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• MECH 640: Manufac Process and Design

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Selection and analysis of manufacturing processes. Product and process design for automated manufacturing. Economic analysis of manufacturing. Automated manufacturing, knowledge-based systems, and flexible product manufacture.
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• MECH 645: Machine Design

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Selection, design, assembly, and analysis of common machine elements including springs, shafts, gears, clutches, brakes, and bearings. Computer-based methods of optimization employed when appropriate.
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• MECH 650: Model, Analysis, Control Sys

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Methods for analytical modeling, analysis, prediction, and control of linear, stationary time series of multidisciplinary dynamic systems, including mechanical, electrical, electro-mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems; includes examples of advanced research in nonstationary time-series modeling and applications in manufacturing and other areas. Students complete a project on a topic of their choice.
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• MECH 655: Adv Mechatronics

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Integrated use of mechanical, electrical, and computer systems for information processing and control of machines and devices. System modeling, electro- mechanics, sensors and actuators, basic electronics design, signal processing and conditioning, noise and its abatement, grounding and shielding, filters, and system interfacing techniques.
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• MECH 670: Applied Aerodynamics

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Applied Aerodynamics introduces the basic theories for analyzing the aerodynamic forces on a vehicle in flight. Topics include incompressible flow over airfoils and finite wings, laminar and turbulent boundary layers in airfoil analysis, and boundary layer transition.
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• MECH 697: ST: Mechanical Engineering

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Special topics in mechanical engineering will be offered to graduate students occasionally when the interest of the students and the availability of an instructor dictate. The syllabus must be approved by the mechanical engineering faculty. Since the content of the course may change, a student may repeat this course for credit with the permission of the department head.
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• MECH 703: Theory of Plasticity

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Stress and strain tensors; elastic stress-strain relations, criteria of yielding; plastic stress-strain relations; elastoplastic problems of spheres and cylinders; the plane elastoplastic problem; the slip-line field.
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• MECH 750: Intro to Modern Control Engr

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  State variable methods, eigenvalues, and response modes; controllability, observability, and stability; calculus of variations; optimal control; control of regulator and tracking servomechanisms; Hamilton-Jacobi, dynamic programming; deterministic observers, Kalman filter; discrete and continuous time.
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• MECH 755: Nonlinear Control Engineering

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Characteristics of nonlinear systems; State space formulation; stability criteria; Liapunov functions; describing functions; signal stabilization; Popov and circle criteria for design; adaptive controlsystems.
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• MECH 771: Compressible Flow

  3.00 Credits

  The Citadel

  
  Compressible Flow combines aspects of classical thermodynamics and equilibrium mixtures with compressible fluid flow. Chemical thermodynamics and real gases are explored. One-dimensional flows through nozzles and diffusers are analyzed. Normal and oblique shock relations, Prandtl-Meyer flow, and method of characteristics are also introduced.
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