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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Freshman physics; MEAM 354 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Engineering is progressing to ever smaller scales, enabling new technologies, materials, devices, and applications. Mechanics enters a new regime where the role of surfaces, interfaces, defects, material property variations, and quantum effects play more dominant roles. This course will provide an introduction to nano-scale mechanics and tribology at interfaces, and the critical role these topics play in the developing area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. We will discuss how mechanics and tribology at interfaces become integrated with the fields of materials science, chemistry, physics, and biology at this scale. We will cover a variety of concepts and applications, drawing connections to both established and new approaches. We will discuss the limits of continuum mechanics and present newly developed theories and experiments tailored to describe micro- and nano-scale phenomena. We will emphasize specific applications throughout the course. Literature reviews, critical peer discussion, individual and team problem assignments, a laboratory project, and student presentations will be assigned as part of the course.
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Prerequisite(s): MATH 240, 312 or equivalent; MEAM 210, 453 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor; familiarity with a computer language; undergraduates require permission. Mathematical modeling of mechanical design problems for optimization. Highlights and overview of optimization methods: unconstrained optimization, unidirectional search techniques, gradient, conjugate direction, and Newton methods. Constrained optimization. KKT optimality conditions, penalty formulations, augmented Lagrangians, and others. SLP and SQP and other approximate techniques for solving practical design problems. Monotonicity analysis and modeling of optimal design problems. Optimization of structural elements including shape and topology synthesis. Variational formulation of distributed and discrete parameter structures. Design criteria for stiffness and strength. Design sensitivity analysis. The course will include computer programs to implement the algorithms discussed and solve realistic design problems. A term project is required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Statics, linear algebra, and differential equations. Biological and non-biological systems are both subject to several basic physical balance laws of broad engineering importance. Fundamental conservation laws are introduced and illustrated using examples from both animate as well as inanimate systems. Topics include kinematics of deformation, the concept of stress, conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Mechanical constitutive equations for fluids, solids and intermediate types of media are described and complemented by hands-on experimental and computational laboratory experiences. Practical problem solving using numerical methods will be introduced.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MEAM 302. This course is cross-listed with an advanced level undergraduate course. It may be taken by M.S.E. students for credit. M.S.E. students will be required to do some extra work, they will be graded on a different grade scale than undergraduate students and they will be be required to demonstrate a higher level of maturity in their class assignments. MEAM doctoral candidates will not be permitted to count this course as part of their degree requirements. Review of fluid kinematics and conservation laws; vorticity theorems; two-dimensional potential flow; airfoil theory; finite wings; oblique shocks; supersonic wing theory; laminar and turbulent boundary layers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MEAM 527 or equivalent is recommended. Undergraduates need permission. Introduction to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). A brief overview of micromachining. Modeling strategies and algorithms for multi-energy domain coupled governing equations of MEMS components, devices, and systems. Component-level and system-level dynamics. Design case studies covering a wide range of transducers including mechanical, electrostatic, thermal, magnetic, optical, etc. Synthesis methods for MEMS. Review of selected recent papers from the literature. A term-project or a term-paper on a selected topic is required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MEAM 210, MATH 240, 241. This course is cross-listed with an advanced level undergraduate course. It may be taken by M.S.E. students for credit. M.S.E. students will be required to do some extra work, they will be graded on a different scale than undergraduate students, and they will be required to demonstrate a higher level of maturity in their class assignments. MEAM doctoral students will not be permitted to count 400/500 courses as part of their degree requirements. Rods and trusses. Stress. Principal stresses. Strain. Compatibility. Elastic stress-strain relations. Strain energy. Plane strain. Plane stress. Bending of beams. Torsion. Rotating disks. Castigliano's Theorem. Dummy loads. Principle of virtual work. The Rayleigh-Ritz methods. Introduction to the finite element method. Non-linear material behavior. Yielding. Failure.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Background in Biology, Chemistry or Engineering with coursework in thermodynamics or permission of the instructor. From single molecule studies to single cell manipulations, the broad field of cell and molecular biology is becoming increasingly quantitative and increasingly a matter of systems simplification and analysis. The elaboration of various stresses on cellular structures, influences of interaction pathways and convolutions of incessant thermal motions will be discussed via lectures and laboratory demonstration. Topics will range from, but are not limited to, protein folding/forced unfolding to biomolecule associations, cell and membrane mechanics, and cell motility, drawing from very recent examples in the literature. Frequent hands-on exposure to modern methods in the field will be a significant element of the course in the laboratory. Skills in analytical and professional presentations, papers and laboratory work will be developed.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate thermodynamics. To introduce students to advanced classical equilibrium thermodynamics based on Callen's postulatory approach, to exergy (Second-Law) analysis, and to fundamentals of statistical and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Applications to be discussed include advanced power and aerospace propulsion cycles, fuel cells, combustion, diffusion, transport in membranes, materials properties, superconductivity, elasticity, and biological processes.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any of the following courses: ESE 218, MSE 321, MEAM 333, CHE 351, CHEM 321/322, Phys 250 or permission of the instructor. A laboratory course on fabricating microelectronic and micromechanical devices using photolithographic processing and related fabrication technologies. Lectures discuss: clean room procedures, microelectronic and microstructural materials, photolithography, diffusion, oxidation, materials deposition, etching and plasma processes. Basic laboratory processes are covered in the first two thirds of the course with students completing structures appropriate to their major in the final third. Students registering for ESE 574 will be expected to do extra work (including term paper and additional project).
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3.00 Credits
Diamond, Sinno. The course provides a unified introduction to momentum, energy (heat), and mass transport processes. The basic mechanisms and the constitutive laws for the various transport processes will be delineated, and the conservation equations will be derived and applied to internal and external flows featuring a few examples from mechanical, chemical, and biological systems. Reactive flows will also be considered.
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