Undergraduate courses
ME251 Dynamics
Dynamics is an essential undergraduate course for students pursuing a Mechanical Engineering major. The course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and theories associated with the motion of particles and rigid bodies under the influence of various forces. Key topics include kinematics, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy, impulse and momentum, rotational dynamics, and vibration. Additionally, the course introduces the foundational concepts of systems of particles and three-dimensional dynamics.
Topics include
- Kinematics of Particles
- Kinetics of Particles
- Kinetics of Systems of Particles
- Plane Kinematics of Rigid Bodies, Motion Relative to Rotating Axes
- Fixed-Axis Rotation, General Plane Motion, Work-Energy Relations
- Three-Dimensional Translation, Rotation about a Fixed Axis
- Gyroscopic Motion
ME351 Mechanical Vibrations
Mechanical Vibrations is a cornerstone course that sets mechanical engineering students apart through its rigorous treatment of physical systems, providing them with an unparalleled depth of understanding compared to other engineering disciplines. This course serves as a fundamental bridge to advanced control subjects such as system modeling, control theory, and automatic control by developing students’ mathematical and physical intuition of second-order mechanical systems.
Topics include
- Free Response
- Response to Harmonic Excitation
- General Forced Response
- Multi Degree of Freedom Systems
- Design for Vibration Suppression
- Distributed Parameter Systems
Graduate courses
ME585 Mechanics and Control of Human Movement
This course aims to introduce students to various analysis methods used for understanding human movement, such as balancing, walking, running, throwing, etc. Students will explore a range of analytical methods including Newton-Euler equation for multi-body dynamics, inverse dynamics, mass-spring system analysis, state feedback control, and Kalman filter, modeling muscle physiology, transfer functions of biological motion sensors, etc. By the end of this course students will be able to model dynamics and control of human movement of his/her interest, calculate kinematics and kinetics of multiple joints of human body during movement, and model muscle physiology involved during movement
Topics include
- Basics of dynamics: EoM
- Inverse kinematics
- Dynamics of locomotion: inverted pendulum model
- Dynamics of locomotion: Spring leg model
- Control of human motion: muscle activation
- Control of human motion