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MAT 790 - Independent Study
Credits 1 – 3
Library work and reports on topics of mathematical interest.
Notes
May be repeated for credit with the consent of the mathematics department. Except under special circumstances, total credits will be limited to six.
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MAT 791 - Thesis
Credits 1 – 6
Research, analysis, and writing towards completion of thesis and subsequent defense.
Notes
May be repeated but only six credits will be applied to the student’s program.
Grading
S/F grading only.
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MAT 792 - Research Seminar
Credits 1
Oral presentation of assigned articles.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of four credits.
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MAT 793 - Teaching Concentration Professional Paper Research
Credits 1 – 3
Individual research towards an applied professional paper under the direction of a faculty member.
Notes
May be repeated any number of times, but no more than three credits will count towards degree requirements.
Grading
S/F grading only.
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
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MAT 799 - Dissertation
Credits 3-6
Research analysis and writing toward completion of dissertation and subsequent defense. A minimum of 18 dissertation credits is required for a degree program. Dissertation may be repeated but only a maximum of 36 credits may be used in students degree program.
Grading
S/F grading only
Prerequisites
Successful completion of qualifying examination and approval by department.
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MBA 741 - Internship
Credits 3
Supervised practical experience with a participating local enterprise or government agency, culminating in a written report.
Prerequisites
Completion of 12 MBA credits and approval of the Director of the MBA Programs. Minimum GPA 3.0
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MBA 751 - Independent Study
Credits 1 - 3
Independent study of a topic relevant to the practice of business under supervision of a faculty advisor.
Prerequisites
Completion of 12 MBA credits and approval of the Director of the MBA Programs. Minimum GPA 3.0.
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MBA 761 - Accounting for Managers
Credits 3
Fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. Topics include accounting’s conceptual framework, preparation and analysis of financial statements, current topics in financial reporting, ethical and legal responsibilities in financial reporting, cost-volume-profit analysis, tactical decision making, budgeting and accounting for management control.
Formerly
MBA 709.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 763 - Leadership, Teams, and Individuals
Credits 3
Overview of research and theory on organizational behavior with emphasis on the skills required for managerial effectiveness in modern complex organizations including motivating and leading employees, developing effective teams, and managerial communication responsibilities.
Formerly
MBA 707
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 765 - Financial Decision Making
Credits 3
Focuses on corporate financial management, including cash flow planning, capital budgeting, security valuation, and financing decisions. Includes the concepts of market efficiency and optimal capital structure. Provides useful set of tools to improve the efficiency of business and personal financial decisions.
Formerly
MBA 711.
Prerequisites
admission to M.B.A. program, or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 767 - Market Opportunity Analysis
Credits 3
Theory and practice of marketing fundaments applied to the market opportunity analysis. Focus on the marketing concept, planning, internal analysis, industry analysis, customer analysis, segmentation, competitive strategies and strategy formulation, product and pricing decision, positioning, forecasting, and profitability of opportunities.
Prerequisites
12 hours completed in the core MBA curriculum (MBA 761, MBA 763, MBA 765, MBA 767, MBA 775).
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MBA 769 - Applied Economic Analysis
Credits 3
Intensive application of the principles of microeconomic theory to business management problems. Presumes no previous knowledge of economics but moves rapidly to a thorough understanding of the tools of price theory. Topics include scarcity, choice, supply, demand, production, cost, competition, monopoly, present value and decision-making under risk.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 771 - Law and Ethics
Credits 3
Deals with legal, regulatory and ethical environments of business. Provides foundation for recognizing and analyzing legal and ethical issues facing managers. Case studies applying both legal and ethical analysis featured.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 773 - Managing Information
Credits 3
Overview of contemporary information systems and technology issues. Technical, behavioral, organizational and competitive perspectives reviewed. Issues related to impact of information systems on organizational processes and work practices. Information systems strategies, technology implementation and systems analysis and design.
