Summer 2003 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Summer 2003; however, some (or all) may not be offered.  The course numbers that are offered, in either Pre-Session, Summer I or Summer II, are linked to the Schedule of Classes. Classes with alternative delivery modes (Web based, cable TV, correspondence, etc) are noted in the Schedule at the section level.  The complete list below is a good indicator of what may be offered over the next few years (contact department about offerings).  For explanations of course elements see the Key to Course Descriptions.

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (A ME)  Department Info

A ME 195D -- Our Future in Space and Space in Our Future  (1 unit)
Description:  The aim of this colloquium is to familiarize interested participants with the exciting future in space. This will go beyond the usual gee-whiz pictures and animations that abound in the news media, or the spectacular pictures available on the internet sites. Through the eight major components that make up space systems, the students will be introduced to the subject as an integrated whole, rather than disjointed segments. After the colloquium, the informed audience will be able to make intelligent choices regarding career majors, will develop a realistic feel for what is involved in space ventures and missions, and how it affects the future for all of us in everyday life, here on earth. Tours of some of the unique space laboratories on campus will complement the colloquium.  This is a First-Year Colloquium Course.
Course includes 1 or more field trips.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 199 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 210 -- Integrated Design and Manufacturing with Pro-E  (3 units)
Description:  This course will focus on the integration of design and manufacturing with a CNC machining system by using the Pro-E programs. Specific topics include 1) engineering drawings and planning operations with Pro-E, 2) machining process, 3) engineering planning sheet, 4) CNC machining systems and cutting tool, 5) fabrication and inspection.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 230 -- Thermodynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Basic laws and examples of engineering applications of macroscopic thermodynamics; equations of state; reversible and irreversible processes.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 223, PHYS 241.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 250 -- Dynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Dynamics of particles and rigid bodies as applied to mechanical systems; introduction to mechanical vibrations.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 214; Concurrent registration, MATH 254.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 293 -- Internship  (1-3 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 299 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 300 -- Instrumentation Laboratory  (3 units)
Description:  Basic principles of laboratory practice and instrumentation; statistical measurement theory including probability distributions, finite statistics, uncertainty analysis regression analysis dynamics of measurement systems; transducers and signal conditioning circuits. Experiments using basic laboratory instrumentation on the speed of sound, temperature measurements, and the dynamic response of first and second order systems.
Prerequisite(s):  AM E 230, ECE 207, A ME 331.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 301 -- Engineering Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Vector analysis, complex variables, Fourier series, matrices, boundary value problems and applications to current engineering problems.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 254.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 302 -- Numerical Methods  (4 units)
Description:  Introduction to linear algebra; solution of engineering problems based upon an integrated approach combining numerical analysis and the use of computers.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, A ME 301.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 320 -- Aerodynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Basic equations and their approximation; potential flow theory; fundamentals of airfoil and wing theory; axisymmetric flows; application to aerodynamics of wings and bodies.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 331; Concurrent registration, A ME 302.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 321 -- Aircraft Performance  (3 units)
Description:  Properties of the atmosphere, concepts in airflow and propulsion, airfoils and wings, airplane performance; energy methods.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, A ME 331; Concurrent registration, A ME 320.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 323 -- Gasdynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Homentropic flow with area changes, normal and oblique shocks, one-dimensional flows with friction and heat addition, choking, method of characteristics, applications.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230, A ME 331, MATH 254.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 324A -- Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to engineering solid materials; concepts of strain, stress, equilibrium; material/structural responses to applied loading/deflection; analysis of engineering components, e.g., beams, plates, thin-walled structures, axisymmetric elements; introduction to structural stability.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 214.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 324B -- Engineering Component Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of failure analysis methods to the design of specific machine components such as shaft, gear sets, bolted/riveted/welded joints, spring and slender/thin-walled structures.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 324A.
Credit for:  2 units engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 331 -- Introduction to Fluid Mechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Fundamentals of fluid mechanics covering properties of fluids, fluid statics, dynamics of incompressible viscous and inviscid flows, control volume formulations of continuity, momentum and energy equations, dimensional analysis, viscous pipe flow, boundary layers and drag.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, MATH 254; Concurrent registration, A ME 230.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 352 -- Dynamics of Machines  (3 units)
Description:  Analysis of motions and forces in machines, design exercises.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 392 -- Directed Research  (1-6 units)
Description:  Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty.
May be repeated:  for a total of 12 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 399 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 399H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 400 -- Senior Mechanical Laboratory  (2 units)
Description:  Investigations involving thermal power and mechanical systems.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) or the former upper-division writing proficiency requirement (UDWPE); A ME 300.
Typical structure:  1 hour lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 401 -- Senior Aerospace Laboratory  (1 unit)
Description:  Laboratory investigations involving aerodynamic, control, structural, and power systems.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) or the former upper-division writing proficiency requirement (UDWPE); A ME 300, A ME 320, A ME 324A, A ME 420.
Typical structure:  1 hour lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 412A -- Mechanical Engineering Design  (3 units)
Description:  Engineering design process steps, idea generation techniques, optimal design, computer aided design, hardware issues, electro mechanical systems, fluid power systems, practical aspects of designing for manufacture and assembly, traditional and non-traditional machining, forming and fastening techniques. Major design project.
Special course fee required:  $25.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230; Concurrent registration, A ME 413A and A ME 324B.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 412B -- Mechanical Engineering Design  (3 units)
Description:  Construction, testing and evaluation of prototype design; design iteration to arrive at a final working system. A ME 412A and A ME 412B must be taken in consecutive semesters.
Special course fee required:  $25.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 412A, A ME 413A; Concurrent registration, 413B.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
Typical structure:  4 hours lecture, 4 hours laboratory.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 413A -- Mechanical Engineering Design Laboratory I  (1 unit)
Description:  Practical aspects of designing for manufacture and assembly. Emphasis on machining techniques.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, A ME 412A.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 413B -- Mechanical Engineering Design Laboratory II  (1 unit)
Description:  Practical aspects of designing for manufacture and assembly. Emphasis on machining techniques.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 412A, A ME 413A; Concurrent registration, A ME 412B.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 416 -- Material Selection  (3 units)
Description:  A study of failure in engineering materials, yielding, fatigue, creep, buckling; an introduction to fracture mechanics and modern fatigue models; weight and cost considerations.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 324A, A ME 324B.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 420 -- Aircraft Conceptual Design  (3 units)
Description:  Student groups develop conceptual designs for aircraft with specified performance and figures of merit. Design issues include program organization, configuration, aerodynamics, weights, and performance. Design groups develop computer flight simulators to evaluate performance.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 320, A ME 321, A ME 323.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 520.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 422 -- Aerospace Engineering Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of engineering fundamentals, including structural analysis, structural vibrations, aero-elasticity and finite element methods to aerospace vehicle design project.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 420.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 522.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 424 -- Introduction to Space Technologies  (3 units)
Description:  The space environment: vacuum, microgravity, radiation(s), free molecule flow and drag on bodies. Resource utilization in deep space. Introduction to orbital mechanics. Space transportation, spacecraft thermal design, automation and robotics, communications, space power, space structures.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 323.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 524.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 425 -- Aerospace Propulsion  (3 units)
Description:  Basic laws; application to turbojets, ramjets, fan-jets, turbo props and rockets; space flight.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230, A ME 323, A ME 331.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 427 -- Stability and Control of Aerospace Vehicles  (3 units)
Description:  Static and dynamic stability of rigid and nonrigid vehicles; automatic control of aircraft, missiles and spacecraft.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 320, A ME 321.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 428 -- Space Mission Conceptual Design  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to space mission design and modern tools available to aid the designer. Includes brief case histories of some of the more successful space missions and design of a mission.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 424.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 528.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 430 -- Intermediate Thermodynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Power systems; nonreacting and reacting mixtures; heat transfer, design exercises.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 431 -- Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer  (3 units)
Description:  Development of numerical techniques for the solution of ordinary and partial differential equations that arise in heat transfer and fluid mechanics; classification of equations, methods of solutions, examples.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 302, A ME 331.
