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Required Freshmen Courses
EGR 1700 -
Introduction to Engineering
Description: Course introduces students to various fields of engineering utilizing both lecture and laboratory experiences. Students are introduced to computer aided drawing and modeling, and engineering graphics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
EGR 1705 -
Engineering Computation
Description: Course serves as an introduction to the use of computers in engineering and to problem solving in engineering. The analysis of problems will be accomplished using Mathcad, Excel, and Matlab. Programming structures such as decisions, loops and functions will be covered wherever appropriate. Course will provide students with a range of skills which will be useful not only in the engineering curriculum but also during their engineering career.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
Undergraduate Courses
ME 2100 -
Statics
Description: Vector analysis of force systems on particles and rigid bodies with particular emphasis on mathematical and physical formulation of principles underlying the solution of engineering problems; vector algebra; friction; centoids and moments of inertia.
Prerequisites: MAT 1505 and PHY 2400
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
ME 2113 -
Manufacturing Engineering
Description: Principles and processes of metal cutting, metal forming, metal casting and welding; related topics in materials and current manufacturing trends.
Prerequisites: ME 2100 or CEE 2104
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 2502 -
Prof Development Seminar
Description: Speakers from industry, academia, and government. Field trips to local facilities. Exposes students to the substance of mechanical engineering, provides stimulation and motivation early in their academic careers, provides an awareness of range of job opportunities, and initiates contact with potential employers.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
ME 2505 -
M.E. Analysis & Design
Description: Introduction to the design process as a foundation for future mechanical engineering courses. The role that engineering design plays in contemporary society; the creativity and innovation inherent in mechanical engineering design; and development of the ability to function as part of a design team.
Prerequisites: MAT 1505 and EGR 1705
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
ME 2900 -
ME Laboratory I
Description: Basic experiments related to manufacturing, temperature, flow rate, pressure, and strain measurement and data analysis; includes CNC programming and data collection through a PC using LabView, test of an internal combustion engine.
Prerequisites: ME 2113
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 3100 -
Thermodynamics I
Description: Elements of thermodynamics theory, system and control volumes, properties of pure substance, ideal gas, heat and work interactions, first and second laws, entropy.
Prerequisites: ME 2100 or CEE 2104
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 3150 -
Introduction to Dynamics
Description: Kinematics, velocity and acceleration of points on rigid bodies using cartesian, cylindrical, and tangent-normal reference frames. Mass center motion of contact force free bodies; projectile motion, planetary, satellite, and ballistic missile motion. Translational motion of the mass center of bodies acted on by contact forces. Plane rotational motion of bodies acted on by contact forces and moments.
Prerequisites: (ME 2100 or CEE 2104) and MAT 2705
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 3300 -
Materials Science I
Description: Introduction to atomic and molecular structure, origin of cohesive forces, micro and macro structures of crystalline and amorphous materials, mechanical properties, nature and influence of defects, physics of electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties, fundaments of solid science applied to metals, ceramics, and polymers.
Prerequisites: CEE 2103 and (CHM 1152 or CHM 1156)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 3402 -
Solid Mechanics & Design I
Description: Stress, strain, stress-strain relations, strain gauges; stress analysis; static failure; fatigue failure; design projects.
Prerequisites: CEE 2103
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 3403 -
Solid Mechanics & Design II
Description: Design and analysis of machine elements; wear; torsion of noncircular sections; computer aided engineering; design projects.
Prerequisites: ME 3402
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 3600 -
Fluids & Fluid Systems
Description: Fluid properties, fluid statics; kinematics of flow; conservation of mass, energy, momentum; dynamic similarity; fluid resistance, boundary layer theory; flow in conduits; lift and drag; potential flow; compressible flow.
Prerequisites: MAT 2500 and (ME 2100 or CEE 2104)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
ME 3802 -
Vibrations
Description: Free vibration of simple vibrating systems, harmonic excitation, steady state and transient vibration, multi-degree-of-freedom systems, modal analysis, applications.
Prerequisites: MAT 2705 and (ME 3150 or HON 2200)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 3900 -
ME Laboratory II
Description: Test of engineering materials, experiments related to basic stress analysis, thermodynamics and materials science.
Prerequisites: (ME 3100 or HON 2231)
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 3950 -
Heat Transfer I
Description: Steady state, unsteady state conduction in one & two dimensions; numerical methods of solution; forced & free convection in internal & external flow; heat exchangers; multi-mode heat transfer.
Prerequisites: (ME 3100 or HON 2231) and MAT 2705 and (ME 3600 or CEE 3500)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
ME 4010 -
Summer Internship
Description: Academic credit for a summer internship. Requirements: senior standing, a technical GPA of 3.0 or greater and sponsorship by a full-time faculty member arranged prior to the start of the internship. Program details available from the Mechanical Engineering Dept. Chairman, Tol. Room 111. (610-519-4980)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007
ME 4050 -
International Development
Description: Planning, design & impact of international service projects; understanding engineering in contemporary society & impact of development projects on low-income developing communities. Gravity-driven water networks, water quality, solid waste issues, & alternate energy options.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008
ME 4102 -
System Dynamics
Description: Lumped modeling of basic physical systems, modeling of electromechanical and other combined physical systems, analysis of free and forced response, transfer functions, frequency response.
