2005-2006 CATALOG
ENME 1781 Computer Aided Engineering Graphics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: MATH 1126 or consent of department. An introduction to conventional engineering graphics with emphasis on current computer techniques; isometric and orthographic projection; orthographic sketching; sectional views; points, lines, planes; surface intersections and developments; revolved, primary, and secondary views.
ENME 2711 Structures and Properties of Materials Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisite: credit or registration in ENME 2740. Demonstrative and participative experiments supplementing ENME 2740 to provide a better understanding of the properties of engineering materials. Three hours of laboratory.
ENME 2740 Structure and Properties of Materials 3 cr.
Prerequisites: CHEM 1014 or 1017 and PHYS 1061. Introduction to the structure and formation of metals, alloys, and polymeric materials and their chemical, electrical, mechanical, and thermodynamical properties; surface structures and their observation, using a metallograph and selected microscopes.
ENME 2750 Dynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 2350 and Mathematics 2112. Kinematics, kinetics, work and energy, impulse and momentum. Three hours of lecture and one hour of recitation.
ENME 2785 Introduction to Computer Integrated
Manufacturing Methods 3 cr.
Prerequisite: credit or registration in ENME 1781. An introduction to classical and automated manufacturing; including computer numerical control lathe and mill application, and assembly line application with robots.
ENME 3020 Engineering Analysis 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2221; credit or registration in MATH 2115. Application of LaPlace transforms, Fourier series, matrices, partial differential equations, probability/statistics to selected problems in Civil, Mechanical, and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
ENME 3092 Mechanical Engineering Design Project 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and consent of department. Individual or team study and evolution of a project involving engineering. Comprehensive oral and written reports are required.
ENME 3093 Special Problems in Mechanical Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in mechanical engineering.
ENME 3094 Special Problems in Mechanical Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in mechanical engineering.
ENME 3095 Special Problems in Mechanical Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in mechanical engineering.
ENME 3711 Thermal Sciences Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisites: credit in ENME 3771 or consent of department. A laboratory in engineering thermodynamics and heat transfer. Three hours of laboratory.
ENME 3716 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory 1 cr.
Prerequisite: credit or registration in ENME 3720 or consent of department. A laboratory in engineering fluid mechanics and hydraulics. Three hours of laboratory.
ENME 3720 Fluid Mechanics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2221, ENME 2750 and credit or registration in ENME 3770 and MATH 2115. Fluid statics, concepts, principles, and methods of fluid motion, potential flow. Introduction to boundary layer; turbulence and drag; dimensional analysis and similitude.
ENME 3733 Machine Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENGL 2152, ENME 3734 and credit or registration in ENME 3735. Theory and practice of machine design applied to entire machines. Complete design including drawings, analysis, written report, and oral presentation are required.
ENME 3734 Machine Elements 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 2351, ENME 2740 and credit or registration in ENME 2785. Application of engineering mechanics to the design and selection of machine elements. Fatigue. Working stresses. Failure theories.
ENME 3735 Mechanism Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: CSCI 1201 or 1205 and ENME 2750. Kinematic synthesis of mechanisms and dynamics of machinery; design of mechanisms to generate required point paths, functions, or transformations between modes of motion; translation to rotation; graphical, analytical, and computer-aided design methods.
ENME 3755 Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2221, ENME 2750 and concurrent registration in ENME 3020; or consent of department. Single and double degree of freedom systems in free and forced motion, lumped parameter analysis of continuous systems, and vibration measurement devices.
ENME 3757 Introduction to Mechanical Control Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 2750, MATH 2221, and ENEE 2500; or consent of department. Mathematical modeling of mechanical systems; model linearization; methods of solution and simulation; basic notions of feedback control algorithms; transfer functions, frequency response, and system identification and stability.
ENME 3761 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisites: credit or registration in PHYS 2064 and ENME 3770 or consent of department. Radiation decay; detection; protection and safety. Applications of radioactive isotopes; introduction to nuclear power, nuclear fuels, fuel cycle, and power plant design.
ENME 3770 Engineering Thermodynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 2109 or 2112 and Physics 1062. Basic laws of thermodynamics; equilibrium; entropy; availability; flow and non-flow processes.
