Course Descriptions

EME5133 ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS
Prerequisite: EME3024, senior or graduate standing. Compressible flow; shock waves; duct flow with friction and heat transfer; propulsion; turbo-machinery; flow measurements; design project and review. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME5143 INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
Prerequisite: EGE3003, senior or graduate standing. Methods of predicting engine performance; e.g. power, torque, efficiency and fuel consumption. Fuels, air and fuel induction systems, spark and valve timing and matching the engine to the vehicle. Experimental measurement procedures. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME5153 APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS
Prerequisite: EGE3003, senior or graduate standing. The concept of availability, refrigeration cycles, mixtures and psychometrics, combustion and thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium, equations of state and thermodynamic relations. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME5213 MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS
Prerequisite: EME3043, senior or graduate standing. Free and forced vibration of one and two degree of freedom linear systems. Damped vibration. Concept of vibration isolation. Multi-degree of freedom systems. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME5223 ADVANCED MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Prerequisite: EME3013, senior or graduate standing. Advanced topics in classical strength of materials and the analysis and design of mechanical components. Theories of failure, elasticity, thick-walled cylinders and rotating disks, plate bending, and thin shells. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME5243 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS II
Prerequisite: EME4243, senior or graduate standing. A second course in FEA that introduces higher order elements and focuses on using existing software packages to do class projects. Linear strain triangle, axisymmetric solid elements. Isoparametric formulation, dynamic analysis. Lect. 2 hrs. Lab 2 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME5253 ENGINEERING ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: MCS3413 and graduate standing. Designed to explore topics needed to enhance analytical skills of engineers for obtaining deeper understanding of scientific principles. Topics include vectors and vector spaces, matrices and system of linear equations, Eigenvalues and EigenVectors, solution of ordinary differential equations, Laplace transforms, Fourier series, Fourier integrals and Fourier transforms, Vector Calculus and numerical methods. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6113 FATIGUE ANALYSIS
Prerequisite: EME5223 and graduate standing. This course covers the design of mechanical and automotive components against fatigue failure. It covers mechanical properties and behavior of engineering materials subjected to static, dynamic, creep, and fatigue loads under environments and stress states typical of service conditions: biaxial theories of failure; behavior of crack bodies, microstructure-property relationships; design methodologies for homogeneous and composite materials. Major topics covered include: elementary stress analysis, principal stresses in 3D; Mohr's circle, elastic deformation; Hooke's Law, mechanism and rhelogical modeling, plastic, creep, and anelastic strain in metals and polymers, failure theories for ductile and brittle materials, applications of failure theories, introduction to Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM), fatigue stress raisers, S-N curve & design, strain based fatigue analysis, application of LEFM to fatigue, fatigue crack growth behavior, fatigue design using LEFM, creep life estimates, stress-strain time relations. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6123 AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: EME5213, EME5223 and graduate standing. This course reviews the concepts and applications of advanced mechanics of materials to the analysis and design of automotive structures. Basic body structure, loadings, and vehicle dynamics are presented. Analytical techniques, including energy and numerical methods are reviewed, especially those which lead to the application of modern design and the latest analysis tools. Major topics covered include: body structures and configurations, primary vehicle motions and loadings, structural analysis techniques, modeling of automotive structures, modal and vibration analysis, fatigue and structural durability, use and integration of the latest engineering computational tools. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6213 FUNDAMENTALS OF ACOUSTICS
Prerequisite: EME5213 and graduate standing. Wave theory; vibration and waves in strings and rods; reflection, transmission and excitation of plane waves; sound measurement; radiation from vibrating bodies; low-frequency sound transmission; ray acoustics; introduction to noise measurement and control. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6223 CONDUCTION HEAT TRANSFER
Prerequisite: EME4013 and graduate standing. Conduction heat transfer in steady and transient state, including heat sources. Analytical, numerical, graphical, and analog methods of solution for steady and fluctuating boundary conditions. Thermal stresses. Dynamics of thermal instrumentation and heat exchangers. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6233 CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER
Prerequisite: EME4013 and graduate standing. Determination of the rate of heat transfer due to the transport of energy to or from surfaces by both molecular conduction processes and gross fluid movement inside channels and over external surfaces. Understanding of the convection heat transfer phenomena along with the mathematical techniques for the solution of such problems. Engineering applications. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6413 ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS
Prerequisite: EGE3003 and graduate standing. Postulational basis of thermodynamics; potentials and transformation theory; method of calculating properties from data. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics; calculation of properties of gases and plasmas; equilibrium mixture calculations. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6423 ADVANCED DYNAMICS
Prerequisite: EME3043 and graduate standing. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies in space. Energy and momentum integrals. Equations of motion in general rotating coordinate frames. Euler angles, angular momentum, and kinetic of rigid bodies. Application to spatial motions of rigid bodies. Analytical mechanics. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6523 COMBUSTION AND EMISSIONS
Prerequisite: EME5143 and graduate standing. Fundamentals of emission formation in combustion systems, wall quenching and imperfect combustion, unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, aldehydes, nitrogen oxides, species stratification in the combustion chamber, particulates. Effect of design parameters and engine operating variables on emission formation. Emission controls and instrumentation. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6533 MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS II
Prerequisite: EME5213 and graduate standing. Free and forced multidegree-of-freedom systems. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues and orthogonality of normal modes. Mode-summation method. Lagrange’s Equations. Solution of forced vibrations by Laplace Transforms and numerical methods. Rayleigh’s principle and approximate numerical techniques. Vibration of continuous systems: longitudinal and transverse vibration of beams; torsional vibrations, vibrating string. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6543 COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Prerequisite: EME3024 and graduate standing. Introduction to numerical techniques for the solution of inviscid and viscous compressible and incompressible flow and the use of existing algorithms and commercial software. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

EME6813 INTEGRATED MECHANICAL DESIGN
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and approval of program director. A capstone course in the design and analysis of mechanical systems. Students work in teams to solve a thermal/fluid system, structural system, automotive, or manufacturing project. Written and oral presentations of the projects are required. Lect. 3 hrs. 3 hours credit

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