57 courses with the subject MEE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MEE 100Selected Topics1-6
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.
In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by permission of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Experiments in energy systems, air conditioning & refrigeration systems, turbomachine, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and control systems performed in small groups. Written reports and oral presentations required.
Fundamentals of casting, forming, machining, assembly, and other manufacturing processes. Measurement and tolerancing. Design for manufacture and assembly.
Applications of principles of heat transfer to analysis and design of heat-exchange and dissipation devices. Boiling and condensation heat transfer. Aspects of environmental heat transfer, such as thermal pollution and its control.
Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Second course in the capstone design sequence. Development through completion of design projects. Elements of planning for production and manufacture, sustainability, intellectual property.
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Application of engineering principles to nuclear power reactors. Relation of nuclear power to present and future world energy sources. Elements of reactor theory. Power removal, utilization, and economics. Design considerations and examinations of nuclear power plants.
Solar radiation, collectors, and storage. Design of solar space heating, cooling; water-heating systems. Solar electric systems. Economics of solar design. Applications of heat pumps, energy conservation techniques.
In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
MEE 524Microprocessors in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering3
Introduction to the microprocessor and its various configurations used in controlling machine operations, data acquisition, etc. Project-oriented work involving program development in machine, assembly, and basic languages. Micro-computers used for off-line program development. Not open to electrical and computer engineering students.
Use CAD software and hardware in the solution of mechanical engineering problems. Computer graphics, computer aided geometry (space curves, splines, patches) design, solid modeling, optimization and an introduction to finite element method.
Basic fluid mechanics and acoustics. Noise generation by fluid flows and their interaction with solid bodies. Types of noise sources. Analysis and control of such flow noise sources in manufacturing, transportation, propulsion, power generation, and industrial control systems.
Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Robot manipulators and their defining equations. Transformations, kinematics, dynamics, and motion trajectories. Control considerations, compliance and organization of programming. Includes a hardware and software laboratory.
Newton's laws of motion. Motion of a particle; a rigid body. Work and energy. Theorem of virtual displacements. D'Alembert's principle. Generalized coordinates. Lagrange's equations. Hamilton's principle. Small vibrations. Ballistics. Balancing. Gyroscopes.
Continuation of MEE 725. Analysis of mechanical and hydraulic control systems of linear and nonlinear characteristics. Stability criteria in systems subject to self-induced vibrations. Operational calculus and Laplace transforms for linear systems of one and two degrees of freedom. Multiple controller servomechanisms.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Basic behavior of materials and formulation of laws governing plastic flows. Different inelastic behaviors of metals. Yielding and the yielding loci. Strain hardening laws. Complete stress-strain relations. Total strain theory and incremental strain theory. Plastic potential. Boundary value problems. Variational principles. Plastic anistropy.
Selected topics in theory and design of equipment and plants for power generation, air conditioning, refrigeration, water purification, and other thermal engineering application.
MEE 895Advanced Topics in Mechanics of Deformable Bodies3
Selected topics in theories of elasticity, plasticity, and rheology, such as finite strain theory, elastic and plastic waves, anisotropic bodies, special mathematical techniques.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
