Engineering Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering

Examines properties and tests of materials for constructing or repairing facilities like buildings and transportation systems, including lab/field measurement techniques and technical report preparation.

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Graduate course on stochastic methods for turbulent heat/momentum transfer, covering fully developed turbulence, numerical modeling, and stability/transition with engineering applications.

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Cooperative Education Program provides full-time workplace experience where students apply engineering theory and practical knowledge in a professional setting.

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Statics covering principles of mechanics, force systems, equilibrium, structures, distributed forces, moments of inertia of areas, and friction.

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Dynamics course covering kinematics, force-mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum, and moments of inertia.

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Mechanics of Materials covers stress, strain, torsion, beam bending, compound stresses, deflections, indeterminate members, and columns for civil engineers.

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AEROSPACE DESIGN II involves completing team-based aerospace engineering design projects under faculty supervision. It was previously numbered EMA 569 before Fall 2026.

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Practicum in Finite Elements covers elementary FE theory and uses a commercial computer program to solve practical mechanics problems, emphasizing modeling and result evaluation.

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Advanced aerodynamics covering potential flow, wing theory, panel methods, and propeller theory.

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Aerodynamics Laboratory covering experimental methods for aerodynamic measurements, including wind tunnel tests, flow visualization, and digital data acquisition.

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Covers flight dynamics and control, including aircraft longitudinal and lateral static stability, equations of motion, and stability derivatives.

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Advanced Dynamics covers kinematics and kinetics of plane and three-dimensional motion, Coriolis acceleration, linear and angular momentum, central force motion, gyrodynamics, and generalized coordinates. Was EMA 542 prior to Fall 2026.

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Covers coordinate transformations, central force motion, n-body problems, orbital perturbations, artificial satellites, transfer orbits, rocket dynamics, and interplanetary mission planning.

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Honors in Research I involves independent work in aerospace, engineering mechanics, or mechanical engineering under supervision.

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Honors in Research II involves independent work and preparation of a thesis in aerospace engineering or engineering mechanics.

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Intro to fracture mechanics for linear/nonlinear materials, covering stress intensity factors, J-integral, energy release rate, and crack growth criteria for design.

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Independent study involving directed projects arranged with the instructor.

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Theory of Elasticity covers equations in curvilinear/rectangular coordinates, 2D problems, prismatic bars, variational methods, complex variables, and thermal stress.

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Graduate Cooperative Education Program offering work experience combining classroom theory with practical operations knowledge to develop a professional career.

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Directed study projects arranged with the instructor for master's research and thesis work.

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Pre-dissertation research involving directed study projects arranged with the instructor.

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Directed study projects as arranged with instructor.

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This course uses computational tools to solve engineering physics problems through modeling, algorithm selection, and validation.

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Engineering Analysis II covers complex variables, series solutions of ODEs, and PDEs, building on a year of mathematics beyond calculus.

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A laboratory course covering data processing, tension/compression tests, creep, fatigue, fracture, composites, combined stress, beam flexure, dynamic loads, and buckling.

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Gasdynamics course covering thermodynamics and fluid dynamics of steady and unsteady compressible gas flows in one and two dimensions, including the method of characteristics, wave phenomena, and shock interactions.

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Harmonic motion; natural frequencies and vibration of damped and undamped single and multi-degree of freedom systems; general theory of free, forced, and transient vibrations modal analysis; lumped-mass modeling; balancing; vibration absorbers and tuned mass dampers; method of matrix equation formulation and solution; finite element modeling.

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Covers feedback control theory, numerical optimal control, and quadcopter dynamics with hands-on labs on a nano quadcopter platform.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources