49 courses with the subject MECH, 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.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:1,Other:2Develop an understanding of the processes needed to produce manufactured parts. Emphasis on hands-on machining and fabrication.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:1,Lab:2Graphical representation techniques for visualization and communication of mechanical engineering designs and concepts. Creation, storage and manipulation of production drawings and 3-D geometric representations using state-of-the-art software. Introduction to fabrication through rapid prototyping tools. Co-Requisite: MECH 202L.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:1; RepeatableEthical and professional responsibilities in engineering. Education and career planning. Consideration of the impact of engineering solutions in various contexts.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:4Thermodynamic principles including properties of substances, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, efficiencies, power and refrigeration cycles. Prerequisites: MATH 201 and ENGR 214 or CSCI 203 or permission of the department. Not open to students who have taken CHEG 310 or ENGR 200.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:4Equilibrium of two-and three-dimensional rigid bodies and systems. Trusses, frames and machines. Friction. Distributed forces and equivalent systems. Internal loads. Prerequisite: PHYS 211 and MATH 201 or permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken ENGR 221 or ENGR 229.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:1,Lab:2Sensors, measurement techniques for static and dynamic measurements, data processing, statistical data analysis, propagation of error, actuators and motors. Corequisite: MECH 222L. Prerequisites: MATH 202, ECEG 205, and ENGR 214 or CSCI 203.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:2; RepeatableThe AIAA Design/Build/Fly (DBF) competition tasks teams each year to design, build and then fly an aircraft that performs certain missions such as flying the fastest around a preset course. Through this competition, teams will learn how to design, engineer, manufacture and operate an aircraft.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:2; RepeatableThe SAE Baja Competition challenges teams to design, build and compete with an off-road vehicle that will be tested in events that stress various aspects of vehicle performance, concluding with a four-hour endurance race. Teams also build a business case and present their engineering design to a panel of judges.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:4Kinematic and kinetic analysis of rigid bodies in planar motion. Absolute and relative analysis of displacements, velocities, and accelerations; force, energy, and momentum methods; analysis of mechanical vibrations; analytical and computer-simulated solution techniques. Prerequisites: ENGR 214 or CSCI 203, MECH 220 and MATH 202 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:4; RepeatableIndependent investigation under the direction of a faculty member for students who have completed their first year. Sophomore standing in mechanical engineering and permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:2; RepeatableTopic is specific to the semester offered. Course description will be available in Banner prior to registration.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Introduction to finite element method (FEM) and commercial FEM software for design and analysis of mechanical components and thermal problems. Applications in mechanical and thermal component/system design. Co-Requisites: MECH 302L. Prerequisites: MECH 202 and MECH 353.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Principles and engineering applications of heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation. Co-Requisites: MECH 312L. Prerequisite: MECH 313 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Fundamentals of fluid dynamics including integral and differential control volume analysis, conservation equations, dimensional analysis, incompressible inviscid flows, internal and external viscous flows. Prerequisites: MATH 212 and MECH 213, or permission of the department. Not open to students who have taken ENGR 222 or ENGR 233.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:4Students will create immersive virtual worlds as visual art using Unreal Engine, ZBrush, Rhino and other CAD tools while exploring the work of cutting-edge digital artists. Learn to design, interpret and build in 3D, even if you're new to CAD. No previous experience required. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ARTD 242 and CSCI 242.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Analysis of stress, strain and failure of engineering components under axial, torsional, flexural and combined loading conditions. Introduction to stability of compression members, energy methods and failure theory. Bridge to computational methods in solid mechanics. Prerequisites: MECH 220 and MATH 202 or permission of the instructor. Open to mechanical engineering majors only.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Analytical and technological study of materials processing including deformation, solidification, material removal, plastics forming and additive manufacturing methods. Laboratory fabrication projects and introduction to numerical control and CAD/CAM. Co-Requisite: MECH 355L. Prerequisites: ENGR 240 and MECH 202, or permission of instructor. Mechanical Engineering majors only.