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MKTG 6284 - Retailing Analytics
Credits: 2
Consumer expenditures, which comprise nearly 70 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, are made primarily through retailers. The sheer size of the retail sector highlights the importance of measuring and understanding the impact of retailers’ decisions. Students analyze retail decisions in terms of their impact on consumer demand and retailer performance, with a focus on retail pricing, promotion and inventory management, and retail competition. The overriding objective is to use point-of-sale data, in various forms, to improve retail decision-making. Prerequisites: MAST 6201 and MKTG 6201 , or enrollment in the M.S.B.A. program.
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MKTG 6377 - Digital Marketing - A Tactical Approach
Credits: 3
Discusses the major digital marketing and advertising channels and serves as a beginner’s guide to deploying tactical media buying skills in a real-world environment. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Online MBA Program.
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MKTG 6435 - Digital Marketing - A Tactical Approach
Credits: 4
Discusses the major digital marketing and advertising channels and serves as a beginner’s guide to deploying tactical media buying skills in a real-world environment. Prerequisite: MKTG 6201.
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MKTG 6455 - Directed Studies in Marketing
Credits: 4
The student works directly with a professor on a specific project or projects. Credit is given based upon evaluation by the professor. Students are responsible for submitting a proposal to a professor for directed studies credit.
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MKTG 6476 - Fundamentals of Marketing
Credits: 4
Introduces common marketing problems encountered by marketing managers and general managers. Emphasizes the analysis and development of the organization’s marketing policy, strategy, and tactics, with a global perspective of business. Students develop a disciplined process for addressing marketing issues and challenges. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Online MBA Program.
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MATH 6049 - Graduate FT Status
Credits: 0
Graduate full time status.
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MATH 6110 - Mathematics Research
Credits: 1
Independent research project in the fields of computational and applied mathematics, under the direction of a faculty member.
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MATH 6210 - Mathematics Research
Credits: 2
Independent research project in the fields of computational and applied mathematics, under the direction of a faculty member.
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MATH 6310 - Mathematics Research
Credits: 3
Independent research project in the fields of computational and applied mathematics, under the direction of a faculty member.
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MATH 6311 - Perturbation Methods
Credits: 3
Solving differential equations with a small parameter by asymptotic techniques: weakly nonlinear oscillators, perturbed eigenvalue problems, boundary layers, method of multiple scales, and the WKBJ method. Prerequisite: MATH 2343. Recommended: MATH 6332 .
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MATH 6312 - Advanced Asymptotic and Perturbation Methods
Credits: 3
Topics include strongly nonlinear and slowly varying oscillators, multiple scales and matched asymptotic expansions applied to partial differential equations, asymptotic evaluation of integrals and transforms, stationary phase, steepest descents, and applications. Prerequisites: MATH 6311 , MATH 6332 .
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MATH 6316 - Numerical Methods I
Credits: 3
Covers floating point arithmetic, backward stability analysis, numerical solution of dense and sparse linear systems of equations using direct and basic iterative methods, least-squares problems and eigenvalue problems, elementary and orthogonal matrix transformations, and nonlinear systems of equations.
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MATH 6317 - Numerical Methods II
Credits: 3
Covers interpolation and approximation of functions, numerical differentiation and integration, basic methods for initial value problems in ordinary differential equations, and basic approximation methods for one-dimensional initial-boundary value problems. Topics focus on algorithm development and the theory underlying each method. Prerequisites: MATH 3313, MATH 6316 .
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MATH 6318 - Numerical Partial Differential Equations
Credits: 3
Covers finite difference methods for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic problems in partial differential equations. Also, stability, consistency, and convergence results. Attention is given to computer implementations. Prerequisites: MATH 6317 or CS 7365 , and MATH 6332 . (*updated* 11/17/2020)
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MATH 6319 - Finite Element Analysis
Credits: 3
Finite element method for elliptic problems, theory, practice, and applications. Finite element spaces, curved elements and numerical integration, minimization algorithms, and iterative methods. Prerequisites: MATH 6316 ; MATH 6317 or CS 7365 .
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MATH 6320 - Iterative Methods
Credits: 3
Matrix and vector norms, conditioning, iterative methods for the solution of larger linear systems and eigenvalue problems. Krylov subspace methods. Other topics to be chosen by the instructor. Prerequisites: MATH 6316 and some programming experience.
