2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

Course Descriptions/Mechanical Engineering 499Mechanical Engineering(MEEN)601. Advanced Product Design. (3-0). Credit 3. Design methodology, functional design, innovation,parameter analysis, design for reliability, manufacturability and strength; design project. Prerequisite:MEEN 402 or equivalent.603. Theory of Elasticity. (3-0). Credit 3. Analysis of stress and strain in two and three dimensions, equilibriumand compatibility equations, strain energy methods; torsion of noncircular sections; flexure;axially symmetric problems. Prerequisite: Mechanics of Materials, Advanced Calc Different Equations.Cross-listed with MEMA 601.606. Polymer Laboratories. (2-3). Credit 3. Introduction to basic experimental skills relating to Polymers.Experiments to be performed include polymerization, Molecular weight determination, FTIR, tensiletext, NMR, DSC, swelling index, viscosity, x-ray diffraction.607. Polymer Physical Properties. (3-0). Credit 3. Macromolecular concepts; molecular weight characterization;solubility parameters; phase diagrams; viscoelasticity; rheology; thermal behavior; damage phenomena,morphology; crystallization; liquid crystallinity; nanocomposites. Prerequisite: MEEN 222 orequivalent. Cross-listed with MSEN 607.608. Continuum Mechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Development of field equations for analysis of continua (solidsas well as fluids); conservation laws: kinematics, constitutive behavior of solids and fluids; applicationsto aerospace engineering problems involving solids and fluids. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.Cross-listed with MEMA 602.609. Materials Science. (3-0). Credit 3. Structure and properties of solid materials. Prerequisites: Undergraduatelevel Materials, Science and Engineering course. Cross-listed with MEMA 609.610. Applied Polymer Science. (3-0). Credit 3. Macromolecular concepts, molecular weight, tacticity,theory of solutions, rubber elasticity, thermal transitions, rheology, crystallinity, heterogeneous systemsand relation of mechanical and physical characteristics to chemical structure; applications to polymerblends, thermosetting resins, structural adhesives and composites; design and processing of fibrouscomposites. Prerequisite: Graduate classification; ENGR 213. Cross-listed with MEMA 610.612. Mechanics of Robot Manipulators. (3-0). Credit 3. Kinematics, dynamics and control of industrialrobot manipulators. Prerequisites: MEEN 364 and MEEN 411 or approval of instructor.613. Engineering Dynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Three dimensional study of dynamics of particles and rigidbodies and application to engineering problems; introduction to Lagrange equations of motion andHamilton’s principle. Prerequisites: MEEN 363; MATH 308.614. Design and Modeling of Viscoelastic Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. To provide the mechanical andmathematical basis for modeling linear viscoelastic materials. Prerequisite: CVEN 305 or equivalent.615. Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Theories of thermodynamics and theirapplication to more involved problems in engineering practice and design; equilibrium, Gibbs’ function,nonideal gases and various equations of state; second law analysis and statistical theory. Prerequisite:MEEN 421 or equivalent.616. Surface Science. (2-2). Credit 3. Properties of surfaces, principles of classic and contemporary surfacecharacterization techniques, recent development and roles of surface science in advanced technology.Prerequisite: Graduate classification. Cross-listed with MSEN 616.617. Mechanical Vibrations. (3-0). Credit 3. Theory of linear vibrations of finite and infinite number ofdegree of freedom systems via Lagrange, Newtonian and Energy approaches. Engineering applications.Prerequisites: MEEN 364; MATH 308.618. Energy Methods. (3-0). Credit 3. Principles of virtual work, minimum total potential energy and extremummixed variational principles; energy theorems of structural mechanics; Hamilton’s principle fordynamical systems; Rayleigh-Ritz Galerkin, and weighted-residual methods; applications to linear andnonlinear problems in mechanics (bars, beams, frames, plates and general boundary value problems).Prerequisites: MATH 601 or registration therein. Cross-listed with MEMA 605.619. Conduction and Radiation. (3-0). Credit 3. Solutions of steady and transient problems with methodof separation of variables, finite difference numerical methods, Duhamel’s Theorem, Green’s function,and Laplace transform, the phase change problems. View factors; radiative properties of surfaces andparticipating media, radiative exchange; gas radiation; and advanced solution methods for thermal radiation.Prerequisite: MEEN 461.