College of Engineering
GRADUATE FACULTY 1997-98
Chairman & Graduate Coordinator: W. G. Tiederman. Graduate Research Professors: J. Duffy; A.E.S. Green; J. Tlusty. Ebaugh Professor: A. A. Seireg. Professors: D. Y. Goswami; C. K. Hsieh; W. M. Phillips; V. P. Roan; W. G. Tiederman. Associate Professors: N. K. Arakere; S. A. Banks; C. D. Crane; R. A. Gater; H. A. Ingley, III; J. F. Klausner; G. K. Matthew; J. E. Peterson; C. L. Proctor; J. K. Schueller; S. A. Sherif; G. J. Wiens; J. C. Ziegert. Assistant Professors: E. C. Hansen; A. V. Kumar; W. E. Lear; P. A. Mason; G. J. Miller; K. D. Reisinger; Z. Zhang.
Programs are available leading to the degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy. General areas within which students may specialize are biomechanical systems, energy conversion systems, mechanical systems, thermal systems, manufacturing, and robotics.
Within the specializations noted above are unique opportunities to complete theoretical and experimental research investigations in a wide variety of subspecialities including automatic controls, biomechanics, combustion, cryogenics, energy conversion, environmental control, fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, heat transfer, kinematic synthesis, machine dynamics, propulsion, solar energy, thermodynamics, and vibrations.
EML 5104--Classical Thermodynamics (3) Review of the first, second, and third laws. Applications to open and closed systems. Property evaluation using equations of state.
EML 5105--Statistical Thermodynamics (3) Equilibrium distributions in Bose, Fermi, and Boltzmann systems. Property evaluation from microscopic molecular models. Transport properties.
EML 5124--Two-Phase Flow and Boiling Heat Transfer (3)
EML 5131--Combustion I (3) Prereq: EML 3101 and consent of instructor. Fundamentals of combustion, reaction kinetics, combustion and detonation phenomena.
EML 5152--Intermediate Heat Transfer (3) Analytical solution of conduction, convection, and radiation problems; exact and approximate solution techniques. Mass transfer in multicomponent fluids.
EML 5215--Analytical Dynamics I (3) Prereq: dynamics. Analytical methods of statics and dynamics. Principle of virtual work, holonomic and nonholonmic constraints. Lagrange equations for constrained and unconstrained systems, conservation laws, stability analysis by perturbation about steady state, Jacobi first integral, generalized impulse and momentum.
EML 5223--Design Synthesis in Vibrations (3) Vibration analysis and synthesis of continuous and multidegree of freedom lumped parameter systems. Computational and experimental techniques in modal analysis.
EML 5224--Engineering Acoustics and Noise Control (2) Fundamentals of acoustics; instrumentation for acoustic and vibration measurements; field and laboratory practice; applications to noise control.
EML 5244--Lubrication of Bearings (3) Prereq: EML 4500 and 4702. Hydrodynamic, hydrostatic, and squeeze film lubrication fundamentals developed from basic fluid mechanics and applied to typical machine bearings. Design considerations such as load capacity, friction, losses, heat transfer, and bearing materials.
EML 5311--Control System Theory (3) Analysis of dynamic mechanical engineering control systems. Introduction to classical, digital, and state space techniques. Modeling, stability, transient response, frequency response. Implementation consideration.
EML 5318--Computer Control of Machines and Processes (3) Prereq: CGS 2425 or permission of instructor. Basic concepts, including hardware and software. Modeling of machines, processes, and their controllers.
EML 5455--Clean Combustion Technology (2) Latest developments on combustion of solid fuels, cocombustion of fuels, fluidized bed combustion, and gasification for combustion turbine applications.
EML 5465--Energy Management for Mechanical Engineers (3) Prereq: permission of instructor. Energy use analysis in building envelopes, mechanical systems, and industrial processes. Energy conservation strategies and design techniques. Alternative energy applications.
EML 5504--Mechanical Design I (3) Prereq: EML 4500. Problem formulation for design, design criteria, and structuring of appropriate methodologies for developing and comparing problem solutions. Applications covering a broad specturm of mechanical systems.
EML 5505--Mechanical Design II (3) Prereq: EML 5504. Case studies and design projects involving the complete design and prototype construction of automatic machinery components and subsystems.