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:4; RepeatableIndependent investigation under the direction of a faculty member for students who have completed two years of study. Junior standing in mechanical engineering and permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Principles and techniques for creative design of machines in relation to specifications and user requirements. Design using a solid modeling CAD package. Co-Requisites: MECH 392L. Prerequisites: MECH 252 and MECH 353, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:3,Common Hour:2Student teams design systems to solve open-ended problems with consideration of broad perspectives through the use of the design process, modeling and analysis, resource management and documentation. Co-Requisite: MECH 401C. Prerequisites: MECH 312 and MECH 392, or permission of the instructor. Open to senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:2,Common Hour:2Student teams validate systems designed in MECH 401 with consideration of broad perspectives through modeling and analysis, fabrication, instrumentation, and testing. Professional practice in engineering and ethics. Design of experiments for design validation. Co-requisite: MECH 402C. Prerequisite: MECH 401. Open to senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Design of thermal-fluid energy conversion systems; equipment selection; codes and standards; and economic analysis. Mini-design laboratories and design projects. Co-Requisites: MECH 403L. Prerequisites: MECH 312.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Modeling and analysis of dynamic systems consisting of mechanical, electrical and fluid elements. Frequency response methods. Sampled data systems. Experimental system identification. Co-Requisites: MECH 405L. Prerequisites: MATH 212, MECH 222, MECH 252, and ECEG 205.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesFundamental aspects of the design and operation of solar energy conversion systems including photovoltaics, solar thermal power, solar heating and chemical fuel production. Prerequisite: MECH 312 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 620.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesCurrent energy demands, environmental effects, renewable energy resources, includes solar, wind, tidal, ocean thermal, wave energies; clean coal, nuclear energy, smart grid technology. Prerequisites: CHEG 200 or ENGR 200 or MECH 213 or permission of instructor. Open to junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. Crosslisted as MECH 622.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Description of internal combustion engines, methods of evaluating performance, the thermodynamics of combustion, engine testing, and design. Prerequisite: MECH 312 or permission of instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 624.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesExplores the key mechanical aspects in designing an efficient, intelligent, and healthy built environment. Topics include building energy load estimate, psychrometric analysis, typical cooling and heating production (steam, chilled water, air conditioning), air distribution systems and smart buildings in the context of grid decarbonization. Prerequisites: MECH 312, concurrency allowed. Crosslisted as MECH 628.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesApplication of Thermodynamic principles for Energy, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, Psychrometrics, Combustion, Compressible Flow, Exergy Analysis. Prerequisite: MECH 213 or equivalent Crosslisted as MECH 629.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesKinematics of fluid flow. Conservation equations. Viscous flow. Turbulent flow (description, statistics, equations, physics, modeling, boundary layers, analyses). Selected applied topic(s) e.g. design applications of computational fluid dynamics, reservoir flow. Selected laboratory projects. Prerequisite: MECH 313 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. Crosslisted as MECH 633.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Introduction to aircraft design elements and theory. Develop computer models to design, analyze, simulate and evaluate commercial and electric aircraft designs and their performance. Design, build and fly a small-scale aircraft. Prerequisites: ENGR 214 or CSCI 203 and MECH 202. Crosslisted as MECH 638.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4The course will start with a survey of different materials - metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, carbon and biomaterials. Next, thin-film deposition methods and their characterization (microscopy and spectroscopy) will be discussed. Finally, the course will delve into tribology: the science of wear, friction and lubrication. Prerequisite: ENGR 240. Junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. Crosslisted as MECH 648.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Damped and undamped vibrations in free and forced systems. Resonance conditions. Vibration measuring equipment. Multi-degree of freedom discrete systems. Continuous systems. Prerequisites: MECH 252 or MATH 212 or permission of the instructor. Junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. Crosslisted as MECH 651.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesHistory, evolution, capabilities and applications of robotic devices. Introduction to robot kinematics, dynamics and control via mathematical and computational modeling approaches. Research into current topics in robotics. Prerequisites: MECH 252 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 653.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesIntroduction to modeling of vehicles for analysis and control. Topics include tire models, handling response, stability control, suspension design, race tuning. Prerequisites: MATH 212, ENGR 214 or CSCI 203, MECH 252 and MECH 405 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 654.