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prescribed design problems. Problems will be
drawn from statics, kinematics, dynamics, solid
modeling, stress analysis, and design optimization.
MECE E3410y Engineering design
4 pts. Lect: 4. Professor Stolfi.
Prerequisite: Senior standing. Elements of the
design process: concept formulation, systems
synthesis, design analysis optimization. Selection
and execution of a project involving the design
of an actual engineering device or system. A
laboratory fee of $125 is collected.
MECE E3411y Fundamentals of engineering
1 pt. Lect: 3. Professor Stolfi.
Prerequisite: Senior standing. Review of core
courses in mechanical engineering, including
mechanics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics,
thermodynamics, heat transfer, materials and
processing, control, and mechanical design and
analysis. Review of additional topics, including
engineering economics and ethics in engineering.
The course culminates with a comprehensive
examination, similar to the Fundamentals of
Engineering examination. This course meets the
first 4.5 weeks only.
EEME E3601x Classical control systems
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Longman.
Prerequisite: MATH E1210. Analysis and design
of feedback control systems. Transfer functions;
block diagrams; proportional, rate, and integral
controllers; hardware, implementation. Routh
stability criterion, root locus, Bode and Nyquist
plots, compensation techniques.
MECE E3900x-E3901y Honors tutorial in
mechanical engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Members of the faculty.
Individual study; may be selected after the first
term of the junior year by students maintaining a
3.2 grade-point average. Normally not to be taken
in a student’s final semester. Course format may
vary from individual tutorial to laboratory work
to seminar instruction under faculty supervision.
Written application must be made prior to
registration outlining proposed study program.
Projects requiring machine-shop use must be
approved by the laboratory supervisor.
MECE E3998x and y Projects in mechanical
engineering
1-3 pts. Members of the faculty.
Prerequisite: Approval by faculty member who
agrees to supervise the work. Normally not to be
taken in a student’s final semester. Independent
project involving theoretical, computational,
experimental or engineering design work. May
be repeated, but no more than 3 points may be
counted toward degree requirements. Projects
requiring machine-shop use must be approved by
the laboratory supervisor.
MECE E4058x and y Mechatronics and
embedded microcomputer control
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Stolfi.
Prerequisite: ELEN E1201. Recommended:
ELEN E3000. Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Mechatronics is the application of electronics and
microcomputers to control mechanical systems.
Systems explored include on/off systems,
solenoids, stepper motors, DC motors, thermal
systems, magnetic levitation. Use of analog and
digital electronics and various sensors for control.
Programming microcomputers in Assembly and C.
A lab fee of $75.00 is collected. Lab required.
MECE E4100y Mechanics of fluids
3 pts. Lect: 3. Instructor to be announced.
Prerequisite: MECE E3100 or equivalent. Fluid
dynamics and analyses for mechanical engineering
and aerospace applications: boundary layers
and lubrication, stability and turbulence, and
compressible flow. Turbomachinery as well as
additional selected topics.
MECI E4210x Energy infrastructure planning
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Modi.
Prerequisites: One year each of college level
physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Energy
infrastructure planning with specific focus on
countries with rapidly growing infrastructure
needs. Spatiotemporal characteristics, scale, and
environmental footprints of energy resources,
power generation and storage, modeling
demand growth, technology choices and learning
for planning. Computer-assisted decision
support and network design/optimization tools.
Similarities, differences and interactions among
electricity, gas, information, transportation and
water distribution networks. Penetration of
renewable and/or decentralized technologies
into existing or new infrastructure. Special guest
lectures on infrastructure finance, regulation and
public-private partnerships.
MECE E4211x Energy: sources and
conversion
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Modi.
Prerequisite: MECE E3301. Energy sources such
as oil, gas, coal, gas hydrates, hydrogen, solar,
and wind. Energy conversion systems for electrical
power generation, automobiles, propulsion and
refrigeration. Engines, steam and gas turbines,
wind turbines; devices such as fuel cells,
thermoelectric converters, and photovoltaic cells.
Specialized topics may include carbon-dioxide
sequestration, cogeneration, hybrid vehicles and
energy storage devices.
MECE E4212x or y Microelectromechanical
systems
3 pts. Lect: 1.5. Lab: 3. Professor Wong.
MEMS markets and applications; scaling laws;
silicon as a mechanical material; Sensors and
actuators; micromechanical analysis and design;
substrate (bulk) and surface micromachining;
computer aided design; packaging; testing and
characterization; microfluidics.
MECE E4213y Biomicroelectromechanical
systems (BioMEMS): design, fabrication, and
analysis
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Lin.
Prerequisites: MECE E3100 and E3311, course in
transport phenomena, or instructor’s permission.
Silicon and polymer micro/nanofabrication
techniques; hydrodynamic microfluidic control;
electrokinetic microfluidic control; microfluidic
separation and detection; sample preparation;
micro bioreactors and temperature control;
implantable MEMS, including sensors, actuators
and drug delivery devices.
MECE E4302y Advanced thermodynamics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Kang.
Prerequisite: MECE E3301. Advanced classical
thermodynamics. Availability, irreversibility,
generalized behavior, equations of state for
nonideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and
chemical behavior, combustion. Thermodynamic
properties of ideal gases. Applications to
automotive and aircraft engines, refrigeration and
air conditioning, and biological systems.
MECE E4304x Turbomachinery
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Akbari.
This course will introduce you to the basics
of theory, design, selection and applications
of turbomachinery. Turbomachines are widely
used in many engineering applications such as
energy conversion, power plants, air-conditioning,
pumping, refrigeration and vehicle engines,
as there are pumps, blowers, compressors,
gas turbines, jet engines, wind turbines etc.
Applications are drawn from energy conversion
technologies, HVAC and propulsion. The course
provides a basic understanding of the different
kinds of turbomachines.
MECE E4305y Mechanics and
thermodynamics of propulsion
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Akbari.
Prerequisites: MECE E3301x Thermodynamics
and MECE E3311y Heat transfer; MECE
E4304x Turbomachinery (or instructor approval).
Principles of propulsion. Thermodynamic cycles
of air breathing propulsion systems including
ramjet, scramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engine
and rocket propulsion system concepts. Turbine
engine and rocket performance characteristics.
Component and cycle analysis of jet engines and
turbomachinery. Advanced propulsion systems.
Columbia Engineering interdisciplinary course.
IEME E4310x The manufacturing enterprise
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Weinig.
The strategies and technologies of global
manufacturing and service enterprises.
Connections between the needs of a global
enterprise, the technology and methodology
needed for manufacturing and product
development, and strategic planning as currently
practiced in industry.
MECE E4312x Solar thermal engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Narayanaswamy.
Prerequisite: MECE E3311 (Heat transfer).
Fundamentals of solar energy transport:
radiation heat transfer, convention, conduction
and phase change processes. Heat exchangers
and solar collectors: basic methods of thermal
design, flow arrangements, effects of variable
conditions, rating procedures. Solar energy
concentration. Piping Systems: series and
parallel arrangements, fluid movers. Thermal
response and management of photovoltaic
energy conversion. Solar energy storage. Solar
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