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Course Descriptions

Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural, Hon: course may include honors sections during some semesters. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.
 

Mathematical Science
  

  • MTH 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual work under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty on a selected topic in the field of mathematics.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MTH 6050 Research in Applied Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research conducted under the guidance of a member of the faculty in a selected area of mathematics.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MTH 6100 Selected Topics in Nonlinear Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced topics in nonlinear analysis emphasizing recent developments. May vary depending on the needs and interests of the student and the fields of expertise of the faculty.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MTH 6230 Partial Differential Equations 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers Sobolev spaces and their properties; second-order elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs); weak solutions; Lax-Milgram’s theorem; energy estimates; regularity theory; and Harnack inequalities. Also includes topics on nonlinear PDEs.
    Prerequisite: MTH 5115  and MTH 5230  
  

  • MTH 6300 Selected Topics in Numerical and Computational Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced topics in numerical and computational mathematics with emphasis on recent developments. May vary depending on the needs and interests of the student and the fields of expertise of the faculty.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MTH 6330 Calculus of Variation and Optimal Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers Euler-Lagrange equation, minimizers, constraints, critical points and semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). Includes optimal control for ordinary differential equations and PDEs, Pontryagin’s maximum principle, differentiability in Banach spaces, gradient methods and regularization.
    Prerequisite: MTH 6230 
  

  • MTH 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  

  • MTH 6999 Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval

Mechanical Engineering
  

  • MEE 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  

  • MEE 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MEE 0002   Corequisite: MEE 0002  
  

  • MEE 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MEE 0003   Corequisite: MEE 0003  
  

  • MEE 1024 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an overview of the engineering profession and the mechanical engineering discipline. Introduces students to engineering problem-solving methodologies and design theory and methodology. A competitive design project motivates the study of engineering graphics, computer-aided design, manufacturing techniques and software tools.
    (CL)
  

  • MEE 1025 Mechanical Engineering Practicum 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students support senior student engineering design team projects by helping to develop design concepts, formalize designs through sketches and drawings, fabricate mechanical components, test component performance and other activities related to the successful completion of design projects.
    Corequisite: MEE 1024  
  

  • MEE 2024 Solids Modeling and 3D Mechanical Design Principles

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students create geometries in isometric and perspective views, free-form solids and sectioned solids to produce layouts for dimensioning/tolerancing. Uses computer analysis to focus on determining inertial properties and interference checking.
    Prerequisite: MEE 1024  or AEE 1202  
  

  • MEE 2025 Mechanical Engineering Practicum 2

    Credit Hours: 1
    Continues MEE 1025  with a higher level of responsibility and more advanced requirements.
    Prerequisite: MEE 1025  
  

  • MEE 2081 Applied Mechanics: Statics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes the elements of statics in co-planar and three-dimensional systems; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; simple structures, centroids and center of gravity; beam shear and bending moment; friction; and virtual work.
    Prerequisite: PHY 1001  
  

  • MEE 2082 Applied Mechanics: Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes kinematics and kinetics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Discusses absolute and relative motion approaches. Employs force-mass-acceleration, work-energy and impulse-momentum methods.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2081  
  

  • MEE 3024 Computer-Aided Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students generate finite element models from solid geometries, defining load, boundary and constraint conditions, characterizing material properties and optimizing performance. Uses computer models to perform stress, stability and dynamic analysis of mechanical components and assemblies.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2024  and AEE 3083  
  

  • MEE 3025 Mechanical Engineering Practicum 3

    Credit Hours: 1
    Continues MEE 2025  with a higher level of responsibility and more advanced requirements.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2025  
  

  • MEE 3090 Design of Machine Elements

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the design of basic machine elements. Emphasizes failure prevention. Includes screws, fasteners, connections, welded/brazed joints, springs, bearings, gears, clutches, brakes, couplings, flywheels, flexible mechanical elements and shafts.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2024  and AEE 3083  
  

