Teaching
Current Courses
ME 270 Basic Mechanics I
An introductory level course to the statics of structures. The course includes a variety of topics including vector operations, forces and couples. Free body diagrams, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Distributed forces. Centers of gravity and centroids. Friction. Trusses, frames, and machines. Internal reactions resulting from axial, shear, torsional, and bending loading. Stress and strain analyses and elementary failure criteria.
ME 597 Wave Propagation in Solids
Theoretical and numerical techniques for the analysis of the propagation of elastic waves in solid media. The course will cover topics including propagation in infinite and half spaces, layered materials, Lamb waves and wave guides, wave scattering and diffraction, basic concepts of nonlinear waves.
Other Courses
ME 563 Mechanical Vibrations
The course covers fundamental concepts of vibration of mechanical systems including fundamentals of analytical dynamics, introduction to matrix methods, transfer functions, impulsive and step response, convolution integrals for arbitrary inputs, frequencies and mode shapes for discrete and distributed parameter systems, numerical approximate solutions for discrete and distributed parameter systems, and an introduction to nonlinear problems.
ME 562 Advanced Dynamics
Theoretical and numerical techniques for the analysis of the dynamic response of complex mechanical systems including concepts of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid body systems.
Aerospace Structures
A study of basic principles and methods for structural analysis of lightweight structures with emphasis on aerospace applications. An introduction to load analysis of aircraft, materials, fatigue, stress/deformation analysis of thin-walled structures, and aeroelasticity.
Advanced Structural Dynamics
This course covers fundamental and advanced topics for the analysis of vibrations of discrete and continuous mechanical systems as well as numerical techniques for their solution. Other topics covered in this class include an introduction to nonlinear vibrations and their solution by perturbation techniques.