ENME 3771 Heat Transfer 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2221, CSCI 1201, ENME 3720 and ENME 3770. Steady and unsteady conduction; natural and forced convection; radiation; heat exchangers; introduction to two-phase heat transfer. Computer-aided solutions to heat transfer problems.
ENME 3772 Environmental Control Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3771. The principles of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration; application to environmental control systems. Emphasis is on the selection of equipment and the design of various systems, including automatic controls.
ENME 3773 Design of Thermal-Fluid Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3770 and 3771 or consent of department. Design of thermal-fluid systems utilizing the principles of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics with emphasis on practical, economical designs. Semester projects are assigned to student groups; weekly progress reports, final written and oral reports required.
ENME 3776 Intermediate Engineering Thermodynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3770. Application of principles of thermodynamics; vapor and gas cycles; internal combustion engines; steam and gas turbines, mixtures, thermodynamic relationships.
ENME 3777 Energy Conversion 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3770. Direct energy conversion; magnetohydrodynamics; energy storage; vapor and gas cycles; applications and thermodynamic analysis; nuclear, hydrodynamic, solar, geothermal, and wind energy.
ENME 3780 Introduction to Computer-Aided Mechanical Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: CSCI 1201, ENME 3020 credit or registration in ENME 3731; or consent of department. An introduction to computing environments and underlying algorithms of computer-aided design. Topics include: graphical user interfaces, data interpolation, integration and differentiation, roots, systems of equations, simulation, optimization, graphics, and visualization.
ENME 3785 Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENEE 2500 and credit or registration in ENME 2785 and ENME 3780. Automated manufacturing; system dynamics and controls of mechanical systems; robotic systems and their applications; numerical machine program generation from 3-D geometrical images.
ENME 3900 Senior Honors Thesis 1-6 cr.
Prerequisites: admission to the Honors Program and consent of the director of the Honors Program and the chair of the department. Senior-level research and/or design project in mechanical engineering. Thesis and oral examination required. May be repeated for credit with total hours not to exceed six.
ENME 4023 Intermediate Engineering Analysis 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2221 and ENME 3020. Application of complex variables; contour integration; conformal mapping; Cartesian tensors; non-linear differential equations; and selected problems in mechanical engineering
ENME 4096 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: junior standing in engineering. Course may be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours degree credit in courses ENME 4096 and 4097.
ENME 4097 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: junior standing in engineering. Course may be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours degree credit in courses ENME 4096 and 4097.
ENME 4720 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and 3020 or consent of department. Study of the conservation equations governing viscous or inviscid flow of an incompressible fluid, and appropriate engineering approximation in engineering design. Introduction to numerical methods used to solve steady or unsteady viscous or inviscid, laminar, or turbulent flows.
ENME 4721 Gas Dynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2221, ENME 3720 and 3770. Conservation laws, one-dimensional flow, stationary and propagating normal shocks, quasi-one-dimensional flow, Rayleigh line flow, Fanno line flow, oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer expansions.
ENME 4722 Design and Selection of Turbomachinery 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and 3770 or consent of department. Analysis of the fluid flows through a turbomachine for compressible and incompressible flows. Determination of blading design and orientation for various types of turbomachines. Axial and radial flow machines, centrifugal pumps, fans, and compressors are included along with some experimentation with turbomachines.
ENME 4723 Ocean and Coastal Engineering 3 cr.
(ENCE 4723, ENME 4723, and NAME 4723 are cross-listed). Prerequisite: ENME 3720 or ENCE 3318 or consent of the department. Elements of wind and wave generation and forecasting, tidal phenomena, hurricanes, storm surge, tsunamis, interaction of waves and wind with coastal and offshore structures, coastal and estuary processes. Design aspects of various topics are discussed and analyzed: e.g., offshore structures, spar buoys, underwater pipelines, oil production risers, coastal protection, mooring cables, vortex shedding, gas flares, beach formation, harbor resonance, structure resonance, etc. A design project is required.
ENME 4724 Fluid Flow Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3720 or consent of department. Properties of hydraulic fluids; hydraulic lines; pipe networks; principles and design of hydraulic and pneumatic control components and systems; fluid machinery.
