Mechanical Engineering

The course covers professional communication skills, including email etiquette, ordinary differential equations, informal English conversation, and oral presentations. It also provides a study of the general form and nature, effective graphic design, and ethics for a technical publication.

The course aims to provide students with the skills and tools to design major machine components and analyze their safety factors. The course covers: stress, failure and strength; strain; materials; design for different types of loading; shafts, tolerance and fits; couplings; screws and fasteners; bearings; springs; gears; electronic motors and controls; and project. 

This course provides research training for exchange students. Students work on a research project under the guidance of assigned faculty members. Through a full-time commitment, students improve their research skills by participating in the different phases of research, including development of research plans, proposals, data analysis, and presentation of research results. A pass/no pass grade is assigned based a progress report, self-evaluation, midterm report, presentation, and final report.

This course provides a foundation for the two interrelated subjects of quality and maintenance. The course uses three different perspectives, where we start with the interrelation in-between customers´ needs and the enterprise's capability to develop new products. The course continues with the ability to use existing resources aimed at manufacturing products and finalize with the perspective of the user’s view on the product.

This course introduces the techniques and possibilities in modern experimental mechanics for the characterization of the mechanics of solid, porous, and granular materials using a range of physics techniques and full-field analyses. The course pays particular attention to full-field analyses using optical methods (with a focus on digital image correlation), x-ray and neutron imaging and scattering approaches, and wave propagation. The course includes both theoretical and practical parts, and involves study visits to MAX IV and ESS. Inverse analyses and digital image/signal processing in the context of experimental analyses are also covered.