MAE 6950

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MAE 6950
Special Topics

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Special offering providing depth and/or breadth beyond the required mechanical engineering curriculum, in an applications area or discipline with connections to mechanical engineering. This course number is used for courses that are not a permanent part of the curriculum.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Advanced Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer

  • 20990 MAE 6950   LEC 001

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    • TR Upson Hall 146
    • Oct 3 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Avedisian, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Mini Course in Advanced Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer This minicourse concerns advanced treatments of selected topics in conduction and radiation heat transfer. Topics include conservation equations of heat and mass transfer in integral and differential forms, theoretical solutions for planar and cylindrical geometries; moving boundaries associated with phase change processes, numerical methods for conduction problems, blackbody radiation and the Planck distribution law, global warming and environmental radiation, net radiation exchange between surfaces. This course is open to senior undergraduates, M.Eng students, M.S. students and Ph.D students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Design & Control of Haptic Systems

  • 21024 MAE 6950   LEC 002

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    • TR Upson Hall 206
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Nunez, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Study of the design and control of haptic systems, which provide touch feedback to human users interacting with virtual environments and teleoperated robots. Focus is on device modeling (kinematics and dynamics), synthesis and analysis of control systems, design and implementation, and human interaction with haptic systems.