Jul 03, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Management

  
  • MANA 7392 - Global Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
    Examines the roles of global leaders, the competencies they need to develop, the challenges they face, and the personal and organizational aspects of becoming a global leader.
  
  • MANA 7397 - Selected Topics in Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and approval of chair or program director.
    May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • MANA 8190 - Professional Issues

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor.
    Discussion of professional and ethical issues important to students in Management and related fields.
    May be repeated as topics vary.

  
  • MANA 8330 - Seminar in Management Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.
    Philosophy, design, and methodology of research in management theory.
  
  • MANA 8331 - Seminar in Organizational Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and MANA 7342 .
    Theory and research pertaining to complex organizational structure and process, and comparative organizational analysis.
  
  • MANA 8336 - Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Management Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.
    Critical examination of various theories of organizational behavior and management and supporting empirical studies. Study of selected problem areas.
    May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • MANA 8340 - Seminar in Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor.
    An in-depth examination of the theory, research, and practice of human resource management.
  
  • MANA 8345 - Design and Implementation of Research Methodologies

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and MANA 8330  or its equivalent.
    Focuses on the development of research skills through an actual research experience that includes conceptualization of the problem through the reporting of results.
  
  • MANA 8361 - International Management Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of the instructor.
    Theory and research in international management including the methodological and practical problems of conducting international research.
  
  • MANA 8380 - Seminar in Strategic Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, MANA 6383 , and approval of instructor.
    Critical review of theoretical and empirical literature on strategy formulation and implementation.
  
  • MANA 8385 - Research in Strategic Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor.
    An advanced study of research issues and trends in strategic management.
  
  • MANA 8395 - Teaching Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Supervised practice in the teaching of management.
  
  • MANA 8396 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Supervised research in management.
  
  • MANA 8397 - Selected Topics in Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of the chair.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • MANA 8398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.
  
  • MANA 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  
  • MANA 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  
  • MANA 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

Marketing

  
  • MARK 6A61 - Marketing Administration

    Credit Hours: 1.5 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1.5-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    Overview of marketing, including segmentation, targeting, positioning and the marketing mix.
  
  • MARK 7A97 - Selected Topics in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 1.5 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1.5-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • MARK 6361 - Marketing Administration

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
    Marketing orientation and concepts; marketing programs incorporating the societal perspective in formulating strategies for the design, pricing, channeling, and promotion of products/services.
  
  • MARK 6398 - Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.
  
  • MARK 7362 - Management of Marketing Information

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing, MARK 6361  and BZAN 6310  or BZAN 6320 .
    Acquiring and effectively utilizing market information in decision-making.
  
  • MARK 7365 - Internet Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and  .
    Concepts, issues and theories of marketing as enable by Internet technologies including search, networks, and social media and applied to advertising, branding and managing customer relationships.
  
  • MARK 7366 - Web Analytics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and MARK 6361 .
    Use of web analytics to generate strategic and tactical insights to optimize Internet marketing efforts.
  
  • MARK 7367 - Internet Marketing Projects

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor approval.
    Application of Internet marketing concepts, analytics, and methods.
  
  • MARK 7368 - Integrated Marketing Communications

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MARK 6361 .
    The use of advertising, public relations, and other promotional tools.
  
  • MARK 7369 - International Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and MARK 6361 . Students may not receive credit for both MARK 7369 and INTB 7369 .
    Marketing strategies for international firms.
  
  • MARK 7371 - Pricing Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
  
  • MARK 7372 - Services Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and MARK 6361 .
    Addresses unique aspects of services, such as intangibility, lack of inventory and close interaction between provider and customer, as well as the associated marketing and management tasks for the provider, including managing demand and human resources. Special emphasis on the determinants of service quality and the link between internal business practices and customer satisfaction.
  
  • MARK 7373 - Legal and Public Issues in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MARK 6361 .
    Laws and regulations affecting marketing and public issues.
  
  • MARK 7374 - New Product Development

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and MARK 6361 .
    New product development and testing, business analysis for new products and applications of marketing planning models for successful introduction of new products.
  
  • MARK 7375 - Marketing Planning and Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MARK 6361 .
    Development of a marketing plan for a specific product or service.
  
