ENPM/GCEN Course Descriptions By Academic Option :
PROGRAM OPTIONS & COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
The following describes the options available to students who matriculate for the Master of Engineering degree. Special programs can also be arranged for students who may wish to take a broader array of courses, especially those of a strong interdisciplinary nature. Additional courses that may serve as electives can be found in the Graduate School Catalog.AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
The following are the recommended core courses in aerospace engineering. Some of these courses may be replaced by the technical electives listed and by other approved technical courses that meet the student’s professional interests.
Aerospace Engineering Core
ENPM 620 Computer Aided Engineering Analysis (3) Computer assisted approach to the solution of engineering problems. Review and extension of undergraduate material in applied mathematics including vector analysis and vector calculus, analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions of linear, partial differential equations, and probability and statistics.
ENPM 808D Applied Aerodynamics (3) Introduction to aerodynamics for aerospace engineering students specializing in fields other than aerodynamics. Presentation of available applied aerodynamic techniques including theoretical, computational, and experimental methods. Broad coverage of flight regimes, inviscid theory, incompressible theory, subsonic compressible flow, linearized supersonic flow, hypersonic flow, viscous flows, Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layer theories.
ENAE 640 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics (3) Studies in the dynamics and control of flight vehicles. Fundamentals of the dynamics of rigid and non-rigid bodies and their motion under the influence of aerodynamic and gravitational forces.
ENAE 642 Atmospheric Flight Control (3) A practical fusion of modern linear control techniques with the available instrumentation, actuation, and avionic technologies of modern flight vehicles. Translation of performance and handling quality specifications into controller designs.
ENAE 652 Finite Element Method in Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Development of finite element representation of continua using Galerkin and variational techniques. Derivation of shell elements and parametric representation of two and three dimensional elements. Application to aerospace structures, fluids and diffusion processes.
ENAE 654 Composite Structures (3) Prerequisite: ENAE 423 or permission of both department and instructor. Stiffness of unidirectional composites, stress and strain transformation, inplane and bending stiffness of symmetric laminates, properties of general laminates, strength of composite structures, environmental effect.
ENAE 670 Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Introduction to aerodynamics for aerospace engineering students specializing in fields other than aerodynamics. Broad coverage of flight regimes. Inviscid theory, incompressible theory, subsonic compressible flow, linearized supersonic flow, hypersonic flow, viscous flows, Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layer theories.
ENAE 684 Computational Fluid Dynamics I (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Partial differential equations applied to flow modelling, fundamental numerical techniques for the solution of these equations, elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations, elements of finite difference solutions, explicit and implicit techniques. Applications to fundamental flow problems.
Technical Electives
ENPM 808J Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics (3) Development and application of the three major analytical methods to quantify fatigue damage in order to design fatigue resistant structures, i.e. stress-life, strain-life, and damage tolerant analysis and design.
ENPM 808M Advanced Mechanics of Materials (3) To instill understanding of the fundamental mechanical models of behavior for structural components. To enumerate the stress resultant formulations of various shapes subjected to axial, torsional and bending loads. To evaluate and interpret the analyses based on the applied principles and the assumptions made.
ENPM 808O Mechanical Vibrations (3) Analytical techniques are formulated and applied to vibration problems in mechanical systems. Fundamentals of the theory of vibrations are developed and illustrated by examples. Numerical techniques are explained and applied to many practical vibration problems in machines and structures.
ENPM 808Q Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Mechanics (3) The objective is to understand probability concepts as applied to problems in engineering mechanics with particular emphasis on mechanical system reliability. The probability of failure (and its complement, reliability) will be calculated for several failure mechanisms; exceeding ultimate strength, yielding, fatigue, fracture, buckling, etc.
ENPM 808X Engineering Reliability & Risk Assessment (3) With ever-increasing frequency, aerospace professionals are being tasked with quantifying the reliability and the subsequent risk of aerospace systems. This is most evident in the engineering efforts for maintaining aging aircraft systems. Indeed, denumerable reliability and risk are the very core problems of the RCM (reliability centered maintenance) concept. Without objectively calculated reliability and risk assessments, life extension issues become clouded in vaguely expressed uncertainties. The vagueness engenders a lack of confidence in the knowledge base, which in turn engenders substantial conservatism in the decision-making process.
ENAE 601 Astrodynamics (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 404 and ENAE 441. Mathematics and applications of orbit theory, building upon the foundations developed in ENAE 404 and ENAE 441. Topics include two body orbits, solutions of Kepler’s equation, the two-point boundary value problems, rendezvous techniques, and Encke’s method.
ENAE 602 Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 404 and ENAE 432. Rigid body rotational dynamics of spacecraft; forced and unforced motion, torques produced by the orbital environment; orbit/attitude coupling; gas jet, momentum wheel, and magnetic torque actuators. Elementary feedback attitude regulators and algorithms for linear and nonlinear attitude tracking.
ENAE 631 Helicopter Aerodynamics I (3) Introduction to hovering theory, hovering and vertical-flight performance analyses, autorotation and vertical descent. Physical concepts of blade motion and rotor control. Aerodynamics of forward flight and performance calculations. Prediction and effect of rotor blade stall.
ENAE 632 Helicopter Aerodynamics II (3) Basic inviscid incompressible aerodynamic theory with application to the calculation of the flow field and loads for rotary wings.
ENAE 633 Helicopter Dynamics (3) Flap dynamics, mathematical methods to solve rotor dynamics problems. Flap-lag-torsion dynamics and structural and inertial coupling terms. Overview of rotary wing unsteady aerodynamics. Basic theory of blade aeroelasticity stability and ground resonance problems.
ENAE 692 Introduction to Space Robotics (3) Analysis techniques for manipulator kinematics and dynamics. DH parameters, serial and parallel manipulators, approaches to redundancy. Applications of robots to space operations, including manipulators on free-flying bases, satellite servicing, and planetary surface mobility. Sensors, actuators, and mechanism design. Command and control with humans in the loop.
CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
The following four core courses are offered by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. In addition to the core courses, students may select technical electives approved by an advisor. The only guideline for the selection of electives is that the electives be part of an integrated program of study.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Core
ENCH 610 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3) Advanced application of the general thermodynamic methods to chemical engineering problems. First and second law consequences; estimation and correlation of thermodynamic properties; phase and chemical reaction equilibria.
ENCH 620 Methods of Engineering Analysis (3) Application of selected mathematical techniques to the analysis and solution of engineering problems; included are the applications of matrices, vectors, tensors, differential equations, integral transforms, and probability methods to such problems as unsteady heat transfer, transient phenomena in mass transfer operations, stagewise processes, chemical reactors, process control, and nuclear reactor physics.
ENCH 630 Transport Phenomena (3) Heat, mass and momentum transfer theory from the viewpoint of the basic transport equations. Steady and unsteady state; laminar and turbulent flow; boundary layer theory, mechanics of turbulent transport; with specific application to complex chemical engineering situations.
ENCH 640 Advanced Chemical Reaction Kinetics (3) The theory and application of chemical reaction kinetics to reactor design. Reaction rate theory; homogeneous batch and flow reactors; fundamentals of catalysis; design of heterogeneous flow reactors.
Technical Electives
The following constitutes only a sample of the courses which may be used as technical electives.
ENPM 626 Thermal Destruction Technology (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal destruction, incineration and combustion processes. Emphasis is on solid wastes and their composition, current and advanced destruction technologies, guidelines on design and operation, and environmental pollution.
ENPM 627 Environmental Risk Analysis (3) Fundamentals of environmental protection. Risk identification, characterization, assessment and management in compliance programs related to environmental laws and regulations. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act and Clean Water Act. Technology basis of Clean Air Act and Superfund and options for compliance. Expert systems for environmental applications. Elements of life cycle analysis risk assessment. Risk reduction through multimedia emission evaluation and voluntary programs.
ENPM 637 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering (3) An examination of biological principles directly affecting man and his environment, with particular emphasis on microbiological interactions in environmental engineering related to air, water and land systems; microbiology and biochemistry of aerobic and anaerobic treatment processes for aqueous wastes.
ENPM 653 Environmental Law for Engineers and Scientists (3) Introduction to the basics in environmental law including the language and methods of the law, and the Constitution as the basis of the American legal system. Exposure to how lawyers think and approach environmental engineering problems. Case studies used extensively.
ENPM 655 Contaminant Transport and Fate in the Environment (3) Prerequisites: Calculus, General Physics, General Chemistry, or permission of instructor. This class covers the physical and chemical behaviors of pollutants in surface water and subsurface environment. Emphasis will be on interactions between organic contaminants and natural geological matrixes and relevant issues including groundwater transport and subsurface remediation.
ENPM 808B Chemical and Biological Detection (3) Introduction to hardware (instrumentation) and software (data analysis algorithm) aspects of chemical and biological detection. Physical measurements, chemical sensors, biosensors, optical sensor components, signal conditioning and analysis, chemometrics, image analysis, applications.
ENCH 454 Chemical Process Analysis and Optimization (3) Prerequisites: MATH 246, ENCH 426, and ENCH 440. Applications of mathematical models to the analysis and optimization of chemical processes. Models based on transport, chemical kinetics and other chemical engineering principles will be employed. Emphasis on evaluation of process alternatives.
