USC Catalogue 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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Chair: Paul Ronney, PhD
Faculty
Choong Hoon Cho Chair in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering: Michael Kassner, PhD
Arthur B. Freeman Professorship in Engineering: Andrea Hodge, PhD
Hughes Professorship: Assad Oberai, PhD
Smith International Professor of Mechanical Engineering: Satyandra K. Gupta, PhD
William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering: Fokion Egolfopoulos, PhD
Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering: Eva Kanso, PhD
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professors: Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, PhD
Henry Salvatori Early Career Chair: Mitul Luhar, PhD
Professors: Yong Chen, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Julian Domaradzki, PhD**; Fokion Egolfopoulos, PhD*; Henryk Flashner, PhD (Biological Sciences); Satyandra K. Gupta, PhD (Computer Science); Yan Jin, PhD; Eva Kanso, PhD; Paul K. Newton, PhD (Mathematics); Assad Oberai, PhD; Carlos Pantano-Rubino, PhD; Ishwar Puri, PhD; Paul Ronney, PhD; Satwindar S. Sadhal, PhD (Ophthalmology); Geoffrey Spedding, PhD*; Firdaus E. Udwadia, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Data Science and Operations, Systems Architecting and Engineering and Mathematics); Bingen Yang, PhD
Associate Professors: Mitul Luhar, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering); Geoffrey R. Shiflett, PhD*
Assistant Professors: Ameneh Maghsoodi, PhD; Negar Mehr, PhD; Ivan Bermejo-Moreno, PhD; Quan Nguyen, PhD (Computer Science); Niema Pahlevan, PhD; Paul Plucinsky, PhD; Alejandra Uranga, PhD; Hangbo Zhao, PhD
Professor of Engineering Practice: M. Oussama Safadi, PhD*
Associate Professor of Engineering Practice: Yann Staelens, PhD
Senior Lecturers: Inna Abramova, PhD; Matthew Gilpin, PhD; Takahiro Sakai, PhD
Lecturers: Saakar Byahut, PhD; BoCheng Jin, PhD; Akshay Potnuru, PhD; Ramtin Sheikhhassani, PhD; Emma Singer, PhD
Research Assistant Professor: Anita Penkova, PhD
Joint Appointments: Daniel Erwin, PhD* (Astronautics); Roger Georges Ghanem, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering); Mike Gruntman, PhD (Astronautics); Andrea Hodge, PhD (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); Petros Ioannou, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering — Systems); Mihailo Jovanovic, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Michael Kassner, PhD (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); Berok Khoshnevis, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Peter Kuhn, PhD (Biological Sciences); Jay H. Lee, PhD (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science); Stephen C-Y Lu, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Sami F. Masri, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering); Gregory Magee, MD (Keck School of Medicine); Steven Nutt, PhD (Materials Science); Feifei Qian, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Constantinos Sioutas, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering); Francisco Valero-Cuevas, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Joseph Wang, PhD (Astronautical Engineering)
Adjunct Associate Professor: Adam Fincham, PhD
Emeritus Professors: Ron Blackwelder, PhD*; Fred Browand, PhD; Charles Campbell, PhD; Terence Langdon, PhD; Larry G. Redekopp, PhD*; Donald Shemansky, PhD
*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.
**Recipient of university-wide or school research award.
Mechanical Engineering Honor Society: Pi Tau Sigma
Aerospace Engineering Honor Society: Sigma Gamma Tau
Degrees and Requirements
Educational Mission — The degree programs of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering provide the educational foundation for success in all walks of life whether or not one’s career path includes employment as a professional engineer, work in a field outside of engineering, or pursuit of further education.
Undergraduate Program Educational Objectives — Graduates of the undergraduate programs in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering are expected to attain the following objectives within a few years after graduation:
- Work as professionals within engineering or a related area in both small- and large-scale businesses; and/or
- Pursue further education through graduate school or professional development courses; and/or
- Become leaders within their chosen profession whether it be industry, academia or service.
Aerospace Engineering Degrees
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering: The program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering provides graduates with a knowledge of aerodynamics, aerospace materials, structures, propulsion, flight mechanics, and stability and control. The program also provides graduates with a design competence that includes integration of aeronautical topics.
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering: The programs leading to a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering prepare the student to practice engineering at an advanced level in a specialization within aerospace engineering and to recognize the benefit of solving problems using expertise from other engineering disciplines. Students improve their skills in posing and solving problems using contemporary tools and leveraging interaction with peers.
PhD in Aerospace Engineering: See Aerospace Engineering (PhD)
Mechanical Engineering Degrees
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering: The program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering requires students to apply principles of engineering, basic science and mathematics (including multivariate calculus and differential equations); and model, analyze, design and realize physical systems, components or processes. It also prepares students to work professionally in both thermal and mechanical systems areas.
Minor in Music Recording: A minor in music recording is offered through the USC Thornton School of Music to provide undergraduate students with the background necessary to enter the field of recording engineering and to familiarize them with the design needs of modern recording equipment. The minor is recommended to mechanical engineering majors with extensive musical training who would like to combine their technical and musical abilities while learning the engineering applications of physical and mathematical principles to the art of music recording. See the listing under the USC Thornton School of Music .
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering: The field of mechanical engineering is incredibly broad. To accommodate both the breadth of the field and students’ interests, the department offers several options for students pursuing the MS in Mechanical Engineering. These options include several tracks through the general MS program as well as several named emphases. Tracks, both topical and traditional, through the general MS in Mechanical Engineering program are intended to guide students through a particular area of specialization.
Advanced manufacturing is an example of a topical specialization. The use of Advanced Manufacturing is key to increasing the competitiveness of manufacturing in the United States. The Advanced Manufacturing Track within Mechanical Engineering educates and trains multidisciplinary professionals to pursue careers in manufacturing companies as designers, manufacturing engineers, and engineering managers. This program covers modeling of physical manufacturing processes, development and utilization of computational tools, and modeling and optimization of manufacturing systems. It includes recent developments in manufacturing such as collaborative robotics, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, and Industry 4.0. This degree provides the graduate student with a broad, well-rounded, advanced education that can be applied to many different industries in which advanced manufacturing plays a role. For more information about the Advanced Manufacturing track within the MS in Mechanical Engineering program, please contact the faculty adviser for this track, Prof. S.K. Gupta (guptask@usc.edu).
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Energy Conversion): See Sustainable Infrastructure Systems Program .
Master of Science in Product Development Engineering (Technology Track): See the listing under Product Development Engineering .
PhD in Mechanical Engineering: See Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
Bachelor’s Degree
Master’s Degree
Doctoral Degree
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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AME 101L Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Gateway to a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Introduction to statics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, energy, electric circuits, computer-aided drafting, dimensional analysis, team projects.
Recommended Preparation: Background in high school or college physics
Corequisite: MATH 125 or MATH 126 or MATH 129 or MATH 226 or MATH 229
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 105 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Gateway to the Aerospace Engineering major. Introduction to flight vehicle performance and propulsion. Elements of the physics of gases. Laboratory: computers and graphics; model rocket and glider test flights.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 150L Introduction to Computational Methods Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Computer programming; organization of problems for computational solution; introduction to software for computation and graphics; applications to engineering problems.
Corequisite: MATH 125 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 201 Statics Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Analysis of forces acting on particles and rigid bodies in static equilibrium; equivalent systems of forces; friction; centroids and moments of inertia; introduction to energy methods.
Prerequisite: MATH 125 or MATH 126 or MATH 129 or MATH 226 or MATH 229
Recommended Preparation: (AME 101 or AME 105 or ASTE 101 ) and PHYS 151
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as ACAD 203 -
AME 204 Mechanics of Materials and Structures Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Stress, strain and deflection of mechanical elements due to tension, shear, bending, or torsion; combined loads; plates, shells, statically indeterminate structures; strength-based design, trusses.
Prerequisite: AME 201
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as ACAD 204 -
AME 208 Mathematical Methods in Engineering Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Common tools for Aerospace and Mechanical engineers: vectors, matrices, fundamentals of python, data manipulation and analysis, statistics, data presentation, optimization, large data sets.
Prerequisite: PHYS 152
Recommended Preparation: ITP 168 or equivalent
Corequisite: MATH 245
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 232L Manufacturing Processes Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
(Enroll in ISE 232 )
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AME 261 Basic Flight Mechanics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Performance of flight vehicles; maximum speed, rate-of-climb, range, and endurance; basic stability and control, weight, and balance; computer exercises.
Recommended Preparation: ITP 168
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 291 Undergraduate Design Projects I Units: 1
Max Units: 4.0
Terms Offered: FaSp
Analysis, design, fabrication, and evaluation of devices intended for entry in local and national design competitions. Intended for lower division students or those with little prior project experience.
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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AME 301 Dynamics Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Reference frames and coordinate systems; relationships between forces, moments, power, linear/angular momentum, and energy for particles and rigid bodies; particle and rigid body systems.
Prerequisite: AME 201
Corequisite: MATH 245
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 302 Dynamic Systems Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Modeling of lumped parameter elements and systems; free and forced response of first and second order systems; design oriented approach to dynamic systems.
Prerequisite: MATH 245
Recommended Preparation: AME 309 or CE 309 ; AME 301 or CE 215
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 302a Systems Units: 2
Terms Offered: Fa
Mathematical modeling of constrained mechanical systems at different levels of complexity, design-oriented approach to dynamic systems, transfer function formulation, state-space models and block diagram representation.
Prerequisite: MATH 245
Recommended Preparation: PHYS 151 , AME 301
Duplicates Credit in AME 302
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 302b Systems Units: 2
Terms Offered: Sp
Modeling of combined dynamic systems at different levels of complexity; time domain open-loop system analysis; system stability; approximation with lower-order systems; engineering applications.
Prerequisite: AME 302a and MATH 245
Recommended Preparation: PHYS 152L
Duplicates Credit in AME 302
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 303 Dynamics of Machinery Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Kinematics and dynamics of machines; balancing of rotating and reciprocating machinery; gyroscopic effects; critical speeds; energy variation in machinery; introduction to mechanism design.
Prerequisite: AME 301 or CE 235 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 305 Mechanical Design Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Design and analysis of mechanical elements including shafts, bearings, springs, screws, belts and gears; strength, fatigue and deflection considerations in machine design.
Prerequisite: AME 204 or CE 225 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 308 Computer-Aided Engineering Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduction to the finite element method; practical application of computer analysis tools for structural analysis and design.
Prerequisite: AME 204
Recommended Preparation: Familiarity with CAD tools on the level of AME 101 , AME 105 or ASTE 101
Corequisite: AME 301
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 309 Dynamics of Fluids Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Fluid statics; conservation of mass, momentum, and energy in integral and differential form; applications. Laminar and turbulent pipe flow; compressible flow; potential flow over bodies.
Prerequisite: AME 201
Recommended Preparation: AME 310
Corequisite: MATH 245
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 310 Engineering Thermodynamics I Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Fundamental laws of thermodynamics applied to actual and perfect gases and vapors; energy concepts, processes and applications; energy, entropy and exergy analysis; power and refrigeration systems.
Prerequisite: PHYS 151 and (MATH 125 or MATH 126 or MATH 129 or MATH 226 or MATH 229 )
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 331 Heat Transfer Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
General principles underlying heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation; steady and transient conditions; heat exchangers.
Prerequisite: AME 310 ;
Corequisite: AME 309 or CE 309 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 341aL Measurement and Instrumentation Laboratory Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSm
Coordinated laboratory and lecture sequence on aeromechanical instrumentation, test and measurement, integration of mechanical, optical and electronic components and technical communication.
Prerequisite: PHYS 152 or PHYS 162
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 341bL Measurement and Instrumentation Laboratory Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Coordinated laboratory and lecture sequence on aeromechanical instrumentation, test and measurement, integration of mechanical, optical and electronic components and technical communication.
Prerequisite: AME 341a
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 390 Special Problems Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 403 Stress Analysis Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Theories of failure, shear center, unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, torsion of non-circular sections; cylinders, rotating discs, thermal stresses, inelastic strains, energy methods.
Prerequisite: AME 204 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 404 Computational Solutions to Engineering Problems Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Mathematical aspects of the solutions to typical advanced mechanical engineering problems. Modeling, simulation, computational aspects, computer solutions, and computational tools.
Recommended Preparation: FORTRAN, MATLAB and Maple.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 405 Functional Approach to Computational Methods Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Introduction to computational methods in engineering: learning to develop and implement numerical algorithms for solving a range of mathematics, physics, and engineering problems. Suitable for undergraduate students in aerospace, bio, civil and mechanical engineering.
