Mar 29, 2024  
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Mathematics (MATH)

  
  • MATH 639 - Seminar in Differential Equations

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 641 - Functional Analysis I

    3 Credit Hours
    Topological vector spaces, distributions, and Banach algebras with applications to Fourier analysis and differential equations: theorems of Krein-Milman, Paley-Wiener, Lax, Malgrange-Ehrenpreis, Gelfand-Naimark, and spectral theory of normal operators.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 545.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): 546 or 443.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 642 - Functional Analysis II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 641.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 641.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 645 - Advanced Analysis I

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected topics in real, complex, or discrete analysis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 545 and 546.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 646 - Advanced Analysis II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 645.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 645.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 649 - Seminar in Analysis

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 651 - Advanced Modern Algebra I

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected topics in algebra, algebraic geometry, or number theory.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 551 and 552.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 652 - Advanced Modern Algebra II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 651.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 651.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 659 - Seminar in Algebra

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 661 - Modern Topology I

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected topics in topology.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 561 and 562.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 662 - Modern Topology II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 661.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 661.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 663 - Algebraic Topology I

    3 Credit Hours
    Homology, cohomology and homotopy theories: duality theorems and Hurewicz isomorphism theorem.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 561 and 562.
    Recommended Background: One year of abstract algebra.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 664 - Algebraic Topology II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 663.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 663.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 667 - Modern Geometry I

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected topics in Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 561 and 562 or 567 and 568.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 668 - Modern Geometry II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 667.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 667.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 669 - Seminar in Topology and Geometry

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 673 - Advanced Topics in Numerical Partial Differential Equations I

    3 Credit Hours
    Theoretical aspects of finite difference and finite element methods for initial and boundary value problems.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 571 and 572.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 674 - Advanced Topics in Numerical Partial Differential Equations II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 673.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 673.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 679 - Seminar in Numerical Mathematics

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 681 - Advanced Mathematical Ecology I

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected topics in theoretical and applied mathematical ecology: population, community, ecosystem ecology and applied topics such as demography, ecotoxicology, epidemiology, environmental change, and resource management.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 681.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 581 and 582.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 682 - Advanced Mathematical Ecology II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of 681.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 682.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 681.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MATH 689 - Seminar in Mathematical Ecology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.

Mathematics Education (MEDU)

  
  • MEDU 445 - Teaching Algebra in the Middle Grades

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines the algebraic content and teaching strategies associated with the teaching of algebra in the middle grades; the study of how adolescents learn algebra, various representations for algebraic concepts, and strategies to support the development of mathematical habits of mind that are essential for success in more advanced mathematics courses.
    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to Teacher Education or consent of instructor.
  
  • MEDU 446 - Teaching Geometry in the Middle Grades

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines the geometric content and teaching strategies associated with the teaching of geometry in the middle grades; the study of how adolescents learn geometry, geometric transformations, informal proof and reasoning, and strategies to support the development of mathematical habits of mind that are essential for success in more advanced mathematics courses.
    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to Teacher Education or consent of instructor.
  
  • MEDU 485 - Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School

    3 Credit Hours
    Preparation of teaching plans, evaluation, materials for teaching mathematics. Teaching simulation and directed observation in schools.
    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to Teacher Education or consent of Instructor.
  
  • MEDU 522 - Programs and Materials in School Mathematics

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination, development and use of materials for creating an active learning environment for learning mathematics for all ages.
  
  • MEDU 523 - Teaching Students who Struggle with Mathematics

    3 Credit Hours
    Identifying and responding to students’ difficulties in learning mathematics. Response to Intervention as it relates to mathematics education. Understanding and drawing on students’ thinking in teaching math.
  
  • MEDU 530 - Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School

    3 Credit Hours
    Unit planning, daily planning, grouping and other strategies of teaching mathematics. Course is for those with little preparation in teaching elementary school mathematics.
  
  • MEDU 543 - Teaching Mathematics in Middle School

    3 Credit Hours
    Unit planning, daily planning, grouping and other strategies for teaching mathematics. Course is for those with little preparation in teaching middle school mathematics.
  
  • MEDU 550 - Mathematics Assessment

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis will be the use of classroom assessment to inform instruction. Interpretation and use of Response to Intervention screeners, standardized tests and value added measurements will also be addressed.
    Recommended Background: Teaching experience or 485, 530, 543, is strongly recommended.
  
  • MEDU 581 - Mathematics Curriculum

    3 Credit Hours
    Past, present and future issues influencing mathematics curriculum in schools, elementary through college. Teacher’s role in curriculum development and implementation. Rationales for curriculum decisions.
  
