MAE 1200: Engineering Graphics

Introduction to technical sketching, solid modeling, and engineering graphics. Concurrent engineering design process applied to a project. Students start with hand sketches, then move through rational geometry solid models, with tolerance analysis and control, until they have produced a complete set of manufacturing drawings conforming to the ASME standard.

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MAE 2160: Material Sciences

Study of atomic and microscopic structures of metals, polymers, ceramics, and composite materials, and how these structures affect material properties.

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MAE 2200: Engineering Numerical Methods I

Introduction to computational methods, emphasizing software development using FORTRAN 95.

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MAE 2250: Cooperative Practice

Planned work experience in industry. Detailed program must have prior approval. Written report required.

MAE 2300: Thermodynamics

First and second laws of thermodynamics; analysis of open and closed systems; equations of state; power and refrigeration cycles; and problem solving methodology.

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MAE 2450: Engineering Numerical Methods II

Explores basic tools of numerical analysis, solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations, software development using FORTRAN 95, and applications using computer algebra packages.

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MAE 2650: Manufacturing Processes

Introduction to manufacturing processes and CAD/CAM. Material forming, machining, finishing, and joining. Integrations of manufacturing and CAD, plus the fundamental and application of statistical process control.

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MAE 3040: Mechanics of Solids

Stress, strain, and deflection due to flexure and shear. Combined stresses, instability, nonsymmetric bending, torsion, and energy methods.

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MAE 3320: Advanced Dynamics

Particle and rigid body dynamics. Work and kinetic energy, conservation of energy, impulse-momentum, conservation of linear and angular momentum. Kinematics and kinetics in 2-D and 3-D. Newtonian and Lagrangian Mechanics.

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MAE 3340: Instrumentation and Measurements

Principles and application of mechanical instrumentation and experimentation. Sensing elements, signal conditioning, data acquisition, statistical analysis of data, and instrumentation system design.

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MAE 3400: Thermodynamics II

Second law analysis, power and refrigeration cycles, property relations, gas mixtures, psychrometrics, chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, introduction to heat transfer, steady state and transient conduction.

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MAE 3420: Fluid Mechanics

Application of fluid dynamic theory to inviscid and viscous, incompressible and compressible, and external and internal fluid flows, with emphasis on laminar and turbulent boundary layers.

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MAE 3440: Heat and Mass Transfer

Introduction to convection, external flow, internal flow, free convection, boiling and condensation, heat exchangers, radiation and diffusion mass transfer. Includes design project.

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MAE 3800: Design I

First course in senior design sequence. Design process, teaming skills, engineering economics, project selection and management, proposal writing, technical writing, and technical presentations.

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MAE 4300: Machine Design

Computer-aided design and synthesis of mechanisms, mechanical linkages, cams, fasteners, welds, gears, bearings, power transmission components, and lubrication. Component failure analysis based on metal fatigue related to dynamic loading.

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MAE 4400: Fluids/Thermal Laboratory

Laboratory experiences in observation and measurement of fundamental fluid and thermal phenomena.

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MAE 4800: Design II

Senior design project, including a technical presentation and a critical design review.

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MAE 5020: Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics I

Introduction to finite element methods and their application to the analysis and design of mechanical engineering systems.

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MAE 5060: Mechanics of Composite Materials I

Stress-strain relations for nonisotropic composites, such as fiber-reinforced plastic laminates, properties and their uses, strength and life determination, and methods for design using composite materials.

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MAE 5300: Vibrations

Vibration of single and multiple degree of freedom, and discrete mass systems. Natural frequencies and mode shapes for free, damped, and un-damped systems. Forcing functions and transient responses. Matrix methods, numerical solution, and random vibrations. Applications and design.

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MAE 5310: Dynamic Systems and Controls

Study of continuous-time systems, classical and modern system design methods, transfer function models, state space, dynamics of linear systems, and frequency domain analysis and design techniques. Introduction of controllability and observability, and full-state pole placement controller design. Laboratory work required.

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MAE 5410: Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems

Discussion of the basic considerations that occur in the design of thermal systems, including problem formulation, appropriate modeling and solution methodologies, optimization techniques, and economic analysis.

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MAE 5420: Compressible Fluid Flow

Application of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy to the design and analysis of compressible fluid systems.