  • MEE 3091 Theory of Machines

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms, including structural and mobility considerations; graphical, analytical and computer methods for velocities and accelerations in constrained motion; cams and gears; analysis of combined static and dynamic forces arising from uniform and accelerated motion; and dynamic balancing.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2082  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  

  • MEE 3191 Engineering Thermodynamics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the conservation of energy and mass in closed- and open-flow systems. Includes the physical properties and equations of state for pure substances; the first and second laws of thermodynamics; and reversible processes and Carnot cycle.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101  and (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 ) and PHY 1001  
  

  • MEE 3192 Engineering Thermodynamics 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes practical problems involving power and refrigeration cycles and chemical thermodynamics, the combustion process and compressible flows as examined in applications involving nozzles and blade passages.
    Prerequisite: MEE 3191  
  

  • MEE 4014 Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers linear controller design by both classical and modern control methodologies (root locus, pole placement, full state feedback). Introduces digital control and the z-transform.
    Prerequisite: MTH 2201  or MTH 3200  
  

  • MEE 4024 Mechanical Vibrations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on both discrete and continuous systems. Includes free and forced vibration of single and multiple degrees of freedom systems, and vibration control techniques.
    Prerequisite: AEE 3083  and MEE 2082  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  

  • MEE 4071 Thermal Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers radiative heat transfer applications in thermal systems. Includes elementary methods of optimization for design; and application of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Also includes equipment fundamentals, emphasizing heat exchanger design and analysis; and design projects involving use of software and laboratory experiments. 
    Prerequisite: MEE 4171  
  

  • MEE 4074 Heat Transfer Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1
    Reinforces the activities associated with MEE 4071  and MEE 4171 . Investigates the physics of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation) through the use of modern experimental techniques.
    Prerequisite: MEE 4171  
  

  • MEE 4171 Principles of Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers steady state and transient heat conduction for one- and multidimensional systems; free and forced convection in both internal and external flows for both laminar and turbulent conditions; and boiling and condensation. Introduces radiation properties, blackbody radiation and surface emission.
    Prerequisite: AEE 3161  and MEE 3191  and (MTH 3210  or MTH 3220 )
  

  • MEE 4175 Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers air-vapor mixture properties and psychometrics, solar radiation in heating and air conditioning applications, heating/cooling load calculations, annual energy consumption, heat generation and cooling processes.
    Prerequisite: MEE 4171  
  

  • MEE 4177 Energy Conversion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the basics of energy resources, principles of energy conversion systems and processes. Includes conventional energy conversion technologies (thermal power plants, hydraulic turbines, combined cycles, internal combustion engines, energy storage technologies) and renewable systems (solar photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, geothermal, ocean).
    Prerequisite: MEE 4171  
  

  • MEE 4190 Design Methodologies and Practice

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers engineering ethics and design methodologies with case studies. Presents relevant design projects and case studies by faculty and invited engineers representing local industry. Requires development of a proposal for MEE 4193  
    (Q)
    Must be enrolled in mechanical engineering (7131). Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: COM 2223   Corequisite: COM 2223  
  

  • MEE 4193 Mechanical Engineering Design 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Student teams work on engineering projects proposed in MEE 4190  or by the faculty, as well as projects sponsored by industry. These projects are selected from a broad range of technical areas including mechanical design, thermal and fluid system analyses, instrumentation and control, energy system analysis.
    (Q)
    Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: MEE 4190  
  

  • MEE 4194 Mechanical Engineering Design 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Student teams complete their design projects. Outlines and presents details of engineering analyses, prototype construction and testing results including sensitivity, optimization and cost analyses in a written final report. Requires oral presentation to faculty and engineers from participating industry.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: MEE 4193  
  

  • MEE 4250 Physical Principles of Nuclear Reactors

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamental physical principles of nuclear reactors. Covers the equivalence of matter and energy, nuclear reactions and radiation, neutron diffusion and slowing-down theory, criticality condition, reactor core, composition, configurations and long-term behavior, reactor kinetics and control.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  

