Course Descriptions
Thermodynamics
First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics: properties, states, thermodynamic functions,
entropy and probability, thermodynamics of state, thermodynamic cycles, reacting and
nonreacting mixtures, chemical and phase equilibrium.
Applied Mechanics
Elements of algebra, abstract statics of a system of bound vectors, Equilibrium of
rigid bodies, dynamics of a particle . Kinematics of rigid bodies, principles of virtual
work, kinetics of a system of particles .
Mechanics of Materials
Elements of tensor notation; kinematics of deformable media; mass, momentum,
and energy conservation principles; constitutive equations for linearly elastic solids;
method of sections and virtual work and energy methods; design applications to engineering
structures, problems of torsion flexture and combined loading; design beyond the elastic
limit.
Engineering Mathematics
Introduction to engineering mathematics concepts; methods for solving ordinary
differential equations and partial differential equations; engineering simulations; vector
and matrix analysis, the complex variable and its application; mechanical materials; the
development of the physical principles relating the structural features
of material to their observed properties; analysis and synthesis of two kinematic systems.
Mechanical Drawing
Introduction to drawing technology; applications to machine drawing, parts
drawing, and erection drawing.
Computer-Aided Graphics
An introduction to using a computer system to assist in engineering graphics,
fundamental components of hardware and software; Auto-CAD software.
Mechanisms
Geometry of motion; position and displacement; velocity and acceleration
analysis of linkages; spatial mechanisms of robotics.
Shop Practice
Learning to operate a lathe, milling machines, drilling machines, etc. All
manufacturing processes such as forging, and foundry are done in shops.
Principles of Microprocessors
Introduction to microprocessor hardware and software, and interface
techniques.
Industrial Management
Relationship of the engineer to functions and decisions of management; design
of organizational systems; project administration, auditing and evaluation for optimum use
of resources, leadership, performance, innovation, and decision making.
Electrical Engineering
Introduction to fundamental concepts; network circuits; basic analysis of
electrical circuits and applications, semi-conductors and integral circuits.
Design of Machine Components
Stress and deflection analysis; failure criteria; fatigue; finite life design;
power screws and fasteners; welded, brazed, and bonded joints; mechanical springs;
lubrication and journal bearings; gears; shafts, etc.
Fluid Mechanics
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics and basic fluid
properties; basic equations for fluid flow; dimensional analysis and similitude;
hydrodynamics.
Heat Transfer (I)
Basic laws of heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation; engineering
applications.
Internal Combustion Engines
Fundamentals of modern internal combustion engines: physical and chemical
aspects of combustion phenomena and performance evaluation of fuel injection systems.
Manufacturing Processes
Survey of industrial processes, quality control, and materials of
manufacturing.
Computer Programming
Basic concepts of programming; introduction to Basic, Fortran, and C
languages.
Numerical Methods
General concepts of numerical analysis, curve fitting methods, computational
methods for polynomial and transcendental equations, ordinary differential equations and
partial differential equations.
Automatic Controls
Study of linear feedback systems, transfer functions, stability, root locus,
frequency response and space state techniques, design and synthesis of control systems.
Experiments in Mechanical Engineering
Team participation in eleven experimental projects on conventional equipment;
experimental tests in properties of materials, such as tensile, compression torsion,
bending, hardness, impact and fracture.
Engineering Analysis
Selected topics from linear algebra, complex variable theory, and partial
differential equations. The presentation is correlated with other analysis topics included
in mechanical engineering courses and emphasizes applications.
Finite Element Methods
Basic concepts of FEM, variational methods of element formulation and global
analysis. Implementation of FEM to various mechanical systems, such as elasticity, heat
transfer, fluid mechanics and vibration.
Machine Design & Drawing
Review of mechanics and strength of materials; machine design concepts;
professional practice in special selected topics and drawing.
Special Topics of Mechanical Engineering
Courses in special topics of interest in Mechanical Engineering, including two
semesters of thermofluid and two semesters of solid mechanics and control.