ENCH 470 The Science and Technology of Colloidal Systems (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 400, ENCH 424, ENCH 426, and CHEM 482. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENCH 468C or ENCH 470. Introduction to colloidal systems. Preparation, stability, and coagulation kinetics of colloidal suspensions. Introduction to DLVO theory, electrokinetic phenomena, rheology of dispersions, surface/interfacial tension, solute absorption at gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid and gas-solid interfaces and properties of micelles and other microstructures.
ENCH 471 Particle Science and Technology (3) Credit will only be granted for one of the following: ENCH 468I or ENCH 471. Theory and modeling techniques for particle formation and particle size distribution dynamics. Science and technology of multiphase systems, powder and aerosol technology. Industrial, environmental and occupational applications: dry powder delivery of drugs, aerosol generation methods, nanoparticles, biowarfare agent detection, dry powder mixing, particulate emissions. Design particle synthesis and processing systems, particle removal systems.
ENCH 482 Biochemical Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 440. Introduction to biochemical and microbiological applications to commercial and engineering processes, including industrial fermentation, enzymology, ultrafiltration, food and pharmaceutical processing and resulting waste treatment. Enzyme kinetics, cell growth, energetics and mass transfer.
ENCH 483 Bioseparations (3) Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENCH 483 or ENCH 468A. Engineering fundamentals of separations and purification of biological molecules. Case studies and examples illustrate principles and practice of centrifugation, precipitation, crystallization, filtration, membrane separations, chromatography, and affinity separation of recombinant proteins and other biomolecules. Process scale-up and economics of biotechnology products and processes.
ENCH 485 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 482. Techniques of measuring pertinent parameters in fermentation reactors, quantification of production variables for primary and secondary metabolites such as enzymes and antibiotics, the insolubilization of enzymes for reactors, and the demonstration of separation techniques such as ultrafiltration and affinity chromatography.
ENCH 490 Introduction to Polymer Science (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 424 and ENCH 440. The elements of the chemistry, physics, processing methods, and engineering applications of polymers.
ENCH 496 Processing of Polymer Materials (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENCH 496 or ENMA 496. A comprehensive analysis of the operations carried out on polymeric materials to increase their utility. Conversion operations such as molding, extrusion, blending, film forming, and calendaring. Development of engineering skills required to practice in the high polymer industry.
ENCH 735 Chemical Process Dynamics and Control (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Dynamic response of continuous and sampled-data processes; feedback and feedforward control; model uncertainty; Internal Model Control structure; robustness with respect to modeling error; control of multi-input multi-output processes; decentralized control; Relative Gain Array; Process Resiliency.
ENCH 736 Model Based Process Control (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Step and impulse response models; state space models; model predictive control formulation; on-line optimization; state feedback; Kalman filter; disturbance estimation; constrained processes; nonlinear process models.
ENCH 762 Advanced Biochemical Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 482 or permission of both department and instructor. Advanced topics to include use of a digital computer for mathematical modeling of the dynamics of biological systems; separation techniques for heat sensitive biologically active materials; and transport phenomena in biological systems.
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
The following five core areas are offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In addition to the recommended courses in a given core area, the student may select technical electives approved by an advisor. The only guideline for the selection of electives is that the electives be part of an integrated program of study.
Environmental and Water Resources Core
ENPM 627 Environmental Risk Analysis (3) Fundamentals of environmental protection. Risk identification, characterization, assessment and management in compliance programs related to environmental laws and regulations. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act and Clean Water Act. Technology basis of Clean Air Act and Superfund and options for compliance. Expert systems for environmental applications. Elements of life cycle analysis risk assessment. Risk reduction through multimedia emission evaluation and voluntary programs.
ENPM 633 Aquatic Chemistry Concepts (3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Development of the theoretical basis for understanding the chemical behavior of aquatic systems, with an emphasis on problem solving. Principles of inorganic and physical chemistry applied to quantitative description of processes in natural waters: Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of electrolyte solutions, carbon dioxide/carbonate systems; dissolution and precipitation, metal-ligand complexes, and oxidation/reduction.
ENPM 636 Unit Operations of Environmental Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 315 or permission of both department and instructor. Properties and quality criteria of drinking water as related to health are interpreted by a chemical and biological approach. Legal aspects of water use and handling are considered. Theory and application of aeration, sedimentation, filtration, centrifugation, desalinization, corrosion and corrosion control are among topics to be considered.
ENPM 637 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering (3) An examination of biological principles directly affecting man and his environment, with particular emphasis on microbiological interactions in environmental engineering related to air, water and land systems; microbiology and biochemistry of aerobic and anaerobic treatment processes for aqueous wastes.
ENPM 653 Environmental Law for Engineers and Scientists (3) Introduction to the basics in environmental law including the language and methods of the law, and the Constitution as the basis of the American legal system. Exposure to how lawyers think and approach environmental engineering problems. Case studies used extensively.
ENPM 655 Contaminant Transport and Fate in the Environment (3) Prerequisites: Calculus, General Physics, General Chemistry, or permission of instructor. This class covers the physical and chemical behaviors of pollutants in surface water and subsurface environment. Emphasis will be on interactions between organic contaminants and natural geological matrixes and relevant issues including groundwater transport and subsurface remediation.
ENPM 680 Aquatic Chemical Kinetics (3) The objective of this course is to strengthen the understanding of reaction mechanisms and specific reaction rates in natural and engineered water system (fresh water, atmospheric water, porous water and ocean). The class will also introduce innovative researches developed in water technology.
ENPM 808R Waste Minimization in Project Management Design (3) Introduction to material use and flow concepts; recycling of nonmetallics; sustainability and industrial ecology; life cycle environmental assessments and models; municipal solid waste; case studies and plant visit.
ENCE 630 Environmental and Water Resource Systems I (3) The application of statistical and systems engineering techniques in the analysis of engineering data. Methods of formulating and calibrating models are presented. The fundamentals of statistical decision making are addressed. Central topics discussed are hypothesis testing and regression modeling.
ENCE 631 Hydrologic and Nonpoint Pollution Models (3) The physical processes controlling the spatial distribution of runoff and constituent transport during rainfall and snowmelt events. Emphasis on the processes and practical models of runoff simulation, storm water management and environmental impact assessment.
ENCE 632 Free Surface Flow (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 330 or equivalent. Application of fundamentals of fluid mechanics to problems of free surface flow; computation of steady and transient water surface profiles; stratified flows in reservoirs and estuaries; diffusion; transition structures; sediment transport.
ENCE 688U Hazardous Waste Management (3) Review of environmental laws and regulations related to hazardous waste management, and the study of the technologies utilized to remediate hazardous waste sites.
ENCE 640 Advanced Soil Mechanics I (3) Introduction to the use of elastic theory in stress and displacement solutions to geotechnical engineering (soil and rock mechanics). Classical settlement (consolidation) and compressibility theories, including finite difference solution for vertical and radial drainage.
ENCE 641 Advanced Foundations (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 441 or equivalent. Introduction to lateral earth pressure concepts and theories applied to foundations. Analysis of braced excavations, retaining walls and design of sheet piling systems (cantilever and anchored) are treated. Principles of cofferdam design; bearing capacity theories related to shallow and deep foundations; soil-foundation interactions for footing and mat designs and analysis of single pile and pile group foundations are discussed. Analytical and numerical solution techniques are utilized.
ENCE 642 Soil Dynamics (3) Introduction to field and laboratory methods for determining the dynamic characterization of soil at both small and large strains. Analysis and design of soil foundations subjected to machinery generated vibrations are examined. A critical review of earthquake resistant design methodologies is presented.
ENCE 643 Theory of Soil Strength (3) Shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils is analyzed using the Critical State Soil Mechanics theory of soil strength. Conventional laboratory strength tests and Mohr-Coulomb representation of soil strength are also discussed, ending with recommended design parameters.
ENCE 644 Engineering Soil Problems of North America (3) A critical review of the distribution of the soils in North America is undertaken with respect to engineering design and construction problems. The engineering problems encountered and the solution to these problems are discussed. The design factors considered are: availability of quality aggregate resources, soil origin and texture, high volume change soils, potentially poor subgrade support conditions, and frost-susceptible soils.
ENCE 645 Design of Embankment Dams and Soil Reinforcement (3) The first part of the course is a survey of the design procedures involved in embankment dam design, touching on preliminary considerations, embankment design and construction preparation, with special attention to rock fill dams, small dams, and mine waste disposal dams, dam surveillance, safety and repair. The second part covers geotechnical design with geosynthetics including properties, design and construction.
ENCE 646 Rock Mechanics (3) The composition, structure, and properties of intact rock and discontinuous rock masses and the practical analysis and design techniques for common rock engineering problems. Classification and engineering properties of intact rock; brittle fracture theory; characterization and properties of rock discontinuities; engineering classifications and properties of rock masses; analytical and numerical models for discontinuous rock masses; rock slope stability; permeability of rock and rock masses.
ENCE 647 Underground Construction (3) Design and construction aspects of soft-ground tunnels, rock tunnels and caverns, shafts, and cut-and-cover excavations. Design criteria and philosophies, excavation systems, ground stability, support systems, support load analysis, and ground movement prediction. Project management, risk, liability, and contractual problems peculiar to tunneling.
