Invited lecturers as well as faculty provide the lectures and demonstrations. All required 300-level E C E, E M, and M E courses or approval of instructor. Project-oriented course in mechanical engineering. Emphasis is on the role of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in design and on written reporting of design solutions. Influence of economics and optimization, concurrent development, integration of design and manufacturing, and system creation are utilized for engineering design decisions.
Progress is evaluated by a faculty jury.
Fundamental principles associated with production processes and their application to the manufacture of products from metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Emphasizes the physical and quantitative aspects of processing, the selection of processes to create products, and the identification of processes used to manufacture existing products. Graphical, analytical, and numerical techniques are used in the dynamic analysis and synthesis of machines. Emphasis is on the application of these analysis techniques to planar linkages. Application oriented extension of M E 304, considering topics in transient conduction, flow of fluids, energy exchange by radiation, and mass transfer.