Formerly
MBA 730.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 775 - Data Modeling and Analysis
Credits 3
Intensive seminar/workshop applying statistical analysis to topics and problems encountered by business managers. Presumes no previous exposure to statistics but moves rapidly to the mastery of statistical analysis tools available on spreadsheet software. Topics include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple regression and multiple regression.
Formerly
MBA 702.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 779 - Managing Global Supply Chains
Credits 3
The study of strategic relationships necessary for supply chain management including the integration of the key value-adding activities across a global network of firms that produce raw materials, transform them into intermediate and then end products, and finally distribute these to end users . Topics include purchasing and supplier relationships, inventory and quality management, distribution, customer relationship management, service response logistics, and future trends in supply chain management from a global perspective.
Formerly
MBA 720.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 785 - Global Business
Credits 3
Problems and Opportunities of business in a global context. Examines economic, social, political, monetary, and cultural issues faced by companies involved in international business and analyzes their effect on business decisions. Development of a framework for the preparation and implementation of business plans in a global context.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
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MBA 787 - Strategic Management
Credits 3
Integrates knowledge from specialized functional courses into a CEO perspective. Moves beyond a repertoire of generic strategies toward the formation of unique, firm specific strategies. Builds effective strategies in complex organizational contexts.
Prerequisites
To be taken during the student’s final year.
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ME 600 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
Credits 3
Basic laws and equations of fluid flow; very viscous flow solutions; boundary layer flows; potential flows; wave phenomena; transport phenomena; turbulence.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 400. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 602 - Computational Methods for Engineers
Credits 3
Applied numerical analysis for linear and nonlinear engineering problems. Systems of linear equations, nonlinear equations, and eigen value problems. Approximate numerical integration and differentiation. Development of numerical methods for initial and boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations. Introduction to the numerical solution of partial differential equations.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 402. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 609 - Turbomachinery
Credits 3
Types of turbomachines, applications of turbomachines, and performance characteristics. Energy transfer in turbomachines. Fundamentals of turbomachinery. Applications of the principles of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and aerodynamics to the design and analysis of pumps, fans, blowers, compressors, gas turbines, steam turbines, hydraulic turbines, and wind turbines are incorporated.
Prerequisites
ME 311 and ME 380, or equivalent.
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ME 611 - Engineering Thermodynamics II
Credits 3
This advanced undergraduate course is available for graduate credit.
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ME 612 - Sizing Solar Energy Systems
Credits 3
Sizing and design criteria of solar thermal and photovoltaic systems using various types of software.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing.
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ME 615 - Design of Thermal Systems
Credits 3
Design of thermal systems and subsystems, especially as they relate to current and new means of energy utilization and power generation; computer simulation and optimization of thermal systems based on performance and economic constraints.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 415. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 616 - Introduction to Biomechanical Engineering
Credits 3
Fundamental engineering principles in several engineering areas to problems in the biological world. Discussion includes biomechanics of solids, biofluid and transport phenomena, biomaterials, cell and tissue engineering, medical imaging and electrophoresis.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 416. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 617 - Introduction to Fuel Cell
Credits 3
Fuel Cell Principles, Fuel Cell Thermodynamics, Fuel Cell Reaction Kinetics, Fuel Cell Charge Transport, Fuel Cell Mass Transport, Fuel Cell Modeling, Fuel Cell Characterization, Fuel Cell Technology, Fuel Cell Types and Systems.
Prerequisites
ME 311, ME 314, ME 380.
