Courses

TEAC 500

Provides hands-on teaching experience to graduate students in undergraduate courses. Reinforces students' understanding of basic concepts and allows them to communicate and apply their knowledge of the subject matter.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:0

MECH 591

GSSE - MECH
Credit:0

MECH 562

Fabrication and characterization techniques for micro and nano electro mechanical systems, MEMS & NEMS (including: microlithography; wet & dry etching techniques; physical & chemical vapor deposition processes; electroplating; bonding; focused ion beams; top-down approaches - electron-beam lithography, SPM, soft lithography - ; bottom-up techniques based on self-assembly). Semiconductor nanotechnology. Nanotubes & nanowires. Biological systems. Molecular electronics.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3
Pre-requisite: MECH. 202 or consent of the instructor

MECH 544

Fundamental concepts of modeling, control sensing, and intelligence of robotic systems. Robotic manipulators and mobile robots. Forward and inverse kinematics, trajectory planning, dynamics, control, and programming of robotic manipulators. Hardware components of mobile robots, visual and navigational sensors, pose estimation, navigation, and reasoning in mobile robots. Hands-on experience with robotic arms and mobile robots in a laboratory environment.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 534

Geometric, physics-based, and probabilistic modeling methodology and associated computational tools for interactive simulation: computer programming, numerical methods, graphical modeling and programming, physics-based and probabilistic modeling techniques.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 595

GSSE - MECH
Credit:0

MECH 568

Bioengineering, engineering materials, medicine, polymers, metals, smart materials, surgical implants, surgical instruments, cell and tissue mechanics, microsurgery, self-expanding stents, physical therapy, phase transformations, shape memory alloys.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 547

Metal forming, kinetics of plastic flow, texture and texture evolution in metallic materials, computational aspects of metal forming, plasticity and visco-plasticity, modeling of plastic deformation, numerical analysis of plastic deformation, classical theories of plasticity, microstructural modeling, thermodynamics and mechanics of slip, constitutive relations for crystal plasticity, models commonly applied in engineering practice, visco-plastic self-consistent modeling, texture evolution.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 542

Modeling, simulation and identification of physical systems. Instrumentation. Sensors and transduscers. Hardware components. Pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical and electrical actuators. Programmable logic controllers (PLC). Signals, systems, and controls. Real time interfaceing and programing. Microprocessor-based electro-mechanical control applications and projects for factory automation, manufacturing and machine systems.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 512

Particle kinematics. Kinematics of rigid bodies. Newtonian kinetics of a rigid body. Impulse-momentum and work-energy principles. Analytical mechanics. Holonomic and nonholonomic constrains. Virtual displacement. Generalized forces. Hamilton`s principle. Lagrange equations. Constrained generalized coordinates. Computational methods in the state space. Hamiltonian Mechanics. Gibbs-Appell equations. Gyroscopic effects.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 695

GSSE - MECH
Credit:0

MECH 590

GSSE - MECH
Credit:0

MECH 550

Topics will be announced when offered.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 543

Product realization systems from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). Manufacturing Automation. Modern sensors in manufacturing. Computer control of manufacturing systems. Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools. Machining processes. Rapid prototyping. Fundementals of industrial robotics.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3

MECH 525

Overview of MEMS materials and fabrication techniques; mechanical concepts and components; transduction techniques; MEMS sensors.

GSSE - MECH
Credit:3