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Fundamentals of manufacturing and automation, production systems (types, analysis, automation, simulation), numerical control production systems (NC, DNC, CNC, ACO, ACC) - industrial robotics (technology-programming, and application in manufacturing systems). Materials handling systems - flexible classification, coding machine cells, workstations, computer control). Control systems (feedback, optimal, sequence control). Computer integrated manufacturing (fundamentals of CAD/CAM computer planning of material process, and capacity) shop floor control and automation-order release, scheduling, identification systems. Computer network.

Stationary crack under static loading. Energy balance fracture mechanisms: Crack initiation and growth. Fracture modes. Stress intensity factors. Fracture toughness. Brittle and ductile fractures. Dynamic crack growth. Fatigue. crack propagation and component's life prediction. Experimental methods. Case studies.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Engineering mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.

Project course for non-thesis students.

Basic concepts of material and energy balances, combined material and energy balances, balances on non-reactive and reactive processes, application of material and energy balances to unit operations.

Fluid properties, fluid statics, kinematics, fluid dynamics including mass, energy and momentum equations, dimensional analysis, laminar flow, turbulent flow and its applications, forces on immersed bodies, turbo-machines.

Laboratory experiments on fluid flow in pipes (flow measurement, friction and pressure drop), fluid properties, valves and pumps characteristics.

Structure of different kinds of chemical processes flow diagrams, basics of generating chemical process alternatives, chemical process descriptions, simultaneous material and energy balances using spreadsheet, symbolic programs and process simulators, manufacturing costs, impact of chemical engineering on society.

Structure of the chemical industry, oil refinery, crude distillation, synthesis gas, bulk chemicals, catalytic reactors, polymers, biotechnology, process development.

Environment and ecosystem, health issues, measures of water and air quality, water treatment, meteorology, air emission and treatment, solid waste, hazardous waste, engineering decision.

Fundamentals of Engineering materials, material-oriented problems, relationships between the microscopic and macroscopic properties of matter, use of atomistic models to explain and predict the behavior of solids and liquids.

Thermodynamic properties of homogeneous mixtures, partial molal properties, fugacity, ideal and non-ideal solutions, heat effects of mixing, excess properties, phase equilibrium, miscible systems, activity coefficient, Gibbs-Duhem Equations, chemical reactions equilibrium.

Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics. Analysis and design of batch, plug-flow and continuous stirred tank reactors. Reactor in series and in parallel. Conversion, rate Laws, stoichiometry for single and multiple reactions. Kinetics of isothermal and non-isothermal ideal reactors.

Theories and principles of corrosion and prevention, localized corrosion, pitting, crevice corrosion, cavitation, metallurgical factors, welding problems, material selection, stress corrosion, cracking corrosion, fatigue, inspection, nondestructive testing, water treatment for boilers and condensers, chemical cleaning flue gas attack, corrosion testing evaluation and simulation, corrosion monitoring and cathode protection.

The Heat Transfer course requires that students apply their knowledge of mathematics and science to real thermal engineering systems. In this course, an expansion of students engineering skills, developed in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, is undertaken. Students are required to identify, formulate and solve thermal problems using a combination of mass and energy balances and energy rate equations. The course combines analytical techniques and design principles as applied to thermal systems. The students will have a full understanding of conduction, convection, radiation, condensation and boiling heat transfer and will be able to design a heat exchanger system.