University of South Florida
2018
Relevant Coursework:
Electrical Systems: steady-state DC and AC circuit analysis, digital and analog electronics, control systems, three-phase power, and electrical safety.
Fluid Systems: principles of fluid statics and dynamics, fluid kinematics, finite control volume analysis, differential analysis of fluid flow, dimensional analysis, flow in pipes, flow over immersed bodies.
Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery: relative motion, mechanism design, displacement; velocity; acceleration; and dynamic analysis of mechanisms, designing mechanisms to specified criteria, linkages, gears, and cams.
Materials Engineering: phase diagrams, classification of materials, material properties and microstructures, and effects of environment and defects on material applications.
Mechanical Engineering Lab: study and hands-on experimentation with: strain gauges, electric motors, flow meters, beam vibration analysis, thermocouples, internal combustion engines, LabVIEW programming software, myDAQ data acquisition device, sensors, PID controllers, data stream parsing, and operational amplifiers
Thermal Systems: Analysis and design of vapor and gas power plants, internal combustion engines and aircraft engines, vapor compression, air cycle refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pump systems. Thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures and combustor design. Application of psychrometric charts.
Vibrations: Response calculation of single- and multi-degree-of-freedom systems; vibration control of machines and structures, balancing of rotating machinery; distributed parameter vibratory systems; sensors, signal processing, and analyzers used for vibratory measuring; finite element analysis (FEA) of vibrating structures.
Heat Transfer: Conduction, convection, and radiant heat transfer; thermal properties of materials; role of fluid flow in convective heat transfer; design and selection of heat exchangers.
Robotic Systems: Spatial descriptions and transformations, manipulator kinematics, inverse manipulator kinematics, Jacobian velocities and static forces, trajectory generation, robot programming and simulation.
Mechanical Controls: Feedback control concepts, transfer functions, modeling, time response, block diagrams, system stability, steady-state errors, root locus diagrams, compensator design, Bode diagrams, Simulink programming.