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MAE 5440: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Introduction to computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer using the finite-volume method. Extensive code development. Application of a commercial CFD solver to a problem of interest.

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MAE 5470: Internal Combustion Engines

Thermodynamics of internal combustion engines; idealized cycles, fuels, fuel metering, engine characteristics, pressure measurement, and engine testing. This course is not currently being offered. For information about when it may be offered, contact the department.

MAE 5500: Aerodynamics

Fundamentals of incompressible, inviscid flow; aerodynamic forces and moments; airfoil characteristics; incompressible flow around two-dimensional airfoils and finite wings; three-dimensional incompressible flow; and introduction to aircraft performance.

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MAE 5510: Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight

Aircraft equations of motion; aerodynamic forces and moments; aircraft stability and control in roll, pitch, and yaw; aircraft motion with six degrees of freedom; aircraft performance and design; and design project.

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MAE 5520: Elements of Space Flight

Introduction to astrodynamics and orbital design. Spacecraft systems engineering including spacecraft subsystems (e.g. attitude control, communications, power, structures). Introduction to propulsion and launch vehicles.

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MAE 5530: Space System Design

Students in teams perform a space system design involving all aspects including technical, cost, and schedule. Class is linked to national design competitions and/or current USU spacecraft design projects.

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MAE 5540: Propulsion Systems

Fundamentals of rocket and air breathing propulsion, including space flight dynamics, nozzle theory, combustion processes, and flight performance. Rocket propulsion systems, including solid, liquid, hybrid, and combined cycles. Air breathing propulsion systems, including ramjet, scramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engine concepts.

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MAE 5560: Dynamics of Space Flight

Fundamentals of spacecraft dynamics, including Keplerian orbits, orbital position as a function of time, three-dimensional orbits, orbital determination, orbital maneuvers, satellite attitude dynamics, and rocket vehicle dynamics.

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MAE 5580: Aircraft Design

Design and optimization of aircraft systems. Students work in teams to design and optimize an aircraft to satisfy a specific set of mission requirements, including mission effectiveness, cost, and scheduling. Class if linked to national design competitions and/or current USU aircraft design projects.

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MAE 5600: Manufacturing Process Planning and Statistical Quality Control

Explore how to produce products in today's manufacturing environment. Topics include forecasting, planning, facility layout, job design, planning, scheduling, total quality management, and statistical process control as they relate to manufacturing firms.

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MAE 5610: Hydraulics and Pneumatics

Hydraulic and pneumatic circuit theory, components, and systems analysis and design. Efficiency and performance evaluation, based on steady and transient flow principles and force and energy transfer concepts. Introduction to electrohydraulic control systems. This course is not currently being offered. For information about when it may be offered, contact the department.

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MAE 5620: Manufacturing Automation

Principles of automation technology as applied to manufacturing systems. Topics include motion control, PLC, robotics, CNC, and system integration.

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MAE 5630: Machining Theory and Applications

This course introduces the fundamental metal cutting theory (such as chip formation, cutting forces and temperatures, and tool wear) and its applications including high speed machining of aerospace and difficult-to-machine alloys.

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MAE 5640: Design for Manufacturability

Product design for economic production. Manufacturing processes (especially primary processes), associated tooling cost and design, and resultant product design requirements.

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MAE 5650: Nontraditional and Additive Manufacturing Processes

Introduction to nontraditional and additive manufacturing processes, including rapid prototyping, laser processing, and electrical discharge machining.

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MAE 5660: Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing Processes

Analysis of manufacturing processes through the development of physically-based mathematical models. Heat and mass transfer principles used for a quantitative treatment of transport phenomena for process simulation and control.

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MAE 5680: Manufacturing Planning and Simulation

Explores planning and simulation methods for process design issues in electronics manufacturing (EM) and discrete parts manufacturing. Students learn planning, modeling, and simulation methods at the process and system level. This course is not currently being offered. Contact department for information about when it may be offered.

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MAE 5900: Cooperative Practice

Planned work experience in industry. Detailed program must have prior approval. Written report required.

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MAE 5930: Special Problems

Formulation and solution of practical or theoretical problems.

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MAE 6010: Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics II

Advanced theory and applications of finite element methods to both static and dynamic solid mechanics problems.