ENME 4725 Incompressible Aerodynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3020 and 3720. Basic phenomena of the external flow of incompressible fluid. Theoretical development of the lift of plane, cambered airfoils, and the lift and drag of the finite wing. Comparison and discussion of experimental values of lift and drag.
ENME 4728 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics 3 cr.
(NAME 4728 and ENME 4728 are cross-listed.) Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 3720. Classification of partial differential equations, mathematical description of fluid flow phenomena. Survey of various discretizaiton methods for the equations of fluid mechanics, including finite difference, finite volume and weighted residual methods. Basic algorithms for solving fluid mechanics problems. Introduction to grid generation. Application of existing CFD codes to practical engineering problems.
ENME 4734 Reliability, Availability, and Maintenance of
Engineering Systems 3 cr.
(NAME 4131, ENME 4734, and ENEE 4131 are cross-listed) Prerequisite: MATH 2115. Review of probability and statistics; analytical stochastic models for component and system failures; strategies for inspection, maintenance, repair and replacement. Introduction to fault-tree and event-tree analysis; frequency and duration techniques; Markov models; and case studies.
ENME 4735 Reliability in Engineering Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3020 or consent of department. Probabilistic approach to design and analysis of engineering problems. Statistical methods include point and interval estimation, tests of hypotheses, functions of random variables, and reliability analysis.
ENME 4751 Advanced Dynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 2750 and MATH 2221. Central force motion, three-dimensional kinetics, kinematics, and dynamics of rigid bodies; gyroscopic motion; Lagrange’s equations; Hamilton’s principle; and trajectories.
ENME 4752 Mechanical Systems Dynamics for Control 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 2750, 3020 and ENEE 2500; or consent of department. Mathematical modeling of mechanical electrical and electromechanical systems. Model linearzation. Computer simulation. Mathematical modeling of dynamic systems in state space. Linear systems analysis in the time/frequency domain. Introduction to feedback control systems.
ENME 4753 Process Control Systems 3 cr.
(ENEE 4534 and ENME 4753 are cross-listed) Prerequisites: ENEE 3533 or ENME 3020. A study of contemporary automatic control methods for continuous industrial processes. Topics include characterization of typical process dynamics, plant identification, parameter estimation, controller tuning techniques, and industrial process instrumentation applications.
ENME 4757 Intermediate Mechanical Vibrations 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3755 or consent of department. Fundamental phenomena of multi-degree discrete and continuous systems. Matrix methods of solution of discrete systems. Determination of natural frequencies and mode shapes of discrete and continuous systems. Methods of passive vibration control. Brief introduction to finite element methods.
ENME 4770 Design of Solar Heating and Cooling Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: credit or registration in ENME 3771 or consent of department. Availability and characteristics of solar energy; design performance and testing of flat plate and concentrating collectors; solar heating and cooling of buildings; air systems and water systems; storage systems; economics; typical designs; solar cells
ENME 4771 Intermediate Heat Transfer 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3771 or consent of department. Review of basic modes of heat transfer; combined convection and radiation; boiling and condensation; introduction to numerical methods for solving heat transfer problems; application of heat transfer principles to related problems in engineering.
ENME 4772 Internal Combustion Engines 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and 3776. Introduction of fundamental concepts and theories of internal combustion engines including ideal and real thermodynamic cycles, fuels, combustion, emissions, spark-ignition engines, and compression-ignition engines.
ENME 4773 Energy Management 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and 3771 or consent of department. Technical elements of reducing energy consumption and costs; aspects of management and cost elements pertaining to engineering decision making; typical topics include electrical, utility, process, building and heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems; waste heat management and energy auditing.
ENME 4774 Gas Turbine Systems 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and ENME 3776 Introduction to guiding principles in gas turbine cycles, combined power systems, turbine and compressor design precedures and performance prediction for both axial and radial flow turbines.
ENME 4783 Introduction to Robotics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3735 or consent of department. Spacial description and transformations; forward kinematics; inverse kenetics; manipulator Jacobians; manipulator statics; and manipulator dynamics.
ENME 6024 Boundary Value Problems 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4023 or consent of department. A unified study of the techniques available for the solution of boundary value problems of the types found in advanced engineering analysis. Application to representative problems from specific areas of engineering.
