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ME 7000 -
Advanced Engineering Analysis
Description: Solutions of ordinary differential equations, series solutions, special functions, boundary-value problems, partial differential equations, vector calculus, calculus of variations, and engineering applications. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
ME 7002 -
Continuum Mechanics
Description: Tensor algebra and calculus; Lagrangian and Eulerian Kinematics of Deformation; Cauchy and Piola-Kirchhoff stresses; general principles including conservation of mass, conservation of linear and angular momentum and energy; constitutive theory, ideal fluids, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, finite elasticity, and linear elasticity.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2004
ME 7038 -
Intro-Computational Fluid Mech
Description: Discretization, boundary conditions, solution methods, heat transfer, flow with known pressure field, calculation of pressure field, applications program, special topics. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Fall 2005
ME 7040 -
Intro to Fin Element Analysis
Description: Introduction to the finite element method with a focus on stress analysis. Boundary value problems; weighted residuals; variational methods; finite element formulation and solution; hands-on experience using programs for solution of problems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2004
ME 7103 -
Advanced Engrg Thermodynamics
Description: An advanced treatment of engineering thermodynamics involving reversible and irreversible macroscopic processes with emphasis on fundamentals and applications of the first and second laws, and the thermodynamics of equilibrium states of substances. Seniors must have a minimum GPA of 3.0
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007
ME 7200 -
Applied Optimal Design
Description: Development and use of techniques for improving the performance of mathematically modeled systems. Conjugate gradient and quasi-Newtown methods for unconstrained problems. KKT conditions of optimality, solution of non-linear constrained systems and linear optimization. Computer programming required.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2005
ME 7201 -
Materials Characterization
Description: Principles of analytical methods for characterization of materials for structure & composition; crystallography, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, & atomic force microscopy. Hands-on laboratory experiments in scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy. Restricted to Engineering/Science graduate students & seniors with 3.0 GPA or higher.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ME 7204 -
Comp-Aided Anal Multibody Sys
Description: Kinematic and dynamic analysis and design of mechanical systems, computer simulation and design of multibody systems such as automobiles, engines, compressors, cam-followers, robots, etc. Approval of instructor. Prerequisite may be waived with permission of the chair. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2002, Fall 2001
ME 7205 -
Advanced Dynamics
Description: Particle dynamics, system of particles, impulse and momentum, energy concepts, Lagrange's equations, kinematics of rigid body motion, dynamics of a rigid body. Approval of instructor. Prerequisite may be waived with permission of the chair. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2002, Spring 2001
ME 7206 -
Dynamics of Rotating Machinery
Description: Coordinate systems and kinematics of rotor motion, critical speeds and unbalance excitation, effect of asymmetry in rotor and stator, gyroscopic effect, stability and energy concepts, hydrodynamic bearings, finite element modeling, nonlinear phenomena in machinery. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2001, Fall 1998
ME 7210 -
Fundamentals of Acoustics
Description: Generation of sound by sources of various types, radiation and scattering of sound by objects, transmission, reflection, and refraction of waves through bounded and unbounded media and across their surfaces of contact; elementary applications to underwater and architectural acoustics. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Vibrations
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2003
ME 7400 -
Intro to Computer Integ Mfg
Description: Production line analysis, line balancing, group technology, MRP, numerical control, robotics, automated inspection and material handling.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
ME 7401 -
Num Control & Robotic Applns
Description: Principles, types and features of NC systems; NC programming; CNC and DNC; principles and configurations of industrial robots; robot programming; end-effectors and sensors for robots; manufacturing applications of robots; justification of NC and robot systems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
ME 7402 -
Comp-Aided Prod Planning
Description: Static and dynamic production planning models, operations scheduling, inventory control, forecasting, queuing theory. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
ME 7501 -
Reinforced Comp Materials
Description: Particulate, filamentary, short-fiber, and laminated composites; elastic, and thermal structure/property relationships; stress analysis and design of material systems; static and fatigue failure; destructive and NDE test techniques. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
ME 7502 -
Fiber Composite Structures
Description: Orthotropic stress-strain relations, hygrothermal effects, laminate analysis, manufacturing residual stresses, stress analysis, finite element analysis, composite structure failure, designing, joining, and repair. Prerequisites: Matrix algebra and undergraduate solid mechanics. Undergraduate students must obtain permission of the department chair.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
ME 7600 -
Thermal Mgmnt of Electronics
Description: Fundamentals of thermal design issues associated with electronic equipment; including free and forced convection, liquid immersion, heat pipes, thermoelectrics, reliability, cold plates and numerical solution methods.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
ME 7700 -
Tran Phen in Bio Systems
Description: This course provides an introduction to the modeling and interpretation of transport in living tissue and cells. Topics include momentum, heat and mass transfer in arteries, water and solute exchange in the microcirculation, mass transfer across cell membrane, renal physiology and gas exchange in the lung. Prerequisite: Undergraduate fluid mechanics or transport courses, or instructor's consent.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007
ME 8002 -
Asymptotics for Engineers
Description: Asymptotic approximations to problems of engineering interest; problems in which functions are defined by polynomial and transcendental equations, definite integrals, ordinary, and partial differential equations.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005
ME 8040 -
Adv Fin Element Analysis
Description: Nonlinear applications of the finite element method. Emphasis on formulation, solution algorithms, and convergence. Hands-on experience using programs for solution of problems.
