Introduction to 3-D computer-aided design software, solid modeling, industry-standard engineering drawing practices, and engineering graphics. Applications to mechanical engineering.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Basic manufacturing background will be provided to engineering students in order to: (1) apply manufacturing specifications to the design of mechanical devices, and (2) communicate with technical personnel in a production environment. Topics cover metal casting, bulk and sheet metal forming, material removal, and joining and fastening processes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 1025 with a C- or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Provides a foundation in computational thinking and practices. Students learn to take advantage of computational power in problem solving by writing simple programs, studying the underlying logic of hardware, and working with a variety of technologies. Cross-listed with ENGR 1100.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course introduces concepts of engineering design innovation at a variety of scales and disciplines. Participants will experience and explore core technology and design themes including design principles, processes, methods, modes of thinking, and social and cultural aspects or design.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

A vector treatment of force systems and their resultants; equilibrium of trusses, beams, frames, and machines, including internal forces and three-dimensional configurations, static friction, properties of areas, distributed loads and hydrostatics.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: PHYS 2311 with a grade of C- or higher Coreq: MATH 2411

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The development of the physical principles relating the structural features of materials to their observed properties.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGR 1130 or CHEM 1130 or (CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2038 and CHEM 1999AE) with a C- or higher.

A vector treatment of dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, including rectilinear translation, central-force, and general motion of particles, kinematics of rigid bodies, the inertia tensor, plane motion of rigid bodies, energy and momentum methods for particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Cross-listed with CVEN 3111.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 2023 with a C- or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Experiments to determine material properties and the effect of processing on properties important in mechanical design. Materials include metal, polymers, and composites. Loadings include tension, compression, and bending under static, dynamic impact and creep states.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MECH 2024

A development of basic numerical methods used to solve engineering problems. Introduction to MATLAB to implement numerical simulations.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 1100. Coreq: MATH 3195 (or MATH 3191 and MATH 3200). Restricted to majors in CEDC Mechanical Engineering.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Introduces thermodynamic properties and state relationships, processes and cycles with work and heat transfer. Applications of the first and second laws to energy-related engineering systems.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MATH 1401 and PHYS 2311 with a C- or higher

Applies exact and approximate theories to engineering problems in fluids. Examples include potential flow theory, Euler's equations for inviscid fluids, Bernoulli's equations, Navier-Stokes equations, and pipe flow.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite courses of MECH 2033, MECH 3012 and MATH 2421 (all minimum grade of C-).

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Principles of digital and analog measurements; systems for sensing, transporting, modifying, and outputting information; systematic and random error analysis. The laboratory includes a variety of instruments and components illustrating fundamental experimental measurement techniques and methods.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite courses of MECH 3030 or ELEC 3030, MATH 3195 or (MATH 3191 MATH 3200) (all minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Modern techniques for Mechanical measurements. Laboratory includes techniques for the calibration of transducers and analysis of Statistical uncertainty. Data Acquisition Systems used for Signal acquisition and measurement of common mechanical quantities, such as displacement, velocity, acceleration and force. Design and characterization of a second order measurement system based on strain gages.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MECH 3027

Laboratory exercise in compressible and incompressible fluid flow; steady state and transient heat transfer.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 3012 with a C- or higher. Coreq: MECH 3021. Restriction: Restricted to MECH majors within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Basic electrical engineering lab for MECH majors.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MECH 3030 or ELEC 3030 Restriction: Restricted to MECH majors within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Review of mechanics of materials and stress analysis; detailed design of various machine elements such as fasteners, springs, brakes and gears. Includes design project.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite courses of MECH 2024 and MECH 3043(all minimum grade of C-). Requires corequisite course of MECH 1045.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Basic laws of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation with engineering design applications. Includes design project.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MECH 3021 (minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Application of exact and approximate theories of stress and displacement to engineering problems in solids. Examples include torsion of rods and bending of beams. Combined stresses, principal stresses and energy methods are examined.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 2023 or CVEN 2121 with a C- or higher

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Undergraduate internship course for credit. Must be approved by department and handled subject to experiential learning office rules.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Static and dynamic biomechanical analysis, effects of mechanical loading on bone and cartilage, design considerations in orthopaedic devices, muscle function, biomechanics of human movement, cardiovascular biomechanics. Cross-listed with MECH 5020

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course(s) of MECH 2023 OR MECH 2033 OR MATH 3195 OR (MATH 3200 AND MATH 3191) (all minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Modeling, simulation, and analysis of single and multiple degree-of-freedom dynamical mechanical systems. Matrix methods for linear systems. State-variable models. Laplace transforms. Control system analysis and design using root locus and frequency response methods.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 2033 and MATH 3195 or MATH 3191 and MATH 3200, and MECH 3010, and MECH 3043 or CVEN 3121.

