ME Graduate Course List
6301: Nanostructured Materials Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MATH 3445, graduate standing and consent of instructor. Coverage: Overview of the advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The content covers solid state materials science, properties of nanomaterials, synthesis and characterization techniques, and applications of nanostructured materials. |
6333: Conduction and Radiation Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or equivalent and consent of instructor. Coverage: Steady and transient conduction with various boundary conditions; analytical and numerical evaluation of temperature distributions. Introduction to thermal radiation including surface properties, geometric factors and absorbing media. Applications involving coupled conduction and radiation. |
6334: Convection Heat Transfer Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Coverage: Thermal boundary-layer theory; forced convection in laminar and turbulent flows; heat transfer of high velocities; transpiration cooling; dimensional analysis; free convection; selected applications. |
6335: Heat Transfer with Phase Change Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MATH 4364, graduate standing and consent of instructor. Coverage: Physical and mathematical foundations of Liquid-vapor phase change phenomenon. Mechanisms and analysis of boiling and condensing heat transfer. |
6336: Engineering Heat Transfer Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3: Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Coverage: Steady and unsteady, 1D and 2D heat conduction; heat transfer by forced and free convection; internal and external convection; heat exchanger design; radiative surface properties; radiation between surfaces. |
6345: Fluid Dynamics 1 Credit Hours: 3.00 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0; Lab Contact Hours: 0.0)Prerequisite: MECE 3363. Coverage: This graduate-level fluid course is designed to help students develop a systematic and comprehensive understanding on the principal concepts and analytical methods in fluid dynamics. |
6353: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics 1 Credit Hours: 3.00 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0; Lab Contact Hours: 0.0)Prerequisite: MECE 3463, MECE 3363 or equivalent, consent of instructor. Coverage: Numerical methods for linear and nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Emphasis on finite difference and spectral methods applied to the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flow. Turbulence modeling. |
6356: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics 2 Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3: Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: I. MECE 3363, BIOE 3440 or equivalent fluid mechanic course; II. MATH 3321 or equivalent; or permission of instructor Coverage: Introduction to finite difference and finite volume methods for solving fluid flow model PDE’s. Concepts of consistency, stability, and convergence; solution of large scale linear equation systems. |
6358: Superconductor Materials Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 3445 or consent of instructor. Coverage: Principles of superconductor physics, structures of low and high temperature superconductors and their impact on properties, materials science challenges with anisotropy, grain boundaries and flux pinning and solutions developed in engineering of superconductors. |
6361: Mechanical Behavior / Materials Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 3445 and graduate standing. Coverage: Dislocation and defect theory, deformation and fatigue of metals, polymers and brittle materials. |
6363: Physical Metallurgy Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Coverage: Structure and mechanical properties of metals and alloys. Metal strengthening processes, plastic deformation, work hardening, crystal imperfections, recovery, and recrystallization. |
6364: Phase Transformations of Materials Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Coverage: One-, two-, and multi-component alloy systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium solidification, non-ideal and regular solutions, systems containing invariant reactions, phase diagram construction, nucleation and growth of phases, solution and aging treatments and heat treatment of common alloys. |
6367: Control System Analysis and Design Credit Hours: 3.00 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0; Lab Contact Hours: 0.0)Prerequisite: MECE 3338. Coverage: This course covers the basic control system analysis and design methods in both frequency and time domains. |
6374: Nonlinear Control Syst Design Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE3338, System Dynamics or Equivalent (Mandatory). Matlab/Simulink is required for this course. |
6377: Continuum Mechanics I Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 5332 or consent of instructor. Coverage: Motion of a continuum, polar decomposition, measures of strain; rate of deformation and vorticity; transport theorem, balance laws; general constitutive theory, material symmetry, invariance requirements. |
6382: Theory of Elasticity Cr.3(3-0). Prerequisite: MECE 5332 or consent of instructor. Physical principles, stress and displacement formulations, stress functions, variational principles, Saint-Venant beam theory, Green's functions, two- and three-dimensional problems, elements of fracture mechanics. |
6384: Mtds of Appld Mthmtcs I Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: Successful completion of a math placement test to be given on first day of class or consent of department. Coverage: The theory and application of mathematical methods for partial differential equations arising in analytical engineering models. |
6385: Mtds of Appld Mthmtcs II Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: graduate standing. Coverage: The theory and application of mathematical methods for partial differential equations arising in analytical engineering models. |
6387: Intelligent Structural Systems Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent. Coverage: Modeling, design and control of intelligent structures using various smart materials such as piezoceramics, shape memory alloys, magneto-rheological (MR) fluid, and fiber optical sensors. |
6388: Optimal Control Theory Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent. Coverage: Variational calculus maximum principal and Hamilton- Jacoby theory. Linear quadratic regulator/servo problems and minimum time control. Computational methods in optimum systems control. |
6389: Matrix Inequality Control Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent. Coverage; Linear matrix inequalities; Signal and system norms and performance specifications; Stability and system performance analysis using linear matrix inequalities; Uncertain systems and robustness analysis; Robust stability and performance synthesis; Linear parameter varying control methods; Model order reduction problems; Applications to mechanical and aerospace control problems. |
6397: Fluid Dynamics 2 |
6397: Scientific Computing |
6398: Mechanics of Composites |
7320: Micromechanics of Composites Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 6320and MECE 6382or consent of instructor. Coverage: Microscopic stress transfer; effective composite thermo mechanical properties; inclusion theories; self-consistent mechanics; differential scheme; homogenization theory; Hashin & Christensen-Lo Multi-phase cylinder models; differential thermal stresses and properties; inelastic micromech. deformations and damage; crack growth & fracture. |
7341: Introduction to Micro/nanofluidics Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: Undergraduate instruction in fluid mechanics, heat transfer and electrostatics. Coverage: This class focuses on the fundamental flow physics that occurs at the micro/nanoscale. The goal is to prepare engineers and scientists to address problems they will encounter when studying fluid transport phenomena in micro/nanoscale physical processes, i.e., MEMS and BioMEMS. It is also accessible to students outside of thermal sciences area who desire a first, stand-alone graduate-level course in micro/nanofluidics. |
7361: System Identification Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 6384. Coverage: This course focuses on methods of linear and nonlinear dynamic system identification using frequency domain and time domain methods. |
7362: Robust Multivariable Control |
7375: Control of Smart Structures Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours: 3; Lab Contact Hours: 0)Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent or consent of Instructor. Coverage: Selected deigns in control for smart structures involving shape memory alloys, piezoceramics, and magneto rheological (MR) fluids, based on classical, modern, and intelligent control approaches. |
7377: Microstructural Electron Microscopy Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Principles of electron microscopy, diffraction and contrast theories, the transmission electron microscope (TEM), the scanning electron microscope (SEM), application to microstructure of solid materials. |
7397: Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics |
7397: Interfacial Transport Phenomena |