Recommended Preparation: 1 year of college-level calculus and physics
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 408 Computer-Aided Design of Mechanical Systems Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Design of mechanical systems using advanced graphics techniques; computer-aided drafting, design optimization, elements of computer graphics, solids modeling; introduction to computer-aided manufacturing.
Prerequisite: AME 204 or CE 225 ;
Recommended Preparation: AME 308 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 409 Senior Design Project Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Modeling, analysis, integration, layout and performance analysis of a mechanical system to meet specified design requirements.
Prerequisite: senior standing.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 410 Engineering Design Theory and Methodology Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Product planning and task clarification, voice of customers, quality function deployment, conceptual and embodiment design, axiomatic theory of design, product quality and manufacturability, design decision-making.
Recommended Preparation: AME 305 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 412 Molecular Theory of Gases Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
Molecular structure; intermolecular potentials; molecular processes in gases; molecular interpretation of concepts of classical thermodynamics; radiative transport phenomena in gases.
Prerequisite: AME 310 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 414 Engineering Thermodynamics II Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Application of thermodynamic principles to fluid flow, power cycles, and refrigeration, with modern applications to thermodynamic cycles and introduction to equilibrium electrochemistry.
Prerequisite: AME 310
Recommended Preparation: Basic knowledge of Physics and a programming language
Duplicates Credit in former AME 312
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 415 Turbine Design and Analysis Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Physics of turbine operation; design and analysis for the development of turbine hardware for propulsion and power generation.
Recommended Preparation: familiarity with Matlab.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 416 Mechanics and Transport in Medicine and Biology Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Introduction to mechanics of living organs; analysis of fluid and solid forces acting on biological systems; introductory hemodynamics and bio-transport phenomena.
Recommended Preparation: Fundamental physics and the understanding of static forces at the level of AME 201 and differential equations at the level of MATH 245
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 420 Engineering Vibrations I Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Theory of free and forced vibrations with and without damping; systems of single and multiple degrees of freedom; iteration; methods; vibration isolation; instrumentation.
Prerequisite: MATH 245
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 423L Loudspeaker and Sound System Design Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Design and construct loudspeakers. Covers fundamentals of acoustic design, analog electronics, electro-mechanical dynamics, and the real-world performance of project speakers vs. theoretical predictions.
Prerequisite: AME 341aL and AME 341bL
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 428 Mechanics of Materials Units: 3
(Enroll in CE 428 )
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AME 430 Thermal Systems Design Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Design methodology for thermal systems; boilers, condensers, air conditioning, power generation, air pollution control, combustion and alternative fuels.
Prerequisite: AME 331 ;
Recommended Preparation: AME 312 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 431 Heat Transfer Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
General principles underlying heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation; steady and transient conditions; heat exchangers.
Prerequisite: AME 310
Corequisite: AME 309
Duplicates Credit in AME 331
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 436 Automotive and Flight Propulsion Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Performance and analysis of reciprocating, jet, rocket engines, and hybrid systems. Characteristics of inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines, nozzles and engine systems. Energy and environmental problems.
Prerequisite: AME 310
Recommended Preparation: AME 309
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 441aL Senior Projects Laboratory Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Team engineering design project to model, construct and test a physical principle or system. Complete industrial research project including proposal, design review, presentation, technical report.
Prerequisite: AME 341a and AME 341b
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 441bL Senior Projects Laboratory Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Individual engineering projects designed and constructed to model and test a physical principle or system.
Prerequisite: AME 341b
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 443 Control Systems Laboratory Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Vibration measurement and analysis; simulation, design, and experimental verification of mechanical control systems; identification of system parameters, implementation of controllers, verification of closed-loop performance via experimentation and stimulation.
Prerequisite: AME 420 or AME 451 or EE 482 .
Duplicates Credit in former AME 442bL.
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as EE 481 -
AME 451 Linear Control Systems I Units: 3, 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Transform methods, block diagrams; transfer functions; stability; root-locus and frequency domain analysis and design; application to flight control, state space and multiloop systems.
Prerequisite: AME 302
Duplicates Credit in EE 482
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 453 Engineering Dynamics Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Principles of dynamics applied to mechanical and aerospace problems. Introduction to gyroscopic motion and rigid body dynamics.
