Mechanical Engineering

This course introduces students to the important mechanical properties that mechanical engineers require knowledge of and further introduces the concept and practice of materials selection.  The links between material structure, processing and properties are emphasized. Topics include tensile and fracture properties, material selection, atomic bonding, crystal structure and strengthening.  Also included is a focus on the four classes of engineering material: metals, ceramics, polymers and composites, considering the structure, properties and engineering applications of each. Practice in testing of materials is included.  

This course introduces the basic concepts of robots, kinematics, inverse kinematics, dynamics, robot design, robot control, mobile robots, bionic robots, and more. The course also includes experiments and example operations, so that students have a complete understanding of robots and can fully grasp between theory and practice.

The course introduces the main aspects of industrial design used by designers in their everyday work together with aspects of contemporary design research. Lectures on design management and the design process and environmental concerns are included as well as introduction to modelling techniques. The product is examined from a user centered and sociological perspective. The course contains an industrially related project in which the insights obtained during the course are practiced. In this project the students work in groups of 3-4 students. Guidance is provided and the workshop is open for the students. The students plan when and how they work during the project. Industrial designers active in industry teach and give feedback on the project work. Field trip to design bureau is also included.

Topics include Hamilton`s variational principle, Lagrange equations of motion, principle of least action, generalized coordinates, equivalence of Lagrange`s and Newton`s equations, simple harmonic oscillator, Hamilton`s equations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, particles and waves, atoms, quantization of light, quantization of atomic energy levels, Bohr model, matter waves, thermal physics, entropy, blackbody radiation, quantization of energy, uncertainty principle and wave packet, Schrodinger equation in one dimension, barriers and wells, tunneling through the potential barrier, electron microscopy (TEM, SEM), Scanning Probe Microscopy (STM, AFM),  three-dimensional Schrodinger equation, quantum well, quantum dots, nano wires, nano particles, electron spin, MRI, Pauli exclusion principle, fermions and bosons, Solids-Theory: the concept of energy bands, nanocrystals, Solids-Applications: conductors, semiconductors, insulators and superconductors, Solids-Applications: transistors, integrated circuits.         

This course is an introduction to the principal concepts and methods of heat transfer. The objectives of this integrated subject are to develop the fundamental principles and laws of heat transfer and to explore the implications of these principles for system behavior; to formulate the models necessary to study, analyze and design heat transfer systems through the application of these principles, and to develop the problem-solving skills essential to good engineering practice of heat transfer in real-world applications.