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Courses and Schedule

Course offerings in the Engineering Distance Education Program vary from semester to semester.

To find out what courses will be offered for your semester of interest, please use the Course Offerings Web Page. Choose the semester you are interested in (i.e., Spring 2004) and then your program of interest (i.e., Mechanical Engineering). Remember that all distance education course codes end in the number "6" (i.e., AERO-7206).

Courses Available through the Master of Mechanical Engineering Distance Education Program.
Course Code \ Title Hrs. Description
MECH 6016
COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3030. Properties of ideal gases; General one-dimensional wave motion; Isentropic flow with area change; Normal shock waves; Flow with friction (Fanno Flow) and heat transfer (Rayleigh Flow); Method of characteristics.
MECH 6126
COMBUSTION		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3040. Thermodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion processes, premixed and diffusion flames, ignition, characterization and combustion of gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels, environmental aspects of combustion.
MECH 6306
ADVANCED MECHANICS OF MATERIALS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Stress and strain analysis, plane stress and plane strain concepts, generalized HookeĦs law, stress function approach applications to 2-D problem, axisymmetric problems, bending of curved members, torsion of prismatic members, stress concentration problems.
MECH 6396
FUNDAMENTALS OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD		 3 LEC. 2,LAB. 3. Pr., MECH 3040, MECH 3130, MATH 2660. Introduction to the fundamentals of the finite element method.
MECH 6416
DYNAMICS OF ROTATING MACHINERY 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3140. Issues involved in the analysis and design of high-speed rotating machinery. Modeling, resonance, balancing, bearings, condition monitoring.
MECH 6426
DYNAMICS OF MULTIBODY SYSTEMS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3140. Concepts in dynamics of multibody systems such as kinematics analysis, Newton Euler, Lagrange and Kane equations of motion, collisions, and vibrations of flexible links.
MECH 6436
BASICS OF SENSOR APPLICATIONS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Basic concepts, fabrication and operation of micro machined semiconductor, piezoelectric, piezoresistive, capacitive and fiber-optic sensors.
MECH 6516
ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MATH 2650. The fundamentals of acoustics. Vibration of strings, bars, plates. Acoustic plane waves, architectural acoustics and noise control will be emphasized.
MECH 6716
KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF ROBOTS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3140. Basic concepts in robotics such as kinematics analysis, coordinate transformation, Lagrange and Newton Euler equations of motion.
MECH 6726
CONTROL OF ROBOTIC MOTION		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3140. Application of various algorithms for robot manipulators.
MECH 6826
INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMAL SYSTEMS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., senior standing. Introduction to the mathematical fundamentals of optimization. Application to multiple solution engineering problems in thermo-fluid and mechanical systems.
MECH 6936
INTERMEDIATE DIRECTED STUDIES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 		1-3 LEC. Pr., departmental approval. Individual or small group study of an advanced specialized area of Mechanical Engineering under faculty direction. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
MECH 6976
INTERMEDIATE SPECIAL TOPICS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 		1-3 LEC. Pr., departmental approval. Regular course addressing an advanced specialized area of Mechanical Engineering not covered by a regularly offered course. Topics may vary. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
MECH 7016
ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3040. Classical and statistical treatment of the laws and properties of thermodynamic systems; applications.
MECH 7116
ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS I		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3030. Mass Conservation, Linear and Angular Momentum Balance Principals; Energy Equation for Fluid Systems; Foundations of Inviscid Flows.
MECH 7126
ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS II 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 7110. Schwarz-Christoffel Transformation; Hodograph Method; Three- Dimensional Potential Flows; Interface Waves; Low Reynolds Number Solutions; Oseen Approximation; Stability of Laminar Flows.
MECH 7136
BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 7110. Mass Conservation; Momentum Equation; Energy Equation; Dimensional Analysis; Fully-Developed Laminar Flows; Similarity Solutions; Boundary layer Approximation; Stability of Laminar Flows.
MECH 7146
TURBULENCE		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 7130. Properties of Turbulence; Governing Conservation, Momentum and Energy Equations; Timeaveraging, Vorticity Equation; Turbulence Models; Shear Flows; Jets, Wakes and Boundary Layers; Experimental Techniques.
MECH 7216
DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3040. Formulations and analytical solutions of steady, periodic, and unsteady heat and mass diffusion problems in one, two, and three dimensions.
MECH 7226
CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3040. Advanced topics in free and forced convection transport within the laminar, transitional and turbulent regimes; confined and external flows.
MECH 7236
THERMAL RADIATION 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3040. Fundamentals of thermal radiation heat transfer including: absorption, emission and reflection from solids; absorption, emission and scattering by gases; combined mode and conjugate heat transfer; exact and appropriate solution methodologies.
MECH 7246
NUMERICAL METHODS IN HEAT TRANSFER 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MATH 2660, MECH 3040. Advanced topics in finite element and finite difference methods; solution techniques, stability and covergence.
MECH 7256
BOILING AND CONDENSATION		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3040. Hydrodynamics of vapor-liquid flow, pool boiling, forced convective boiling, condensation, instabilities in two systems, augmentation of boiling and condensation.
MECH 7316
SOLID MECHANICS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Stress and strain analysis in 3-D, constitutive behavior of elastic solids, orthotropy and isotropy, stress compatibility equations, NavierĦs equation, stress functions, applications.
MECH 7326
CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND TENSOR ANALYSIS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 6300. Cartesian and curvilinear tensor analysis, with applications to the mechanics of continuous media. Constitutive equations for solids and fluids.
MECH 7336
EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Experimental methods for measurement of stress, strain and displacement. strain gauges, transducers and brittle coatings. Transmission photoelasticity and photoelastic coatings. Introduction to moire and coherent optical techniques.
MECH 7366
MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Properties and mechanical behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials. Anisotropic stress-strain relations, orthotropic elasticity and laminated plate theories, failure Criteria, applications.
MECH 7376
ANALYSIS OF PLATES AND SHELLS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Theories for the bending and stretching of plate and shell structures. Transverse loading, buckling, vibration, and thermal stress problems. Introduction to energy methods, numerical techniques, and large deflection theories.
MECH 7396
VARIATIONAL MECHANICS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Energy methods in solid mechanics. Virtual work, stationary potential energy and variational calculus. Elastic strain energy. Applications to bars, trusses, beams, frames and plates. CastiglianoĦs Theorem and Ritz Method.
MECH 7416
OPTICAL METHODS IN MECHANICS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3130. Measurement of stresses, strains, and deformations using optical methods; optical interference; Fourier optics; optical spatial filtering, white light methods; coherent optical methods.
MECH 7436
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ADVANCED MATERIALS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 6430 or PHYS 7200. Linear and nonlinear optical properties, correlation with material-structure, electro-optic effects, lasers, frequency conversion, fiber-optics, technological applications.
MECH 7516
ADVANCED ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 6510. The fundamentals of advanced acoustics theory. Wave equation derivation from Navier-Stokes equations, spherical waves, monopoles, dipoles, quadrapoles. Duct Acoustics, Statistical Energy Analysis.
MECH 7616
ADVANCED DYNAMICS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3140. Dynamics of particles and systems of particles applied to engineering problems. Work-energy and impulse-momentum principles. LagrangeĦs equations and HamiltonĦs Principle.
MECH 7646
STABILITY AND VIBRATION OF CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 6610. Review of linear systems with multiple degrees of freedom, vibration of strings, beams, membranes and plates. Stability of columns, panels and plates. Galerkin and normal mode solutions, Lyapunov methods for continuous systems.
MECH 7656
RANDOM VIBRATION		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 6610. Properties of random processes, review of linear systems with single and multiple degrees of freedom. Vibration of single and multiple degrees of freedom systems subjected to random excitations, design of structures subjected to random excitation, Parameter estimation.
MECH 7716
CONTROL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MECH 3140. Topics from control theory are introduced in the context of control systems analysis and design, including state variable feedback, modal control, optimal control and adaptive control for both continuous and discrete systems.
MECH 7976
ADVANCED SPECIAL TOPICS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 		1-3 LEC. Pr., departmental approval. Regular course addressing an advanced specialized area of Mechanical Engineering not covered by regularly offered course. Topics may vary. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.