This course focuses on the workings and cycles of important internal combustion engines and issues surrounding their use. Topics include 2 and 4 cycle engines, Diesel and Otto cycles, combustion, air handling, lubrication, and basic engine design. This course is taught yearly as a senior level elective. 

The NAE (National Academy of Engineers) has recently identified 14 Grand Challenges specific to the 21st century. These include issues like clean water, solar energy, modern medicines, reverse engineering the brain, critical infrastructure, the nitrogen cycle, and many others. The course examines many of the particular energy related challenges as well as others that fall within the Grand Challenges. Students are encouraged to pursue challenges of their own interest in overview research papers and presentations that are given as part of the course.

This senior level class is a capstone type course that integrates some of the most advanced and real-world applicable concepts from fluids and heat transfer into one place. In many ways this is a project-based course that challenges engineers to consider problems that require sound judgement and assumptions as applied to real engineering problems.

This course investigates fundamental fluid statics and dynamics at the junior level.  Topics include hydrostatics, fluid properties, fluids in motion, pipes and other flows.

This junior and senior level class investigates cycles, compressible flow, combustion and other advanced topics beyond the basic introductions of MEMT 313 and ENGR 222 (Thermodynamics 1).  

This sophomore level class introduces energy and its properties, measures, cycles and uses across the engineering discipline.  

Mechanics of rigid and deformable bodies. Axial, shear, torsion and bending. Inelastic and indeterminate problems.