May be convened with:  A ME 531.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 432 -- Heat Transfer  (3 units)
Description:  Study of conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer, with applications to engineering problems.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230, A ME 331.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 433 -- Intermediate Fluid Mechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Basic equations governing fluid motion. Fundamental solutions to Navier Stokes equations, principles of lubrication theory, elementary potential flow theory, turbulence, boundary layers, separation and drag, one-dimensional compressible flow, shock waves, measurement techniques.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, A ME 230, A ME 331, MATH 223, MATH 254.
Credit for:  3 units engineering science.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 440 -- Energy Utilization and Management  (3 units)
Description:  Methods for evaluating the technical and economic aspects of energy conversion and usage directed toward the effective utilization of resources, including economics, HVAC systems, electric power, lighting and industrial processes.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 540.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 442 -- HVAC System Design  (3 units)
Description:  Computer analysis and design of air conditioning systems for commercial and industrial buildings, including equipment and component selection. Energy-efficient concepts and controls will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230, A ME 331.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 542.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 443 -- Power Systems Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Performance of gas and vapor power cycles, processes and components; fundamentals of combustion; nuclear and unconventional energy sources.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 430.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 445 -- Renewable Energy Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Solar radiation intensity and location; basic concepts of solar thermal processes; collectors; applications for water heating, active and passive building heating and cooling, industrial processes. Wind energy fundamentals. Aerodynamic theory of propellers and windmills, optimal blade design and economics.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230, A ME 331, ECE 207.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 545.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 452 -- Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Mechanical Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechanical systems in planar motion, numerical methods and use of computer programs in analysis.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, A ME 302, A ME 352.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 552.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 454 -- Optimal Control of Parametric Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Scalar minimization, vector minimization, continuous static games, matrix games, numerical techniques and applications.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 254, A ME 301.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 554.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 455 -- Control System Design  (3 units)
Description:  Mathematical modeling of dynamical systems, hardware and software issues; computer simulations; classical control methods including transient response, steady-state errors, bode diagrams, root locus and design of closed loop control systems; introduction to state feedback design and digital control.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, A ME 301; Concurrent registration, A ME 300.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 460 -- Mechanical Vibrations  (3 units)
Description:  Free and forced vibrations of simple mechanical systems; effects of damping; introduction to multidegree of freedom systems.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, MATH 254.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 461A -- Finite Element Methods  (3 units)
Description:  Matrix methods for solving boundary value problems in structural mechanics and fluid mechanics; heat and mass transport and electrostatics.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 301, A ME 324A.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 561A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 462 -- Composite Materials  (3 units)
Description:  Classification and characteristics of composite materials; mechanical behavior of composite materials, micro- and macro-mechanical behavior of laminae; mechanical behavior of laminates; mechanical behavior of short fiber composites.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 302, A ME 324A, A ME 324B.
May be convened with:  A ME 562.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 463 -- Finite Element Analysis with ANSYS  (3 units)
Description:  Fundamentals of finite element analysis, model generation, solution procedure, post processing in ANSYS for problems from various disciplines such as structural thermal or fluids.
Prerequisite(s):  senior status in A ME.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 466 -- Biomechanical Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  One subject covered yearly from: biomechanical-solid mechanics (orthopedic, vascular, muscle, skin); feedback control (physiological systems); heat transfer, thermodynamics (temperature regulation exercise, hyperthermia, instrumentation).
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 324A, A ME 324B.
