• NOTE: All students with a Catalog Year prior to Fall 2025 can chose the new emphasis requirements if they would like.

 

  1. Choose one of the following:
    • ME EN 5710 Aerodynamics
      • Description: Flow around bodies, inviscid flow, airfoil theory, lift and drag for lifting bodies, compressible aerodynamics, boundary layers, aircraft preliminary design.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in ME EN 2030 AND  ME EN 3710 AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: Every Fall
    • ME EN 5830 Aerospace Propulsion
      • Description: Analysis and design of propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles: solid and liquid chemical rocket systems, nuclear rocket engines, electrical rocket engines, nozzle theory, jet engine component analysis, turboprop engines, turbojet engines, ramjet engines, and turbofan engines.
      • Prerequisites: Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering. Corequisites: C or better in ME EN 2300 AND ME EN 3710.
      • Offered: TBD
  1. Choose one of the following:
    • ME EN 5300 Advanced Strength of Materials
      • Description: Advanced stress analysis in structural members, and prediction of their failure; advanced topics in beam bending; torsion of non-circular cross-sections, and thin-walled tubes; inelastic bending, and torsion; energy methods; elastic instability.
      • Prerequisites: “C” or better in ((ME EN 3310 AND ME EN 3315) AND (MATH 2210 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1321 OR MATH 3140) AND MATH 2250) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering
      • Offered: Every Spring (recently changed starting Spring 2022)
    • ME EN 5510 Applied Finite Element Analysis
      • Description: A practical approach to finite element analysis (FEA). The course will provide an introduction to the theoretical basis of the direct stiffness, potential energy, and weighted residual formulation methods of simple elements (1D, 2D). Students will also learn commercial finite element software and learn to critically evaluate finite element models. Examples will be provided for solid, fluid, and heat transfer applications. A brief introduction to some advanced methods (design optimization, uncertainty quantification, and solver types) will be provided.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in ((ME EN 3310 AND ME EN 3315) AND (MATH 2210 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1321 OR MATH 3140) AND MATH 2250 OR) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: Every Summer (tentative) and Fall
    • ME EN 5520 Mechanics of Composite Materials
      • Description: Introduction to modern fiber composite materials; design and analysis for structural applications. Material types, and manufacturing techniques. Anisotropic stress-strain response, and implications for design. Lamination theory, and computer codes for lamination analysis. Strengths of laminates. Examples and projects for design of structural members of advanced composite materials.
      • Prerequisites: Prerequisites: “C” or better in ((ME EN 3310 AND ME EN 3315) AND (MATH 2210 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1321 OR MATH 3140)) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: Every Spring
  1. Choose one of the following:
    • ME EN 5200 Classical Control Systems
      • Description: Students learn modeling in the frequency domain, time domain, and sampled data domain. The theory and application of techniques and tools used for the design of feedback control systems, including root locus, Bode, and Nyquist techniques are discussed for continuous and sampled systems.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in 3220 AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: Every Fall
    • ME EN 5205 System Dynamics
      • Description: Model and simulate the dynamics of advanced mechatronic systems consisting of a variety of energy domains (mechanical, electrical, magnetic, hydraulic, thermofluidic). Students will learn to use Bond Graph techniques and state space formulation for linear and nonlinear systems. Primary topics include introduction to power and energy variable, constitutive modeling of multi-port energy storage and transducing elements, power flow and causality, and derivation and simulation of state space equations. Hands- on recitation exercises in class allow students to practice modeling techniques on a variety of mechatronic devices. For a final project, students will model and simulate a complex dynamic system.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in ME EN 3220 AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: Every Fall
    • ME EN 5210 State Space Control
      • Description: Introduction to modeling of multivariable systems in state space form. System analysis including stability, observability and controllability. Control system design using pole placement, and linear quadratic regulator theory. Observer design.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in ME EN 3220 AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: Every Spring
    • ME EN 5400 Vibrations
      • Description: Free and forced vibrations of discrete linear systems with and without damping; Lagrange’s equations and matrix methods for multiple-degree-of freedom systems; isolation of shock and vibrations; and applications.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in (ME EN 2030 AND (MATH 2210 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1321 OR MATH 3140)) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering. Corequisites: C or better in (MATH 3140 OR MATH 3150).
      • Offered: Every Fall (starting Fall 2020)
    • ME EN 5410 Intermediate Dynamics
      • Description: Review of basic dynamics, transformation of coordinate systems, rotating coordinate systems, Lagrange methods, Euler’s equations, and dynamics of machinery.
      • Prerequisites: C or better in (ME EN 2030 AND (MATH 2210 OR MATH 1260 OR MATH 1321 OR MATH 3140) AND MATH 2250) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
      • Offered: TBD
    • ME EN 5960 Flight Mechanics
      • Description: TBD
      • Prerequisites: Full Major Status in Mechanical Engineering
      • Offered:TBD
    • ME EN 5960 Space Mission Engineering
      • Description: TBD
      • Prerequisites: Full Major Status in Mechanical Engineering
      • Offered:TBD