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MAE 4053 Automatic Control Systems Prerequisites: Admission to MAE professional school. A grade of "C" or higher in MAE 3723 or ECEN 3723 or MAE 3724. Description: Properties of feedback control systems, mathematical models of basic components, state-variable models of feedback systems, design specifications of control systems, time-domain analysis, stability, stability robustness, transform analysis, frequency domain techniques, root-locus, design of single-input-single-output systems and compensation techniques for engineering systems. Same course as ECEN 4413. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 4063 Mechanical Vibrations Prerequisites: Admission to MAE professional school; a grade of "C" or higher in MAE 3723 or MAE 3724. Description: Lumped parameter analysis of multi-mode vibrating systems. Analysis techniques including classical analytical methods, matrix methods and numerical methods. Selection and design of vibration isolation systems. Selection of vibration instrumentation. Machine dynamics, including balancing, whirl, nonlinear effects, and self- excited vibrations. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 4213 Spacecraft Design Prerequisites: A grade of "C" or higher in MAE 3253 and MAE 3113; admission to MAE professional school. Description: Elements of basic aerospace engineering concepts focusing on spacecraft design. Fundamental material will include orbital dynamics, rocket theory and launch vehicle performance, principles of spacecraft stability and control, propulsion systems, aerospace structures, space environments and its effect on spacecraft design (thermal, radiation, magnetosphere and solar wind), atmospheric reentry, thermal management, power systems, telecommunications, cost analysis, spacecraft design. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr

MAE 4223 Aerospace Engineering Laboratory Prerequisites: Admission to MAE professional school; and a grade of "C" or higher in MAE 3113 and MAE 3253 and MAE 4283. Description: Experimental study of aerospace principles including topics in aeronautics and astronautics. State-of-the-art instrumentation, diagnostic, and computerized data acquisition equipment and techniques applied to experiments including application of low speed wind tunnel testing techniques, rocket propulsion and control-jet experiments, fundamentals of supersonic nozzles, and flight test evaluation of performance, stability, control, and handling qualities of a propeller-driven airplane. Credit hours: 3

Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Lab: 2 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab

Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 4243 Aerospace Propulsion and Power Prerequisites: Grades of “C” or higher in ENSC 3233 and MAE 3293; admission to MAE professional school. Description: The study of aerospace power and propulsion engines utilizing a gas as the working fluid. Design and analysis of complete aircraft engine systems and individual components of the aircraft engine. Engine component matching for design using analysis routines, including inlets and diffusers, fans and compressors, combustors, turbines, nozzles, and propellers. Additional propulsion and power systems including chemical and non-chemical rocket motors and other internal combustion engines. Priority enrollment is given to Aerospace Engineering majors. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 4263 Energy Conversion Systems Prerequisites: Admission to MAE professional school. Grades of "C" or higher in MAE 3233 and MAE 3223 or MAE 3524. Description: This course covers the use of renewable and non-renewable energy sources in power production. Energy conversion processes are analyzed, and performance characteristics of components and systems are modeled using modern computational methods. Applications include overall design of conventional Rankine power systems and may also include design of nuclear, solar, wind, wave, thermoelectric, and geothermal energy systems. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr