Baylor ME: Mechanical Engineering
ME 2320: Statics
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 40 open seats · Byron Newberry, Kristyn Rylander
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in MTH 1321; a grade of B or better in EGR 1301; a grade of B or better or concurrent enrollment in EGR 1302; a grade of C or better or concurrent enrollment in PHY 1420. Study of forces, moments, free-body diagrams, fr…
ME 2321: Dynamics
3 credit hours · 3 sections · 75 open seats · Kristyn Rylander, Paul Ro
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 2320, PHY 1420 and MTH 1322; A grade of B or better in EGR 1302. Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies including Newton's Second Law, work-energy methods, impulse-momentum, and central and oblique …
ME 2345: Thermodynamics
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 50 open seats · Elon Terrell, Lulin Jiang
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in MTH 1322; a grade of B or better in EGR 1302. Thermodynamic properties, heat and work, first and second laws, processes, ideal and non-ideal cycles.
ME 2346: Intro to Aero/Astro
3 credit hours · 1 section · 20 open seats · Don McErlean
Prerequisite(s): B or better in EGR 1302; C or better in PHY 1420; and C or better in MTH 1322. An introduction to air and space flight, including history, basic aerodynamics, aircraft performance, and orbital mechanics. Principles of stability and control, ai…
ME 3122: Matls/Manufacturing Proces Lab
1 credit hours · 3 sections · 42 open seats · Jonathan Rylander
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in both ME 3320 and ME 3420 and a grade of C or better or concurrent enrollment in either ME 3322 or BME 4370. Laboratory experiments in strength of materials, property of materials, and manufacturing processes. Applica…
ME 3145: Thermal/Fluids Laboratory
1 credit hours · 3 sections · 42 open seats · Stanton Greer, Sam Rodkey
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 3420; a grade of C or better in ME 2345; and a grade of C or better or concurrent enrollment in ME 3321. Laboratory measurements of devices and systems in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Physics and operation …
ME 3320: Mechanics of Materials
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 60 open seats · Brian Garner, Abhendra Singh
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 2320 and MTH 2321. Introduction of stress and strain, stress transformations, analysis of stresses, strain, and deflections in axial members, beams, and torsional shafts. Analysis of pressure vessels.
ME 3321: Fluid Mechanics
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 44 open seats · Sam Rodkey, Min Pack
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 2345 and MTH 3325. Introductory concepts of fluid motions, fluid statics, control volume forms of basic principles, and applications basic principles of fluid mechanics to problems in viscous and compressible flow…
ME 3322: M E Matls/Manufact Processes
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 50 open seats · Ning Zhang
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in CHE 1301 and ME 3320. Properties of the principal families of materials used in mechanical engineering design with an introduction to the manufacturing processes used to convert these materials into finished products…
ME 3323: Machine Design
3 credit hours · 1 section · 35 open seats · Riley Choquette
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 3320; a grade of C or better or concurrent enrollment in ME 3322 or BME 4370. The fundamentals of machine elements in mechanical design. Includes the analysis of components under static and fatigue loadings, and th…
ME 3345: Thermodynamics II
3 credit hours · 1 section · 30 open seats · Elon Terrell
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 2345. Second law analysis, gas power cycles, vapor power cycles, refrigeration cycles, property relations, gas mixtures, gas-vapor mixtures, combustion, design of cycles. (3-0 )
ME 3420: Instrumentation & Measurements
4 credit hours · 3 sections · 76 open seats · Stanton Greer
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ELC 2320 or ELC 2330 and a grade of C or better in ME 2345. Introductory mechanical engineering laboratory experience: measurement system concepts, statistical and uncertainty analyses, survey of measurement devices,…
ME 4305: Sustainable Engineering
3 credit hours · 1 section · 25 open seats · Alex Yokochi
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in EGR 3380. This is an introduction to the context, concepts, and practice of sustainable engineering, and the importance of sustainable systems in the modern world. Topics will include an overview of resources and sust…
ME 4324: Intro to Finite Element Method
3 credit hours · 1 section · 15 open seats · Douglas Smith
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in MTH 3325. Introduction to the basic theory and techniques of finite element analysis beginning from energy concepts and the foundational constitutive equations. Engineering applications will focus on one- and two-dim…
ME 4325: Dynamic Systems
3 credit hours · 1 section · 30 open seats · Douglas Smith
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 2321, MTH 2311, and MTH 3325 and a grade of C or better or concurrent enrollment in ME 4327. Theory, analysis and simulation of dynamic systems including application of Newton's Laws and conservation of energy to m…
ME 4326: Applied CFD
3 credit hours · 1 section · 16 open seats · Brian Van Lear
Prerequisite(s): C or better in ME 3321. This course will teach the students how to use CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) software and will cover a variety of fluid flow problems. The main emphasis will be getting practical results which will include how to si…
ME 4327: Numerical Methods for Engineer
3 credit hours · 1 section · 35 open seats · Brent Craven
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 2321, MTH 2311 and MTH 3325. Introduction to engineering computational methods for design, from theory to algorithm to implementation. The course will discuss the following numerical methods from the engineering d…
ME 4334: Gas Dynamics
3 credit hours · 1 section · 20 open seats · Clayton Mulvihill
Prerequisite(s): C or better in ME 3346 or ME 3321. This course focuses on compressible flows, where the Mach number is high enough such that the assumption of incompressibility is no longer valid. Compressible flows occur externally and/or internally in many …
ME 4345: Heat Transfer
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 50 open seats · Jill Patterson
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 3321. Steady and unsteady heat conduction including numerical solutions, thermal boundary layer concepts and applications to free and forced convection. Thermal radiation concepts. Heat exchanger design.
