Mechanical Course

System Analysis and Control (MEC 110)

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in this course:

  • Open-loop and feedback control
  • Laws governing mechanical, electrical, fluid, and thermal control components
  • Mathematical models of mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and control devices
  • Block diagrams, transfer functions, the response of servomechanisms to typical input signals (step function, impulse, harmonic), frequency response, Bode diagram, stability analysis, and stability criteria
  • Block diagrams, transfer functions, the response of servomechanisms to typical input signals (step function, impulse, harmonic), frequency response, Bode diagram, stability analysis, and stability criteria
  • Regulation of physical process: proportional, integral, and derivative control
  • Theory of linear controller design

Electrical and Electronics Engineering (MEC 120)

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in this course:

  • Introduction to analogue and digital semiconductor devices
  • Transistor amplifiers and switches
  • Power semiconductor devices, rectifiers, dc power supplies and voltage regulation
  • Operational amplifiers and application circuits
  • Combinational and sequential digital logic circuits
  • A practical approach to electronic instrumentation, measurement systems and transducers
  • DC circuits, Single phase and polyphase circuits
  • Magnetic circuits and transformers (ideal and practical), DC machines: motors and generators
  • AC machines: induction motors, synchronous motors, and alternators
  • Power factor correction

Finite Element Analysis (MEC 130)

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in this course:

  • Linear static analysis:
-basic concepts
-shape functions
-bar and beam elements
-direct and energy-based formulations
-simple coordinate transformations
-element assembly
-boundary conditions
-equation solution
  • Planar model formulations, work equivalent loads
  • Isoparametric element formulation:
-Jacobian matrix
-numerical integration
-stress averaging
  • Modelling, common errors, convergence, and accuracy issues
  • Introductory 3D solids, solids of revolution, plates and shells
  • Thermal analysis:
-matrix formulation
-steady-state and transient response
  • ntroductory nonlinear modelling and procedures:
-simple material nonlinearity
-stress stiffening
-contact interface