Mechanical Engineering

This course can be used by master's students to meet their course registration requirements and also conduct some preliminary work on their master's research projects. See page 577 for additional information related to courses with a range of hours.

Covers the foundations of incompressible, compressible, and ideal and viscous aerodynamics theory.

Reviews of the basic laws of classical thermodynamics, cycles, and reactive systems.

Examines the statistical basis of thermodynamics and irreversible thermodynamics.

Analyzes particle dynamics, systems of particles, Hamilton's principle, Lagrange's equations, central force motion, rigid body dynamics, and Euler's equations.

Studies the satellite position relative to rotating earth, perturbation theory, restricted three-body problem, ascent trajectories, staging, mass ratio, and near - earth atmosphere.

Studies the physical properties of fluids, kinematics and conservation equations of fluid motion in rigid coordinate systems, tensor analysis, boundary conditions, vorticity, Navier - Stokes equations, some of their analytic solutions and selected topics on creeping flows, laminar boundary layers, instability of viscous flows and turbulence.

Presents analytical and numerical techniques for the analysis of convective heat-transfer problems.

Examines sound waves, waves of finite amplitudes in gases, shock and expansion waves, onedimensional gas-dynamic flows, linearized steady subsonic and supersonic flows and the theory of characteristics.

Deals with the mathematical formulation of basic equations of fluid dynamics and potential flow theory.

Presents analytical and numerical techniques for the solution of heat conduction problems.

Presents the kinematics of a general continuum and fundamental laws of continua.

Covers fundamentals as well as contemporary topics in acoustics.

Specialized experimental stress analysis course, with emphasis on design, construction, and use of complex models.

Intensive investigation carried out by students involving analysis, design, and/or experimentation in the student's area of interest. See note on page 577 related to thesis hours.

Forum for the presentation of current research activities of graduate students, faculty, and guest speakers.

Emphasizes formulation and application of variational principles for static, steady state and transient problems in solid and fluid mechanics.

Analyzes radiation heat transfer, including radiation exchange between surfaces and radiative transfer in participating and nonparticipating media.

Varies on demand; topics offered include finite element methods, fracture mechanics and fatigue. See page 577 for additional information related to Special Topics courses.

Advanced treatment for several complex topics for robotic manipulator analysis, design and control. Robot kinematics, dynamics based on Newton, Euler-Lagrange and Kane's method of formulations, linearization and control techniques, determination of positioning errors and modeling, and computer simulation.

Advanced work in computer-aided analysis and 3D geometric modeling with integration of manufacturing automation system, application of CAD techniques such as expert system and other advance developments to the concept of computer integrated manufacturing and flexible manufacturing system.

Basic concepts, formulation, and application of finite element techniques for numerical solution of problem in structural mechanics, heat transfer, dynamic response and fluid mechanics. Applications using general purpose FEM software such as ANSYS.

Advanced treatment of several topics of an interdisciplinary manufacturing environment and the critical examination of recent literature describing application of these topics to new technology areas.

This course can be used by doctoral students to meet their course registration requirements and also conduct some preliminary work on their master's research projects. See page 577 for additional information related to courses with a range of hours.

Theory and practice of the application of digital computers to mechanical engineering problems.

Includes numerical analysis fundamentals and difference methods for partial differential equations of fluid dynamics.

Examines rigid body dynamics, forces and torques that act on a spacecraft, passive and active stabilization of spacecraft, stability theory-Lyapunov's direct method, and Floquet theory.

Presents theories of turbulence, dynamics of turbulence and closure schemes, turbulent shear flows, and turbulent transport of momentum and heat.

Treats stability of linear systems - small oscillations; Hamilton's equations - phase space; canonical transformations; and the Hamilton- Jacobi equation.

Presentation of selected topics in contemporary aerospace mechanics that are of current interest to student and faculty researchers. See page 577 for additional information related to Special Topics courses.

Presentation of selected topics in contemporary fluid mechanics that are of interest to researchers. See page 577 for additional information related to Special Topics courses.

Project course taken by master�s program students enrolled in the non-thesis option with specialization in various areas of interest.

Presentation of specialized topics in contemporary CAD/CAM discipline that are of interest to researchers. See page 577 for additional information related to Special Topics courses.

The attitude representations, attitude kinematics, attitude measuring devices, elementary estimation theory, three-axis and spinaxis attitude estimation, deterministic and optimal attitude estimation, the Kalman filter, attitude error analysis and accuracy prediction, spacecraft system identification.

Intensive investigation carried out by Ph. D. candidates involving analysis, design, and/or experimentation in the student's area of interest that will culminate in an original contribution to the field. See note on page 577 related to thesis hours. *Note: A maximum of 12 dissertation credits may be taken per semester. In addition, a maximum of 12 dissertation credits may be counted toward the 72 required for program completion.

Project course taken by master's program students enrolled in the non-thesis option with specialization in various areas of interest. See page 577 for additional information related to Special Topics courses.