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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
  

  • AME 560 Fatigue and Fracture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in MASC 560 )
  

  • AME 561 Dislocation Theory and Applications

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in MASC 561 )
  

  • AME 567 Collaborative Engineering Principles and Practice

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in ISE 567 )
  

  • AME 572L Experimental Engineering Projects

    Units: 3
    Experimental methods appropriate to engineering research, emphasizing interdisciplinary investigations. Individual projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 573 Aerosol Physics and Chemistry

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of the fundamentals of aerosol formation and evolution, aerosol effects on health and climate, and the principles of aerosol measurement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 575 Advanced Engineering Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Solution of engineering problems by methods of calculus variations, integral equations, asymptotic expansions.
    Prerequisite: CE 525   or AME 525  and AME 526 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 576 Advanced Engineering Analytical Methods

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Solution of engineering problems by methods of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations of first and second order; perturbations.
    Prerequisite: AME 525  or AME 526  or CE 525  or CE 526 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 577 Survey of Energy and Power for a Sustainable Future

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Power production includes conventional fossil fuels, synthetic fuels, hydroelectric, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and nuclear. The environmental consequences of various energy sources are discussed.
    Duplicates Credit in CHE 510.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 578 Modern Alternative Energy Conversion Devices

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Alternative energy/power conversion including fuel cells, photovoltaic, batteries, and biologically inspired energy processes; biomass conversion and utilization; Environmental implications of alternative energy processes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 579 Combustion Chemistry and Physics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Thermodynamics of combustion processes. Reaction mechanisms of hydrocarbon combustion. Pollutant formation. Theories and application of thermochemical kinetics and reaction rate theories. Transport in reacting flows.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 581 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Review of basic nuclear physics, binding energy, reactor kinetics, thermal transport in reactor systems, radioactivity, shielding, reactor safety and health effects of radiation, risk assessment. Open only to graduate students.
    Recommended Preparation: Undergraduate degree in engineering; AME 310 , MATH 245 , PHYS 153L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 582 Nuclear Reactor Physics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Neutron-induced fission chain reactions, reactor criticality. Neutron transport and diffusion in nuclear reactors. Mathematical/computational foundation for diffusion theory and transport calculations for fission reactor design/analysis.
    Prerequisite: AME 526  and AME 581 ;
    Recommended Preparation: undergraduate degree in engineering and PHYS 153L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 583 Effects of Radiation on Health

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Nuclear physics relevant to human health. Biological effects of radiation, quantification and measurement of different types of radiation affecting living tissue, radiation protection, nuclear accidents.
    Prerequisite: AME 526  and AME 581 ;
    Recommended Preparation: undergraduate degree in engineering and PHYS 153L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 584 Fracture Mechanics and Mechanisms

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in MASC 584 )
  

  • AME 585 Aerospace Structures II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of repairs in aircraft/launch vehicles. Flexible dynamics for spacecraft, random vibration, deployable spacecraft components, certification of thermal protection systems. Practical finite element analysis.
    Prerequisite: AME 485 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 588 Materials Selection

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in MASC 583 )
  

  • AME 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of mechanical engineering.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 620 Aero and Hydrodynamic Wave Theory

    Units: 3
    Linear and nonlinear wave motion in fluids: group velocity, dispersion, wave action, wave patterns, evolution equations, solitons and solitary waves, resonance phenomena.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 526  and CE 309 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 621 Stability of Fluids

    Units: 3
    Linear and nonlinear stability analysis applied to free shear layers, boundary layers and jets; Rayleigh-Benard convective instabilities and centrifugal instability of rotating flows.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 530b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 623 Dynamics of Stratified and Rotating Flows

    Units: 3
    Fluid motions in which density gradients and/or rotation are important, including internal wave motions with rotation, flow past obstacles, viscous effects, singular perturbations.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 530b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 624 The Fluid Dynamics of Natural Phenomena

    Units: 3
    Application of the basic concepts of rotating, stratified fluid motion to problems in meteorology, oceanography, geophysics and astrophysics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 626 Singular Perturbation Methods

    Units: 3
    Asymptotic series, W.K.B. approximation, method of steepest descent, stationary phase; matched asymptotic expansions and method of multiple scales applied to ordinary and partial differential equations.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 526 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 630 Transition to Chaos in Dynamical Systems

    Units: 3
    Bifurcation theory and universal routes to chaos in deterministic systems; application to maps and differential flows; characterization of strange attractors.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 526 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 640 Advanced Theory of Elasticity

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 640 )
  

  • AME 645 Uncertainty Modeling and Stochastic Organization

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 645 )
  

  • AME 647 Multiscale Methods in Mechanics

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 647 )
  

  • AME 651 Statistical Theories of Turbulence

    Units: 3
    Stationary stochastic processes. Isotropic turbulence; governing equations for the velocity correlation and spectrum functions. Turbulent diffusion. Scalar fluctuations in a turbulent field.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 530b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 652 Turbulent Shear Flows

    Units: 3
    Free shear layers. Turbulent flows in pipes and channels. Turbulent boundary layers. Effects of compressibility. Sound radiation by turbulence.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 530b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • AME 690 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Laboratory study of specific problems by candidates for the degree Engineer in Mechanical Engineering.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 694a Thesis

    Units: 2
    Required for the degree Engineer in Aerospace Engineering. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 694b Thesis

    Units: 2
    Required for the degree Engineer in Aerospace Engineering. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 694z Thesis

    Units: 0
    Required for the degree Engineer in Aerospace Engineering. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • AME 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

 

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