Mechanical & Civil Engineering

CIVE

Course Number, Credits & Title Course/Program Description
CIVE 458 (3) Stormwater Management Application of fluid mechanics and hydrology to the design of stormwater man age ment facilities.
CIVE 467 (3) Earth Structures Design and construction of traditional embankments, including slope stability analysis; earth and rockfi ll dams, including introduction to seepage analysis; excavations, earth retaining structures, and other geotechnical structures. Geotechnical software application in analysis and design.
CIVE 481 (3) Water & Wastewater Treatment, Collection & Distribution Overview of municipal water and wastewater treatment and distribution practices. CIVE 481 (3) Water & Wastewater Treatment, Collection & Distribution operation of water and wastewater treatment and distribution systems.

ME

Course Number, Credits & Title Course/Program Description
ME 102 (1) Introduction to Engineering II A continuation of ME 101 covering historical and global perspectives, engineering discipline and functions, professional aspects of engineering, ethical aspects of engineering, creativity and innovation, basics of personal computers-word processing and spread sheets, introduction to problem solving.
ME 299 (2) Thermal Analysis Basic principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. First and second laws of thermodynamics and application to engineering systems and their design. Not for mechanical engineering major.
ME 321 (3) Fluid Mechanics Introduction to fluid fl ow, fluid properties, fluid statics, the integral and differential approach to basic flow equations. Bernoulli’s equation, similitude and dimension al analysis, viscous internal and external flows, one dimensional compressible flow.
ME 324 (3) Heat Transfer Steady and unsteady conduction. Free and forced convection. Heat transfer by radiation. Combined modes of heat transfer. Elements of heat exchangers design.
ME 416 (3) Thermal/Fluid Systems Design The application of the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer to the design and analysis of selected energy systems of current interest, such as nuclear, solar, geothermal, and also conventional systems.
ME 426 (3) Aerosol Theory and Technology Introduction to the theory of aerosols and particulate systems. Properties, behavior, and physical principles of aerosols; including particle size statistics, Brownian motion and diffusion, and coagulation. Application in areas such as environmental systems, respiratory deposition, bioterrorism, and materials processing.
ME 429 (3) Energy Conversion Methods of energy conversion. Topics may include hydroelectric, geothermal, wind and solar power generation, as well as unconventional methods of energy conversion.
ME 439 (3) Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Refrigeration cycles and equipment, refrigerant properties, heating and cooling loads, psychometric analysis of air conditioning. Distribution of air con ditioning medium and air quality as applied to design.
ME 463 (3) Automatic Controls Analysis of control systems using the methods of Evans, Nyquist and Bode. Improvement of system performance by feedback compensation. Introduction to digital control.