MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

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

Course Title: ME320: Geometric Modeling
Time: Monday 5:00 to 8:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Horea Ilies Phone: (860)486-8813, E-Mail: ilies@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: This new course deals with mathematical modeling, computer representations and algorithms for manipulating 1D-3D solid objects. Representing and manipulating geometric information on a computer is essential to computer-aided: design (CAD), manufacturing (CAM), engineering (CAE), robotics, computer graphics and computer vision. This course focuses on the basic concepts of solid and geometric modeling from geometry and topology, and uses these concepts to develop computational techniques for creating, editing, rendering, analyzing and computing with models of physical objects, mechanical parts, assembly and processes. Topics covered will include: (1) geometric & topological representation of 3D objects; (2) curve & surface representations; (3) geometric algorithms & operations on curves, surfaces, and solids; (4) parametric modeling; (5) the use of various representation schemes in solid modeling and commercial systems, as well as examples of engineering problems that are formulated and solved using geometric modeling methods.
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Course Title: ME 313: Flow of Compressible Fluids
Time: Tuesday 4:30 to 7:30PM
Professor(s): Dr. Thomas Barber Phone: (860)486-5352, E-Mail: barbertj@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: 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.
Text: Compressible Fluid Flow, 2nd Ed. Saad, M. A.,, Prentice Hall, NJ,1994 ISBN# 0131613731

Course Title: ME358: Theory of Elasticity
Time: Wednesday 5:00 to 8:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Kenneth Reifsnider Phone: (860)486-5360, E-Mail: reifsnider@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: The theory of elasticity deals with the study of the behavior of deformable materials and structures which recover their size and shape when all applied forces are removed. This course is a comprehensive and rigorous application of the principles of Mechanics to the description of that behavior. It begins by constructing representations of stress and strain that are general, linearizes those representations to form a linearized theory of elasticity, and applies that theory to the solution of a variety of problems of importance to engineering. The course will emphasize foundations, and will include some mathematical preliminaries. Variational methods of solution will also be discussed. Material behavior, i.e., constitutional behavior and representations will be studied in some detail
Text: Linearized Theory of Elasticity, by Slaughter, W.S., from Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 2001, ISBN: 0-8176-4117-3

Course Title: MMAT 335: High Temperature Materials
Time: Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Leon Shaw Phone: (860)486-2592, E-Mail: Leon.Shaw@uconn.edu
Course Description: Strength-determining factors in advanced alloys, ceramics and composites. Role of material chemistry and microstructure. High temperature creep and crack growth. Oxidation. Thermomechanical behavior.
Text: Superalloys II: High temperature materials for aerospace and industrial powder, C.T. Sims, N.S. Stoloff and W.C. Hagel, Pub: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0-471-01147-9

Location: Offered at either site
Course Title: ENGR 300-XX Project
Time: Monday 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): To be decided
Course Description: 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.

Offered at UTC Power - South Windsor, CT

Location: Offered at UTC Power - South Windsor, CT
Course Title: CHEG 345: Chemical Engineering Analysis I
Time: Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Luke Achenie, Phone: (860)486-2756, E-Mail: achenie@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: Techniques for the solution of chemical engineering problems including the solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical analysis, and computer simulation.
Text: Numerical Methods for Engineers, 5th edition, Steven C. Chapra and Raymond P. Canale, pub.McGGraw-hill, ISBN: 007291873X
Required: Laptop to be used in class & Mathcad 13 software. View software at www.mathcad.com available at the Uconn Co-op (student discount)