EML 5515--Gas Turbines and Jet Engines (3) Prereq: EML 4419 or consent of instructor. Theory and analysis of gas turbine engines and major components.
EML 5516--Design of Thermal Systems (3) Prereq: EML 4141 and 4702 or equivalent. Modeling of thermal equipment; system simulation; optimization, search methods, thermal system design and optimization using dynamic, geometric, and linear programming; simulation of large systems, vector and reduced gradient searches.
EML 5526--Finite Element Analysis and Application (3) Prereq: EML 3520 or permission of instructor. Fundamentals, including discrete system analysis, dynamic analysis of structures, steady state and transient heat transfer analysis, and incompressible fluids analysis. Modeling, analysis, and design using FEA software.
EML 5591--Biometrics (3) Prereq: EGM 2511, EMA 3010, EEL 3003 or 3111, EML 3023. Human/machine interface examined. Basic human anatomy introduced. Physical capabilities and limitations explored in context of practical design problems. Injury prevention, both acute and cumulative, investigated.
EML 5595--Mechanics of the Human Locomotor System (3) Prereq: EGM 3401, 3520. Analysis of human musculoskeletal system as sensors, levers, and actuators. Joint articulations and their mechanical equivalents. Kinematic and kinetic analysis of human motion. Introduction to modeling human body segments for analysis of human activities.
EML 5598--Orthopedic Biomechanics (3) Prereq: mechanics of materials. Mechanical properties of human body's hard and soft tissues. Mechanical and biological considerations for repair and replacement of soft and hard tissues and joints. Fracture fixation, orthopedic implants for hip and knee, orthotic and prosthetic devices.
EML 5605--Advanced Refrigeration (3) Prereq: EML 4601. Analysis and design considerations for vapor compression, absorption, steam-jet, thermoelectric, and air refrigeration systems.
EML 5714--Gas Dynamics of Internal Flow Systems (3) Emphasis on one-dimensional compressible flow.
EML 5725--Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics (3) Prereq: EML 4141 and 4702. Fundamentals of finite-difference methods for obtaining numerical solutions to fluid flow, heat transfer, and combustion problems.
EML 6103--Advanced Thermodynamics (3) Thermodynamics of nonsimple systems. Multicomponent and multiphase thermodynamic analysis.
EML 6154--Conduction Heat Transfer (3) Prereq: MAP 2302, EML 4141. Studies of heat conduction in homogeneous, heterogeneous, isotropic, anisotropic, stationary, moving bodies in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical systems. Both exact and approximate solutions stressed.
EML 6155--Convective Heat Transfer I (3) Prereq: EML 4702, 4141. Application of the equations of motion and energy to forced and free convection with laminar and turbulent flow. Solution techniques to include simplification to ordinary differential equations, boundary layer approximations, similarity transformations, and integral approximations. Phenomenological treatment of turbulent transport.
EML 6156--Convection Heat Transfer II (3) Prereq: EML 6155. Detailed coverage of advanced convection heat transfer topics: boiling and condensation, high velocity convection, transpiration cooling, convection around bodies, free jet flow, oscillating fluids, and microelectronic cooling.
EML 6157--Radiation Heat Transfer (3) Prereq: MAP 2302, EML 4141. Theory and analysis for radiation exchange in both transparent and absorbing, emitting and scattering medium.
EML 6159--Special Topics in Heat Transfer (3) Prereq: EML 4141._
EML 6216--Analytical Dynamics II (3) Prereq: EML 5215 or permission of instructor. Continuation of Analytical Dynamics I. Vector and analytical dynamics in three dimensions. Rotational kinematics, particle and rigid body motion, moments of inertia, comparison between Lagrangian techniques and the vector methods of Euler and Newton; vibrations, Euler's angles, motion of gyroscope and axially symmetric bodies.
EML 6267--Structural Dynamics of Production Machinery (3) Review mechanical vibrations with two degrees of freedom. Natural and forced vibrations of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Experimental and computational modal analysis and synthesis. Vibrations of machine tools, rolling mills, robots.
EML 6274--Dynamic Synthesis of Direct Contact Mechanisms (3) Prereq: EML 3262. The design of direct contact mechanisms by classical techniques of rigid body systems and finite differences applied to systems composed of elastic components.