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MATH 6321 - Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
Credits: 3
Numerical methods for initial value problems and boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations. Emphasizes practical solution of problems using MATLAB. Prerequisites: MATH 2343, MATH 6317 .
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MATH 6324 - Introduction to Dynamical Systems
Credits: 3
Nonlinear ordinary differential equations: equilibrium, stability, phase-plane methods, limit-cycles, and oscillations. Linear systems and diagonalization. Periodic coefficients (Floquet theory) and Pioncaré map. Difference equations (maps), period doubling, bifurcations, and chaos. Prerequisites: MATH 2343, MATH 3353.
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MATH 6325 - Dynamical Systems and Chaos
Credits: 3
Nonlinear differential equations. Stability and bifurcation theory of ODEs and maps. Forced oscillators. Subharmonic resonances. Melnikov criterion for chaos. Lorenz system. Center manifolds and normal forms. Silnikov’s example. Prerequisite: MATH 6324 .
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MATH 6332 - Partial Differential Equations
Credits: 3
Partial differential equations of applied mathematics in more than one spatial dimension. Fundamental solutions, separation of variables, eigenfunction expansions, and Green’s function methods. Prerequisites: Graduate standing, or C- or higher in MATH 4337.
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MATH 6333 - Advanced Partial Differential Equations
Credits: 3
Method of eigenfunction expansion for nonhomogeneous problems. Green’s functions for the heat, wave, and Laplace equations. Dirac delta functions, Fourier and Laplace transform methods, and method of characteristics. Prerequisite: MATH 6332 .
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MATH 6336 - Fluid Dynamics
Credits: 3
Preliminaries, concepts from vector calculus. The transport theorem, the Navier-Stokes and other governing equations. Dynamical similarity and Reynolds number. Vorticity theorems. Ideal and potential flow. The influence of viscosity and the boundary layer approximation. Prerequisite: MATH 3337.
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MATH 6337 - Real and Functional Analysis
Credits: 3
Topics include continuous functions, metric and normed spaces, Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces, distributions and the Fourier transform, measure theory and function spaces, differential calculus, and variational methods. Prerequisite: MATH 4338 or approval of instructor.
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MATH 6341 - Linear and Nonlinear Waves
Credits: 3
The mathematical theory of linear and nonlinear waves. Applications from water waves, traffic flow, gas dynamics, and various other fields. Topics include nonlinear hyperbolic waves (characteristics, breaking waves, shock fitting, Burger’s equation) and linear dispersive waves (method of stationary phase, group velocity, wave patterns). Prerequisite: MATH 6332 .
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MATH 6343 - Photonics Modeling and Simulations
Credits: 3
Propagation of light in photonic structures. Using asymptotic techniques and simulations, students derive and then analyze models based on ordinary and partial linear and nonlinear differential equations. Prerequisites: MATH 6324 , MATH 6332 .
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MATH 6346 - Advanced Fluid Dynamics
Credits: 3
Topics include surface waves in shallow and deep water, sound waves, Stokes flow equations and lubrication-type models, spreading of droplets, and coating flows. Other topics are chosen from dynamics of bubbles, film drainage, electroosmotic flow, electrowetting on dielectric, turbulence, and fluid mechanics of swimming and flying. Prerequisite: MATH 6336 /ME 5336/ME 7336 .
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MATH 6350 - Mathematical Models in Biology
Credits: 3
The mathematical analysis and modeling of biological systems, including biomedicine, epidemiology, and ecology. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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MATH 6352 - Epidemiology and Immunology
Credits: 3
Modeling and analysis of diseases from epidemiology and immunology. Considers disease dynamics modeled with delay, integral, partial, and stochastic differential equations based on susceptible-infectious-removed ODEs. Prerequisites: MATH 6324 , MATH 6332 .
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MATH 6355 - Applied Stochastic Differential Equations
Credits: 3
A practical introduction to continuous-time stochastic processes commonly used in physics, biology, and finance. Brownian motion, diffusion processes, Ito calculus, and the Feynman Kac formula. Prerequisites: MATH 4338 or equivalent; MATH 4337 or equivalent. Recommended: some undergraduate-level probability and measure theory.
