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.
MECH 591
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.
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.
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.
MECH 595
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.
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.
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.
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.
MECH 695
MECH 590
MECH 550
Topics will be announced when offered.
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.
MECH 525
Overview of MEMS materials and fabrication techniques; mechanical concepts and components; transduction techniques; MEMS sensors.