ME 27SI: Needfinding for Underserved Populations
The heart of any design process resides in empathy with users and their needs. Working in the realm of public service may engage a population to which the designer might not have been exposed. How different needfinding techniques can help designers to understand users from underserved populations and inspire them to create products and services that serve user needs.
Last offered: Spring 2009
ME 28SI: Professional Design Practices
Lab. Professional skills are developed through web-based portfolio and resume building. Additionally, visits to local design consulting firms and in house design groups will help solidify students understanding of the designer in the professional workplace.May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Repeatable
for credit
ME 29SI: Cars: A Crash Course
Focus is on the basic mechanics and significance of cars. Topics include a basic, real-world understanding of automobile workings, histories, industries, cultural impact, and related media. Field trips to Tesla Motors and Go-Kart Racer will be organized, and there will be guest appearances by local automotive historians and enthusiasts. Students will get hands on experience with maintaining real cars, see high performance engines run, and have the opportunity to learn how to drive a manual transmission.
Last offered: Winter 2011
ME 50: KINEMATICS
ME 52SI: Scan, Model, Print! Designing with 3D Technology
Think 3D scanning, modeling, and printing technology is just about plastic widgets? Think again! Immerse yourself in a world of custom prosthetics, manufacturing in space, autonomous cars, and much more. This hands-on engineering design course teaches advanced 3D imaging and computational modeling skills in order to leverage the unique benefits of additive manufacturing to solve complex problems. Students will connect the theory behind these tools to direct experience with the equipment and software. Short assignments at the start of the quarter will build students' core competencies and prepare them for a team-based, open-ended project. Class time will be a mixture of lecture, lab, guest speakers, and field trips. Recommended: basic CAD, fabrication, and programming experience (e.g.
ME103D, 203, CS106A or equivalents).
Last offered: Spring 2015
ME 66SI: Machine Dissection
This course is designed to help engineering students build their physical intuition through a series of mini-lectures, mechanical ¿dissection¿ activities, student presentations, and a final project. Some of the mechanisms students will dissect include a wind-up toy, fishing reel, and car transmission. Through these activities, students learn the process and value of reverse engineering, develop a better understanding of the design choices made by engineers, become familiar with historically significant mechanisms, and develop both oral and graphical communication skills necessary for working in a technical team. This course is intended for freshman/sophomore engineering students with some knowledge of physics, but little ¿hands on¿ experience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Sheppard, S. (PI)
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Raitor, M. (TA)
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:
Cappelli, M. (PI)
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Lentink, D. (PI)
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Tang, S. (PI)
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Majeau, F. (TA)
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Watanabe, Y. (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)
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Chaudhuri, O. (PI)
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Levenston, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Cai, W. (PI)
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Chaudhuri, O. (PI)
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Levenston, M. (PI)
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Cheung, N. (TA)
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Stottler, N. (TA)
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Yu, S. (TA)
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. Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Edmark, J. (PI)
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Fenton, P. (PI)
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Boslough, A. (TA)
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Instructors:
Edmark, J. (PI)
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Fenton, P. (PI)
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Boslough, A. (TA)
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Cuadra, A. (TA)
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Daly, T. (TA)
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Espinel, D. (TA)
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Gilbert, C. (TA)
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Hemmady, M. (TA)
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Ikeler, M. (TA)
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Kim, L. (TA)
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Kusimo, A. (TA)
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Ladenheim, K. (TA)
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Nikam, K. (TA)
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Park, S. (TA)
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Rotholz, Z. (TA)
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Smith, C. (TA)
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Stechschulte, L. (TA)
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Turpin, A. (TA)
ME 103D: Engineering Drawing and Design
Designed to accompany 203. The fundamentals of engineering drawing including orthographic projection, dimensioning, sectioning, exploded and auxiliary views, assembly drawings, and SolidWorks. Homework drawings are of parts fabricated by the student in the lab. Assignments in 203 supported by material in 103D and sequenced on the assumption that the student is enrolled in both courses simultaneously.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Milroy, J. (PI)
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Flynn, M. (SI)
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