ENME 6028 Finite Element Methods in Engineering Analysis 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3020 or consent of department. Formulation and solution of the finite element method for solving a wide class of engineering problems in the fields of solid and fluid mechanics. Weighted residual techniques, variational methods, and isoparametric element formulations are covered. Applications include linear transient analyses and material and geometric non-linearities.
ENME 6090 Research Seminar 0 cr.
Students, faculty, or invited guest speakers will present their research activities in the field of mechanical engineering and/or engineering sciences. Graduate students in the MS and PhD programs with concentration in mechanical engineering are expected to register in this seminar (once for MS and twice for PhD students.) Students are encouraged to enroll in this course during their last year of studies. Grades will be assigned on a S/U basis and attendance is necessary for an S grade. This course will be offered each semester and the class will meet weekly for one hour.
ENME 6095 Advanced Mechanical Engineering Problems 1-6 cr.
Individual projects in selected fields of mechanical engineering. Independent work under the direction of a faculty member on a subject of mutual interest. Student must find faculty sponsor. A written report will usually be required. Course may be repeated for credit but no more than a total of six credit hours may be applied toward a degree. Section number will correspond with credit to be earned.
ENME 6096 Advanced Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Special lectures or independent study on subjects of current interest in the various fields of mechanical engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than a total of nine hours of degree credit in courses ENME 4096, 4097, 6096, 6097, 6098.
ENME 6097 Advanced Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Special lectures or independent study on subjects of current interest in the various fields of mechanical engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than a total of nine hours of degree credit in courses ENME 4096, 4097, 6096, 6097, 6098.
ENME 6098 Advanced Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Special lectures or independent study on subjects of current interest in the various fields of mechanical engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than a total of nine hours of degree credit in courses ENME 4096, 4097, 6096, 6097, 6098.
ENME 6354 Theory of Elasticity 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 6353 or consent of department. Plane stress and plane strain; two-dimensional problems in rectangular and polar coordinates; strain energy methods; complex variables in two-dimensional problems; the general equations of three-dimensional elasticity.
ENME 6355 Theory of Plates and Shells 3 cr.
(ENCE 6355 and ENME 6355 are cross-listed) Prerequisites: ENCE 6353 and MATH 2221. Laterally loaded plates with various boundary conditions; elastic stability of plates; differential geometry of surfaces; equilibrium and strain equations; membrane theory of shells; shells of revolution with emphasis on cylindrical and spherical shells.
ENME 6356 Mechanics of Composite Materials 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 6353 or consent of department. Analysis of stress, strain, and strength of fiber reinforced composite laminates. Topics include laminated plate theory, stress analysis of orthotropic plates, damage mechanisms, fatigue, impact, and environmental effects.
ENME 6357 Fracture Mechanics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 6354 or 6355 or 6756 or consent of department. Stationary crack under static loading, energy balance and crack growth, crack initiation and growth, dynamic crack growth, fatigue, fracture of composite material.
ENME 6362 Aerospace Composite Structures 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Mechanics of Materials or consent of the department. Basic Theorems and principles in the theory of structures (strain energy, virtual displacement, minimum total potential energy), general theory of beams bending (warping, shear flow in multi-flanged beams), general theory of torsion (shear center, multi-cell structures), plane stress problems, with application to design of aerospace structures made of composite materials.
ENME 6364 Advanced Composite Materials 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. Thermal and Moisture Effects on Composite materials, Stress State of composite beams under long term loading, viscolastic displacement of beams, torsion of laminated beams. Optimum design of composite material structures, mechanics of sandwich structures.
ENME 6720 Advanced Fluid Mechanics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4720 or consent of department. Continuity; stream and potential function; irrotational flow; Laplace Euler and Bernoulli equations; standard patterns of flow; conformal transformations; Schwarz-Christoffel theorem; and vortex motion.
ENME 6721 Advanced Gas Dynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4721. Derivation of the differential conservation equations for inviscid flows; unsteady wave motion; acoustic theory; shock tube relations; linearized supersonic flow; numerical techniques for steady supersonic flow; and viscous compressible flow.
ENME 6723 Boundary Layer Theory 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4720 or consent of department. Fundamental laws of motion for a viscous fluid; laminar boundary layer; transition and separation; and turbulent boundary layer.
