• ME 505: Mechatronics I

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Digital logic and analog electronic solutions to sensing and control problems in mechanical systems. Integration of signal conditioning and filtering circuits. Stepping and DC motors.Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 405 and 505.Recommended Background: Electronics and computer circuits course.Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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• ME 511: Fundamentls of Heat Conduction

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Physical and mathematical formulations for Fourier heat conduction problems for lumped systems, transient and steady-state distributed systems. Solutions by separation of variables, generalized integral transforms (Fourier and Laplace) for finite and infinite domains, Green's function method, and perturbation methods for nonlinear systems.Recommended Background: Undergraduate heat transfer course.
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• ME 512: Convection Heat Transfer

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Models and equations for fluid motion, the general energy equation, and transport properties. Exact, approximate, and boundary layer solutions for laminar flow heat transfer problems. Heat transfer in internal and external forced and buoyancy driven flows. Application of similarity concepts and analogies to convection heat transfer.Recommended Background: Undergraduate heat transfer course.
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• ME 514: Nanoscale Heat Transfer

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Fundamentals in thermal energy storage, transport, and conversion from atomic-scale perspectives. Physics of thermal energy carriers (phonon, electron, fluid particle, and photon). Introduction to atomic-scale simulations (molecular dynamics, density functional theory, etc.) for nanoscale heat transfer.Recommended Background: Heat transfer, thermodynamics, nanomaterials and engineering.Registration Restriction: Consent of instructor is required if from a different background than ME or Aerospace Engineering.
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• ME 516: Data Measurement and Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Various tools and techniques used in the analysis of random data. Data classification; statistics and probability; spectral and correlation functions; data acquisition fundamentals; input-output system models; and an introduction to modern data analysis procedures.Cross listed: (See: Aerospace Engineering 516.)(DE) Prerequisite(s): Undergrad degree in engineering. Consent of instructor.Recommended Background: Logic-based programming knowledge (preferably within MATLAB) and some laboratory research.
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• ME 517: Finite Elemnts/Engr Applicatns

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Modern computational theory applied to conservation principles across the engineering sciences. Weak forms, extremization, boundary conditions, discrete implementation via finite element, finite difference, finite volume methods. Asymptotic error estimates, accuracy, convergence, stability. Linear problem applications in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions, extensions to non-linearity, non-smooth data, unsteady, spectral analysis techniques, coupled equation systems. Computer projects in heat transfer, structural mechanics, mechanical vibrations, fluid mechanics, heat/mass transport.Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 517; Biomedical Engineering 517.)Comment(s): Bachelor’s degree in engineering or natural science required.Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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• ME 518: Computational Fluid Dynamics

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Finite difference and finite volume techniques for solving compressible and incompressible fluid flow problems. Classification of partial differential equations and their discrete approximations. Explicit and Implicit techniques for solving unsteady Euler and Navier-Stokes equations including finite volume and finite difference formulations. Formulation of boundary conditions, artificial viscosity and multigrid acceleration. Stability analysis and convergence. Grid generation. Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 518; Biomedical Engineering 518.)Recommended Background: Fluid mechanics, differential equations, and compressible flows.Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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• ME 519: Tech Product Devel/Entrepren

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Technology and innovation, technology transfer, patent protection, legal formation and intellectual property, knowledge management, generation, and transmission, launching a technology based business, sources of capital, small business growth and operation. Multidisciplinary teams will develop a business based on a technological product.Cross-listed: (Same as Industrial Engineering 557).Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 457 and 519.Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
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• ME 521: Thermodynamics I

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Macroscopic thermodynamics, including First and Second Law analyses, availability, phase and chemical equilibrium criteria, combustion, gas mixtures, and property relations, determination of thermodynamic properties from molecular structure, spectroscopic data, kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, quantum physics, Schroedinger equation.Recommended Background: 332.
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• ME 522: Thermodynamics II

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Macroscopic thermodynamics, including First and Second Law analyses, availability, phase and chemical equilibrium criteria, combustion, gas mixtures, and property relations, determination of thermodynamic properties from molecular structure, spectroscopic data, kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, quantum physics, Schroedinger equation.Recommended Background: 332.
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