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Student Design Project (saylor.org)

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Student Design Project (saylor.org)
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This course will ask you to apply the knowledge you have acquired over the course of the entire mechanical engineering curriculum. It draws upon what you have learned in your courses in mechanics, CAD, materials and processing, thermal and fluid systems, and dynamics and control, just to name [...]

Design Decisions in Engineering (saylor.org)

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Design Decisions in Engineering (saylor.org)
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Engineering design is the process of creating solutions to satisfy certain requirements given all the constraints. This course will focus on the decision-making process that affects various stages of design, including resource allocation, scheduling, facilities management, material procurement, inspection, and quality control. [...]

Dynamic Systems & Controls (saylor.org)

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Dynamic Systems & Controls (saylor.org)
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The study of dynamic systems focuses on the behavior of physical systems as well as the physics of individual components and the interactions between them. Control systems are designed to enable dynamic systems to respond in a specific manner. In this course, we will learn about the mathematical modeling, [...]

Engineering Communication (saylor.org)

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Engineering Communication (saylor.org)
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Effective communication is essential to teamwork, and teamwork is essential to accomplishing complex engineering work. In this course, you will learn several aspects of effective technical communication that will help prepare you to work successfully on an engineering team.

Thermal-Fluid Systems (saylor.org)

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Thermal-Fluid Systems (saylor.org)
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This course deals with the transfer of work, energy, and material via gases and liquids. These fluids may undergo changes in temperature, pressure, density, and chemical composition during the transfer process and may act on or be acted on by external systems.

Heat Transfer (saylor.org)

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Heat Transfer (saylor.org)
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Heat transfer is the thermal energy in transit due to a spatial temperature difference. The topic of heat transfer has enormous applications in mechanical engineering, ranging from cooling of microelectronics to design of jet engines and operations of nuclear power plants.

Materials and Materials Processing (saylor.org)

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Materials and Materials Processing (saylor.org)
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This self-contained course presents a sampling of the fields of Materials Engineering and Materials Science. This course is intended primarily for engineering students who are not planning to major in either Materials Engineering or Materials Science.

Mechanics II - Dynamics (saylor.org)

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Mechanics II - Dynamics (saylor.org)
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Dynamics is a sub-branch of the general field of study known as Mechanics. It is very closely related to—and often combined with—the study of Statics, which you encountered in Mechanics I.

Fluid Mechanics (saylor.org)

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Fluid Mechanics (saylor.org)
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In this course you will first learn about the definition of a fluid and the properties of a fluid, such as density, compressibility, and viscosity. You will then see how these properties influence the way in which fluids flow in response to pressure and velocity variations. You [...]

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) (saylor.org)

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Computer-Aided Design (CAD) (saylor.org)
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CAD, or computer-aided design, is a powerful modeling tool that technical professionals use. With CAD, architects can draw up building plans and engineers can develop component and system designs. Some CAD programs even allow users to perform stress analysis, demonstrating how well a proposed structure will fare [...]