May be convened with:  A ME 566.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 472 -- Reliability Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Time-to-failure, failure-rate, and reliability determination for early, useful and wear-out lives; equipment reliability prediction; spare parts provisioning; reliability growth; reliability allocation.
Prerequisite(s):  or Concurrent registration, A ME 474 or SIE 408.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 572.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 473 -- Probabilistic Mechanical Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of probability theory and statistics to mechanical and structural design; modern mechanical reliability methods; design philosophy.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 324A, A ME 324B.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 573.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 474 -- Reliability and Quality Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Probability and statistics with applications to reliability engineering, discrete and continuous statistical models for engineering variables, fundamentals of statistics.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 223.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 574.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 489 -- Engineering Properties and Micro/Nano Technologies for Biological Systems  (3 units)
Description:  This course tackles the structures and physical properties including mechanical, thermodynamic, electrical, etc. of biological materials including human, animal, plant and food materials that are necessary in the engineering analysis, evaluation, synthesis and design of biological systems. It then combines this knowledge with the techniques for the design, assembly and manufacturing of conventional microelectromechanical systems (MEMs) and nanodevices and applies them to biological systems.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 215, A ME 331.
Typical structure:  3 hours laboratory, 2 hours lecture.
Identical to:  ABE 489; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  A ME 589.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 492 -- Directed Research  (1-6 units)
Description:  Individual or small group research under the direction of faculty.
May be repeated:  for a total of 12 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 493 -- Internship  (1-3 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 495S -- Senior Colloquium  (1 unit)
Description:  The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 498 -- Senior Capstone  (1-3 units)
Description:  A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 498H -- Honors Thesis  (3 units)
Description:  An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
May be repeated:  for a total of 9 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 499 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 499H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 500A -- Advanced Engineering Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Vector calculus, linear algebra; ordinary differential equations, calculus of vorticions.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
Prerequisite(s):  undergraduate mathematics equivalent to A ME 301.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 500B -- Advanced Engineering Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Complex variables, partial differential equations, eigenfunction expansions and transform methods.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 520 -- Aircraft Conceptual Design  (3 units)
Description:  Student groups develop conceptual designs for aircraft with specified performance and figures of merit. Design issues include program organization, configuration, aerodynamics, weights, and performance. Design groups develop computer flight simulators to evaluate performance. Graduate-level requirements include additional project(s) and extra questions on exams.
May be convened with:  A ME 420.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 521 -- Compressible Aerodynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Inviscid flow of compressible fluids; governing equations and their method of solution for subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 323, A ME 500A, A ME 500B, A ME 536A, A ME 536B.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 522 -- Aerospace Engineering Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of engineering fundamentals, including structural analysis, structural vibrations, aero-elasticity and finite element methods to aerospace vehicle design project. Graduate-level requirements include responsibility for a simulation software development or laboratory tests.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 422.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 523 -- Advanced Aerospace Propulsion  (3 units)
Description:  Interior ballistics of rocket motors; ramjets, turbojets, turbofans, scramjets; detonation wave theory; combustion chamber instability analysis; nozzle design.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 425.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 524 -- Introduction to Space Technologies  (3 units)
Description:  The space environment: vacuum, microgravity, radiation(s), free molecule flow and drag on bodies. Resource utilization in deep space. Introduction to orbital mechanics. Space transportation, spacecraft thermal design, automation and robotics, communications, space power, space structures. Graduate-level requirements include additional term papers and extra questions on exams.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 424.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 525 -- Combustion Gasdynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Aerothermochemistry; fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry of propulsion and air pollution; reaction kinetics, combustion stability, detonation; singular perturbations in deflagration.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 425, A ME 500A.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 528 -- Space Mission Conceptual Design  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to space mission design and modern tools available to aid the designer. Includes brief case histories of some of the more successful space missions and design of a mission. Graduate-level requirements include additional design project and report.
