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Mechanical Engineering (ME)
College of Engineering
Preference in registration is given to declared
engineering majors. Please consult the current Schedule of Courses for
confirmed offerings each semester.
ME 113 Introduction to Engineering Design (3) Introductory
experience in analysis, synthesis, computer-aided drafting, and
communication in engineering, professional ethics and social
responsibility. Pre: high school physics or consent.
ME 301 Mechanical Engineering Experimentation (2)
(1 Lec, 1 2-hr Lab) Design of test setups and procedures to
determine the performance of a product. Pre: junior standing.
ME 311 Thermodynamics (3) Basic laws, closed
and open systems. Work, heat, concept of entropy. Properties of pure
simple substances. Ideal gases. Introduction to power and refrigeration
cycles. Pre: PHYS 170.
ME 312 Applied Thermodynamics (3) Gas mixtures,
generalized thermodynamic relationships, combustion and thermochemistry,
chemical equilibrium, power and refrigeration cycles. Pre: grade of C or
better in 311.
ME 322 Mechanics of Fluids (3) Incompressible
and compressible ideal fluids, effects of viscosity. Similitude,
boundary layer flow, elementary gas dynamics. Pre: CE 271, and grade of
C or better in ME 311.
ME 331 Material Science and Engineering (3) Electronic,
atomic, and crystalline structure of materials and their effect on the
mechanical, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of engineering
metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. Pre: CHEM 171 and MATH 206.
ME 341 Manufacturing Processes (3) Manufacturing
components. Energy requirements for various manufacturing methods.
Selection and design of manufacturing methods to obtain components with
desired size/shape/ properties. Pre: 331 or consent.
ME 341L Manufacturing Processes Lab (1) (1 2-hr
Lab) Manufacturing laboratory: tension/compression tests, cold
rolling, welding, casting, statistical process control, programming and
milling using a CNC machine. Pre: 341 (or concurrent) or consent.
ME 360 Computer Methods in Engineering (3) Numerical
solutions for algebraic and transcendental equations, simultaneous
linear algebraic equations, integration and differentiation; integration
of ordinary differential equations. Engineering applications. Pre: EE
150 and MATH 232.
ME 371 Mechanics of Solids (3) Stress, strain,
and constitutive relations for elastic solids. Design of shafts, beams,
columns, and cylinders. Failure theories, statically indeterminate
systems. Pre: CE 270 and MATH 232.
ME 372 Component Design (3) Design, analysis,
and selection of machine components: shafts, screws, fasteners, welds,
rolling contact bearings, journal bearings, gears, clutches, brakes,
belts, and roller chains. Pre: mechanical drawing, 113, and 371; or
consent.
ME 374 Kinematics/Dynamics Machinery (3) Velocity
and acceleration analysis of planar mechanisms; kinematic synthesis of
linkages, cams, and gears; static and dynamic force analysis of
mechanisms; balancing of machinery. Pre: MATH 232 and CE 271.
ME 375 Dynamics of Machines and Systems (3) Lumped-parameter
modeling of dynamic physical systems. Methods of analysis, including
transform techniques. Time response and frequency response. Modal
analysis. Pre: 374.
ME 401 Measurements Lab (2) (1 Lec, 1 2-hr Lab) Design
of engineering instrumentation. Techniques and procedures associated
with carrying out measurements within the constraints of cost, time, and
accuracy. Pre: 375
ME 403 Advanced Mathematics for Engineers I (3) Applications
of ordinary differential equations, Laplace transform, vector field
theory, matrices, line integrals. Pre: MATH 232.
ME 417 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (3) Principles,
design, and performance of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.
Pre: 312 and 422 (or concurrent).
ME 418 Power and Propulsion (3) Principles,
performance, and design of gas turbine power plants and propulsion
systems. Pre: 312 and 422 (or concurrent).
ME 422 Heat Transfer (3) Steady and transient
conduction. Fundamentals of radiation and convection. Heat exchangers.
Pre: 322.
ME 424 Introduction to Gas Dynamics (3) One-dimensional
compressible flow involving change of area, friction, heat transfer.
Normal and oblique shocks. Prandtl-Meyer flow. Application to nozzles,
diffusers, airfoils. Pre: 312 and 322.
ME 433 Failures in Materials (3) Analysis of
component failures due to imperfections, fatigue, brittle fracture,
wear, corrosion, bending, impact, and overload. Fracture mechanics. Case
studies. Pre: 331 or consent.
ME 434 Materials Selection for Design (3) Methodology
for the selection of materials for mechanical applications to prevent
mechanical failure and environmental degradation. Design considerations
associated with the use of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites.
Pre: 341, 341L, and 371.
ME 435 Experimental Methods in Materials Research
(3) (1 Lec, 2 2-hr Lab) Common experimental techniques in materials
testing and research: x-ray diffraction, optical and electron
microscopy, thermal and mechanical properties, electrochemical
methods--theory and hands-on experience. Pre: 341 and consent.
