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ME 420: Applied Electrochemistry at Micro- and Nanoscale

Applied electrochemistry with a focus on energy conversion and storage. Basic concepts of thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and first principal calculations are presented, of which today's fundamentals of electrochemical energy conversion/storage are built. Conventional as well as advanced Li battery concepts/systems and their applications will be a main subject area. intercalation and conversion cathode and anode material families will be introduced and electrochemical function/challenges for energy storage of these materials will be highlighted. Conventional electrolyte materials such as carbonate based liquid electrolyte system and advanced solid-state material will be a topic in class.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3
Instructors: Fasching, R. (PI)

ME 421: European Entrepreneurship and Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar

Lessons from real-world experiences and challenges in European startups, corporations, universities, non-profit research institutes and venture finance organizations. Speakers include entrepreneurs, leaders from global technology companies, university researchers, venture capitalists, legal experts, senior policy makers and other guests from selected European countries and regions. Geographic scope encompasses Ireland to Russia, and Scandinavia to the Mediterranean region. Enrollment open to undergraduates and graduates in any school or department at Stanford.
Terms: Win | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Lee, B. (PI)

ME 429: COMMERCIAL MEMS DEVICE DESIGN

This course will provide insight into designing MEMS based devices for use in commercial/consumer and automotive sensor applications. Topics to be covered in this MEMS sensor design course will include electromechanical modeling/simulation, compensation for cross-wafer and wafer-to-wafer fabrication variations in a high volume semiconductor manufacturing facility, design for extreme environments (drop shock, temperature, etc.), and some discussion of the unique challenges with respect to consumer and automotive sensor markets. Student teams will develop a MEMS sensor/transducer design (capacitive 3-axis accelerometer), electro-mechanical system model (Matlab based), fabrication process flow with manufacturing analysis (Excel based) in response to a provided design specification sheet.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: O'Brien, G. (PI)

ME 440: Electronic States and Transitions In Quantum Confined Structures

Summary of selected quantum mechanical concepts with focus on phenomena related to charge separation and transfer. The physics and thermodynamics of excitons described and related to experimental observations. The energy state of electrons as function of confinement size and strength. Presentations include on electron tunneling, measuring the density of electronic states, dielectric behavior of materials, Bose Einstein condensation of quasi particles, and excitons in quantum wells and dots.
Last offered: Spring 2010

ME 450: Advances in Biotechnology

Guest academic and industrial speakers. Latest developments in fields such as bioenergy, green process technology, production of industrial chemicals from renewable resources, protein pharmaceutical production, industrial enzyme production, stem cell applications, medical diagnostics, and medical imaging. Biotechnology ethics, business and patenting issues, and entrepreneurship in biotechnology.

ME 451A: Advanced Fluid Mechanics Multiphase Flows

Single particle and multi-particle fluid flow phenomena, mass, momentum and heat transfer, characteristic time and length scales, non-dimensional groups; collection of dispersed-phase elements: instantaneous and averaged descriptions for multiphase flow, Eulerian-Eulerian and Lagrangian-Eulerian statistical representations, mixture theories; models for drag, heat and mass transfer; dilute to dense two-phase flow, granular flows; computer simulation approaches for multiphase flows, emerging research topics. Prerequisites: graduate level fluid mechanics and engineering mathematics, and undergraduate engineering mechanics and thermodynamics.
Last offered: Autumn 2014

ME 451B: Advanced Fluid Mechanics Flow Instability

Waves in fluids: surface waves, internal waves, inertial and acoustic waves, dispersion and group velocity, wave trains, transport due to waves, propagation in slowly varying medium, wave steepening, solitons and solitary waves, shock waves. Instability of fluid motion: dynamical systems, bifurcations, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, Rayleigh-Benard convection, energy method, global stability, linear stability of parallel flows, necessary and sufficient conditions for stability, viscosity as a destabilizing factor, convective and absolute instability. Focus is on flow instabilities. Prerequisites: graduate courses in compressible and viscous flow.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3

ME 451C: Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Compressible flow: governing equations, Crocco-Vazsonyi¿s equations, creation and destruction of vorticity by compressibility effects, shock waves. Modal decomposition of compressible flow, linear and nonlinear modal interactions, interaction of turbulence with shock waves. Energetics of compressible turbulence, effects of compressibility on free-shear flows, turbulent boundary layers, Van Direst transformation, recovery temperature, and shock/boundary layer interaction. Strong Reynolds analogy, modeling compressible turbulent flows. Prerequisites: 355, 361A, or equivalents.
Last offered: Autumn 2010

ME 451D: Microhydrodynamics (CHEMENG 310)

Transport phenomena on small-length scales appropriate to applications in microfluidics, complex fluids, and biology. The basic equations of mass, momentum, and energy, derived for incompressible fluids and simplified to the slow-flow limit. Topics: solution techniques utilizing expansions of harmonic and Green's functions; singularity solutions; flows involving rigid particles and fluid droplets; applications to suspensions; lubrication theory for flows in confined geometries; slender body theory; and capillarity and wetting. Prerequisites: 120A,B, 300, or equivalents.
Terms: Win | Units: 3

ME 453A: Finite Element-Based Modeling and Simulation of Linear Fluid/Structure Interaction Problems

Basic physics behind many fluid/structure interaction phenomena. Finite element-based computational approaches for linear modeling and simulation in the frequency domain. Vibrations of elastic structures. Linearized equations of small movements of inviscid fluids. Sloshing modes. Hydroelastic vibrations. Acoustic cavity modes. Structural-acoustic vibrations. Applications to liquid containers and underwater signatures. Prerequisite: graduate course in the finite element method or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2007
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