Course Descriptions


Undergraduate Courses

E0819 Fundamentals of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering1This is a freshman course designed to introduce basic concepts about mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering to beginning engineering students.

E1034 Introduction to Computers and Programming2/2Information technology, Personal productivity tools, Hardware and communications, Information systems, Technological trends, problem solving with Fortran and Computer-Aided Design.

E0867 Applied MechanicsⅠ:(Statics)(3Fundamental principles, Statics of particles, Equivalent systems of forces, Equilibrium of rigid bodies, Centroids and centers of gravity, Analysis of structures, Forces in beams and cables, Friction, Moment of inertia, Method of virtual work.

E0031 Engineering Graphics1/1Graphic instruments and their use; Graphic geometry; Lettering; Orthographic drawing and sketching; Pictorial drawing and sketching; Auxiliary Views; Sectional Views and Conventions; Dimensions, notes, limits, and precisions.

E1108 Workshop Practice1/1The first topic is regarding woodworking, the second is about metal filing, the third is metal removal processes, especially for turning, and the final topic is the welding process.

E0815 Mechanism2/2Motion in machinery, velocity and acceleration analysis of mechanisms, transmission of motion static and dynamic force analysis, balance of inertial forces, dynamic features of machinery.

E0180 Strength of Materials2/2This course includes the following subjects: material properties; uniaxial force members; plane stress and plane strain; torsion of circular sections, stresses in beams, deflections of beams, and energy concepts.

E0828 Mechanical Drawing1This course includes the following subjects: section view; details and assembly drawing; the use of threads, fastener, key, rivet and spring; gear and cam; drawing of piping; welding; jigs and fixtures.

E0718 Computer Graphics1The main purpose of this course is to teach students to use Auto CAD and Microstation to draw both two and three dimensional engineering drawing.

E0034 Engineering Mathematics3/3The course includes ordinary differential equations, vectors, matrices, Laplace transform, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations and complex analysis.

E0820 Engineering Materials3There are seven main sections: The structure of materials; Properties of materials; Metals; Non-metallic materials; Semiconductors; Composites; and Material Selection.

S0434 Engineering Thermodynamics3/3Concepts and definitions; properties of a pure substance; work and heat; the first and the second law of thermodynamics; entropy; power and refrigeration cycles; thermodynamics of mixtures; thermodynamic relations; chemical relations; phase and chemical equilibrium.

E0868 Applied MechanicsⅡ:(Dynamics)(3Kinematics of particles, kinetics of particles, Newton‘s second law, energy and momentum methods, Systems of particles, Kinematics of rigid bodies, Kinetics of rigid bodies, Introduction to mechanical vibration.

E0917 Introduction to Computer Integrated Manufacturing3 The course includes  the basic concepts in manufacturing information system, manufacturing management, manufacturing Engineering, factory Automation, local area network, and programming in C language.

E0431 Advanced Mechanics of Materials3Analysis of Stress and Strain; Unsymmetrical Bending; Statically Indeterminate Beams; Columns; Inelastic Analysis; Energy Methods.

E0826 Machine Design2/2This course includes basic background such as Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Materials Properties, and the application such as Threaded Fasteners, Power Screws, Rivets, Springs, Bearings, Gears, Shafts, Clutches, Brakes.

E0671 Engineering Applications of Computers2/2This course includes methods for solving single-variable equations, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical integration and differentiation, ODE, and linear systems.

E0300 Fluid Mechanics3Dimensional Analysis and Similitude, Internal Incompressible Viscous Flow, External Incompressible Viscous Flow, Introduction to Compressible Flow, Steady One-Dimensional Compressible Flow.

E0782 Heat Transfer3Covers the following subjects: Basic modes of heat transfer, Conduction, Convection, Natural Convection, Forced Convection, Heat Exchangers, Radiation, Heat Transfer with Phase Change.

E0693 Electrical Engineering3This course includes the basic concepts, analytical methods, basic circuits, circuit analysis, AC circuit analysis, frequency response, transient analysis, and AC power.

E1426 Materials Machining Experiments1Cutting, Milling, Grinding, Finishing Electrical-Discharge Machining, Sheet-Metal Forming, Welding, Diffusion Bonding, Roughness Measurement, Surface Treatment, Nondestructive Testing.

E0296 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory1Error estimation; manometers; Pitot tube; Bourden gauge calibration; Static water pressure; Forced vortex; Reynolds experiment; Hydraulic bench; Open channel; Venna contracta; Impact experiment; Venturi tube; Orifice meter; Head loss measurement.

E1277 Fundamentals of Mechanical Vibrations3Dynamics, Oscillatory motion, Free vibtation, Energy methods, Forced periodic vibration, Initial conditions and transient vibration, Damping, Damped forced vibration, Two degrees of freedom, Nonlinear vibration.

E0445 Advanced Dynamics3Principle of impulse and momentum for three dimensional motion of a rigid body; Euler‘s equations of motion; Principle of vitual work; Lagrange’s equations of motion; dynamic balancing of rotating machinery.

E0830 Manufacturing Processes3Subjects include those processes to change the shape of material; processes for machining parts to a fixed dimension, for joining parts or materials, and for obtaining a surface finish.

E0231 Materials and Metallurgy Testing Lab.1Tensile and Torsional strength test; Erichsen test; Impact test; Rockwell; Brinell and Vickers hardness test; Lubrication and Wear test; Microstructure of general and standard test; taking pictures of test specimens.

E1314 Composite Materials3This course includes useful and practical information on fibers, metals, polymers, and ceramics; their fabrication into a matrix; resin-system composite design criteria; new fabrication methods, and details of machining.

E0961 Electronics3This course includes Semiconductors and Diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors, Field-Effect Transistors and Power Electronics, Operational Amplifiers, Integrated Circuit Electronics, Digital Logic Circuits, and Digital Systems.

E1197 Dynamic Systems3This course includes: Translational and Rotational Mechanical Systems, Electrical Systems, Analytical Solution of Linear Models, The Laplace Transform and Transfer Function Analysis, Electromechanical Systems, Block Diagrams, and Computer Analysis.

E1503 Principle and Application of Sensors3Introduction of basic principles and applications of sensors. Optical sensors, LVDT, Thermal sensors, Strain gage, Piezoelectric sensors, Ultresonic sensor, and Load Cell.

E1529 Special Topics of Mechanical Engineering Practice1/1Students need to integrate all the knowledge of previous courses in ME. There are several reseach groups which have its own research topic. The work must be completed in a year.

E0176 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning3The objective of this course is to provide the students with a necessary principle and practical knowledge of refrigeration and its applications.

 

E1558 Computer Aided Analysis of Machinery3Vectors and Matrices; Computational Linear Algebra; Kinematics and Kinetics for Planar Mechanisms; Modeling of Planar Mechanisms; Connections; Rolling Motion; Numerical Methods for Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations; Computer Programming and Software Analysis.

E0962 CAD/CAM2Introduction of CAD/CAM techniques in Mechanical Engineering; CAD softwareAuto CAD, MicroStation; CAM softwareMaster CAM; CNC machine centerDyna 4400.

E0777 Thermal Engineering Lab.1Steam Power Plant; Cooling Tower; Heat Exchanger; Housepower Test; Refrigerent and Air System; Engine Test; Heat Conduction Unit; Thermal Conductivity of Liquids and Gases Unit.

E0038 Industrial Engineering3The purpose of this course is to help the students understanding the general methodolodge of IE. the contents of this course consists of four parts, planning, design, production and management.

E0827 Machine Design Practice2Students are required to complete a mechanical engineering system design, or a component design. Written report and final oral presentation are required in both cases.

E0818 Introduction to Robotics3The course includes the basic principles of robotics, manipulator Kinematics, inverse Kinematics, velocity and force transformation, trajectory generation, position and force control.

E0165 Automatic Control3The course includes the Laplace Transform, Mechanical System Modlling, Stability of linear control systems, time-domain analysis, root-locus techniques, frequency domain analysis, and design of control systems.