ENCE 688B Advanced Soil Mechanics II (3) The effect of soil moisture (at rest) relative to effective stress principles, capillary action, and frost. Exact and numeric techniques for the analysis of soil seepage under isotropic and anisotropic conditions. Review of classical shear strength theory for soils. Analysis techniques for soil slope stability.
ENCE 688N Numerical Methods for Geomechanics (3) In-depth treatment of standard numerical analysis techniques for stress analysis and fluid flow problems in geomechanics. Emphasis on the underlying theoretical formulations, practical applications, and potential pitfalls in each numerical technique. A variety of realistic geomechanics problems will be solved using student-developed and existing computer programs.
ENCE 688P Dynamic Characterization of Pavement Materials (3) Concentrates on the fundamental response of pavement layer materials subjected to repeated dynamic loading. Included are dynamic modulus evaluation (linear and nonlinear response), fatigue behavior, permanent deformation, and thermal fracture.
ENCE 688T Rehabilitation of Pavement Systems (3) In depth review of design methodologies used for the rehabilitation of highway and airfield pavement systems. Procedures for both flexible and rigid overlays are discussed with particular emphasis on the use of nondestructive dynamic deflection testing to evaluate pavement capacity.
ENCE 741 Aircraft Remote Sensing in Civil Engineering (3) The theoretical and practical aspects of the use of remote sensing in engineering are considered. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of aerial photography and infrared, radar, multispectral and other sensor data. The planning of aerial and field remote sensing missions and the applications of these sensors to engineering programs including regional inventories, route locations, environmental surveys and site investigations are discussed. Introductory comments on computer analysis of remote sensing data will be included. A one-day field trip is planned.
ENCE 742 Site Investigations (3) A study of various techniques for evaluating the physical environment and performing exploration programs for engineering facilities. The course presents the background and develops methods for using various techniques available for engineering site investigations. These techniques include interpretation of topographic, geological and agricultural soil maps, and the use of geophysical and subsurface exploration systems.
ENCE 745 Advanced Pavement Design (3) Fundamentals of recent mechanistic structural design approaches of flexible and rigid systems for highway and airfield pavements. Principles of probabilistic (reliability) design approaches, dynamic material characterization, theoretical stress solutions (multilayer and slab analysis) and fundamental distress criterion of material fatigue and deformability integrated into a total structural design system framework.
ENCE 746 Pavement Management Systems (3) In-depth study of the overall framework necessary for the development of a Pavement Management Systems (PMS) at the project and network level. Emphasis on data collection, maintenance and rehabilitation phases of the systems concept. Pavement condition, performance, safety and structural evaluation combined with maintenance and rehabilitation methodologies for development of life cycle costing of alternative strategies.
Project Management Core
ENCE 661 Project Cost Accounting & Finance (3) Effective engineering project managers have complete command of their project costs. This course: reviews the fundamentals of accounting; examines project cost accounting principles, applications, and impact on profitability; examines the principles of activity based costing; covers the elements involved in cash management; introduces the framework for how projects are financed and the potential impact financing has on the projects; and a framework for evaluating PC based systems and what resources are needed for an effective project cost system.
ENCE 662 Introduction to Project Management (3) Introduction to engineering project management including: overview and concepts of project management (principles, body of knowledge, strategies); planning successful projects (defining, specifying, delivery options, scheduling, budgeting); implementing (organizing the team, work assignments, team building, effective leadership); executing (performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management); and closeout (performance measurement, contract documentation, datatransfer, lessons learned, administrative closure).
ENCE 664 Legal Aspects of Engineering Design & Construction (3) Examines ways in which the legal system affects the design and construction process. Focuses on contract types and the relationships between the parties in different delivery systems. Topics include contract law, the relationships between the parties, tort and negligence law, and the statutory principles affecting construction.
ENCE 665 Management of Project Teams (3) Examines managing engineering project teams and understanding effective communications. Course includes: leadership; motivation; management by objectives; conflict management; change management; labor laws in the workplace; understanding communication process models; selecting appropriate mediums; and, visual presentation of quantitative data.
ENCE 667 Project Performance Measurement (3) Examination of various techniques and models used to measure the performance of projects. Topics will include: critical path method (CPM), Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT), Gantt charts, project crashing, resource management, capital allocation, forecasting, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, learning curve analysis goal programming, Monte Carlo simulation, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Pareto optimality and tradeoff curves as well as basics in linear programming and uncertainty modeling.
Technical Electives
ENCE 622 IT Project Management Fundamentals (3) This course puts emphasis on the differences between PM fundamentals and the requirements for IT project management, and does not cover the basics. This course has a strong focuses on project success factors; components of IT projects; relationship to systems engineering techniques; applicability of standards; risk management; schedule management and controlling scope; configuration management; testing techniques; specification and prototyping; selecting and using 3rd party software; and intellectual property rights.
ENCE 623 Introduction to Advanced Scheduling (3) This course teaches students about the various scheduling approaches that are currently being used in the design and construction industry: how to plan a project by defining items of work for the project, setting up calendars & activity coding structure, creating activities & relationships between them, and assigning resources to activities using CPM scheduling software. On completion of the schedule, students will learn how to organize, format and filter the schedule, as well as assign target schedules for managing and troubleshooting the project and communicate the schedule by setting up reports, using Primavera Post Office & Email and the Web Publishing Wizard.
ENCE 624 Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment (3) Experience has shown that excellent project managers function at a level well beyond the classic linear mindset of traditional project management. “Simultaneous managers” subscribe to the rational and scientific approach but also adopt a new mindset of flexibility, one of expecting goals and means to be resolved simultaneously and interactively rather than sequentially. This course examines the 9 principles simultaneous managers use interdependently, and presents a theory of project management that is intellectually rigorous and consistent with pragmatic knowledge.
ENCE 626 Web-based Project Management (3) This course discusses applications of the world wide web and e-business approaches to managing engineering projects and distributed project teams. Reviewing the historical and technical background of the web, web tools, and associated information technology, this course investigates concepts underlying knowledge management and the use of KM systems to support engineering organizations, including project communications, knowledge archiving, and e-learning. This course covers topics related to data management and the extension of data management, query, and retrieval in web environments, OLAP, and OLTP; ERP systems solutions and applications to project management, collaborative engineering, managing virtual teams, security in project management systems, and online procurement and vending.
ENCE 627 Decision and Risk Analysis for Project Management (3) This course is an introduction to identifying, analyzing, assessing, and managing risks inherent to engineering projects. Students will learn about probability modeling, choice and value theory, schedule and cost risk, risk mitigation and transfer, and contract considerations of project risk. Examples are drawn from construction, software development, systems integration, and other large engineering projects, and cover probability basics, subjective probability, statistical data analysis, introduction to decision theory, Monte Carlo simulation, value of information, and risk-based decision making.
ENCE 663 Management of Design & Construction Organizations (3) This course covers the management of design and construction organizations at the company, project and activity levels. Topics covered include legal organizational frameworks; strategic planning; functional planning (including marketing, project and activity planning); organization; implementation; control; compensation, benefits, and incentives. The course includes case study analysis and selection of appropriate project delivery systems and related forms of agreement.
ENCE 666 Cost Engineering & Control (3) This course covers analytical techniques for project estimation and cost control, including site investigation, quantity takeoff, work analysis, and bid preparation, examination of popular software, systematic cost control, the fundamentals of different types of cost estimation, and appropriate applications of each. Case studies on cost engineering and controls during the life cycle of a project using simulation techniques to analyze and prepare the estimate, bid, control budget, change order process, schedule impacts, and cost impacts will also be used to reinforce cost engineering techniques.
ENCE 688A Project Team Optimization: Building the Positive Workplace (3) Ask any PM what it was like to take charge of their first project, and they’ll tell you project management takes more than technical and process know-how to consistently deliver great projects. They’ll tell you the secret ingredient is the people on the job. This course goes beyond the fundamentals of project management, preparing project managers to optimize the utilization of their most important resource: people. Relying primarily on a wide range of research and work experience, this course will help guide project managers in building the skills needed to be truly successful in the competitive workplace.
ENCE 688P Project Administration (3) This course examines the principals of project administration procedures, specifically addressing the project administration responsibilities of the project manager/project engineer in engineering, design, and construction industries. The course takes a project team approach for improved job efficiency, outlining a project team operation in which the office project administrator delegates to the greatest possible extent all those project administrative functions that can be done more efficiently in the field. The class also addresses the responsibilities and risks that a project administrative manager is likely to encounter. The course is suitable for students, engineering and design professionals, project managers, experienced contract administrators, and owners interested in the special administrative problems of engineering or construction.
ENCE 688C Real Estate Development & Planning for the Project Manager (3) Real estate investment and development is fundamentally the acquisition, financing, construction, leasing, and disposition of land and buildings. Successful development is a function of business planning, management of economic risk, entrepreneurial spirit, timing, experience, and education. While many courses examine the traditional elements of project management, few courses prepare students for the complex interaction of property acquisition, financing, design, and construction. In the evolution of construction management, owners award projects to the construction team that demonstrates a comprehensive grasp of the investment process, identifies and evaluates the impact of construction and design issues in a timely and meaningful manner, and offers valuable insight and information. To succeed and be valued by owners, the construction manager must recognize the mechanics and perils of real estate investment and communicate in the language of development.