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MAE 6040: Continuum Mechanics and Elasticity

Mechanics of continuous media; tensors, stress, strain, deformation, rate equations, and constitutive equations. Plane stress, plane strain, torsion, and bending theories, as well as problem solutions, investigated for linear elastic materials.

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MAE 6050: Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering

Experimental techniques used in research and design in structural engineering and mechanics. Structural models. Theory and practical applications. Development of principles used to design research projects.

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MAE 6070: Mechanics of Composite Materials II

Second course in composite materials. Stress-strain states of laminated composite structures, including interlaminar stresses, failure criteria, and hygrothermal stresses.

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MAE 6080: Boundary Element Method

Presents introduction to boundary element method to solve fluid and solid mechanics problems.

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MAE 6090: Theory of Plates and Shells

Introduction to plate and shell theories. Development of bending and buckling of plates and shells through classical theory.

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MAE 6130: Structural Dynamics and Seismic Design

Development and solutions for equations of motion for single- and multi-degree of freedom systems. Dynamic analysis by Modal Superposition and Response Spectra. Design of structures for seismically active areas.

MAE 6180: Dynamics and Vibration

Fundamentals of two-dimensional and three-dimensional rigid body dynamics, including Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Leavit Energy Methods. Equations of motion, mode shapes, and natural frequencies for continuous media and multi degree-of-freedom systems.

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MAE 6320: Linear Multivariable Control

Modeling, analysis, and design of multi-input, multi-output control systems, including both state space and transfer matrix approaches, with an emphasis on stability.

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MAE 6340: Spacecraft Attitude Control

Spacecraft attitude dynamics and controls. Spin stabilized, three axis, and dual spin modes. Attitude determination techniques.

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MAE 6350: Robotics

Fundamentals of robotic systems, including kinetics, kinematics, sensors, actuators, control algorithms, motion planning, and computer systems. Integration of critical design components to develop complete systems. Robotic manipulator analysis and design. Applications in manufacturing. Mobile rockets, including wheeled, legged, and alternative locomotion robots.

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MAE 6410: Fluid Dynamics

Basic laws of fluid motion, Navier Stokes equations, kinematics of the flow field, fundamental exact solutions of viscous flow, and elements of turbulence.

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MAE 6420: Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics

Explores process and techniques involved in acquisition, analysis, and presentation of experimental data, with particular emphasis on aerodynamic applications. Topics include digital signal processing, statistics, uncertainty analysis, hot wire anemometry, and wind tunnel testing.

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MAE 6430: Boundary Layer Theory and Convection Heat Transfer

Derivation of the boundary layer equations. Exact, approximate, and numerical solution techniques. Boundary layers in compressible flow. Separation. Unsteady boundary layers. Stability and transition. Turbulent boundary layers. Integral, differential, & numerical methods for solving problems associated with transfer of heat in a viscous fluid.

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MAE 6440: Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics

Advanced topics in computation fluid dynamics using the finite-volume method, compressible flow algorithms including body fitted non-orthogonal grids, linear solvers, turbulence modeling and parallel computing. Includes extensive code development.

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MAE 6450: Thermodynamics

Topics in classical and statistical thermodynamics, including distribution functions, free molecular flow, electron and photon gas modeling, derived properties of solids, and thermodynamic applications in areas of current research interest.

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MAE 6460: Conduction Heat Transfer

Integral, differential, and numerical methods for solving engineering problems associated with the diffusion of heat in a rigid solid.

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MAE 6480: Radiation Heat Transfer

Radiation theory and applications. Includes utilization of computer software.

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MAE 6490: Turbulence

Fundamentals of turbulent fluid flow, with emphasis on providing student with sufficient physical and mathematical background to critically evaluate current literature and make original research contributions. Topics include stochastic tools, the governing equations, transition to turbulence, isotropic turbulence, measurement techniques, and free and wall bounded turbulent shear flows.

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MAE 6500: Potential Flow

Inviscid, irrotational fluid flow with emphasis on aircraft analysis and design. Exact solutions with complex variables and conformal mapping; perturbation methods; singularity elements and influence coefficients, lifting-line method; numerical vortex lattice method; numerical panel methods; and software design and development.

