Course Descriptions
MMAT 364 Composites – Performance and Analysis
Professor Leon Shaw (860) 486-2592
E-mail: lshaw@mail.ims.uconn.edu
Monday 4-7pm
Mechanical properties, analysis and modeling of matrix composites. The properties treated include stiffness, strength, fracture toughness, fatigue strength and creep resistance as they relate to fiber, whisker, particulate, and laminated composites.
Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in Metallurgy
Text: B.D. Agarwal and L.J. Broutman, Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1990 top
ME 318 Computational Methods of Viscous Fluid Dynamics
Professor Thomas Barber (860) 486-5352
E-mail: barbertj@engr.uconn.edu
Tuesday 4-7PM
An advanced course on integral and finite-difference methods of solution of the parabolic and elliptic equations of viscous fluid flow. Method of weighted residuals; Crank-Nicolson; Dufort-Frankel; Peaceman-Rachford alternating direction method; truncation error analysis; stability. Applications to boundary layer and heat transfer problems.
Prerequisite: A background of FORTRAN programming and numerical analysis is necessary.
Text: Computational Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer, 2nd Edition, Anderson, D. A., Tannehill, J. C., and Pletcher, R. H., Taylor & Francis Publ. Corp., Levittown, PA, 1997
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ME 360 Dynamics
Professor Robert Jeffers (860) 486-2416
E-mail: bobjeff@engr.uconn.edu
Three-dimensional particle and rigid-body mechanics. Particle kinematics. Newton's laws, energy and momentum principles. Systems of particles. Rigid body kinematics, coordinate transformations. Rigid body dynamics, Euler's equations. Gyroscopic motion. Lagrange's equations.
Prerequisite: Undergraduate Courses in Calculus, Differential Equations and Applied Mechanics.
Text: Principles of Dynamics by Donald T. Greenwood, Prentice Hall, 2nd Ed, 1988, ISBN 0137099819. top
ME 372 Theory and Design of Automatic Control Systems
Professor Nejat Olgac (860) 486-2382
E-mail: olgac@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Thursday 4:15-7:15PM
Design features of a closed loop control system. Laplace domain analysis of electromechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, thermal, and mechanical systems. Computer simulation of dynamic responses using software tools. Stability issues, Routh analysis, root locus, Bode and Nyquist analyses are addressed. An open-ended, hands-on design project from a current research topic is assigned.
Prerequisite: Undergraduate courses in Mechanical Dynamics and Linear System
Text: Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems by Gene Franklin, D. Powell, A. Emami-Naeini (Addison Wesley, 1994) ISBN 0-201-52747-2
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CHEG 320-16 Industrial Ecology
Professor James Fenton (860) 486-2490
E-mail: jmfent@engr.uconn.edu
Wednesday 4-7PM
Industrial ecology is an organizing concept that is increasingly applied to define various interactions of today's technological society with both natural and altered environments. Technology and its potential for modification and change are central to this topic, as are implications for governmental policy and corporate response.
No Prerequisites
Primary Text: Industrial Ecology by Gradel and Allenby (Prentice-Hall, 1995).
Supplemental Text: Industrial Ecology and the Automobile by Graedel and Allenby, (Prentice-Hall, 1998) top
ENGR 300-XX Project
Project is matched with faculty member specializing in that
application.
This course involves solution of engineering problems at an advanced graduate level using an investigative approach. Formulating a problem statement and a solution approach, conducting a literature survey, collecting and analyzing data, and preparing a final report are included in the course. The grade for the course will be given based upon the quality and novelty of the final report. The final report must include a unique computational, experimental and/or theoretical component that clearly demonstrates the students' ability to perform graduate-level engineering research, performed under the guidance of a faculty member. Students are expected to meet with their faculty advisors on a regular basis (approximately once per week). The student should expect to dedicate the same amount of time to ENGR 300 as they would dedicate to a regular 3 hour graduate course in Mechanical Engineering. top
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