Course Number: 5101
Credit Hours: 1
Title: Special Topics

Course Description:
An investigation into specialized study in advanced areas of engineering under guidance of a faculty member. This course may be repeated for credit when topics of investigation differ.

Course Number: 5201
Credit Hours: 2
Title: Special Topics

Course Description:
An investigation into specialized study in advanced areas of engineering under guidance of a faculty member. This course may be repeated for credit when topics of investigation differ.

Course Number: 5301
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Special Topics

Course Description:
An investigation into specialized study in advanced areas of engineering under guidance of a faculty member. This course may be repeated for credit when topics of investigation differ.

Course Number: 5304
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Engineering Analysis

Course Description:
The course covers selected topics of advanced engineering mathematics and their applications to engineering. The topics include analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, vector differential calculus and integral theorems, probability and statistics, and optimization.

Course Number: 5310
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Energy Conservation/Management

Course Description:
Students will learn fundamentals of energy conservation and management, energy audit procedures, energy conservation analysis, and technologies to improve energy efficiency.

Course Number: 5312
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Optimization Ther Sys

Course Description:
The course deals with the design and optimization of thermal systems. The course covers selection of typical components of thermal systems such as heat exchangers, pumps and fans, economic analysis of thermal systems, system simulations, and different methods of optimization, and their applications in the optimization of thermal systems culminated in a group optimization project. A formal oral presentation of a written technical report is required.

Course Number: 5317
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Adv Fracture Mechs in Mech DSN

Course Description:
Theory of fracture mechanics with engineering applications advanced stress analysis using finite element (FEA) analysis with emphasis on the cracked structures. Offered: Other

Course Number: 5319
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Modeling & Simulation

Course Description:
Students will learn advanced FEA techniques and the applications, advanced knowledge in solid mechanics and its applications, and advanced skills with ANSYS software.

Course Number: 5321
Credit Hours: 3
Title: App Numerical Analysis

Course Description:
Introduction to numerical techniques and their applications in different engineering problems, experimental data analysis and statistical methods, optimization methods, and numerical methods in solving differential equations.

Course Number: 5323
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Heat Transfer and Applications

Course Description:
The course covers advanced theory of heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation - emphasizing 2- and 3-dimensional analysis in industrial applications using analytical equations and numerical simulations.

Course Number: 5324
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Component/System Design with Simulation

Course Description:
The purpose of this class is to apply finite element analysis or other simulation techniques to solve a design problem in the field of heat transfer, stress analysis, vibration or fluid mechanics, or coupled multi-physics problems. Students are encouraged to use the finite element analysis or other simulation software, or write their own codes to solve the problems.

Course Number: 5325
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Finite Element Analysis with ANSYS

Course Description:
This class introduces the students to effective finite element problem solving by demonstrating the use of the comprehensive ANSYS Finite Element Method Software in a series of step-by-step tutorials. Both ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Workbench will be covered. ANSYS APDL will be introduced.

Course Number: 5326
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Control of Mech Systems

Course Description:
Mathematical modeling of various systems, transient and steady-state response, frequency response analysis, root-locus, stability, control system design, steady-sates representations, controllability and observability, and design of system in state space.

Course Number: 5329
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Solid Mechanics

Course Description:
Deformation and stress analysis, mathematical preliminaries (tenor basics, variational method), strain-displacement relations in general, theory of linear elasticity and energy methods. Fundamental principles of fracture mechanics in mechanical design and engineering applications.

Course Number: 5330
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer

Course Description:
Learn current status of two-phase flow and heat transfer. Introduction of the current state-of-the-art applications in liquid-vapor phase change heat transfer is discussed.

Course Number: 5331
Credit Hours: 3
Title: CFD with OpenFOAM

Course Description:
This course covers selected topics of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies including a brief introduction of CFD and then systematic teaching on the fundamental structures of OpenFOAM with its programming features. One- and two-phase flows will be solved.

Course Number: 5333
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Tribology

Course Description:
The course covers essential topics in tribology, a branch of mechanical/material engineering. By definition, tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces under relative motion. It is the study and application of the friction, lubrication and wear principles in engineering and design. It covers the contact of surfaces, mechanics of friction, surface failures/wear, boundary lubrication, fluid properties, thin film (elastohydrodynamic) lubrication, thick film (hydrodynamic) lubrication, and an introduction to emerging tribology (micro/nanotribology and biotribology). Tribology is an interdisciplinary area, and most importantly still has many unknowns.

Course Number: 5335
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Mechanical Vibrations

Course Description:
Topics in mechanical vibrations including an introduction to the theory of vibrations, mechanical vibration analysis methods using simulation based design, mechanical vibration measurement and monitoring, interpretation of vibration measurements data and other mechanical vibration topics as appropriate.

