Graduate Courses Descriptions: Current Advanced Topics (808 Courses)
ENME 808A - PHASE CHANGE HEAT (3)
Utilizing phase change during heat transfer can be very attractive since large amounts of heat can be removed with relatively small temperature differences. These processes can be important during the operation of high power devices, such as nuclear reactors, electronic cooling, and x-ray sources. The course will cover the fundamentals of phase change heat transfer and its application to numerous technologies. Topics include the basic thermodynamic relations, contact line mechanics, pool boiling, flow boiling, spray cooling, instrumentation, and experimental techniques.
ENME 808E - NANOMECHANICS (3)
Prerequisite: None. The success of nanotechnology depends on unexpected material behavior due to nanoscale phenomena, many of which cannot be explained by conventional continuum mechanics. This course examines the mechanics of nanoscale phenomena, the applicability of conventional continuum mechanics, and the alternate techniques available for addressing nanomechanics. Examples of alternate modeling techniques include discrete models based on molecular dynamics, as well as enriched continuum models (based on strain-gradient effects, non-local effects, surface effects, dipole mechanics, and micro-continuum mechanics). This is an advanced graduate course and assumes some framiliarity with conventional continuum mechanics.
ENME 808F - SENSORS AND MEMS PACKAGING (3)
Prerequisite: None. Advances in electronics can be measured by the benefits real products provide to customers. Many of the key benefits depend upon the ability of electronics to interface with the environment using electronic sensors. Examples of every day electronic systems using sensors range from the mundane grocery store door opener to Doppler radar based systems to complex weather satellites. For example, electronic sensors are now common in automobile anti-lock braking, airbag deployment, police radar, ignition control and emissions control systems. This course will provide a detailed overview of electronic sensor operation, selection, component packaging and mechanical and architectural integration into practical electronic systems. New advances in the MEMS or optical based sensor technologies need to pass the hurdle of economic and reliable packaging before their realization as viable products. These current challenges and future development potential in sensors will offer opportunities for engineers to work in innovative and exciting new applications.
ENME 808G - PHYSICAL GAS DYNAMICS
ENME 808J - ADVANCED PACKAGING: MEMS, SENSORS, 3-D, MULTI CHIP MODULES
Prerequisite: ENME 473 (or equivalent graduate course). Concepts and technologies associated with the design and analysis of advanced packaging of electronic components and systems. Technologies treated include: hybrids, multichip modules, wafer scale integration, MEMS and 3D packaging. Concepts introduced in the course include mechanical reliability, system testability and design for testing, advanced electrical systems, and various design topics ranging from system partitioning and tradeoff analysis to layout and routing.
ENME 808K - MEMS and MICROFABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES I (3)
Prerequisite: None. This course presents a broad overview of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) and microfabrication technologies. Both traditional and emerging microfabrication techniques for microsensors, microactuator, and nanotechnology will be introduced. Both silicon and non-silicon microfabrication will be covered.
ENME 808L - MEMS and MICROFABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES II (3)
Prerequisite: ENME 808K. This course will cover the fundamental basis of MEMS and microsystems technology. This is a broad, demanding course that provides a classroom overview as well as design and laboratory components. ENME 808? is part 2 of a 2-semester course (part one is ENME 808K). In the second semester, the course will go into greater depth. We have been fortunate to be able to offer a laboratory component in this course through the generous sponsorship by Northrop Grumman Corporation, which covers the cost. You will have the opportunity to gain real-life research experience in microfabrication.
ENME 808M - NANOPARTICLE AEROSOL DYNAMICS (3)
NanoParticle Aerosols (NA) (< 100 nm), and their science and technology play an important role in nature and industry. From air quality standards, nuclear reactor safety, inhalation therapy, workplace exposure, global climate change, to counterterrorism, aerosols play a central role in our environment. On the industrial side, NA plays an integral part of reinforcing fillers, pigments and catalysts, and the new emerging field of nanotechnology, they are the building blocks to new materials, which encompass, electronic, photonic and magnetic devices, and bio and chemical sensors. This graduate course will cover the basic science of nanoparticle formation, growth and transport. The science and engineering of measurement. The environmental impact and industrial use of nanoparticles.
