About: The mechanical engineering program in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering offers comprehensive graduate education in a number of areas. The principal areas include dynamics and controls; manufacturing; materials and structures; mechanical design; and thermal and fluid systems. A wide variety of interdisciplinary programs meeting specific objectives are available.
Term: Typically about 3 years
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A Master of Science non-thesis program consists of:
Introduction to fiber-reinforced composite materials and structures with emphasis on analysis and design. Composite micromechanics, lamination theory and failure criteria. Design procedures for structures made of composite materials. An overview of fabrication and experimental characterization.
The course covers the approach of concurrent product and process design. Topics include the principle of DFM, the New product design process, process capabilities and limitations, the Taguchi method, tolerancing and system design, design for assembly, and AI techniques for DFM.
Product Life cycle design; Finding design solutions using optimization technique; Rapid product realization using rapid prototyping and virtual prototyping techniques.
Emphasize design policies of concurrent engineering and teamwork, and documenting design process knowledge. Integration of product realization activities covering important aspects of a product life cycle such as "customer" needs analysis, concept generation, concept selection, product modeling, process development, and end-of-product life options.
The course deals with uncertainties in engineering analysis and design at three levels - uncertainty modeling, uncertainty analysis, and design under uncertainty. It covers physics-based reliability analysis and reliability-based design, robustness assessment and robust design, their integration with design simulations, and their engineering applications.
Lectures cover the fundamentals of computer-aided design with emphasis on geometric modeling of curves, surfaces and solids, CAD/CAM data exchange, and computer graphics. In the lab session, students practice with commercial CAD/CAM systems including NX and SolidWorks to gain practical experience.
Derivation of Navier-Stokes equations, analytical solutions of viscous flows; flow in pipes, flow networks; intermediate treatment of boundary layer theory; micro-fluidics and MEMS; introduction to numerical methods for solving fluid flows; and, preliminary treatise on turbulence.
Further topics in orbital mechanics. Time equations, Lambert's problem, patched-conic method, orbital maneuvers, orbit determination, orbit design, and re-entry problem.
Students will be introduced to the concurrent engineering approach to product development. They will learn to set up quantitative requirements and then use a quantitative rating process to identify the critical requirements relating to the desired product. The interaction between design, manufacturing, assembly, cost, and supportability will be covered. The students will form teams and practice the concurrent engineering process for simple products.
Rigid-body kinematics, dynamics, and synthesis of mechanisms; cam-follower mechanisms; mathematical modeling of mechanisms containing elastic elements; transient and steady-state vibration response; parametric instability in elastic mechanisms; advanced topics in compliant mechanisms; high-performance mechanisms will be emphasized. Prerequisites: Vector & matrix analysis; introductory planar kinematic & dynamic analysis of mechanisms.