May be convened with:  A ME 428.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 530 -- Advanced Thermodynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Reversible and irreversible macroscopic thermodynamics; selected engineering applications.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 230, A ME 331.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 531 -- Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer  (3 units)
Description:  Development of numerical techniques for the solution of ordinary and partial differential equations that arise in heat transfer and fluid mechanics; classification of equations, methods of solutions, examples. Graduate-level requirements include three additional projects.
May be convened with:  A ME 431.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 532 -- Convective Transport Phenomena  (3 units)
Description:  Convective energy, mass and momentum transfer; internal and external flow; exact, approximate and numerical solutions; application to current problems.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 432, A ME 500A, computer programming ability.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 533 -- Conduction and Radiative Heat Transfer  (3 units)
Description:  Conduction of heat; steady, transient, moving heat source, phase change, hyperbolic conduction, nonlinear problems and composite media; separation of variables. Laplace transform, integral transform, and Green's function methods. Fundamentals of radiative heat transfer; radiative properties of materials; gray-body and spectral exchange between surfaces; participating media; radiation combined with conduction and convection.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 432.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 536A -- Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Fundamental equations of motions; surface tension; kinematics of vorticity; integral solutions; irrotational flows; simple viscous flows.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, A ME 500A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 536B -- Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Small-disturbance inviscid theory; low Reynolds number flow; vorticity dynamics; boundary layers.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, A ME 500B.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 537 -- Fluid Mechanics of Viscous Flows  (3 units)
Description:  Behavior of viscous fluids over a range of Reynolds numbers; Navier-Stokes equations; boundary layer equations; slow flow; compressible boundary layers.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 536B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 538 -- Nature of Turbulent Shear Flow  (3 units)
Description:  Physical phenomena in turbulent shear flows; experimental techniques; observations and physical consequences; prediction methods; recent advances.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 500B, A ME 536A, A ME 536B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 539 -- Finite Element Methods in Fluid Mechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Theory and methodology of finite element methods in fluid mechanics, variational and weighted residual methods, solution of basic governing equations, special topics.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 302, A ME 331, A ME 500B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 540 -- Energy Utilization and Management  (3 units)
Description:  Methods for evaluating the technical and economic aspects of energy conversion and usage directed toward the effective utilization of resources, including economics, HVAC systems, electric power, lighting and industrial processes. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper.
May be convened with:  A ME 440.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 542 -- HVAC System Design  (3 units)
Description:  Computer analysis and design of air conditioning systems for commercial and industrial buildings, including equipment and component selection. Energy-efficient concepts and controls will be emphasized. Graduate-level requirements include a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  A ME 442.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 545 -- Renewable Energy Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Solar radiation intensity and location; basic concepts of solar thermal processes; collectors; applications for water heating, active and passive building heating and cooling, industrial processes. Wind energy fundamentals. Aerodynamic theory of propellers and windmills, optimal blade design and economics. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper.
Identical to:  NEE 545.
May be convened with:  A ME 445.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 550 -- Advanced Dynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Lagrange's equations, rigid body and multibody dynamics; Euler's equations, vibrations theory.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 250, knowledge of differential equations.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 552 -- Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Mechanical Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechanical systems in planar motion, numerical methods and use of computer programs in analysis. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project and extra questions on exams.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
May be convened with:  A ME 452.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 553 -- Computational Multibody Dynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Computational methods in multibody dynamics; Euler parameters; automatic generation and numerical methods in solving equations of motion; application in vehicle dynamics, spacecraft, and robotics.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details..
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 554 -- Optimal Control of Parametric Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Scalar minimization, vector minimization, continuous static games, matrix games, numerical techniques and applications. Graduate-level requirements include a more theoretically oriented design project.