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MATH 6360 - Computational Electromagnetics
Credits: 3
Numerical methods for electromagnetics, with emphasis on practical applications. Numerical discretizations covered include the method of moments, finite differences, finite elements, boundary elements, and fast multipole methods. Prerequisites: ECE 7330 or MATH 6332 and proficiency in one computer language (e.g., Fortran) or permission of instructor.
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MATH 6370 - Parallel Scientific Computing
Credits: 3
An introduction to parallel computing in the context of scientific computation. Prerequisites: MATH 6316 and MATH 6317 , or permission of instructor.
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MATH 6391 - Topics in Applied Mathematics
Credits: 3
Selected topics in the application of mathematical analysis to such fields as differential, integral, and functional equations; mechanics; hydrodynamics; mathematical biology; and economics. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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MATH 6395 - Topics in Computational Mathematics
Credits: 3
Selected topics of current interest, such as numerical bifurcation theory, iterative methods for linear systems, domain decomposition and multigrid methods, numerical multidimensional integration, and numerical methods for multibody problems. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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MATH 8049 - Graduate FT Status
Credits: 0
Graduate full-time status at the Ph.D level.
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MATH 8105 - Research
Credits: 1
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MATH 8198 - Dissertation
Credits: 1
Dissertation.
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MATH 8398 - Dissertation
Credits: 3
Dissertation.
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MSA 6049 - Graduate Full-Time Status
Credits: 0
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MSA 6330 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Various topics determined by the instructor regarding studies in the arts.
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ME 7049 - Master’s Full-Time Status
Credits: 0
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ME 7090 - Graduate Seminar
Credits: 0
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ME 7096 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 0
Students may need to register in several master’s thesis courses to obtain the desired number of credit hours, with a limit of no more than 6 credit hours in a single term and no more than 4 credit hours in the summer terms.
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ME 7190 - Graduate Seminar: Ethics in Engineering and Technology
Credits: 1
Covers ethical issues, hard choices, and human failures in life. Presents practical, ethical issues with examples from everyday life. Includes ethical issues encountered in copyright law and intellectual property; issues involved in telephone communications and email; and principles, methods, and bases for ethical decision-making and action.
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ME 7194 - Selected Problems
Credits: 1
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7196 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
No more than 6 term hours in a single term, and no more than 4 term hours in a summer term. Students may enroll in several sections to obtain the desired number of thesis hours. For example, 4 term hours of thesis would require enrollment in ME 7396 and ME 7196.
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ME 7294 - Selected Problems
Credits: 2
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7296 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 2
Students may need to register in several master’s thesis courses to obtain the desired number of credit hours, with a limit of no more than 6 credit hours in a single term and no more than 4 credit hours in the summer terms.
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ME 7301 - Entrepreneurship and Business Development in Manufacturing
Credits: 3
Provides a perspective of entrepreneurial thought and the necessary tools for developing a business plan and starting a manufacturing venture. Management is the process of creating value from existing resources; in contrast, entrepreneurship is the art of creating the ideas and identifying and assembling the resources to create value. The course addresses this art for new ventures inside existing corporations and de novo startups in the manufacturing realm. Students learn what personality characteristics are important and effective in each of these settings and where they fit, the risks and rewards of each approach, and the answers to the most frequently asked questions about entrepreneurship. Examples, exercises, and cases are drawn from a manufacturing environment.
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ME 7302 - Linear System Analysis
Credits: 3
Introduces modern control theory, with a focus on the application of the developed concepts in designing linear systems and casting their responses in prescribed forms. Includes state representation of linear systems; controllability, observability, and minimal representation; linear state variable feedback; observers; and quadratic regulator theory. Prerequisite: ME 4360 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7303 - Organizational Leadership
Credits: 3
Personnel and organizational leadership, including the scientific structure of organizations and methods used to improve the productivity and quality of life of people working in the organization. Focuses on understanding individual behavior and experiences in industrial and organizational settings. Introduces industrial-organizational psychology (as applied to the manufacturing organization) and industrial psychology as it addresses the human resource functions of analyzing jobs and appraising, selecting, placing, and training people. The organizational psychology portion of the course addresses the psychology of work, including employee attitudes, behavior, emotions, health, motivation, and well-being, as well as the social aspects of the workplace.