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ME 618 - Air Conditioning Engineering Systems
Credits 3
Analysis and design of air conditioning systems, load calculations, system selection, duct sizing, and controls. Relationships between internal and external environments. Development of economic, functional and energy conserving concepts in air conditioning design.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 418. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 619 - Advanced HVAC and Energy Conservation Systems
Credits 3
Room air distribution. Fan and building air distribution. Mass transfer and humidity measurement. Direct contact heat and mass transfer extended surface heat exchangers. Refrigeration. Current energy conservation technologies, computer simulations of dynamic building energy demand.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 419. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 625 - Robotics
Credits 3
Instruction to basic concept and theory behind motions generated by robot manipulators; kinematics, dynamics, and trajectory generation. Design of basic feedback position controllers and computer simulation techniques of robot dynamics and control system.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 425. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 626 - Manufacturing Processes
Credits 3
Survey of the principal processes used to cast, form, machine, and join material. Tolerances, statistical quality control, costs, operation sequencing, and design for productivity covered. Research paper on related topic required.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 426. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 627 - Manufacturing Systems
Credits 3
Study of the ways of organizing people and equipment so that production can be performed more efficiently. Includes production lines design, CIM, GT, FMS, production planning, inventory control and MRP, lean production, JIT, and agile manufacturing.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 427. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 629 - Computer Control of Machines and Processes
Credits 3
Discrete control theory reduced to engineering practice through comprehensive study of discrete system modeling, system identification and digital controller design. Selected industrial processes and machines utilized as subjects on which computer control is to be implemented. Focuses on the time-domain analysis of the control theory and programming.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 429. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 630 - Corrosion Engineering
Credits 3
Examination of the fundamental processes of metallic corrosion from the thermodynamic and kinetic points of view. Specific types of corrosion and prevention strategies discussed. Materials selection, design features, and fabrication techniques of corrosion control covered.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 430. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 634 - Noise Control
Credits 3
Development and solution of one-dimensional wave equation for propagation of sound in air; one-dimensional plane and spherical sound waves; sound transmission phenomena; sound in enclosed spaces; sound propagation outdoors; and human responses to noise.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 434. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 640 - Mechanical Engineering Design
Credits 3
Stress analysis; deflection of machine elements; design of machine elements for static and fatigue strength.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 440. Coursework at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 641 - Advanced Mechanical Engineering Design
Credits 3
Use of advanced concepts in machine design.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 441. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 642 - Advanced Mechanism Design
Credits 3
Cam design, synthesis of mechanisms, spatial mechanisms.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 442. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 643 - Design Techniques in Mechanical Engineering
Credits 3
Computational techniques for use in mechanical engineering design. Emphasis on the use of existing commercial codes for the analysis and design of machine elements and for the study of heat transfer and fluid flow.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 443. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 646 - Composite Materials
Credits 3
Overview of matrix and fiber systems, processing techniques, anisotropic elasticity, unidirectional lamina, multidirectional laminate theory, failure theories, and design of composite structures.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 446. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 648 - Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
Credits 3
Fundamental information on various renewable energy applications, technologies and nanomaterials with an emphasis on understanding the relationships between material properties, structures and performance as well as current material and technology challenges.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 448. Coursework at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 650 - Physical Metallurgy
Credits 3
This advanced undergraduate course is available for graduate credit.
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ME 653 - Mechanical Vibrations
Credits 3
Free and forced response of single-and-multi-degree-of-freedom, lumped parameter systems. Fourier series and Fourier and Laplace transforms. Introduction to vibration of continuous systems and applications.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 453. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 655 - Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering
Credits 3
Fundamentals of nuclear reactor design and analysis of the fission process. Basic health physics, reactor shielding, and nuclear waste management. Calculation of reactor dimensions for criticality. Reactor kinetics and control.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 455. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 656 - Radioactive Waste Management
Credits 3
This advanced undergraduate course is available for graduate credit.