E0690 Electrical Engineering & Electronics Lab 1A series of experiments designed to let students learn the basic principles of electronic devices,and gain hands-on experience on their applications.

Graduate Courses: Master’s Program

E1369 Manufacturing Principle of Molds and Dies3This course presents the Traditional methods and non-traditional manufacturing methods for producting dies and molds. A final project is required to be submitted and presented in related topics.

E0156 Finite Element Methods3Matrix structure analysis of trusses, beams, and frames; energy principles; shape functions; stiffness matrices; load vectors; assembly of system equations; boundary conditions; isoparametric formulation; constraints; axisymmetric problems; plates and shells; dynamic problems;

E0825 Mechanical Vibrations3This course will focus on the analysis of mechanical system vibrations. Topics will include dynamics of discrete systems, undamped and damped n-degreed-of freedom systems, and approximation of continuous systems.

Expert System3The topics of this course include: Introduction of expert system, methods of Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Acquisition, Methods of Inference, Reasoning Under Uncertainty, Inexact Reasoning, The Design of Expert System, Solution for Uncertainty, Hybrid Expert System.

Experimental Stress Analysis3Introduction to the concept of Strain Measurement, Eletrical-Resistance strain Gages, Strain gage circuits and recording insrtument, Strain-analysis methods, Optic methods, Moire Methods, Photoelasticity, AppliedPhotoelasticity, Photoelastic Coating and Brittle Coating

E1286 Advanced CAD/CAM3Mathematical elements for computer graphics; CAD software packages; CAM software package; Numerical control in NC; CNC/DNC; Flexible manufacturing system.

Advanced Mechanical Manufacturing3Casting processes; Forming and Shaping processed; Material removal processes; Nontraditional machining processes; Joining processes; Inspection and quality assurance.

E1287 Advanced Topics on Robotics3This course covers a number of advanced topics in robotics: kinematics geometry of manupulator, analysis of walking machines and multifingered gripper, dynamics, trajectory planning, and position, force and hybrid control schemes.

E1288 Modern Control Theory3Dynamic systems, feedback control system, analysis and design of control system by conventional methods, analysis design of control system by stste-space methods, and analysis of nonlinear systems.

E1372 Principle of Optimal Design3Mathematical formulation, Conditions for optimality, Linear programming, Unconstrained optimization, Constrained optimization, Approximation techniques and sensitivity analysis, Duality, Integer and discrete programming, multicriterion optimization, Fuzzy optimization, Paper's reading and discussion.

E0458 Advanced Mechanical Engineering Design3Mechanical engineering design process, specification development/planning, Conceptual design, Product design, Computerized Mechanism design, Mechanical design with FEM, Probsbilistic mechanical design, Computer aided optimum design, Paper's reading and discussion.

E0754 Elasticity3Stress; Strain; Compatibility Condition; Stress-Strain Relation; Displacement Formulation and Stress Formulation of Elasticity Problems; st.Venant Theory of Torsion; and Bending; General Curvilinear Coordinates; 2-D and 3D Elasticity; Green's Function Approach.

E0783 Heat Conduction3 One-dimensional and multidimensional steady heat conduction; transient heat conduction with time-independent and time dependent boundary conditions; transient condition involving heat source and sinks; heat condition during the freezing of binary alloys.

Thermal Analysis and Control of Electronic Equipment3 Modeling direct air cooling of electronic components; extended surfaces; cold plates;  immersion cooling;heat pipes; thermoelectric coolers and augmentation technigues; cooling inertial equipment; cooling transistors and vacuum tubes; liquid cooling of microwave equipment, microelectronics.

Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics3The first and second law of thermodynamics; the destruction of exergy; single-phase systems; exergy generalized; multiple systems; chemically reactive systems; power generation; refrigeration thermodynamic design; irreversible thermodynamics.

E0784 Convection Heat Transfer3Laminar boundary layer flow, laminar duct flow, laminar natural convection,  natural convection in enclosures, trnsition to turbulence, wall turbulance, mass transfer, principle of convection through porous media, numerical methods in convection.