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ME 7312 - Continuum Mechanics
Credits: 3
Explores fundamental principles governing deformations, constitutive behavior and stress responses of a continuum. Students learn how to formulate mechanics problems rigorously and concisely by using tensorial, index or engineering notations and how to apply general theories to solve representative problems in solid and fluid mechanics. Prerequisites: ME 7340 /CEE 7340 or equivalent, MATH 3302, MATH 3304, and MATH 3313.
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ME 7314 - Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems and Devices
Credits: 3
Develops the basics for microelectromechanical devices and systems, including microactuators, microsensors, micromotors, principles of operation, micromachining techniques (surface and bulk micromachining), IC-derived microfabrication techniques, and thin-film technologies as they apply to MEMS.
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ME 7315 - Optics Laser-Assisted Manufacturing
Credits: 3
Includes analysis and design of automatic control systems for linear problems using frequency domain methods. Students develop a basic knowledge of geometrical and physical optics and are introduced to laser theory, laser-material interactions, and laser-assisted manufacturing. Prerequisites: ME 3332 and graduate standing.
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ME 7318 - Microfluidics and Microfabrication
Credits: 3
Reviews fundamentals of fluid mechanics. Introduces microscale liquid flows, electrokinetic transport phenomena and their applications, microfluidic mixing, photolithography based microfabrication, computational fluid dynamics software COMSOL, microfluidic device design, and fabrication and characterization. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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ME 7319 - Advanced Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Credits: 3
A senior-graduate course that relates mechanical behavior on a macro and microscopic level to design. Topics include macroscopic elasticity and plasticity, viscoelasticity, yielding, yield surfaces, work hardening, geometric dislocation theory, creep, and temperature-dependent and environment-dependent mechanical properties. Prerequisite: ME 2340, ME 3340, or graduate standing.
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ME 7320 - Intermediate Dynamics
Credits: 3
Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies (kinematics, inertia properties), Kane’s dynamical equations, Euler’s equations of motion, D’Alembert’s principle, and Lagrange’s equations of motion. Prerequisite: ME 2320, MATH 2339, MATH 2343, or graduate standing.
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ME 7322 - Intermediate Vibrations
Credits: 3
Fundamentals of vibrations with application of simple machine and structural members. Single, multiple, and infinite degree-of-freedom systems. Harmonic motion, free and forced vibration, resonance, damping, and isolation. Modal Analysis, Hamilton’s Principle and Lagrange’s equations. Prerequisite: ME 4322, graduate standing or permission of instructor.
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ME 7323 - Introduction to Fracture Mechanics
Credits: 3
Linear elastic fracture mechanics, application of theory to design and evaluation of critical components: elastic stress intensity calculations, plane strain fracture toughness, plane stress and transitional behavior, crack opening displacements, fracture resistance, fatigue crack propagation, transition temperature approach to fracture control, microstructure of fracture, and fracture control programs. Prerequisite: ME 2340 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7324 - Fatigue Theory and Design
Credits: 3
A senior-graduate course. Includes continuum, statistical, and fracture mechanics treatments of fatigue, stress concentrators, planning and analysis of probit, SNP and response tests, mechanisms of fatigue design, fail-safe versus safe-life design, and crack propagation. Emphasizes the engineering design aspects of fatigue rather than theoretical mechanisms. Prerequisite: ME 3340 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7326 - Vehicle Dynamics
Credits: 3
Modeling of wheeled vehicles to predict performance, handling, and ride. Effects of vehicle center of mass, tire-characteristic traction and slip, engine characteristics, and gear ratios of performance. Suspension design and steady-state handling models of four-wheeled vehicles and car-trailer systems to determine oversteer and understeer characteristics, critical speeds, and stability. Multidegree-of-freedom ride models, including tire and suspension compliance. Computer animation and simulations. Prerequisite: ME 2320 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7327 - Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Credits: 3
Introduces the fundamental theories of stress wave propagation both within the bulk materials and at the interfaces. Students are exposed to a variety of Kolsky bar-related experimental characterization techniques based on the stress wave theory. Besides in-class lectures, lab sessions will be arranged to demonstrate the versatility of Kolsky bar techniques in testing the high-rate mechanical properties of a broad range of engineering materials.
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ME 7330 - Heat Transfer
Credits: 3
Application of the principles of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer. Includes steady and unsteady state, special configurations, numerical and analytical solutions, and design. Prerequisite: ME 3332 or graduate standing.
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ME 7331 - Advanced Thermodynamics
Credits: 3
Laws of thermodynamics, availability, irreversibility, real gases and mixtures, thermodynamic relations and generalized charts, combustion, chemical and phase equilibrium, and computational combustion. Prerequisites: ME 2331, ME 3341 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7332 - Heat Transfer Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 3
Fundamentals of heat transfer in medicine and biology; biothermal properties; thermal regulation processes; and biomedical heat transfer processes with applications in tissue laser radiation, freezing and thawing of biological materials, cryosurgery, and others. Prerequisite: ME 3332 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7333 - Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
Credits: 3
Fractals and their role in characterizing complex structures. Fundamental concepts of momentum, heat, and mass transport through heterogeneous (e.g., composites, porous) materials. Emphasis is placed on the mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer in heterogeneous and fully saturated systems. Relevant industrial and natural applications are presented throughout the course. Prerequisites: ME 2342, ME 3332 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7336 - Intermediate Fluid Dynamics
Credits: 3
Reviews fundamental concepts of undergraduate fluid mechanics and introduces advanced fluid dynamics, industrial irrotational flow, tensor notation, and the Navier-Stokes equations. Prerequisite: ME 2342 or graduate standing.
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ME 7337 - Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals of Finite Difference Methods
Credits: 3
Concepts of stability, convergence, accuracy, and consistency. Applications to linear and nonlinear model partial differential equations. Curvilinear grid generation. Advanced topics in grid generation. Beam and Warming factored implicit technique. MacCormack techniques. Solution methods for the Reynolds equation of lubrication, the boundary layer equations, and the Navier-Stokes equations. Prerequisites: ME 2342 and MATH 2343, or permission of instructor.
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ME 7338 - Nontraditional Manufacturing Processes
Credits: 3
Explores difficult-to-machine materials and the increased geometrical complexity of components that have resulted in the development of nontraditional manufacturing processes based on the application of electrical, chemical, ultrasonic, magnetic, and photonic sources of energy. Introduces fundamentals of materials processing by laser beam, electron beam, ion beam, abrasive waterjet, ultrasonic machining, electro-discharge machining, chemical and electrochemical machining, and hybrid machining (laser beam, plasma arc, and waterjet assisted machining). Emphasizes the additive manufacturing processes as one of the fastest developing disciplines in materials processing. Covers theoretical problems and practical considerations related to the nontraditional manufacturing processes. Prerequisites: ME 3340, ME 3370; a basic understanding of manufacturing processes, mechanical and physical properties of materials, and physics.
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ME 7340 - Introduction to Solid Mechanics
Credits: 3
Three dimensional stress and strain, failure theories, introduction to two-dimensional elasticity, torsion of prismatic members, beams on elastic foundation, introduction to plates and shells, and energy methods. Prerequisites: ME 2340, MATH 2343 or graduate standing.
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ME 7341 - Structural Properties of Solids
Credits: 3
Develops an understanding of the structural aspects of solids and their relationship to properties and applications. Includes structural defects; bonding and crystal structure; solid-state reactions; and phase transformations, degradation, and deformation. Prerequisite: ME 3340 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7346 - Optimal and Robust Control
Credits: 3
The course addresses topics and concepts for linear systems control including controllability, observability, state feedback, and observers. Optimal control is presented along with stochastic optimal control, LQG, and Kalman filter. The H2 and H infinity robust control techniques and the sliding mode control of a linear system are presented. Prerequisite: ME 4360 and ME 5302 or consent of instructor.
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ME 7347 - Frequency Domain Methods in Linear Control Systems
Credits: 3
Includes analysis and design of automatic control systems for linear problems using frequency domain methods. Topics include performance analysis using Bode plots, stability analysis using Nyquist criterion, robustness analysis using gain margin, phase margin and delay margin, controller design through loop shaping for meeting performance specifications, and an introduction to robust control. Prerequisite: ME 4360.