  • MARK 7376 - Brand Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and MARK 6361
    Theory and practice of brand and product management.
  
  • MARK 7377 - Customer Relationship Management and Database Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: MARK 7377 - Customer Relationship Management.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    Building blocks of customer relationship management, database analytic links to strategy, acquisition and retention of customers, measurement and use of customer lifetime value, loyalty programs, personalization.
  
  • MARK 7378 - Selling and Sales Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MARK 6361 .
    Development of selling skills and sales management training, with emphasis on business-to-business selling.
  
  • MARK 7379 - Sales Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
  
  • MARK 7381 - Technology Commercialization

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
    Issues and challenges in commercializing technology, with an emphasis on assessing commercial potential, early stage market research, and commercialization strategies.
  
  • MARK 7383 - Technology Commercialization Projects

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor approval.
    Application of technology commercialization processes.
  
  • MARK 7393 - Practical Marketing Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MARK 6361 .
    Evaluating marketing alternatives in business decisions.
    May be repeated for credit when topics change.

  
  • MARK 7394 - Business Consulting Lab II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-3); )
  
  • MARK 7397 - Selected Topics in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair or program director.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • MARK 8199 - Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
  
  • MARK 8334 - Marketing Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Marketing systems including international marketing and market regulation.
  
  • MARK 8335 - Marketing Models

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Mathematical and statistical models in marketing.
  
  • MARK 8336 - Marketing Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Marketing research tools and techniques.
  
  • MARK 8337 - Behavioral Constructs in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and MARK 6361 .
    Development of a model of buyer behavior.
  
  • MARK 8338 - Marketing Management and Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Marketing management issues and their impact on marketing strategy.
  
  • MARK 8349 - Multivariate Methods in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Multivariate data analysis techniques for marketing research.
  
  • MARK 8395 - Teaching Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Supervised practice in the teaching of marketing.
  
  • MARK 8396 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Supervised research in marketing.
  
  • MARK 8397 - Selected Topics in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • MARK 8398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.
  
  • MARK 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  
  • MARK 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  
  • MARK 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

Mechanical Engineering

  
  • MECE 6111 - Graduate Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • MECE 6198 - Research

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.
  
  • MECE 6298 - Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.
  
  • MECE 6301 - Nanostructured Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MATH 3445, graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Overview of the advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The content covers solid state materials science, properties of nanomaterials, synthesis and characterization techniques, and applications of nanostructured materials.
  
  • MECE 6305 - Analytical Methods in Engineering Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-3); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of the graduate faculty advisor.
    Applied mathematical analysis tools of ordinary and partial differential equations describing physical processes occurring in the practice of Mechanical Engineering Technology areas such as fluid dynamics, elasticity and heat transfer.
  
  • MECE 6320 - Composite Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Fiber, whisker and particulate reinforcements; polymer-, metal- and ceramic composite materials; principles of second-phase stiffening, strengthening and toughening; interface/interphase stress transfer and load partition; composite material constitutive equations; composite laminate beam and plate analyses; failure theories and criteria.
  
  • MECE 6321 - Polymer Materials and Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 3469 and MATH 3363 or consent of instructor.
    Relationships between molecular structure, mechanical properties and physical laws of mech. Characteristics of processing and properties for structural polymers. Time temperature affects and relationship between mechanical and other physical properties. Theory and experimental techniques for thermo mechanical properties.
  
  • MECE 6322 - Polymer Viscoelasticity and Failure

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 3369 and MATH 3363 and consent of instructor.
    A combined materials science and solid mechanics treatment of time-temperature-deformation and failure behavior of polymers and polymeric composites at both the molecular and continuum levels. Various approaches to quasi-static and steady state constitutive behavior are given including. the solution of boundary value problems.
  
  • MECE 6328 - Fundamentals of Pipeline Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-3); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of the graduate faculty advisor.
    Pipeline mechanical design using the limit-state based strength method; flow assurance and material selection; pipeline stability, corrosion, and construction; inspection, monitoring, and maintenance of pipelines.
  