E1412 Micro Fluid mechanics and Heat Transfer3Introduction to MEMS Technologies, Non-Continuous Effects, Microfluics-a review, Gaseous Flow in Small Channels, Fundamental Issues in small scale Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer Requires in Microstructures, Micro Heat pipe.

T0102 Seminar1Lectures on the various subjects of mechanical engineering; the speakers are invited from industry, university, and related research institutes. Students should join discussion and hand in a report for each lecture.

E0445 Advanced Dynamics3Angular velocities and accelerations in moving reference frames; Eulerian angles and Euler parameters; constraints; Newtonian kinetics; energy principles; Lagrange's equations; constrained systems; multibody systems; modelling of dynamic systems.

E0424 Advanced Engineering Mathematics3Method of Eigen-function Expausion, The Dirac Delta Function and Its Relationship to Green's, Green's Functions for Ordinary Differential Equations, and Partial Differential Equations, Calculus of Variations, The Rayleigh Ritz Method, Perturbation Method, Similavity Method.

E1422 Mechatronics3This course provides the student with a basic conception of mechatronics. The topics include system modeling and analysis of mechatronic system; mechanism design; implementation of control algorithms; introduction to servomechanic drives and sensors.

E0480 Control Theory3Review of various topics in undergraduate control courses; Topics in recently developed control theory including analysis of control systems in state-space, design of control systems by state-space methods.

E1619 Vector Control of AC Drives3An advance level course on electric machines which covers DQ modeling of AC machines, vector control principles, popular drive topologies, and microprocessor implementation of vector controls.

E1443 Micromanufacturing3Introduction to MEMS, Photolithography, Silicon Micromachining, Thin Films, Wet Etching, Dry Etching, Surface Micromachining, Electrochemical Etching of Silicon, Wafer Bonding, Excimer Laser Micromachining, LIGA, Micro EDM.

Graduate Courses: Ph.D. Program

E2332 SPECIAL TOPICS ON MICRO MACHINING (3) This course focuses mainly on the silicon bulk and surface micromachinings. The related technical issues and the integration with standard IC processings are also depicted in detais.

E0455 ADVANCED NUMERICAL ANALYSIS (3) The primary content aims at the learning of simulation techniques and advanced curve-fitting methods applied in Engineering. Selected technical papers in Int. J.Number. Meth. Engng. are utilized for further reading and discussion.

E2233 PRECISION MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS (3) This course will focus on the measurements and related analysis for precision mechanical systems.  Topics will include data acquisition, sensors, calibration of sensors, FFT, and system measurements.

E2246 Manufacturing of Nanomaterials (3) It is the aim of this course to study the principle and application of nanotechnique, fall into three broad areas: (1)the synthesis of nanoparticles, (2)the produce of nanomaterials, and (3)the build up of nanostructures.

E2001 ADVANCED MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM(3) Silicon micromachining, nonsilicon micromachining, nonlithographic processes. Mechanical issues of MEMS structures. Driving mechanisms for microactuators, including eletrostatic, thermal, and fluidic actuation. Studies of MEMS products and state-of-the-art research.

E2119 PRECISION MACHINE DESIGN (3) Accuracy/Repeatability/Resolution, Error Budget, Semi-kinematic Design, Linear Slides, Flexure, Aerostatic/Hydrostatic Bearing, Drives, Sensors and Transducers, Metrology System, Machine Structure

 

E1997 ADV. COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING ANALYSIS (3) The first part covers finite element analyses of composite materials, heat conduction, fluid mechanics, and electromagnetic systems; the second part covers kinematic and dynamic analyses of planar and spatial mechanisms.

 

E2207 CONTROL OF ELECTRIC MACHINERY (3) This course covers the topics including the modeling of ac motors, principle of field orientation and vector control, power converters, and the dynamics of ac motor drives.

 

E2208 PRECISION MACHINING OF BRITTLE MATERIALS (3) Mechanical Properties of Brittle Materials, Micro/Nano Indentation/Scratch, Critical Depth of Cut, Ductile/Brittle Transition, Ductile Mode Machining, Ultra-precision Machining of Brittle Materials, Surface Integrity/Analysis.