  • MEDU 583 - Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools and Community Colleges

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics appropriate for high school and developmental mathematics in community college. Special topics relate to enrichment, problem solving, and the integration of technology into math teaching and learning. Opportunity for special projects.
    Comment(s): Undergraduate degree in mathematics or consent of instructor.
  
  • MEDU 622 - Research Trends in Mathematics Teacher Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of current research trends in mathematics teacher education and impact of such research on development of teachers both pre-service and in-service.
    Recommended Background: 2 graduate courses in mathematics education.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MEDU 683 - Advanced Studies in Mathematics Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of current research in mathematics education and implications of research for classroom practice.
    Recommended Background: 2 graduate courses in mathematics education.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.

Mechanical Engineering (ME)

  
  • ME 451 - Control Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis and design of feedback control systems using transient and frequency response techniques. Stability analysis in the time and frequency domain.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 363.
  
  • ME 452 - Finite Element Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Conversion of fundamental conservation principles in mechanics to simulation form via finite element implementation. Applications in heat transfer, solid mechanics, mechanical vibrations, fluid mechanics and heat/mass transport. Extensive computer lab experiments using Matlab-based and commercial software systems.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 321 and 344.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 363.
  
  • ME 476 - Fuel Cell Engines

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to fundamentals of fuel cells with an emphasis on polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Includes fundamentals of electrochemistry, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, materials, and manufacturing issues of PEFCs. A brief survey of other fuel cell types is also included.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 331 and Aerospace Engineering 341.
  
  • ME 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Industrial Engineering 483.)

  
  • ME 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Industrial Engineering 484.)

  
  • ME 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 505 - Mechatronics I

    3 Credit Hours
    Digital logic and analog electronic solutions to sensing and control problems in mechanical systems.   Integration of signal conditioning and filtering circuits. Stepping and DC motors.
    Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 405 and 505.
    Recommended Background: Electronics and computer circuits course.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 511 - Fundamentals of Heat Conduction

    3 Credit Hours
    Physical and mathematical formulations for Fourier heat conduction problems for lumped systems, transient and steady-state distributed systems.  Solutions by separation of variables, generalized integral transforms (Fourier and Laplace) for finite and infinite domains, Green’s function method, and perturbation methods for nonlinear systems.
    Recommended Background: Undergraduate heat transfer course.
  
  • ME 512 - Convection Heat Transfer

    3 Credit Hours
    Models and equations for fluid motion, the general energy equation, and transport properties. Exact, approximate, and boundary layer solutions for laminar flow heat transfer problems. Heat transfer in internal and external forced and buoyancy driven flows. Application of similarity concepts and analogies to convection heat transfer.
    Recommended Background: Undergraduate heat transfer course.
  
  • ME 517 - Finite Elements for Engineering Applications

    3 Credit Hours
    Modern computational theory applied to conservation principles across the engineering sciences. Weak forms, extremization, boundary conditions, discrete implementation via finite element, finite difference, finite volume methods. Asymptotic error estimates, accuracy, convergence, stability. Linear problem applications in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions, extensions to non-linearity, non-smooth data, unsteady, spectral analysis techniques, coupled equation systems. Computer projects in heat transfer, structural mechanics, mechanical vibrations, fluid mechanics, heat/mass transport.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 517.)

    Comment(s): Bachelor’s degree in engineering or natural science required.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 518 - Computational Fluid Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Finite difference and finite volume techniques for solving compressible and incompressible fluid flow problems. Classification of partial differential equations and their discrete approximations. Explicit and Implicit techniques for solving unsteady Euler and Navier-Stokes equations including finite volume and finite difference formulations. Formulation of boundary conditions, artificial viscosity and multigrid acceleration. Stability analysis and convergence. Grid generation.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 518; Biomedical Engineering 518.)

    Recommended Background: Fluid mechanics, differential equations, and compressible flows.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 519 - Technology Product Development and Entrepreneurship

    3 Credit Hours
    Technology and innovation, technology transfer, patent protection, legal formation and intellectual property, knowledge management, generation, and transmission, launching a technology based business, sources of capital, small business growth and operation. Multidisciplinary teams will develop a business based on a technological product.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Industrial Engineering 557.)

    Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 457 and 519.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 521 - Thermodynamics I

    3 Credit Hours
    Macroscopic thermodynamics, including First and Second Law analyses, availability, phase and chemical equilibrium criteria, combustion, gas mixtures, and property relations, determination of thermodynamic properties from molecular structure, spectroscopic data, kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, quantum physics, Schroedinger equation.
    Recommended Background: Undergraduate thermodynamics.
  
