Mechanical Engineering Courses

MEEG 501. Aerodynamics Theory. 3 crs. Covers the foundations of incompressible, compressible, and ideal and viscous aerodynamic theory.

MEEG 503. Advanced Thermodynamics I. 3 crs. Reviews of the basic laws of classical thermodynamics, cycles, and reactive systems

MEEG 504. Advanced Thermodynamics II. 3 crs. Examines the statistical basis of thermodynamics and irreversible thermodynamics.

MEEG 505. Advanced Dynamics I. 3 crs. Analyzes particle dynamics, systems of particles, Hamilton’s principle, Lagrange’s equations, central force motion, rigid body dynamics, and Euler’s equations.

MEEG 506. Astronautics. 3 crs. Studies the satellite position relative to rotating earth, perturbation theory, restricted three-body problem, ascent trajectories, staging, mass ratio, and near-earth atmosphere. Prereq.: MEEG 505.

MEEG 507. Advanced Fluid Mechanics I. 3 crs. Studies the physical properties of fluids, kinematics and conservation equations of fluid motion in rigid coordinate systems, tensor analysis, boundary conditions, vorticity, Navier-Stokes equations, some of their analytic solutions and selected topics on creeping flows, laminar boundary layers, instability of viscous flows and turbulence.

MEEG 508. Advanced Heat Transfer I. 3 crs. Presents analytical and numerical techniques for the analysis of convective heat-transfer problems.

MEEG 509. Advanced Gas Dynamics. 3 crs. Examines sound waves, waves of finite amplitudes in gases, shock and expansion waves, one-dimensional gas-dynamic flows, linearized steady subsonic and supersonic flows and the theory of characteristics.

MEEG 510. Advanced Fluid Mechanics II. 3 crs. Deals with the mathematical formulation of basic equations of fluid dynamics and potential flow theory.

MEEG 511. Advanced Heat Transfer II. 3 crs. Presents analytical and numerical techniques for the solution of heat conduction problems.

MEEG 512. Applications of Continuum Mechanics. 3 crs. Presents the kinematics of a general continuum and fundamental laws of continua.

MEEG 514. Acoustics and Noise. 3 crs. Covers fundamentals as well as contemporary topics in acoustics.

MEEG 515. Experimental Stress Analysis. 3 crs. Specialized experimental stress analysis course, with emphasis on design, construction, and use of complex models.

MEEG 518. Master’s Thesis. 1-6 crs. Intensive investigation carried out by students involving analysis, design, and/or experimentation in the student’s area of interest.

MEEG 519. Graduate Seminar. 1 cr. Forum for the presentation of current research activities of graduate students, faculty and guest speakers.

MEEG 521. Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics. 3 crs. Emphasizes formulation and application of variational principles for static, steady state and transient problems in solid and fluid mechanics.

MEEG 523. Radiation Heat Transfer. 3 crs. Analyzes radiation heat transfer, including radiation exchange between surfaces and radiative transfer in participating and non-participating media.

MEEG 524. Special Topics in Solid Mechanics. 3 crs. Varies on demand; topics offered include finite element methods, fracture mechanics and fatigue.

ELEG-532. Advanced Robotics. 3 crs. Advanced treatment for several complex topics for robotic manipulator analysis, design and control. Robot kinematics, dynamics based on Newton, Euler-Lagrange and Kane’s method of formulations, linearization and control techniques, determination of positioning errors and modeling, and computer simulation.

MEEG 533. CAD In Manufacturing. 3 crs. Advanced work in computer-aided analysis and 3D geometric modeling with integration of manufacturing automation system, application of CAD techniques such as expert system and other advance developments to the concept of computer integrated manufacturing and flexible manufacturing system.

MEEG 534. Finite Element Analysis. 3 crs. Basic concepts, formulation, and application of finite element techniques for numerical solution of problems in structural mechanics, heat transfer, dynamic response and fluid mechanics. Applications using general purpose FEM software such as ANSYS.

MEEG 535. Projects in Manufacturing. 3 crs. Advanced treatment of several topics of an interdisciplinary manufacturing environment and the critical examination of recent literature describing application of these topics to new technology areas.

MEEG 606. Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering. 3 crs. Theory and practice of the application of digital computers to mechanical engineering problems.

MEEG 609. Computational Fluid Dynamics. 3 crs. Includes numerical analysis fundamentals and difference methods for partial differential equations of fluid dynamics.

MEEG 610. Space Flight Dynamics and Attitude Control. 3 crs. Examines rigid body dynamics, forces and torques that act on a spacecraft, passive and active stabilization of spacecraft, stability theory-Lyapunov’s direct method, and Floquet theory. Prereqs.: MEEG 505 and MEEG 506.

MEEG 611. Turbulence. 3 crs. Presents theories of turbulence, dynamics of turbulence and closure schemes, turbulent shear flows, and turbulent transport of momentum and heat.

MEEG 612. Advanced Dynamics II. 3 crs. Treats stability of linear systems - small oscillations; Hamilton’s equations-phase space; canonical transformations; and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation.

MEEG 613. Special Topics in Aerospace Mechanics. 3 crs. Presentation of selected topics in contemporary aerospace mechanics that are of current interest to student and faculty researchers.

MEEG 614. Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics. 3 crs. Presentation of selected topics in contemporary fluid mechanics that are of interest to researchers.

MEEG 615. Special Projects. 3 crs. Project course taken by master’s program students enrolled in the non-thesis option with specialization in various areas of interest.

MEEG 616. Special Topics in CAD/CAM. 3 crs. Presentation of specialized topics in contemporary CAD/CAM discipline that are of interest to researchers.

MEEG 617. Spacecraft Attitude Estimation. 3 crs. The attitude representations, attitude kinematics, attitude measuring devices, elementary estimation theory, three-axis and spin-axis attitude estimation, deterministic and optimal attitude estimation, the Kalman filter, attitude error analysis and accuracy prediction, spacecraft system identification. Prereq.: MEEG 505.

MEEG 618. Ph.D. Thesis. 1-6 crs. Intensive investigation carried out by Ph.D. candidates involving analysis, design, and/or experimentation in the student’s area of interest that will culminate in an original contribution to the field.