  • MECE 6331 - Advanced Thermodynamics I-Classical

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
    Axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics, development of information from a fundamental equation, thermodynamic stability. Applications include mixtures, chemical reaction, evaluation of properties, and phase transition.
  
  • MECE 6333 - Conduction and Radiation

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or equivalent and consent of instructor.
    Steady and transient conduction with various boundary conditions; analytical and numerical evaluation of temperature distributions. Introduction to thermal radiation including surface properties, geometric factors and absorbing media. Applications involving coupled conduction and radiation.
  
  • MECE 6334 - Convection Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Thermal boundary-layer theory; forced convection in laminar and turbulent flows; heat transfer of high velocities; transpiration cooling; dimensional analysis; free convection; selected applications.
  
  • MECE 6335 - Heat Transfer with Phase-Change

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Dynamics of liquid-vapor interfaces including the role of capillary forces. Mechanisms and analysis of boiling and condensing heat transfer.
  
  • MECE 6339 - Introduction to Engineering Alloys

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 3345 or equivalent and graduate standing.
    Metallurgy of alloy systems are covered at an introductory graduate level. Topics include structure of metals, defects, phase equilibria, phase transformations, heat treatment for microstructure property control.
  
  • MECE 6340 - Materials for Energy Storage

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Material issues pertaining to energy storage applications will be discussed, including lithium ion batteries, fuel cells and supercapacitors.  Electrode and electrolyte material properties, characterization, design and modeling and impact on device performance will be addressed.
  
  • MECE 6341 - Viscous Flow Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Development of governing equations; exact and approximate solutions for high and low Reynolds numbers; extension to boundary layer solution; stability analysis.
  
  • MECE 6342 - Potential Flow Around Bodies

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Application of ideal-fluid mechanics to the flow around two- and three-dimensional bodies.
  
  • MECE 6343 - Boundary Layers

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Computation of boundary layers in laminar and turbulent flow for compressible and incompressible fluids; exact and approximate methods; stability of boundary layer flow.
  
  • MECE 6344 - Turbulent Flows

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Phenomenological theories, self-preserving flows, homogeneous turbulence, and statistical theories; turbulence measuring methods.
  
  • MECE 6347 - Low Speed Aerodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Fundamentals of inviscid, incompressible flow; general solution of potential flow problems; 2D airfoils; 3D airfoils; panel methods.
  
  • MECE 6349 - Hydro/Aerodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in mechanical, chemical, or civil engineering.
    Two- and three-dimensional potential flows with application to various hydro- and aerodynamic shapes, including bluff bodies and airfoils. Vortex methods. Surface singularity methods.
  
  • MECE 6353 - Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 3463, MECE 3363 or equivalent, Fortran programming experience, or consent of instructor.
    Numerical methods for linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. Emphasis on finite difference and spectral methods applied to the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flow. Turbulence modeling.
  
  • MECE 6356 - Computational Fluid Dynamics I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: I. MECE 3363, BIOE 3440 or equivalent fluid mechanic course; II. MATH 3321 or equivalent; or permission of instructor
    Introduction to finite difference and finite volume methods for solving fluid flow model PDE’s. Concepts of consistency, stability, and convergence; solution of large scale linear equation systems.
  
  • MECE 6357 - Computational Fluid Dynamics II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: I. MECE 3363, BIOE 3440 or equivalent fluid mechanics course; II. MATH 3321 or equivalent; or permission of instructor
    Solution methods for the Navier-Stokes equations. Complex geometries and grid generation. Turbulent flows.
  
  • MECE 6358 - Superconductor Materials Science and Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: MECE 6358 - Superconducting Ceramic Materials.
    Prerequisite: MECE 3445 or consent of instructor.
    Principles of superconductor physics, structures of low and high temperature superconductors and their impact on properties, materials science challenges with anisotropy, grain boundaries and flux pinning and solutions developed in engineering of superconductors.
  
  • MECE 6361 - Mechanical Behavior of Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 3445 and graduate standing.
    Dislocation and defect theory, deformation and fatigue of metals, polymers and brittle materials.
  
