Offers weekly presentations by visiting speakers, faculty, and students. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate majors only.
Acquire basic skills to manage technical projects of varying size. Engage with faculty and classmates on critical project skills like project selection, managing teams, developing plans, risk management and project financial controls. Learn how decisions can affect project success of failure through an in-class Project Management Simulation. Collaborate with classmates to deliver a final project plan. Non-EMP students require instructor permission. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students or to Graduate Certificate Engineering (CRTGE) students only.
Software project management is a critical element of software development activities throughout every area of human endeavor. Learn the software life cycle, software configuration management, code reviews, architectural influences and quality assurance with automated testing. Explore the impact on project success of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Unified Modeling Language (UML). Recommended requisite, software development experience. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students only.
Advanced project management emphasizing judgment intensive decision making and team leadership. Case studies from a variety of fields are employed to illuminate best and worst practices that impact businesses, careers and lives. Advanced PM tools are reviewed and analyzed for real world utility. Recommended requisite, one year of industry experience. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of EMEN 5030 (minimum grade B). Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students only.
Examines sustainability of our current energy systems, including transportation, using environmental and economic indicators. Uses systems analysis that addresses energy supply and demand. Explores the science and technology as well as environmental and economic feasibility of efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies. Additional emphasis is given to the global nature of the challenges and the potential for locally optimal solutions. Same as MCEN 4032.
Same as ASEN 4034. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
Provides a unified presentation of fundamental concepts applicable to the thermodynamics of engineering materials. Develops quantitative tools for understanding the physical principles that govern phase equilibrium and transformation. Generates binary and ternary phase diagrams and determine the resulting materials structures and corresponding physical and mechanical properties. Recommended prereqs., MCEN 2024 and 3012.
Studies turbulent closure methods and computational procedures used to solve practical turbulent flows. Emphasizes multi-equation models used with time-averaged equations to calculate free-turbulent shear-flows and turbulent boundary layers. Employs spectral methods in direct and large-eddy simulation of turbulence. Recommended prereq., ASEN 5051 or equivalent or instructor consent required. Formerly ASEN 6037. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
Introduces the fundamentals of Business Performance Excellence (BPE including theories of leadership, theories of business, core competencies, Deming's theory of Profound Knowledge, strategic differentiation and all of the elements of strategy development. Addresses strategic planning and policy deployment to map the company's strategy to all parts of the organization, a process strengthened through employee empowerment. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students or to Graduate Certificate Engineering (CRTGE) students only.
Studies selected topics from the theory of complex variables, integral transform methods, partial differential equations, and variational methods. Assigns computer exercises. Correlates with analysis topics in other mechanical engineering graduate courses, and emphasizes applications. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of MCEN 5020 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate majors only.
Advanced study of methods designed to maximize excellence in business performance, includes a model to understand process and product tradeoffs, interactions with suppliers, integrated manufacturing systems and meeting customer requirements while focusing on maximizing profitability. These characteristics are addressed both strategically and tactically through the use of case analysis, field study and experiential learning for both production and service sectors. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of EMEN 5040 (minimum grade B). Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students only.
Highlights exact solution of Navier-Stokes equations and fundamentals of rotating fluids. Considers Low Reynolds number flow; similarity solutions; viscous boundary layers, jets, and wakes; and unsteady viscous flow. Requisites: Requires corequisite course of MCEN 5020. Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate majors only.
Develop in-depth expertise in the concepts, tools and techniques used in the management and measurement of quality and productivity. Apply statistics and probability to the topics of process variation and statistical process control and capability analysis for process, product, and measurement systems. Explore an introduction to design of experiments (DOE) in business and industry to improve both quality and performance. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of EMEN 5005 (minimum grade C+). Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students only.
Studies development of equations governing transport of heat by conduction, convection, and radiation, and their solution. Includes analytical and numerical solution of initial and boundary value problems representative of heat conduction in solids. Describes heat transfer in free and forced convection, including laminar and turbulent flow. Also involves radiation properties of solids, liquids, and gases and transport of heat by radiation. Requisites: Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate majors only.
Advanced study of methods, tools, techniques and systems associated with managing quality engineering. Includes a survey of the procedures and additional tools (in addition to what was covered in EMEN 5042) necessary for performing quality improvement, problem solving and advanced quality planning. Topics include advanced process control technologies, control schemes and reliability methods. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of EMEN 5042 (minimum grade B). Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students only.
This introductory-level graduate course incorporates relevant aspects of materials science, solid mechanics, thermodynamics and mathematics, and applies them to achieve a fundamental understanding of the mechanical behavior of crystalline and non-crystalline engineering materials. Requisites: Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering (MCEN) majors only.
Topics include general design guidelines for manufacturability; aspects of manufacturing processes that affect design decisions; design rules to maximize manufacturability; statistical considerations; value engineering and design for assembly (manual, robotic, and automatic). Presents case studies of successful products exhibiting Dfm. Requisites: Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering (MCEN) majors only.
Same as ASEN 4047. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
Predicts performance and analyzes economics of high temperature, photovoltaic, and other innovative solar systems. Also includes performance prediction methods for solar processes. Department enforced prereq., AREN 2120 or equivalent. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Includes celestial mechanics, space navigation, and orbit determination; trajectory design and mission analysis trajectory requirements; and orbital transfer and rendezvous. Recommended prereq., ASEN 3200 or equivalent or instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
Provides working engineers a background in leadership concepts and methods and enables students to develop practical leadership skills through numerous in-class exercises and experimentation based assignments. Topics include authentic leadership, motivating self and others, cultivating emotional intelligence, personal mastery, creating accountability, conflict resolution, leading change and organizational culture. Required for all Engineering Management degree students. Same as TLEN 5050. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students or to Graduate Certificate Engineering (CRTGE) students only.
Provides working engineers a background in leadership concepts and methods and enables students to develop practical leadership skills through numerous in-class exercises and experimentation based assignments. Topics include authentic leadership, motivating self and others, cultivating emotional intelligence, personal mastery, creating accountability, conflict resolution, leading change and organizational culture. Required for all Engineering Management degree students. Same as EMEN 5050. Requisites: Restricted to Leeds School of Business or College of Engineering graduate students only.