ENME 6724 Viscous Flow 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 or consent of the department. Fundamental Equations of viscous fluid flow. Newtonian viscous flow, Stokes assumptions, and exact solutions to Navier-Stokes equations. Order of magnitude analysis. Similarity solution. Integral equations of viscous flow. Duct flow, free shear flow, creeping flows, and free convection flow. Introduction to flow instabilities and turbulence.
ENME 6727 Turbulence 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and 3020 or consent of Department. Fundamental mechanics of turbulence, wakes, jets and plumes. Structure of time averaged flows, flow instability, Reynolds stresses, spectral dynamics, and scales of turbulence. First order models: algebraic, one-equation and two-equation models. Second order models, Reynolds stresses, multi-equation models.
ENME 6728 Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720 and 3020, ENME 4728, and CSCI 1201, or consent of department. Numerical modeling of the equations of fluid mechanics. Equation classification, theory of characteristics. Survey of discretization methods: finite difference, finite volume, integral methods. Basic grid generation techniques. Stability analysis for finite difference equations. Discretization techniques applied to steady state and tine dependent problems in multi-dimensions. Navier-Strokes equations, inviscid and viscous flow. Course will include projects to develop finite difference codes in areas relevant to student’s research interests.
ENME 6730 Multiphase Flow 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3720. Fundamentals of various physical interactions in flow systems involving more than one phase, including gas-solid, gas-liquid, liquid-solid, and three-phase interactions. Primary emphasis is placed on the fluid dynamics of particles, droplets, and bubbles suspended in a fluid. The effects of phenomena such as Brownian motion, Basset effect, Magnus effect, virtual or apparent mass effect, shear lift, surface charge, particle and droplet mobility, electro- phoresis, thermo-phoresis, photo-phoresis, and diffusion-phoresis are covered. Applications to multiphase system equipment and processes such as dust collectors, fluidized beds, aerodynamic ablation, xerography, atomizers, combustors, evaporation, droplet coalescence and break-up, cavitation, and aeration are highlighted.
ENME 6753 Advanced Continuum Mechanics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Kinematics of motion and deformation; general development of balance equations of continuum mechanics; theory of constitutive equations; study of the constitutive equations for elastic, hyperelastic, viscoelastic, and plastic materials.
ENME 6755 Advanced Vibrations 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4757. Lagrange’s equations of motion and their application to vibration analysis; multi-degree of freedom systems; matrix methods; and transients.
ENME 6756 Theory of Plasticity 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 6353 or consent of department. Stress and strain tensors; elastic stress-strain relations criteria of yielding; plastic stress-strain relations; elastoplastic problems of spheres and cylinders; the plane elastoplastic problem; the slip-line field.
ENME 6758 Advanced Computational Methods in
Solid Mechanics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3020 or consent of department. Numerical methods for solving problems involving deformable solids. Variational methods including Galerkin, Rayleigh-Ritz, and other weighted residual techniques are covered. Finite difference, finite element, and boundary element techniques are presented.
ENME 6770 Advanced Thermodynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3770 or consent of department. Review of basic laws of classical thermodynamics. Reversible and irreversible processes. Second law analysis. Entropy and availability. Maxwell relations. Thermodynamics of mixtures, first and second law of reacting systems. Phase equilibrium. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics.
ENME 6771 Conduction Heat Transfer 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4771 or consent of department. Conduction heat transfer; steady state and transient system; one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional systems.
ENME 6772 Convection Heat Transfer 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 4771 and 4720 or consent of department. Forced and free convection heat transfer in laminar and turbulent flow; condensation and evaporation; and special heat transfer processes.
ENME 6773 Radiation Heat Transfer 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 4771. Radiative heat exchange among specularly and diffusely reflecting surfaces; radiant interchange in participating media; combined radiation, conduction, and convection; and advanced topics.
ENME 6774 Computational Heat Transfer 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3771 or consent of the department. Foundations of finite - difference and finite element methods. Classification of governing differential equations in heat transfer. Discrete approximations of derivatives. Methods of solving sets of algebraic equations, computationals methods for steady state, parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic type of heat transfer problems. Non-linear heat transfer problems. Introduction to grid generation.
