Calendar 2005-2006 - The University of Akron

252 4450: Computer Engineering 2005-2006
481 MODERN POWER SYSTEMS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 381. Introduction to electricity utility load flow, faulty analysis, stability, surge protection
and relaying.
483/583 POWER ELECTRONICS I 3 credits
Prerequisite: 332. Steady-state analysis and design of power electronic converters: AC/DC converters
(rectifiers), DC/DC converters, DC/AC PWM and resonant converters, AC/AC converters and
cycloconverters.
484/584 POWER ELECTRONICS LABORATORY AND DESIGN PROJECT 2 credits
Prerequisite: 483/583 or equivalent. Experiments on different types of power electronic converters:
AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC, and AC/AC. Design project to include design, simulation, building, and testing
of a power electronic circuit.
490 INTRODUCTION TO SENSORS AND ACTUATORS 3 credits
Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission. Introduction to the theory and practice of sensors and
actuators; sensing and actuation technologies; performance, and interfacing.
497 HONORS PROJECT 1-3 credits
(May be repeated for a total of six credits) Prerequisite: senior standing in Honors College.
Individual creative project or design relevant to electrical engineering, supervised by faculty member
of the department.
498/598 TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1-2 credits
(May be taken more than once) Prerequisite: permission of department head. Special topics in
electrical engineering.
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
4450:
208 PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 4400:101 or permission. Introduction to programming. Environment and tools.
C programming language. Machine level data forms and organization.
330 COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 4400:263, 3460:209. Introduces the design and architecture of modern computer
systems. Data and instruction representation. Conventional computer organization. Hardware
and software design processes. The hardware/software interface.
370 VLSI DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisite: 4400:360, 465.Use of VSLI design environments in the development of large digital
systems. Schematic capture, simulation and verification. Integration of standard building blocks.
Design project.
375 OPERATING SYSTEMS CONCEPTS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 330, 3460:316. Process communication and resource sharing. Deadlock resolution.
Memory management. File systems. Introduction to network operating systems.
410 COMPUTER METHODS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 208 and senior standing. Numerical modeling for embedded scientific applications.
Accuracy with fixed and floating point systems. Analysis of complexity. Distributed processing.
Object-oriented packaging in C++.
420/520 OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisites: 208 or equivalent. Investigation of object-oriented design paradigm and the design
implementation with the object-oriented programming language C++.
432 SYSTEM SIMULATION 3 credits
Prerequisite: 410 and 4400:371. Simulation of continuous systems on a digital computer.
Methods and tools for linear, nonlinear, and chaotic systems.
441 EXPERT SYSTEMS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 3 credits
Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission. Introduction to the design and development of
expert systems.
442 KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING 3 credits
Prerequisite: 441 or equivalent. Study of knowledge acquisition and expert system project management.
443 FRAME-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisite: permission. Introduction to the design and development of frame-based expert systems.
444 FUZZY LOGIC EXPERT SYSTEM DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisite: permission. Introduction to the design and development of fuzzy logic expert systems.
445 APPLIED DATA MINING 3 credits
Prerequisite: senior standing or permission. Introduction to the design and development of data mining
systems. Extensive use of data mining software to build systems applied to real-world problems.
470/570 VLSI CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 370. Advanced VLSI design. MOSFET structures, design rules and fabrication. Static,
dynamic CMOS. PLAs, ROMs and RAMs. Layout methodologies and tools. System architecture.
480 COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN 3 credits
Prerequisite: 330. Design of advanced processors at the microarchitecture level. Pipelining.
Superscale, vector and VLIW architecture. Instruction-level parallelism. Compiler support.
Multiprocessor architectures.
497/597 SPECIAL TOPICS: COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1-2 credits
(May be taken more than once) Prerequisite: permission of department chair. Special topics in
computer engineering.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
4600:
165 TOOLS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 3 credits
Corequisite: 3450:149. Personal computer DOS system, word processing, spreadsheet, computer-aided
drafting, math calculating package, mechanical graphics, and introduction to
mechanical engineering program and curriculum.
203 DYNAMICS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 3450:222, 3650:291, 4300:201. Corequisite: 3450:223. Kinematics and kinetics of
particles and rigid bodies. Principles of work, energy, momentum and impulse.
300 THERMODYNAMICS I 3 credits
Prerequisite: 3450:223. Corequisite: 3650:292. Basic concepts of thermodynamics. Pure substances,
closed and open systems, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Entropy, vapor power
cycles and vapor compression refrigeration.
