Mar 28, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 
    
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 101L Introduction to Mechanical Engineering and Graphics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Gateway to the bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. Introduction to mechanical engineering disciplines and practice; graphical communication and layout of machine parts; introduction to computer-aided drafting and drawing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 201 Statics

    Units: 3
    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: PHYS 151Lg  or PHYS 161Lg  or PHYS 171L  
    Recommended Preparation: AME 101L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD 203
  
  • AME 204 Strength of Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Stress, strain and deflection of mechanical elements due to tension, shear, bending, or torsion; combined loads; energy methods, statically indeterminate structures; strength-based design.
    Prerequisite: AME 201  or CE 205 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD 204
  
  • AME 222 Fundamentals of Audio Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in EE 222 )
  
  • AME 231L Mechanical Behavior of Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Material properties of metals, ceramics, and composites; stress-strain relationships; microstructural characteristics; fracture, fatigue, and creep; effects of processing.
    Corequisite: AME 204 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD 231L
  
  • 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  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • AME 301 Dynamics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    2-D and 3-D kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies; systems of particles and rigid bodies; coupled rigid bodies; introduction to vibrations.
    Prerequisite: AME 201  or CE 205 
    Recommended Preparation: PHYS 151Lg 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD 301
  
  • 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 325.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 308 Computer-Aided Analyses for Aero-Mechanical Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to the finite element method; practical application of computer analysis tools for structural analysis and design.
    Prerequisite: AME 204 ;
    Corequisite: AME 301 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 310 Engineering Thermodynamics I

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental laws of thermodynamics applied to actual and perfect gases and vapors; energy concepts, processes, and applications.
    Prerequisite: MATH 226  or MATH 227  or MATH 229 
    Recommended Preparation: PHYS 151Lg , high-level programming language
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 312 Engineering Thermodynamics II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Application of thermodynamic principles to fluid flow, power cycles, and refrigeration.
    Prerequisite: AME 310 ;
    Recommended Preparation: high-level programming language.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 341aL Mechoptronics Laboratory I and II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A coordinated laboratory and lecture sequence on aeromechanical instrumentation and device control stressing the symbiotic integration of mechanical, optical and electronic components.
    Prerequisite: (PHYS 152L  or PHYS 162L  ) and (MATH 126  or MATH 127  or MATH 129  )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 341bL Mechoptronics Laboratory I and II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A coordinated laboratory and lecture sequence on aeromechanical instrumentation and device control stressing the symbiotic integration of mechanical, optical and electronic components.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 152L , MATH 126 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 423L Loudspeaker and Sound-System Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in EE 423Lx )
  
  • AME 428 Mechanics of Materials

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 428 )
  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 436 Energy and Propulsion

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    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 ; AME 309  or CE 309 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 441aL 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 341bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 341bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EE-481l
  
  • AME 451 Linear Control Systems I

    Units: 3
    Transform methods, block diagrams; transfer functions; stability; root-locus and frequency domain analysis and design; state space and multiloop systems.
    Prerequisite: AME 302  and MATH 245 .
    Duplicates Credit in EE 482.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 458 Theory of Structures II

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 458 )
  
  • 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

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 461 Formation Evaluation

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in PTE 461 )
  
  • AME 462 Economic, Risk and Formation Productivity Analysis

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in PTE 462 )
  
  • AME 463L Introduction to Transport Processing in Porous Media

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in PTE 463L )
  
  • AME 464L Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in PTE 464L )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
  
  • AME 465L Drilling Technology and Subsurface Methods

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in PTE 465L )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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

  
  • 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 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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

  
  • AME 503 Advanced Mechanical Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Specific problems and methods of analysis in mechanical systems design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 507 Mechanics of Solids I

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 507 )
  
  • AME 509 Applied Elasticity

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Condensed treatment dealing with engineering applications of the principles of elasticity, using the theories of elasticity, elastic stability, and plates and shells.
    Prerequisite: AME 403 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 511 Compressible Gas Dynamics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, compressible flow equations, shock and expansion waves, similarity, shock-expansion techniques and linearized flow applied to bodies, characteristics, theory of boundary layers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 513 Principles of Combustion

