DESIGN PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING

EMA 569

Students will select specific engineering design projects. These projects will be student team efforts supervised by individual faculty members.

EMA 103

Engineering achievements of the Renaissance period and their relation to modern engineering practice, key principles developed, and errors in understanding of that time. Innovative work of notable figures such as Galileo Galilei and Leonardo da Vinci and their contributions to fundamental mechanics principles of engineering, traced through modern engineering practice and current engineering applications. Introduction to concepts of stress, strain, tension, compression, deflection of beams, flaws, and fracture. Not for engineering majors.

ME 349

Applied engineering design projects. Emphasis on design of practical mechanical engineering systems, devices and/or components. Two 2-hr labs and one lecture per week. Lecture focuses on the design process, creativity, patents, and other applications to practical problems.

ME 548

Introduces basic concepts and techniques used in the optimization of engineering design components and systems. Pose and solve typical optimization problems such as truss and finite-element-based optimization.

ME 748

Formulation and solution of mechanical design problems by use of mathematical programming methods.