  • MEE 4260 Nuclear Reactor Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the fundamental principles of nuclear reactor design and operation as they pertain to various reactor systems.
    Prerequisite: MEE 4250  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  

  • MEE 4300 Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Student/faculty research on topics of mutual interest on an individual basis. Comprises subject matter topical to mechanical engineering at a level commensurate with advanced undergraduate standing. 
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • MEE 4500 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Faculty presents technical course material on topics of special interest to mechanical engineers. The normal format consists of classroom lectures and assigned readings or projects for the students.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval and may qualify as a technical elective, subject to faculty approval
  

  • MEE 4630 Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the methodology for mathematical representation of engineering systems. Includes basic mechanical, electrical, thermal and fluid systems; state variable and input/output representation; transfer function and Laplace transform approach; transient, steady-state and frequency response analyses; and comparison with experimental response.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2082  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  

  • MEE 4631 Additive Manufacturing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers fundamentals and applications of 3D printing technologies including design for additive manufacturing, predictive modeling, various material deposition approaches, pre- and post-processing, materials, and performance analysis; explores applications in aerospace, power generation, tooling, health care and electronics industries. 
    Senior standing required
    Prerequisite: BME 3260  or CHE 3260  and AEE 3083  or BME 3081  and MEE 2024  or CHE 4568  
  

  • MEE 4820 Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes the thermodynamics of various power cycles, and emerging alternative fuels and power systems for automotive use (biofuels and their blends with gasoline and diesel fuel, direct injection, hybrid electric). Requires independent research project possibly leading to presentation at professional society meeting.
    Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: MEE 3191  
  

  • MEE 5177 Energy Conversion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the basics of energy resources, and principles of energy conversion systems and processes. Includes conventional energy conversion technologies (thermal power plants, hydraulic turbines, combined cycles, internal combustion engines, energy storage technologies) and renewable systems (solar photovoltaics and thermal, wind geothermal, ocean).
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MEE 4171 Principles of Heat Transfer . 
  

  • MEE 5210 Conduction Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers conservation of energy in a deformable continuous medium; solution of time-dependent homogeneous heat conduction problems using separation of variables, Duhamel’s method, Green’s function, analytical approximate methods and finite-difference methods; phase-change problems; inverse problem; bio-heat transfer modeling and solution methods.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of heat transfer.
  

  • MEE 5220 Convection Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews the principle of energy conservation, heat conducting fluid; boundary-layer approximations for large Reynold’s number; exact and approximate treatment of laminar internal and external forced convection; turbulent forced convection; and buoyancy-induced convection.
    Prerequisite: MEE 5210  
  

  • MEE 5230 Radiation Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers development of radiative properties from electromagnetic theory; theory and analysis of shape factors; and enclosure radiative transfer and diffuse-gray and nongray surfaces. Introduces radiative transfer within participating media and semitransparent solids.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of heat transfer.
  

  • MEE 5240 Solar Energy Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies solar radiation principles, data estimation and prediction. Reviews heat transfer principles, and radiation and optical properties of surfaces. Includes flat plate solar collector analysis and analysis of concentrating collectors, solar energy storage, and solar heating/air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of heat transfer.
  

  • MEE 5250 Physical Principles of Nuclear Reactors

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamental physical principles of nuclear reactors. Covers the equivalence of matter and energy, nuclear reactions and radiation, neutron diffusion and slowing-down theory, criticality condition, reactor core, composition, configurations and long-term behavior, reactor kinetics and control.
  

  • MEE 5260 Nuclear Reactor Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the fundamental principles of nuclear reactor design and operation as they pertain to various reactor systems.
    Prerequisite: MEE 5250  
  

  • MEE 5290 Selected Topics in Heat Transfer and Energy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced topics reflecting the current research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MEE 5310 Combustion Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes equilibrium chemical thermodynamics and thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, transport phenomena and conservation equations; Rankine-Hugoniot theory, Chapman-Jouguet waves and detonation and deflagration; diffusion flames and premixed flames; flammability, ignition and quenching.
  

