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MAE 5353 Testing, Control, and Simulation of Thermal Systems Prerequisites: MAE 3223 or equivalent. Description: This course introduces the usage of computer software for the simulation and experimental testing of thermal systems and their components. Specifications of sensors and test plans based on uncertainty calculation as well as HVAC controls are introduced. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Lab: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 5403 Computer-Aided Analysis and Design Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in computer programming and consent of professor. Description: Theory, application and implementation of digital-computer- oriented algorithms for the synthesis, simulation, analysis and design of engineering systems. Advanced FORTRAN methods for optimization, simulation and data analysis. Implementation of these methods uses program libraries, batch processing, remote terminals and graphic display units. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 5413 Optimal Control Prerequisites: MAE 5713 or ECEN 5713. Description: Optimal control theory for modern systems design. Specification of optimum performance indices. Dynamic programming, calculus of variations and Pontryagin's minimum principle. Iterative numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. Same course as ECEN 5413. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 5433 Robotics, Kinematics, Dynamics and Control Prerequisites: MAE 4053 or ECEN 4413 or consent of instructor. Description: Kinematic and dynamic analysis of robot manipulators. Inverse kinematics, motion planning and trajectory generation. Industrial practice in robot servo control. Dynamics and control in the presence of constraints. Actuators and sensors. Force sensors and vision systems. Robotic force control and its applications in industry. Passivity based control algorithms. Advanced control techniques for motion and force control. Same course as ECEN 5433. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr

MAE 5463 Nonlinear System Analysis and Control Prerequisites: MAE 4053 or ECEN 4413.

Description: Failure of superposition of effects; phase-plane analysis; limit-cycles; Lyapunov stability; hyperstability and input-output stability; controllability and observability of nonlinear systems; feedback linearization; robust nonlinear control system design. Same course as ECEN 5463. Previously offered as MAE 5723. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 5473 Digital Control Systems Prerequisites: MAE 4053 or ECEN 4413. Description: Input output and state space representations of linear discrete-time systems. Approximate methods in discrete-time representation. Stability methods. Controllability, observability, state estimation, and parameter identification. Design and analysis of feedback control system using frequency-domain and state-space methods. Introduction to optimal control. Same course as ECEN 5473. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 5483 Advanced Mechatronics Design

Prerequisites: MAE 4733 or similar course and consent of instructor. Description: Continuation of topics covered in the undergraduate course MAE 4733 Mechatronics Design. Optimizing C programming code for microcontrollers using the assembly language instruction set, RS-232 microcontroller communication protocol, Controller Area Network (CAN) communication protocol plus hands-on CAN bus development boards, advanced topics which could include but are not limited to sensor design, real time operating systems, and advanced communication protocols. Same course as ECEN 5483. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr MAE 5503 Mechanics of Advanced Composites for Structural Design Prerequisites: ENSC 2113, ENSC 2143 or consent of instructor. Description: Basic principles governing the micro-mechanics of a lamina, and the macro-mechanics of a laminate are discussed in detail. Analysis of continuous fiber, short-fiber, and woven-fiber polymer matrix composites. A computer program for an analysis and design of composite laminates is developed. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Mech & Aerospace Engr