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Thermochemistry, equilibrium, chemical kinetics, flame temperature, flame velocity, flame stability, diffusion flames spray combustion, detonation. Equations of motion including reaction, heat transfer, and diffusion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CHE-513
  
  • AME 514 Applications of Combustion and Reacting Flows

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced topics and modern developments in combustion and reacting flows including ignition and extinction, pollutant formation, microscale and microgravity combustion, turbulent combustion and hypersonic propulsion.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 513 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 515 Advanced Problems in Heat Conduction

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Review of analytical methods in heat conduction; moving boundaries melting and freezing; sources and sinks, anisotropic and composite media; numerical methods for steady and unsteady problems.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 331 , AME 526 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 516 Convection Processes

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of isothermal and nonisothermal boundary layers. Exact and approximate solutions of laminar and turbulent flows. Variable-property and high-speed effects; dimensional analysis.
    Prerequisite: AME 457 ;
    Recommended Preparation: AME 526 , AME 331 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as BISC-522, BME-520
  
  • AME 521 Engineering Vibrations II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Multi-degree of freedom systems; modal analysis. Rayleigh’s quotient. Continuous systems; modal analysis. Beams, rods, membranes. Colocations, Galerkin, Rayleigh Ritz methods; finite elements.
    Prerequisite: AME 420 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 522 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Vibrations, and Chaos

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Lagrange equations; nonlinear maps and differential equations; fixed points; periodic motion; qualitative/quantitative and local/global analysis; higher order systems; stability; bifurcations; chaos; fractals.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 524 Advanced Engineering Dynamics

    Units: 3
    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, Hamilton-Jacobi equation.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 521 , AME 525 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 525 Engineering Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Typical engineering problems discussed on a physical basis. Vector analysis; functions of complex variables, infinite series, residues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 526 Engineering Analytical Methods

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Typical engineering problems discussed on a physical basis. Fourier series; Fourier integrals; Laplace transform; partial differential equations; Bessel function.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 528a Finite Element Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in CE 529a )
  
  • AME 528b Finite Element Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in CE 529b )
  
  • AME 529 Aircraft Structures Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The direct stiffness (finite element) method for analysis of semimonocoque structures; energy methods; elasticity, plates and shells, vibration, and stability; system identification.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 530a Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 530b Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 539 Multi-body Dynamics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Kinematics and kinetics of rigid body motion, quaternions; elastic vibrations of continua; geometric and material nonlinearities; Galerkin methods; meshless finite elements; complex dynamical systems; computational methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 541 Linear Control Systems II

    Units: 3
    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  
    Duplicates Credit in EE 585 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 542 Theory of Plates

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 542 )
  
  • 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 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 545 Modeling and Control of Distributed Dynamic Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Modeling and analysis of complex flexible mechanical systems; distributed transfer function synthesis; frequency-domain control methods; smart structure design; applications in vibration and noise control.
    Prerequisite: AME 521  and AME 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 547 Foundations for Manufacturing Automation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals of contemporary manufacturing automation; underlying building blocks of the automation system; mechanics-based models for designing automation system; and physical and decision-making aspects of automation.
    Recommended Preparation: AME 451  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 548 Analytical Methods in Robotics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Homogeneous transformations; formal description of robot manipulators; kinematic equations and their solution; differential relationships; dynamics; control; static forces; compliance.
    Prerequisite: EE 545 ; EE 482  or AME 451 ; knowledge of linear algebra.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EE-548
  
  • AME 549 Systems Architecting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    (Enroll in SAE 549 )
  
  • AME 550 Seminar in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 03
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Recent developments and research in aerospace and mechanical engineering and related fields. Oral and written reports.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to AME graduate students.
    Duplicates Credit in former AME 550a and former AME 550b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • AME 551 Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in MASC 551 )
  
  • AME 552 Nonlinear Control Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Phase plane, describing functions, applications to mechanical and aerospace systems. Lyapunov direct and indirect methods, applications; Popov circle criteria applications.
    Prerequisite: AME 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • AME 553aL Digital Control Systems

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in EE 543aL , EE 543bL )
    Instruction Mode: (Lab is required for the b section only.)
  
  
  • AME 559 Creep

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in MASC 559 )
 

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