  • MEE 5316 Mechatronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies microprocessor-based control of electromechanical systems, sensors and actuators, assembly programming, microprocessor architecture, serial/parallel input/output, programmable peripherals, interrupts, signal interfacing, standard interface protocols, analog to digital conversion, real-time control, and design of microprocessor-based systems.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of controls.
  

  • MEE 5318 Instrumentation and Measurement Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the fundamentals of sensors and measurements for engineering applications, and software/hardware tools for development of computer-based instrumentation systems. Includes analog signals, signal conditioning, programming virtual instruments, communication standards, data acquisition and process control.
  

  • MEE 5320 Internal Combustion Engines

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates the applications of thermodynamic, fluid dynamic and combustion principles to spark- and compression-ignition engines, and direct-injection stratified charge engines; ideal and actual cycle analyses; exhaust emissions, air pollution and control; engine heat transfer; and engine modeling.
  

  • MEE 5330 Principles of Fuel Cells

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamentals of fuel cell technology including basic operating principles, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, charge and mass transport and modeling. Emphasizes hydrogen fuel cells. Discusses types of fuel cells, fuel cell stacks, thermal management, fuel delivery and power management.
    Recommended: Background knowledge in Ohm’s law and basic circuitry, first and second laws of thermodynamics and thermodynamic properties, and ordinary differential equations.
  

  • MEE 5350 Gas Turbines

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces characteristics, performance analyses and design methodologies for stationary aircraft gas turbines. Topics include gas turbine cycle analyses, component design of combustors, compressors, turbines and nozzles, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, gas turbine fuels and emissions.
  

  • MEE 5410 Elasticity

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes stress and strain in two and three dimensions, equilibrium, compatibility and constitutive equations, energy methods, flexure, stretching, torsion and contact stress formulations, axially symmetric problems.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MEE 5420 Advanced Mechanical Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers essential aspects of elasticity-plasticity, kinematics, dynamics, tribology and materials science.
  

  • MEE 5460 Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue of Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers static and dynamic design and maintenance to prevent structural failure; presence of cracks; stress intensity factor; linear elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, fracture tests, and fatigue crack initiation and propagation; environmental and corrosion effects; fatigue life prediction.
  

  • MEE 5490 Selected Topics in Solid Mechanics, Structures and Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses selected topics reflecting the current research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
  

  • MEE 5491 Computational Materials Science and Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers characterization of materials, calculations of properties and materials, and fundamental methods for length-scale linking. Covers a variety of simulation techniques and their applications in materials science. Includes molecular dynamic simulations, Monte-Carlo multiparticle diffusion simulations and phase-field simulations.
    Prerequisite: CHE 3260  and CSE 1502  
  

  • MEE 5551 Advanced Design Theory and Methods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides in-depth study of systematic design processes, methods and tools, applied to novel design and reverse engineering. Covers contemporary research-based design theories. Includes research methods for studying design as a scientific discourse (user studies, protocol studies and case studies). Requires engineering design term projects.
    Recommended: Background equivalent to MEE 3090 Design of Machine Elements , MEE 3091 Theory of Machines  and MEE 4194 Mechanical Engineering Design 2 . 
  

  • MEE 5552 Design for Manufacturing and Assembly

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents concepts of product and process design for manufacturing and assembly. Includes topics on product design for manufacturing, inspection and assembly considering both manual and automated approaches. Also presents the relationship between part design and ease of manufacture through the introduction of DFM and DFA methods in design.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MEE 3090 Design of Machine Elements  and MEE 4171 Principles of Heat Transfer . 
  
  

  • MEE 5610 Advanced Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes Newtonian and analytical mechanics; rigid-body dynamics, Euler’s equations and Hamiltonian mechanics, and canonical transformations and Hamilton-Jacobi theory; dissipative, gyroscopic and circulatory systems; applications of numerical methods to complex dynamics problems.
  

