Global Arc

Introductory lecture and laboratory course for current or prospective Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students that focuses on analytical methods and skills. For AY 2016-17, the course will explore sensors, actuators, and elementary electronics. Electronic circuit assembly includes the use of schematic capture software and the design and fabrication of printed circuit boards. Students will participate in weekly lectures and laboratories. Basic concepts in the course will be reinforced by the development of an independent project. This elective course is PDF only, and it does not count towards the degree requirements in MAE.

Addresses issues of regional and global energy demands, including sources, carriers, storage, current and future technologies, costs for energy conversion, and their impact on climate and the environment. Also focuses on emissions and regulations for transportation. Students will perform cost-efficiency and environmental impact analyses from source to end-user on both fossil fuels and alternative energy sources. Designed for both engineering and non-engineering concentrators.

An overview of the fundamental principles underlying the fluid mechanics of animal swimming and flying. The course will emphasize the importance of using dimensionless physical numbers to gain insight into the mechanisms responsible for animal locomotion in a fluid and interactions of flow with living organisms. Physiological and zoological flows will be studied. Physiological flows will examine internal flows inside living organisms. Zoological flows will concentrate on flows external to living bodies at the macroscopic and microscopic level.

The course will focus on introductory biomedical innovation in three specific areas: Biomedical Implants; Nanotechnology and BioMEMS for Cancer Detection and Treatment; and Ceramic Water Filters for Water Purification. Topics will include basic concepts in cell and molecular biology, as well as fundamentals of materials science and bioengineering. The course will demonstrate how biomedical innovation has had an impact on global health and enterprise in the developed and the developing world.

A treatment of the theory of ordinary differential equations. The objective is to provide the student with an ability to solve standard problems in this field. MORE DESCRIPTION WILL BE ADDED RE LINEAR ALGEBRA

An introduction to ordinary differential equations. Use of numerical methods. Equations of a single variable and systems of linear equations. Method of undermined coefficients and method of variation of parameters. Series solutions. Use of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Laplace transforms. Nonlinear equations and stability; phase portraits. Partial differential equations via separation of variables. Sturm-Liouville theory. Three lectures. Prerequisites: MAT 201 or 203, and MAT 202 or 204.

Solution of partial differential equations. Complex variable methods. Characteristics, orthogonal functions, and integral transforms. Cauchy-Riemann conditions and analytic functions, mapping, the Cauchy integral theorem, and the method of residues with application to inversion of transforms. Applications to diffusion, wave and Laplace equations in fluid mechanics and electrostatics. Three lectures, one preceptorial. Prerequisite: 305, MAT 301 or equivalent.

Focus on design processes and procedures using modern engineering tools. Parametric design techniques are introduced in the computer-design laboratory along with simulation tools. Instruction in basic and computer-based manufacturing methods is given in the manufacturing laboratory. Teams of students conduct projects that involve the complete design cycle from concept and first principles through optimization, prototype, and test.

This course builds on the technical foundation established in 321, and extends the scope to include a range of advanced mechanical design. Teams of students will design and fabricate a wheeled robotic system that will draw upon multidisciplinary engineering elements. The robot will facilitate common daily tasks which vary each year. CAD, CAE, and CAM will be utilized in the design/simulation/prototype process. Labs are designed to reinforce and expand CAD and CAE skills. Two 90-minute lectures, one laboratory. Prerequisites: 321 or instructor's permission.

Methods of stress analysis applied to lightweight structures such as airplane or spacecraft components. Topics covered include: Virtual work and energy methods, matrix methods and the foundations of finite element analysis, bending and buckling of thin plates, bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams of open and closed cross sections, structural idealization and its application to aerospace structures and an introduction to structural dynamics and vibrations. All this in the context of aerospace structural applications. An overview of common aircraft structural arrangements will be presented.