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Lecture/lab. Characteristics of machine elements including gears, bearings, and shafts. Design for fatigue life. Electric motor fundamentals. Transmission design for maximizing output power or efficiency. Mechanism types, linkage analysis and kinematic synthesis. Team-based design projects emphasizing the balance of physical with virtual prototyping based on engineering analysis. Lab for dissection of mechanical systems and project design reviews. Prerequisites: 80, 101. Recommended: 203,
ENGR 15.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Cutkosky, M. (PI)
ME 113: Mechanical Engineering Design
Capstone course. Mechanical engineering design is experienced by students as they work on team projects obtained from industry or other organizations. Prerequisites: 80,101,112, 203. Enrollment limited to ME majors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Nelson, D. (PI)
ME 115A: Introduction to Human Values in Design
Lecture/lab. Introduces the central philosophy of the product design program, emphasizing the relation between technical and human values, the innovation process, and design methodology. Lab exercises include development of simple product concepts visualized in rapidly executed three-dimensional mockups. Prerequisite: 101.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
ME 115B: Product Design Methods
Problem-finding, problem-solving, intermediate creativity methods and effective techniques for researching and presenting product concepts. Individual- and team-based design projects emphasizing advanced visual thinking and prototyping skills. Prerequisite:
ME115A
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Edson, J. (PI)
ME 115C: Design and Business Factors
Design and Business Factors: Introduces business concepts critical to determining the success of new products and services. Students will learn to estimate the cost of R&D for new product development. Using financial analysis, ROI, and tollgates to reduce development risk will be explored using case studies and simulations. Students will develop a bill of materials and a profit and loss statement for a sample product concept, prototype a design consultancy, and create a business proposal for a proposed new product company.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Burnett, W. (PI)
ME 11SC: The Art and Science of Measuring Fluid Flows
The roles of fluid flows in natural systems such as swimming protozoa and planet-forming nebulae, and technologies such as biomolecular assay devices and jet engines. The analytical background for fluid sciences. Phenomena such as shock waves and vortex formation that create flow patterns while challenging engineers. Visualization and measurement techniques to obtain full-field flow pattern information. The physics behind these technologies. Field trips; lab work. (Eaton)
ME 120: History and Philosophy of Design
Major schools of 19th- and 20th-century design (Arts and Crafts movement, Bauhaus, Industrial Design, and postmodernism) are analyzed in terms of their continuing cultural relevance. The relation of design to art, technology, and politics; readings from principal theorists, practitioners, and critics; recent controversies in industrial and graphic design, architecture, and urbanism. Enrollment limited to 65.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Katz, B. (PI)
ME 12SC: Hands-on Jet Engines
How jet engines transformed the world through intercontinental travel causing internationalization in daily life. Competition driving improvements in fuel economy, engine lifetime, noise, and emissions.
ME 131A: Heat Transfer
The principles of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation with examples from the engineering of practical devices and systems. Topics include transient and steady conduction, conduction by extended surfaces, boundary layer theory for forced and natural convection, boiling, heat exchangers, and graybody radiative exchange. Prerequisites: 70,
ENGR 30. Recommended: intermediate calculus, ordinary differential equations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Eaton, J. (PI)
ME 131B: Fluid Mechanics: Compressible Flow and Turbomachinery
Engineering applications involving compressible flow: aircraft and rocket propulsion, power generation; application of mass, momentum, energy and entropy balance to compressible flows; variable area isentropic flow, normal shock waves, adiabatic flow with friction, flow with heat addition. Operation of flow systems: the propulsion system. Turbomachinery: pumps, compressors, turbines. Angular momentum analysis of turbomachine performance, centrifugal and axial flow machines, effect of blade geometry, dimensionless performance of turbomachines; hydraulic turbines; steam turbines; wind turbines. Compressible flow turbomachinery: the aircraft engine. Prerequisites: 70,
ENGR 30.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Eaton, J. (PI)
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