  • MEE 5630 Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies theoretical, experimental and computer methods for characterizing dynamic behavior of various physical systems, including generalized approaches to modeling complex interactions between mechanical, electrical, fluid and thermal systems.
  
  

  • MEE 5640 Advanced Kinematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a uniform presentation of the mathematical foundations for studying spatial motion. Specific topics include general rigid body motion invariants, instantaneous kinematics, finite position theory, bivectors and multivectors, screw theory, theory of Clifford Algebras, quaternions and dual quaternions and exponential coordinates.
  

  • MEE 5650 Robotics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the study of robotic manipulators. Includes spatial rigid body displacement, Euler angles, Denavit-Hartenberg coordinate convection for kinematic analysis, forward and inverse kinematic analyses of serial and parallel chain manipulators, manipulator Jacobians and trajectory generation.
  

  • MEE 5660 Robot Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the control of robotic manipulators. Includes Lyapunov control theory, independent joint control, set point and trajectory tracking control, inverse dynamics control, impedance control, force control, hybrid position/force control and robust control.
  

  • MEE 5670 Spatial Mechanism Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes advanced topics in spherical and spatial mechanisms. Covers approximate motion synthesis and quasi-position synthesis methodologies. Also includes analysis techniques with respect to force transmission, order, singularity avoidance and solution branching. Uses computer-aided design and visualization software.
  

  • MEE 5680 Advanced Manufacturing Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers micromachining, nanomachining, electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining, electrochemical discharge machining, chemical mechanical polishing, laser machining and emerging processes.
  

  • MEE 5690 Selected Topics in Systems and Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses selected topics reflecting the current research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MEE 5693 Intelligent Optimal Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers fundamental machine learning algorithms including supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and optimal control algorithms for dynamic systems, the internal relationship between machine learning and optimal control, and applications of machine learning and optimal control in engineering. 
    Bckground knowledge equivalent to MEE 4014 Control Systems .   
  

  • MEE 5810 Road Vehicle Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers dynamics of road vehicles and how physical laws, human factors and design choices affect ride, handling, braking, acceleration and vehicle safety. Includes analysis of dynamic systems, acceleration and braking, suspension and steering, tires and ride, handling and rollover, and total vehicle behavior.
  

  • MEE 5820 Automotive Powertrains

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the performance of motor vehicles and the design of automotive power transmission systems. Includes loads on the vehicle, evaluation of engine and vehicle drive ratios on acceleration performance and fuel economy, and manual and automatic transmission design.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of internal combustion engines.
  

  • MEE 5850 Automotive Manufacturing Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers fundamentals of manufacturing processes and their applications to automotive products and systems made from metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Introduces the quantitative and qualitative components of manufacturing, material selection, identification of processes used to manufacture, and methods for quality control. 
    Recommended: Background knowledge in heat transfer.
  

  • MEE 5890 Selected Topics in Automotive Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses selected topics reflecting the current state of knowledge and advances made in automotive engineering. Includes research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • MEE 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Accepted petition to graduate and approval by Office of Graduate Programs
  

  • MEE 5900 Mechanical Engineering Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Presents current research by university faculty, visiting speakers and graduate students. Required of all full-time mechanical engineering graduate students.
  

  • MEE 5997 Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Individual study under the direction of a member of the MAE graduate faculty.
  

  • MEE 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-6
    Individual work under the direction of a member of the mechanical engineering graduate faculty on a selected topic.
  

  • MEE 6810 Life-Critical Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Requires students to develop and evaluate a synthesis of life-critical systems (LCS) illustrated by space systems, aeronautics, nuclear energy systems and various emergency systems. Improves knowledge and skills of the differences between technology-centered and human-centered design of LCS.
  

  • MEE 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0-2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Accepted candidacy and approval by Office of Graduate Programs
  

  • MEE 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.

