|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course covers design considerations for highperformance vehicles such as competition automobiles and high-speed mass transit vehicles. Considered are propulsion, aerodynamics, stability, down force enhancement systems, braking, and handling. Engines for various vehicles are compared, such as the conventional internal combustion engine, the rotary or Wankel, for competition applications and long-life requirements such as traction engines for rail applications. Also investigated are crash safety issues for both mass transit and competition. Guided vehicles such as mass transit trains and the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) are investigated. Future technologies such as magnetically levitated and very high-speed mass transit systems are analyzed. Prerequisites: ES 202, ES 204, and ES 305, or consent of the instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Detail design of machine components; application of analytical methods in the design of simple machines. Failure mode analysis, theories of failure, yield, fracture, deflection, and fatigue analysis of machine elements. Introduction to computer methods of stress and deflection analysis using finite element analysis. Prerequisites: ES 202, ES 204.
-
1.00 Credits
A companion laboratory to ME 304. Corequisite: ME 304.
-
3.00 Credits
This course studies the application and design of robotic systems. Rover drives, suspension systems, tracked vehicles, gimbal-mounted cameras/sensors and walking robots are covered with an emphasis on space and aerial robotic applications. Several handson projects will be conducted and a final design project is required. Prerequisite: ES 204.
-
3.00 Credits
Basic concepts of vibration; free and undamped vibration; energy methods and Rayleigh's method for determination of natural frequencies; viscously damped vibration; various damping mechanisms; torsional vibration; harmonically excited vibration; transient vibration; multi degrees of freedom sys- tems; rotor dynamics; basic principles of acoustics and wave propagation; electroacoustics; transducers, noise measurements; applications to land, airborne, and space vehicle acoustics generated by a structure's vibration or by aerodynamic sources. Prerequisites: MA 345, ES 202 and ES 204, or approval of the instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Development of application of Navier-Stokes equations, estimation of drag and lift, isentropic flow, normal and oblique shock waves, Fanno and Rayleigh flow, turbomachinery, introduction to computational fluid dynamics, application of CFD software. Prerequisite: ES 206.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to robotics with an emphasis on kinematics and dynamics of robotic arms. The Space Shuttle arm and the Mars Rover arms will be analyzed. Topics include forward and inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, interpolation, and position sensing. Students will complete a project where they program a robotic arm and/or robotic welder. Prerequisite: ES 204.
-
3.00 Credits
Availability and evaluation of thermodynamic properties. The thermodynamics of compressible flow. Thermodynamic power and refrigeration cycles and systems; psychometrics and environmental control; mixtures of ideal gases; introduction to combustion; internal combustion engines, gas turbines, fuel cells; and direct energy conversion. Design and optimization of power systems and climate control with applications to land vehicles, robotics, aircraft, and spacecraft. Prerequisites: ES 305, MA 345.
-
3.00 Credits
This course includes the application of microprocessors to robotic systems with control. This course emphasizes the integration of aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and computer systems in robotics. Design and integration of microcontrollers, actuators, motors, power systems, and sensors are studied with significant group-oriented design experiments. Highlevel graphical programming is introduced. Simple autonomous algorithms such as line tracking, edge detection, and path planning are examined with and without feedback control. Prerequisites: EE 401, ME 306.
-
3.00 Credits
Modern analytical approach to the design and performance analysis of advanced internal combustion engines. Study of thermodynamics, fluid flow, combustion, and heat transfer. Engines for various vehicles are compared (such as the conventional internal combustion engine, the rotary or Wankel), for competition applications and long-life requirements such as traction engines for rail applications. Fuels and combustion, exhaust flows, emission and air pollution, fuel cell systems, hybrid vehicles. Ideas from aerospace technologies are implemented, such as jet engines and gas turbines for powering vehicles, and mass transit. Also, future technologies such as magnetically levitated and very high-speed mass transit systems are analyzed. Application of course techniques to engine research projects. Prerequisite: ES 305.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|