• ME 4610: Steam Power Plants

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3220, ME 3710, and ME 3720. Fuels, coal properties, firing methods, boilers and other heat exchangers, turbine characteristics, cooling water and towers, dust collection, new developments, and plant trip.
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• ME 4620: Turbomachinery

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3720. Presents a generalized description and unified theory of the design and operation of rotating machinery in which energy transfer occurs due to velocity changes; design methods for various types of turbomachines -- pumps, fans, compressors, and turbines.
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• ME 4630: Internal Combustion Engines

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3220, ME 3710, and ME 3720. Ideal fuel/air cycles, heat loss, friction, combustion and detonation, carburetion and fuel injection; air flow, normal overall performance, and extreme performance.
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• ME 4640: Dynamics of Machinery II

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3610. Graphical and analytical synthesis of linkage mechanisms for function generation, motion generation, and path generation. Kinetostatic analysis of linkage mechanisms; engine dynamics and balancing; and rigid-body dynamics and time response analysis.
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• ME 4710: Propulsion

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisite: ME 3220 and ME 3720. This course presents aerospace propulsive devices as systems, with functional requirements and engineering and environmental limitations along with requirements and limitations that constrain design choices. both air-breathing and rocket engines are covered, at a level which enables rational integration of the propulsive system into an overall vehicle design. Mission analysis, fundamental performance relations, and exemplary design solutions are presented.
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• ME 4720: Thermal Design

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3220, ME 3710, and ME 3720. Introduction to the design of thermofluid devices and systems; general design methodology, modeling, simulation, and optimization; and heat exchangers and prime movers in systems.
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• ME 4730: Numerical Heat Transfer

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3710 and ME 3720. Fundamentals of numerical methods; steady and unsteady one-dimensional heat conduction; steady and unsteady multidimensional heat conduction; fully-developed duct flows; one- and two-dimensional convection heat transfer, and flow through porous media.
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• ME 4751: Energy Systems Laboratory

  0.00 - 2.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Prerequisites: ME 3023, ME 3210, ME 3710, and ME 3720. Basic instrumentation and principles of measuring pressure, temperature, fluid velocity, and fluid flow rate; demonstrations, measurements, and evaluations of heat transfer and fluid flow processes.
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• ME 4810: Automatic Control

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  Corequisite: ME 3050. Mathematical modeling of physical systems, control algorithms, stability, transient response, and frequency response.
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• ME 4820: Modern Control

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Technological University

  
  No course description available.
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