General Engineering (ENGR)

General Engineering (ENGR)

ENGR 500  Systems Engineering  3 Credit Hour(s)  

The course examines the principles of systems engineering, with emphasis on their application throughout the life cycle. Methodology is based on a total systems view of the user.

Offered: Online

ENGR 501  Numerical Methods  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Numerical solution of equations; error analysis; finite difference methods; numerical differentiation and integration; series expansions; difference equations; numerical solution of differential equations.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 503  Partial Differential Equations  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Basic concepts in the finite difference and finite element methods; methods for parabolic equations; analysis of stability and convergence.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 504  Ordinary Differential Equations  3 Credit Hour(s)  

General single-step, multistep, multi-value, and extrapolation methods for systems of nonlinear equations; convergence; error bounds; error estimates; stability; methods for stiff systems; current literature.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 505  Finite Element Analysis  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Introduction to the mathematical theory, formulation, and computer implementation of the finite element method. Application to one-and two-dimensional problems in engineering mechanics.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 507  Fundamentals of Mechanics  3 Credit Hour(s)  

The aim of this course is to educate the student in the areas of 1) statics, 2) dynamics, and 3) strength of materials. The content will include Newton’s Laws, forces, moments, torques, free body diagrams, equilibrium, kinematics of motion, velocity, acceleration, energy, momentum, stress, strain, and constitutive relationships.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor or pursuing a MS Engineering Non-Thesis or Thesis degree

Offered: Resident

ENGR 511  Linear Optimal Control  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course discusses modern advanced graduate level control engineering techniques such as vector random process, robust stability and performance test, linear-quadratic regulator, and the linear-quadratic Gaussian controller design. The method is to provide a means of incorporating frequency domain specifications into control system designs.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor or pursuing a MS Engineering Non-Thesis or Thesis degree

Offered: Resident

ENGR 512  Computing Languages (Python, MATLAB, C, C++, Fortran)  3 Credit Hour(s)  

An introduction to programming language (Python, Matlab, C, C++, Fortran) specification and analysis. Additional topics include control structures, data types, and structures, run-time environments, binding strategies, compilers, and interpreters.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 514  PLC Programming  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course integrates fundamental concepts in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Engineering and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) with an emphasis on design and application to factory automation and process control.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 515  User Interface Design for Embedded Systems  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course introduces fundamental design principles relevant to the design of the human interface to embedded systems. The major topics to be discussed include universal design principles, user research methods, the characteristics of tasks supported by embedded systems, user interface design process, and methods for evaluating an interface design.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor or pursuing a MS Engineering Non-Thesis or Thesis degree

Offered: Resident

ENGR 517  Advanced Thermodynamics  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Postulational treatment of the physical laws of equilibrium, thermostatics. Equations of state, processes, equilibrium stability, reactive systems, phase transitions.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 519  Advanced Data Analysis and Machine Learning  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Prerequisite: Linear Algebra-MATH321 with a score of 5

Machine learning introduces and emphasizes the methods that are used to provide computers the ability to perform various levels of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning focuses on the development of computer programs and algorithms as well as the underlying data requirements that can enable computers to teach themselves, self-organize objects, and to grow or change when exposed to new data or sensory information.

Registration Restrictions: It is the student's responsibility to ensure all course pre-requisite requirements are fulfilled before signing up or attending this course

Offered: Resident

ENGR 520  Law for Engineers  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course includes the study of contracts, Intellectual property law, patents, copyright, trademark, trade secrets, ethics and other legal matters important to engineers.

Offered: Online

ENGR 521  Advanced Heat Transfer  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Condensation and boiling, analytical and numerical techniques for conduction and convection, gray-body and spectral-dependent radiation, transient and steady-state thermal modeling.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 525  Continuum Mechanics  3 Credit Hour(s)  

An introduction to the general theory of continuous media and its application to the theories of elasticity and fluid mechanics.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 527  Advanced Mechanics of Materials  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Stress, strain, stress-strain relationships, strain energy, failure theories, curved beams, unsymmetrical bending, shear center, torsion of noncircular sections, energy principles, Castigliano's theorem, inelastic behavior.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 531  Advanced Electromagnetics  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course covers contemporary topics in advanced engineering electromagnetics. This includes topics relevant to electromagnetic field theory, radar systems, RF/microwave engineering, antenna design, and electromagnetic compatibility.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 541  Inelasticity  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course covers plasticity, creep, viscoelasticity, and inelastic behavior in relation to microstructure-property relations, constitutive modeling at different length scales, and computational simulations.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 543  Damage and Fracture  3 Credit Hour(s)  

History of fracture and development of fracture mechanics principles. Linear elastic and elastic-plastic stress analysis of cracked bodies. ASTM standards and applications.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructors

Offered: Resident

ENGR 545  Fatigue  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Prediction and prevention of fatigue failure in metallic material.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 555  Industrial Ergonomics  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course will teach students the principles of industrial ergonomics. It focuses on physical ergonomics and ergonomic assessment tools. At the end of the course students will have used the most common ergonomic assessment tools and will be able to assess the risk of musculoskeletal injuries.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor or pursuing a MS Engineering Non-Thesis or Thesis degree

Offered: Resident

ENGR 565  Introduction to Computer Networks  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Emphasis is placed on network transport services and key protocols to include TCP, IP, and UDP. Topics include application of network design and implementation of robust performance based computer networks, and an introduction to wireless and mobile networks.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor or pursuing a MS Engineering Non-Thesis or Thesis degree

Offered: Resident

ENGR 590  Strategic Planning  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Students will focus on strategic planning and goal setting and how external environments and internal dynamics affect the planning process.

