MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

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

Location: Offered at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford CT – Engineering Building
Course Title: ME 320: Solid Mechanics
Time: Monday 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Kenneth Reifsnider, Phone: (860)486-5360, E-Mail: accorsi@engr.uconn.edu; Charles Roche, Phone: (860)565-6926, E-Mail: reifsnider@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: This course will concentrate on the foundations of solid mechanics, with emphasis on advanced concepts including anisotropic materials, viscoelastic materials, material nonlinearity, energy concepts, and approximate methods (including discrete element methods). The course will be taught in the context of classical engineering problems, including tension, compression, torsion and bending, and will examine limited examples of fracture concepts such as linear elastic fracture mechanics.
Text: Advanced Mechanics of Materials, R. Solecki and R.J. Conant, Pub:Oxford, ISBN: 0195143728

Course Title: ME 320: Advanced Thermo-Fluids I
Time: Tuesday 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Thomas Barber, Phone: (860)486-5352, E-Mail: barbertj@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: Fluid as a continuum, Kinematics and decomposition of fluid motion, conservation of mass and momentum, Navier-Stokes equations, conservation of energy, Exact solutions to governing equations, Potential flows, Vorticity dynamics and low Reynolds number flows, Laminar boundary layers including heat transfer, Laminar free shear flows including heat transfer, Flow instabilities and transition.
Text: Viscous Fluid Flow, 2nd, Ed. White, F. M.,,Pub. McGraw Hill, NY, 1991. ISBN: 0-07-069712-4

Course Title: ME320: Durability of Multifunctional Material Systems
Time: Wednesday 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Kenneth Reifsnider, Phone: (860)486-5360, E-Mail: reifsnider@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: Aircraft jet engines include complex material components. Highly specialized applications including thermal and environmental coatings on turbine blades are also complex material systems that are multifunctional. Multifunctional material systems applications including sensors / actuators and fuel cells are becoming more important to the industry and to society. This course is designed to address durability and damage tolerance of such multifunctional material systems. A discussion and analysis of traditional durability phenomena including fatigue, creep, stress rupture, aging, distributed degradation, and fracture modes of damage and failure will be covered. A computer code to predict remaining strength and life will be developed in class. Examples will be provided, and recent developments in strain-rate-dependent damage will be included in this class. The second half of the course will generalize the concepts to include the influence of microstructure, interfaces, conductivity, transfer coefficient,and species migration on durability of material systems and components with multifunctional behavior. An analytical construct and methodology to assist in the representation and application of the concepts will be discussed.
Text: Damage Tolerance and Durability of Material Systems, Kenneth L. Reifsnider and Scott Case, Pub: Wiley,ISBN# 0-471-15299-4

Course Title: ME 335: Principles of Optimum Design
Time: Wednesday 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Kazem Kazerounian, Phone: (860)486-2251 E-Mail: Kazem@engr.uconn.edu
Course Description: A first comprehensive course on engineering Design Optimization for graduate students in all areas of engineering. This course introduces the design of engineering systems as a systematic and well organized activity. Emphasis is on establishing a firm understanding of modern optimization.
Text: Introduction to Optimum Design by Jasbir S. Arora, Academic Press . Published 2004 , ISBN: 0120641550

Course Title: MMAT 322: Microstructural Characterization of Materials
Time: Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00PM
Professor(s): Dr. Mark Aindow, Phone: (860)486-2644, E-Mail: m.aindow@uconn.edu
Course Description: Microstructural concepts and crystallography. Diffraction analysis of crystal structure using X-ray and electron beams. Imaging using microscopes: optical, TEM, SEM and ESEM. Chemical microanalysis in electron microscopy: X-ray and electron energy-loss spectrometry. Surface analysis: XPS, AES and SIMS. Scanned probe microscopy: STM and AFM.
Text: Microstructural Characterization of Materials, David G. Brandon and Wayne D. Kaplan Pub: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471985023.

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 320: Adsorption Technology, Energy and the Environment
Time: Tuesday from 4:30 to 7:30PM
Professor(s): Dr. Norberto Lemcoff, Phone: (860)486-7024, E-Mail: accorsi@engr.uconn.edu; Charles Roche, Phone: (860)565-6926, E-Mail: lemcofno@utrc.utc.com
Course Description: Adsorption processes are in widespread industrial use, and applications are found in the fields of energy utilization, fuel cell technology, environmental pollution control and biotechnology. The present course will cover both basic principles as well as industrial applications in the energy, fuel cell and environmental control areas. Main topics: adsorbent choice, mode of fluid-solid contacting. Surface characteristics and pore structure of adsorbents. Sorption kinetics and equilibria, adsorption column dynamics, modeling of adsorption systems. Correlation and analysis of multicomponent equilibria data, prediction of the behavior of binary and multicomponent systems from the single component isotherms. Diffusion phenomena in adsorbent particles, breakthrough curves. Practical design, operation and optimization of adsorbers, regeneration of adsorbents, cyclic separation processes, such as chromatographic, moving bed, pressure swing and thermal swing. Examples of industrial cases and applications in pollution control, fuel purification and especially as related to fuel cell technology will be analyzed.
Text: Gas Separation by Adsorption Processes, Ralph T. Yang, World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.,ISBN: 1-86094-047-1