Offered at UTC Power – South Windsor, CT
CHEG 358 Composite Materials
Tuesday from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Dr. Richard Parnas 860-486-9060 E-mail: rparnes@mail.ims.uconn.edu
An introduction to the mechanical properties of fiber reinforced composite materials. Included are discussions of the behavior of unidirectional composites, short fiber composites and laminates. Special topics such as fatigue, fracture and environmental effects are also included.
Text: Liquid Composite Molding , R.S. Parnas, Hanser Gardiner, 2000 . ISBN 1-56990-287-9 or 3-446-21394-5
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Offered at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, CT Engineering Building
ME 320 Intelligent Mat. & Structures
Monday from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Dr. Jiong Tang 860-486-5911 E-mail: jtang@engr.uconn.edu
This course covers the constitutive relations of a series of adaptive materials and modeling of adaptive/intelligent structures (structures augmented with adaptive materials as actuators or sensors), and then presents in detail several state-of-the-art applications of such structures, including passive/semi-active/active/hybrid vibration control and shape control. Introduction and overview: piezoelectric materials and electrostrictive materials, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials, ER/MR fluids.
Text: NONE
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ME 307 Engineering Analysis
Tuesday from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Dr. Thomas Barber 860-486-5342 E-mail: barbertj@engr.uconn.edu
Matrix algebra, indicial notation and coordinate transformations. Cartesian and general vectors and tensors, vector and tensor calculus. Partial differential equations: Fourier series, solution procedures to boundary value problems in various domains. Applications to the mechanics of continuous media.
Text: Kreyzig, E., Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 8th ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999. ISBN 0-471-15496-2
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ME 320 Introduction to Acoustics
Wednesday from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Dr. William Patrick 860-610-7495 E-mail: patricwp@utrc.utc.com
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of linear acoustics and to stimulate their interest in further studies in acoustics. There will be an emphasis on imparting a physical understanding of acoustic phenomena to students through lectures, examples, and classroom demonstrations. Basic acoustics concepts which will be taught will be: Acoustic wave propagation through derivation of the wave equation and the propagation of plane and spherical waves. Difference between periodic and transient waves. Quantitative measures of acoustic propagation speed (in various media), sound pressure level, sound intensity, energy density, and sound power. Basic ray acoustics concepts of reflection, refraction, diffraction, and scattering of sound. Room acoustics. Radiation from vibrating bodies. Resonance phenomena and Helmholtz resonators. Sound transmission though ducts and mufflers.
Text: Pierce, A.D., Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Application, Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd, Woodbury NY 11797.ISBN 0-88318-612-8
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MMAT 301 Thermo. of Materials
Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Dr. Harold Brody 860-486-2592 E-mail: brody@engr.uconn.edu
Classical thermodynamics with emphasis on solutions and phase equilibria. Applications to unary and multicomponent, reacting and nonreacting, homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, including development of phase diagrams.
Text: R. DeHoff (out of print): Available at UConn Co-op under course MMAT 301
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ME 360 Dynamics
Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Dr. 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.
Text: Principles of Dynamics, Donald T. Greenwood, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-709981-9
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Offered at either site
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 engineering.
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