Mechanical Engineering - Courses
This page serves as a way to get course information. For a list of courses being offered for any given semester, see the http://classes.isu.edu or contact the ISU engineering department. For the most recent description of courses, please view the course catalog or contact your advisor.
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Course List
| ME 105 - Solid Modeling | |
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3 credits. Introduction to the fundamentals of Solid Modeling. Sketch- ing, features, modeling, assemblies and drawings. PREREQ: MATH 147. F, S |
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| ME 320 Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery | |
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3 credits. Kinematic analysis and design of cams, gears, and linkages; velocity, acceleration and force analysis; kinematic synthesis; balanc- ing; analysis by complex numbers; computer- aided analysis and synthesis. PREREQ: ENGR 220 and MATH 230. F |
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| ME 323 - Machine Design | |
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3 credits. Design of mechanical components subject to static and fatigue loads. Design using screws, fasteners, springs, bearings, and welds. Computer-aided design using finite element methods. PREREQ: ENGR 350 and ME 320. S |
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| ME 341 - Fluid Mechanics | |
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3 credits. Fluid statics, incompressible fluid flow, open channel flow, compressible fluid flow, pipe flow, flow measurements, pumps, valves, other devices. PREREQ: ENGR 307 and MATH 360. S |
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| ME 353 - Manufacturing Processes | |
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3 credits. Production techniques and equipment. Casting, molding, pressure forming, metal removal, joining and assembly, automation and materials handling. Field trips. PREREQ: ENGR 223 and ENGR 224. COREQ: ME 353L. D |
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| ME 355 - System Dynamics | |
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3 credits. Modeling and representations of dynamic 3-dimensional physical systems emphasizing rigid bodies: transfer functions, block diagrams, state equa- tions. Transient response. PREREQ: ENGR 220 and MATH 360. D |
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| ME 405g - Measurement Systems Design | |
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3 credits. Introduction to instrumentation sys- tems analysis and design, including: statistical analysis, system modeling, actuators, transduc- ers, sensor systems, signal transmission, data acquisition, and signal conditioning. PREREQ: ENGR 340, ENGR 342, and MATH 360. COREQ: ME g406. F |
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| ME 406g - Measurement Systems Laboratory | |
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1 credit. Principles of measurement, measurement standards and accuracy, detectors and transduc- ers, digital data acquisition principles, signal conditioning systems and readout devices, sta- tistical concepts in measurement, experimental investigation of engineering systems. COREQ: ME g405. F |
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| ME 416 - Thermal Power Cycles | |
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3 credits. Application of thermodynamics to design of systems for conversion of thermal energy to power by various power cycles. PREREQ: ME 341. F |
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| ME 425g - Mechatronics | |
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3 credits. Basic kinematics, sensors, actuators, measurements, electronics, microprocessors, programmable logic controllers, feedback control, robotics and intelligent manufacturing. PREREQ: ENGR 340, ENGR 342, and MATH 360. D |
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| ME 440g - Vibration Analysis | |
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3 credits. Free vibration and forced response of single and multiple degree of freedom systems, normal modes, random vibrations, discrete, lumped mass, and continuous systems. Vibration control techniques. PREREQ: ENGR 220, ENGR 350, and MATH 360. COREQ: ME 323. S |
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| ME 443 Thermal Fluids Laboratory | |
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1 credit. Measurement of thermal and fluid properties, ex- periments on fluid flow and heat transfer systems. PREREQ: ME 341. COREQ: ME 476. S |
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| ME 451g Compressible Fluid Flow | |
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3 credits. Fundamentals and practical applications of compressible fluid flow and gas dynamics; techniques for isentropic friction, heat addi- tion, isothermal flow, shock wave analysis, propagation, expansion waves, reflection waves. PREREQ: ME 341. D |
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| ME 476 - Heat Transfer | |
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3 credits. Principles and engineering applications of heat transfer. Analysis of conduction, convection and radia- tion heat transfer. Design of heat exchangers. PREREQ: ME 341. F |
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