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3.00 Credits
This course studies the applications and design of robotic systems. Particular emphasis is placed on aviation and space applications of robotics. Typical robotic motion is investigated as well as the requirements for control systems for the needed accuracy, repeatability, and stability. Sensors such as position, force, and acceleration are explored and the signal conditioning circuits and analog-to-digital conversion required for interfacing these sensors. Activating devices such as electric motors, linear actuators, and other motion devices are analyzed. Systems are modeled and control laws are developed. Software for computer-generated control laws are studied. Prerequisite: ME 302.
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3.00 Credits
4 Credits Mechanical design principles are developed and applied for robotic applications. The topic is selected and approved by the Mechanical Engineering Department. Principles of conceptual and detailed mechanical design, and component design, manufacture, and production are covered. A complete system is designed, resulting in a complete set of specifications, supporting analysis, drawings, and performance report. For senior undergraduate students only. Prerequisites: ME 306, ME 400.
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3.00 Credits
Aerodynamic forces on land vehicles. Design requirements for lift, drag, stability, and safety for passengers. Cars, high-performance vehicles, commercial, and motorcycles. Noise control, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. 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 for powering vehicles and the use of computational fluid dynamics codes to predict the aerodynamic performance of such vehicles. Also, future technologies such as magnetically levitated and very high-speed mass transit systems are analyzed. Prerequisites: ES 201, ES 204, ES 206, ES 305.
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2.00 Credits
Design and analysis of mechanics system, for fluctuating loading. Fatigue analysis. Application of design fundamentals to mechanical components, and integration of components to form systems. Fatigue failure of systems. Mechanical design of such systems as bearings, transmission gears, springs, joints, brakes, and clutches. Indeterminate systems. Prerequisites: ES 320, ME 304.
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3.00 Credits
4 Credits Mechanical design principles are developed and applied for high performance vehicles. The topic is selected and approved by the Mechanical Engineering Department. Principles of conceptual and detailed mechanical design, and component design, manufacture, and production are covered. A complete system is designed, resulting in a complete set of specifications, supporting analysis, drawings, and performance report. For Senior undergraduate students only. Prerequisites: ME 303, ME 400.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits The course introduces students to the basic methods of numerical modeling for typical physical problems encountered in solid mechanics, thermal/fluid sciences, energy, and environmental systems. Students will learn how to formulate a model in terms of analgebraic or differential equation. Problems that can be solved analytically will be chosen initially and solutions will be obtained by appropriate discrete methods. Basic concepts in numerical methods, such as convergence, stability, and accuracy, will be introduced. Various computational tools will then be applied to more complex problems, with emphasis on finite element and finite difference methods, finite volume techniques, boundary element methods, and gridless Lagrangian methods. Methods of modeling convective nonlineariaties, such as upwind differencing and the Simpler method, will be introduced. Discussion and structural mechanics, internal/external fluid flows, and conduction and convection heat transfer. Steady state, transient, and eigenvalue problems will be addressed with emphasis on aerospace power and environmental systems.
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
2 Credits This course builds on the theory of mechanisms and kinematics associated with Robotics I and II and expands on those concepts to design and analyze mobile robots as they are being used to explore planets and other inaccessible areas. The focus will be on locomotion, sensors and perception, navigation and state estimation, and environment modeling. Safety and reliability and other aspects of mobile robot design such as energy supply will be studied. Finally the student will incorporate the learned material into the mobile robots available in the space systems laboratory. Prerequisites: ME 306, AE 430.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Jet engines are analyzed in depth using the fundamental principles developed in AE 408 and by extensive computer programs. Parametric engine cycle analysis will investigate both ideal and engines with losses. The performance of a particular (actual) jet engine will be analyzed to determine how its performance is affected by operational conditions (altitude, throttle positions). In addition to the turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft family of jet engines, the scramjet will be analyzed. Prerequisite: AE 408.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Emphasis is on body concept for design using first order modeling of thin-walled structural elements. Practical application of solid/structural mechanics is considered to design automotive bodies for global bending, torsion, vibration, crashworthiness, topology, material selection, packaging, and manufacturing constraints. Also investigated are crash and safety issues for both mass transit and the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS). Prerequisites: ES 202, ES 204.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This is a continuation of the preliminary design course and is the capstone course for the degree.
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