Prerequisites: ME 7040
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005
ME 8103 -
Advanced Fluid Mechanics
Description: Fundamentals of fluid mechanics, conservation of mass, momentum, and energy; incompressible inviscid and viscous flows; Navier-Stokes equations, laminar and turbulent boundary layers, high speed flows.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2004
ME 8110 -
Conduction Heat Transfer
Description: Theory of steady and unsteady heat conduction, convection and radiation boundary conditions, analytical and numerical methods of solution, thermal component design.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2004
ME 8120 -
Convection Heat Transfer
Description: Fundamentals of convection; conservation of mass, momentum and energy in integral and differential forms; laminar and turbulent, forced, and natural convection in internal and external flows; introduction to mass transfer. Prerequisite or Corequisite ME 7000.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2004
ME 8130 -
Radiation Heat Transfer
Description: Fundamentals of radiant heat transfer; diffuse and non-diffuse radiation; modern techniques for determining configuration factors.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2005, Fall 2004
ME 8140 -
Thermo & Thermal Struct
Description: Thermoelasticity theory is used in the design and analysis of structures and structural components which are subjected to temperatures which vary both in time and with position. Examples include aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, turbines and nuclear reactors.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 8200 -
Elasticity & Stress Analysis
Description: Stress analysis fundamentals and solution methods. Strain, stress, elastic constitutive relations, equilibrium, compatibility, boundary value problems, uniqueness, two-dimensional and axisymmetric problems, flexure, torsion; energy methods, applications to structures, pressure vessels, rotating machinery. Approval of instructor.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
ME 8204 -
Robotics: Analysis & Control
Description: Forward and inverse kinematics of non-redundant and redundant robotic arms; kinematics and dynamics of wheeled robots; path planning and control of mobile robots; alternative locomotion mechanisms. Approval of instructor.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
ME 8206 -
Experimental Stress Analysis
Description: Review of stress and strain, strain gages, rosettes, strain gag circuits, brittle lacquer, light, polarization, wave plates, photoelasticity theory, photoelastic analysis, coatings, moldings, laboratory exercises and demonstrations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Spring 2004
ME 8207 -
Vibration Analysis
Description: Linearization and stability, multi-degree-of-freedom systems, eigenvalue problem, forced response, continuous systems, discretization techniques, finite element method for vibration analysis.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
ME 8217 -
Random Vibrations
Description: Random vibration theory is used in the design and analysis of structures and structural components when the parameters of the dynamic loads applied to the structural system are not known exactly and can only be described in a statistical manner.
Prerequisites: ME 7000
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005
ME 8302 -
Mech & Therm Behav of Solids
Description: Mechanisms for plastic deformation, creep, fatigue, and fracture; effects of stress, defects, structure, temperature, and corrosive environments on material behavior.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2005, Summer 2003
ME 8350 -
Applied Fracture Mechanics
Description: Analysis of stress field near a crack tip, concepts of stress intensity and strain energy release rate, fracture modes, brittle and ductile fractures, fracture toughness test, fracture mechanics design, fatigue and fatigue crack growth. Approval of instructor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2006, Summer 2004, Spring 2002
ME 8402 -
Control Systems Engineering
Description: Review of dynamic process modeling, linearization, transfer function & state-space models. Stability & dynamics of open- loop & closed-loop systems. Feedback control system design & analysis in the frequency & time domain. Topics include: Bode, Nyquist, & Root locus design; multivariable control; feedforward control. Prerequisite: Undergraduate background in systems & control.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
ME 8404 -
Nonlinear Control
Description: Nonlinear dynamical systems & control theory. Lyapunov stability theory, absolute stability, dissipativity, partial stability, feedback linearization, Lp stability, Hamilton- Jacobi-Bellman theory, nonlinear H- infinity, control Lyapunov functions, sliding mode control, & adaptive control. Prerequisite: EGR 8301 or equivalent with permission from the instructor.
Prerequisites: (ME 8402 or EGR 8302)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ME 8405 -
System Identification
Description: Introduction to system identification techniques for linear systems. Topics include: non-parametric time- and frequency- domain methods, parametric model structures, noise models, parametric estimation methods, recursive estimation, bias & data pre-filtering, validation methods.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ME 8406 -
Nonlinear Dynamics
Description: Introduction to nonlinear dynamic analysis using analytical, graphical & numerical techniques. Linear system theory, the nonlinear pendulum, stability concepts, bifurcation theory, self-excited oscillations, overview of asymptotic methods, Floquet theory, Poincare maps, & chaos.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ME 8407 -
Robust Control
Description: Robustness issues in controller analysis & design. Matrix theory, linear systems theory, H2 norm, linear quadratic regulator & linear quadratic Gaussian problems, uncertainty modeling, small gain theorem, H~ performance, the mixed- norm H2/H~ problem, & sliding mode control & adaptive control.
Prerequisites: (ME 8401 or EGR 8301)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ME 8409 -
Adv Top in Dynamics & Controls
Description: Advanced treatment of various aspects of nonlinear dynamics & control. Prerequisite: Depends on topic covered each semester. Contact instructor for specific details.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ME 9000 -
Independent Study
Description: Individual supervised study on special topics in Mechanical Engineering. May include some research related to the topics. Approval of chair and faculty advisor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 9010 -
Special Topics in ME
Description: Advanced and current topics in Mechanical Engineering.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2003, Summer 2002
ME 9031 -
Thesis Research I
Description: Supervised participation in thesis research, registration to be approved by department chairperson and thesis advisor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 9032 -
Thesis Research II
Description: Second course of supervised participation in thesis research, registration to be approved by department chair and thesis advisor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 9080 -
Thesis Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 9085 -
Independent Study Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 9086 -
ME Graduate Practicum
Description: Provides work experience for a graduate student who has been offered an opportunity to work in the mechanical engineering field in industry. Required for curricular practical training.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 9087 -
ME Grad Pract Continuation
Description: Continuation of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Practicum. Required for extension of Curricular Practical Training (CPT).
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
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