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ME 7351 - Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Credits: 3
Covers the basic concepts and use of computer-integrated manufacturing. Includes integration approaches for manufacturing, process planning and simulation, the production process in relation to automated control systems, process design for shop for control of multiple interacting processes, distributed network process control, real-time aspects, and interface protocols and languages of production processes. Also, computational and data processing methods for planning, design, production, and shipping as well as methods of optimizing output quality, price, and productivity. Examines economic justification and the use of artificial intelligence for planning and process control.
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ME 7352 - Manufacturing Methods and Systems
Credits: 3
Examines highly successful manufacturing methods and systems presented from the perspective of the manufacturing manager. Includes the evolution of manufacturing technology in the U.S., mass manufacturing, integrated manufacturing, optimization, distribution and manufacturing automation, just-in-time systems, continuous improvement, and total quality management. Covers the underlying concepts and strategic benefits of flexibility, agility, time-based competition, and global manufacturing operation.
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ME 7353 - Manufacturing Management
Credits: 3
Explores new organizational structures, paradigms, and leadership styles as well as problem-solving within the business context: manufacturing strategies for optimizing production processes across the enterprise. Also, measuring and reporting business performance; investment decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty; intellectual property strategies, products liability and the legal environment; and contemporary practices, including self-directed work forces, competitive assessment, total productive maintenance, and managerial and activity-based costing.
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ME 7354 - Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
Credits: 3
Focuses on an overall total quality management perspective for the design of quality management systems. Examines metrics for cycle time and defects, baselining and benchmarking, and house of quality approaches. Covers the basic concept of managing product quality from inception to deployment. Includes acquiring and stabilizing new production processes, data collection, and analysis for improvement and decision-making. Purchasing, process control, inventory control, and reliability are covered in detail. Project work emphasizes the application of lean manufacturing and six sigma tools and techniques.
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ME 7361 - Matrix Structure Analysis
Credits: 3
A systematic approach to formulation of force and displacement method of analysis; representation of structures as assemblages of elements; computer solution of structural systems. Prerequisite: ME 3350 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7362 - Engineering Analysis with Numerical Methods
Credits: 3
Applications of numerical and approximate methods in solving a variety of engineering problems. Examples include equilibrium, buckling, vibration, fluid mechanics, thermal science, and other engineering applications. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ME 7364 - Introduction to Structural Dynamics
Credits: 3
Covers the dynamic responses of structures and the behavior of structural components to dynamic loads and foundation excitations. Also, single- and multidegree-of-freedom systems response and its applications to analysis of framed structures. Introduces systems with distributed mass and flexibility. Prerequisites: MATH 2343 and CEE/ME 3350 or CEE/ME 5361.
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ME 7365 - Strategies for Manufacturing
Credits: 3
Examines the development and implementation of strategies for product design and manufacturing that best supports the overall strategy of the firm. Topics include positioning the product and production system in the industry, location and capacity decision, implementing manufacturing technologies, facilities planning, vertical integration, logistics planning, and organizational culture. Case studies of manufacturing firms are used extensively. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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ME 7366 - Global Manufacturing
Credits: 3
Examines goals and strategies for manufacturing operations in the multinational environment. Covers decision-making for decentralizing and setting up foreign manufacturing operations and marketing, sales, and distribution strategies. Also, R&D support, location and capacity decisions, implementing new manufacturing technologies, facilities planning and modernizations, vertical integration, outsourcing strategies, logistics planning, and organizational culture. Includes case studies of manufacturing firms. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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ME 7369 - Innovation Management
Credits: 3
Provides a foundation of modern theory and practice of product and organizational innovation. Reviews the modern applications of disruptive innovation: technological, organizational, and market-driven. Examines ways to implement and augment innovation capability within an organization. Additionally, covers tools and techniques for recognizing disruption in existing markets and how to respond as well as how innovation fits into the product development process.
