Mechanical Engineering

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  • ENG ME 500: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
    Seminar course on a topic of current interest in aerospace and mechanical engineering. (Formerly ENG AM 500)
  • ENG ME 501: Dynamic System Theory
    Introduction to analytical concepts and examples of dynamic systems and control. Mathematical description and state space formation of dynamic systems; modeling, controllability, and observability. Eigenvector and transform analysis of linear systems including canonical forms. Performance specifications. State feedback: pole placement and the linear quadratic regulator. Introduction to MIMO design and system identification using computer tools and laboratory experiments. Meets with ENG EC 501 and ENG SE 501; students may not receive credit for both.
  • ENG ME 502: Intellectual Assets: Creation, Protection, and Commercialization
    This course provides students with the knowledge and tools necessary to create, protect, and commercialize engineering and scientific intellectual assets. Students will first make use of creativity tools to attack posed engineering problems, then turn to means for protecting their solutions. Rapidly growing areas that are affecting nearly all businesses (e.g., software and the internet) as well as "high-tech" areas including microelectronics, communications, and bioenegineereing will be emphasized. Extensive patent searches and analysis will be carried out to develop skills for quickly ascertaining the protected technical content of patents, and for recognizing what intellectual property (IP) should be and can be protected. Legal aspects for protecting creative ideas will be studied at a level appropriate for engineers to interact easily and smoothly during their technical careers with IP lawyers. Various business models for the commercialization of intellectual assets will be analyzed. Extensive class exercises and projects will explore in depth all three of these important areas of IP, with emphasis on key contributions during engineering and scientific research and development activities. (Formerly ENG MN 505)
  • ENG ME 503: Kinetic Processes in Materials
    Kinetics of mass transport, continuum and atomistic approaches, chemical diffusion; kinetics of chemical reactions, kinetics of adsorption and evaporation; nucleation and growth; solidification; spinodal decomposition; coarsening; martensitic transformations; order-disorder reactions; point defects and their relation to transport kinetics. Meets with ENGMS503; students may not receive credit for both.
  • ENG ME 504: Polymers and Soft Materials
    An introduction to soft matter for students with background in materials science, chemistry, and physics. This course covers general aspects of structures, properties, and applications of soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, amphiphiles, gels, and biomaterials. Emphasis on chemistry and forces related to molecular self-assembly. Topics include forces, energies, kinetics in material synthesis, growth and transformation; methods for preparing synthetic materials; formation, assembly, phase behavior, and molecular ordering of synthetic soft materials; structure, function, and phase transition of natural materials such as nucleic acids, proteins, polysaccharides, and lipids; techniques for characterizing the structure, phase, and dynamics of soft materials; application of soft materials in nanotechnology. Meets with ENG MS 504; students may not receive credit for both.
  • ENG ME 505: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
    The laws of thermodynamics; general formulation and applications to mechanical, electromagnetic and electromechanical systems; thermodynamics of solutions, phase diagrams; thermodynamics of interfaces, adsorption; defect equilibrium in crystals; statistical thermodynamics, including ensembles, gases, crystal lattices, and phase transitions. Same as ENGME505; students may not receive credit for both.
  • ENG ME 507: Process Modeling and Control
    An introduction to modeling and control as applied to industrial unit processes providing the basis for process development and improvement. Major themes include an integrated treatment of modeling multi-domain physical systems (electrical, mechanical, fluid, thermal), application of classical control techniques, and system design. Topics include modeling techniques, analysis of linear dynamics, control fundamentals in the time and frequency domain, and actuator selection and control structure design. Examples drawn from a variety of manufacturing processes and case studies. Meets with ENGMS507. Students may not receive credit for both. (Formerly ENGMN507)
  • ENG ME 508: Computational Methods in Materials Science
    Introduction to computational materials science. Multi-scale simulation methods; electronic structure, atomistic, micro-structure, continuum, and mathematical analysis methods; rate processes and rare events. Materials defect theory; modeling of crystal defects, solid micro-structures, fluids, polymers, and bio-polymers. Materials scaling theory: phase transition, dimensionality, and localization. Perspectives on predictive materials design. Same as ENGMS508; students may not receive credit for both.