Prerequisite: MATH 245 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 455 Introduction to MEMS Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Introduction to micro-electro-opto-mechanical systems; scaling effects on material properties, fluid flows, dynamical behavior; fabrication methods; design considerations for MEMS sensors and actuators.
Recommended Preparation: AME 301 , AME 309 and AME 310 .
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as EE-415 -
AME 457 Engineering Fluid Dynamics Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Laminar and turbulent boundary layer flow with and without heat transfer; boundary layer separation, stability, transition and control; introduction to compressible fluid flow.
Prerequisite: AME 310 ; AME 309 or CE 309 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 459 Flight Mechanics Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Applications of basic aerodynamics to aircraft and missile performance, power and thrust, stability and control, compressibility effects.
Recommended Preparation: AME 309
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 460 Aerodynamic Theory Units: 3
Basic relations describing the inviscid flow field about bodies and wings moving at subsonic and supersonic speeds.
Prerequisite: AME 309 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 461 Formation Data Sensing with Well Logs Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
(Enroll in PTE 461 )
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AME 462 Economic, Risk and Formation Productivity Analysis Units: 4
(Enroll in PTE 462 )
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AME 463L Introduction to Transport Processes in Porous Media Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
(Enroll in PTE 463L )
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AME 464L Modeling and Simulation of Subsurface Flow Systems Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
(Enroll in PTE 464L )
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AME 465L Drilling Technology and Subsurface Methods Units: 3
(Enroll in PTE 465L )
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AME 481 Aircraft Design Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Aircraft design and analysis, design requirements and specifications; integration of structure, propulsion, control system, and aerodynamic configuration; performance analysis and prediction.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 485 Aerospace Structures I Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Design, qualification, and workmanship verification of aerospace structures. Analysis for assessing buckling and crippling, welds, and analysis of connections and thin-walled structures.
Prerequisite: AME 204
Recommended Preparation: AME 231L or MASC 310
Duplicates Credit in former AME 353
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 486 Mechanics of Composite Materials for Modern Structures Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Current and potential applications of composite materials including manufacturing methods; determining mechanical properties; failure analysis; and design, inspection, and repair considerations.
Prerequisite: AME 204
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 490x Directed Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Max Units: 12.0
Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 491 Undergraduate Design Projects II Units: 1
Max Units: 4.0
Terms Offered: FaSp
Analysis, design, fabrication, and evaluation of devices intended for entry in local and national design competitions. Intended for students with prior project experience. Upper division standing.
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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AME 499 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4
Max Units: 8.0
Terms Offered: FaSpx
Course content to be selected each semester from recent developments in mechanical engineering and related fields.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 501 Innovative Conceptual Design for New Product Development Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
(Enroll in ISE 501 )
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AME 502 Modern Topics in Aerospace Design Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Current topics in Aerospace Engineering are addressed by a number of industry panelists. Students, under panelists’ supervision and guidance, complete independent research reports and briefings.
Recommended Preparation: AME 261 , AME 441, AME 481 or equivalents. Genuine interest in design of flight vehicles.
Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors, master and doctoral students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 503 Advanced Mechanical Design Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Specific problems and methods of analysis in mechanical systems design.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 504 Mechatronics Systems Engineering Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Use of mechanical, electrical and computer engineering, math and computer science to design of high performance and sophisticated products and processes and systems involving mechatronics.
Recommended Preparation: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or physical sciences. Hand-on skills computer programming (particularly C).
Duplicates Credit in former ISE 511
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 505 Engineering Information Modeling Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Symbolic and object-oriented modeling, product and process modeling for design and manufacturing, information models for computer integrated and collaborative engineering, information modeling for life-cycle engineering.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 506 Continuum Mechanics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
A unified mathematical description for modeling the mechanics and thermodynamics of continua, including topics like elasticity, inelastic material modeling and fluid behavior.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 507 Mechanics of Solids I Units: 4
(Enroll in CE 507 )
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AME 508 Machine Learning and Computational Physics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Machine learning applications in computational physics and engineering; relationships between computational physics and ML algorithms; hybrid physics-informed ML prediction with tools for uncertainty quantification.