May be convened with:  A ME 454.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 555 -- Modern Control Theory  (3 units)
Description:  Nonlinear dynamical systems, Lyapunov stability, Lyapunov control system design, controllable and reachable sets.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 455.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 558 -- Advanced Modern Control Theory of Mechanical Systems  (3 units)
Description:  State space representation of linear systems; topics include controllability, observability, stability, full state feedback, reduced order feedback, pole placement, optimal regulators, optimal observers.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 455.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 560A -- Random Vibration, Analysis and Design  (3 units)
Description:  Mathematical description of random vibration, transmission of random vibration in mechanical systems, techniques of mechanical design under random vibration.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 460, A ME 474.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 561A -- Finite Element Methods  (3 units)
Description:  Matrix methods for solving boundary value problems in structural mechanics and fluid mechanics; heat and mass transport and electrostatics. Graduate-level requirements include additional homework problems, development of new finite element for the computer project and oral presentations. Extra homework problems will be based on the advanced topics covered in the lectures.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design.
May be convened with:  A ME 461A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 561B -- Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced problems in structural analysis using the finite element method; analysis of complex systems; dynamics. Composite structures and material systems; program development.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 561A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 562 -- Composite Materials  (3 units)
Description:  Classification and characteristics of composite materials; mechanical behavior of composite materials, micro- and macro-mechanical behavior of laminae; mechanical behavior of laminates; mechanical behavior of short fiber composites. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project on composite materials.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
May be convened with:  A ME 462.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 563 -- ANSYS or ABAQUS  (3 units)
Description:  Finite element methods, including material nonlinearity (elastic, plastic, viscoelastic); geometric nonlinearity (finite deformations), numerical solution methods, and nonlinear programs.
Special course fee required:  Special fee may apply for web delivered sections. See the M.Eng Website (http://triuniv.engr.arizona.edu/tuition.html) for details.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 561A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 564A -- Mechanics of Deformable Solids  (3 units)
Description:  Mathematical preliminaries, motion and deformation, balance laws of mechanics, state of stress and equations of motion, constitutive equations, uniqueness, Betti-Rayleigh reciprocity theorem, applications from classical elasticity.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 564B -- Mechanics of Deformable Solids  (3 units)
Description:  Review of fundamental principles of mechanics of deformable bodies, plasticity, thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity and creep.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 564A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 566 -- Biomechanical Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  One subject covered yearly from: biomechanical-solid mechanics (orthopedic, vascular, muscle, skin); feedback control (physiological systems); heat transfer, thermodynamics (temperature regulation exercise, hyperthermia, instrumentation). Graduate-level requirements include a project and additional reading assignments.
May be convened with:  A ME 466.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 567 -- Computer Graphics and CAD  (3 units)
Description:  Computational geometry, graphics programming, solid modeling, projections and transformations, display generation, hidden lines and surface algorithms, computer aided design and computer integrated manufacturing, spatial reasoning.
Identical to:  ECE 567; ECE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 572 -- Reliability Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Time-to-failure, failure-rate, and reliability determination for early, useful and wear-out lives; equipment reliability prediction; spare parts provisioning; reliability growth; reliability allocation. Graduate-level requirements include a special report of 30 pages on a specific reliability engineering topic.
May be convened with:  A ME 472.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 573 -- Probabilistic Mechanical Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of probability theory and statistics to mechanical and structural design; modern mechanical reliability methods; design philosophy. Graduate-level requirements include additional homework with focus on theoretical considerations, and a research project.
May be convened with:  A ME 473.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 574 -- Reliability and Quality Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Probability and statistics with applications to reliability engineering, discrete and continuous statistical models for engineering variables, fundamentals of statistics. Graduate-level requirements include additional assignments and independent study, Monte Carlo simulation.
