a c a d e m i c p r o g r a m sCollege of Engineering - Curriculum Guide
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
John W. Cipolla Jr., PhD, Donald W. Smith Professor of Engineering and Chair
Professors
George G. Adams, PhD
Ahmed A. Busnaina, PhD
William Lincoln Smith
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Thomas P. Cullinane, PhD
Surendra M. Gupta, PhD
Olusegun J. Ilegbusi, PhD
Jacqueline A. Isaacs, PhD
Sagar V. Kamarthi, PhD
Yiannis A. Levendis, PhD
Ronald R. Mourant, PhD
Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, PhD
John N. Rossettos, PhD
Allen L. Soyster, PhD
Mohammad E. Taslim, PhD
Yaman Yener, PhD
Ibrahim Zeid, PhD
Associate Professors
Teiichi Ando, PhD
Nasser Fard, PhD
Gregory J. Kowalski, PhD
Emanuel S. Melachrinoudis, PhD
Mohamad Metghalchi, ScD
Sinan Muftu, PhD
Uichiro Narusawa, PhD
Ronald F. Perry, PhD
Assistant Professors
James C. Benneyan, PhD
Shiwoo Lee, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Gerald G. Kleinstein, PhD
Professors Emeriti
Alexander M. Gorlov, PhD
Thomas E. Hulbert, MS
Richard J. Murphy, PhD
Senior Research Engineer
Joseph T. Blucher, PhD
Senior Research Scientist and Professor (Emeritus)
Welville B. Nowak, PhD
The Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering offers two accredited programs leading to a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
The overarching mission of the department is to organize the faculty, staff, curricula, facilities, and research programs to provide the highest quality education for our students. At the undergraduate level, our goal is to provide rigorous, theoretically based but practice-oriented programs that effectively integrate classroom and laboratory instruction with the cooperative work experience. The educational objectives for both of our undergraduate degree programs are to: (1) educate students through a broad, theoretically based mechanical or industrial engineering curriculum; (2) support students in developing practical work skills involving current technology and technical tools, as well as an awareness of manufacturing, management and economic issues, and commonly accepted norms for professional conduct; (3) integrate academic learning with practice-oriented experience to promote professional development and career planning; (4) provide students with learning experiences that instill a passion for lifelong learning; (5) involve students in leadership and contributing roles in interactive team environments; (6) instruct students to be effective communicators with good interpersonal skills; and (7) integrate students' engineering course work with industrial, ethical, cultural, historical, and societal perspectives, leading to an appreciation of the broad educational objectives (as specified in the University's Academic Common Experience [ACE] goals).
Mechanical engineers will achieve the ability to work professionally in both thermal and mechanical systems areas, including the design and realization of such systems. Industrial engineers will demonstrate the ability to design, analyze, improve, and optimize integrated systems that include people, materials, information, equipment, and energy.
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering involves the design and analysis of systems that include people, equipment, and materials and their interactions and performance in the workplace. The industrial engineer collects this information and evaluates alternatives to make decisions that best advance the goals of the enterprise. The program in industrial engineering offers students a base of traditional engineering courses such as production systems, work design, probability, statistics, and engineering economy, while emphasizing such contemporary areas as simulation, material handling, computer software, quality control, and operations research.
To gain the skills they need to make informed managerial and professional decisions, students take courses in management, economics, and technical subjects, as well as in the humanities and social sciences.
Industrial engineers work in manufacturing firms, hospitals, banks, public utilities, government agencies, insurance companies, and construction firms. Among the projects they undertake are design and implementation of a computer-integrated manufacturing system, design of a robotics system in a manufacturing environment, long-range corporate planning, development and implementation of a quality-control system, design of workstations to enhance worker safety and productivity, and development of computer systems for information control.
Co-op jobs generally increase in level of responsibility as students gain theoretical and technical knowledge through their academic work. A sophomore might begin as a computer analyst evaluating the performance of a manufacturing system and progress to designing manufacturing engineering workstations by the senior year. See course descriptions for more information.
