Teaching
MCHE 320 Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Fall 24 - now
Course Objectives: Stress-strain relations, strength, deformation mechanisms, impact test, fracture, and cyclic fatigue. Experimental techniques, analysis, and interpretation of experimental data, engineering writing.
MCHE 474 Control Systems FL 23, SP 24
MW 4:00pm-4:50pm, CLR 309 (Lectures). Lab/Projects, by schedule at W 5-7:30, CLR 211
The purpose of this course is to equip students with a systematic but flexible approach to the modeling and control of dynamic systems. Students learn to construct, use, and convert between, transfer function and state-space models. Emphasisis placed on recognizing when a suitable model has been obtained, and on the benefits and limitations of these standard forms. Analytical and numerical solution methods are studied, along with internal and input/output notions of stability. Engineering models of mechanical, electrical, fluid, and thermal systems are developed from fundamental physical principles. Block diagrams are used to construct complex, interconnected systems from primitive subsystems. Response of first and second-order system, stability analysis and frequency response methods. PID control system design. Computer control of machines and processes.