Computerized Numerical Control
Using the computer to control all machine tools; software programming and
numerical control fundamentals.
Measurement Systems
Introduction to generalized configurations, functional descriptions of
measuring instruments, and generalized performance characteristics of instruments; design
of measuring devices, such as motion, force, torque, shaft power, pressure and sound,
flow, temperature and flux.
Hydraulic and Pneumatic Engineering
The physical world of a machine; forced transmission through a fluid;energy
transmission using hydraulic systems; control of hydraulic and pneumatic systems;
hydraulic pumps and compressors; components of hydraulic and pneumatic control; fluid
conductors and connectors.
Thermal Engines
Steam generator theory and practice; steam turbine theory and practice.
Refrigeration Engineering
Principles of mechanical refrigeration; absorption cycle; liquefaction of
gases; properties of refrigerants. Thermodynamic analysis of refrigeration systems.
Air-Conditioning and Ventilation
Physical and thermodynamic laws for water vapor and air mixtures; basic
principles of heating and ventilation; determination of heating and cooling loads;
examination of heating and cooling systems.
Mechanical Vibration
Single and multiple degrees of freedom, lumped parameter systems; shock
spectra; generalized coordinates; Lagrange's equations; vibration in continuous systems.
Advanced Mechanics of Materials
Review of engineering mechanics of materials, and buckling problems; introduction to
system design; analysis and design for impact and fatigue loading; selected topics in
mechanics of materials.
Computer Aided Design
Review of computer languages, programming and special requirements; linear and
nonlinear programming; matrix methods and numerical techniques,including constraints,
simulation and graphical displays;optimization methods.
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Advanced concepts and techniques for the use of microprocessors in industrial
process control and mechanical systems; design of control software; operating systems and
higher
order languages for industrial control; simulation of manufacturing systems.
Applications of Microprocessors
Applications of microprocessors to measurement systems and numerical control
machines.
Heat Transfer (II)
Review of heat conduction; methods of solving signal-and multi-dimensional heat
conduction problems and transient heat conduction problems; heat exchangers; thermal
systems design.
Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
Review of fundamental principles; methods of separating variables; principles
of superposition; applications of hydrograph transformation and conform mapping to fluid
mechanics; numerical methods in fluid mechanics; characteristic methods.
Gas Dynamics
Three dimensional compressible flow; isentropic flow, normal shock waves, flow
with addition of energy and friction; unsteady wave motion and shock tube flows; transonic
and hypersonic flows; non-equilibrium and kinetic effects of gases.
Advanced Dynamics
Tractable problems of rigid-body particle dynamics; dissipative and
non-holonomic systems; the principle of least action; Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Small
amplitude vibration theory.
Elasticity
Review of the basic equations of the linear theory of elasticity; St. Venant
torsion and flexure; plane strain, plane stress, and generalized plane stress; application
of conformable mapping and Fourier transform techniques; variation principles.
Continuum Mechanics
Cartesian tensor notation; deformation, strain, strain rate and compatibility;
definition of the stress vector; fundamental balance laws of mass, momentum and energy ;
entropy invariance requirements; constitutive equations for elastic, visco-elastic, and
plastic materials.
Composite Materials
Review of fundamental elasticity laws relating to composite materials; role of
the filament-matrix interface in relation to tensile strength, elastic behavior and
fracture for various composite materials; various analytical methods for composite
structures.
Robotic Engineering
Elements of a robotic/flexible automatic system; overview of applications;
identification, hardware selection, work cell design, design of parts and assemblies;
advanced topics.
Boundary Layer Theory
Introduction to Navier-Stokes equations and boundary-layer equations; laminar,
turbulent, compressible, and thermal boundary layers.
Random Processes
Probabilistic descriptions of signals and noise, including joint, marginal and
conditional densities, auto-correlation, cross-correlation and power spectral density;
linear and nonlinear transformations; linear least-squares estimation; signal detection.
