MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

CHEG 320 Risk Management
Tuesdays from 4:30 to 7:30 PM
Professor Yehia Khalil E-mail: Yehia.Khalil@Yale.edu
This course is designed to provide industrial safety professionals with a broad understanding of risk assessment and risk management. Topics covered include: introduction to probability theory, uncertainty analysis, risk analysis methods (such as fault trees and event trees), hazard and operability (HAZOP), failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), risk profiles & common types of risk levels, and development of risk-informed decisions.

CHEG 321 Reaction Kinetics I
Monday and Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:00 PM
Professor Can Erkey 860-486-4601 E-mail: cerkey@engr.uconn.edu
A three credit course on Chemical Kinetics and reaction design. An advanced study of chemical reaction engineering with emphasis on catalysis. Applications to stirred tanks, fixed bed and fluidized bed reactors. Prerequisite: Exposure to kinetics of chemical reactions during undergraduate studies.

Offered at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford CT – Engineering Building

MMAT 343 Corrosion
Mondays from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Professor Skip Greene E-mail: norbertgreene@aol.com
Mechanisms, characteristics and types of corrosion. Test methods and evaluation of corrosion resistance. Suitability of metals, ceramics, and organic materials in corrosive environments. Oxidation and other high temperature gas-metal reactions.

ME 313 Flow of Compressible Fluids
Tuesdays from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Professor Thomas Barber 860-486-5342 E-mail: barbertj@engr.uconn.edu
Equations of motion of a compressible fluid. Quasi-one-dimensional flows including the effects of friction, heat addition, and normal shocks. Two- and three-dimensional flows. Velocity potential and stream function. Small perturbation theory. Subsonic pressure correction formulae. Kelvin and Crocco Theorems. Method of characteristics for steady, irrotational flows.

ME 305 Basic Concepts of Continuum Mechanics
Wednesdays from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Professor Robert Jeffers (860) 486-2416 E-mail: bobjeff@engr.uconn.edu
An introductory course in the theory of continuum mechanics. Development of physical principles using cartesian tensors. Concepts of stress, strain and motion. Basic field equation for the Newtonian fluid and the elastic solid. Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in Differential Equations.

ME 362 Mechanical Vibrations
Thursdays from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Professor Kevin Murphy (860) 486-4109 E-mail: kdm@engr.uconn.edu
Variational principles, Lagrange’s equation. Equations of motion for multi-degree of freedom systems. Free vibration eigenvalue problem: modal analysis. Forced solutions: general solutions, resonance, effect of damping and superposition. Vibrations of continuous systems: vibration frequencies and mode shapes for strings, bars, membranes, beams and plates. Experimental methods and techniques.

ENGR 300-XX Project Offered at either site
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 or Chemical Engineering.