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1、Description of Graduate CoursesDescription of Graduate CoursesIn the future, it is expected that some minor amendments to the course offerings and content summaries provided here may occur in an effort to further improve the MME curriculum. After the number, name and description of each course, ther

2、e is an indication of any prerequisite that may be required to be successfully taken prior to registering for a course. Furthermore, for each course the hours required for lectures, labs and homework (preparation, problem sets, projects) are presented, justifying the corresponding number of ECTS uni

3、ts.MME 501-4. Graduate Seminar I-IV (1 ECTS unit)Course must be continued over multiple semestersObligatory participation of the students enrolled in the M.Sc. graduate program of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in all graduate seminars, organized by the MME department for

4、 four semesters. Open to M.Sc. students and advanced undergraduates as an elective.MME 601-4. Graduate Seminar I-IV (1 ECTS unit)Course must be continued over multiple semestersObligatory participation of the students enrolled in the Ph.D. graduate program of the Department of Mechanical and Manufac

5、turing Engineering in all graduate seminars, organized by the MME department for four semesters. Open to Ph.D. students only.In MME 604, besides the compulsory participation in all seminars given in the MME department during the 4th semester, the student must submit a written documentation (no more

6、than 20 pages), followed by a presentation on a topic relevant to those presented in the seminar series of the MME department. The topic chosen by the student should not necessarily be directly related to his/her research interests. MME 505-6. Independent Study (8 ECTS units)Course may be continued

7、over multiple semestersGraduate work on an independent academic project of the students choice upon consent by the advisor. May include theoretical, computational, experimental or combined work, with relevance to a fundamental issue with applied and/or educational impacts. Includes preparation of a

8、comprehensive documentation and a presentation of the study at the Graduate Seminar by the student. May be carried out by teams, with the contribution of each student clearly defined. Open to M.Sc. students and advanced undergraduate students as an elective.E 605-6. Independent Study (8 ECTS units)C

9、ourse may be continued over multiple semestersGraduate work on an independent academic project of the students choice upon consent by the advisor. May include theoretical, computational, experimental or combined work, with relevance to a fundamental issue with applied and/or educational impacts. Inc

10、ludes preparation of a comprehensive documentation and a presentation of the study at the Graduate Seminar by the student. May be carried out by teams, with the contribution of each student clearly defined. Open to Ph.D. students only.MME 701-704. Thesis Research I-IV (M.Sc) (ECTS units vary)Program

11、 of graduate research leading to the defence and writing of an M.Sc. thesis. Open to M.Sc. students only.MME 801-808. Thesis Research I-VIII (Ph.D) (ECTS units vary)Program of graduate research leading to the defence and writing of an Ph.D. thesis. Open to Ph.D. students only.MME 809-816. Thesis wri

12、ting (Ph.D) (10 ECTS)MME 800. Qualifying Examination (see p. 8) 511. Transport Phenomena (8 ECTS units)Conservation laws, with an emphasis on the similarities between the different mechanisms for the transport of heat, mass and momentum. Theory of molecular transport. Diffusion phenomena in stationa

13、ry, flowing and unsteady processes. Mass diffusion in chemically reacting, multiphase and multi-component systems. Computational techniques. Selected special topics and applications may include turbulent convective flows, combustion and materials processing.(Prerequisites: instructors consent)Releva

14、nt Bibliography To be defined by the instructor. E 512. Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics (8 ECTS units)Thermodynamic analysis of engineering systems, emphasizing systematic methodology for application of basic principles. Introduction to availability analysis. Thermodynamics of gas mixtures and r

15、eacting systems. Modern computational equations of state. Thermodynamics of condensed phases, including solutions. Thermodynamics of biological systems. (Prerequisites: instructors consent)Relevant Bibliography S. Kasinos, Thermodynamics for Engineers. E 513. Computational Fluid Mechanics (8 ECTS un

16、its)This course is devoted to the numerical solution of partial differential equations encountered in engineering sciences. Finite difference and finite element methods are introduced and developed in a logical progression of complexity. These numerical strategies are used to solve actual problems i

17、n a number of actual engineering problems. Computer exercises are required to illustrate the concepts discussed in class. (Prerequisites: knowledge of a computer language and advanced level courses in transport phenomena and continuum mechanics).Relevant Bibliography To be defined by the instructor.

