Plant tours to a variety of manufacturing facilities in the Cleveland area. Kinetics of systems of particles and of rigid bodies, including concepts of mass center, momentum, mass moment of inertia, dynamic equilibrium. Analysis and synthesis of linkages, cams, and gears. Laboratory projects include analysis, design, construction, and evaluation of students' mechanisms. Lectures on topics in the theory of experimentation.
Laboratory includes typical experiments, measurements, analysis, and report writing.
The continuation of the development of the fundamental fluid and thermal engineering principles introduced in ENGR 225, Introduction to Fluid and Thermal Engineering. Applications to heat engines and refrigeration, chemical equilibrium, mass transport across semi-permeable membranes, mixtures and air conditioning, developing external and internal flows, boundary layer theory, hydrodynamic lubrication, diffusion and convection in heat and mass transfer, radiative heat transfer and heat exchangers. Modeling of discrete and continuous systems, solutions of single and multi-degree of freedom problems, boundary value problems, transform techniques, approximation techniques. Practical design problems originating from industrial experience. Senior standing required. EMAE 359.