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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Either MEAM 570, MEAM 642, CHE 640 or equivalent, or Written permission of the Instructor. The course deals with advanced topics in transport phenomena and is suitable for graduate students in mechanical, chemical and bioengineering who plan to pursue research in areas related to transport phenomena or work in an industrial setting that deals with transport issues. Topics include: Multi-component transport processes; Electrokinetic phenomena; Phase change at interfaces: Solidification, melting, condensation, evaporation, and combustion; Radiation heat transfer: properties of real surfaces, non-participating media, gray medium approximation, participating media transport, equation of radiative transfer, optically thin and thick limits, Monte-Carlo methods: Microscale energy transport in solids; microstructure, electrons, phonons, interactions of photons with electrons, phonons and surfaces; microscale radiation phenomena.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate thermodynamics and heat transfer (or equivalent), or permission of the instructor. Undergraduates my enroll with permission of the instructor. As materials and devices shrink to the micro- and nanoscale, they transmit heat, light and electronic energy much differently than at the macroscopic length scales. This course provides a foundation for studying the transport of thermal,optical, and electronic energy from a microscopic perspective. Concepts from solid state physics and statistical mechanics will be introduced to analyze the influence of small characteristic dimensions on the propagatin of crystal vibratins, electrons, photons, and molecules. Applications to mdern microdevices and therometry techniques will be discussed. Topics to be covered include natural and fabricated microstructures, transport and scattering of phonons and electrons in solids, photon-phonon and photon-electron interactions, radiative recombinations, elementary kinetic theory, and the Boltzmann transport equation.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on a few topics relevant to micro-fluidics and nano-technology. In particular, we will learn how the solid liquid interface acquires charge and the role that this charge plays in colloid stability, electroosmosis, and electrophoresis. Other topics will include controlled nano-assembly with dielectrophoresis, and stirring at very low Reynolds numbers (Lagrangian Chaos). The focus of the course will be on the physical phenomena from the continuum point of view. The mathematical complexity will be kept to a minimum. Software tools such as Maple and Femlab will be used throughout the course. The course will be reasonably self- contained and necessary background material will be provided consistent with the students' level of preparation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MEAM 410/510 or equivalent, (understanding of DC motors, basic prototyping skills, familiarity with programming microcontrollers, basic digital electronics, ideal op-amps). This course provides an in-depth exploration into electro-mechanical systems.Topics covered will expand on actuation mechanisms (including shape memory alloy and brushless motors); sensing mechanisms (including range sensors and proximity detectors), signal conditioning (with particular emphasis on dealing with noise and the non-idealities of typical components); programming modalities (including real-time operating systems and filters); and communication mechanisms (such as wireless RF, CANbus, SPI/I2C and others). The project-based course will focus on the integration of systems at the OEM-component level and will include significant mechanical interface design.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate Controls Course. This course focuses on nonlinear systems, planar dynamical systems, Poincare Bendixson Theory, index theory, bifurcations, Lyapunov stability, small-gain theorems, passivity, the Poincar map, the center manifold theorem, geometric control theory, and feedback linearization.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering and MEAM 535 or ESE 500 or CIS 580 or equivalent. Geometry of rigid body displacements, coordinate systems and transformations; Kinematics of spatial mechanisms, direct and inverse kinematics for serial chain linkages, velocity and acceleration analysis; Dynamics, trajectory generation and control of manipulators; Motion planning and control of robotic systems.
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3.00 Credits
Faculty. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering and MEAM 535 (Advanced Dynamics) or ESE 500 (Linear Systems Theory) or CIS 580 (Machine Perception) or equivalent. Undergraduates require permission. This class provides a graduate-level introduction to the field of haptics, which involves human interaction with real, remote, and virtual objects through the sense of touch. Haptic interfaces employ specialized robotic hardware and unique computer algorithms to enable users to explore and manipulate simulated and distant environments. Primary class topics include human haptic sensing and control, haptic interface design, virtual environment rendering methods, teleoperation control algorithms, and system evaluation; current applications for these technologies will be highlighted, and important techniques will be demonstrated in a laboratory setting. Coursework includes problem sets, programming assignments, reading and discussion of research papers, and a final project. Appropriate for students in any engineering discipline with interest in robotics, dynamic systems, controls, or human-computer interaction.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): One graduate level course in applied mathematics and one in either fluid or solid mechanics. This course is a more advanced version of MEAM 530. The topics to be covered include: tensor algebra and calculus, Lagrangian and Eulerian kinematics; Cauchy and Piola-Kirchhoff stresses. General principles: conservation of mass, conservation of linear and angular momentum, energy and the first law of hermodynamics, entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. Constitutive theory, ideal fluids, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, finite elasticity, linear elasticity, materials with microstructure.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MEAM 519 or permission of instructor. Reciprocal theorem. Uniqueness. Variational theorems. Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin, and weighted residue methods. Three-dimensional solutions and potentials. Papkovitch-Neuber formulation. Problems of Boussinesq and Mindlin. Hertz theory of contact stress.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MEAM 519 or permission of instructor. Plastic yield conditions and associated flow rules. Phenomenological theories for strain-hardening plasticity. Large strain theory. Physical theories of single crystal and polycrystal plasticity. Boundary value problems and plane strain slipline fields. Variational principles and limit analysis. Creep. Applications to structures, metal forming, friction and wear, contact, and fracture.
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