Turbulence Theory
Development of the basic concepts and governing equations for turbulence and
turbulent field motion; formulations of the various correlation sensors and energy spectra
for isentropic and nonisentropic turbulence; an introduction to turbulent transport
processes.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Introductory courses in computational fluid mechanics. The first part includes
basic concepts and introduces the fundamentals of finite difference methods; the second
part is devoted to applications using the equations of fluid mechanics.
Introduction to Propulsion
Performance and analysis of reciprocation, jets, rocket engines, and hybrid
systems; characteristics of inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines, nozzles and engine
systems; energy and environmental problems.
Combustion Theory
Thermochemistry, equilibrium, chemical kinetics, flame temperature, flame
velocity, flame-spray combustion, detonation. Equations of motion including reaction, heat
transfer, and diffusion.
Conductive Heat Transfer
A generalized treatment of the solution to transient and steady heat
conduction in finite and semi-infinite regions; approximate and exact methods of solution
to problems involving phase change, variable thermal properties and non-linear boundary
conditions.
Convection Heat Transfer
Advanced topics in steady and transient, natural and forced convective heat
transfer for laminar and turbulent flows through conduits and over surfaces.
Mass transfer in laminar and turbulent flows is also covered. Topics in compressible flow
with heat and mass transfer are included.
Radiation Heat Transfer
Formulation of the governing equations for radiation heat transfer; properties
of ideal and real surfaces; specialized techniques for solutions to heat transfer between
gray surfaces (both diffuse and specular), absorbing, emitting, and scattering media.
Energy Conversion Systems
An engineering study of the modern developments in the field of conversion of
heat to power in order to meet new technology demands; thermoelectric, thermomagnetic,
photovoltaic and magneto-hydrodynamic effects and their utilization for energy conversion
purposes.
Experimental Mechanics
Theoretical and experimental techniques of strain and stress analysis with
emphasis on electrical strain gauges and instrumentation, brittle concerns, grid methods
and an introduction to photoelasticity.
Visco-elasticity
Constitutive relations: models, differential operators, hereditary integrals,
complex relations, three-dimensional constitutive relations; isothermal boundary value
problems and thermovisco-elasticity problems.
Fracture Mechanics
Classical fracture and fatigue analysis and their limitations; Griffith-Irwin,
linear-elastic fracture-mechanics analysis, historical aspects, formulation of stability
criteria, sub-criteria, sub-critical crack growth, isentropic and homogeneous effects, and
fracture control analysis.
Linear System Theory
Review of linear operators and mathematical descriptions of systems; solutions
to dynamic equations. Controllability and observability of linear systems; irreducible
realizations. Feedback and estimators, stability of linear systems. Design of linear
systems.
Optimal Control Theory
Introduction to vector stochastic processes and optimization techniques for
dynamic systems using nonlinear programming methods and variational calculus.
Digital Control of Dynamic Systems
The use of digital computers in the real-time control of dynamic systems such
as servomechanisms, chemical processes, and vehicles which move over water, land, air, or
space.
Nonlinear Control
Describing functions; phase plane; sample-data systems; statistical methods.
Adaptive Control
One-step-ahead adaptive control, model reference adaptive control, adaptive
control of linear deterministic and stochastic systems, adaptive control of nonlinear and
time-varying systems.
System Identification
Identification techniques: correlation, least-square, minimum-variance,
gradient; stochastic approximation and maximum-likelihood: understanding of each technique
and its limitations.
Stochastic Estimation and Control
Review of stochastic presses and linear dynamic system models, stochastic
estimation and smoothing linear and nonlinear stochastic control.
Fuzzy and Neural Networks
This course introduces the principles of fuzzy logic and neural networks. The
topics within fuzzy logic include: formation of fuzzy sets, the processes of fuzzification
and defuzzification, fuzzy inference mechanisms, and examples of their application. The
subjects covered in neural networks are: elementary neurophysiology, adaptive linear
neurons, backpropagation networks, associative memory, Hopfield memory, and
self-organizing maps. In order to assist students in learning both techniques, computer
projects are assigned.The results are then discussed during class to share the experience
with classmates.