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