MEEN689: Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Semesters: Fall 2026!,Sp25
Delivery: In-person and Distance Learning options
This course will introduce students to fundamental and advanced topics of dynamic behavior of materials under in-service conditions of impact, shock, stress, and high-strain-rate deformations. Mechanics of high-strain-rate deformation; elastic and plastic stress wave propagation in solids; shock; detonation waves. Dynamic response of materials including shear instabilities; dynamic fracture; constitutive models. Taught by a former Sandia National Laboratories scientist with 17 years of experimental research experience enabling theoretical background to be augmented with special topics on high-rate experimental methods.
This course was offered for the first time in Spring 2025.
MEEN605: Gas Dynamics
Semesters: Fa25
Delivery: In-person and Distance Learning options
Overview of gas flows at Mach numbers wherein the fluid can no longer be assumed incompressible; aerospace and mechanical engineering applications ranging from external aerodynamics to internal flows for applications such as propulsion and airframe designs for jets, rockets, missiles and other devices; includes supersonic flows, shock waves, expansion waves, shock tubes, supersonic wind tunnels, gas flows with friction and gas flows with heat transfer.
MEEN461: Heat Transfer
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Delivery: In-person
Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation: steady and transient conduction, forced and natural convection, and blackbody and gray body radiation; multi-mode heat transfer; boiling and condensation; heat exchangers.
MEEN404: Engineering Laboratory (Studio)
Semesters:
Delivery: In-person
Systematic design of experimental investigations; student teams identify topics and develop experiment designs including: establishing the need; functional decomposition; requirements; conducting the experiment; analyzing and interpreting the results and written and oral reports documenting the objectives, procedure, analysis, and results and conclusion of two or three experiments.
MEEN315: Thermodynamics
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Delivery: In-person
Theory and application of energy methods in engineering; conservation of mass and energy; energy transfer by heat, work and mass; thermodynamic properties; analysis of open and closed systems; the second law of thermodynamics and entropy; gas, vapor and refrigeration cycles.