  • MECE 6362 - Advanced Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5387.
    Classic problems of particle dynamics and rigid-body dynamics, gyroscope theory; dissipative systems, the principle of least action, Hamilton-Jacobi equation; canonical transformations, Poisson brackets; relativistic mechanics.
  
  • MECE 6363 - Physical Metallurgy

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Structure and mechanical properties of metals and alloys. Metal strengthening processes, plastic deformation, work hardening, crystal imperfections, recovery, and recrystallization.
  
  • MECE 6364 - Phase Transformations in Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: MECE 6364 - Solidification and Heat Treatment.
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    One-, two-, and multi-component alloy systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium solidification, non-ideal and regular solutions, systems containing invariant reactions, phase diagram construction, nucleation and growth of phases, solution and aging treatments and heat treatment of commom alloys.
  
  • MECE 6367 - Flight Control Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent.
    Equations of motion of aircraft and spacecraft, static stability and control, state-space control design methods, linear quadratic regulator, Kalman filtering, and introduction to robust control design methods.
  
  • MECE 6368 - Mechanical Design Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Selected topics pertaining to individual design projects. Introduction to patent law.
  
  • MECE 6369 - Nonlinear Control Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5367.
    Nonlinear state-space models; Phase-plane techniques; describing function methods; stability analysis; lyapunov function techniques; exact linearization methods; sliding mode control; adaptive control; examples from robotics and spacecraft dynamics.
  
  • MECE 6371 - Vibration Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and/or consent of instructor
    Single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems; free and forced vibrations of damped and undamped systems; approximate methods of analysis; research in vibration field with presentation.
  
  • MECE 6373 - Computer-Based Design Synthesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 4334 or permission of instructor.
    Techniques of computer-based decision making for engineering system design synthesis; mathematical methods of solution and postsolution analysis; knowledge engineering; engineering applications.
  
  • MECE 6374 - Nonlinear Control Syst Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
  
  • MECE 6377 - Continuum Mechanics I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5332 or consent of instructor.
    Motion of a continuum, polar decomposition, measures of strain; rate of deformation and vorticity; transport theorem, balance laws; general constitutive theory, material symmetry, invariance requirements.
  
  • MECE 6379 - Computer Methods for Mechanical Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    A second-level course dealing with the application of the digital computer to solve design problems in mechanical engineering. Topics include design optimization, differential equations of mechanical systems, root solving in mechanical synthesis, and eigenvalue applications in design.
  
  • MECE 6382 - Theory of Elasticity

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
    Mathematical preliminaries: vectors, tensors, orthogonal transformations, integral transformations. Analysis of deformation, compatibility, stress, constitutive laws, material symmetry, formulation of boundary problems, examples.
  
  • MECE 6384 - Methods of Applied Mathematics I

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of a math placement test to be given on first day of class or consent of department.
    The theory and application of mathematical methods for partial differential equations arising in analytical engineering models.
  
  • MECE 6385 - Methods of Applied Mathematics II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
    The theory and application of mathematical methods for partial differential equations arising in analytical engineering models.
  
  • MECE 6386 - Computational Modeling of Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Computational methods for the modeling, analysis, and numerical simulation of mechanical response of materials from the atomistic scale to the continuum scale.  Topic include molecular dynamics, finite element method, and multi-scale modeling techniques.
  
  • MECE 6387 - Intelligent Structural Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent.
    Modeling, design and control of intelligent structures using various smart materials such as piezoceramics, shape memory alloys, magneto-rheological (MR) fluid, and fiber optical sensors.
  
  • MECE 6388 - Optimal Control Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent.
    Variational calculus maximum principal and Hamilton- Jacoby theory. Linear quadratic regulator/servo problems and minimum time control. Computational methods in optimum systems control.
  
  • MECE 6389 - Linear Matrix Inequality Control

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: MECE 5367 or equivalent.
    Linear matrix inequalities; Signal and system norms and performance specifications; Stability and system performance analysis using linear matrix inequalities; Uncertain systems and robustness analysis; Robust stability and performance synthesis; Linear parameter varying control methods; Model order reduction problems; Applications to mechanical and aerospace control problems.
 

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