printer friendly pageMATSCI 197: Rate Processes in Materials (MATSCI 207)
Diffusion and phase transformations in solids. Diffusion topics: Fick's laws, atomic theory of diffusion, and diffusion in alloys. Phase transformation topics: nucleation, growth, diffusional transformations, spinodal decomposition, and interface phenomena. Material builds on the mathematical, thermodynamic, and statistical mechanical foundations in the prerequisites. Prerequisites:
MATSCI 194/204. Undergraduates register for 197 for 4 units; graduates register for 207 for 3 units.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
MATSCI 198: Mechanical Properties of Materials (MATSCI 208)
Introduction to the mechanical behavior of solids, emphasizing the relationships between microstructure and mechanical properties. Elastic, anelastic, and plastic properties of materials. The relations between stress, strain, strain rate, and temperature for plastically deformable solids. Application of dislocation theory to strengthening mechanisms in crystalline solids. The phenomena of creep, fracture, and fatigue and their controlling mechanisms. Prerequisites:
MATSCI 193/203. Undergraduates register for 198 for 4 units; graduates register for 208 for 3 units.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
MATSCI 199: Electronic and Optical Properties of Solids (MATSCI 209)
The concepts of electronic energy bands and transports applied to metals, semiconductors, and insulators. The behavior of electronic and optical devices including p-n junctions, MOS-capacitors, MOSFETs, optical waveguides, quantum-well lasers, light amplifiers, and metallo-dielectric light guides. Emphasis is on relationships between structure and physical properties. Elementary quantum and statistical mechanics concepts are used. Prerequisite:
MATSCI 195/205 or equivalent. Undergraduates register for 199 for 4 units; graduates register for 209 for 3 units.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Brongersma, M. (PI)
;
Xue, M. (TA)
ME 10N: Form and Function of Animal Skeletons (BIOE 10N)
Preference to freshmen. The biomechanics and mechanobiology of the musculoskeletal system in human beings and other vertebrates on the level of the whole organism, organ systems, tissues, and cell biology. Field trips to labs.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
ME 12N: The Jet Engine
Preference to freshmen. This seminar describes how a jet engine works with examples given from modern commercial and military engines. We then explore the technologies and sciences required to understand them including thermodynamics, turbomachinery, combustion, advanced materials, cooling technologies, and testing methods. Visits to research laboratories, examination of a partially disassembled engine, and probable operation of a small jet engine. Prerequisites: high school physics and preferably calculus.
Last offered: Summer 2017
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
ME 14N: How Stuff Is Made
The design and engineering of products and processes, such as machining, fabric, food, and electrical goods. Tradeoffs in choice of materials, features, and process selection. Final project: students research and redesign the engineering and manufacturing aspects of a product and its processes with an eye toward sustainability. Includes several field trips to manufacturing facilities.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
ME 21: Renaissance Machine Design
Technological innovations of the 1400s that accompanied the proliferation of monumental art and architecture by Brunelleschi, da Vinci, and others who designed machines and invented novel construction, fresco, and bronze-casting techniques. The social and political climate, from the perspective of a machine designer, that made possible and demanded engineering expertise from prominent artists. Hands-on projects to provide a physical understanding of Renaissance-era engineering challenges and introduce the pleasure of creative engineering design. Technical background not required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Cutkosky, M. (PI)
;
Wang, Y. (TA)
ME 24N: Designing the Car of the Future
Preference to freshmen. Automotive design drawing from all areas of mechanical engineering. The state of the art in automotive design and the engineering principles to understand vehicle performance. Future technologies for vehicles. Topics include vehicle emissions and fuel consumption, possibilities of hydrogen, drive-by-wire systems, active safety and collision avoidance, and human-machine interface issues.
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
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: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Lentink, D. (PI)
;
Santiago, J. (PI)
;
Tang, S. (PI)
;
Gueble, I. (TA)
;
Lerner, B. (TA)
;
Nugent, J. (TA)
;
Onyeador, C. (TA)
ME 80: Mechanics of Materials
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, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Cai, W. (PI)
;
Chaudhuri, O. (PI)
;
Levenston, M. (PI)
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Ngan, L. (TA)
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Noll, B. (TA)
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Singh, N. (TA)
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Sweet, M. (TA)
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Tuayev-Deane, G. (TA)
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