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ME 10AX: Design Thinking and the Art of Innovation
The fundamentals of design. Skills-based, experiential exploration in design. Topics include improvisation, needfinding, visualization, prototyping, radical collaboration, design communication, and storytelling.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ME 12N: The Jet Engine
Preference to freshmen. How a jet engine works; the technologies and analytical techniques required to understand them. Dynamics, thermodynamics, turbomachinery, combustion, advanced materials, cooling technologies, and control systems. Visits to research laboratories, examination of a partially disassembled engine, and probable operation of a small jet engine. Prerequisites: high school physics.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Eaton, J. (PI)
ME 14N: How Stuff Is Made
The design and engineering of products and processes. Machined, fabric, food, and electrical goods. Tradeoffs in choice of serial, continuous, and batch fabrication. Final project: students research and create a web site about the engineering aspects of a product and its processes. Field trips to manufacturing facilities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Pruitt, B. (PI)
ME 17N: Robotics Imitating Nature
Preference to freshmen. The dream of constructing robots that duplicate the functional abilities of humans and/or other animals has been promulgated primarily by science fiction writers. But biological systems provide models for the designers of robots. Building electromechanical devices that perform locomotory and sensing functions similar to those of an animal as a way of learning about how biological systems function. Walking and running machines, and the problem of giving a robot the capability to respond to its environment.
Last offered: Spring 2009
ME 18Q: Teamology: Creative Teams and Individual Development
Preference to sophomores. Roles on a problem solving team that best suit individual creative characteristics. Two teams are formed for teaching experientially how to develop less conscious abilities from teammates creative in those roles. Reinforcement teams have members with similar personalities; problem solving teams are composed of people with maximally different personalities.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Wilde, D. (PI)
ME 26N: Think Like a Designer
Preference to freshmen. Techniques designers use to create innovative solutions across domains. Project-based. Emphasis is on approaches to problem identification and problem solving. Topics include need finding, structured brainstorming, synthesis, rapid prototyping, and visual communication. Field trips to a local design firm, a robotics lab, and a machining lab. The pleasures of creative design and hands-on development of tangible solutions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Burnett, W. (PI)
ME 70: Introductory Fluids Engineering
Elements of fluid mechanics as applied to engineering problems. Equations of motion for incompressible ideal flow. Hydrostatics. Control volume laws for mass, momentum, and energy. Bernoulli equation. Dimensional analysis and similarity. Flow in ducts. Boundary layer flows. Lift and drag. Lab experiment demonstrations. Prerequisites:
ENGR 14 and 30.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Cappelli, M. (PI)
;
Iaccarino, G. (PI)
ME 80: Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
Mechanics of materials and deformation of structural members. Topics include stress and deformation analysis under axial loading, torsion and bending, column buckling and pressure vessels. Introduction to stress transformation and multiaxial loading. Prerequisite:
ENGR 14.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Cai, W. (PI)
;
Levenston, M. (PI)
ME 101: Visual Thinking
Lecture/lab. Visual thinking and language skills are developed and exercised in the context of solving design problems. Exercises for the mind's eye. Rapid visualization and prototyping with emphasis on fluent and flexible idea production. The relationship between visual thinking and the creative process. Enrollment limited to 60.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, GER:DB-EngrAppSci
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