Senior design course on energy use in buildings. Psychometrics, comfort conditions, heating and cooling loads for buildings. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment design and selection. Energy recovery and conservation methods.

Important mechanical properties of materials engineering such as yield strength and fracture toughness experimentally investigated with a view towards materials selection and design. Skills emphasized: experimental technique, statistical analysis of data, report writing, and oral presentation. Prerequisites: M&I-ENG 201, 211 and 273. ENGLISH 351 (ENGLISH 351 may be taken concurrently).

Theory and execution of selected mechanical engineering measurements. Lectures and 1 three-hour lab meeting.

Introduction to adaptive and nonlinear control systems. Real-time parameter estimation methods. Self-tuning regulators. Model reference adaptive control. Adaptive control for nonlinear systems. A research project is required.

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Mechatronics as the synergistic integration of mechanical design, electronics design, controls, and embedded programming throughout the product and process design, with the aim to optimize the final design output. Mechatronic product design, with a focus on integrating the various engineering disciplines into electromechanical systems. Students work in teams on mechatronic design projects using a microcontroller development system.

Mechatronics as the synergistic integration of mechanical design, electronics design, controls, and embedded programming throughout the product and process design, with the aim to optimize the final design output. Mechatronic product design, with a focus on integrating the various engineering disciplines into electromechanical systems. Students work in teams on mechatronic design projects using a microcontroller development system.

Exact solutions to Navier-Stokes flow and laminar boundary layer flow. Introduction to transition and turbulent boundary layers, and turbulence modeling. Boundary layer stability analysis using pertu-bation methods. Prerequisite: M&I-Eng 607 or equivalent. Mr. Perot, Mr. Schmidt

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