EML 6275--Coplanar Kinematic Synthesis I (3) Prereq: EML 3262. Multiply separated position theory for 3, 4, and 5 positions of the moving system. Curvature transformation, circle point curves, and Burmester point theory. Treatment is analytical, with emphasis on the theory of algebraic curves.
EML 6276--Coplanar Kinematic Synthesis II (3) Prereq: EML 6275. Application of theory in EML 6275. Point-path, coplanar and function generation synthesis problems for linear, circular, or geared constraints. Reduction of parameters and optimization concepts.
EML 6278--Advanced Rotor Dynamics (3) Prereq: EML 4220 and consent of instructor. Analysis of dynamic stability, critical speeds, and unbalance response of rotor-bearing systems. Special problems encountered in modern application operating through and above the critical speeds.
EML 6281--Geometry of Mechanisms and Robots I (3) Development of applications to basic theory of the mathematics required in the design of spatial mechanisms and robot arms. Examples include mathematical description of the elements of mechanisms and robot arms, namely linkages and joints, their mobility and their analysis.
EML 6282--Geometry of Mechanisms and Robots II (3) Theory of screws and application to the determination of stationary and uncertainty configurations of mechanisms and robot arms. Dexterity and workspace of robot arms.
EML 6283--Geometry of Mechanisms and Robots III (3) Prereq: EML 6282. Continuation of EML 6282.
EML 6324--Fundamentals of Production Engineering (3) Fundamentals of metal cutting, metal forming, and welding. Accuracy and rigidity of machine tools. Automation, numerical control, adaptive control.
EML 6417--Solar Energy Utilization (3; max: 6) Solar energy; its characteristics and availability; collection and storage; conversion and utilization as heat, refrigeration, thermal electric and power, photovoltaic conversion; and other applications.
EML 6451--Energy Conversion (3) Conversion of available forms of energy into mechanical and electrical forms; energy conversion schemes, including conventional cycles in unusual environments. MHD, photovoltaics, thermionic and thermoelectric conversion and fuel cells.
EML 6506--Sliding-Element Bearing Analysis and Design (3) Prereq: EML 4702, EGN 3353C, or EAS 4106. Theory and design analysis of hydrodynamic bearings and boundary lubricated sliding bearing.
EML 6507--Rolling-Element Bearing Analysis and Design (3) Prereq: EML 4500 and 4501 or EGM 5533. Theory and design analysis of ball bearings and roller bearings.
EML 6597--Mechanics of Gait (3) Prereq: EML 5595. Concepts, nomenclature, and control mechanics of normal and pathological bipedal gait.
EML 6606--Advanced Air Conditioning (3) Prereq: EML 4600. Air-conditioning system selection and system design; air handling techniques including noise control, cleaning, temperature and humidity control; modern technological development and economic analysis.
EML 6607--Advanced Air Conditioning II (3) Prereq: EML 6606. Industrial applications, special requirements for hospitals, survival shelter criteria.
EML 6716--Advanced Fluid Dynamics (3) Prereq: EML 4702. Extends the previous fluid flow courses to include a wider range of subject material and provide a background for convection heat transfer courses.
EML 6717--Thermodynamics of Fluid Flow I (3) Prereq: EML 4702. Compressible flow; emphasis on two-dimensional flow in internal flow systems.
EML 6718--Thermodynamics of Fluid Flow II (3) Prereq: EML 6717. Continuation of EML 6717. Emphasis on axisymmetric, unsteady, and hypersonic flow.
EML 6726--Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (3) Prereq: EML 5725 and 6716. Application of finite-difference methods to the study of steady and unsteady multidimensional flows, including compressible and incompressible, laminar and turbulent, reacting and nonreacting, viscous and inviscid.
EML 6729--Topics in Fluid Dynamics (3) Prereq: EML 4702.
EML 6905--Individual Projects in Mechanical Engineering (1-3; max: 12)
EML 6910--Supervised Research (1-3; max: 5) S/U.
EML 6911--Mechanical Research (1-3; max: 6) Research projects in mechanical engineering.
EML 6934--Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (1-4; max: 9)
EML 6936--Nonthesis Project (1-4; max: 6) An in-depth project for graduate students not pursuing a thesis master's degree. S/U.
EML 6940--Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
EML 6971--Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EML 6972--Research for Engineer's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EML 7979--Advanced Research (1-12) Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.
EML 7980--Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
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