Mechanical Engineering

This course consists of lectures on the overall system and practice using Siemens NX and ProEngineer, which are commercial programs. 2D drawing is practiced with AutoCAD, and 3D shape modeling is practiced using UGS NX and ProEngineer.

The tissues that make up the human body display extraordinary characteristics; self-assembly, self-healing, adaptive, and sometimes actuatable. This course looks into the source of these characteristics and then considers what materials we, as engineers, can use to replace them. Students focus attention on the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems of the body and the biomaterials that have been developed for use as substitutes. They consider how the body reacts to the presence of man-made biomaterials and the impact of the need for biomaterial sterilization. Not all replacement materials are man-made; students think about tissue engineering as a way to grow new tissue. Finally, the course introduces the legal processes surrounding regulation of biomaterial use and considers the ethics of growing new body parts.

The course examines machine learning with a specific focus on deep learning technology. It will include the latest and state of the art technologies. Topics include self-attention, transformer, generative model, explainable AI, adversarial attack, privacy, domain adaptation, quantum ML, compression, and meta-learning.

The course examines statics of deformable solids; deformation, stress and strain analysis; mechanical properties of materials (stress-strain-temperature relationship); failure modes of materials; one-dimensional components; axial force/torsion on rods and shafts; beam bending; and column buckling. Topics include: tension, compression and shear, axially loaded members, torsion, shear forces and bending moments, stresses in beams (shear and moment diagrams), analysis of stress and strain, applications of plane stress, deflections of beams, columns.

The course covers the fundamentals of mechanical behaviors of engineering materials and structures, and applies engineering principles in solving practical problems. Topics include bending, shear, plane stress/strain, buckling, and failure.