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controllers and simulation programs students with the knowledge and MEC 473 - Non-Conventional Mechatronics Aerospace Industrial
on overall energy management. skills necessary to tackle complex Machining
challenges and excel in the realm of MEC 481 - Introduction to MEC 490 - Compressible Fluid Mechatronics
MEC 464 - Power Plants advanced composite materials. This Credit Hours: 3 Robotics Mechanics Concentration
Credit Hours: 3 course primarily relies on face-to-face Prerequisite: MEC 301 Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: MEC 321 + MEC 420 lectures as the main mode of content Principle and working and Prerequisite: CSC 201 Prerequisite: MEC 350 MEC 450 - Hydraulic &
delivery. Several assignments and applications of non-conventional Pneumatic systems
Forms of energy, oil, gas and coal. exams will be conducted. Additionally, machining in modern manufacturing Mathematical modeling of robots Integral form of conservation laws.
Combustion processes, energy students will collaborate on a project systems such as Electro-Discharge with an emphasis on planning One dimensional compressible flow Credit Hours: 3
cycles. Steam generators and their to apply theoretical concepts. machining, Electro chemical algorithms. Fundamentals of robot with friction and heat. Normal and Prerequisite: MEC 350
component design. Turbines. Load machining, ultrasonic machining, sensors and sensor processing oblique shock waves. Prandtl-Meyer
curves. Field trips to power plants MEC 471 - Introduction to Abrasive jet machining. This course algorithms. Robot control expansion. Differential form of The purpose of this course is to
and other energy installations. Computer Aided Manufacturing primarily relies on face-to-face architectures and programming. conservation laws. Unsteady wave familiarize students with fundamental
Credit Hours: 3 lectures as the main mode of content Selected topics in mobile robotics. motion. 2-D subsonic, supersonic, concepts and working of hydraulics
Materials and Manufacturing Prerequisite: MEC 301 delivery. Several assignments and MEC 483 - Mechatronic System and hypersonic flow. and pneumatics. The students
will explore the working principle
MEC 431 - Computer Aided This course aims to provide exams will be conducted. Additionally, Design MEC 491 - Aerodynamics of various systems operated
students will collaborate on a
Machine Design students with the fundamentals of project to simulate non-conventional Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 by hydraulics and pneumatics
Credit Hours: 3 computer-aided manufacturing. machining using ANSYS. Prerequisite: MEC 482 Prerequisite: MEC 350 through studying different system
Prerequisite: MEC 430 Topics include: Computer numerical components as directional, pressure
control, application of geometrical MEC 474 - Fracture & Fatigue This course is an introduction to Introduction to the basic principles and process control valves, cylinders,
This course aims at covering the modeling, part programming, and Control in Design Mechatronics, or the interfacing and properties of fluid flow around rotary actuators, time and event-
theory and application of design introduction to computer integrated of mechanical and electrical immersed bodies. Topics include based sequencing, and simulation
methods for complicated machine manufacturing. Students gain Credit Hours: 3 systems. Focus is on embedded the kinematics and dynamics of of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
components. Computers will be used hands-on skills in using a computer Prerequisite: MEC 430 controllers and their programming, fluid fields, the thin airfoil, finite The course will provide students with
to help design integrated systems. aided manufacturing package Co Requisite: MEC 465 power and interfacing electronics, wing theory, and one-dimensional comprehensive understanding of the
The course also focuses on gaining and computer numerical control actuators, sensors, and integration compressible flow. industrial applications of hydraulics
skills in self research, critical thinking machine tools. The course also This is a foundation course in of these components to create a and pneumatics
and working within design groups. provides students with the awareness the area of fracture and fatigue complete functional mechatronic MEC 492 - Aerospace Propulsion
Topics covered include design of of entrepreneurial activities in considerations in mechanical system. Credit Hours: 3 MEC 451 - PLC and Industrial
journal and rolling-element bearings, manufacturing. design. The course provides unified Prerequisite: MEC 350 Automation
gears and gear boxes, clutches, treatment for the failure analysis of MEC486 - Smart Material Credit Hours: 3
couplings, and brakes. Ethical issues MEC 472 - Mechanics of mechanical components subjected Systems and MEMS Basic one-dimensional flows: Prerequisite: MEC 450
and Entrepreneurial opportunities Materials II to monotonic and cyclic loading. Credit Hours: 3 isentropic, area change, heat
and case studies will be explored Credit Hours: 3 Design based on fracture mechanics Prerequisite: MEC 482 addition. Overall performance The purpose of this course is to
throughout the course. Prerequisite: MEC 302 is introduced and various fracture characteristics of propellers, ramjets, familiarize students with Industrial
turbojets, turbofans, rockets.
MEC 470 - Manufacturing of Advanced topics in solid mechanics mechanics measures are discussed. The objective of this course is Performance analysis of inlets, Automation and Programmable Logic
Controllers (PLC) systems for Process
Fatigue crack initiation (FCI) and
to make students to gain basic
composites Materials including energy methods, the fatigue crack propagation (FCP) are knowledge on overview of smart exhaust nozzles, compressors, control. The course will provide
Credit Hours: 3 principle of virtual work, pressure discussed. The course highlights systems, MEMS (Micro electro burners, and turbines. Rocket comprehensive and accessible
Prerequisite: MEC 300 + MEC 302 vessels, buckling, aspects of elasticity, practical and analytical aspects Mechanical System) and various flight performance, single-/multi- coverage of the basic automation
curved beams, fracture mechanics, of fatigue failure in mechanical fabrication techniques. This stage chemical rockets, liquid/solid elements, hardware components
This course aims to provide and their software assisted components and the concept enables them to design, analysis, propellants. for automation and process control,
students with the knowledge of application to the reliable design of of remaining life of mechanical fabrication and testing the MEMS the latch principle, industrial
composite materials. The curriculum structures. The three fundamental components. The course is based components. It also includes MEC 493 - Aerospace Structures automation synthesis, logical design
encompasses a range of essential aspects of these problems include aimed at giving student the basic analysis of micromachined capacitive, Credit Hours: 3 for automation, electropneumatic
topics including fiber reinforcements, equilibrium, geometric compatibility, techniques for designing mechanical piezoresistive and thermal smart Prerequisite: MEC 350 + MEC 302 automation, industrial networks,
thermoset and thermoplastic and material constitutive laws. components based on fracture sensors/actuators and applications. basic programming in PLC, and PID
matrices, mechanics of composite and fatigue considerations and for Computer- aided design for MEMS Advanced strength of materials in the industry
materials, performance evaluation, developing expertise in the area of layout, fabrication and analysis. analysis of elastic structures with
manufacturing processes, and failure enhancing fatigue life of engineering aerospace applications. Failure
modes. By exploring these concepts, components. The use of commercial modes and criteria, buckling, matrix
students will develop a deep program in a project type of work methods for analysis, plane truss
understanding of the mechanics and will be employed and ethical and design. Energy and Castigliano
properties of composite materials, autonomous learning techniques will methods for statically determinate
enabling them to analyze, design, be considered throughout the course and indeterminate structures.
and engineer composite structures
effectively. This course equips where relevant.

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