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ME 7371 - Introduction to Gas Dynamics and Analysis of Propulsion Systems
Credits: 3
One-dimensional compressible flow, linearized two-dimensional flow method of characteristics, and oblique shocks. Design of air-breathing propulsion systems components: inlets, nozzles, compressors, turbines and combustors. Interactions with the external flow. Prerequisites: ME 2331, ME 2342 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7377 - Advanced Steel Design
Credits: 3
Behavior and design of steel structures including general methods of plastic analysis, plastic moment distribution, steel frames, unbraced and braced frames, and composite construction. Prerequisite: ME 4350.
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ME 7380 - Management of Industrial and Mission-Critical Facilities
Credits: 3
Efficient industrial centers require balanced consideration with respect to facility design and function. Mission-critical component management and information technology systems are designed for exceptionally reliable performance and efficient operation. This course emphasizes the component systems that are designed to maintain a high level of function. Covers electrical and mechanical reliability, efficiency, readiness, robustness, and flexibility, and the management of the information technology systems. Explores strategies designed to eliminate costly downtimes, with emphasis on standby generators; automatic transfer switches; uninterruptable power supplies; fuel, fire, and battery systems; energy security; and environmental and cooling technologies. Presents the implementation of sustainable technology, green certifications, and alternative energy strategies that are compatible with the mission-critical requirements of the facility. Includes operational approaches to reduce energy requirements for power and cooling, mandated safety standards, and environmental codes. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
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ME 7381 - Site Selection for Industrial and Mission-Critical Facilities
Credits: 3
Efficient industrial centers and facilities with mission-critical subsystems such as datacenters require balanced considerations with respect to facility design and site location. Site location plays an integral role in creating successful projects that especially support high reliability and promote sustainable design. While the important factors may vary from site to site, in any given instance a single factor can undermine the success of an otherwise excellent project. Ready availability and proper site selection that minimizes risk of disruption are particularly important factors for successful operation. Covers siting considerations, including power needs, electrical mix, weather patterns, building codes, proximity to the workforce and transportation, and other topics that bear on reliable operation. Emphasizes strategies of site selection to adequately safeguard hardware and mission-critical data. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
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ME 7382 - Finance and the Manufacturing Enterprise
Credits: 3
An overview of strategic management decision processes relevant to engineering, manufacturing, and service industries. The targeted student is the current or future professional engineer-manager, engineer-owner and/or engineer-entrepreneur who combines engineering and/or manufacturing technology with business execution. Emphasizes the ways engineering and manufacturing managerial functions interact with the finance industry, markets, and institutions. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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ME 7383 - Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
Credits: 3
Covers the selection and design of basic refrigeration, air conditioning, and heating systems. Includes load calculations, psychometrics, cooling coils, cooling towers, cryogenics, solar energy applications, and special topics. Prerequisites: ME 2331, ME 3332 or permission of instructor.
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ME 7384 - Advanced Topics II
Credits: 3
Advanced selected topics in mechanical engineering and its application (on request).
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ME 7391 - Selected Topics
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7392 - Selected Topics
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7393 - Selected Topics
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7394 - Selected Problems
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7395 - Selected Problems
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7396 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 3
Students may need to register in several master’s thesis courses to obtain the desired number of credit hours, with a limit of no more than 6 credit hours in a single term and no more than 4 credit hours in the summer terms.
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ME 7494 - Selected Problems
Credits: 4
Independent investigation of problems and projects in mechanical engineering approved by the department chair and the major professor (on request).
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ME 7696 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 6
Students may need to register in several master’s thesis courses to obtain the desired number of credit hours, with a limit of no more than 6 credit hours in a single term and no more than 4 credit hours in the summer terms.
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ME 8049 - Ph.D. Full-Time Status
Credits: 0
Full-time status for students in the Ph.D. program.
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ME 8096 - Dissertation
Credits: 0
Students may need to register in several dissertation courses to obtain the desired number of dissertation credit hours, with a limit of no more than 15 credit hours in a single term and no more than 10 credit hours in the summer terms. For example, ME 8396 and ME 8996 (12 credit hours total) would be allowed during a fall term.
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ME 8196 - Dissertation
Credits: 1
Students may need to register in several dissertation courses to obtain the desired number of dissertation credit hours, with a limit of no more than 15 credit hours in a single term and no more than 10 credit hours in the summer terms. For example, ME 8396 and ME 8996 (12 credit hours total) would be allowed during a fall term.
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