Experimental determination of mechanical properties of materials. Determination of Young’s Modulus, Poisson’s ratio, ductility, yield strength, ultimate strength, toughness, and hardness for steel, aluminum and brass. Strength determination of wood specimens. Creep behavior of plastics; Strain gauge installation and use. Report writing and application of basic statistical principles on experimental results.
This course deals with the fundamentals of Thermodynamics including thermodynamic systems and properties, relationships among the thermos-physical properties, the laws of thermodynamics and applications of these basic laws in thermodynamic systems. The course covers the conservation of mass, the first and second laws of Thermodynamics, and the engineering approach to problem solving. Work and heat transfer as means for changing system energy. Properties of pure substances, analyses of individual devices, systems and cyclic devices. Entropy, reversible and irreversible processes, device and cycle performance. Application to engineering problems such as gas turbine engines, refrigerators and heat pumps, plus power generation.
There is increasing awareness that energy and the environmental sustainability present society with issues that are pressing and need to be approached globally. The goal of the course - Introduction to Materials for Energy and Sustainability is to demonstrate the innovation and development of materials that provide a route to the solutions for affordable and sustainable energy. In this course, I will present the global energy and related environmental issues, and will discuss various energy technologies enabled by materials development and device integration, including the introduction to electrochemical energy conversion and storage, fuel cells and batteries, nuclear energy and materials, fossil fuel, solar fuel, biofuels, solar cells, thermoelectric materials, efficient lighting, energy-efficient building, and wind energy will be covered.
Fundamental topics such as chemical bonding in materials, crystal structure and defects, diffusion, and phase diagrams will be introduced. Then the mechanical, electrical and optical properties of materials will be covered and information of types of materials and their applications be provided. Important concepts such as anisotropic properties of materials and their tensor representation will be introduced. This course covers different material systems such as metal, ceramics, polymer materials and semiconductor materials and offers examples of materials application in photonics, microelectronics, and other technology fields
Kinematics and kinetics of particles and of rigid bodies in plane motion; equations of motion in various coordinate systems; integral forms, work and energy, impulse and momentum; three-dimensional problems; computer simulation software
A 3-credit course on classical Newtonian mechanics with emphasis on Statics of rigid bodies.