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MAE 6510: Aircraft Dynamics and Flight Simulation

Aircraft control and maneuverability, control response and transfer functions, non-linear dynamics with gyroscopic and aerodynamic coupling, Euler angle formulations, direction cosine formulation, quaternion formulation, numerical integration methods, software design and development.

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MAE 6530: Propulsion Systems

Fundamentals of turbine and rocket propulsion, including nozzle theory and thermodynamic relations, combustion processes, and flight performance. Rocket propulsion topics, including solid, liquid, and hybrid rocket engines; and advanced engine concepts. Turbine engine propulsion systems, including turbojets, turbofans, afterburners, and advanced unducted fan concepts.

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MAE 6540: Astrodynamics

Advanced topics in astrodynamics to include: general and special perturbations, universal variable, methods of orbit determination Lambert's theorem, the restricted three-body problem, and space mission planning.

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MAE 6550: Advanced Structural Analysis

Explores advanced structures in modern civil, mechanical, and aerospace systems. Emphasizes concepts through problem solving, and fosters an in-depth understanding of the subject. Provides understanding of the fundamental principles to analyze and design advanced structures.

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MAE 6560: Spacecraft Navigation

Fundamentals of aircraft and spacecraft navigation systems. Techniques in celestial and inertial navigation. Global Positioning System (GPS) principles. Least squares estimation and Kalman filtering for optimal estimation of stochastic systems.

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MAE 6620: Advanced Topics in Metal Cutting

Advanced topics in metal cutting mechanics, tool wear and tool life, chip control and breaking, high speed and dry machining, surface roughness and integrity, and the optimization and monitoring of machining operations.

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MAE 6800: Advanced Machine Design

Advanced topics in fluid film and boundary lubrication. Dynamics and vibration consideration in design of machine systems and fatigue failure theories.

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MAE 6900: Seminar

Overview of graduate program requirements, current research, and research opportunities. Presentations from graduate students, faculty, and outside speakers. Masters degree candidates must include 1 credit and doctoral degree candidates must include 2 credits of MAE 6900 in an approved program of study.

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MAE 6930: Special Problems

Independent or group study of engineering problems not covered in regular course offerings.

MAE 6950: Design Project

Individual projects involving the design, development, and/or testing of components, devices, or systems. Formal report required.

MAE 6970: Thesis Research

Graded Pass/Fail only.

MAE 6990: Continuing Graduate Advisement

Graded Pass/Fail only.

MAE 7040: Elasticity

Energy theorems, variational techniques, complex variable solutions, and three-dimensional solutions for linear elastic materials.

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MAE 7050: Plasticity

Analysis of stresses, deformation, and collapse in devices constructed of plastic material.

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MAE 7080: Advanced Plate and Shell Theory

Analysis of plate and shell structures by classical and numerical methods. Emphasis on numerical solutions.

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MAE 7330: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control

Methods of nonlinear and adaptive control system design and analysis. Includes qualitative and quantitative theories, graphical methods, frequency domain methods, sliding surface design, linear parameter estimation methods, and direct and indirect adaptive control techniques.

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MAE 7350: Intelligent Control Systems

Intelligent control strategies, including neural network, fuzzy logic, associated memory networks, and rule-based control systems.

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MAE 7360: Optimal and Robust Control

Advanced methods of control system analysis and design. Operator approaches to optimal control, including LQR, LQG, and L1 optimization techniques. Robust control theory, including QRT, H-infinity, and interval polynomial approaches.

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MAE 7380: Advanced Dynamics and Vibrations

Advanced techniques in dynamics and vibrations.

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MAE 7580: Advanced Finite Element Analysis in Fluid Mechanics

Application of the finite element method of analysis to problems in fluid mechanics. Use of higher order element to two- and three-dimensional flows.

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MAE 7750: Distributed Control Systems

Design and implementation issues concerning distributed control systems. Real-time processing, distributed stability methods, network techniques and standards, system development and management, smart sensors, and control actuators. Survey of current literature.

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MAE 7930: Special Problems

Independent or group study of engineering problems not covered in regular course offerings.

MAE 7970: Dissertation Research

Graded Pass/Fail only.

MAE 7990: Continuing Graduate Advisement

Graded Pass/Fail only.