  • ENG ME 510: Production Systems Analysis
    Operations research and dynamic systems methods applied in modeling, analysis, and control of production systems. Inventory analysis and control for single and multi-item systems based on deterministic and stochastic demand models. Demand forecasting. Supply chain management. Machine, flow shop and job shop scheduling, project scheduling with PERT and CPM. Production control methods: MRP, MRP-II, Just-in-Time, and Kanban. (Formerly ENG MN 510)
  • ENG ME 511: Manufacturing Information Systems
    This course provides a basic introduction to Information Systems concepts, design and analysis techniques, and their application to Manufacturing Operations Management. The impact of contemporary Information Technology solutions on Manufacturing Operations Management is explored by focusing on Enterprise Resource Planning, Manufacturing Execution, and Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems. Trends and challenges facing Information Technology solutions to Manufacturing Operations Management are highlighted through case studies focusing on Lean and Agile manufacturing, Supply Chain Management and Electronic Procurement, six sigma, and related methodologies. (Formerly ENG MN 511)
  • ENG ME 512: Engineering Analysis
    Mathematical methods in aerospace and mechanical engineering; vectors and tensors; partial differential equations of heat and mass transfer, wave motion and potential theory, classification of second order PDEs; eigenfunction expansions, method of characteristics, Fourier and Laplace transforms; complex variable theory, residue integration, conformal mapping; Green's functions, integral equations, variational methods; perturbation methods for non-linear differential equations. (Formerly ENG AM 505)
  • ENG ME 513: Compressible Aerodynamics
    Aerodynamics and thermodynamics of compressible fluid flow. Laval nozzles, Prandtl-Meyer flow, normal and oblique shock waves. Linearized theory. Application to external and internal flow problems such as airfoils. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to ENG ME 423. (Formerly ENG AM 513)
  • ENG ME 514: Simulation
    Modeling of discrete event systems and their analysis through simulation. Systems considered include, but are not limited to, manufacturing systems, computer-communication networks and computer systems. Simulating random environments and output analysis in such contexts. A simulation language is introduced and is the main tool for simulation experimentation. Meets with ENG EC 514; students may not receive credit for both.
  • ENG ME 515: Vibration of Complex Mechanical Systems
    Introductory course in mechanical vibrations for graduate students and for undergraduate students with substantial mastery of core undergraduate subjects in mechanics and mathematics. Course includes an elementary introduction to applicable concepts in linear algebra. Potential and kinetic energy functions of single- and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Matrix formulations of forced vibrations of linear systems. Natural frequencies, resonance, and forced vibration response. Natural modes and mode shapes. Rayleigh's principle. Rayleigh's dissipation function, transient and forced responses of damped vibrations. Random excitation of vibrations. Impedance matrix. O'Hara-Cunniff theorem, modal masses, modal analysis. Vibrations of simple continuous systems such as strings, beams, rods, and torsional shafts. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to ENG ME 441. (Formerly ENG AM 515)
  • ENG ME 516: Statistical Mechanical Concepts in Engineering
    Specific prerequisites vary according to topic, but do not extend beyond what is covered in the core courses in the undergraduate curriculum in mechanical engineering. Elementary introduction to selected fundamental concepts in probability, random processes, signal processing, and statistical mechanics with strong emphasis on their applications to aerospace and mechanical engineering. Examples taken from acoustics, mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics. (Formerly ENG AM 506)
  • ENG ME 517: Product Development
    Dynamics of converting ideas into marketable products. Choosing products and defining their specifications to achieve competitive advantage. The product development process is decomposed and its elements are examined critically in the context of actual case studies; risk evaluation, concurrent engineering, and impact of new product decisions on the factory. A step-by-step methodology for new product development is derived. (Formerly ENG MN 513)
  • ENG ME 518: Product Quality
    Introduction to statistical methods for design, control and improvement of quality. Includes Statistical Process and Quality Control (SPC & SQC) and Acceptance Sampling. Extensive coverage of Design of Experiments (DOE) with applications to designing quality into products and to process and product performance improvement. Also covers Robust Design and Taguchi's method. Introduction to modern approaches to management of quality (TQM, Six Sigma). (Formerly ENG MN 518)
  • ENG ME 519: Theory of Heat Transfer
    Analytical, numerical, and physical aspects of heat transfer phenomena, with emphasis on nondimensionalization and scaling. Mathematical treatment of steady and unsteady conduction, including finite difference methods. Forced and natural convection in internal and external flows. Thermal radiation and multimode heat transfer. Melting and solidification. Applications to aerospace heat transfer, energy systems, manufacturing, and biological heat transfer. (Formerly ENG AM 519)
  • ENG ME 520: Acoustics I
    Introduction to wave propagation and sound. General concepts such as quantitative measures of sound, plane waves, and acoustic energy density and intensity. Derivation of wave equation. Sound radiation from vibrating bodies. Basic ray-acoustic concepts: reflection, refraction, diffraction and scattering of acoustic waves. Other topics may include flow-induced sound, Helmholtz resonators, sound transmission through ducts and mufflers, room acoustics, and absorption and attenuation of sound waves in fluids. (Formerly ENG AM 520)
  • ENG ME 521: Continuum Mechanics
    The main goal of this course is to present a unified, mathematically rigorous approach to two classical branches of mechanics: the mechanics of fluids and the mechanics of solids. Topics will include kinematics, stress analysis, balance laws (mass, momentum, and energy), the entropy inequality, and constitutive equations in the framework of Cartesian vectors and tensors. Emphasis will be placed on mechanical principles that apply to all materials by using the unifying mathematical framework of Cartesian vectors and tensors. Illustrative examples from biology and physiology will be used to describe basic concepts in continuum mechanics. The course will end at the point from which specialized courses devoted to problems in fluid mechanics (e.g. biotransport) and solid mechanics (e.g. cellular biomechanics) could logically proceed; Same as ENGBE521. Students may not receive credit for both. (Formerly ENG AM 521)

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