Mechanical Engineering

This class examines a major part of fluid mechanics: gas dynamics. It covers concepts such as combustion, compressible flows, normal and oblique shocks, and detonation. In addition, the course also focuses on applying the concepts of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to propulsion systems such as a pulsejet and a rotating detonation combustor.

This course provides students with an understanding of modern dynamic mechanical systems and their interaction with the world. Movement, sensing, control, and stability are modelled and discussed through examples such as self-driving cars, magnetic levitating (mag-lev) trains and satellite systems. The course provides physical experience of dynamic, vibrational, and resonant behavior, as well as strategies to improve dynamic response, control vibration, and stabilize inherently unstable systems. Students become familiar with modelling and analysis of dynamic systems and the methods to control them.

The course begins by introducing the fundamental strategies, terminology, and methodology associated with product innovation and its subprocesses. The primary focus is set on the strategic parts of the industrial development process as product planning/product renewal, including the establishment of business plans for the products resulting from the development efforts. The product development process is further examined, and alternative methods are introduced for some of the phases of the development process.

This course discusses modern technology of mechanical engineering and the connection with human civilization. The course teaches basic theories and knowledge about the applications of mechanical engineering. Topics include: material characteristics of modern technology; plants and people; agricultural science, technology, and human civilization; and the development of modern technology.

The course contains four parts: managing logistics and operations system: value creation and strategic perspectives; designing industrial operations: products, processes, quality, and capacity; linkages to suppliers and customers: sourcing, purchasing, transportation, materials handling, and inventories; planning and controlling inventory and production in the supply chain: forecasting, long-term and short-term planning and control, and lean-based operations development.

This course offers an introduction to thermodynamics and heat transfer. Topics include: mass energy and entropy balance for closed and open systems; equipment under steady state-- nozzles, diffusers, pumps, compressors, turbines, hope and closed heat exchangers, and valves; Carnot cycle; Rankine cycle; Brayton cycle; internal combustion engines; inverse Carnot cycle; introduction to heat transfer-- Fourier's law, Newton's law, Stefan-Boltzmann's law; one-dimensional steady state conduction with and without heat generation; transient conduction; fins-- formulation and performance analysis.

Prerequisites: Calculus I, Calculus II, Physics I