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ME 660 - High School Mentoring for Engineering Design
Credits 3
Students help high school teams design robots for the FIRST robotics competition. Weekly meetings discuss: mentoring, design, robotics, organizational skills, and teamwork. Must arrange transport to assigned local high school. Class begins with the international FIRST kick-off meeting usually scheduled for the first Saturday after New Year’s Day.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 460. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
Prerequisites
Instructor Consent
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ME 662 - Vehicle Design Projects
Credits 3
Students design and build a vehicle for entry into a national or regional collegiate competition such as Mini-Baja or Human Powered Vehicle. Design topics my include structural analysis, composite materials, aerodynamics, engine performance, occupant safety, drive train, suspension systems, project management, team building, technical report writing, and oral presentations.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 462. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
Prerequisites
Instructor Consent
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ME 670 - Experimental Mechanics of Materials
Credits 3
Failure theories for isotropic and composite materials, stress concentration, fracture mechanics, combined loading, photoelasticity, composites fabrication, mold making, mechanical testing, and microstructural analysis.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 470. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 677 - Solar and Renewable Energy Utilization
Credits 3
Introduction to renewable energy applications. Includes environmental motivations, historical perspectives, solar photovoltaic and thermal applications, implications in building designs, wind energy, biomass, alternative fuels, geothermal power utilization, utility considerations, and political and economic factors.
Formerly
EGG 650
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ME 680 - Gas Dynamics I
Credits 3
Examines the basic concepts and theories associated with compressible fluid flow. Normal and oblique shocks, 1-D analysis, and method of characteristics discussed.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 480. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 682 - Aerodynamics
Credits 3
Presents fluid flow concepts leading to the design of flow surfaces and passages to achieve optimum performance over the widest range of significant parameters. Topics include boundary layer theory, lift, airfoil analysis, and numerical methods for fluid mechanic analyses.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 482. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 695 - Special Topics in Engineering
Credits 1-4
Outlet for experimental and other topics which may be of current interest. Topics and credits to be announced. May have a laboratory. May be repeated once under different topic.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ME 495. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ME 700 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics I
Credits 3
Covers area of viscous laminar fluid flow. Presents concept of shear stresses and develops Navier-Stokes equation. Applications such as boundary layer flow studied as are some solutions of viscous fluid flow.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 701 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics II
Credits 3
Potential flow theory with emphasis on complex representations, conformal mapping, Shwarz Christoffel transformations, airfoils. Compressible flow, free shear layers, shock waves, compressible boundary layers, two- and three- dimensional supersonic flows.
Prerequisites
ME 700 or consent of instructor.
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ME 702 - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Credits 3
Application of numerical methods to solve highly nonlinear equations of motion and energy associated with fluid dynamics. Among other methods, finite difference and finite element methods discussed along with use of commercial software packages.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 703 - Continuum Mechanics
Credits 3
Matrices and tensors, stress deformation and flow, compatibility conditions, constitutive equations, field equations and boundary conditions in fluids and solids, applications in solid and fluid mechanics.
Formerly
(CEG 711)
Prerequisites
Granduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 704 - Finite Element Applications in Mechanical Engineering
Credits 3
Finite Element Method used historically for structurally related problems. Advances in application and development of Finite Element Method particularly useful in fluid flow and heat transfer related problems. PC, workstation, and mainframe finite element computer codes used to assist students in solving fluid and heat transfer problems.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 705 - Conduction Heat Transfer
Credits 3
Designed to solve more advanced heat transfer problems by conduction. Analytical and numerical techniques in heat conduction covered. Review of elementary problems presented. Advanced analytical methods using Bessel functions, separation of variables and Laplace transforms, among others. Solutions using finite differences covered.