May be convened with:  A ME 474.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 575 -- Reliability Testing  (3 units)
Description:  Mean-time-between-failure and reliability confidence limits; sequential testing; sampling; accelerated, sudden-death, suspended-items, non-parametric, and Bayesian testing.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 472.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 576 -- Advanced Probabilistic Design  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced methods for mechanical and structural reliability analysis, system reliability analysis, random loading models, applications to fatigue, fracture, buckling, creep, etc.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 473.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 577 -- Maintainability Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Extension of 572; complex systems reliability; maintainability engineering; reliability and availability of maintained systems; operational readiness; system effectiveness; maintainability demonstration.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 472.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 589 -- Engineering Properties and Micro/Nano Technologies for Biological Systems  (3 units)
Description:  This course tackles the structures and physical properties including mechanical, thermodynamic, electrical, etc. of biological materials including human, animal, plant and food materials that are necessary in the engineering analysis, evaluation, synthesis and design of biological systems. It then combines this knowledge with the techniques for the design, assembly and manufacturing of conventional microelectromechanical systems (MEMs) and nanodevices and applies them to biological systems. Each student will be required to submit two design reports (25%/Graduate final grade;15% Undergraduate final grade), one focusing on engineering material properties and another focusing on micro/nanotechnology as applied to biological systems.
Typical structure:  3 hours laboratory, 2 hours lecture.
Identical to:  ABE 589; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  A ME 489.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 599 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 602 -- Mixed Boundary Value Problems  (3 units)
Description:  General description of mixed boundary value problems in potential theory and solid mechanics. Solutions by dual series, dual integral equations and singular integral equations.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 500A and A ME 500B or consult department before enrolling.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 603 -- Boundary Element Method  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to BEM, applications to Laplace equation, conduction-convection problems, transient problems, problems involving material nonlinearities, large strain problems, and design sensitivity-analyses through BEM.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 561A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 606 -- Wave Propagation in Solids  (3 units)
Description:  Stress (acoustic wave propagation and dispersion in infinite solids and finite wave guides), application of wave propagation theory in destructive and nondestructive evaluation of materials and structures; dynamic failure behavior of materials. Usually offered every other Spring beginning 2003.
Prerequisite(s):  E M 603 or A ME 564A or A ME 564B.
Identical to:  C E 606; C E is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 620 -- Advanced Computational Aerodynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Governing equations for computational aerodynamics and fluid dynamics techniques for solving partial differential equations, grid generation and multi-grid techniques; applications to compressible and incompressible viscous flows.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 431, A ME 500B, A ME 536B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 632 -- Advanced Topics in Heat Transfer  (3 units)
Description:  Topics will depend on instructor(s). Possible topics include linear and nonlinear convective stability, turbulent convective heat transfer, advanced analytical and numerical methods in heat transfer, boiling and condensation, multiphase flow, and heat transfer phenomena.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 500A, A ME 500B, A ME 532, A ME 536A, A ME 536B.
Usually offered:  Spring.

A ME 635 -- Hydrodynamic Stability  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to linear stability theory in fluid mechanics; the Orr-Sommerfeld equation, behavior of eigen-solutions, stability limits, extensions to problems in two component systems.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 500A, A ME 500B, A ME 536A, A ME 536B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 639 -- Aeroacoustics  (3 units)
Description:  Generation, propagation and attenuation of acoustic waves. Effects of mean flow and applications of engineering importance.
Prerequisite(s):  A ME 536A, A ME 536B, A ME 500A, A ME 500B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

A ME 696G -- Graduate Seminar  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

A ME 699 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 799 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 900 -- Research  (1-16 units)
Description:  Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 908 -- Case Studies  (3 units)
Description:  Individual study of a particular case, or report thereof.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 909 -- Master's Report  (1-16 units)
Description:  Individual study or special project or formal report thereof submitted in lieu of thesis for certain master's degrees.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 910 -- Thesis  (1-16 units)
Description:  Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 920 -- Dissertation  (1-9 units)
Description:  Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing).
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

A ME 930 -- Supplementary Registration  (1-9 units)
Description:  For students who have completed all course requirements for their advanced degree programs. May be used concurrently with other enrollments to bring to total number of units to the required minimum.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.