Registration Restrictions: Should be taken within the final 6 hours of program requirements

Offered: Online

ENGR 595  Directed Individual Study in Engineering  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Research-oriented project or an independently completed course of study in a specially designed area as approved and supervised by the instructor. May be repeated for up to 6 credits.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 596  Graduate Orientation/Seminar Series  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Course provides a graduate program orientation and lecture series which includes visiting lecturers.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 597  Special Topics in Engineering  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Title to be arranged. This course is to be used on a limited basis to offer developing subject matter areas not covered in existing courses. (Courses limited to two offerings under one title within two academic years).

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 606  Computational Fluid Dynamics  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Elementary aspects of computational fluid dynamics (CFD); review of numerical analysis and fluid mechanics as pertinent to CFD; numerical solution to selected fluid dynamic problems.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 608  Multiphase Flows  3 Credit Hour(s)  

The aim of this course is to educate the student about the many facets of jointly flowing immiscible phases, in terms of 1) physics, 2) applications, and 3) simulations. The content will span the four possible combinations of gas-liquid (g-l), liquid-solid (l-s), gas-solid (g-s), and gas-liquid-solid (g-l-s). In the case of solids, the focus is on the behavior of particulate matter as an aggregate and not solid mechanics. For the first three (g-l, l-s, and g-s), course material will cover both volume fraction extrema e.g., nearly all gas g-l and nearly all liquid g-l. Interphase turbulence will be discussed.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 610  Physics and Modeling of Turbulence  3 Credit Hour(s)  

This course will demystify “turbulence” and train students in the art of turbulence assessment and quantification. We will provide a foundation in the nature of turbulence, along with an appreciation of the impacts of turbulence in nearly limitless fluid mechanics scenarios.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 615  Bio-Inspired Design  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Provides an overview of non-conventional mechanical approaches in nature and shows how this knowledge can lead to more creativity in mechanical design and to better (simpler, smaller, more robust) solutions than with conventional technology.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 616  Design Optimization  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Introduction to optimality criteria and optimization techniques for solving constrained or unconstrained optimization problems. Sensitivity analysis and approximation. Computer application in optimization. Introduction to MDO.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 631  Composite Materials  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Stress, strain, constitutive relations for anisotropic material, lamina properties, laminate properties, composite beams and plates.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 633  Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites  3 Credit Hour(s)  

To provide an introductory exposition to the composition-process-structure-property relationships related to polymers and polymer nanocomposites. This course will be divided in two parts: (I) starting with a review on electron configuration and bonding, the first part will cover polymer chemistry, structure, and configuration. Mechanical, electrical, optical, thermal, magnetic, ion transport, and other properties of polymers will be discussed. (II) The second part of the course will focus solely on polymer nanocomposites, particularly on, (a) the multiplicative contributions of matrix and dispersed phases, and (b) the factors that affect the interaction between the two phases: dispersion, interfacial region, solubility, loading, size and geometrical effects. Applications and manufacturing processes for PNCs will be outlined as well.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor or pursuing a MS Engineering Non-Thesis or Thesis degree

Offered: Resident

ENGR 635  Materials Processing Methods  3 Credit Hour(s)  

The fundamental linkages between processing, structure and properties will be addressed with emphasis on micro- and nano-structural impacts on properties.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 637  Materials Characterization Methods (SEM, OM)  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Characterization of advanced material behaviors for pavement subgrades, bases and surface courses, Stress dependency, viscoelasticity, repeated load moduli, and stabilization are central behaviors of interest.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 639  Mechanical Metallurgy  3 Credit Hour(s)  

The mechanical and metallurgical fundamentals of metals are discussed. Mechanical fundamentals cover the stress and strain relationships and metallurgical fundamentals cover the Microstructure.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 651  Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Survey course of various length scale computational analysis related to materials modeling. Emphasis upon projects and exercises.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 687  Thesis Research in Engineering  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Thesis research and proposal development.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 688  Thesis Research in Engineering  6 Credit Hour(s)  

Thesis research and proposal development.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 689  Thesis Research in Engineering  9 Credit Hour(s)  

Thesis research and proposal development.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 690  Thesis Defense in Engineering  0 Credit Hour(s)  

Students will publicly defend their thesis research project.

Registration Restrictions: Consent of Instructor

Offered: Resident

ENGR 695  Directed Research  3 Credit Hour(s)  

Offered: Resident

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