Prerequisites
ME 314 and ME 445 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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ME 706 - Convective Heat Transfer
Credits 3
Conservation principles, fluid stresses and flux laws, boundary layer equation, laminar and turbulent heat flow inside tubes. Heat transfer in laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Influence of temperature dependent fluid properties and free-convection boundary layers.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 707 - Radiation Heat Transfer
Credits 3
Advanced engineering analysis of thermal radiation heat transfer. Spectral and gray-body analysis. Exchange of radiation between surfaces and through absorbing, emitting, and scattering media. Radiation combined with conduction and convection.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 708 - Convective Boiling and Condensation
Credits 3
Basic models, empirical treatments of two-phase flow. Introduction to convective boiling, subcooled boiling, void fraction and pressure drop in subcooled boiling, saturated boiling heat transfer, critical heat flux, condensation.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 710 - Transport Phenomena in Bioengineering
Credits 3
Transport phenomena in bioengineering at molecular, cellular and tissue levels. Topics include blood flow in large and small vessels, gas exchange in lung, biomass and heat transfer in microcirculation, ion transport across cell membrane, cell migration, renal transport, controlled drug delivery and transport in tumors.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 711 - Advanced Thermodynamics
Credits 3
Advanced concepts and laws of classical equilibrium thermodynamics as applied to engineering problems. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 714 - Computational Aspects of Solar Energy
Credits 3
Theory and practice in the design of solar energy components and systems. Included are collectors, concentrators, receivers, storage, and power systems. Emphasis is on the simulation of transient systems.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 717 - Transport Phenomena
Credits 3
Momentum, energy, and mass transport at molecular motion, microscopic levels. Momentum flux tensors, heat flux vectors, and mass flux vectors. Transport in laminar or turbulent flow. Transport in isothermal or nonisothermal systems. Transport in single or multicomponent systems. Interface transport and chemical reaction.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 720 - Acoustics I
Credits 3
Introduction to wave motion and general solution techniques associated with wave equation; propagation of waves in solid media; one-dimensional acoustic waves, acoustic transmission phenomena, and propagation of sound outdoors.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 721 - Acoustics II
Credits 3
Three-dimensional sound waves; experimental measurement techniques associated with acoustics; acoustic filter theory; other advanced topics in acoustics.
Prerequisites
ME 720
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ME 725 - Vibrations I
Credits 3
Vibrations of systems with one-degree-of-freedom and more than one-degree-of-freedom. Methods for finding natural frequencies, discrete systems and continuous systems.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 726 - Vibrations II
Credits 3
Virtual work, Hamilton’s principles, Lagrange’s equation, influence coefficients, Green’s function as applied to advanced vibration problems; vibration of continuous systems; modal analysis.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing and ME 725.
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ME 727 - Engineering Optimization
Credits 3
Introduction to optimization, univariate functions, multivariate functions, constrained optimality criteria, penalty method, constrained direct search, engineering case studies, linear programming.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 729 - Advanced Robotics
Credits 3
In-depth study of advanced automation concepts and robotic manipulators. Topics including 3-D kinematics, trajectory generation, compliance analysis, dynamic control of robotics along with concept of assembly operations and machine vision.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 732 - Mechanical Metallurgy
Credits 3
Behavior and response of metals to applied forces. Five areas covered: mechanical fundamentals, metallurgical fundamentals, materials testing, plastic forming of metals, and modes of failure.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 734 - Fracture of Engineering Materials
Credits 3
Stress-strain relationships during elastic and plastic deformation, linear elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, Griffith’s theory, stress analyses of cracks, plastic zone size, fracture toughness measurements, ductile-to-brittle transition, fatigue failure mechanisms, environmentassisted cracking and relevant test methods, metallographic evaluations using state-of-the-art techniques.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 736 - Diffusion in Metals
Credits 3
Covers thermodynamics and phase diagrams, interstitial and substitutional diffusion, diffusion in binary and ternary alloys, solidification, and diffusional and diffusionless transformation in solids.
Prerequisites
ME 301 and 302 or equivalent.
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ME 740 - Advanced Dynamics
Credits 3
Applications of Lagrangian and Newtonian mechanics to mechanical systems. Includes kinematics, moving reference frames, rigid body dynamics, oscillations and mode forms, and gyroscopic effects.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 741 - Energy and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics I
Credits 3
Governing equations of mechanics, energy and variational principles, variational methods of approximation, theory of elasticity, material laws, work and energy, beam theory, finite element method, structural systems.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 742 - Energy and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics II
Credits 3
Theoretical principles for solving solid mechanics problems. Direct continuation of ME 741. Topics covered include: computational solution methods to governing equations, free vibration and forced response of elastic systems, stability analysis, solution methods to governing equations, free vibration and forced response of elastic systems, stability analysis, solution methods for beams, plates, and structural systems.
