Mechanical Engineering

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

This course introduces fluid mechanics as applied to engineering. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid and flow, the course presents fluid statics, which cover hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies, surface tension forces, buoyancy, metacentric height, and stability of floating bodies. The course presents numerous examples of engineering applications pertaining to each aspect of fluid statics. In the section on fluid dynamics, the course introduces basic principles of fluid motion. Topics include continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations, and free-surface flows including hydraulic jumps, the momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach, flow measurements and common pressure instrumentation, velocity and volumetric measurements, analysis of engineering results, the dimensional analysis and similitude.

This course exposes students to the engineering, safety, and socio-economic context of nuclear energy. It explores the technical, industrial, social, economic, and environmental issues related to nuclear energy and the interplay of the many technical (and economic and social) issues that arise in the use of nuclear energy. Students analyze, with the aid of appropriate simplifications, the economics of nuclear energy generation.

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