|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Topics include deflection of beams; energy methods and structural analysis; analysis of stress and strain, stress and strain transformations, stress-strain relations, stresses in thin-walled pressure vessels, and failure criteria; buckling instability; and elementary plasticity. Prerequisite: ENGR 323. 3 semester hours
-
3.00 Credits
The use of digital computers as a tool for the solution of engineering problems. Solution of roots of equations, systems of linear algebraic equations, regression, interpolation, differentiation, integration, and ordinary differential equations. Applications from statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and solid mechanics. Corequisite: MATH 242. 3 semester hours
-
1.00 Credits
Presentation and discussion of current engineering problems and solutions. Each student makes a presentation with faculty and visiting engineers participating as available. Prerequisite: senior status. 1 semester hour
-
1.00 Credits
Professionalism in engineering, including ethics, safety, management, and society. Presentations and discussions. Prerequisite: senior status. 1 semester hour
-
3.00 Credits
The response of single degree of freedom systems, damped and undamped, is found for harmonic and impulsive excitations. Application is made for the control of undesirable vibrations in structures, machines, and vehicles. Theory of measurement instruments, seismic, velocity, and acceleration. Two or more degrees of freedom systems are considered and analyzed using matrix formulation and computer solutions. Prerequisite: ENGR 214, ME 354. 3 semester hours
-
3.00 Credits
Introduction; steady and transient conduction; foundations of free and forced convection in internal and external flows; principles of thermal radiation including the concepts of black and gray surfaces, and gas radiation. Prerequisite: ENGR 320, 325. Corequisite: ME 354. 3 semester hours
-
4.00 Credits
Introduction to the design of mechanical elements and assemblages. Design of components to static and dynamic failure criteria. Consideration of material use; economics; weight; ease of manufacture; etc. The integration of components into an assemblage with necessary compromises. Short projects to design components and assemblages to given criteria by synthesis and analysis. Prerequisite: ME 352. Corequisite: ME 351. 4 semester hours
-
4.00 Credits
Individual and team design of several predominantly mechanical systems is an ongoing part of the course. Design topics include gear design, optimization, engineering statistics, and risk and reliability in design. Prerequisite: ME 461. 4 semester hours
-
4.00 Credits
Pipe and duct flow, piping system design, pumps and pumping systems, pump selection and specification, heat exchangers and their integration in thermal systems, piping networks. Design aspects include working systems, mathematical modeling, system simulation, computer-aided design, safety, reliability, and introduction to optimization. Team design of a fluid-thermal system is an ongoing part of the course. Prerequisites: ME 346, 455. 4 semester hours
-
3.00 Credits
Special topics of current interest in mechanical engineering. Specific course offerings decided annually. Recent courses are Biomechanics, Bio-Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to the Finite Element Method, Applied Fluid Dynamics, Mechanics of Advanced Materials, and Heat Transfer Processes. Prerequisite: Senior status. 3 semester hours
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|