ME 4350: Aircraft Flt Dyn and Control
3 credit hours · 1 section · 20 open seats · Anne Spence
Prerequisite(s): C or better in ME 4346 and ME 4325. Development of aircraft equations of motion. Examination of aircraft dynamic modes based on both limited and full degree of freedom models utilizing analytical and numerical methods. Aircraft design consider…
ME 4380: Microscopy for Materials Sci
3 credit hours · 1 section · 8 open seats · Dalong Zhang
Prerequisite(s): C or better in ME 3322. Introduction to the basic principles of structural, chemical and property characterization techniques. The course is grounded in modern X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy techniques for characterization of the ch…
ME 4388: Corrosion Metallurgy
3 credit hours · 1 section · 16 open seats · Samuel Inman
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in ME 3322. Introduction to the eight forms of corrosion. Sustainable engineering concepts, with an emphasis on metallic materials. Alternative metallic designs. Course will culminate in a sustainable materials design…
ME 4390: Engineering Design II
3 credit hours · 1 section · 40 open seats · Joseph Donndelinger, Jonathan Rylander, Loyd Spence, Ethan Johns and 2 more
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in EGR 3380, final Fall or Spring semester before graduation; A grade of C or better in STA 3381; A grade of C or better in ME 3323. A capstone design course for emphasizing the decision-making process that must be us…
ME 5323: Intro to Finite Element Method
3 credit hours · 1 section · 9 open seats · Douglas Smith
Introductory course on the theory and techniques of finite element analysis for numerical solutions of partial differential equations beginning from energy concepts and foundational constitutive equations. Numerical implementations and solutions are demonstrat…
ME 5326: Applied CFD
3 credit hours · 1 section · 8 open seats · Brian Van Lear
Prerequisite(s): ME 3321 or equivalent. This course will teach the students how to use CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) software and will cover a variety of fluid flow problems. The course’s main emphasis will be getting practical results which will include h…
ME 5334: Gas Dynamics
3 credit hours · 1 section · 10 open seats · Clayton Mulvihill
This course focuses on compressible flows, where the Mach number is high enough such that the assumption of incompressibility is no longer valid. Compressible flows occur externally and/or internally in many applications, including supersonic/hypersonic jets, …
ME 5352: Theory of Elasticity
3 credit hours · 1 section · 19 open seats · David Jack
Prerequisite(s): ME 3320, 3321, and MTH 3326. The Theory of Elasticity is fundamental to the study of linear and non-linear solid mechanics. This course introduces the foundations of elasticity for a deformable body, including the concept of deformation and …
ME 5380: Microscopy for Materials Sci
3 credit hours · 1 section · 16 open seats · Dalong Zhang
Prerequisite(s): ME 3322. Introduction to the basic principles of structural, chemical and property characterization techniques. The course is grounded in modern X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy techniques for characterization of the chemical and stru…
ME 5384: Fracture Mechanics
3 credit hours · 1 section · 20 open seats · Abhendra Singh
Prerequisite(s): ME 3320. Basic elements of fracture mechanics, including elastic and elastic-plastic crack tip stress and strain fields, and fracture toughness. Methods for prediction of crack growth under static and fatigue loading using stress intensity fac…
ME 5396: Corrison & Sust Metallurgy
3 credit hours · 2 sections · 18 open seats · Samuel Inman, Liang Sun
Prerequisite(s): Approval of department chair. Study of special topics in mechanical engineering. This course may be repeated for a total of six times with different topics.
ME 5V99: Master's Thesis
1 credit hours · 20 sections · 72 open seats · Paul Ro, Trevor Fleck, Brian Garner, David Jack and 16 more
Students completing a master's program with a thesis must complete six hours of ME 5V99.
ME 6101: ME Ph.D. Research Colloquium
1 credit hours · 1 section · 40 open seats · David Jack
A regularly scheduled, graduate-level seminar featuring speakers from engineering and science programs at Baylor, industry, federal laboratories, medical schools, and other universities. Topics covered may include current research activities, research ethics, …
ME 6V97: Engineering Research
1 credit hours · 20 sections · 98 open seats · Paul Ro, Trevor Fleck, Brian Garner, David Jack and 16 more
Prerequisite(s): Consent of student's supervisory graduate committee and admission to doctoral candidacy. Doctoral students may enroll in up to 12 semester hours of engineering research hours prior to taking the preliminary exam and being accepted into candida…
ME 6V99: Dissertation
1 credit hours · 20 sections · 80 open seats · Paul Ro, Trevor Fleck, Brian Garner, David Jack and 16 more
Required of all doctoral candidates. In no case will fewer than 12 semester hours be accepted for a dissertation. Students may not enroll for doctoral research hours until they have been officially accepted into candidacy for the doctoral degree. After init…