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesIntro to design of automotive suspension systems. Topics include suspension types and arrangements, ride and handling, steering, 3D kinematics analysis, load determination and stress analysis. MATLAB programming is utilized frequently for course instruction and assignments. Prerequisites: MATH 211, ENGR 214 or CSCI 203, MECH 252 and MECH 353 or permission of instructor. Junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineers. Crosslisted as MECH 655.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesAnalysis of vehicle design and performance as it pertains to crashworthiness. Vehicle materials and structure, how vehicles are regulated with an emphasis on occupant safety. Studying the evolution of modern designs to minimize injuries includes reviewing many relevant biomechanics research studies. Mechanical engineering majors only. Crosslisted as BMEG 457 and MECH 657.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Mathematical representation and modeling of engineering decision-making problems. Applied methods of linear, nonlinear, discrete and global optimization. Numerical techniques for solving constrained and unconstrained problems. Prerequisites: ENGR 214, MATH 212, and MATH 245 or permission of the instructor. Junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. Crosslisted as MECH 660.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesTheory and practice of advanced manufacturing technologies such as additive manufacturing, incremental forming and friction stir welding. Research into current topics in advanced manufacturing and their potential applications. Opportunities for hands-on learning and exploration through fabrication projects. Prerequisite: MECH 355 or permission of instructor. Junior, senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. BS in mechanical engineering degree only. Crosslisted as MECH 661.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesIssues of integrated information and advanced machinery in modern manufacturing systems. In-depth study of solid modeling. Study of the effects of the integration of computers in manufacturing, via topics such as control of manufacturing processes, quality control, process planning, assembly, additive manufacturing, etc. Prerequisite: MECH 355 or permission of instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 662.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Other:2Fundamental theory and applications for civil and mechanical engineering. Multidimensional elements, and axisymmetric elements, and their formulations; stress recovery techniques; modeling considerations; convergence criteria and error estimates, includes use of commercial and developmental finite element analysis programs. Prerequisite: MECH 353 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as CEEG 408 and CEEG 608 and MECH 667.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesPrinciples of mechanics applied to human movement. Background in anatomy and physiology, physics and statistics will be presented. Topics include human movement biomechanics include kinematics and kinetics, electromyography, gait, clinical/atypical movement and other applications of biomechanics. Prerequisite: BMEG 250 or MECH 220. Open to juniors, seniors and mechanical engineering majors only. Crosslisted as BMEG 468 and MECH 668.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesTheory and practice of materials characterization techniques including phase identification, mechanical testing and various forms of microscopy. Prerequisite: ENGR 240 or permission of instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 673.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesIntroduction to finite element modeling with commercial software. Brief overview of the finite element method and approximation techniques. Modeling of three dimensional solids, including structural and multiphysics analyses. Emphasis of modeling considerations such as boundary conditions, material properties, mesh convergence, sensitivity studies and other common modeling assumptions. Prerequisite: MECH 353. Crosslisted as MECH 675.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Principles of mechanics applied to biological systems. Background in anatomy, physiology, and cell biology will be presented. Mechanical behavior of hard and soft biological materials. Topics in cellular, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, implant, and sport/motion biomechanics. Prerequisite: MECH 353 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 676.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1Introduction to topics in biomimetics, studying nature as an inspiration for engineering design. Topics include relationships between microstructure and physical properties of natural materials and tissue engineering approaches to biomaterials design. Crosslisted as BMEG 431, BMEG 631 and MECH 678.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:VariesKey aspects of invention of new ideas to create value. Methods of structured ideation, opportunity recognition, prototyping. Fundamentals of patent protection and other types of intellectual property.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This course focuses on system modeling and optimization using established machine learning tools such as neural networks and genetic algorithms. MATLAB based. Prerequisite: ENGR 214 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as MECH 684.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:4; RepeatableAn investigation under the direction of a faculty member. Senior-level topics not covered in other courses may be studied in this course. Senior and 4th year of 5-year engineer only. Mechanical engineering major only. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:4; RepeatableAdvanced, in-depth course developed from areas of mechanical engineering. Topics will vary. Crosslisted as MECH 688.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
