Schedule of Classes

Full-time cooperative education assignment for mechanical engineering students who alternate periods of full-time school with periods of full-time academic or career-related work in industry. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

Special topics or projects of an experimental, analytical, or creative nature. May be repeated up to 16 credit hours.

Steady state and transient conduction; external and internal forced convection and free convection; radiation; heat exchanger design.

Laws and concepts of classical thermodynamics: real gases and equations of state; availability; irreversibility; property relations; potential functions; equilibrium; multicomponent systems.

Analysis of statics and dynamics of non-viscous and viscous fluids. Derivation of differential equations of motion. Potential flow; vortex motion; creeping motion; introduction to boundary layer theory; turbulence.

Definition and scope of fluid power control systems. Fluid properties. Continuity and power balance equations. Components function, operation, and dynamic performance. Use of perturbation theory for developing linearized transfer functions. Application of conventional control theory.

Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Topic stated in current Schedule of Classes. Graduate students may repeat the course under different topic names up to a maximum of 9 credits.

Individual study on a topic selected by the student with advisor approval. Integration and application of research. Student must produce a product such as a software program or journal article

Maximum of 6 semester hours total of research and/or thesis may be applied toward the master s degree.