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Courses Offered:
Mechanical Engineering
- EMCH 508: Finite Element Analysis in Mechanical Engineering. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 201, 327) Development of the fundamental concepts of finite element modeling. Matrix equation assembly and reduction. Mechanical engineering applications in structures, stress analysis, ideal flow, and heat transfer problems. Instructor: Dr. Deng
- EMCH 516: Control Theory in Mechanical Engineering. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 330) An introduction to closed-loop control systems; development of concepts, including transfer function, feedback, frequency response, and system stability by examples taken from mechanical engineering practice; control system design methods. Instructor: Dr. Voglewede
- EMCH 528: Product Safety Engineering. (3) (Prereq: senior standing) Design consideration and methodologies for products to ensure adequate safeguards for the prevention of accidents, fatalities, and injuries. Instructor: Dr. McNeill
- EMCH 551: Nuclear Energy in the Hydrogen Economy. (3) he current role of nuclear energy in the US and global energy mix will be described and the potential for future growth will be surveyed, particularly in the development of the hydrogen economy. Not auditable.
- EMCH 552: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering. (3) Radioactivity and nuclear reactions; steady state and transient nuclear reactor theory. Instructor: Prof. Loiselle
- EMCH 553: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle. (3) (Prereq: Consent of instructor) The fuel cycle from mining to waste management including process technology and chemistry. Alternative fuel cycles and the effect of alternative fuels on process technology. Instructor: Dr. Knight
- EMCH 555: Instrumentation for Nuclear Engineering. (3) (Prereq or coreq: EMCH 552 or PHYS 511) Basic operational principles of radiation detection and nuclear instrumentation systems. Selection of the proper detector to measure readiation. Statistical analysis of results.
- EMCH 560: Intermediate Fluid Mechanics. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 310, 360) Integral and differential analysis of fluids. Potential flow. Boundary layer analysis. Flow in closed and open channels. Flow dynamics of turbomachinery. Steady and unsteady flows. Instructor:
- EMCH 561: Current Topics in Mechanical Engineering. (3) (Prereq: Consent of instructor) Special topics related to current issues in mechanical engineering. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by suffix and title.
- EMCH 561D: Nuclear Licensure and Regulations. (3) Instructor: Prof. Loiselle
- EMCH 561E: Diesel Injection Systems. Basic diesel injection systems, descriptions, and associated engineering principles. Past, current, and future injection systems and components are examined. Instructor: Dr. Morehouse
- EMCH 561N: Nuclear Energy in the Hydrogen Economy
- EMCH 561O: Diesel Injection Systems
- ELCT 563: Advanced Semiconductor Materials
- EMCH 571: Mechanical Behavior of Materials. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 260, 371) Micro mechanisms of the deformation and fracture of structural materials; brittle versus ductile behavior; fatigue and creep; strengthening mechanisms; mechanical testing techniques; methods in analysis of mechanical failures. Instructor: Dr. Reynolds
- EMCH 572: Physical Metallurgy. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 371) Equilibrium and phase relations in metallic systems; kinetics of phase transformations; annealing and precipitation phenomena.
- EMCH 584: Advanced Mechanics of Materials. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 260) Topics in stress analysis, including unsymmetrical bending, three-dimensional stress-strain; torsion; rotational stress; thick-walled pressure vessels; beams on elastic foundations; and stress concentration. Instructor: Dr. Chao
- EMCH 592: Introduction to Combustion. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 354, 394) Chemical thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and combustion phenomena in energy production. Application to the modeling of coal combustion, incineration, and combustion engines. Instructor: Dr. Morehouse
- EMCH 594: Solar Heating. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 290, EMCH 354, or ECHE 321) Solar radiation; review of heat transfer and radiation characteristics of relevant materials; flat plate and focusing collectors; energy storage models for design of solar heating systems; system design by computer simulation; direct conversion by solar cells.
- EMCH 597: Thermal Environmental Engineering. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 354, 394) Vapor compression and absorption refrigeration systems. Heat pumps. Properties of refrigerants. Cryogenic refrigeration. Heating and cooling of buildings. Solar heating and cooling systems.
- EMCH 701: Methods of Engineering Analysis. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 201) Variational methods of approximation are used with the finite element method to simulate the reliability predictions in design of mechanical systems. The functional relationship between geometry, materials, and physical laws of motion and energy are applied to solid, thermal, and fluid systems. Instructor: Dr. Ranson
- EMCH 722: Plasticity. (3) (Prereq: ENGR 707) Basic experiments and observations of elastic-plastic material behavior; yield criteria; deformation and flow theories; slip line fields; numerical techniques; one and two dimensional applications.
- EMCH 727: Advanced Mechanical Design. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 260) Analysis of stresses involved in mechanical loading under various environmental conditions including failure criteria, impact and fatigue loading, residual stress, contact stress, and experimental stress analysis. Instructor: Dr. Ranson
- EMCH 751: Advanced Heat Transfer. (3) Development of the energy equation for convection and some exact solutions. Approximate analysis of the boundary layer by integral methods. Analogy between heat and momentum transfer. Experimental results. Instructor: Dr. Khan
- EMCH 755: Advanced Nuclear Engineering. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 552) Reactor physics including heterogeneous effects, multi-group calculations, reactor kinetics, stability and control, fuel depletion, and burnable poisons. Instructor: Dr. Knight
- EMCH 756: Safety Analysis for Energy Systems. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 552) Analysis of the safety of nuclear energy facilities focusing on reliability and probabilistic risk analysis. Instructor: Dr. Knight
- EMCH 757: Radiation Shielding. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 552) Radiation interactions and transport, design of radiation shields, point kernel, removal-diffusion, discrete ordinates, and Monte Carlo methods. Dosimetry, buildup factors, radiation sources, and shield materials.
- EMCH 758: Nuclear Reactor Systems. (3) Prereq: EMCH 552) PWR and BWR reactors, reactor system designs for accident prevention and mitigation, protection systems, containment design, emergency cooling requirements, and atmospheric dispersion of radioactive material. Instructor: Dr. Morehouse
- EMCH 772: Nuclear Materials. (3) This course focuses on behavior and performance of materials in nuclear irradiation fields. Materials used in the core for reactivity control and materials used for structural support will be studied.
- EMCH 792 C: Selected Topics: Fatigue of Materials. (3) Understanding of the use and limitations of strain life, stress life, and FCGR approaches to fatigue failure. Instructor: Dr. Reynolds
- EMCH 794: Thermodynamics. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 354 and EMCH 394) An advanced treatment of thermodynamics stressing fundamentals. Application of first and second laws; study of properties and criteria for reactive, non-reactive, and coupled systems. Instructor: Dr. Khan
- EMCH 882: Fracture Mechanics. (3) (Prereq: EMCH 584) Linear elastic and elastoplastic description of stress fields around cracks. Discussion of stress intensity factor, strain energy density. Dynamic crack propagation and arrest. Fatigue crack propagation. Fracture toughness testing. Applications of concepts.
- ENGR 707: Continuum Mechanics. (3) Development of theory of strain and of stress; constitutive equations; compatibility conditions; equations of motion. An introduction to courses in mechanics of solids and of fluids.
- ENGR 710: Dynamic Analysis. (3) (Prereq: ENGR 424) Analysis of lumped and continuous multidegree of freedom mechanical systems. Transfer function analysis. Response of systems to steady-state, shock, and random excitation. Introduction to non-linear vibrations and wave propagation.
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