301 THERMODYNAMICS II 2 credits
Prerequisites: 300, and 3450:335. Absorption refrigeration. Gas cycles, thermodynamics of
state, gas mixtures and gas-vapor mixtures. Combustion.
305 THERMAL SCIENCE 2 credits
Prerequisite: 3450:223. Corequisite: 3650:292. Credit not allowed for both 300 and 305.
Introduction to first and second laws of thermodynamics, perfect gas relationships, equations of
state, cycle analysis. Introduction to conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer.
310 FLUID MECHANICS I 3 credits
Prerequisite: 203 and 3450:335. Properties and behavior of gases and liquids at rest and in
motion. Energy equation. Flow in conduits. Forces on body submerged in moving fluid.
Dimensional analysis and similitude.
311 FLUID MECHANICS II 2 credits
Prerequisite: 310. The boundary layer. External viscous flows and potential flow. Fundamentals
of compressible flow. Concepts of computational fluid dynamics.
315 HEAT TRANSFER 3 credits
Prerequisites: 310 or 4800:360; 4600:300, 360 . Fundamentals of heat transfer by conduction,
convection and radiation.
321 KINEMATICS OF MACHINES 3 credits
Prerequisites: 165, 203. Displacements, velocities, accelerations and introduction to plan motion
mechanisms. Introduction to design of gears, gear trains and cams.
336 ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL COMPONENTS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 4300:202. Corequisite: 3450:335. Analysis of stress and strain at a point. Mohr’s
circles, shear centers, elastic instability. Stresses in thick and thin cylinders. Fatigue analysis.
337 DESIGN OF MECHANICAL COMPONENTS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 336. Application of stress analysis to design of fasteners, welds, springs, ball bearings
and gears. Introduction to journal bearings and lubrication. Component design projects.
340 SYSTEMS DYNAMICS AND RESPONSE 3 credits
Prerequisites: 203, 3450:335. A unified approach to modeling, analysis, response and stability of
engineering systems: analog, digital and hybrid computer simulation of interdisciplinary engineering
problems are included.
360 ENGINEERING ANALYSIS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 3450:335. Numerical methods of solution of mechanical engineering problems.
380 MECHANICAL METALLURGY 2 credits
Prerequisite: 3150:153. Corequisite: 4300:202. Structures of common metallic materials and
study of their macroscopic mechanical behavior. Phase changes and heat treatment. Theories of
failure.
400/500 THERMAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 301, 311, 315 or permission. Performance analysis and design of basic components
of thermal energy exchange and conversion systems. Components studied include heat
exchangers, pumps, compressors, turbines and expansion engines.
401 DESIGN OF ENERGY SYSTEMS 2 credits
Corequisites: 400, 441, 460. Analysis and design of systems for energy exchange. Performance
of energy system components and their integration into complex practical systems. Design project
required.
402 SENIOR SEMINAR 1credit
Corequisites: 400, 441, 460, 461, 4700:499. Students need further education in ethics, codes
and standards, intellectual property, product liability, safety issues, technical writing, diversity,
and job opportunities.
410/510 HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING 3 credits
Prerequisites: 301 or permission. Corequisite: 315 or permission. Thermodynamics of gas mixtures.
Design and selection of air conditioning equipment. Control of gas mixtures, heating, cooling
and humidity.
411/511 COMPRESSIBLE FLUID MECHANICS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 301, 311 or permission. Subsonic and supersonic flow in nozzles, diffusers and
ducts. One-dimensional reactive gas dynamics. Prandtl-Myer theory. Applications to design and
analysis of compressors, turbines and propulsion devices.
412/512 FUNDAMENTALS OF FLIGHT 3 credits
Prerequisite: 311 or permission. Introduction to basic aerodynamics, airplane performance, stability
and control, astronautics and propulsion. Design considerations are emphasized.
413/513 INTRODUCTION TO AERODYNAMICS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 311. Introduction of aerodynamic concepts; includes conformal transformations,
theory of thin airfoils, two-dimensional airfoil theory, wings of finite span, lifting line theories,
lumped vortex, vortex lattice, and panel methods.
414/514 INTRODUCTION TO AEROSPACE PROPULSION 3 credits
Prerequisite: 311. Introduction to propulsion systems currently used in aerospace fields; propulsion
principles for turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, chemical rockets, and electrical rocket propulsion.