Spring 2025 Technical Electives
MIME 4230 Dynamics Of Human Movement
The goal of this course is for students to be able to describe motions of the human body. Three-dimensional analysis and measurements of human body movements including kinematics, kinetics and energetics of human gait, anthropometry and application to bioengineering and orthopedics will be presented. Euler angles and the screw axis method will be used to describe three-dimensional motions. Prerequisites: MIME 2300 with a minimum grade of D-
MIME 4320 Fatigue of Materials & Structures
Fatigue design methods; fatigue fracture mechanisms; cyclic deformation behavior and material cyclic properties; stress-based, and fracture mechanics-based methodologies to fatigue life prediction of smooth and notched members subjected to constant or variable amplitude loadings.
MIME 4440 Mechatronics
This course will give students hands-on experience with mechatronic systems and components. The laboratory will be used to demonstrate several mechatronics systems including inverted pendulums, suites of sensors and motors, and other more complex systems. A major part of the course will be a semester-long project where the students conceive, design, and build a mechatronic device. Prerequisites: MIME 3380
MIME 4460 MATLAB for Engineers
This course will review the basics of using MATLAB, identify best-practices applicable to MATLAB and other programming languages, and provide examples of more-advanced functionality such as image processing, Simulink control of mechatronic systems, numerically solving differential equations, GPU computation, and optimization. Programming experience would be helpful, but this would also be a good opportunity to rapidly grow programming skills with an easy-to-learn language.
MIME 4560 Gas Dynamics
Analysis of compressible flow phenomena including shock and detonation waves. Internal flow with friction and heat addition. Analysis and application to supersonic airfoil theory, inlet nacelles, nozzles to generate supersonic thrust and jet engine combustors. Prerequisites: MIME 3430 with a minimum grade of D-
MIME 4690 Reliability
Reliability of components and multicomponent systems. Static and dynamic reliability models for both independent and dependent failures. Effects of redundancy. Reliability testing consideration.
MIME 4820 Sustainability Analysis and Design
The course is intended to introduce students to sustainability analysis and design in manufacturing and service settings as related to mechanical and industrial engineering. It will cover solid waste minimization for manufacturers, life cycle analysis, and environmentally conscious design.
MIME 4830 Additive Manufacturing
The rapidly evolving additive manufacturing technologies is a direct way of converting digital data into final parts. While rapid prototyping (RP) and rapid tooling (RT) are now accessible based on AM the next front is direct product manufacturing. Rapid manufacturing (RM) will make a significant difference in industries related to aerospace and biomedical devices. The forecast indicate that AM could reach $50 billion by 2030 and $100 billion by 2044. While in traditional manufacturing, the true costs are not transparent due to the supply chain, AM has the potential to significantly reduce the cost by modifying the design and production systems.
This course is designed to provide an in depth understanding of the advantages as well as the limitations of AM technologies.