Meteorology
  

  • MET 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  

  • MET 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MET 0002   Corequisite: MET 0002  
  

  • MET 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MET 0003   Corequisite: MET 0003  
  

  • MET 1999 Weather Briefing

    Credit Hours: 1
    Stimulates discussion about recent, current and future weather using various data sources, including satellites, surface observations, radar, model and upper air data. Underscores the importance of the human element in weather forecasting. Students must attend the weekly weather briefing and participate in a national weather forecasting contest.
    May be repeated for a maximum of three credits; content varies
  

  • MET 3401 Synoptic Meteorology 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Standard meteorological observational practice; data presentation; data analysis and display; data product transmission by facsimile and computer; and Internet connectivity; weather map discussions.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  
  

  • MET 3402 Synoptic Meteorology 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Basic analysis techniques, scalar and vector fields, thermodynamic diagrams, synoptic calculations, 4-dimensional atmospheric structure, weather map discussions.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: MET 3401  
  

  • MET 3403 Data Analysis in Meteorology and Geosciences

    Credit Hours: 4
    Covers different types of multidimensional large datasets (i.e., big data) from a variety of sources used to describe physical and dynamical processes of the weather and climate system. Emphasizes understanding and interpreting the data through basic programming, plotting and analysis. Lab requires use of various data and formats.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: CSE 1100  or CSE 1502  or CSE 1503  
  

  • MET 4010 Tropical Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the tropics. Emphasizes the structure of the tropical atmosphere/ocean, zonally averaged circulations, and a variety of phenomena that are unique to the tropics including the monsoon and intraseasonal variability.
    Instructor approval
    Corequisite: MET 4305  
  

  • MET 4233 Remote Sensing for Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies geostationary (GOES) and low-Earth polar orbiting (NOAA) weather satellites and the sensors system. Presents operational atmospheric data and applications to numerical weather prediction. Also covers ground-based meteorological radar systems and applications.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  

  • MET 4305 Atmospheric Dynamics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies coordinate systems, balance of forces, equations of motion, continuity and energy, barotropic and baroclinic disturbances, geostrophy, atmospheric transport of energy.
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  and OCN 3430  
  

  • MET 4306 Atmospheric Dynamics 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies circulation and vorticity, scale analysis, friction and turbulence, sound, gravity and Rossby waves, instability, numerical weather prediction.
    Prerequisite: MET 4305  
  

  • MET 4310 Climatology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the distribution of weather elements globally, continental positioning, rain shields, hydrological cycle, meteorological databases, El Nino impacts on humans, global warming and the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: MTH 2401  and OCN 2407  
  

  • MET 4407 Marine Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the marine atmosphere and upper ocean. Emphasizes the marine climatology, general circulation of the atmosphere, air-sea interactions and coastal meteorology.
    Instructor approval
  

  • MET 4410 Mesoscale Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys conceptual models and analyzes techniques for mesoscale phenomena. Includes mesoscale convective complexes, severe storms, atmospheric instability, mesoscale gravity waves, squall lines, drylines, topographic effects, mesoscale clouds and precipitation processes, coastal showers, the sea breeze and other local phenomena.
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  
  

  • MET 4991 Undergraduate Research in Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Comprises research experience under the direction and supervision of a member of the faculty.
    Instructor approval
    May be repeated up to a total of 12 credit hours.
  

  • MET 5010 Tropical Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the tropics. Emphasizes the structure of the tropical atmosphere/ocean, zonally averaged circulations, and a variety of phenomena that are unique to the tropics including the monsoon and intraseasonal variability.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: MET 5305   Corequisite: MET 5305  
  

  • MET 5233 Atmospheric Remote Sensing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Nature of radiation, blackbody radiation laws, Maxwell’s equations, radar equation, radiative transfer equation, inversion techniques. Applications from surface, aircraft and spacecraft observations using Doppler, Lidar, visible, infrared and microwave systems to infer synoptic atmospheric properties.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
 

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