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and energy equations, viscous flow during the period of training. The mechanisms; Static and dynamic
in pipes, flow over immersed bodies, plan will be devised jointly by the site- balancing of machines; Analysis and
introduction to turbo machinery. supervisor and college-supervisor. synthesis of cams; Introduction to
The course will be a breakthrough kinematics of robotic manipulators.
MEC 351 - Fluid Mechanics Lab in exposing the students to the
Credit Hour: 1 professional work culture and MEC 412 - Dynamics and Control
Systems Lab
Co-requisites: MEC 350 conduct of business complexities.
This lab aims to provide students with MEC 399i - Internship Credit Hours: 1
Co-requisites: MEC 410
in-depth understanding of theoretical Credit Hours: 1.5
concepts in the fluid mechanics Prerequisite: 90 Credit Hours This lab aims to provide students with
course. Students are required to a full understanding and detailed
use data acquisition system to This course focuses on getting the hands-on skills of dynamic systems
acquire, analyze and interpret results. student practically involved in the analysis and control implementation.
Experiments include: Measurement day-to-day business events in a Students will be engaged in projects
of pressures, pressure loss in pipes, relevant, modern and automated that incorporate the three main
impact of jet, hydrostatic forces, organization. The student will follow a areas of mechanical engineering,
viscosity, fluid flow rate, lift and drag, well-planned course of action during thermo- fluid, dynamics and design.
boundary layer, flow visualization, the period of training. The plan For each project the students will
shock wave, velocity profiles in will be devised jointly by the site- select a process, model it, simulate
laminar and turbulent flows, supervisor and college-supervisor. it, design a controller for it, and
performance of turbo machines. The course will be a breakthrough implement the final control system
in exposing the students to the on a microcontroller. The students
MEC 390 - Electromechanical professional work culture and will use components from a large
Devices conduct of business complexities. assortments of dynamic systems
Credit Hours: 3 and mechatronics components
Prerequisite: PHY 201 MEC 410 - Control Systems provided in the lab. The course also
aims to familiarize students with
This course aims to provide Credit Hours: 3 entrepreneurial opportunities related
mechanical engineering students Prerequisite: MEC 310 + MEC 390 to mechatronics, dynamics and
with fundamental knowledge control, as well as to increase their
of electric circuits and machine This course aims to introduce commitment to ethical practices and
theory. Topics include: AC circuit students to the fundamentals to social and environmental issues
analysis; phases steady state power knowledge of control system theories relevant to mechatronics, dynamics
analysis, and polyphase circuits; and applications. Topics include: and control.
basics of electrical machines mathematical modeling, dynamic
construction, machine theory of system responses, feedback control MEC 420 - Heat Transfer
operation, modeling and analysis of characteristics, stability of feedback Credit Hours: 3
machines, equivalent circuit and its systems, feedback control design, Prerequisite: MEC 320 + MEC 350
governing equations of DC machines, design steps of PID controller, and
3-phase synchronous generations, control design using root locus This course aims at providing
single phase transformers, and method. The course includes project students with essential concepts
3-phase induction motors, power work where students formed in of Heat Transfer. Topics covered
semiconductor devices and their teams perform design; analyze include: Steady and transient heat
application in machine control. laboratory implementation of control conduction, forced and natural
systems for applications for their convection, internal and external
MEC 398i - Internship choices. flows, principles of engineering
Credit Hours: 1.5 MEC 411 - Kinematic and thermal radiation, heat exchanger,
boiling and condensation. The course
Prerequisite: 60 Credit Hours Dynamics of Machinery also aims at inspiring the student
This course focuses on getting the Credit Hours: 3 as well as at enhancing his/her
student practically involved in the Prerequisite: MEC 310 entrepreneurial skills, as related to
day-to-day business events in a Kinematics of mechanisms; Vector the heat transfer area.
relevant, modern and automated methods of analysis of plane
organization. The student will follow mechanisms; Force analysis in
a well-planned course of action

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