ME 436 Corrosion Engineering (3) Basics of
corrosion processes and emphasis on corrosion control. Thermodynamics
and kinetics of corrosion, metal alloys and their behavior, corrosion
control techniques (cathodic protection, anodic protection, coatings,
and inhibitors). Pre: 341 and 341L, or consent.
ME 446 Advanced Materials Manufacturing (3) (2 Lec,
1 2-hr Lab) Introduction to anisotropic materials, advanced
manufacturing techniques for composite and intelligent materials,
joining of composites, thin film processing and stereolithography,
computer aided manufacturing and rapid prototyping, manufacturing
process optimization, open-ended manufacturing projects. Pre: 341, 341L,
and senior standing; or consent.
ME 451 Feedback-Control Systems (3) Principles
of linear control. Design methods for feedback-control systems.
Application to physical dynamic systems such as industrial robots. Pre:
375 or consent.
ME 452 Robotics (3) Principles and design
methods for autonomous systems. Pre: senior standing.
ME 453 Energy Conversion Systems (3) Energy
conversion and its impact on the environment. Conventional,
hydroelectric, nuclear fission and fusion, solar, wind, ocean,
geothermal, and biomass power; energy storage, transmission, and
conservation. Pre: 312, 322, and 422 (or concurrent); or consent.
ME 454 Geothermal Energy, Resources, and
Utilization (3) Sources, distribution, environmental aspects of
development. Chemical and physical properties of geothermal fluids;
principles of energy conversion methods. Pre: 312 or 422 (or
concurrent).
ME 455 Nuclear Power Engineering (3) Nuclear
reactor principles. Reactor heat transfer, heat generation, and removal.
Design and analysis of reactor power plants. Pre: 312 and 422 (or
concurrent).
ME 465 Computer Graphics for Design (3) Two-
and three-dimensional representations of solid bodies. Programming
projects from conception through demonstration. Graphics primitives;
data structures; transformations; hidden-line removal; animation. Pre:
senior/ graduate standing in engineering or ICS, or consent.
ME 473 Mechanical Vibrations (3) Response of
machines and systems to transient and periodic excitation. Vibration
isolation and transmissibility. Modal analysis of
multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Applications to design. Pre: 371, 375,
or consent.
ME 474 Fundamentals of Acoustics (3) Plane
and spherical acoustic waves. Transmission, reflection, radiation, and
absorption. Near and far fields, radiation patterns. Applications to
noise control. Instruments. Pre: 375, EE 211, or consent.
ME 481 Design Project I (3) (1 1-hr Lec, 2 2-hr
Lab) Engineering ethics, engineering design methodology, design
process, project planning, decision making, materials selection,
economic analysis, quality control, finite element analysis, initiation
of an open-ended design project. Pre: 372 and 375, or consent.
ME 482 Design Project II (3) (1 Lec, 2 2-hr Lab) Continuation
of design project initiated in ME 481. Extension of conceptual design to
final design and a prototype. Analysis, materials and part selection,
synthesis of working systems. Computer-aided design and finite element
modeling. Manufacturing specifications, shop drawings, and a final
report are required. Pre: 481 or consent.
ME 491 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (3)
Specialized topics in thermosciences, mechanics, materials, systems,
or design. Pre: consent.
ME 492 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (3)
Specialized topics in thermosciences, mechanics, materials, systems,
or design. Pre: consent.
ME 499 Project (V) Investigation of advanced
problems in mechanical engineering design or development. Student must
find faculty sponsor before registering. Pre: senior standing.
ME 500 Master’s Plan B/C Studies (1)
ME 611 Classical Thermodynamics (3) Critical
study of foundations of thermodynamics. Definitions, laws and
corollaries. Chemical, electrical, magnetic systems. Determination of
equilibrium states. Pre: 312.
ME 612 Advanced Thermodynamics (3) Advanced
classical thermodynamics and fundamentals of statistical thermodynamics.
Availability; exergy; entropy generation minimization; thermoeconomics;
statistics; quantum mechanics; ideal and dense gases; kinetic theory.
Pre: 312, 322, and 422; or consent.
ME 617 Thermal Environmental Engineering (3) Physiological
response to thermal environment, designs of passive and active cooling
systems, student project. Pre: 417 or consent.
ME 621 Conduction Heat Transfer (3) Steady
and unsteady heat conduction with and without heat sources in solids.
Analytical, numerical, graphical, analog methods for solving heat
conduction problems. Pre: 422.
ME 622 Convection Heat Transfer (3) Heat
transfer in laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Analogy between heat,
momentum, mass transfer. Pre: 422 and 626.
ME 623 Radiation Heat Transfer (3) Radiant
interchange among surfaces. Gaseous radiation. Combined conduction,
convection, and radiation heat transfer. Pre: 422 and senior standing.
ME 625 Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics and
Heat Transfer (3) Integration of ordinary differential equations.
Finite difference solutions of partial differential equations with
applications to conduction and convection. Introduction to finite
element methods. Pre: 422 and EE 150.
ME 626 Viscous and Turbulent Flows (3) Navier-Stokes
and energy equations, their formulation, properties; some exact
solutions; laminar boundary layers; laminar stability, transition,
turbulence; turbulent boundary layers. Pre: 322.