Prerequisite: AME 525
Recommended Preparation: Basic familiarity with Python/Matlab
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 509 Applied Elasticity Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Cartesian tensors; kinematics of deformation, balance laws, and constitutive equations; variational principles; finite elasticity; plates and cylindrical shells; viscoelasticity; analytical and numerical solutions for elasticity.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 510 Advanced Computational Design and Manufacturing Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Study concepts behind computational representations, algorithms and mathematical foundations, and their applications in computer-aided design and manufacturing. Develop hands-on computational skills in team projects.
Recommended Preparation: Programming (C++ or MATLAB) on the level of ITP 168 (MATLAB), or ITP 165 (C++) or CSCI 102 (C++)
Duplicates Credit in former ISE 510
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 511 Compressible Gas Dynamics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Compressible flow equations; Rayleigh/Fanno flows; shock/expansion waves and interactions; potential flow, small disturbance theory and similarity; hypersonics; viscosity, high-temperature and radiation effects.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 513a Fundamentals and Applications of Combustion Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Chemical equilibrium, flame temperature, chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, conservation equations of multi-component reacting flows, laminar flames, droplet combustion, flame speed, combustion pollutants, atmospheric pollution processes.
Duplicates Credit in former AME 513
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 513b Fundamentals and Applications of Combustion Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Advanced topics in combustion including analytical methods, stretch effects, stability, ignition and extinction of flames, plasma-assisted combustion, turbulence effects, detonations, and micropower generation.
Prerequisite: AME 513a
Duplicates Credit in former AME 514
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 515 Advanced Heat and Mass Diffusion Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Analytical techniques for heat and mass diffusion problems in various geometries; application to heat/mass transfer in solids, liquids, porous media and bioporous materials.
Recommended Preparation: AME 526
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 516 Thermal and Biological Transport Phenomena Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Analytical techniques for solving convective heat and mass transfer problems; applications include heat/mass transfer in biological systems as well as traditional industrial settings.
Prerequisite: AME 525
Recommended Preparation: Undergraduate courses on differential equations, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and heat transfer; AME 526
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 517 Radiation Heat Transfer Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Radiation properties; black body radiation; shape factors of radiation network analogy and solar radiation.
Prerequisite: AME 331 ;
Corequisite: AME 525 or AME 526 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 518 Emerging Manufacturing Technologies Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Overview of emerging manufacturing technologies across different length scales (macro-micro-nano), including top-down approaches, bottom-up approaches and material synthesis/assembly.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 520 Modeling of Bio-Systems Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Interacting population dynamics, Cheyne-Stokes respiration, reaction kinetics, biological switches, neuronal models, BZ reaction, phase locking, reaction diffusion, chemotaxis, biological waves, and animal coat patterns.
Recommended Preparation: MATH 245 .
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as BISC-522, BME-520 -
AME 521 Engineering Vibrations II Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Multi-degree of freedom systems; continuous systems; modal analysis. Beams, rods, membranes, plates, shells. Approximate methods; Galerkin, Rayleigh Ritz; assumed-mode, finite elements.
Prerequisite: AME 420
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 522 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Vibrations, and Chaos Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Flows on a line and circle; phase plane methods; bifurcation theory; limit cycle/relaxation oscillations; chaotic systems, one-dimensional maps, the Lorenz equations, fractals and strange attractors.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 523 Random Vibrations Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
Random processes, ergodic theory. Ito calculus. Linear systems under stationary and nonstationary excitations. Fokker-Planck equations. Failure analysis and first passage problems.
Prerequisite: AME 420 , basic probability (or MATH 407 ), AME 451 recommended.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 524 Advanced Engineering Dynamics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Principle of virtual work, constraints, Lagrange’s equations, Gibbs-Appell equations, Gauss’s principle, theory of rotations, dynamics of rigid bodies, Hamiltonian mechanics, control and mechanics.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 525 Engineering Analysis Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Engineering mathematical methods: linear algebra, eigen problems, introduction to linear partial differential equations, transforms and complex variable theory.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 526 Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Engineering II Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
An intermediate and comprehensive methods of engineering mathematics course covering basic methods for solving linear partial differential equations including the method of characteristics and Green’s function.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 527 Elements of Vehicle and Energy Systems Design Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
Design synthesis of aero/hydro/mechanical systems; techniques of design; conceptual thinking; problem definition, configurational development, analytic engineering approximation, oral briefings and group problem solving.
