysis, design, and visualization; technical drawing, the design process and creativity, report preparation, teamwork, and engineering ethics.

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MW 3-3:50

530.104 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICS II (2) Sharpe   Limit 50  Prereq: 530.103 This is the second half of 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 alternate to 171.101, designed specifically for Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics students taking 530.102 concurrently.

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MW 1-1:50

530.106 (E)

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FRESHMAN LAB. II (1) Okamura   Limit 15 per section  Prereq: 530.105 Hands-on laboratory complementing 530.102 and 530.104, including experiments, mechanical dissections, and design experiences distributed throughout the year.  Experiments are designed to give student 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.

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Th 9-11:50

Th 1:30-4:20

F 1:30-4:20

530.215 (E)

MECHANICS-BASED DESIGN (4)
Wang    Prereq: 530.201 Limit 18 per lab section   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.

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MWF 11-11:50
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Th 1:30-2:45
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530.241 (E)

ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION (4)  Cowan Prereqs: 171.101, 171.102, 173.111, 173,112 and past or concurrent enrollment in either 550.291 or (110.201 and 110.302) Physics I and II, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations Limit 20 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.

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02

MWF 1:30-2:20

M 6-8:50pm
T 1:30-4:20

530.328 (E)

FLUID MECHANICS II (3) Meneveau Limit 40   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.

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TTh 10:30-11:45

530.334 (E)

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.

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Problem Session

MWF 11-11:50

Th 1:30-2:20

530.343 (E)

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (4) Sun  Limit 25 per section    Prereq: 110.108 Calc. I, 110.109 Calc. II, 550.291 Linear Algebra/Differential Equations or 110.202 Linear Algebra and 110.302 Differential Equations, and C- or better or concurrent enrollment in 560.202 Dynamics.  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.

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Problem Session

MWF 10-10:50
Th 2:30-5:20

MWF 10-10:50
F 1:30-4:20

T 1:30-2:20

530.404 (E)
(W)

SENIOR ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT II (4) Hemker  Limit 30 per section 
Prereq: Mech.Eng. majors: 530.215 & 530.327; Eng. Mech. majors & BME majors: 530.215 or 530.405 plus 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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02

T 1:30-4:20

Th 1:30-4:20

530.410 (E,N)

BIOMECHANICS OF THE CELL AND ORGANISMS (3) Sun/Spector  Limit 50  Mechanical aspects of the cell are introduced using the concepts in continuum mechanics.  Discussion of the role of proteins, membranes and cytoskeleton in cellular function and how to describe them using simple mathematical models. Co-listed with 580.448

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MWF 4:30-5:20pm 3-3:50

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 plus 530.241 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.

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Problem session

M 1:30-3:50 2:45
                          W 1:30-4:20
W 6-8:50pm
Th 6-8:50pm
M 4:30-5:20pm 3:30-4:20

530.432 (E)

JET AND ROCKET PROPULSION (3) Katz   Limit 50   Prereq: 530.231 and 530.327   The course covers several topics associated with power generation and conversion. Gas turbines, such as turbo-jet, turbo-fan, and turbo-prop engines, as well as their components, are discussed. Included are the characteristics of compressors, turbines, combustion chambers, diffusers, and nozzles. A brief introduction to rocket propulsion with liquid and solid fuels is also given. The second part of the course deals with internal combustion engines, including two- and four-stroke engines as well as diesel engines.

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TTh 12-1:15

530.476 (E)

UNDERGRADUATE NUMERICAL METHODS (3) Chen   Limit 50 Course canceled 01/28/08

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TBA

530.525

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Staff       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 Staff

530.602

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS Ramesh Limit 20   Prereq: 530.601 or permission of instructor  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.

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MWF 10-10:50 9-9:50

530.612

COMPUTATIONAL SOLID MECHANICS Nguyen  Limit 20   This course teaches in-depth and hands-on understanding of numerical methods for solid mechanics problems. The course begins with a review of the fundamental concepts of the finite element method for linear boundary value problems (BVP) and initial boundary value problems (IBVP) in solid mechanics. Advanced methods for nonlinear BVPs are presented and applied to problems of material inelasticity and finite elasticity. Topics covered include the strong and weak statements of the BVP, weighted residual methods, time integration, Newton-type methods for nonlinear problems, and error estimation and convergence. Course added 10/26/07

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TTh 10:30-12

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.

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TTh 10:30-11:45

530.635

MIXING AND COMBUSTION   Su   Limit 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. Course canceled 01/28/08

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MWF 10-10:50

530.640

STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS Chen Limit 30     This course introduces basic concepts of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and molecular dynamics for engineers. Topics include Master Equation, Brownian motion, the Boltzmann equation, the hydrodynamic theory from statistical mechanics, the fluctuation and dissipation theorem, path integral, effective action, Monte Carlo method, and molecular dynamics simulation. Course canceled 01/28/08

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TBA

530.642

PLASTICITY Ramesh   Limit 30
The theory of the inelastic behavior of metallic materials. Experimental background and fundamental postulates for the plastic stress-strain relations. Mechanisms of plastic flow; single-crystal and polycrystalline plasticity. Boundary value problems. Variational principles, uniqueness and the upper and lower bound theorems of limit analysis. Slip line theory. Dynamic plasticity and wave phenomena. Finite strain plasticity and instability.

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MWF 11-11:50

530.646

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS Whitcomb  Limit 40  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.

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T 5-6:30pm, Th 12-1:30

530.676

SPECIAL TOPICS IN LOCOMOTION SENSOR-BASED LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION  Cowan  Limit 40   Introduction to the mechanics of locomotion and manipulations.  In this context students will learn topics such as Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, impacts, Poincare analysis, nonholonomic mechanics, and friction. Course canceled 01/09/08

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MWF 2:30-3:20

530.677

FEEDBACK CONTROL OF WALKING AND RUNNING Cowan Limit 40 Prereqs: At least one of the following: graduate level Linear Systems, Intro. to Robotics, or Nonlinear Systems or Perm Req'd. This is a course on the analysis and control of legged locomotion, and will cover computing the equations of motion (EOM) for piecewise Lagrangian systems with intermittent constraints, Poincaré analysis, constraint-based control, and hybrid zero dynamics. The goal is to understand how to write down the EOM's for simplified models of walking and running in animals (including humans), and design controllers for bipedal robots.Course added 01/09/08

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MWF 2:30-3:50 3:20

530.759

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN PLASTICITY AND FAILURE Ramesh Limit 20 Course added 01/16/08

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Th 8-10 T 3:30-5:30pm 3-5pm

530.762

ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR 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.

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T 12-1:15
Th 9-10:15

530.767

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS  Knio 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.

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MW 3-4:15

530.776

NUMERICAL METHODS II Knio  Limit 20  A continuation of study from the course 530.766 Numerical Methods for the solution of fundamental problems in engineering. Computer assignments requiring programming. Course canceled 01/16/08

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MW 1:30-2:45

 500.602

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

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TBA

530.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Sec. 01 Staff
Sec. 02 Meneveau
Sec. 03 Katz 
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. 17 Stoianovici
Sec. 19 Su   
Sec. 20 Wang 
Sec. 21 Sun
Sec. 22 Cowan

530.802

GRADUATE RESEARCH

Sec. 01 Staff 
Sec. 02 Meneveau  
Sec. 03 Katz
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. 17 Stoianovici
Sec. 19 Su  
Sec. 20 Wang
Sec. 21 Sun
Sec. 22 Cowan
Sec. 23 Belkoff

530.804

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Wang  Limit 100

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Th 3-4:15

530.808

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN FLUID MECHANICS  Meneveau

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F 3-3:50 11-11:50