ENCE 688E Global Project Management (3) ENCE 662, Introduction to Project Management, is recommended prior to this course. This course provides an overview of global project management from initiation through planning, execution, and closing and with general emphasis on control. Designed to augment the basics of domestic project management with information pertinent to the global project environment, the course begins with a practical look at investigating the cultural environment in order to understand the context of managing a global project. The course will also cover step-by-step initiation of a global project with emphasis on organizational culture as it relates to global projects; global project planning aspects that augment typical domestic project planning (i.e. managing foreign offices and multinational teams); fundamentals of Virtual Project Management in the context of global projects; fundamentals of communicating with different cultures; familiarization with global law as it applies to engineering; global contracts and business alliances; generalities of negotiating in different cultures; and basic concepts for control and close-out of global projects.
ENCE 721 Investment Theory for Project Managers (3) This is an introductory graduate course designed to expose students to investment theory as well as its application to project evaluation and selection. Topics include basic theory of interest and fixed income securities, portfolio selection and modification, capital asset pricing; asset price dynamics, derivative securities, and project evaluation using real options.
ENCE 722 Market, Spatial, and Traffic Equilibrium Models (3) This course is an introduction to equilibrium models involving economics and engineering, concentrating on models involving markets (Nash-Cournot, etc.) wherein activities are spatially diverse as well as those involving energy activities or traffic flow. Areas covered include: review of relevant optimization theory; presentation of the nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP) and variational inequality problem (VIP) formats to solve equilibrium problems as well as introduction to existence and uniqueness results; review of relevant game theory notions; presentation of specific models for market, spatial, energy, and traffic equilibrium problems; and presentations for algorithms to solve these equilibrium problems.
ENCE 723 Project Decision Making with Competing Objectives (3) This course is an introduction to the theory and algorithms behind optimization under competing objectives, also called "multi-objective optimization." This course explores the concepts of dominated solutions, Pareto optimal or "efficient" solutions, as well as developing theory for general nonlinear multi-objective optimization problems, but concentrates the majority of effort on the linear case for the algorithms. The course also considers other multi-objective models such as goal programming to solve problems with competing objectives.
ENCE 724 Nonlinear Programming in Project Management (3) This course provides mathematically rigorous motivation and introduction to nonlinear programming theory relevant to numerous problems in economics, engineering, and other disciplines. The course will focus on models necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality of nonlinear programs.
ENCE 725 Probabilistic Optimization in Project Management (3) This course will help project managers make difficult decisions when there is more than one competing objective. For example, in a generic engineering project, you might have the following competing objectives to try: minimize environmental impacts and costs and maximize production and reliability. This course will present methods for resolving these types of problems and examine case studies in project management. Some optimization experience/coursework and/or up to multi-dimensional calculus is suggested but these can be waived with permission of the instructor.
ENCE 656 Advanced Steel Design (3) Interpretation of specifications and codes for the design of steel buildings and bridges. Discussion of the behavior of steel connections, members, and structures; the relationship between behavior and design specifications.
ENCE 688M Masonry Structures (3) Analysis, design and construction of masonry structures. Analysis and design of beams, columns and pilasters, non-load bearing walls, load bearing walls, and shear walls. High rise building design. Composite masonry. Prestressed and post-tensioned masonry. Energy considerations. Passive solar design of masonry structures. Seismic considerations. Recent developments in masonry research.
ENCE 716 Forensic Engineering (3) The application of the art and science of engineering in the jurisprudence system. Includes the investigation of the physical causes of accidents and other sources of claims and litigation, preparation of engineering reports, testimony at hearings and trials in administrative or judicial proceedings, and the rendition of advisory opinions to assist the resolution of disputes affecting life and property. Study of the process of failure investigation from initial site visit, through report preparation to adjudication. Emphasis on lessons learned from failures.
ENCE 753 Reinforced Concrete Structures (3) The behavior and strength of reinforced concrete members under combined loadings, including the effects of creep, shrinkage and temperature. Mechanisms of shear resistance and design procedures for bond, shear and diagonal tension. Elastic and ultimate strength analysis and design of slabs. Columns in multistory frames. Applications to reinforced concrete structures.
ENCE 754 Prestressed Concrete Structures (3) Fundamental concepts of prestressed concrete. Analysis and design of flexural members including composite and continuous beams with emphasis on load balancing technique. Ultimate strength design for shear. Design of post tensioned slabs. Various applications of prestressing including tension members, compression members, circular prestressing, frames, and folding plates.
ENPM 808Y Geographic Information System Applications (3) Geographic Information System (GIS) applications in solving engineering problems such as optimal facility location, highway alignment optimization, environmental impact analysis, and engineering economic analysis. Exploiting spatial characteristics of a GIS for engineering applications. Role of a GIS in mapping and database management. Intelligent real world GIS applications in automated decision making and expert system development.
ENPM 808Z Intelligent Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence (3) Application of intelligent optimization techniques in solving complex engineering problems. Detailed discussion of four such techniques: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, neural networks, and Tabu search. Example problems from civil, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and systems engineering will be discussed.
ENCE 670 Highway Characteristics and Measurements (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 470 or permission of both department and instructor. The study of the fundamental traits and behavior patterns of road users and their vehicles in traffic. The basic characteristics of the pedestrian, the driver, the vehicle, traffic volume and speed, stream flow and intersection operation, parking, and accidents.
ENCE 672 Regional Transportation Planning (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 471 or permission of both department and instructor. Factors involved and the components of the process for planning statewide and regional transportation systems, encompassing all modes. Transportation planning studies, statewide traffic models, investment models, programming and scheduling.
ENCE 673 Urban Transportation (3) The contemporary methodology of urban transportation planning. The urban transportation planning process, interdependence between the urban transportation system and the activity system, urban travel demand models, evaluation of urban transportation alternatives and their implementation.
ENCE 674 Urban Transit Planning and Rail Transportation Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 471 or permission of both department and instructor. Basic engineering and components of conventional and highspeed railroads and of air cushion and other highspeed new technology. The study of urban rail and bus transit. The characteristics of the vehicle, the supporting way, and the terminal requirements will be evaluated with respect to system performance, capacity, cost, and level of service.
ENCE 677 Quantitative Methods in Transportation Engineering (3) Applications of operations research and management science models to the planning, design and operations of various types of transportation systems. Equilibrium traffic assignment, network design, fleet assignment, fleet routing, crew scheduling, simulation, and queuing theory.
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
This option, offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recommends four courses from a major core area, three courses from a minor core area, and three technical electives. The major and minor core areas are selected by the student.
Communications and Signal Processing Core
ENPM 600 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers (3) Prerequisite: undergraduate introduction to discrete and continuous probability. Axioms of probability; conditional probability and Bayes’ rule; random variables, probability distributions and densities; functions of random variables; definition of stochastic process; stationary processes, correlation functions, and power spectral densities; stochastic processes and linear systems; estimation and optimum filtering. Applications in communication and control systems, signal processing, and detection and estimation.
ENPM 601 Analog and Digital Communication Systems (3) Prerequisite: ENPM 600 or equivalent. Analog modulation methods including AM, DSBSC-AM, SSB, and QAM; effects of noise in analog modulation systems. Digital communication methods for the infinite bandwidth additive white Gaussian noise channel: PAM, QAM, PSK, FSK modulation; optimum receivers using the MAP principle; phase-locked loops; error probabilities. Digital communication over bandlimited channels: intersymbol interference and Nyquist’s criterion, adaptive equalizers, symbol clock and carrier recovery systems, trellis coding. Spread spectrum systems: direct sequence modulation and frequency hopping.
ENPM 602 Data Networks (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 324 or equivalent. Principles of network design, circuit switching and packet switching, OSI Reference Model: parity and cyclic redundancy check codes; retransmission request protocols; Markov chains and queuing models for delay analysis; multiaccess communication, local area networks, Ethernet and Token Ring standards; routing, flow control, internetworking; higher layer functions and protocols. Software tools for network simulation and performance analysis will be used.
ENPM 603 Theory and Applications of Digital Signal Processing (3) Prerequisite: undergraduate introduction to discrete-time systems. Uniform sampling and the sampling theorem; the Z-transform and discrete-time system analysis; multi-rate systems; discrete-time random processes; methods for designing FIR and IIR digital filters; effects of quantization and finite work-length; the DFT and FFT; power spectrum estimation.
ENPM 604 Wireless Communication Networks (3) Prerequisites: ENEE 420 and ENEE 426 or equivalent. Design and analysis of wireless communication systems. Aspects of radio propagation, signal strength, multipath propagation, fading, diversity reception, cell shapes. Modulation and coding for the mobile radio channel including FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA. Multiaccess issues including frequency allocation, channel reuse, and power control. System level issues including traffic engineering, blocking, network design and optimization, channel allocation control, handoffs, mobility management, registration and tracking, signaling and user location database management. Examples of existing analog and emerging digital cellular standards.
ENPM 605 Information Theory and Coding (3) The purpose of this course is to study communication systems from a mathematical viewpoint and within the framework set up by Claude Shannon in 1948. This is achieved by viewing the information being communicated and also the noise and other disturbances in a communication system as stochastic processes and phenomena. Information theory then shows, through a number of elegant coding theorems, the optimum performance that can be achieved with any communication system. Both problems of data compression and error correction coding will be studied. Part of the course will be devoted to practical coding techniques and a few applications.
