Spring 2009:
ME 4913:Interdisciplinary Engineering Thinking
(Tuesday 3.00-4.50; Friday 3.00-3.55)
Fundamental concepts of dynamical systems theory. Finite difference equations. Linear models: structured population models, electrical circuits, and mechanical frames.
Nonlinear population and disease models and introduction to chaos. Fundamental of graph theory and complex networks with applications to traffic problems, animal grouping, and multiagent robotics.
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Fall 2008:
ME 5653: Microelectromechanical Systems
(Wednesday 6:00-8:45)
Fundamental concepts of solid mechanics: linear elasticity, linear and nonlinear beam theory, linear plate theory. Introductory electrodynamics and fluid-structure interactions.
Analytical and numerical tools for static and dynamic analysis of multiphysics systems, including finite element methods, Galerkin method, and nonlinear systems.
. Stability theory and elementary bifurcation theory.
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Spring 2008:
ME 7443: Advanced Vibrations
(Monday 6:00-8:45)
Fundamental concepts of tensor calculus. Introductory continuum mechanics: kinematics of continua, conservation laws, and constitutive relations. Fundamentals of nonlinear beam theory including higher order beam theories. Principle of virtual work and
Bubnov-Galerkin formulations. Vibrations of prestressed beams.
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Fall 2007:
ME 6703: Linear Control Theory and
Design I
(Thursday 6:00-8:45)
Fundamental concepts of linear algebra, and ordinary differential equations.
Computation and properties of the transition matrix of linear time-varying systems. Internal stability, and Lyapunov stability theory. Controllability, observability, realizability, and subspace methods.
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Spring 2007:
ME 4223: Vibrations
(Monday 9:00-10:50;
Thursday 5:00-5:55)
Fundamental concepts in vibration and modeling. Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems. Vibration of multi degree of freedom systems. Advanced topics.
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Fall 2006:
ME 3513: Measurement Systems
(Tuesday 11:00-12:50;
Thursday 3:00-3:55)
Electrical circuits and components, filtering, dynamic measurement system response characteristics, analog signal processing, digital representation, data acquisition, sensors. Study of measurement systems via computer simulation. (Syllabus)
ME 3511: Measurement Systems Laboratory
(Thursday 09:00-11:50)
Electric measurements, data acquisition, passive and active filters for signal conditioning, temperature, position, velocity, and acceleration measurements.(Syllabus)