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Industrial MEC 483 - Mechatronic System Metallurgy
Mechatronics Design Concentration
Concentration Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: MEC 482 MEC 474 - Fracture & Fatigue
MEC 450 - Hydraulic & This course is an introduction to Control in Design
Pneumatic systems Mechatronics, or the interfacing of Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 mechanical and electrical systems. Prerequisite: MEC 430
Co-requisite: MEC 430, MEC 465
Prerequisite: MEC 350 Focus is on embedded controllers
and their programming, power and This is a foundation course in
The purpose of this course is to interfacing electronics, actuators, the area of fracture and fatigue
familiarize students with fundamental sensors, and integration of these considerations in mechanical
concepts and working of hydraulics components to create a complete design. The course provides unified
and pneumatics. The students functional mechatronic system. treatment for the failure analysis of
will explore the working principle MEC 484 - Artificial Intelligence mechanical components subjected
of various systems operated in Mechatronics to monotonic and cyclic loading.
by hydraulics and pneumatics Design based on fracture mechanics
through studying different system Credit Hours: 3 is introduced and various fracture
components as directional, pressure Prerequisite: MEC 482, CSC 201, mechanics measures are discussed.
and process control valves, cylinders, GEN 101 Fatigue crack initiation (FCI) and
rotary actuators, time and event- fatigue crack propagation (FCP) are
based sequencing, and simulation This course aims to provide students discussed. The course highlights
of hydraulic and pneumatic systems. with the theory and applications of practical and analytical aspects
The course will provide students with AI in Mechatronics and robotics. The of fatigue failure in mechanical
comprehensive understanding of the course covers intelligent mechatronic components and the concept
industrial applications of hydraulics system requirements ad locomotion, of remaining life of mechanical
and pneumatics sensing, navigation and motion components. The course is
planning. Students will learn to
MEC 451 - PLC and Industrial select parameters and strategies to aimed at giving student the basic
Automation design intelligent controllers based techniques for designing mechanical
components based on fracture
Credit Hours: 3 on application requirement. Students and fatigue considerations and for
Prerequisite: MEC 450 will learn to apply basic search developing expertise in the area of
algorithms.
The purpose of this course is to MEC 485 - DCS and SCADA enhancing fatigue life of engineering
components. The use of commercial
familiarize students with Industrial program in a project type of work
Automation and Programmable Logic Credit Hours: 3 will be employed and ethical and
Controllers (PLC) systems for Process Prerequisite: MEC 482 autonomous learning techniques will
control. The course will provide Co-requisite: MEC 451 be considered throughout the course
comprehensive and accessible where relevant.
coverage of the basic automation This course DCS (Distributed Control
elements, hardware components Systems) and SCADA (Supervisory MEC 475 - Microstructure
for automation and process control, Control and Data Acquisition) focus Engineering
the latch principle, industrial on understanding and implementing Credit Hours: 3
automation synthesis, logical design industrial networks in process
for automation, electropneumatic automation. This includes industrial Prerequisite: MEC 300, MEC 301
automation, industrial networks, control networks, instrumentation This course introduces the students
basic programming in PLC, and PID and process control bus and to differentiate between different
in the industry network standards, SCADA and DCS, material classes based on their
and essentials of human-machine structural and mechanical properties.
interface (HMI) panels connection, The course will also introduce
programming, and modification of students to the production of
programs and features.
metallurgical products, focusing
on process design models
used to describe solidification,
recrystallization, and precipitation.
The metallurgy basics including:

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