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2000-2001 General Catalog
University of California, Riverside
Akula Venkatram, Ph.D., Chair
Department Office, A344 Bourns Hall
(909) 787-2417
http://www.engr.ucr.edu/mechanicals
Professors
Qing Jiang, Ph.D.
Shankar Mahalingam, Ph.D.
Lung-Wen Tsai, Ph.D.
Kambiz Vafai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors
Curtis Collins, Ph.D.
Frank Jacobitz, Ph.D.
Guanshui Xu, Ph.D.
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Cooperating Faculty
Jie Chen, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)
Marek Chrobak, Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering)
Jay A. Farrell, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)
William A. Jury, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Ping Liang, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)
Umar Mohideen, Ph.D. (Physics)
Joseph M. Norbeck, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
MAJOR
Mechanical engineering is one of the oldest and broadest areas of engineering activity. Mechanical engineers design and manufacture most of the machines responsible for a high standard of living. These machines move and lift loads, transport people and goods, and produce energy and convert it to other forms. The design and production of machines requires training in a variety of disciplines including mechanical design, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer. With this type of broad training, mechanical engineers are in an excellent position to adapt themselves to the modern industrial environment, which is constantly changing in response to new developments in automation, the use of computers, and new sources of energy. The major curriculum is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
During their freshman year, all engineering students follow a common curriculum of mathematics and sciences. By the beginning of the sophomore year, students begin more specific course work toward their selected major.
Students enrolled in community college pre-engineering programs are expected to complete the equivalent of the first two years of UCR's course work for engineering majors and to demonstrate strength in calculus, chemistry, and physics. The Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) does not meet transfer requirements for Engineering. The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering provides special advisory services to aid community college transfer students in formulating their program and in remedying any deficiencies in required course work.
Degree Requirements
University Requirements
See the Undergraduate Studies section for requirements that all students must satisfy.
College Requirements
See Degree Requirements, The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, in the Undergraduate Studies section, for requirements that students must satisfy.
Courses used to fulfill the College requirements must be selected from an approved list available in The College Office of Student Affairs. To provide depth in satisfying breadth in the Humanities and Social Sciences, courses must meet the following criteria:
- At least two of the Humanities and/or Social Science courses must be upper-division.
- At least two courses must be from the same subject area (for example, two courses in History), with at least one of the two being an upper-division course.
The Mechanical Engineering major uses the following major requirements to satisfy The College's Natural Sciences and Mathematics breadth requirement.
- One course in the biological sciences chosen from an approved list
- CHEM 001A-CHEM 001B-CHEM 001C
- MATH 009A
Major Requirements
The major requirements for the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering are as follows.
1. Lower-division requirements (76 units)
a) Biological Science elective
b) CHEM 001A-CHEM 001B-CHEM 001C
c) CS 010
d) EE 001A, EE 01LA
e) MATH 009A-MATH 009B-MATH 009C, MATH 010A-MATH 010B, MATH 046
f) ME 007, ME 009, ME 010, ME 014
g) PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C
2. Upper-division requirements (81 units)
a) EE 132
b) ENGR 100, ENGR 115, ENGR 116, ENGR 118
c) ME 100, ME 103, ME 110, ME 115, ME 120, ME 130, ME 170A, ME 170B, ME 175A-ME 175B
d) STAT 155
e) Technical electives (16 units); four courses, selected from the following list, in consultation with an advisor: CHE 130/ENVE 130, CHE 136, EE 144, ENVE 138, ME 122, ME 131, ME 133, ME 153
Sample Program
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Freshman Year |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
MATH 009A-MATH 009B-MATH 009C |
4 |
4 |
4 |
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CHEM 001A-CHEM 001B-CHEM 001C |
4 |
4 |
4 |
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PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B |
|
5 |
5 |
|
ENGL 001A, ENGL 001B, ENGL 001C |
4 |
4 |
4 |
Humanities/Social Sciences |
4 |
|
|
|
| Total Units |
16 |
17 |
17 |
| Sophomore Year |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
MATH 010A-MATH 010B, MATH 046 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
CS 010 |
4 |
|
|
PHYS 040C |
5 |
EE 001A, EE 001LA |
|
|
4 |
ME 007, ME 009, ME 010, ME 014 |
|
4 |
9 |
Biological Science Elective |
|
4 |
|
Humanities/Social Sciences |
4 |
4 |
|
| Total Units |
17 |
16 |
17 |
| Junior Year |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
ME 103, ME 110, ME 120, ME 130, ME 170A |
4 |
4 |
12 |
ENGR 100, ENGR 115, ENGR 116, ENGR 118 |
9 |
4 |
4 |
STAT 155 |
|
4 |
|
Humanities/Social Sciences |
4 |
4 |
|
| Total Units |
17 |
16 |
16 |
| Senior Year |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
| EE 132 |
4 |
|
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| ME 100, ME 115, ME 170BME 175A-ME 175B |
8 |
8 |
4 |
Technical Electives |
4 |
4 |
8 |
Humanities/Social Sciences |
|
4 |
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| Total Units |
16 |
16 |
12 |
LOWER-DIVISION COURSES
ME 007. Introduction to Engineering Fabrication Processes. (1)
Laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 009. Topics include principles of design for manufacture; precision measurements and tolerances; properties of metals such as hardness, machinability, and responses to heat treatment; theory and practice of precision metal-cutting operations; turning, boring, drilling, reaming, and milling; safety practices and procedures; and computer-controlled machining. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC).