Registration Restriction: Graduate standing.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 528 Finite Element Analysis Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
(Enroll in CE 529 )
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AME 529 Aircraft Structures Analysis Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Stress Analysis. Linear Elasticity. Thin Plates. Finite Element Methods. Structural stability. Vibration of Continuous Systems. Emphasis on aerospace and aeronautical applications
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 530a Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
A unified discussion of low-speed fluid mechanics including exact solutions; approximation techniques for low and high Reynolds numbers; inviscid flows; surface waves; dynamic stability; turbulence.
Recommended Preparation: Vector/tensor notation, linear algebra, multivariable calculus, complex variables and differential equations at the level of AME 525 /AME 526 (which are strongly recommended if lacking this background)
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 530b Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
A unified discussion of advanced topics in incompressible fluid mechanics focusing on vorticity dynamics, stability theory, transition to turbulence, linear and nonlinear wave propagation.
Prerequisite: AME 530a and AME 526
Recommended Preparation: Familiarity with ordinary and partial differential equations, and introductory fluid mechanics concepts at the level of AME 530a
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 532a Flight Vehicle Stability and Control Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Response of flight to linear, nonlinear, and randomly defined disturbances. Generation and measurement of error signals in navigational systems. Stability and control techniques.
Recommended Preparation: AME 459 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 532b Flight Vehicle Stability and Control Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Response of flight to linear, nonlinear, and randomly defined disturbances. Generation and measurement of error signals in navigational systems. Stability and control techniques.
Recommended Preparation: AME 459 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 533 Multi-Phase Flows Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Physics of the interaction between phases, empirical and analytical methods of solution to relevant technological problems.
Prerequisite: AME 457 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 534 Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Thermal-fluid phenomena for nuclear power stations. Heat generation by nuclear reactions, conduction in fuel rods, and transport of generated heat by convection, boiling, and condensation.
Prerequisite: AME 457 or AME 530a ; and AME 526 and AME 581 ;
Recommended Preparation: undergraduate degree in engineering.
Registration Restriction: Open only to master’s and doctoral students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 535a Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Convergence, consistency, stability: finite difference, finite element, and spectral methods; direct and iterative procedures for steady problems; linear diffusion and advection problems; non-linear advection problems.
Recommended Preparation: AME 526 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 535b Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Generalized curvilinear coordinates; grid generation; numerical techniques for transonic and supersonic inviscid flows; boundary layer flows; reduced Navier-Stokes equations; compressible and incompressible viscous flows.
Recommended Preparation: AME 511 or AME 530a , AME 535a .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 536 Biofluid Mechanics: Transport and Circulatory Systems Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
An analytical and theoretical introduction to fluid dynamics and transport phenomena of the physiological systems such as cardiovascular, respiratory and renal system.
Recommended Preparation: Elementary knowledge of fluid mechanics and solid mechanics; coursework in mathematical techniques for undergraduate engineering majors
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as BME 540 -
AME 537 Microfluidics Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Introduction to fluid dynamics in the microscale. Scaling parameters, dynamic, thermodynamic, electroosmotic and electrochemical forces. Flow in microdevices, external flow measurement and control, microvalves and micropumps. Limited to students with graduate standing.
Recommended Preparation: AME 309 , MATH 445 .
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 539 Multi-body Dynamics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Kinematics and kinetics of rigid body motion, quaternions; quaternions equations; elastic vibrations of continua; geometric and material nonlinearities; Galerkin methods; complex dynamical systems; computational methods.
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 541 Linear Control Systems II Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
State space representation, linearization, solution of state equations; controllability and observability; state feedback, state observers; optimal control; output feedback.
Prerequisite: AME 451
Recommended Preparation: Knowledge of a programming language (MATLAB, SIMULINK)
Duplicates Credit in EE 585
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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AME 542 Theory of Plates and Shells Units: 2
Terms Offered: Sp
(Enroll in CE 542 )
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AME 543 Structural Instability and Failure Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
(Enroll in CE 543 )
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AME 544 Computer Control of Mechanical Systems Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Computer control as applied to machine tools, mechanical manipulators, and other mechanical machinery; discrete time controller design; microprocessor implementation of motion and force control servos.
Prerequisite: AME 451 .
Grading Option: Letter
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