MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

ENGR 312 Engineering Project Planning and Management
Instructor: Peter Nelson (860) 731-6689
E-mail: Peter.R.Nelson@us.westinghouse.com
Monday, 4-7 PM
This course provides a methodology for managing engineering projects. Topics include project lifecycle, strategic planning, scope definition, budgeting, resource scheduling, project quality, and project controls. Course work also includes work estimating, evaluating risk, developing the project team, project tracking, and performing variance analysis. Project planning will include the use of Microsoft Project®. Case studies are used as class and homework assignments to focus the class on the topics presented.
Text: Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 7th edition, by Harold Kerzner, John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN: 0-471-39342-8
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ME 320 Elasticity and Energy Methods in Mechanics
Professor Kevin D. Murphy (860) 486-4109
E-mail: kdm@engr.uconn.edu
Tuesday, 4-7 PM
Introduction to linear elasticity, including linear strain-displacement relations, equations of motion and compatibility, and Hooke's law as well as variational calculus and variational mechanics: virtual work, total and complementary energy, Castigliano's theorems. Classical theories of beams and plates will be presented. Fundamental theory of the finite element method: various elements, interpolation functions and assembly of matrices will be covered along with applications to beams and plates.
Text: Energy and Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics by I.H. Shames and C.L. Dym, Taylor & Francis Publishing, 1985.
ISBN 0-89116-505-3

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ME 320 Fundamentals of Thermal Manufacturing
Professor Theodore Bergman (860) 486-2090
E-mail: tberg@engr.uconn.edu
Wednesday, 4-7 PM
This course is designed for students who are interested in applying fundamental principles of heat and mass transfer to various thermal manufacturing and materials processing operations. The concept of thermal manufacturing, new fundamental principles, and computational methods that form the basis for most of today's models of thermal manufacturing and materials processing operations will be introduced. Basic principles of heat and mass transfer will be reviewed. As a prerequisite, students must (a) have taken an undergraduate course in heat transfer and (b) have access to their own (non UConn) computational hardware and software compilers such as Fortran, C, C++, etc. Students will write their own computer programs during the semester. The mechanics of computer programming will not be covered or reviewed.
Texts: Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by F.P. Incropera & D.P. DeWitt, John Wiley & Sons, 4th (1996) or 5th (2002) edition.
Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow by S.V. Patankar, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1st edition, 1980.

ME 320 Theory and Practice of Gearing
Professor Kazem Kazerounian (860) 486-2251
E-mail: kazem@engr.uconn.edu
Thursday, 4-7 PM Held in the Engineering Cafeteria Conference Room.
This course is a fundamental study of the theory of gearing along with applications. Topics include geometry and mathematics of meshing curves and surfaces, geometry of plane and spatial gears. Fundamental laws of gear tooth actions, Involute and Cycloidal gearing as well as standard and nonstandard gearing will be covered. Other topics are interference and undercutting along with spur, helical, worm, bevel, spiral Beveland hyploid gears and Gear Trains (analysis, design and force branching). Precision Gearing, tolerance and design criteria, backlash and gear train performance and error analysis will be covered as well as gear measurements and inspections.
Prerequisite: Background in mechanisms
Text: Gear Geometry and Applied Theory by Faydor L. Litvin, Prentice Hall, 1994, ISBN 0-13-211095-4

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MMAT 320 The Metallurgy of Welding/Materials Joining
Professor T.Z. Kattamis (860) 486-4718
E-mail: tkattami@mail.ims.uconn.edu
Thursday, 4-7 PM
This course will cover microstructural modification during the weld thermal cycle, heat flow consideration, solidification of welds, weldability, transient and residual thermal stresses in welds and distortion. Other topics include post-weld thermal and thermomechanical treatments, thermodynamics of wetting, brazing and soldering along with physics of the arc and various welding and bonding processes. Additionally, joining of intermetallics, ceramics and glasses, polymers, and composite materials will be addressed. Process selection as a function of materials and assembly design will also be covered along with quality control, destructive testing and nondestructive evaluation and assessment of weldability.
Text: No text, class notes will be distributed.

CHEG 315 Transfer Operations
Professor James Fenton (860) 486-2490
E-mail: jmfent@engr.uconn.edu
Wednesday, 4-7 PM offered at International Fuel Cells
This course presents a unified treatment of fluid flow, heat transfer and
mass transfer from the continuum approach, with mathematical
rigor and sophistication.
Text: Transport Phenomena by R. B. Bird, W. E. Steward and E. N. Lightfoot, Wiley, Second Edition

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.
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