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Course Descriptions

Winter 2010

Aeronautics and Astronautics

AA 504 Fluid Mechanics Review of thermodynamics; vectors and dyads. Derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations, stream functions and potential functions; integrals of the equations of motion. Boundary conditions and discontinuity surfaces in fluids. Exact solutions. Dimensional analysis. Vorticity dynamics. Highly viscous flows. Rotational flows.

Prerequisite: TBA
Instructor: Hermanson
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 2:30-3:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 525 Special Topics in Advanced Airbreathing Engines Reviews the fundamental concepts of advanced airbreathing engines including advanced gas turbines, ramjets, scramjets and variants, detonations engines, flow with chemical energy release, shock dynamics, Chapman-Jouguet, ZND model, and multi-cellular and spinning detonation. Offered: even years; W.

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Kurosaka
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 10:30-11:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 532 Mechanics of Composite Materials Analyses and design of composite materials for aerospace structures. Micromechanics. Anisotropic elasticity. Laminated plate theory. Thermo-viscoelastic behavior and fracture of composites.

Prerequisite: AA 530 or permission of instructor
Instructor: Lin
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 11:30-12:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 533 Mechanics of Solids III TBD

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Feraboli
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 12:30-1:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 540 Finite Element Analysis I Formulation of the finite element method using variational and weighted residual methods. Element types and interpolation functions. Application to elasticity problems, thermal conduction, and other problems of engineering and physics.

Instructor: Holsapple
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 1:30-2:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 543 Computational Fluid Dynamics I Numerical approximation of the inviscid compressible equations of fluid dynamics. Analysis of numerical accuracy, stability, and efficiency. Use of explicit, implicit, and flux split methods. Discussion of splitting, approximate factorization, discrete point, and finite volume approaches. Applications to the solution of simple hyperbolic systems of equations and the Euler equations.

Instructor: Ferrante
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 9:30-10:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 548 Linear Multivariable Control Single loop feedback control theory; poles, zeros, Nyquist stability, performance, robustness of multivariable systems; multivariable control synthesis: Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian methods, loop transfer recovery, Youla parameterization, H-infinity techniques, parameter optimization design. Offered jointly with EE 548/ME 548.

Prerequisite: EE 584 or ME 575; EE 446 or AA 448 or ME 471 or equivalent
Instructor: Mesbahi
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 1:30-2:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 570 Maniforlds and Geometry for Systems and Control Introduction to fundamentals of calculus on manifolds and group theory with applications in robotics and control theory. Topics include: manifolds, tangent spaces and bundles, Lie groups and algebras, coordinate versus coordinate-free representations. Applications from physics, robotics, and control theory.

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Hill Morgansen
Credits: 3
Schedule: TTh 11:30-12:50
Media: Web, CD

AA 578 Optimization in System Science Covers convex sets, separation theorems, theorem of alternatives and their applications, convex analysis, convex functions, conjugation, subgradients, convex optimization, duality and applications, linear and semi-definite programming. Linear matrix inequalities, optimization algorithms, applications in system theory and control, bilinear, rank minimization, optimization software. Offered jointly with ME 578.

Prerequisite recommended: AA/ME/EE 547.
Instructor: Fazel
Credits: 3
Schedule: TTh 1:30-3:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 581 Digital Control I Discrete-time and sampled-data systems, difference equations, and z-transform. Frequency response. Nyquist stability criterion. Gain and phase margins. Limitations of sampling. Sample rate selection. Controller design via discrete-time equivalents to continuous-time controllers, by direct-digital root locus and by loop shaping.

Prerequisite: ME 471 or equivalent; recommended: ME 575 or equivalent
Instructor: Chizeck
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 12:30-1:20
Media: Web, CD

AA 595 Global Integrated Systems Engineering
Includes systems engineering, project management, finance, economics, and seminars. Concludes with a team-based design project involving a large scale system. The project enables students to apply their modeling skills to a real-world problem and present their results to a panel comprised of practitioners, academics, and clients. Offered jointly with IND E 595. ADD CODE REQUIRED. Contact: Wanda Frederick for Add Code.

Pre-requisites:
Instructor: Mastrangelo
Credits: 5
Schedule: Th 3:30-8:20
Media: Web, CD

Applied Mathematics

AMATH 502 Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos Overview of methods to describe the qualitative behavior of solutions of nonlinear differential equations. Phase space analysis of fixed points and periodic orbits. Bifurcation methods. Description of strange attractors and chaos. Introductions to maps. Applications from engineering, physics, chemistry and biology.

Prerequisite: either AMATH 351 or MATH 307
Instructor: Qian
Credits: 5
Schedule: MTWF 1:30-2:20
Media: Web, CD

AMATH 582 Computational Methods for Data Analysis Necessary and sufficient conditions for a weak and strong extremum. Legendre transformation, Hamiltonian systems. Constraints and Lagrange multipliers. Space-time problems with examples from elasticity, electromagnetics, and fluid mechanics. Sturm-Liouville problems. Approximate methods.

Prerequisite: AMATH 351 or MATH 307; MATH 324, 327; recommended: AMATH 402 and AMATH 403 or MATH 428 and 429.
Instructor: Kutz
Credits: 5
Schedule: MWF 10:30-11:20
Media: Web, CD

AMATH 585 Numerical Analysis of Boundary Value Problems Numerical methods for steady-state differential equations. Two-point boundary value problems and elliptic equations. Iterative methods for sparse symmetric and non-symmetric linear systems: conjugate-gradients, preconditioners.