ENME 808N - ACTIVE POLYMER MATERIALS (3)
Prerequisite: None. This course will cover active materials, including gels, conjugated polymers, IPMC, piezoelectrics, and electrostrictives. Actuation mechanisms will be reviewed (pH change, electric field, etc.) We will consider metrics for evaluating performance as well as their applications in MEMS, bio-mimetic devices, robotics, macro-structures, and optics. As substantial part of the course will be devoted to characterization techniques (stress, strain, SEM, TEM, AFM, x-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, XPS, EDS, HPLC, FTIR, Auger, SIMS, TGA, UV-Vis-NIR, profilometry, ellipsometry, electrochemistry). Modeling and system identification for understanding the physical mechanisms of actuation will also be covered.
ENME 808P - RANDOM VIBRATIONS OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS (3)
Prerequisite: ENME 361, ENME 392, or the equivalent, and a working knowledge of MATLAB. Introduction to statistical concepts and mathematical methods used to model, analyze, and predict the response of mechanical, aeronautical, and civil structural systems to externally applied random excitations. These methods will be applied to the design and analysis of such systems to resist failures due to the effects of mechanical disturbances, wind and turbulence, earthquakes, transportation environments, and ocean wave loading.
ENME 808T - INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY (3)
Permission Required. Innovation is the foundation of business value. Technology innovation emerges from the iterative process of inventing, patenting, and commercializing ideas at the edge of current product and process capabilities. This course is designed for inventors. The course will lead participant teams through the process of creating an invention, writing a patent application, and preparing a commercialization plan. The course material will focus on three areas: TRIZ, The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving; Intellectual Property; and the Commercialization of Inventions. Lecturers will include inventors, patent attorneys and commercial designers. Course progress will be assessed by the application of course material to a technological innovation. Students must be committed to pursuing a technological innovation from invention to commercialization. This course will be particularly relevant for students who are in the process of developing new technology or who have prior experience with inventions.
ENME 808U - PRINCIPLES FOR ELECTRONIC ENCLOSURE DESIGN & MANUFACTURE (3)
Prerequisite: ENME 690 - Mechanical Fundamentals of Electronic Systems. This course examines the impact of enclosure and joint design on electromagnetic interference (EMI) in electrical systems. It reviews fundamental relationships between material properties and electrical behavior, in the context of EMI effects. Students will learn systematic strategies for design and evaluation of electronic enclosures, and analytical methods for testing and assessment. Methodologies will include computational solutions to Maxwell's equations, as well as simple closed form approximations. Empirical and heuristic guidelines will also be presented.
ENME 808X - ENGINEERING DECISION-MAKING (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Engineers make decisions on a daily basis, some have consequences relevant to their current task and others join add to the portfolio of decisions accompanying a task as it moves through the enterprise.
Thus, engineering decision-making is at the interface between implementing
systems level performance requirements and enterprise level strategy implementation. Understanding the decision environment is vital to world-class engineering. This course studies decision production systems, which have an information flow that is governed by decision-makers who process information and make decisions under time and budget constraints, and teaches engineers how to identify their role within the decision making flow and be most effective in contributing to it.The course covers models and related methods for understanding and improving the behavior of these systems. Modeling of decision systems will be done by viewing the information and decision networks created during the course of key decision-making in the organization. Network flow models are one type of tool that will be uses to study decision production systems. Applications include product development organizations, manufacturing planning and control systems, and other organizations that operate in dynamic environments where there are multiple sources of uncertainty.
ENME 808Z - DESIGN IN ELECTRONIC PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (3)
Prerequisite: ENME 473. Merges technology, analysis, and design concepts into a single focused activity that results in the completed design of an electronic product. A set of product requirements are obtained from an industry partner, the students create a specification for the product, iterate the specification with the industry partner, then design and analyze the product. Students will get hands-on experience using real design implementation tools for requirements capture, tradeoff analysis, scheduling, physical design and verification. Issues associated with transferring of the design to manufacturing and selection of manufacturing facilities will also be addressed.
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