| source University of Washington (X) |
level |
department Mechanical Engineering (X) |
Dynamic and thermodynamic relationships for the flow of a gas. Application of thermodynamic processes involving nozzles, diffusers, compressors, and turbines. Prerequisite: either M E 333 or CEE 342. Offered: by request only.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Study of principles of friction and wear behavior of materials and of those material properties that affect such behavior. Principles of lubrication. Applications to design of surfaces for wear resistance. Prerequisite: M E 333; M E 356.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Study of mechanics of deformable bodies, including three-dimensional stress and strain tensors and their transformations. Equations of compatibility, continuity and equilibrium. Elastic constants. Failure criteria including fracture, yield and instability. Deflection relations for complex loading and shapes. Indeterminate problems. Design applications and numerical methods. Prerequisite: M E 354.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Concentrates on hands-on aspects of innovation and entrepreneurial enterprise development. Examines relationships between innovation, iterative prototyping, and marketing testing. Students identify market opportunities, create new technology-based products and services to satisfy customer needs, and construct and test prototypes. Prerequisite: IND E 250. Offered: jointly with IND E 496.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Lecture and/or laboratory. Maximum of 6 credits may be applied toward an undergraduate degree.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Written report required.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Stress-strain and stress-strain-rate relations in metal forming; plastic instability. Work of deformation. The slip-line field, load bounding, applications to frames, drawing, forging, and extrusion. Offered: odd years.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Reviews concepts of motion, stress, energy for a general continuum; conservation of mass, momentum, and energy; and the second law; constitutive equations for linear/nonlinear elastic, viscous/inviscid fluids, and general materials; and examples/solutions for solid/fluid materials. Offered: jointly with A A 503; A.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Theoretical and practical aspects in design, analysis, and fabrication of MEMS devices. Fabrication processes, including bulk and surface micromachining. MEMS design and layout. MEMS CAD tools. Mechanical and electrical design. Applications such as micro sensors and actuators, or chemical and thermal transducers, recent advances. Offered: jointly with E E 502/MSE 504.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Design and analysis of advanced manufacturing systems from a strategic as well as technological perspective. Focus on information generation, management, and coordination aspects of complex manufacturing organizations. Examination of system integration alternatives and consequences for relationships with customers and suppliers. Offered: jointly with IND E 531.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Fundamental concepts of mechanical measurements, principles of sensors and transducers, signal conditioning and data acquisition, advanced experiment planning and analysis, and applications in mechanical engineering.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Offered: jointly with CEE 554.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Analysis of steady-state and transient heat conduction in single- and multidimensional systems by mathematical, graphical, numerical, and analogical methods. Prerequisite: graduate standing in mechanical engineering or permission of instructor. Offered: by request only.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Selected fluid mechanics relevant to current advances in research and application. Topics selected vary with faculty and student interest, but have included flow stability, special topics in turbulence, and turbulent reacting flows. Offered: by request only.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Characteristic features of turbulent boundary layers; development of the turbulent boundary layer equations; equilibrium boundary layers; integral methods of solution based on power law and wall-wake velocity profiles; methods of solution based on higher order constitutive equations; application to diffuser flows and free shear flows; new developments and physical models. Offered: odd years; A.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Methods of characterizing fluid turbulence; probability concepts; spatial and temporal velocity correlations; spectral energy transfer; turbulent diffusion; isotropic turbulence and Kolmogoroff's hypothesis; Taylor's hypothesis; hot-wire measurement techniques. Prerequisite: 3 credits of graduate level fluid mechanics or permission of instructor. Offered: even years; W.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Linearity, linearization, finite dimensionality, time-varying vs. time-invariant linear systems, interconnection of linear systems, functional/structural descriptions of linear systems, system zeros and invertibility, linear system stability, system norms, state transition, matrix exponentials, controllability and observability, realization theory. Prerequisite: either A A 447, E E 447 or M E 471. Offered: jointly with E E 547/A A 547; A
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Introduction to MIMO systems, successive single loop design comparison, Lyapunov stability theorem, full state feedback controller design, observer design, LQR problem statement, design, stability analysis, and tracking design. LQG design, separation principle, stability robustness. Prerequisite: A A 547/E E 547/M E 547. Offered: jointly with A A 548/E E 548.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Fundamentals of state estimation for linear and nonlinear systems. Discrete and continuous systems. Probability and stochastic systems theory. Models with noise. Kalman-Bucy filters, extended Kalman filters, recursive estimation. Numerical issues in filter design and implementation. Prerequisite: E E 505 or AMATH 506 or STAT 506; recommended: 548 or A A 548. Offered: jointly with A A 549/E E 549.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Calculus of variations for dynamical systems, definition of the dynamic optimization problem, constraints and Lagrange multipliers, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, necessary conditions for optimality, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, singular arc problems, computational techniques for solution of the necessary conditions. Prerequisite: graduate standing; recommended: A A 548 or E E 548. Offered: jointly with A A 550/E E 550; odd years.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Manufacturing and processing techniques of metal-, polymer-, and ceramic-matrix composites; design considerations related to manufacturing techniques; non-destructive testing of composite structures. Fiber-matrix interfacial features and interactions. Interfacial thermodynamics applied to selection of fiber-matrix combinations. Prerequisite: M E 450 or MSE 475 or equivalent by permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with MSE 563; Sp.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Probability and random variables. Ensemble averaging, probability density function, auto- and cross-correlation functions. Brownian motion, Poisson process. Ergodicity. Frequency domain analysis, auto- and cross-spectrum, transfer function. Fundamentals of digital spectral analysis. Applications in fluid mechanics, acoustics and vibrations. Offered: by request only; even years; A.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page
Design, analysis, and control of fluid power systems. Steady-state analysis of valves, actuators, and transmissions. Dynamic modeling, response, stability, and control analysis via linear element representation and computer simulation. Prerequisite: graduate standing in mechanical engineering or permission of instructor. Offered: Sp.
Score: 6.5482197 Details | Listing | Web page