Courses

Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

One- and two-dimensional conduction heat transfer for steady state and transient systems with varying boundary conditions.

This course uses the vector space approach to develop the analytical foundations for solutions of science and engineering problems in diverse application areas such as optimal control, estimation, and signal processing.

Conservation laws pertinent to energy conversion and fluid mechanics are applied to pumps, centrifugal compressors, axial compressors and turbines, hydro turbines and wind turbines.

Concepts related to laminar and turbulent premixed and nonpremixed combustion with applications to propulsion and stationary systems.

Theoretical background of sustainability issues and studies of sustainability systems.

One- and two-dimensional conduction heat transfer for steady state and transient systems with varying boundary conditions.

Laminar and turbulent flow heat transfer in natural and forced convection systems.

Heat transfer processes involving evaporation, boiling, and condensation.

Two-dimensional subsonic flow; similarity rules; theory of characteristics; supersonic and hypersonic flows; nonsteady flow; oblique shock waves.

First semester of core sequence in fluid mechanics; Navier-Stokes equations, potential flow, low Re flow, laminar boundary layers.

Second semester of core sequence in fluid mechanics; continuation of boundary layers, stability, transition, turbulence, turbulent boundary layers, turbulence models.

Application of finite difference methods to the study of potential and viscous flows and conduction and convection heat transfer.

Theoretical formulations and methods of solution of engineering problems and physical/chemical processes in various propulsion systems.

An introduction to kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular structure, chemical thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics of gases.

This course conducts investigations of one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional dynamics, kinematics and design integrated into the study of vehicle dynamics.

Dynamic analysis of systems involving automatic control of position, speed, power, flow, pressure, temperature, and other physical quantities.

Computer modeling and fundamental analysis of solid, fluid, and heat flow problems using existing computer codes.

Design and analysis of mechanical linkages including kinematic synthesis and dynamic analysis.

Techniques and formulations for computer-based kinematic and dynamic analyses of machines.

Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and methods of optimal control, dynamic programming, and extremum-seeking control, with a focus on the application of these tools to a variety of problems in the energy generation, storage, and management domain.

Advanced problems and techniques in the design of automatic control systems with emphasis on stability, controller design, and optimum performance.

Introduction to continuum mechanics, variational methods, and finite element formulations; application to bars, beams, cylinders, disks, and plates.

Advanced theory of semidiscrete formulations for continua and structures; emphasizes dynamic and nonlinear problems.

Application of numerical optimization techniques to design mechanical and structural systems; design sensitivity analysis.

Introduces computational fundamentals, including digital logic; programming language, basic numerical analysis and data processing, as applied to mechanical simulation techniques.

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.

Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.  You will be required to write a paper on a topic that you and your faculty adviser mutually agree is suitable for publication in a professional journal or presentation at a national or international conference, in order to obtain this degree.

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.