ENPM 606 Linear Control Systems (3) Simulation and modeling, linear systems theory, specifications, structures and limitations, feedback system stability in terms of loop gain, classical design, and state feedback.
ENPM 607 Computer System Design and Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 446 or equivalent. Principles of computer design and cost/performance factors; instruction set design and implementation, RISC vs. CISC instruction sets; control unit and pipeline design; floating-point arithmetic; memory hierarchy designs, caches, memory interleaving, virtual memory; I/O device interconnections to CPUs and main memory. Additional topics include parallel system designs, SIMD, MIMD, SPMD; interconnection networks for processors and memories; optimization of pipeline operations; superscalar architectures, power management techniques.
ENPM 609 Microprocessor-Based Design (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 244 or equivalent and ENEE 350 or equivalent. Undergraduate logic design course; computer architecture; programming course or programming experience. Introduction to microprocessor components, software, and tools. Architectures, instruction sets, and assembly language programming for a commercial microprocessor family. Real-time programming techniques. Peripheral chips such as parallel ports, counter-timers, DMA controllers, interrupt controllers, and serial communication units. Design projects emphasizing integrated hardware and software solutions to engineering problems.
ENPM 610 Digital VLSI Design (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 244 or equivalent. An introduction to the design and performance limits of VLSI circuits. Topics include VLSI digital design issues, testing techniques, fabrication techniques, layout, device physics, performance limits, stray resistance and capacitance, and computer-aided design tools.
ENPM 611 Software Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: Competency in a programming language.
This course covers software engineering concepts, methods, and practices important to both the theorist and the practitioner. The entire range of responsibilities expected of a software engineer is presented. The fundamental areas of requirements development, software design, programming languages, and testing are covered extensively. Sessions on supporting areas such as systems engineering, project management, and software estimation are also included.
ENPM 612 System & Software Requirements (3)
Prerequisite: None.
This course focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of requirements development. Students will recognize the place of requirements, how to work with users, requirements methods and techniques, the various requirements types, how to set requirements development schedules, requirements evolution, how to model and prototype requirements, how to evaluate and manage risk in requirements, techniques to test requirements, how to manage the requirements process, and how to write an effective requirements document.
ENPM 613 Software Design and Implementation (3)
Prerequisite: Competency in a programming language and ENPM 611 or ENPM 612.* This course covers software design concepts and practices within the field important to both the practitioner and the theorist. Architectural and detailed designs are included for batch, client/server, and real-time systems. Design considerations for structured, object-oriented, and Web-based systems are covered. Design of databases, user interfaces, forms, and reports are also included. Implementation issues that affect the design, including error handling, performance, and inter-process communication, are presented.
ENPM 614 Software Testing & Maintenance (3)
Prerequisite: ENPM 611 or ENPM 612.* This course covers aspects of software development after coding is completed. Students will understand the various levels of testing, techniques for creating test data, how to manage test cases and scenarios, testing strategies and methods, testing batch, client/server, real-time, and Internet systems, and the development of an effective test plan. Software maintenance will include the creation of easily maintained software; preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and enhancements; configuration management practices; and assuring quality in software maintenance.
| *Students are allowed to take ENPM 611 AND 613 CONCURRENTLY |
| *Students are allowed to take ENPM 612 AND 614 CONCURRENTLY |
Technical Electives
ENPM 808L Satellite Communication Systems (3) This course is intended as a graduate level course to study the architecture and design of the modern satellite communication system. The first part includes an overview of satellite communication systems and a review of communication theory. The second part of the course includes Earth station design, radio link analysis and regulatory requirements. The third part of the course will cover multiple access, focusing on the TDMA scheme. The last part of the course introduces satellite applications with a focus on IP over satellite. An overview of various VSAT and mobile satellite systems will also be included.
ENPM 808N Network Security (3) Prerequisite: An operating systems and/or network protocol course or equivalent. Introduction to various approaches to design; specify and verify security protocols used in large systems and networks; familiarization with some current technologies. Security threats and countermeasures, communication security and basic encryption techniques, authentication protocols, data confidentiality and integrity, analysis of cryptographic protocols, and access control in large systems and networks.
ENPM 808O Operating System Design (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 350 or equivalent
Programming experience in C, C++, or Java. Overview (Introduction, Organization), Process Mangement (Processes and Threads, Process Scheduling, Process Synchronization and Communication), Memory Management (Main Memory, Virtual Memory), Storage Management (File System, I/O System), Protection and Security.
ENPM 808R Advanced Topics in Engineering: VLSI Testing and Design for Testability (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 244 or equivalent. This course will cover the major topics of VLSI Test Process and Equipment, Faults and Fault Modeling, Fault Simulation, Combinational Logic APTG, Sequential Logic ATPG, Iddq Testing, Function Testing, Memory Testing, Delay Testing, Design for Testability, Built-In Self-Test (BIST), Boundary Scan.
ENPM 808T Next Generation Wireless Communication Networks (3) This course will consider computer-communication system survivability as an overreaching requirement, along with the subtended needs for security and reliability. The course will focus on requirements and their interdependencies, vulnerabilities, threats, risks, system and network architectures, and techniques for ensuring dependable survivability in the face of a wide range of adversities including hardware malfunctions, malicious misuse, and unexpected events. Although there are no explicit course prerequisites, a good computer-science undergraduate background and some experience with computer systems and networks is essential.
ENPM 808V Introduction to Modern Radar Technology (3) This introductory course in modern technology provides working knowledge or relevant basic principles. Fundamental concepts applicable to all modern radars are addressed and explained. Fourier transforms are discussed briefly , but in sufficient detail for study and comprehension or current complex waveforms.
ENPM 808W Systems Engineering Aspects of Wireless Communications (3) This course provides students with basic engineering techniques and system concepts used in the analysis and design of cellular and PCS networks. It focuses on signal processing, radio network planning, and traffic engineering of these networks.
Other courses offered by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the areas of computer engineering, control systems, communications and signal processing, electrophysics, and microelectronics; or approved technical electives in other departments such as Mathematics and Computer Science.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Courses are offered by the Chemical Engineering Department, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Mechanical Engineering Department. Students select one of these academic departments as their major department for advising. Choose seven of the following core courses plus three technical electives.
Environmental Engineering Core
ENCE 630 Environmental and Water Resources Systems I (3) Application of statistical and systems engineering techniques in the analysis of information necessary for the design or characterization of environmental or hydrologic processes; emphasis on the fundamental considerations that control the design of information collection programs, data interpretation, and the evolution of simulation models used to support the decision-making process.
ENCE 631 Hydrologic and Nonpoint Pollution Models (3) The physical processes controlling the spatial distribution of runoff and constituent transport during rainfall and snowmelt events. Emphasis on the processes and practical models of runoff simulation, stormwater management and environmental impact assessment.
ENCE 632 Free Surface Flow (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 330 or equivalent. Application of fundamentals of fluid mechanics to problems of free surface flow; computation of steady and transient water surface profiles; stratified flows in reservoirs and estuaries; diffusion; transition structures; sediment transport.
ENPM 620 Computer-Aided Engineering Analysis (3) Computer assisted approach to the solution of engineering problems. Review and extension of undergraduate material in applied mathematics including vector analysis and vector calculus, analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions of linear, partial differential equations, and probability and statistics.
ENPM 621 Heat Pump and Refrigeration Systems Design Analysis (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal engineering of heat pump and refrigeration systems and thermal systems modeling. Thermodynamics and heat transfer. Cycle analysis, alternative refrigerants, graphical analysis using property charts. Analysis of applications including space conditioning, food preservation manufacturing, heat recovery and cogeneration.
ENPM 622 Modern Power Generation I – Stationary Power Applications (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal engineering of modern power generation systems. Cycle analysis of various modern power generation technologies including gas turbine, combined cycle, waste burning, and cogeneration. Energy storage and energy transport.
ENPM 623 Control of Combustion Generated Air Pollution (3) Analysis of the sources and mechanisms of combustion generated air pollution. Air pollution due to internal combustion engines, power generation and industrial emissions. Techniques to minimize and control emission. Acid rain, ozone, plume analysis, scrubbing, filtering.
ENPM 624 Renewable Energy Applications (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermodynamics and heat transfer analysis of renewable energy sources for heating, power generation and transportation. Wind energy, solar thermal, photovoltaic, biomass, waste burning and OTEC. Broad overview of the growing use of renewable energy sources in the world economy with detailed analysis of specific applications.
ENPM 625 Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning of Buildings (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermodynamic, heat transfer and fluid flow analysis of building systems. Psychrometric analysis, cooling and heating load calculation, equipment sizing, diagnosis of system problems. Equipment analysis including VAV, hydronic, cooling towers, radiant heating, humidification, dehumidification.
ENPM 626 Thermal Destruction Technology (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal destruction, incineration and combustion processes. Emphasis is on solid wastes and their composition, current and advanced destruction technologies, guidelines on design and operation, and environmental pollution.
ENPM 627 Environmental Risk Analysis (3) Fundamentals of environmental protection. Risk identification, characterization, assessment and management in compliance programs related to environmental laws and regulations. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act and Clean Water Act. Technology basis of Clean Air Act and Superfund and options for compliance. Expert systems for environmental applications. Elements of life cycle analysis risk assessment. Risk reduction through multimedia emission evaluation and voluntary programs.