Prerequisites: MAT 2705 and ME 3802 and (ECE 6020 or ECE 2052)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 4600 -
Legal Problems in Engineering
Description: American legal system; fundamentals of contracts, agency and property; zoning laws and building codes; construction contracts, mechanical contracts; subcontracts and pricing; surety bonds; arbitration; machinery and equipment contracts, patents and trade secrets. Professional Development elective.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
ME 4800 -
Design Seminar in ME I
Description: Product design; durability, economic, safety, producibility and environmental considerations; robust and quality design; decision-making, planning, scheduling and estimating; design proposal preparation.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 4801 -
Design Seminar in ME II
Description: Continuation of ME 4800, project design, design review process. Must be taken the semester following ME 4800.
Prerequisites: ME 4800 and ME 3402
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
ME 4802 -
Design Seminar in ME III
Description: Continuation of ME 4801, oral presentation of design projects, preparation of final design report.
Prerequisites: ME 4801
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 4850 -
Thermal-Fluid System Design
Description: Integration of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer and application to thermal designs. Characteristics of applied heat transfer problems: nature of problem specification, incompleteness of needed knowledge based and accuracy issues.
Prerequisites: (ME 3150 or HON 2200) and (ME 3600 or CEE 3500) and (ME 3950 or HON 2239)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
ME 4902 -
ME Laboratory III
Description: Experiments related to vibrations, controls, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Computer data acquisition and data analysis.
Prerequisites: ME 3802 and (ME 3950 or HON 2239)
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
ME 5000 -
Selected Topics in ME
Description: Independent study or research on a current engineering topic. Senior standing and permission of chairperson.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
ME 5101 -
Elements of Aerodynamics
Description: The standard atmosphere, two-dimensional incompressible flow, Reynolds and Mach number, generation of lift based on airfoil and wing platform characteristics, drag force, propulsive force, overall airplane performance, static stability and control.
Prerequisites: (ME 3600 or CEE 3500) and (ME 3100 or HON 2231)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
ME 5102 -
Compressible Fluid Flow
Description: Foundations of fluid dynamics, isentropic flow, normal shock waves, flow in constant-area ducts and friction, flow with heat exchange, unsteady flow.
Prerequisites: (ME 3100 or HON 2231) and (ME 3600 or CEE 3500)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Spring 2002, Spring 2001, Spring 1997
ME 5107 -
Environmental Engineering
Description: The engineering principles underlying the current practices of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems design.
Prerequisites: ME 3100 or HON 2231
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 2007
ME 5110 -
Elements Comput. Fluid Dyn.
Description: Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), concepts and methods for numerically solving the differential equations of fluid dynamics, solution to complex flow problems in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, environmental, and biomedical industries, use of the commercial CFD code, Fluent.
Prerequisites: ME 3600 or CEE 3500
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
ME 5200 -
Stress Analysis II
Description: Review of stress analysis fundamentals,intro to finite elements using ANSYS. Correct and incorrect solution methods of stress analysis boundary value problems, modeling pitfalls, and solution methods using finite elements. Practical applications.
Prerequisites: ME 2505 or ME 3402
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003
ME 5201 -
Intro to Finite Elements
Description: Basic concepts of finite-element method, method of weighted residuals, 1-D axial and beam elements, 2-D stress and thermal elements, design projects via commercial codes.
Prerequisites: ME 3402 and (ME 3950 or HON 2239)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
ME 5203 -
Intro to Automatic Control
Description: Modeling of dynamic systems, transfer functions, block diagrams, state vector concepts, feedback control, transient and frequency response, stability and root locus, controller design with output feedback.
Prerequisites: ME 4102
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 1995
ME 5301 -
Fracture and Fatigue
Description: Failure, structure of materials, stress-strain equations, mechanical testing, yielding & fracture, fracture of cracked members, fatigue of materials, stress-based approach to fatigue, fatigue crack growth, creep.
Prerequisites: ME 3300 and ME 3402
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Summer 2005
ME 5330 -
EM of Nanomaterials
Description: Fundamental theories of scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometer, and nanomaterials; operating principles for Hitachi S-4800 high resolution scanning electron microscope; hands-on experiences on secondary and backscattering images, x-ray microanalysis and characterization of nanomaterials. Limited to 15 students/seats.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
ME 5411 -
Mechatronics
Description: Introduction to mechatronics, mechatronics components, its working principle and governing models, digital and analog electronics, mechatronic actuators, micro-controllers, sensors, modeling mechatronic systems, and case study. Senior standing.
Prerequisites: (ECE 6020 or ECE 2052) and MAT 2705
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
ME 5421 -
Introduction to Robotics
Description: Basic principles of robotics; kinematic and dynamic concepts; actuators, sensors and practical issues; forward and inverse kinematics and dynamics of simple robotic arms; kinematics and dynamics of wheeled robots; alternative locomotion for mobile robots.
Prerequisites: ME 4102 or ECE 4290
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
ME 5500 -
Biomechanics
Description: The field of biomechanics; skill development for modeling and analyzing the mechanical behavior of biomechanical systems through several case studies using research papers.
Prerequisites: ME 4102 and ME 5201
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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