ME 627 Environmental Heat, Mass, and Momentum
Transfer (3) Heat and mass transfer in Earth’s interior with
applications to geothermal and petroleum reservoir engineering. Pre: 422
or consent.
ME 628 Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design (3) Chemical
kinetics with heat and mass transfer. Balance equations applied to
selected ideal reactors. Departures from ideality. Pre: 422 and 627.
ME 629 Renewable Energy Engineering I: Biomass (3)
(1 Lec, 2 2-hr Lab) Experimental methods and theory of
thermochemical biomass conversion: static and dynamic temperature and
mass measurements, thermogravimetry, differential scanning calorimetry,
GCMS and HPLC techniques. Pre: consent.
ME 631 Advanced Materials Science (3) Properties
of materials interpreted from the atomistic viewpoint. Crystal structure
and defects. Thermodynamics of solids; phase trans-formations;
experimental techniques. Pre: 331.
ME 635 Corrosion Theory (3) Application of
electrochemical theory and materials science to corrosion and oxidation
reactions. Effect of environment, especially marine. Cathodic
protection, coatings, inhibitors, treatment of water systems. Pre: 331.
ME 636 Fundamentals of Electrochemistry (3) Thermodynamics
of cells, electrode kinetics, mass transfer by migration and diffusion,
microelectrode techniques, forced convection, impedance, double-layer
structure, and absorbed intermediates in electrode processes. Pre:
consent.
ME 642 Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials
(3) Mechanical property tests. Stress concentrations. Fracture
mechanics; applications to materials failures and to selection of
materials; emphasis on mechanical engineering applications. Pre:
consent.
ME 646 Mechanics and Design Composites (3) Introduction
to composites; anisotropic elasticity and laminate theory; hygrothermal
effects; composite beams, columns, rods, plates, and shells; energy
method; failure theories; joining of composites, computeraided design in
composites. Pre: 371 or consent.
ME 651 Automatic Control (3) Linear optimal
feedback control, discrete time optimal control, fundamentals of
adaptive control, application to motion and force control of robot arms
and manipulators. Pre: 451, EE 451, or consent.
ME 657 Methods of Search and Optimization (3) Modeling,
theory, numerical methods for constrained and unconstrained parameter
optimization. Linear, nonlinear programming of deterministic systems.
Applications. Pre: consent.
ME 662 Computer Vision (3) Image formation,
filtering, edge detection and other forms of image enhancement,
segmentation of image into meaningful regions, techniques for analyzing
motion, creation of models representing scene and image understanding.
Psychological and physiological aspects of human vision will be
discussed. Pre: graduate standing.
ME 671 Continuum Mechanics (3) Cartesian
tensors in mechanics, coordinate transformations, analysis of stress and
strain, principal values, invariants, equilibrium and compatibility
equations, constitutive relations, field equations. Problems in
elasticity. Pre: 371 or CE 370, or consent. (Cross-listed as CE 671)
ME 672 Finite Element Analysis (3) Introduction
to finite element analysis and design in mechanical engineering.
Applications to machine design, vibrations, elasticity, heat transfer.
Pre: 371, 360, or consent.
ME 675 Digital Spectral Analysis (3) System
identification using discrete Fourier transform (DFT) methods.
Deterministic and random signal analysis. Windows, aliasing, FFT;
Z-transform and DFT; real-time data acquisition and analysis using
microcomputers. Pre: 375, EE 315, ICS 445, or consent.
ME 678 Advanced Dynamics (3) Lecture course on
rigid-body dynamics. Topics include: dynamical systems; motion
representation and constraints; Newtonian mechanics; Lagrangian
mechanics; Hamilton’s principle; stability analysis; introduction to
multibody dynamics. Pre: 375 or equivalent; or consent.
ME 686 Air Pollution, Toxics, and Control (3) Chemical
mechanisms of formation and destruction of major air pollutants,
transport phenomena, and health and environmental impacts. Evaluation of
source and control technologies. Current and pending regulations and
policies. Open to nonmajors. Pre: PHYS 170 and CHEM 171 or equivalent,
or consent. (Cross-listed as PH 686)
ME 691 Seminar (1) Current problems in all
branches of mechanical engineering. All graduate students are required
to attend; registrants are expected to present talks. Pre: graduate
standing.
ME 696 Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
(V) Highly specialized topics in thermosciences, mechanics,
materials, system, or design. Pre: consent.
ME 699 Directed Reading or Research (V) Directed
study on subject of mutual interest to student and a staff member.
Student must find faculty sponsor before registering. Pre: graduate
standing.
ME 700 Thesis Research (V) Thesis for degree of
MS in mechanical engineering. Pre: admission to candidacy and consent of
thesis adviser.
ME 799 Directed Instruction (V) Student assists
in undergraduate classroom and/or project instruction under the
direction and close supervision of faculty member. CR/NC only. Pre:
admission to PhD candidacy or consent.
ME 800 Dissertation Research (V) Research for
doctoral dissertation. Pre: candidacy for PhD in mechanical engineering.
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