  • ME 522 - Thermodynamics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Macroscopic thermodynamics, including First and Second Law analyses, availability, phase and chemical equilibrium criteria, combustion, gas mixtures, and property relations, determination of thermodynamic properties from molecular structure, spectroscopic data, kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, quantum physics, Schroedinger equation.
    Recommended Background: Undergraduate thermodynamics.
  
  • ME 524 - Fracture Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Mechanisms of fracture and crack growth; stress analysis; crack tip plastic zone; energy principles in fracture mechanics; fatigue-crack initiation and propagation; fracture mechanic design and fatigue life prediction. Analytical, numerical, and experimental methods for determination of stress intensity factors. Current topics in fracture mechanics.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 525 - Combustion and Chemically Reacting Flows I

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamentals: thermochemistry, chemical kinetics and conservation equations; phenomenological approach to laminar flames; diffusion and premixed flame theory; single droplet combustion; deflagration and detonation theory; stabilization of combustion waves in laminar streams; flammability limits of premixed laminar flames; introduction to turbulent flames.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 522 and 541 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 527 - Thermal Systems Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Review of the fundamentals of conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer. Analysis of conjugate heat transfer problems. Application of scaling analysis to internal and external flows. Modeling of free, forced and mixed convection heat transfer via commercial software.
    Recommended Background: Undergraduate heat transfer and fluid mechanics courses.
  
  • ME 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 529.)

  
  • ME 530 - Foundations of Nanomechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamental aspects of small-scale mechanics and thermodynamics needed to understand properties and behavior of engineered nanoscale systems. Role of nanomechanics in the contemporary nanotechnology research. Essential practical tools used by engineers and researchers for the analysis and characterization of nanostructures, nanocomposite materials, and complex multiscale phenomena in solids and liquids.
    Recommended Background: 321 and 331.
  
  • ME 531 - Advanced Biomechanics I

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Biomedical Engineering 531.)

  
  • ME 533 - Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Kinematics and dynamics of particles in three dimensions. Rotating coordinate systems. Hamilton’s principle. Lagrange’s equations of motion. Kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 533.)

    Recommended Background: 391 or Mathematics 431 and an undergraduate vibrations course.
  
  • ME 534 - Mechanical Vibrations

    3 Credit Hours
    Linear vibration analysis of lumped and distributed parameter systems , undamped and damped systems. Lagrange’s equations. Modal transformations, modal analysis, self-adjoint operator theory, frequency response functions, harmonic, arbitrary and random excitation.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 535.)

    Recommended Background: An undergraduate vibrations course.
  
  • ME 536 - Continuum Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cartesian tensors, transformation laws, basic continuum mechanics concepts; stress, strain, deformation, constitutive equations. Conservation laws for mass, momentum, energy. Applications in solid and fluid mechanics.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 536.)

    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 540 - Perturbation Methods in Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Solution of nonlinear problems in solid and fluid mechanics and dynamics by use of asymptotic perturbation techniques. Asymptotic expansions, regular and singular perturbations and applications in dynamics, celestial mechanics, potential, viscous and compressible flows. Uniformly valid approximations in various physical problems. Generalized boundary-layer techniques. Coordinate straining techniques; Poincar’s method. Matched asymptotic expansions and multiple scales. Problems with several time or length scales. Examples taken from various fields of science.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 541 - Fluid Mechanics I

    3 Credit Hours
    Derivation of equations governing flow of inviscid and viscous fluids (conservation of mass, Newton’s second law, conservation of energy). Equations of state and constitutive relations. Euler and Navier-Stokes forms and nondimensionalization. Exact solutions and introduction to potential and boundary-layer flows.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 541.)

    Recommended Background: A fluid mechanics course.
  
  • ME 542 - Fluid Mechanics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Equations of viscous fluid flows. Basic concepts and equations of turbulent flow. Separation, stability and transition. Laminar and turbulent boundary-layer flows. Exact, approximate, and numerical solutions.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 542.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 541.
  
  • ME 545 - Optical Engineering I

    3 Credit Hours
    Wave optics; scalar diffraction theory; introduction to Fourier optics; ray or geometric optics; lens, mirror, gratings; paraxial design methods; introduction to aberrations.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 545.)

    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 546 - Optical Engineering II

    3 Credit Hours
    Statistical optics; spontaneous and induced emission: black and gray body radiation; incoherent, partial and totally coherent radiation; mutual coherence function; detectors; radiometry.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 546.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 545.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 547 - Linear Control Systems Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Design and analysis of control systems for multi-variable, linear, dynamic systems using transfer function and state-space representations. Topics include stability, robustness, performance, frequency response, PID controllers, Lead/Lag compensators, full-state feedback, observer-based controllers.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 547.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 451 or equivalent.
  
  • ME 559 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials I

    3 Credit Hours
    Elasticity in three dimensions: equations of equilibrium, strain-displacement relations, compatibility, constitutive equations. Energy methods. Beams on elastic foundation, unsymmetrical bending, shear center, beam-columns, buckling, plastic collapse.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 559.)

    Recommended Background: 321.
  
  • ME 564 - Engineering Optics and Microscopy

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to basic optical theories and principles for engineers. Advanced optical and scanning probe microscopy techniques and applications.
    Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 464 and 564.
    Recommended Background: Differential equations, linear algebra.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 565 - Structural Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Dynamic analysis of flexible structures, elasticity and Green’s strain tensor, partial differential equations. Variational mechanics, Hamilton’s principle, energy methods, eigenvalue and forced response problems, separation of variables. Approximate solution techniques: collocation methods, Rayleigh-Ritz, finite element method.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 565.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 534 or equivalent.
    Recommended Background: 321 and 463.
  
  • ME 567 - Smart Materials and Structures

    3 Credit Hours
    Constitutive modeling of piezoelectric materials, electroactive polymers, shape memory alloys, and system modeling for the analysis, design, and control of smart material systems. Energy methods for static and dynamic analysis of piezoelectric bimorph and other smart systems.
    Recommended Background: Mechanics of materials and system dynamics.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • ME 569 - Principles of Additive Manufacturing

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of additive manufacturing processes within the context of traditional manufacturing life cycle including the basics of product design, processing mechanics and materials science to highlight the advantages of additive manufacturing.
    Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 469 and 569.
    Recommended Background: Computer-aided design, materials science.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • ME 570 - Numerical Methods for Engineers

    3 Credit Hours
    Review and implementation of basic numerical techniques. Explicit and implicit solution techniques of ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Applications include heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
    Recommended Background: Numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and differential equations.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • ME 572 - Sustainable Energy Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    An in-depth examination of engineering systems to convert, store, transport, and use energy, with emphasis on technologies that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and/or emission of greenhouse gases; Examines various conventional energy production technologies such as fossil fuel and nuclear (both fission and fusion) and renewable energy conversion technologies such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, wave, and thermoelectric energy; Examines their end-use practices, consumption practices. The course will emphasize using quantitative methods to assess and compare different technologies.
    Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 472 and 572.
    Recommended Background: 331.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 576 - Advanced Fuel Cell Engines

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamental science of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Includes fundamentals of electrochemistry, materials, manufacturing and transport in PEFCS. Laboratory testing of the performance characteristics of PEFCS.
    Recommended Background: Undergraduate Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 584 - Turbomachinery Systems I

    3 Credit Hours
    Ideal cycle analysis of turbine engines, real cycle analysis, component performance analysis, component design and systems integration (inlets, nozzles, combustors, compressors, turbines), flowthrough theory, turbine engine component matching, transient operation, surge and rotating stall, engine control systems, structural considerations.
    Comment(s): First-year graduate standing required.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 585 - Turbomachinery Systems II

    3 Credit Hours
    Ideal cycle analysis of turbine engines, real cycle analysis, component performance analysis, component design and systems integration (inlets, nozzles, combustors, compressors, turbines), flowthrough theory, turbine engine component matching, transient operation, surge and rotating stall, engine control systems, structural considerations.
    Comment(s): First-year graduate standing required.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 586 - Mechanics of Robotic Manipulators

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of robotic manipulator mechanics: kinematics and dynamics, sensors and actuators, manipulator mechanical design, and joint-level control.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 451 and 533.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): 529.
  
  • ME 587 - Dynamic Modeling and Simulation

    3 Credit Hours
    Modeling and analysis of physical systems. Systems and parameter identification. Mathematical modeling methods and approximations. Digital simulation techniques and practices. Design and control applications.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Biomedical Engineering 587.)

    Recommended Background: 363.
  
  • ME 588 - Introduction to Hybrid Electric Vehicles

    3 Credit Hours
    Series, parallel, and dual configurations. Sizing and analysis of typical HEV components: motors, auxiliary power sources, on-board energy storage, and fuels. Steady-state HEV force and power modeling schemes. Power train design using various computer simulation tools.
    Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 480 and 588.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 589 - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Control Systems Design and Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Dynamic modeling, simulation and analysis of complete hybrid electric vehicle systems. Linear control design techniques and discrete logic design applied to HEV power trains and operating mode controls. Digital and real-time control and hardware issues of automotive systems. Design and human factors engineering issues of vehicle controls and displays.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 590 - Selected Engineering Problems

    2-6 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Comment(s): Enrollment limited to students in the problems option.
    Registration Permission: Consent of advisor.
  
  • ME 591 - Advanced Engineering Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of weighted residual methods solving for differential, integral and partial differential equations in engineering. Brief introduction to integral equations, asymptotics, functional analysis, orthogonal polynomials and ill-posed problems associated with inverse analysis.
    Recommended Background: 391 and Mathematics 231.
  
  • ME 592 - Off-Campus Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.
  
  • ME 593 - Independent Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.
  
  • ME 595 - Seminar

    1 Credit Hours
    All phases of mechanical engineering, reports on current research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee Space Institute.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 20 hours.
  
  • ME 599 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 601 - Doctoral Research Methodology

    3 Credit Hours
    Methods of planning and conducting original research and proposal writing.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – doctoral student.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.
  
  • ME 605 - Mechatronics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to designing microcontroller-based embedded computer systems using assembly and C programs. Examination of Real-time Operating Systems and their impact on performance. A/D and D/A interfacing. Engineering applications will be emphasized.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 505, or equivalent.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 610 - Advanced Topics in Thermal/Fluid Science

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced theory and applications in the thermal/fluid sciences.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 613 - Advanced Radiation Heat Transfer

    3 Credit Hours
    Radiation heat transfer in absorbing, emitting and scattering media; interaction of thermal radiation with conduction and convection heat transfer.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 511 and 512.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 621 - Advanced Topics in Mechanical Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced theory and applications in control systems, dynamics, mechanics, strength of materials and vibrations.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 631 - Advanced Biomechanics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Biomedical Engineering 631.)

  
  • ME 644 - Theory of Turbulence

    3 Credit Hours
    Mathematical foundations for turbulent flow characterization, energy spectra, Kolmogorov hypothesis, eddy cascade structure, turbulent diffusion concept. Time averaging, Reynolds stress tensor, similarity solutions, algebraic and differential turbulence closure models. Space filtering, large eddy simulation (LES) theory, various filter concepts, approximations, Fourier transforms, Reynolds stress tensor extensions. Smagorinsky, multi-scale, Gaussian closure models for unsteady time-accurate LES CFD. Applications in external and internal flows. Computer projects.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 644.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 518.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 647 - Nonlinear Control Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Dynamics and behavior of nonlinear systems; Lyapunov stability theory; passivity and absolute stability theory; frequency domain methods; nonlinear feedback systems; nonlinear design techniques.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 647.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 547 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 648 - Modern Linear Control

    3 Credit Hours
    Design and analysis of digital control laws for dynamic systems, data processing and filtering,  optimal control and state estimation, adaptive parameter estimation, recursive and moving least squares, model-reference adaptive control, modeling and control of dynamic systems with common  nonlinearities.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 529 or equivalent.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 655 - Advanced Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Modern approximation theory for Euler and Navier-Stokes conservation systems, compressible flow, hyperbolic forms, boundary conditions. Weak forms, extremization, finite element/finite volume/flux vector discrete implementations, a priori error estimates, accuracy, convergence, stability. Numerical linear algebra, approximate factorization, sparse matrix methods. Dissipation, Fourier spectral analysis, smooth and non-smooth solutions.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 655.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 518.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 656 - Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics Practice

    3 Credit Hours
    Applications of modern CFD theory and code practice for Euler and Navier-Stokes conservation systems. Computer projects in incompressible/compressible flow, viscous, turbulent, reacting and/or inviscid/potential subsonic to hypersonic flows.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 656.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 644 and 655.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 659 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials II

    3 Credit Hours
    Plane stress and plane strain in rectangular and polar coordinates; stress functions. Torsion of noncircular sections. Disks, thick-walled tubes, thick-walled pressure vessels. Theory of rectangular and circular plates, plates with holes, axisymmetric shells. Stress concentrations.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 659.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 559 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 661 - Advanced Vibrations

    3 Credit Hours
    Vibration and stability analysis of linear and nonlinear oscillators including non-conservative vibration problems, rotordynamics, parametric time-varying systems, hardening and softening nonlinearity, geometric nonlinearity and impact. Linearization, eigen-analysis, Floquet theory, harmonic balance, and perturbation methods in response and stability analysis.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 534 or equivalent.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 671 - Advanced Topics in Applied Artificial Intelligence

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Nuclear Engineering 671.)

  
  • ME 678 - Advanced Topics in Fuel Cells and Electrochemical Power Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Graduate level topics in electrochemical power systems. Includes emphasis on transport issues in polymer electrolyte fuel cells and flow batteries, with some
    topical coverage of other electrochemically based power systems.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Recommended Background: Course in Fuel Cell Engines.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
 

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