Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
A basic introduction to the engineering design process and the use of visualization in engineering design, including; sketching, engineering drawing, and computer-aided design.

Statics
Forces, moments, couples, and resultants; static equilibrium and statically equivalent force systems, center of gravity and center of pressure; free body method of analysis; friction; internal forces in members, concept of stress and strain; Hooke's law, application to problems in tension/compression, shear torsion, and bending.

Dynamics
Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies, including: position, velocity, acceleration, moving frames of reference, Newton's laws, conservation of energy and momentum, impact, and an introduction to vibrations.

Strength of Materials
Shear and bending moment in beams, torsion of circular and noncircular sections, bending and shear stresses in beams, deflection of beams, statically indeterminate members and structures. Failure criteria, stress concentrations, column buckling. Laboratory in mechanical behavior of materials and stress analysis included.

Manufacturing Processes/Concurrent Engineering
Structure and properties of ferrous and nonferrous materials, casting, forging, welding, heat treating, machining, grinding, numerical control, robotics, economic analysis.

Control Systems/Mechatronics
Mechatronics introduces dynamic system modeling, instrumentation, actuators, and computer--based data collection. Students will apply modeling, sensors, and actuators to feedback control systems. Microcontrollers are used to implement control systems in laboratory projects.

Thermodynamics/Heat Transfer
Thermodynamic properties, open and closed systems, equations of state, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, introduction to power and refrigeration cycles. Basic mechanisms of heat transfer, law of conservation of energy, conduction, convection, radiation, heat transfer with change of phase, heat exchangers.

Fluids
Hydrostatics, introduction to kinematics and dynamics of Newtonian fluids. Integral and differential formulations of the conservation of mass, momentum, and mechanical energy. Similitude and dimensional analysis. Laminar and turbulent pipe flow. Boundary Layers, drag and flow over external surfaces. Introduction to gas dynamics, speed of sound, normal shocks, converging-diverging nozzles, oblique shocks.

Design
Lectures on and team assignments leading to the completion of the detailed design phase including: concept generation and selection, detailed engineering design, application of machine elements, prototype testing, engineering analysis, DFX, parameter design, and preliminary economic analyses. Culminates in design review based on formal presentations of fully documented, detailed engineering drawings of proposed designs and alpha prototype demonstrations.

Seminar
Selected presentations from individuals who deal with different aspects of the practice of mechanical engineering.