ENPM 633 Aquatic Chemistry Concepts (3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Development of the theoretical basis for understanding the chemical behavior of aquatic systems, with an emphasis on problem solving. Principles of inorganic and physical chemistry applied to quantitative description of processes in natural waters: Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of electrolyte solutions, carbon dioxide/carbonate systems; dissolution and precipitation, metal-ligand complexes, and oxidation/reduction.
ENPM 634 Indoor Air Quality Engineering (3) Fundamentals of building ventilation; ventilation and indoor environmental measurement; indoor contaminants and mass balance; ASHRAE standards; indoor environmental quality; building design; psychrometrics and HVAC system design.
ENPM 635 Design and Analysis of Thermal Systems (3) The focus of this course deals with the numerical evaluation of the inevitable trade-offs associated with any thermodynamic or heat transfer system. A distinction will be made between workable and optimal systems. For workable systems problems, several laborious manual solutions will be required to ensure that the physics of the system and solution techniques are well understood. A primary analytical tool that will be used for system simulation and evaluation will be an engineering equation solver (EES) program. Although no computer language will be required for simulations, prior experience with windows and spreadsheets will be helpful. Optimal system analysis will include one calculus method and one search method. Applications will include power and refrigeration systems, electronics cooling, distillation columns, dehumidifying coils, and co-generation systems. Student performance will be based largely on manual and computer based take-home problems, some of which will include system performance modeling.
ENPM 636 Unit Operations of Environmental Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 315 or permission of both department and instructor. Properties and quality criteria of drinking water as related to health are interpreted by a chemical and biological approach. Legal aspects of water use and handling are considered. Theory and application of aeration, sedimentation, filtration, centrifugation, desalinization, corrosion and corrosion control are among topics to be considered.
ENPM 637 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering (3) An examination of biological principles directly affecting man and his environment, with particular emphasis on microbiological interactions in environmental engineering related to air, water and land systems; microbiology and biochemistry of aerobic and anaerobic treatment processes for aqueous wastes.
ENPM 651 Heat Transfer for Modern Applications (3) Most heat transfer texts used in introductory courses contain far more material than is possible to cover in one semester. The intention of this second course is to extend the student’s understanding of the subject by utilizing the fundamental relationships that have been derived from first principles to obtain numerical solutions to somewhat more complex (realistic) applications.
ENPM 653 Environmental Law for Engineers and Scientists (3) Introduction to the basics in environmental law including the language and methods of the law, and the Constitution as the basis of the American legal system. Exposure to how lawyers think and approach environmental engineering problems. Case studies used extensively.
ENPM 655 Contaminant Transport and Fate in the Environment (3) Prerequisites: Calculus, General Physics, General Chemistry, or permission of instructor. This class covers the physical and chemical behaviors of pollutants in surface water and subsurface environment. Emphasis will be on interactions between organic contaminants and natural geological matrixes and relevant issues including groundwater transport and subsurface remediation.
ENPM 680 Aquatic Chemical Kinetics (3) The objective of this course is to strengthen the understanding of reaction mechanisms and specific reaction rates in natural and engineered water system (fresh water, atmospheric water, porous water and ocean). The class will also introduce innovative researches developed in water technology.
ENPM 808B Chemical and Biological Detection (3) Introduction to hardware (instrumentation) and software (data analysis algorithm) aspects of chemical and biological detection. Physical measurements, chemical sensors, biosensors, optical sensor components, signal conditioning and analysis, chemometrics, image analysis, applications.
ENPM 808C Computational Methods in Environmental Engineering (3) Introduction to the use of microcomputers and the familiarization with computer tools that aid in the numerical solution of environmental engineering problems. Operating systems, networks, numerical methods, programming, spreadsheets, numerical and symbolic computation, software and hardware interface, data acquisition.
ENPM 808F Building Control Systems (3) This course will focus on providing guidance and expertise to engineers who are designing control equipment and systems for building heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. It will also cover issues related to control system commissioning, fault detection and diagnoses, and optimization. The implementation of direct digital control systems and building networks will be addressed, along with issues related to indoor air quality and environmental performance.
ENPM 808R Waste Minimization in Project Management Design (3) Introduction to material use and flow concepts; recycling of nonmetallics; sustainability and industrial ecology; life cycle environmental assessments and models; municipal solid waste; case studies and plant visit.
Technical Electives
The three electives may be taken from the environmental engineering core courses or from approved courses offered by the Chemical Engineering Department, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Mechanical Engineering Department.
FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING
Two specialized areas of study comprise the subject matter for the option. The first area, called the fire protection core, focuses on engineering principles concerned with basic processes of fire behavior, prediction of fire development, the combustion of materials and furnishings, the effects of fire on structures and the environment, and on the law. A second area of study is the risk analysis core. This involves application of simulation and risk analysis to the predictive and analytical procedures for assessment of the hazards and the probabilities of potential fire incidents.
The degree requirement is to complete ten approved courses, which should include five fire protection core courses, three risk analysis core courses, and two elective courses as listed. Other substitutes are possible by permission of the department, e.g., certain courses in environmental engineering, probability-statistics, thermal science, etc.
Fire Protection Engineering Core
ENFP 415 Fire Dynamics (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 300 or ENME 320, ENFP 300, and ENFP 312 or permission of department. Introduction to premixed and diffusion flames; ignition, flame spread and rate of burning; fire plumes; flame radiation.
ENFP 425 Fire Modeling (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Introduction to current fire modeling techniques for building fire safety assessment. Application of various computer-based fire models to representative problems.
ENFP 431 Building Safety and the Law (3) Key topics include, biotechnology, safety regulation, federal preemption, product liability, professional negligence, antitrust, privacy and information technology, risk modeling, environmental protection, patent, copyright, trade secrets, reverse engineering, scientific and technological evidence, international trade, engineering ethics. Examples include plane crashes, computer chip protection, human machine interfaces, nuclear power plants, internet censorship, flood control, earthquakes and biomedical technology.
ENFP 435 Product Liability and Regulation (3) Product safety law and the engineering design process. Strict Liability, negligence, warranty, Regulation, rule making, adjudication and enforcement. Key topics include motor vehicles, aircraft, computer systems, environmental contaminants, nuclear power, expert testimony, professional malpractice and proposed reforms.
ENFP 611 Fire Induced Flows (3) Recommended prerequisite or co-requisite: ENFP 415. Theoretical basis is presented for fire induced buoyancy driven flows, plumes, ceiling jets, vent flows, and compartment flows. Dimensional analysis for correlations and scale model applications. Smoke movement and combustion products.
ENFP 612 Toxicity Evaluation and Analysis (3) Physical, analytical procedures for the measurement of the toxic components in thermally produced smoke and gases. Human tenability characteristics, physiological effects of exposure components, and dosages. Predictive models of material production rates, degradation variables. Effects of the different measuring instrument variables. Combustion gas analysis techniques.
ENFP 621 Analytical Procedures of Structural Fire Protection (3) Prerequisite: ENFP 405. Analysis procedures for structural components of wood, steel, concrete, composites. Structural capabilities, modifications under fire induced exposures. Calculations, computer models for predicting fire resistance ratings of structural components.
ENFP 622 Advanced Fire Protection Risk Assessment (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Definition, evaluation of the fire risk to a process, facility or area. Prevention, intervention, control, suppression strategies. Resource allocation, queuing theory, decision priority, cost analysis.
ENFP 625 Advanced Fire Modeling (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Validity, utility, reliability of current computer models. Applications of models in risk assessment, underwriting, loss prediction, hazard analysis. Development and validation of specific application models.
ENFP 627 Smoke Detection and Management (3) Analysis of hazard smoke. Response analysis of smoke detectors based on characteristics of detectors and properties of smoke.
ENRE 467 System Safety Engineering (3) Prerequisites: MATH 246 and PHYS 263 or permission of the department. Role of system safety, the language of system safety, and programs for achieving safety such as the problem solving process, safety criteria, safety descriptors, checklist-timeliness elements, safety training, hazard analysis, and uncertainty in safety measurements. Time-phased indicators, hazard nomenclature, hazard mode and effect analysis, hazard classification, hazard probability, survival rate, distributions applied to human performance.
ENRE 600 Basic Reliability Engineering (3) Corequisite: ENRE 602. Organization, management and communication concepts in reliability engineering. Mechanisms and physics of failure, methods for failure-rate determination, methods of design for reliability, maintainability concepts, life cycle costing, equipment sparing policies, and measuring reliability for improvement.
ENRE 602 Reliability Analysis (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 620. Principal methods of reliability analysis, including fault tree and reliability block diagrams, method of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA); event tree construction and evaluation; reliability data collection and analysis; methods of modeling systems for reliability analysis. Focus on systems of concern to all engineers, such as, problems related to process industries, fossil-fueled power plant availability, and other subjects. Methods of quality control and assurance.
ONLINE FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING
This is an online graduate program in applied fire safety science and engineering. The curriculum supports the emerging international movement toward performance-based approaches to building fire safety analysis and design, which includes evaluation and integration of fire protection systems for high-rise structures and industrial complexes; analysis of the level of fire protection applicable to commercial and residential buildings, nuclear power plants and aerospace vehicles; and the research of fire propagation, detection and suppression, with the physiological and psychological effects on humans and their responses.