Course Number: 5341
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Modeling of Supercritical Fluids

Course Description:
This course covers analysis and design of supercritical fluids (SCF) systems used in industrial applications. The students will learn the mathematical models of SCF, analyze SCF problems from several industrial examples and design specific SCF processing using numerical computations.

Course Number: 5342
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Mechanism Design and Analysis

Course Description:
This course covers the fundamental knowledge in mechanism design and analysis. The course utilizes analytical, graphical and computer-aided methods to solve practical problems and to perform force analysis in kinematics and dynamics of machinery. Students are expected to design mechanisms for assignments and projects.

Course Number: 5350
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Turbomachinery

Course Description:
Flow problems encountered in the design of water, gas and steam turbines, centrifugal and axial-flo pumps and compressors, aero-thermodynamic design of gas turbines.

Course Number: 5362
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Energy Engineering

Course Description:
Different types of energy resources and their uses, different types of energy conversion technology, such as fuel cells, thermoelectric, and solar energy conversion, and energy conservation technologies such as pinch technology and cogeneration, current and future challenges of energy generation and conservation, environmental issues such as air pollution, smog and greenhouse effects, and NOx emissions.

Course Number: 5365
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Adv Materials Science

Course Description:
Introduction to mechanical properties of engineering materials. Intro to kinetics of structural transformations and fundamentals aspects of structural transformations.

Course Number: 5366
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Manufacturing Analysis

Course Description:
Students will be introduced to manufacturing as a system, different properties of castings and structure, melting and pouring principals, analysis of sheet forming and melt processing: design with plastics and composites metal cutting processes, machinability and cutting tools introduced. Students learn mechanical joining and solid state bonding and analysis of liquid state welding.

Course Number: 5368
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Combustion Theory

Course Description:
Fundamental principals of combustion theory and their applications in different engineering problems such as furnaces, automotive engines, gas turbines, and rockets. Topics covered include thermochemistry, fuels, chemical kinetics, conservation equations for reacting flows, premixed and diffusion flames, droplet burning, and pollutant emissions, introduction to numerical modeling of combustion and combustion measurement techniques.

Course Number: 5370
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Gas Turbn Heat Trans/Cool Tech

Course Description:
The importance and fundamental consideration of gas turbines heat transfer and cooling are introduced. Different aspects of internal cooling and film cooling technologies are discussed. State-of-the-art experimental design and numerical modeling related to gas turbines heat transfer and cooling are presented.

Course Number: 5389
Credit Hours: 3
Title: CAD

Course Description:
Introduction to ProEngineer. The analysis and the utilization of state of the art computer hardware and software to solve the problems associated with the utilization of computers in both graphics and engineering design problems.

Course Number: 6110
Credit Hours: 1
Title: Professional Seminar

Course Description:
Advanced topics suitable for research along with research procedures will be discussed. Field study organization and content together with doctoral research problems and progress will be represented. Topics will vary each semester and course may be repeated for credit. Registration and completion for three semesters is required of all doctoral candidates.

Course Number: 6310
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Design Projects

Course Description:
May be repeated for credit when the subject matter varies.

Course Number: 6312
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Topics in Thermal Fluids

Course Description:
This course covers advanced topics on thermal fluid systems selected by the instructor, e.g. supercritical fluids, multiphase flows, fluid structure interactions, tribology, nanofluids, electric cooling, etc. Students will learn the fundamental theories, build mathematical models and design thermal fluid systems on the selected topics.

Course Number: 6315
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Course Description:
This course covers mathematical and computational applications into selected engineering problems. The course utilizes ordinary and partial differential equations, vector differential calculus and integral theorems, probability and statistics, and optimization to model, evaluate and solve practical engineering problems.

Course Number: 6320
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Justification Engineering Proj

Course Description:
The preparation of proposals for advanced engineering work. The student will be given individual assistance in preparing a proposal for his field of study.

Course Number: 6332
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Topics in Computational Fluids

Course Description:
This course covers selected topics of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) from programming of CFD to advanced studies on featured software, e.g. Fluent, OpenFOAM etc. Topics will be selected and designed by each individual instructor.

Course Number: 6385
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Stress Analysis

Course Description:
Deformation and Stress analysis, mathematical preliminaries (tensor basics, variational method), strain-displacement relations in general, theory of linear elasticity and energy methods.

Course Number: 6387
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Fracture & Fatigue of Solids

Course Description:
Stress analysis of cracked elastic and inelastic solids; fundamental principals of fracture mechanics in mechanical design and engineering applications; failure criteria for brittle and ductile materials; low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue and fatigue mechanisms.

Course Number: 6388
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Finite Element Method

Course Description:
Finite element method in the study of the static response of complex structures and of continua; applications to field problems, energy & variation methods emphasized and ANSYS software introduced.