2002-2003 Academic Catalog

93 Engineering School of Engineering, Nursing, and Science EGEE-4820 Electrical Engineering Senior Design II -Sp 4 hours Continuation of EGEE-4810 implementing the top-down design method. Students design, build, and test a working electronic product to meet specific requirements within budget. Engineering time, team management costs and component costs are incorporated into the total cost and grade for the final product. Formal design reports and presentations required. Two three-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: EGEE-4810 Electrical Engineering Senior Design I. (Fee: $100) EGEE-4950 Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering 1-3 hours Selected topics in electrical engineering at the 4000-level that expands the depth of existing 3000- and 4000-level courses or exposes the students to advanced concepts not taught in other courses; topics may be proposed by the engineering faculty or students. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission. Mechanical Engineering Courses EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics -Fa 1 hour Introduction to using a PC and commercial CAD software to create two-dimensional engineering drawings; basic techniques of sketching, drawing, editing, dimensioning, multiple views, sectioning, multi-view projections, and pictorial views. (Fee: $25) EGME-1820 Solid Modeling -Sp 1 hour Introduction to using a PC and commercial solid-modeling software to create three-dimensional engineering drawings; basic techniques of solid modeling including sketching, extrusions, cuts, lofting, sweeps, drawing generation and assemblies. Advanced techniques include bill of material management, sheet metal and mold design. Prerequisite: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics. (Fee: $25) EGME 2050 Computational Methods -Sp 4 hours Introduction to computer programming and the numerical methods for solving roots of equations, simultaneous linear algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, integration, introduction to finite-difference approximations, and least- squares curve fits. Prerequisites: MATH-2710 Calculus III; MATH- 2740 Differential Equations . EGME-2310 Manufacturing and Finance -Fa 3 hours Introduction to the fundamentals of manufacturing and contemporary materials processing, molding, casting, forming, machining, inspection techniques, and quality assurance. Applications to the time value of money, break-even and payback analysis, and economic analysis of engineering alternatives. Prerequisite: EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials. EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials -Sp 4 hours Introduction to the properties of metallic, ceramic, polymeric, and composite materials; plastic deformation, strengthening, fracture, fatigue, corrosion, diffusion, equilibrium and nonequilibrium processes, phase diagrams, electrical and magnetic properties, and application to materials selection. Three lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials. (Fee: $100) EGME-2510 Statics -Fa 3 hours Introduction to the analysis of forces in isolated and connected rigid-body systems; vector analysis, forces, moments, resultants, two- and three-dimensional equilibrium, centroids, moment of inertia, friction, trusses, frames, and machines. Design project required. Prerequisites: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics; PHYS-2110 General Physics I; MATH-1720 Analytical Geometry and Calculus II. (Fee: $10) EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials -Fa 5 hours Introduction to the analysis of forces in isolated and connected rigid-body systems; vector analysis, forces, moments, resultants, two- and three-dimensional equilibrium, centroids, distributed loading, moment of inertia, friction, trusses, frames, and machines. Introduction to the theoretical and experimental analysis of deformable bodies subject to applied loads; normal and shear stress and strain, strain energy, torsion, stresses in beams, deflection of beams, combined stress, stress transformation, failure theories, and buckling of columns. Design project required. Prerequisites: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics; PHYS-2110 General Physics I; MATH-1710 Calculus I. (Fee: $25) EGME-2630 Dynamics -Sp 3 hours Introduction to the kinematic and kinetic analysis of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies; position, velocity, acceleration, non-rotating and rotating frames of reference, Newton’s laws, work, energy, impulse, momentum, conservative and non-conservative systems, vibration of single-degree-of- freedom systems. Design project required. Prerequisite: EGME- 2510 Statics; or EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials. Pre- or Corequisite: MATH-2740 Differential Equations. (Fee: $10) EGME-3000 Introduction to Mechanical EngineeringLabs -Fa 0 hour Introduction to the principles, procedures, lab reports, and evaluations of the mechanical engineering laboratories. One two-hour lab each week for 5 weeks. Corequisites: EGME-3010 Mechanical Engineering Lab I; EGEE-3530 Electrical Machines. EGME-3010 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I -Fa 2 hours Experiments using the wind tunnel, engine test cell, mechanics laboratory, vibrations laboratory, fluids laboratory, refrigeration laboratory, and heat transfer laboratory are conducted. Students measure mechanical phenomena such as acceleration, force, pressure, temperature, strain, fluid flow, viscosity, and heat transfer using transducers, instrumentation, and PC-based data acquisition. Students design some of the experiments. Two two- hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: EGME-2050 Computational Methods; EGEE-2050 Circuits and Instrumentation. Corequisite: EGME-3000 Introduction to Well-equipped laboratories facilitate professor-to-student interaction during experimentation.