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Curriculum
Quarters 13 See intro. Quarter 4 GE 1003, Reflection on Cooperative Education; MIM 1215, Engineering Economy; MIM 1240, Materials Science; MIM 1280, Thermodynamics 1; and MTH 1223, Calculus for Engineering Majors 4. Quarter 5 ECN 1116, Principles of Microeconomics; MIM 1212, Engineering Probability and Statistics 1; MIM 1250, Engineering Mechanics; and MTH 1225, Differential Equations (Engineering) 1. Quarter 6 ECE 1171, Electrical Engineering 1; MIM 1312, Engineering Probability and Statistics 2; MIM 1420, Computers and Information Systems; and MIM 1320, Work Design. Quarter 7 ENG 1125, Technical Writing; GE 1004, Professional Issues in Engineering; MTH 1230, Linear Algebra for Engineers; one historical perspective elective; and one social/cultural context elective. Quarter 8 MIM 1325, Operations Research 1; MIM 1430, Manufacturing Systems and Techniques; MIM 1522, Human-Machine Systems; and one technical elective. Quarter 9 ECN 1115, Principles of Macroeconomics; GE 1005, Career Management; MIM 1410, Digital Simulation Techniques; MIM 1425, Operations Research 2; and one general elective. Quarter 10 MIM 1501, Design Project 1; MIM 1510, Production and Inventory Control; MIM 1516, Quality Assurance; and one general elective. Quarter 11 MIM 1502, Design Project 2; two technical electives; and one general elective. Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering involves the design, development and manufacture of machinery and devices to transmit power or to convert energy from thermal to mechanical form in order to power the modern world and its machines. Its current practice has been heavily influenced by recent advances in computer hardware and software.
Mechanical engineers use computers to formulate preliminary and final designs of systems or devices, to perform calculations that predict the behavior of the design, and to collect and analyze performance data from system testing or operation.
Traditionally, mechanical engineers have designed and tested such devices as heating and air-conditioning systems, machine tools, internal combustion engines, and steam power plants. Today they also play primary roles in the development of new technologies in a variety of fields‹energy conversion, solar energy utilization, environmental control, prosthetics, transportation, manufacturing, and new materials development.
The curriculum in mechanical engineering focuses on three areas: applied mechanics, thermofluids engineering, and materials science. Applied mechanics is the study of the motion and deformation of structural elements acted on by forces in devices that range from rotating industrial dynamos to dentists' drills. Thermofluids engineering deals with the motion of fluids and the transfer of energy, as in the cooling of electronic components or the design of gas turbine engines. Materials science is concerned with the relationship between the structure and properties of materials and with the control of structure, through processing, to achieve the desired properties. Practical applications are in the development of composite materials and in metallurgical process industries.
Courses in each area form the foundation for advanced analytical and creative design courses that culminate in a two-quarter senior design project. Faculty encourage students throughout the curriculum to use computer-aided design tools and high-performance computer workstations.
Cooperative education assignments increase in responsibility and technical challenge as students progress through the program. Initial positions may involve computer intensive CAD/CAM assignments or programming tasks, while more advanced jobs will place students in charge of quality control systems and performance testing of equipment. See course descriptions for more information.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum
Quarters 13 See intro. Quarter 4 GE 1003, Reflection on Cooperative Education; MIM 1215, Engineering Economy; MIM 1240, Materials Science; MIM 1280, Thermodynamics 1; and MTH 1223, Calculus for Engineering Majors 4. Quarter 5 MIM 1212, Engineering Probability and Statistics 1; MIM 1250, Engineering Mechanics; MIM 1380, Thermodynamics 2; and MTH 1225, Differential Equations (Engineering) 1. Quarter 6 MIM 1300, Measurement and Analysis; MIM 1355, Strength of Materials 1; MIM 1375, Fluid Mechanics; and MTH 1230, Linear Algebra. Quarter 7 ENG 1125, Technical Writing; GE 1004, Professional Issues in Engineering; MIM 1356, Strength of Materials 2; MIM 1360, Dynamics; and MIM 1370, Heat Transfer. Quarter 8 MIM 1400, Mechanical Engineering Computation and Interpretation; MIM 1445, Materials Processing or ECE 1171, Electrical Engineering 1; MIM 1450, Mechanical Design; and one general elective. Quarter 9 GE 1005, Career Management; MIM 1440, Mechanical Behavior of Materials or ECE 1171, Electrical Engineering 1; MIM 1455, Mechanical Vibrations; MIM 1475, Thermal Design; and one general elective. Quarter 10 MIM 1501, Design Project 1; one technical elective; one general elective; and one historical perspective elective. Quarter 11 MIM 1502, Design Project 2; two technical electives; and one social/cultural context elective. Back to:
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