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course provides training in computational and experimental methods for biomechanical engineering analysis. Topics include finite element analysis of biological systems, orthopedic device design, medical imaging analysis, mechanical characterization of biological tissues, and biomechanics of human movement.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 4020

The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the various experimental and computational tools to measure and study human movement. Using a motion capture laboratory and musculoskeletal modeling, these tools will be used to develop a thorough understanding of how engineering principles can be used to address the major challenges of human movement biomechanics, with a primary emphasis on experimental measurement methods and simulations of movement. These tools will be used to explore the interaction of musculoskeletal properties, including whole‐body and joint level biomechanics, with the environment during dynamic motion. Course topics include neuromuscular mechanics, balance performance, inverse dynamics, simulation of dynamic muscle‐tendon mechanics, and musculoskeletal model development. Cross-listed with MECH 5030.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course introduces students to the seven 3D printing processes, additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, and design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). AM now impacts nearly every stage of the product lifecycle and is shaping the future of manufacturing. Students will learn the fundamentals, applications, and implications of AM—understanding when and why to use it and rethinking traditional design limits. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 1. Describe the seven AM processes and their advantages and limitations. 2. Gain hands-on experience using and modifying multiple AM systems. 3. Recognize AM applications beyond prototyping, including tooling, production, and customization. 4. Apply AM across a product’s lifecycle. 5. Use generative design and topology optimization software for complex designs. 6. Evaluate the cost and value of AM processes. Cross-listed with MECH 5031

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to Juniors and Seniors only.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Group and individual projects to design engineering components and systems. Design methodology, product specs, creativity, design reviews, communication, presentations, and report writing are emphasized. MECH 4035 and MECH 4045 form a one year sequence and must be taken consecutively.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 3035 with a grade C- or higher and 40 hours of MECH courses. Restricted to majors in CEDC Mechanical Engineering.

Student teams manufacture and construct and/or redesign mechanical parts or assemblies that they designed in previous course (MECH 4035). A proposal, oral progress reports, and a final written report and demonstration are required. MECH 4035 and MECH 4045 form a one year sequence and must be taken consecutively.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 4035 with a grade of C- or higher Restriction: Restricted to MECH majors within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Introduces numerical analysis. Solution of linear and nonlinear equation systems. Numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations. Engineering applications.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MATH 3195 OR (MATH 3191 AND MATH 3200) (all minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Spring.

Analysis and design of polymers and polymer-based composites. Failure criteria include static strength, stiffness, creep, fatigue, impact and fracture toughness. Design criteria include strength-to-weight ratio and cost-to-strength ratio. Cross-listed with MECH 5114

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MECH 3043 OR CVEN 3121 (all minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Spring.

Selected topics from real analyses with applications to engineering analyses. Topics include vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and calculus of variations. Cross-listed with MECH 5120

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course(s) of MATH 3195 OR (MATH 3191 AND MATH 3200) (all minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Spring.

Viscous incompressible fluid flows. Topics include derivation of equations governing viscous compressible fluid motion; specializations to simple flows; boundary-layer theory; similarity solutions; introduction to turbulence and Reynolds stresses. Cross-listed with MECH 5141

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MECH 3021 (minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Spring.

Detailed engineering design of thermal/fluids systems. Students work in teams on a project selected for entire class. Projects are similar to typical ones from industry. Course stresses creativity, synthesis, design judgment, and analysis of real-world problems. Oral and written presentations are required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite courses of MECH 3010 AND MECH 3012 AND MECH 3021 AND MECH 3042 (all minimum grade of C-).

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Applies economic and financial principles to evaluation of engineering alternatives. Calculation of annual costs, present worth, and prospective rates of return on investment. Review of systems analysis techniques, including simulation, linear programming, and project scheduling. Cross-listed with CVEN 4077.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Review of Newtonian dynamics, Lagrange's equations for particles, systems, and rigid bodies. Conservative and non-conservative systems, moments of inertia, principal axes, angular momentum and Euler equations. Illustrations from spinning bodies, including tops, gyro-compass and rotating machinery. Cross-listed with MECH 5163.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite courses of (MECH 2033 OR CVEN 3111) AND (MATH 3193 OR MATH 3191) AND MATH 3200 (all minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students learn basic theory of finite element analysis (FEA) as it applies to stress analysis and design of mechanical components. Commercial package will be used giving students practical experience in the use of FEA. Cross-listed with MECH 5175.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MECH 3035 (minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course bridges the introductory and intermediate levels for renewable energy and the intermediate levels for wind energy. It offers cutting-edge insights into renewable energy, with a focus on wind energy, covering topics such as renewable energy sources, wind resource assessment, wind turbine aerodynamics, wind turbine wake modeling, wind farm simulation, and wind farm layout optimization. Various state-of-the-art tools widely utilized in academia and industry will be introduced. Cross-listed with MECH 5177.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MECH 3012 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to CEDC majors.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course provides the student with the basic ideas and calculation procedures on how solar processes work and how their performance can be predicted. Recommended Cross-listed with MECH 5178.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course provides an introduction to turbulence, a major topic in fluid mechanics with a wide range of applications in engineering and science. Students learn the fundamental concepts and statistical tools associated with this topic, the modeling of turbulence, and their applications to free-shear flows (e.g., jets and wakes), wall-bounded shear flows (e.g., channels, pipes and boundary layers) and heat transport. The course provides an opportunity to explore the use of commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for turbulence simulations. Cross-listed with MECH 5188.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MECH 3021 (minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Subject matter to be selected from topics of current technological interest. Credit to be arranged. Cross-listed with MECH 5208. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to MECH majors within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This category is intended for upper division level special topics which students may wish to pursue on their own initiative, with guidance from a professor who agrees to limited consultation on the work and to award credit when the project is completed. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to MECH majors within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing