Static and dynamic biomechanical analysis, effects of mechanical loading on bone and cartilage, design considerations in orthopaedic devices, muscle function, biomechanics of human movement, cardiovascular biomechanics. Cross-listed with MECH 4020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course provides training in computational and experimental methods for biomechanical engineering analysis. Topics include finite element analysis of biological systems, orthopedic device design, medical imaging analysis, mechanical characterization of biological tissues, and biomechanics of human movement.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 4020 or MECH 5020. Restriction: Restricted to CEDC graduate students.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the various experimental and computational tools to measure and study human movement. Using a motion capture laboratory and musculoskeletal modeling, these tools will be used to develop a thorough understanding of how engineering principles can be used to address the major challenges of human movement biomechanics, with a primary emphasis on experimental measurement methods and simulations of movement. These tools will be used to explore the interaction of musculoskeletal properties, including whole‐body and joint level biomechanics, with the environment during dynamic motion. Course topics include neuromuscular mechanics, balance performance, inverse dynamics, simulation of dynamic muscle‐tendon mechanics, and musculoskeletal model development. Cross-listed with MECH 4030.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course introduces students to the seven 3D printing processes, additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, and design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). AM now impacts nearly every stage of the product lifecycle and is shaping the future of manufacturing. Students will learn the fundamentals, applications, and implications of AM—understanding when and why to use it and rethinking traditional design limits. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 1. Describe the seven AM processes and their advantages and limitations. 2. Gain hands-on experience using and modifying multiple AM systems. 3. Recognize AM applications beyond prototyping, including tooling, production, and customization. 4. Apply AM across a product’s lifecycle. 5. Use generative design and topology optimization software for complex designs. 6. Evaluate the cost and value of AM processes. Cross-listed with MECH 4031

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students and graduate non-degree seeking students.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Introduces numerical analysis. Solution of linear and nonlinear equation systems. Numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations. Engineering applications. Cross-listed with MECH 4110.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Analysis and design of polymers and polymer-based composites. Failure criteria include static strength, stiffness, creep, fatigue, impact and fracture toughness. Design criteria include strength-to-weight ratio and cost-to-strength ratio. Cross-listed with MECH 4114.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Selected topics from real analyses with applications to engineering analyses. Topics include vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and calculus of variations. Cross-listed with MECH 4120.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Physical properties of gases and liquids; kinematics of flow fields; equations describing viscous, heat-conducting Newtonian fluids. Exact solutions and rational approximations for low- and high-speed dissipative flows, surface and internal waves, acoustics, stability, and potential flows. Graduate standing or permission of instructor required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Axiomatic presentation of fundamentals of classical thermodynamics (first law); energy, work and heat. Equilibrium, reversible, and irreversible processes; entropy production and the second law. Applications to stability and phase equilibrium. Irreversible thermodynamics and the Onsager reciprocal relations.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Cartesian tensor notation. Deformation, strain, strain rate and compatibility. Definition of stress vector and tensor. Fundamental balance laws of mass, momentum and energy; entropy production inequality. Constitutive equations for elastic, viscoelastic and plastic materials; ideal, compressible, and viscous fluids. Beltrami-Mitchell and Navier-Stokes equations.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Mathematical theory of linear viscoelasticity. Finite elements models. Solution of boundary-value problems in linear viscoelasticity. Non-Newtonian flow. Selected topics in nonlinear material behavior. Graduate standing or permission of the instructor required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 5143 with a grade of B- or higher Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing or higher

Viscous incompressible fluid flows. Topics include derivation of equations governing viscous compressible fluid motion; specializations to simple flows; boundary-layer theory; similarity solutions; introduction to turbulence and Reynolds stresses. Cross-listed with MECH 4141.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Review of the basic equations of linear theory of elasticity. St. Venant torsion and flexure. Plane strain, plane stress, and generalized plane stress. Application of conformal mapping and Fourier transform techniques. Restrictoin: Graduate standing or permission of instructor required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Energy, continuity, and momentum principles applied to compressible flow; one-, two-, and three-dimensional subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows. Normal and oblique shocks, and method of characteristics.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 5141 with a B- or higher Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing or higher

Review of Newtonian dynamics, Lagrange's equation for particles, systems and rigid bodies. Conservative and non-conservative systems, moments of inertia, principal axes, angular momentum and Euler equations. Illustrations from spinning bodies, including tops, gyro-compass and rotating machinery. Cross-listed with MECH 4163.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Modern manufacturing engineering concepts using computerized numerical control (CNC). The students learn state-of-the-art CNC methodologies, including digitizing, drawing, generating codes, and manufacturing using modern CNC machines. Cross-listed with MECH 4166.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Students learn basic theory of finite element analysis (FEA) as it applies to stress analysis and design of mechanical components. Commercial package will be used giving students practical experience in the use of FEA. Graduate standing or permission of the instructor required. Cross-listed with MECH 4175.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 5143 with a grade of B- or higher Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing or higher

This course bridges the introductory and intermediate levels for renewable energy and the intermediate levels for wind energy. It offers cutting-edge insights into renewable energy, with a focus on wind energy, covering topics such as renewable energy sources, wind resource assessment, wind turbine aerodynamics, wind turbine wake modeling, wind farm simulation, and wind farm layout optimization. Various state-of-the-art tools widely utilized in academia and industry will be introduced. Cross-listed with MECH 4177.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course provides the student with the basic ideas and calculation procedures on how solar processes work and how their performance can be predicted. Cross-listed with MECH 4178.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

This course provides fundamental concepts and applicable mathematical techniques for understanding the physics of various modes of heat transfer. Topics include heat conduction in finite and semi-infinite domains, phase change, microscale heat conduction, laminar forced and free convection, turbulence forced and free convection, and thermal radiation.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Graduate level students.

This course provides the foundations on the physics of microscale transport phenomena, where continuum effects break down, with applications in MEMS and NEMS. Topics include gas microflows, liquid microflows, surface tension-driven flows, electrokinetics transport, kinetic theory, simulation techniques, lattice Boltzmann methods.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

This course provides an introduction to turbulence, which is ubiquitous in nature and having a wide range of applications in engineering. The chaotic phenomena in such a class of flows poses major challenges in their understanding and modeling. The topics covered in this course include the statistical 4 tools and spectral analysis for turbulence description, basic equations of motion and flow instability, Reynolds decomposition of flow, energy transport by mean and turbulence motions, turbulence scales, vortex motion, classical turbulent flow configurations, such as free shear flows (jets, wakes, mixing layers) and wall bounded flows (channels, boundary layers), Kolmogorov and other phenomenological theories, and turbulence modeling. Cross-listed with MECH 4188.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to students with graduate standing.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Subject matter to be selected from topics of current technological interest. Credit to be arranged. Cross-listed with MECH 4208. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate standing majors in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Available only through approval of the graduate advisor. Subjects arranged to fit needs of the particular student. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Students gain engineering design experience involving application of specific technical concepts and skills in a supervised industrial environment. (Must have approval from MECH faculty.)

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Master of Science in Engineering report. Students seeking the Master of Science in Engineering, and who do not choose to do a thesis, must complete an individual project of an investigative and creative nature under the supervision of a member of the graduate faculty. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.

This course provides a description of the advanced concepts for understanding the physics of fluid motion under different regimes. Topics include kinematics, stresses, equation of motion, vorticity transport, low Reynolds number flow, irrotational flow, interfacial flow, acoustics&waves, hydrodynamic stability & transition, turbulent flow.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MECH 5141. Restriction: Restricted to students with graduate standing.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 10.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.