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AEM Class Offerings Summary for Fall 2019

Required and Elective courses for the BAEM with 3103 Degree only

AEM 2011 -- Statics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Hesla, Todd

Prerequisites: CSE student, PHYS 1301, concurrent Math 2374 or equiv.

Force and moment vectors, resultants. Principles of statics and free-body diagrams. Applications to simple trusses, frames, and machines. Distributed loads. Internal forces in beams. Properties of areas, second moments. Laws of friction.

AEM 2012 -- Dynamics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Caverly, Ryan

Prerequisites: CSE student, AEM 2011, concurrent MATH 2373 or equiv.

Kinematics and kinetics of particles; Newton's laws; energy and momentum methods; system of particles; kinematics and kinetics of planar motions of rigid bodies; plane motion of rigid bodies; mechanical vibrations.

AEM 3031 -- Deformable Body Mechanics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Leo, Perry H

Prerequisites: CSE student, [AEM 2011 or AEM 2021 or [BMEN 3011, BMEN major]], [Math 2374 or equiv], [concurrent Math 2373 or equiv]

Uniaxial loading and deformation. Stress and strain at a point, Mohr's circle. Internal forces in beams. Material behavior, linear elasticity. Torsion of circular shafts. Bending of beams of symmetrical section. Column buckling. Statically indeterminate structures.

AEM 4201 -- Fluid Mechanics, 4 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Nichols, Joseph W

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, AEM 2012, MATH 2373 or equiv., MATH 2374 or equiv.

First course in fluid mechanics. Includes stress and strain rate descriptions, fluid statics, use of differential and finite control volume analysis with continuity, momentum, and energy equations, Bernoulli and Euler equations, vorticity, potential flow, incompressible viscous flow using Navier-Stokes equations, dimensional analysis, pipe flow, boundary layers, separation, introduction to turbulence.

AEM 4253 -- Computational Fluid Mechanics, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Nichols, Joseph W

Prerequisites: CSE upper division student, CS 1113, AEM 4201

Computational Fluid Mechanics

AEM 4293 -- Directed Studies in Fluid Mechanics, 1 - 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Longmire, Ellen K

Prerequisites: dept consent

Topics of current interest. Individual projects with consent of faculty sponsor.

AEM 4321 -- Automatic Control Systems , 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Seiler Jr, Peter J

Prerequisites: [3101 or concurrent 3101 or ME 3281 or EE 3015], [CSE upper div or grad student]

Modeling, characteristics, and performance of feedback control systems. Stability, root locus, frequency response methods. Nyquist/Bode diagrams. Lead-lag, PID compensators. Digital implementation, hardware considerations.

AEM 4331 -- Aerospace Vehicle Design, 4 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Weyrauch, John R, Regan, Chris

Prerequisites: AEM Senior, AEM 2301, AEM 4202 or Instructor Approval.

Multidisciplinary student teams perform conceptual designs of aerospace vehicles, components, missions, or systems that incorporate realistic constraints/applicable engineering standards. Papers on professional ethics/contemporary aerospace issues. Oral preliminary/critical design reviews.

AEM 4493 -- Directed Studies in Aerospace Systems, 1 - 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Regan, Chris

Prerequisites: dept consent

Topics of current interest. Individual projects with consent of faculty sponsor.

AEM 4502 -- Computational Structural Analysis, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Tadmor, Ellad B

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, C or better in AEM 4501 or Instructor Approval.

Application of finite element methods to problems in structural analysis. Emphasis on properly posing problems and interpreting calculation results. Use of commercial FEA packages. Introduction to the theory of finite elements.

AEM 4593 -- Directed Studies: Solid Mechanics, 1 - 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Prerequisites: dept consent

Topics of current interest. Individual projects with consent of faculty sponsor.

AEM 4602W -- Aeromechanics Laboratory, 4 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Coletti, Filippo, Aksaray, Derya, guxxx369

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, AEM 4201, AEM 4501, AEM 4601, WRIT 1301 or equiv.

Experimental methods/design in fluid/solid mechanics. Wind tunnel/water channel experiments with flow visualization, pressure, velocity, force measurements. Measurement of stresses/strains/displacements in solids/ structures: stress concentrations, materials behavior, structural dynamics. Computerized data acquisition/analysis, error analysis, data reduction. Experiment design. Written/oral reports. Lab ethics. Writing intensive.

AEM 5253 -- Computational Fluid Mechanics, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Nichols, Joseph W

Prerequisites: CSE graduate student, CS 1113 or equiv, AEM 4201 or requiv

Introductory concepts in finite difference and finite volume methods as applied to various ordinary/partial differential model equations in fluid mechanics. Fundamentals of spatial discretization and numerical integration. Numerical linear algebra. Introduction to engineering and scientific computing environment. Advanced topics may include finite element methods, spectral methods, grid generation, turbulence modeling.

AEM 5401 -- Intermediate Dynamics, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Ketema, Yohannes

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, MATH 2243, AEM 2012.

Three-dimensional Newtonian mechanics, kinematics of rigid bodies, dynamics of rigid bodies, generalized coordinates, holonomic constraints, Lagrange equations, and applications.

AEM 5501 -- Continuum Mechanics, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): James, Richard D

Prerequisites: CSE graduate or upper division student, MATH 2243 or equiv., AEM 3031 or equiv.

Concepts that are common to all continuous media. Elements of tensor analysis. Motion, deformation, and vorticity. Material derivatives. Mass and the continuity equation. Balance of linear and angular momentum. Stress and its geometric characterization. Need for constitutive equations.