دليل المواد | الشئون الأكاديمية

The application of the principles of thermodynamics and transport phenomena to the analysis of Desalination systems by distillation (evaporation and condensations) and by membrane processes with special emphasis on the Multi Stage Flash (MSF), and Reserve Osmosis Desalting methods to desalt seawater in combination, conventional steam power plants, gas turbines power plants, and co-generation Power desalting plants used in Kuwait.

Compressible Flow. Unsteady-flow problems. Kinematics of fluid flow. Boundary layer flows. Turbomachines. Fluid Power control

An introduction to chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, reacting systems, detonation and deflagration, laminar and diffusion flames, droplet evaporation and burning, combustor applications and design considerations, pollutant emissions and control.

Propulsion. Elements of Airplane Performance and Design.

Jet Propulsion: Compressible Flow, Shock wave, Sonic, Subsonic and Supersonic speed, Rayleigh and Fanno flow. Jet Engine Components (diffuser, compressor, combustor, turbine and nozzle). Jet Engine performance: Energy and Exergy. Ramjet, turbojet, turbofan and rocket.

Review of properties of engineering materials. Structure and Deformation. Stress-strain relationships. Principles of elasticity, plasticity and viscoelasticity. Failure criteria. Fracture, fatigue and creep. Failure of machine elements.

Principles of reinforcement and matrix materials, mechanics and mechanical properties. failure analysis and strength, design with composites.

corrosion fatigue. Methods of corrosion testing.

Introduction to applied elasticity, thermoelasticity, energy methods, torsion, unsymmetrical bending, failure criteria, shear center, curved beams, beams on elastic foundation, bending of plates and shells, elastic stability.

Material discontinuities, management and evaluation of non-destructive evaluation (NDE), visual inspection and basic test methods, vision and optical sensors, fundamental methods of NDE, liquid penetrant methods, magnetic particle tests, ultrasonic methods (immersion and contact), radiography inspection and other advanced methods of NDE.

A system engineering approach to robotic science and technology, fundamentals of manipulators, actuators, and end effectors, kinematics, control, and programming of manipulators, along with introduction to sensing, perception, pattern recognition and computer vision.

Flywheels.

Use of computers in modeling, simulation and design, introduction to finite element method, optimization techniques, applications in thermal, fluid and mechanical system design.

Fundamentals of industrial automation, numerical control (NC) systems, part programming, robotics in manufacturing, materials handling and automated storage systems, group technology, automated identification and inspection systems, flexible manufacturing systems.

Application of design process through a team project, teams of students experience mechanical engineering design through: problem definition, developing a project plan, gathering available information, generating and evaluating alternative solutions through design analysis and synthesis, prototype construction, testing, and refinement.