Prerequisites
ME 741
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ME 743 - Applied Dynamic Finite Element Analysis
Credits 3
Overview of the development of dynamic computational analysis, software description, modeling techniques, symmetry and boundary conditions, initial conditions, contact algorithms, wave propagation, material behavior, implicit analysis, damping, mass scaling, mesh adaptation, element selection, hourglassing, postprocessing, output control, restarts, parallel processing, Eulerian and ALE methods.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor.
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ME 746 - Experimental Design and Analysis of Digital Process Control Systems
Credits 3
Applications, design, and experimental practice of mechanical linear and discrete systems: hydraulic, pneumatic, elastic multibody systems, centripetal and coriolis effects, automatic model and code generation. Discrete nonlinear control systems modeling, simulation, design using state space methods. Aspects of system identification, robust and optimal control.
Same as
(EGG 746)
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 747 - Orthopedic Biomechanics - Lower Extremities and Spine
Credits 3
Biomechanics of the lower extremities and spine; engineering properties and physiology of bone, cartilage, and tendon; analysis of gait; effects of orthopedic impairment and injury; design and surgical implantation of prosthetic joints and fracture fixation devices; engineering of tissue regeneration and replacement.
Same as
(EGG 747)
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in engineering or kinesiology or consent of instructor.
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ME 748 - Prosthetic Systems Engineering
Credits 3
Engineering design of prosthetic feet, ankles, knees, and prehension devices; materials and manufacturing; the biomechanics of movement using a prosthesis; residual limb morphology and surgical enhancements; socket design and tissue response; myoelectric devices; microprocessor control; psychophysical and motor control considerations; aspects of clinical science. Emphasis on R&D needs.
Same as
(EGG 748)
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in engineering or kinesiology or consent of instructor.
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ME 750 - Analysis of Human Movement
Credits 3
Analysis of the kinematics and kinetics of human movement in two and three dimensions with emphasis on methods used in motion capture, including joint and segment position; acceleration, velocity, force and torque; work and power; and inverse solution methods.
Same as
(EGG 750)
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in engineering or kinesiology or consent of instructor.
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ME 752 - Advanced Air Pollution Control
Credits 3
Fundamental chemical and physical principles of generation and control of air pollutants, and applications to pollution control equipment. Pollutant and particle formation during combustion. Gas adsorption and absorption fundamentals and tower/column design. Pollution control strategies.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 754 - Introduction to Nuclear Criticality Safety
Credits 3
Review of criticality accidents, overview of the physics of criticality, factors that affect reactivity, experiments and the development of subcritical limits, standards and regulations, hand calculation techniques, engineering and evaluations for criticality safe processes and facilities.
Prerequisites
ME 455, or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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ME 755 - Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineering
Credits 3
Nuclear engineering for criticality safe processes and facilities: in-depth physics of criticality, hand calculation techniques, Monte Carlo applications, experimental development of subcritical limits; nuclear criticality accidents, anomalies and case studies; nuclear data/benchmarking, standards and regulations, etc. Practical engineering examples/case studies and the preparation of a nuclear criticality safety evaluation.
Prerequisites
or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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ME 756 - Monte Carlo Methods in Nuclear Engineering
Credits 3
Theory and application of the Monte Carlo method for neutron transport calculations from introductory concepts to advanced simulations of criticality in fissile materials. Computer applications in nuclear engineering; verification and validation (V&V), nuclear data files, examples of Monte Carlo calculations, case studies and applied problems.
Prerequisites
ME 455, or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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ME 757 - Radiation Monitoring and Safeguards Systems
Credits 3
Advanced topics in radiation measurement science, remote sensing, nondestructive assay techniques, and nuclear material safeguards. Use of radiation detection systems in process monitoring and safeguards, and in security applications.
Prerequisites
ME 4585/655, or consent of instructor.