18、E 514. Incompressible Fluid Dynamics (8 ECTS units)An introduction to graduate level fluid dynamics including dimensional analysis, Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions, flowlines, conservation equations, governing equations of viscous fluid motion, exact solutions of Navier-Stokes and Euler equatio

19、ns, unsteady flows, laminar boundary layer theory, turbulence, separation, Stokes flow, vorticity dynamics, potential flow and surface flows. (Prerequisites: fundamentals of thermodynamics and mechanics, knowledge of advanced mathematics, undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics). Relevant Bibliogra

20、phy To be defined by the instructor.E 515. Introduction to Parallel Computing for Engineers: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications (6 ECTS units)Parallel architectures design, examples of parallel computers, fundamental communication operations, performance metrics, parallel algorithms for sor

21、ting, matrix problems, graph problems, fast Fourier transforms, dynamic load balancing, types of parallelisms, parallel programming paradigms, message passing programming in MPI, shared-address space programming in threads. Focus areas may cover unstructured mesh applications, turbulence and combust

22、ion, nanofluidics and molecular dynamics, industrial applications, climate modeling, atmospheric and oceanic global simulation, and interdisciplinary applications. (Prerequisites: instructors consent)Relevant Bibliography Parallel Programming with MPI, Peter S. Pacheco, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. I

23、ntroduction to Parallel Computing, 2nd edition, A. Grama, A. Gupta, G. Karypis, and V. Kumar, Addison Wesley. Sourcebook of Parallel Computing, J. Dongarra, I. Foster, G. Fox, W. Gropp, K. Kennedy, L. Torczon, and A. White, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. E 521. Computer-Controlled Systems (8 E

24、CTS units)Focus on design and control of mechanical systems, employing digital computers as real-time controllers. Mathematical difference models, Z-transforms, and sampled control techniques in the frequency and time domain. Design of discrete-time controllers by conversion from continuous-time or

25、directly. Students use graphical programming (Matlab/Simulink) and instrumentation software (LabVIEW), to program their control strategies developed in simulation, and to interface with hardware sensors and actuators in laboratory exercises: monitoring and control of meteorological signal station, c

26、omputerized electrocardiograph monitor, controlled separation vessel in a chemical plant, and illumination control system for machine vision. (Prerequisites: 321 or consent).Relevant Bibliography Course notes. J. Golten and A. Verwer, Control System Design and Simulation, Mc Graw-Hill, 1991. Simulat

27、ion software (Matlab) and experimental implementation of control systems (Labview).E 522. Multivariable Feedback Control (8 ECTS units)This course extends the basic undergraduate control knowledge to multi-input multi-output linear systems. Concepts such as state space representation, controllabilit

28、y, observability, multivariable frequency response functions, zeros and poles are introduced. Design of controllers by pole and zero placement. Robustness as a means of dealing with uncertainty is discussed. Matlab course projects for modelling and controlling real case multivariable processes. (Pre

29、requisites: none).Relevant Bibliography Lecture handouts S. Skogestad and I. Postlethwaite, Multivariable Feedback Control, Analysis and Design.E 523. Signal Processing (8 ECTS units)The aim of this course is to introduce to students modern signal processing techniques currently used to (a) decipher

30、 complicated processes in engineering and biological systems (b) detect damage and monitor the health of engineering components and bio-engineering systems and (c) characterise the intricacies of time-varying and non-linear systems. Techniques of signal analysis and synthesis that are based on Fouri

31、er Transform, Hilbert transform, time frequency distributions, wavelet transform, and multi-resolution analysis are introduced through a pool of examples taken from the disciplines mentioned above. (Prerequisites: None).Relevant bibliography Lecture handouts S. Mallat, A wavelet tour of signal proce

32、ssing.E 524. Modelling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems (8 ECTS units)The idea behind this course is to use a unified approach to abstracting real mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems into proper models in graphical and state equation form to meet engineering design and control system objectives. The emphasis is not on the mechanics of deriving equations but rather on understanding how the engineering task defines the modeling objectives that in turn determine what modeling assumptions are appro