Prerequisite: AMATH 581 or MATH 584 which may be taken concurrently.
Instructor: Greenbaum
Credits: 5
Schedule: MWF 2:30-3:20
Media: Web, CD

Industrial Engineering - Manufacturing

IND E 592 Seminar Invited speakers will discuss current topics of interest in Industrial and Systems Engineering.  Several seminars will focus on current research in health care systems engineering. 

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Zelda Zabinsky
Credits: 1
Schedule: T 1:30-2:20
Media: Web, CD

IND E 595 Global Integrated Systems Engineering Includes systems engineering, project management, finance, economics, and seminars. Concludes with a team-based design project involving a large scale system. The project enables students to apply their modeling skills to a real-world problem and present their results to a panel comprised of practitioners, academics, and clients. Offered jointly with IND E 595. ADD CODE REQUIRED. Contact: Shelia Prusa for Add Code.

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Christina Mastrangelo
Credits: 5
Schedule: Th 3:30-8:00
Media: Web, CD

IND E 599 Technical Leadership Technical Leadership: Effectively leading engineers takes different skills and competencies than leading people in most any other field because engineers are creative, analytical, intelligent and independent. Subject matter includes how to motivate, how to reach consensus, how to work virtually, how to recruit, how to work with different cultures, and more.

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Tamaira Ross
Credits: 3
Schedule: T 5:00-8:00
Media: Web, CD

Mechanical Engineering

ME 450 Introduction to Composite Materials and Design Stress and strain analysis of continuous fiber composite materials. Orthotropic elasticity, lamination theory, failure criterion, and design philosophies, as applied to structural polymeric composites.

Prerequisite recommended: MSE 475
Instructor: LaBossiere
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 8:30-9:20
Media: Web, CD

ME 521 Thermodynamics Fundamental concepts of temperature, thermodynamic properties, and systems. The first, second, and combined laws. Development of the relations of classical thermodynamics. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics.

Prerequisite: ME 323 and graduate standing in mechanical engineering or permission of instr
Instructor: Kramlich
Credits: 3
Schedule: TTh 8:30-9:50
Media: Web, CD

ME 548 Linear Multivariable Control Single loop feedback control theory; poles, zeros, Nyquist stability, performance, robustness of multivariable systems; multivariable control synthesis: Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian methods, loop transfer recovery, Youla parameterization, H-infinity techniques, parameter optimization design. Offered jointly with AA 548/EE 548.

Prerequisite: EE 584 or ME 575; EE 446 or AA 448 or ME 471 or equivalent
Instructor: Mesbahi
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 1:30-2:20
Media: Web, CD

ME 551 Elasticity I: Elastostatics Elastostatics, including general formulations of 2D and 3D elastostatic problems (stress function method, complex variable method, displacement potential method). Eth Eshelby's method is emphasized and used to solve 2D and 3D problems with special application to composite materials.

Prerequisite:
Instructor: Taya
Credits: 3
Schedule: MW 3:30-4:50
Media: Web, CD

ME 559 Introduction to Fracture Mechanics Applications of linear fracture mechanics to failure analysis and fracture control based on actual case studies. Fracture toughness and fatigue testing techniques, crack initiation and propagation fatigue life prediction of mechanical components subjected to environmental effects.

Prerequisite: graduate standing in mechanical engineering or permission of instructor
Instructor: Ramulu
Credits: 3
Schedule: MW 1:30-2:50
Media: Web, CD

ME 565 Mechanical Engineering Analysis Applications of vectors, matrices, and partial differential equations to mechanical engineering systems, including computational techniques and analogies. Prerequisite: graduate standing in mechanical engineering or permission of instructor.

Prerequisite: graduate standing in mechanical engineering or permission of instructor
Instructor: Storti
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 9:30-10:20
Media: Web, CD

ME 578 Optimization in System Science Covers convex sets, separation theorems, theorem of alternatives and their applications, convex analysis, convex functions, conjugation, subgradients, convex optimization, duality and applications, linear and semi-definite programming. Linear matrix inequalities, optimization algorithms, applications in system theory and control, bilinear, rank minimization, optimization software. Offered jointly with AA 578.

Prerequisite recommended: AA/ME/EE 547.
Instructor: Fazel
Credits: 3
Schedule: TTh 1:30-3:20
Media: Web, CD

ME 581 Digital Control I Discrete-time and sampled-data systems, difference equations, and z-transform. Frequency response. Nyquist stability criterion. Gain and phase margins. Limitations of sampling. Sample rate selection. Controller design via discrete-time equivalents to continuous-time controllers, by direct-digital root locus and by loop shaping.

Prerequisite: ME 471 or equivalent; recommended: ME 575 or equivalent
Instructor: Chizeck
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 12:30-1:20
Media: Web, CD

ME 589 Vibrations Study of systems with nonlinear damping and restoring forces excited by deterministic or random inputs. Applications in measurement, testing, and design of mechanical systems. Nonlinear systems are emphasized.

Prerequisite: ME 588 or permission of instructor
Instructor: Reinhall
Credits: 3
Schedule: MWF 1:30-2:20
Media: Web, CD