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MECE E6614y Advanced topics in robotics
and mechanism synthesis
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: APMA E2101, E3101, MECE
E4602 (or COMS W4733). Recommended: MECE
E3401 or instructor’s permission. Kinematic
modeling methods for serial, parallel, redundant,
wire-actuated robots and multifingered hands with
discussion of open research problems. Introduction
to screw theory and line geometry tools for
kinematics. Applications of homotropy continuation
methods and symbolic-numerical methods for
direct kinematics of parallel robots and synthesis of
mechanisms. Course uses
textbook materials as well as a collection of recent
research papers.
MECE E6620x or y Applied signal recognition
and classification
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: MATH E1210, APMA E3101,
knowledge of a programming language, or
permission of instructor. Applied recognition
and classification of signals using a selection
of tools borrowed from different disciplines.
Applications include human biometrics, imaging,
geophysics, machinery, electronics, networking,
languages, communications, and finance.
Practical algorithms are covered in signal
generation, modeling, feature extraction, metrics
for comparison and classification, parameter
estimation, supervised, unsupervised and
hierarchical clustering and learning, optimization,
scaling and alignment, signals as codes emitted
from natural sources, information, and extremely
large-scale search techniques.
MECE E6700y Carbon nanotube science and
technology
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Hone.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of introductory solid
state physics (e.g., PHYS G4018, APPH E6081,
or MSAE E3103) or instructor’s permission.
Basic science of solid state systems. Crystal
structure, electronic and phonon band structures
of nanotubes. Synthesis of nanotubes and other
nanomaterials. Experimental determination
of nanotube structures and techniques for
nanoscale imaging. Theory and measurement of
mechanical, thermal, and electronic properties of
nanotubes and nanomaterials. Nanofabrication and
nanoelectronic devices. Applications of nanotubes.
MECE E6710x or y Nanofabrication laboratory
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: ELEN E6945 or instructor’s
permission. Laboratory in techniques for
fabrication at the nanometer scale. Electronbeam
lithography. Plasma etching and 3D
nanofabrication. Thin film deposition. Selfassembly
and “bottom up” nanofabrication.
Fabrication of and testing of complete
nanodevices. A lab fee of $300 is required.
MECE E6720x Nano/microscale thermal
transport process
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Nano- and microscale origins of thermal
transport phenomena by molecules, electrons,
phonons, and photons. Quantum mechanics
and statistical physics. Density of states.
Kinetic theory of gases. Boltzmann transport
equation (BTE), classical and quantum size
effects. Landauer formalism for transport
via nanostructures. Macroscopic constitutive
equations from BTE. Application to electronics
cooling, thermoelectric and thermophotovoltaic
devices, and energy conversion.
MECE E8020x-E8021y Master’s thesis
1–3 pts. Members of the faculty.
Interpretive research in graduate areas in
mechanical engineering and engineering science.
MECE E8100y Advanced topics in fluid
mechanics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: MECE E6100. This course may
be taken more than once, since its content has
minimal overlap between consecutive years.
Selected topics from viscous flow, turbulence,
compressible flow, rarefied gas dynamics,
computational methods, and dynamical systems
theory, non-Newtonian fluids, etc.
EEME E8601y Advanced topics in control theory
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: EEME E6601 and E4601 or
instructor’s permission This course may be taken
more than once, since the content changes from
year to year, electing different topics from control
theory such as learning and repetitive control,
adaptive control, system identification, Kalman
filtering, etc.
MECE E8990x and y Special topics in
mechanical engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Instructor to be announced.
Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission. This course
may be taken for credit more than once. The instructor
from the Mechanical Engineering Department
and the topics covered in the course will vary from
year to year. This course is intended for students
with graduate standing in Mechanical Engineering
and other engineering and applied sciences.
Topic for Spring 2012: Small-scale
mechanical behavior
3 pts. Lect: 3. Instructor to be announced.
Prerequisites: ENME E3105 or equivalent;
APMA E4200 or equivalent. Introduction to the
mechanical behavior of small scale components,
structures and devices. Review of variational
calculus as used to derive governing equations
of beam and plate theory. Deformation and
vibration of beams and plates. Stress, deformation,
and substrate curvature in thin films. Fracture,
delamination, bulging,
buckling and of thin films. Equilibrium and
stability of surfaces. Small scale mechanical
characterization including: nanoindentation, thin
film bulge test, and electron microscopy methods.
MECE E9000x-E9001y and E9002s Graduate
research and study
1–3 pts. Members of the faculty.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in
graduate areas in mechanical engineering and
engineering science.
MECE E9500x and y Graduate seminar
0 pts. Pass/fail only. Instructor to be announced.
All doctoral students are required to complete
successfully four semesters of the mechanical
engineering seminar MECE E9500.
MECE E9800x and y Doctoral research
instruction
3, 6, 9, or 12 pts. Members of the faculty.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in
mechanical engineering must register for 12 points
of doctoral research instruction. Registration in
MECE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the
minimum residence requirement for the degree.
MECE E9900x and y Doctoral dissertation
0 pts. Members of the faculty.
A candidate for the doctorate may be required to
register for this course every term after his/her
course work has been completed and until the
dissertation has been accepted.
engineering 2011–2012