This program features chat rooms, threaded discussions and full access to the University of Maryland library services.
The degree is earned by completing the ten courses listed below.
ENFP 612 Toxicity Evaluation and Analysis (3) Physical, analytical procedures for the measurement of the toxic components in thermally produced smoke and gases. Human tenability characteristics, physiological effects of exposure components, and dosages. Predictive models of material production rates, degradation variables. Effects of the different measuring instrument variables. Combustion gas analysis techniques.
ENFP 621 Analytical Procedures of Structural Fire Protection (3) Prerequisite: ENFP 405. Analysis procedures for structural components of wood, steel, concrete, composites. Structural capabilities, modifications under fire induced exposures. Calculations, computer models for predicting fire resistance ratings of structural components.
ENFP 622 Advanced Fire Protection Risk Assessment (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Definition, evaluation of the fire risk to a process, facility or area. Prevention, intervention, control, suppression strategies. Resource allocation, queuing theory, decision priority, cost analysis.
ENFP 625 Advanced Fire Modeling (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Validity, utility, reliability of current computer models. Applications of models in risk assessment, underwriting, loss prediction, hazard analysis. Development and validation of specific application models.
ENFP 627 Smoke Detection and Management (3) Analysis of hazard smoke. Response analysis of smoke detectors based on characteristics of detectors and properties of smoke.
ENFP 629A Applied Fire Dynamics (3) Quantitative discussion of the chemical and physical phenomena associated with fire; energy release rates; fire plumes and flame heights; heat transfer in compartment fires; computer models of enclosure fires. This course will build on a basic understanding of the principles of fire behavior.
ENFP 629B Fire Assessment Methods (3) Evaluation of ignition, flame spread, rate of heat release and smoke production of furnishings and interior finish materials.
ENFP 629C Advanced Fire Suppression (3) Mechanisms of flame extinction, suppression agent screening tests, droplet evaporation, fundamentals of sprinkler systems, fundamentals of water mist systems, fundamentals of gaseous agents, fundamentals of foam systems, Novel suppression experiments and technologies.
ENFP 629D Forensic Fire Analysis (3) Techniques for the identification of ignition and propagation variables in fire incidents. Failure analysis procedures with temporal reconstruction. Computer models for fire reconstruction.
ENFP 629E - Performance-Based Design (3) Fire protection design goals and objectives, performance criteria and scenario selection. Evaluation of performance including interaction of fire and evacuation models. Safety factors, documentation procedures and application issues. Case studies.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
This option, offered by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, requires three core courses, three special topics courses which are individualized project courses in electronic materials, polymers and structural materials, and four technical electives.
Materials Science and Engineering Core
ENPM 661 Introduction to the Structure of Materials (3) The basic concepts of crystalline and amorphous materials are introduced. Crystal structure analysis is reviewed. Other topics include: x-ray diffraction, electron energy bands, metallic structure, elastic waves, semiconductors and superconductivity.
ENPM 662 Introductory Thermodynamics of Materials (3) The basic thermodynamic laws are applied to materials science. Phase transformations in materials and thermodynamic properties of polycrystalline and polyphase materials are introduced. Concepts related to phase diagrams are applied to real material systems.
ENPM 663 Introduction to Kinetics of Reactions in Materials (3) The thermodynamics of solid solutions, free energy and phase diagrams, thermodynamics of interfaces, concepts of kinetics are introduced. Diffusion in solids, nucleation kinetics and kinetics of composition invariant solid-solid interface migration are reviewed. The growth of phases and cellular segregation are also introduced.
ENMA 650 Nanostructure of Materials (3) The structural aspects of crystalline and amorphous solids and relationships to bonding types. Point and space groups. Summary of diffraction theory and practice. The reciprocal lattice. Relationships of the microscopically measured properties to crystal symmetry. Structural aspects of defects in crystalline solids.
ENMA 660 Thermodynamics in Materials Science (3) Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of engineering solids. Cohesion, thermodynamic properties. Theory of solid solutions. Thermodynamics of mechanical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena in solids. Chemical thermodynamics, phase transitions and thermodynamic properties of polycrystalline and polyphase materials. Thermodynamics of defects in solids.
ENMA 661 Kinetics of Reactions in Materials (3) The theory of thermally activated processes in solids as applied to diffusion, nucleation and interface motion. Cooperative and diffusionless transformations. Applications selected from processes such as allotropic transformations, precipitation, martensite formation, solidification, ordering, and corrosion.
ENMA 671 Defects in MaterialsCourse (3) The nature and interactions of defects in crystalline solids, with primary emphasis on dislocations. The elastic and electric fields associated with dislocations. Effects of imperfections on mechanical and physical properties.
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ENMA 620 Polymer Physics (3) The thermodynamics, structure, morphology and properties of polymers. Developing an understanding of the relationships between theory and observed behavior in polymeric materials.
Special Topics
ENMA 489 Special Topics in Engineering Materials (3) To introduce basic concepts such as crystal chemistry, defect chemistry and temary phase equilibria which can be used to illustrate the various types of advanced ceramics (superconductors; superionic conductors; dielectrics including ferroelectronics; optimal materials; high temperature structure materials, etc) and allow an understanding of their behaviors.
ENMA 659 Special Topics in Electronic Materials (3)
ENMA 669 Special Topics in the Chemical Physics of Materials (3) An individualized projects course in the area of Chemical Physics in Materials Science.
ENMA 679 Special Topics in the Mechanical Behavior of Materials (3)
ENMA 689 Special Topics in Experimental Techniques in Materials Science (3) Methods of measuring the structural aspects of materials. Optical and electron microscopy. Microscopic and analytical techniques. Resonance methods. Electrical, optical and magnetic measurement techniques. Thermodynamic methods.
ENMA 698 Special Problems in Engineering Materials (1-16)
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
There are two core areas offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The normal course plan consists of five courses from one core area, ENPM 620, and four technical electives. Special programs can also be arranged for those students with broad interests in mechanical engineering.
Energy and the Environment Core
ENPM 620 Computer Aided Engineering Analysis (3) Computer assisted approach to the solution of engineering problems. Review and extension of undergraduate material in applied mathematics including vector analysis and vector calculus, analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions of linear, partial differential equations, and probability and statistics.
ENPM 621 Heat Pump and Refrigeration Systems Design Analysis (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal engineering of heat pump and refrigeration systems and thermal systems modeling. Thermodynamics and heat transfer. Cycle analysis, alternative refrigerants, graphical analysis using property charts. Analysis of applications such as space conditioning, food preservation manufacturing, heat recovery and cogeneration.
ENPM 622 Modern Power Generation I – Stationary Power Applications (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal engineering of modern power generation systems. Cycle analysis of various modern power generation technologies including gas turbine, combined cycle, waste burning, and cogeneration. Energy storage and energy transport.
ENPM 623 Control of Combustion Generated Air Pollution (3) Analysis of the sources and mechanisms of combustion generated air pollution. Air pollution due to internal combustion engines, power generation and industrial emissions. Techniques to minimize and control emissions. Acid rain, ozone, plume analysis, scrubbing, filtering.
ENPM 624 Renewable Energy Applications (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermodynamics and heat transfer analysis of renewable energy sources for heating, power generation and transportation. Wind energy, solar thermal, photovoltaic, biomass, waste burning and OTEC. Broad overview of the growing use of renewable energy sources in the world economy with detailed analysis of specific applications.
ENPM 625 Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning of Buildings (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermodynamic, heat transfer and fluid flow analysis of building systems. Psychometric analysis, cooling and heating load calculation, equipment sizing, diagnosis of system problems. Equipment analysis including VAV, hydronic, cooling towers, radiant heating, humidification, dehumidification.
ENPM 626 Thermal Destruction Technology (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate thermodynamics and undergraduate heat transfer. Thermal destruction, incineration and combustion processes. Emphasis is on solid wastes and their composition, current and advanced destruction technologies, guidelines on design and operation, and environmental pollution.
ENPM 627 Environmental Risk Analysis (3) Fundamentals of environmental protection. Risk identification, characterization, assessment and management in compliance programs related to environmental laws and regulations. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act and Clean Water Act. Technology basis of Clean Air Act and Superfund and options for compliance. Expert systems for environmental applications. Elements of life cycle analysis in risk assessment. Risk reduction through multimedia emission evaluation and voluntary programs.
ENPM 635 Design and Analysis of Thermal Systems (3) Prerequisites: Undergraduate thermodynamics and heat transfer. The focus of this course deals with the numerical evaluation of the inevitable trade-offs associated with any thermodynamic or heat transfer system. A distinction will be made between workable and optimal systems. For workable systems problems, several laborious manual solutions will be required to ensure that the physics of the system and solution techniques are well understood. A primary analytical tool that will be used for system simulation and evaluation will be an engineering equation solver (EES) program. Although no computer language will be required for simulations, prior experience with windows and spreadsheets will be helpful. Optimal system analysis will include one calculus method and one search method. Applications will include power and refrigeration systems, electronics cooling, distillation columns, dehumidifying coils, and co-generation systems. Student performance will be based largely on manual and computer based take-home problems, some of which will include system performance modeling.
ENPM 651 Heat Transfer for Modern Applications (3) Prerequisite: ENPM 635 or equivalent. Advanced course in heat transfer application analysis. Extends the introductory treatment by utilizing fundamental relationships to obtain numerical solutions to real-world applications. Course will include the full range of thermal system analysis but will focus largely on heat transfer aspects.
