Fall 2021 Elective Courses

(3-0-3)(F). Overview of systems security: hardware, software, encryption, and physical security. Includes multiple modules: system security, physical issues in security, hardware and firmware security issues, industrial control, and all things connected to the internet. PREREQ: CS 117 or CS 121, PHYS 211, and MATH 189 or MATH 360 or MATH 361.

Cross-listed with CS 330, ECE 337, ENGR 337, MATH 337

Instructor:  Sin Ming Loo, Marion Scheepers
Schedule: 9:00 – 10:00 AM WeFr
Delivery:  Hybrid

(3-0-3)(F, S). Modeling and simulation of physical systems. Transfer functions, block
diagrams, step responses and stability. Design of feedback control systems in the Laplace domain. May be taken for ECE or ME credit, but not both. PREREQ: MATH 333, ENGR 240 or ECE 212.

Cross-listed as ECE 360

NOTE: ME 360 is a REQUIRED course for the 2020-2021 catalog and later.

Instructor:  John Chiasson
Schedule:  12:00 – 1:15 PM TuTh
Delivery:  In-Person

(3-0-3)(F/S). Advanced topics and applications of thermodynamics include power and refrigeration cycles, combustion, mixed gas properties, chemical equilibrium, and psychrometric applications. PREREQ: ME 321 (or ME 302), MATH 275.

Instructor:  James Ferguson
Schedule: 12:00 – 1:15 PM MoWe
Delivery:  In-Person

(3-0-3)(F/S). A survey of renewable energy systems including solar, wind, biomass, as compared to traditional electric power production and distribution. Technical, economic, and system integration issues are examined. PREREQ: ENGR 240, ME 323 (or ME 320 AND ME 330).

Instructor:  James Ferguson
Schedule: 1:30 – 2:45 PM MoWe
Delivery:  In-Person

(3-0-3)(On Demand). Advanced fluid mechanics theory and applications in potential flow, viscous flow, boundary layer theory, turbulent flow and turbulence modeling, compressible flow, turbomachinery, and computational fluid dynamics. PREREQ: ME 323 (or ME 320 and ME 330).

Instructor:  Krishna Pakala
Schedule: 1:30 – 2:45 PM TuTh
Delivery:  In-Person

(3-0-3)(On Demand). Computer programs used to develop 3-D CAD database for design, analysis, simulation, and manufacturing. Machinery design to meet functional, performance, reliability and manufacturing requirements. Design projects reinforce concepts and methodologies. PREREQ: ME 323 (or ME 302 and ME 330), ME 352 (or ME 303).

Instructor:
Schedule: 6:00 – 7:15 MoWe
Delivery:  In-Person

(3-0-3)(Intermittently). Theory and methods for analysis of vibrating physical systems. Natural frequencies, mode shapes, damping, forced vibrations, and frequency-response functions are analyzed by using computer simulation. PREREQ: ME 203 (or ENGR 220), MATH 333.

Instructor:  Zhangxian “Dan” Deng
Schedule: 4:30 – 5:45 PM MoWe
Delivery:  In-Person

(3-0-3)(F/S). Theory of biomaterials science. Medical and biological materials and their applications. Selection, properties, characterization, design and testing of materials used by or in living systems. PREREQ: CHEM 112 or MSE 245.

Cross-listed as BIOL 477, MSE 477

Instructor:
Schedule: 9:00 – 10:15 AM WeFr
Delivery:  In-Person