ME 009. Engineering Graphics and Design. (4)
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Graphical concepts and projective geometry relating to spatial visualization and communication in design, including technical sketching, instrument drawing, and computer-aided drafting and design.
ME 010. Statics. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 040B, MATH 009C. Equilibrium of coplanar force systems; analysis of frames and trusses; noncoplanar force systems; friction; distributed loads.
ME 014. Properties of Engineering Materials. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 001A; PHYS 040B (may be taken concurrently). Applications of basic principles of physics and chemistry to the selection and use of engineering materials. Relationship between structure and mechanical and electrical properties of technological materials.
UPPER-DIVISION COURSES
ME 100. Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): ENGR 100. Topics include the entropy function, entropy production, availability analysis of cycles, equations of state and thermodynamic property relations, multiphase-multicomponent systems, combustion stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and chemical availability of fuels.
ME 103. Dynamics. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): CS 010, MATH 010A, ME 010. Topics include vector representation of kinematics and kinetics of particles; Newton's laws of motion; force-mass-acceleration, work-energy, and impulse-momentum methods; kinetics of systems of particles; and kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.
ME 110. Mechanics of Materials. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 046, ME 010. Topics include mechanics of deformable bodies subjected to axial, torsional, shearing, and bending loads; combined stresses; columns; energy design; and their applications to the design of structures.
ME 115. Mechanical Engineering Fluid Mechanics. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): ENGR 115 or consent of instructor. Topics include incompressible viscous flow, boundary layer flow, potential flows, and compressible flows.
ME 120. Dynamic Systems. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): EE 001A, EE 01LA, ENGR 115, MATH 010B, ME 103; or consent of instructor. Topics include the modeling of dynamic engineering systems in various engineering domains, analysis of the response of linear systems models, and digital computer simulation.
ME 122. Vibrations. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 120 or consent of instructor. Free and forced vibrations of lumped parameter systems with and without damping; resonance. Matrix methods for multidimensional systems. Normal modes, coupling, and normal coordinates. Use of conservation principles. Lagrange's equation. Electromechanical analogs.
ME 130. Kinematic Analysis and Design of Mechanisms. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): CS 010, ME 009, ME 103, ME 110. Topics include the kinematics, dynamics, and mechanical advantages of machinery; displacement velocity and acceleration analyses of linkages, the fundamental law of gearing and various gear trains; and computer-aided mechanism design and analysis. A design project is required.
ME 131. Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms. (4)
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 130 or consent of instructor. Design of planar, spherical, and spatial mechanisms using both exact and approximate graphical and analytical techniques. A computer-aided design project is required.
ME 133. Introduction to Mechatronics. (4)
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite(s): EE 132, ME 120. Topics include fundamental hardware and software components for the design and control of mechatronic systems, intermediate analog and digital electronics, sensors, transducers and actuators, basic analog and digital control of electric and fluid actuator systems, and hardware implementation of real-time control systems.
ME 153. Applied Finite Element Methods. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 110. Introduction to the finite element method (FEM) and its matrix formulation and computer implementation. Also covers mesh generation and data visualization techniques. A term project using FEM computer codes is required.
ME 170A. Experimental Techniques. (4)
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite(s): CS 010, EE 001A, EE 01LA, ME 103; or consent of instructor. Covers the principles and practice of measurement and control, and the design implementation of experiments. Topics include dimensional analysis, error analysis, signal-to-noise problems, filtering, data acquisition and data reduction, and statistical analysis. Includes experiments on the use of electronic devices and sensors, and practice in technical report writing.
ME 170B. Experimental Techniques. (4)
Laboratory, six hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisite(s): ENGR 116, ME 115, ME 120, ME 170A; or consent of instructor. Analysis and verification of engineering theory using laboratory measurements in advanced, project-oriented experiments involving fluid flow, heat transfer, structural dynamics, thermodynamic systems, and electromechanical systems.
ME 175A. Mechanical Engineering Design. (4)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 007 (may be taken concurrently); senior standing in Mechanical Engineering. Students, working in small teams, develop a mechanical engineering device or system from concept to initial detailed design using the engineering design process. Lecture topics include engineering design methodologies, machine components in design, and written and oral communication. Graded In Progress (IP) until both ME 175A and ME 175B are completed, at which time a final, letter grade is assigned.
ME 175B. Mechanical Engineering Design. (4)
Lecture, one hour; discussion, one hour; laboratory, six hours. Prerequisite(s): senior standing in Mechanical Engineering; ME 175A. Students fabricate and test the systems designed in ME 175A. A final oral presentation and written report of the design and prototype are required. Lecture topics include failure theories, life cycle design, human factors, engineering economics, engineering ethics, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property rights.
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