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ME 758 - Accelerator Applications in Nuclear Engineering
Credits 3
Fundamental concepts of particle accelerators. Radiation beams and targets. Advanced topics in accelerator applications in engineering, security, isotope production, transmutation, nondestructive assay, material analysis, biology and medicine.
Prerequisites
ME 455/655, or consent of instructor.
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ME 759 - Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems
Credits 3
Fundamentals of mass transfer by diffusion and advection. Solutions to steady-state and transient problems in several dimensions.
Notes
Applications to natural and engineered systems.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 760 - Waste Management And The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Credits 3
Introduction to the nuclear fuel cycle and management of nuclear waste. Introduction to repository design and performance assessment. Overview of waste form performance, contaminant transport, and risk assessment as applied to nuclear waste management.
Prerequisites
HPS 701 or consent of instructor.
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ME 762 - Nuclear Power Engineering
Credits 3
Analysis of the conversion of energy generated by fission, fusion, or radioactive decay into electrical power and propulsion. Theory of reactor heat generation and removal and new reactor concepts. Review of thermodynamic cycles used in pressurized and boiling water reactors, gas-cooled and liquid metal reactors.
Prerequisites
ME 311 , ME 314, ME 455 or ME 655 or equivalent
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ME 763 - Nuclear Reactor Analysis
Credits 3
Development of the neutron diffusion equation with application to the design of steady state nuclear reactors. Derivation of critical core dimensions for single energy and multienergy neutron groups. Determination of group constants for thermal and fast neutrons. Unsteady reactor dynamics and criticality control. Introduction to Monte Carlo techniques.
Prerequisites
ME 455 or ME 655
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ME 765 - Neutron Detection and Production
Credits 3
Content includes passive and active neutron detection using He3 and BF3 ionization/proportional tubes, liquid and plastic scintillators, fission chambers, and activation foils. The course includes laboratory exercises. Pulsed and continuous sources will be covered including fission reactors, accelerator production through fusion, spallation, photonuclear effects, and [alpha, n] reactions.
Prerequisites
ME 455/655 or equivalent.
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ME 774 - Introduction to Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity I
Credits 3
Introduction to theoretical and applied elasticity and plasticity theory-solutions to engineering problems in structural mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Response of isotropic, orthotropic and layered media to applied stresses and strains.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing or Instructor Consent
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ME 777 - Application of High-Performance Computing Methods in Science and Engineering
Credits 3
Application of high performance computing systems to science and engineering, models for numerically intensive problem solving, high performance numerical algorithms, FORTRAN 90 and high-performance FORTRAN.
Same as
(MAT 777)
Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX, FORTRAN, and previous course on numerical methods. Graduate standing.
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ME 791 - Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering
Credits 1 – 3
Independent study of a selected mechanical engineering topic.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in mechanical engineering and consent of instructor.
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ME 795 - Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
Credits 1 – 6
Outlet for experimental and other advanced topics which may be of current interest.
Notes
Topics and credits to be announced. May have a laboratory. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ME 796 - Design Project in Mechanical Engineering
Credits 1 – 3
Synthesis course involving students in the design process from analysis and proposal to solution.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in mechanical engineering and consent of instructor.
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ME 797 - Thesis in Mechanical Engineering
Credits 3 – 6
Research, analysis, and writing towards completion of thesis and subsequent defense.
Notes
May be repeated but only six credits will be applied to the program.
Grading
S/F grading only.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in mechanical engineering.
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ME 799 - Dissertation
Credits 1 – 6
Research analysis and writing towards completion of dissertation and subsequent defense.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits allowed toward the degree.
Grading
S/F grading only.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in Ph.D. program and consent of advisor.
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MED 801 - Emergency Response and Population Health
Credits 12
This immersion experience provides an introduction and orientation to the UNLV School of Medicine’s campus, policies, and the community. Emphasis is placed on the development of patient evaluation skills, knowledge of emergency medical procedures, and awareness of community/public health issues, including qualification for the Nevada National Registry (EMT) Exam.
Prerequisites
School of Medicine student in good standing.
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