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Types of maintenance management, planned and scheduled maintenance, maintenance by use of computer, maintenance cost measurement techniques, sensing devices for maintenance diagnoses.

Introduction to Computational Intelligence, types of knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition and representation, search strategies and inference process, expert systems, neural networks, and other implementation tools of Computational Intelligence, case studies of Computational Intelligence applications such as robotics, manufacturing, and thermal sciences.

A broad study of condition monitoring of rotating and reciprocating machinery, presenting condition monitoring techniques (vibration, oil, electrical current, thermal, corrosion, manual inspection), emphasis on vibration and signal analysis, data acquisition, recording, sensing, balancing, fault diagnosis and conditioning, case studies, and applications.

Use of simulation to build, analyze, improve, implement and test systems in the service and manufacturing industries, methods for using a simulation language, introduction to statistical aspects to simulation.

Introduction to the field of failure analysis including real-world practical investigations and solutions to actual failure problems with technical products, equipment and systems, product liability issues, failure prevention techniques, remedial design, engineering ethics, the engineer as an expert witness.

The quality function in computer integrated manufacturing, in-depth analysis of control charts and other statistical process control techniques, organization and managerial aspects of quality assurance, attributes and variable acceptance sampling plans.

Experiments, analysis, and writing reports, includes experiments covering the fields of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and fluid machinery.

Experimental techniques in the study of mechanical vibrations and dynamics of machines, analysis and discussion of experimental results in formal reports.

Experiments, analysis, and writing reports, includes experiments covering the field of heat transfer and air conditioning.

Experimental methods for system identification, control design, and analysis of controlled systems, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems are considered, calibration of sensors, analysis and discussion of experimental results in formal reports.

Vision systems, Image pre-processing, Segmentation, Shape representation and description, Object recognition, Image understanding, 3D vision, Images Transforms and Texture.

Special topics to be selected by the department to reflect interests in special areas in mechanical engineering.

Mechanisms of friction, wear, and lubrication that govern interfacial behavior, applications of basic theories to solutions of friction and wear problems

including bone, muscle, and connective tissues.

Workplace model of occupational safety, safety laws and regulations, definition of occupational injuries and diseases, measurement of hazard potential and safety performance, statistical analysis of safety, safety programs.