ENPM 654 Energy Systems Management (3) Covers the application of energy efficient technologies, analysis procedures and implementation techniques, including lighting, motors, energy conservation and demand side management. The course will cover the latest innovation in energy efficient equipment and applications, primarily in the buildings and industrial areas. Topics will include both new installations and retrofit activities, with an emphasis on methods for evaluating the energy and cost savings potential of different design options or equipment alternatives.
ENPM 808G Modern Power Generation II – Mobility Applications (3) This course presents the scientific and engineering basis for design, manufacture, and operation of thermal conversion technologies utilized for mobility power generation. The interface between fuel combustion chemistry and generated power are addressed. The practical aspects of design and operation of various alternatives for power are compared. The impact of choices with regard to power and fuel alternatives as well as air pollution potential are also considered.
ENPM 808F Building Control Systems (3) This course focus on design of control equipment and systems for building heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. It covers issues related to control system commissioning, fault detection and diagnoses, and optimization. The implementation of direct digital control systems and building networks is addressed, along with issues related to indoor air quality and environmental performance.
ENPM 808K Applied Thermodynamics (3) The course focuses on an analytical system performance technique known as Availability or Exergy Analysis, which is based on the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It focuses on traditional power and refrigeration systems. Non-traditional power generation systems are considered by way of a special project of each student’s choice. It will include an engineering description of the state-of-the art of the selected topic (e.g., wind or solar power, fuel cell, etc.) and a second law performance analysis of a prototype system which will be presented to the class. In addition to the power system topics, the availability analysis will be applied to combustion and psychrometric processes.
ENME 706 Impact of Energy Conversion on the Environment (3) Prerequisite: Thermodynamics (graduate level). This course begins with a review of the energy flow diagram of the US and discusses the current status of energy production, transportation and consumption. This is followed by an introduction to environmental issues that are caused through energy conversion: Ozone depletion, global warming and air quality issues. Based on this background information, the students then develop, through classroom discussions, student presentations and lectures, alternative energy conversion concepts, assess their performance in design projects, and evaluate the potential environmental, infrastructure and cost impacts. The course focuses extensively and in considerable detail on the understanding and application of the latest energy conversion technologies.
General Mechanical Core
ENPM 620 Computer Aided Engineering Analysis (3) Computer assisted approach to the solution of engineering problems. Review and extension of undergraduate material in applied mathematics including vector analysis and vector calculus, analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions of linear, partial differential equations, and probability and statistics.
ENPM 652 Applied Finite Element Methods (3) This course is aimed at engineering and science students with little or no previous knowledge of the Finite Element Method. The course deliberately attempts to keep the mathematics of the subject as straightforward as possible. It is assumed that the students understand the basic concepts and equations of elasticity and thermal heat flow, and is familiar with simple matrix algebra. The course will cover stress and thermal analysis problems, and will include the use of the ANSYS finite element code for doing examples and homework solutions. The basic problem solving procedure will be developed for using finite element computer codes.
ENPM 808J Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics (3) Development and application of the three major analytical methods to quantify fatigue damage in order to design fatigue resistant structures, i.e. stress-life, strain-life, and damage tolerant analysis and design.
ENPM 808M Advanced Mechanics of Materials (3) To instill understanding of the fundamental mechanical models of behavior for structural components. To enumerate the stress resultant formulations of various shapes subjected to axial, torsional and bending loads. To evaluate and interpret the analyses based on the applied principles and the assumptions made.
ENPM 808O Mechanical Vibrations (3) Analytical techniques are formulated and applied to vibration problems in mechanical systems. Fundamentals of the theory of vibrations are developed and illustrated by examples. Numerical techniques are explained and applied to many practical vibration problems in machines and structures.
ENPM 808Q Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Mechanics (3) The objective is to understand probability concepts as applied to problems in engineering mechanics with particular emphasis on mechanical system reliability. The probability of failure (and its complement, reliability) will be calculated for several failure mechanisms including exceeding ultimate strength, yielding, fatigue, fracture, and buckling.
ENPM 808X Engineering Reliability & Risk Assessment (3) With ever-increasing frequency, aerospace professionals are being tasked with quantifying the reliability and the subsequent risk of aerospace systems. This is most evident in the engineering efforts for maintaining aging aircraft systems. Indeed, denumerable reliability and risk are the very core problems of the RCM (reliability centered maintenance) concept. Without objectively calculated reliability and risk assessments, life extension issues become clouded in vaguely expressed uncertainties. The vagueness engenders a lack of confidence in the knowledge base, which in turn engenders substantial conservatism in the decision-making process.
ENME 605 Advanced Systems Control (3) Prerequisite: ENME 403 or permission of instructor. Modern control theory for both continuous and discrete systems. State space representation is reviewed and the concepts of controllability and observability are discussed. Design methods of deterministic observers are presented and optimal control theory is formulated. Control techniques for modifying system characteristics are discussed.
ENME 610 Engineering Optimization I (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Applied aspects of static, deterministic and smooth optimization in engineering design and manufacturing. Topics include formulation of engineering optimization problems, optimization methods applied to unconstrained and constrained functions of one or more variables, solution evaluation and sensitivity analysis, and practicalities in engineering optimization modeling and methods.
ENME 616 Computer-Aided Manufacturing (3) Prerequisite: ENME 412 or permission of the instructor. An Introduction to the computer control of manufacturing processes. Topics include fundamentals of instrumentation, transducers and devices that lead to on-line process monitoring, control of machining processes, and automated material handling. Laboratory exercises include CNC machining and part verification on coordinate measuring machines.
ENME 640 Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics (3) Prerequisite: ENPM 620 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Equations governing the conservation of mass, momentum, vorticity and energy in fluid flows. Equations illustrated by analyzing a number of simple flows. Emphasis on physical understanding facilitating the study of advanced topics in fluid mechanics.
ENME 662 Linear Vibrations (3) Prerequisite: ENME 360 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Development of the equation of small oscillation of discrete and continuous models using Newton’s equations, Lagrange’s equations, influence coefficient matrices, finite elements, and partial differential equations. Analysis of free vibration, damping, forced harmonic vibration, and transient vibration of mechanical systems. Numerical methods. Random vibration of linear mechanical systems.
ENME 677 Elasticity of Advanced Materials and Structures (3) Prerequisite: ENPM 620 or equivalent. Review of field equations and constitutive laws for linear elasticity, linearized boundary value problems; two-dimensional problems, biharmonic equation, Airy stress function, Neou’s method, plane stress and plane strain analysis, torsion and flexure, inverse and semi-inverse methods, Saint-Venant’s principle, thermoelastic problems; three-dimensional problems, Kelvin’s solution, the Boussinesq and Cerruti problems, Hertzian contact; energy methods; wave propagation; applications to advanced materials and structures (e.g., smart structures, multifunctional and functionally graded materials).
Technical Electives
The student may select from a wide range of graduate level offerings. The program incorporates significant flexibility in choosing electives. The first step in creating a program is to consult with your advisor to create a course plan. For example, students interested in environmental engineering may take their electives in the Environmental and Water Resources Core offered by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
This option requires four core courses and six electives.
Nuclear Engineering Core
ENNU 455 Nuclear Reactor Engineering II (3) Required for non-nuclear undergraduates. Elementary nuclear physics, reactor theory, and reactor energy transfer. Steady-state and time dependent neutron distributions in space and energy.
ENNU 605 Radiation Engineering (3) Nuclear structure and radioactivity; ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; energy deposition and radiation dose; radiation interactions; sources of radiation; radiation chemistry; applications of radiation-accelerators, activation analysis, industrial and medical uses; radiation processing and manufacturing.
ENNU 620 Methods of Engineering Analysis (3) Application of selected mathematical techniques to the analysis and solution of engineering problems; included are the applications of matrices, vectors, tensors, differential equations, integral transforms, and probability methods to a wide range of problems.
ENNU 650 Advanced Nuclear Reactor Systems: Physics and Engineering (3)
Technical Electives
Approved courses in nuclear engineering or approved technical electives in other programs such as reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, and systems engineering.
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
This interdisciplinary option is offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Typical areas of study include topics such as the mechanisms and physics of failure, methods of design for reliability, maintainability engineering, life cycle costing and equipment sparing policies. There are five core courses plus a one-credit seminar course required in reliability engineering and five technical electives.
Reliability Engineering Core
ENRE 607 Reliability Engineering Seminar (1) Prerequisites: None. Topics of current interest, emphasizing the latest. techniques and developments. Invited speakers will be selected to provide insights from the viewpoint of practitioners noted for their expertise in various facets of industry. Managers of reliability programs will be included along with those who are responsible for setting national policies and requirements. In-depth reviews will be provided, describing current research work underway across the nation.
ENRE 600 Fundamentals of Failure Mechanisms (3) Prerequisites: None. Topics of current interest, emphasizing the latest. techniques and developments. Invited speakers will be selected to provide insights from the viewpoint of practitioners noted for their expertise in various facets of industry. Managers of reliability programs will be included along with those who are responsible for setting national policies and requirements. In-depth reviews will be provided, describing current research work underway across the nation.
ENRE 602 Reliability Analysis (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 620. Principal methods of reliability analysis, including fault