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MEC 555 - Bio-Materials microcontroller. The Design and MEC 560 - Production Systems
Credit Hours: 3 analysis of the fundamental Operations
mechatronic system will enable the
Pre-requisite: Graduate status students to integrate the sensing Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces the science and actuation components with Pre-requisite: Graduate Status
and engineering of Biomaterials. The the microcontroller and generate This course which deals with
introduced biomaterials are: metals, advanced mechatronic workstation. analytical principles of manufacturing
ceramics, polymers, composites. The medical mechatronics concepts systems design, analysis and control;
The structure and properties of are reinforced through computer emphasis placed on stochastic
biomaterials and the biologic design and simulation using MATLAB analysis; role of variability and
tissues will be studied. Specific toolbox. impact on cycle time; push versus
implant applications including MEC 558 - Computer Aided pull production strategies including
biocompatibility will be addressed. Analysis of Multi-Body systems Kanban and constant WIP control;
MEC 556 - Solar Energy Credit Hours: 3 probability, queuing theory, Little’s
Law, heavy traffic approximation and
Credit Hours: 3 Pre-requisite: Graduate status queuing networks.
Pre-requisite: Graduate status This course will cover the kinematics, MEC 561 - Dynamics of
This course will focus on dynamics, and analysis of flexible Mechanical Systems
fundamentals of solar energy mechanisms. It also cover the Credit Hours: 3
conversion, solar cells, optical constrained mechanical systems
engineering, photoelectrochemical with flexible components, Numerical Pre-requisite: Graduate Status
cells, thermoelectric generators, methods, Computer-Aided This course will include studying the
and energy storage and distribution Analysis, Applications, Large scale concepts of Degrees of freedom,
systems. The course covers solar deformable bodies, Finite element generalized coordinates, principle of
energy insolation and global method, and Constrained motion of virtual work, D’Alembert’s Principle,
energy needs, current trends in interconnected rigid and deformable Lagrange’s Equation, and Hamilton’s
photovoltaic energy engineering, bodies. It will introduce coordinate Principle both in planar and spatial
solar cell material science, design reduction, computational methods, motion to develop equations of
and installation of solar panels and applications using computer motion and Newton-Euler equations
for residential and industrial software, e.g. ADAMS for rigid bodies.
applications and connections to MEC 559 - Design of Robotics
the national grid and cost analysis MEC 562 - Transport Phenomena
of the overall system. In addition, Manipulator in Porous Media
basic manufacturing processes Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3
for the production of solar panels, Pre-requisite: Graduate status Pre-requisite: Graduate Status
environmental impacts, and
the related system engineering This course aims to provide the This graduate course is intended
aspects will be included to provide student with advanced kinematics as advanced course in the field of
a comprehensive state-of-the concepts and it is application to transport phenomena in porous
art approach to solar energy the design, analysis and control of media. Fluid flow, heat and mass
utilization. robotic manipulators. It focuses on transfer play a major role in different
studying the kinematic synthesis of engineering discipline such as in civil
MEC 557 - Advanced planar linkages and Higher-order in the area of concrete corrosion,
Mechatronics precision point and approximate chemical in petroleum industries,
Credit Hours: 3 synthesis. Also it focuses on biomedical in flow in lungs and bones
Pre-requisite: Graduate status studying function, and path-angle and in mechanical engineering such
problems, spatial kinematics and as in filters. This course will give
This course aims to introduce coordinate transformation. It will the student a strong knowledge of
the students to the design and also introduce the learner to forward porous media and its application.
analysis techniques of mechatronic and inverse kinematics of articulated The course will cover different
systems with key focus on the mechanical arms, rigid body motion applications in the Mechanical
biomedical technology. Students and dynamics of robots, Trajectory engineering field.
will learn how to integrate generation, and robot control.
mechanical and electromechanical
systems by utilizing a commodity

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