MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Offered at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford CT - Engineering Building

MMAT 317: Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Materials
Time: Thursdays 5:00 to 8:00PM
Instructor: Dr. S. Pamir Alpay
Contact Number: (860) 486-4621
Email: p.alpay@ims.uconn.edu
Crystal structures and interatomic forces, lattice vibrations, thermal, acoustic, and optical properties. Semiconductors, dielectric properties, magnetism and magnetic properties, superconductivity. Device applications.
Text: Electronic Properties of Materials, 3rd ed., Rolf E. Hummel, Pub. Springer, ISBN: 0-387-95144X

ME 331: Analytical and Applied Kinematics
Time: Mondays 5:00 to 8:00PM
Instructor: Dr. David Giblin
Contact Number: (860) 620-7352
Email: giblind@yahoo.com
This core course for graduate students in the Mechanical Engineering Department - Design, Manufacturing and systems division introduces a unified and analytical approach to two and three dimensional kinematics and planar and spatial geometry and constraint motion, with direct applications in analysis and design of mechanisms, machine elements and engineering surfaces and curves. Some of the topics covered in the course are: Coordinate transformation operators, displacement operators, motion invariants such as centro’s, poles and screws, velocity and acceleration operators, link and joint constraints, analytical methods of mechanism synthesis and analysis, geometric error modeling, computational methods in kinematics and geometry.
Text: None

ME 338: Turbines and Centrifugal Machinery
Time: Tuesdays 4:30 to 7:30PM
Instructor: Dr. Thomas Barber
Contact Number: (860) 486-5342
Email: barbertj@engr.uconn.edu
This course develops the fundamental fluid mechanics of radial and axial flow turbomachinery. Topics include energy transfer and the Euler equation, performance parameters, configuration selection and interactions between fluid dynamic and mechanical design issues. Operating limits and off-design considerations are addressed. The application of modern CFD and stability analyses are introduced. Prerequisites: Undergraduate classes in Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics.
Text: “Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery,” Fifth Ed., Dixon, S. L., 1998 Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN 0-7506-7870-2

ME 360: Dynamics
Time: Wednesdays 5:00 to 8:00PM
Instructor: Dr. Robert Jeffers
Contact Number: (860) 486-2416
Email: bobjeffj@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, 2nd edition” by Donald T. Greenwood, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-709981-9