Mechanical Engineering

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.

This course develops key mathematical and computational skills relevant to the wider mechanical engineering program. Topics include vector algebra, real analysis, limits, curve sketching, series, applications of integration, complex analysis, functions of more than one variable, matrix algebra, second order ordinary differential equations, and vector calculus. Practical implementation through programming is studied to solve problems selected from the topic areas.

The course introduces Mechatronics as a fundamental concept for modelling and designing machine systems, and to encourage electrical systems to be modeled in a manner compatible with mechanical systems using system concepts; to develop an ability to design, and select components for simple electromechanical systems; and to develop mastery of modelling concepts which have direct equivalents in mechanical systems theory, e.g. equivalent characteristics, operating diagrams, complex impedance.