Fall 2009 Course Schedule
UW-Platteville Fox Valley Engineering Courses
EE 1210 (Circuit Modeling I)
3 credits
Lec: MW 7:00-8:18PM Lab: Wed 8:30-9:22PM Room:1847
Popovich, S.
Pre-requisite: Calculus I
Voltage, current, resistance and impedance. Opamps, Phasors, Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, superposition, and Thevenin's and Norton's theorems applied to the modeling of zero-order networks and to sinusoidal steady-state analysis.
EE 4610 (Communications Systems)
4 credits
Lec: Tues/Thurs 6:15-8:29PM Lab: Tues/Thurs 8:30-9:24 Room: 1811 Popovich, S.
Pre-req: EE 2200, EE 3020, EE 3770
Analysis and design of amplitude, angle, and pulse code modulation systems.
ME 2630 (Thermodynamics)
3 credits
Lec: Tues/Thurs 6:15 – 7:33 PM Room:1826
Bayraktar, T.
Prerequisite: CHE 165, PHY201 Co: MAT 223/234
Basic concepts and definitions, ideal gases, properties of real substances. Conservation of mass principle. First law of thermodynamics for closed and open systems. Second law of thermodynamics, entropy and availability.
ME 3030 (Dynamical Systems)
3 credits
Lec: Tues/Thurs 4:45-6:03 PM Room:1826
Zampaloni, M.
Prerequisite: MEC 202 and MAT 271
Mathematical modeling and response of various dynamic systems including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems; first order and second order systems; multiple degrees of freedom; Laplace transforms with applications; transient, enforced and steady-state response; transfer functions, sinusoidal transfer functions and block diagrams.
ME 3230 (Manufacturing Processes)
3 credits
Lec: Tues/Thur 6:15-7:33 PM Room:1708
Durkin, B.
Prerequisite: ME 3040
Primary manufacturing processes including casting, rolling, and forging. Secondary processes. Overview of materials and testing. Design for manufacturing. Mechanics and economics of metal cutting, economics of process planning, principles of machine tool design. Machine tools. Automation, flexible manufacturing systems, computer numerical control.
ME 3330 (Design of Machine Elements)
Sorry! This class has been cancelled.
ME 3720 (Mechanical Systems Lab)
3 credits
Lec: MW 4:30-6:48 PM Room:1847
Bayraktar, T.
Co requisite: ME 3030
Introduction to engineering laboratory equipment, experimental procedures, report writing, automated data acquisition, and statistical analysis. Emphasis is on the experimental analysis of mechanical systems, including topics such as vibration, strain gauges, and dc motors, along with the electronics used to instrument and measure these systems.
ME 3830 Mechanisms and Machines (formerly Theory of Machines)
2 credits
Lec: Tues 7:40-9:24 PM Room:1826
Boulanger, P.
Prerequisite: MEC 202 Dynamics
Introduction to mechanisms. Analysis and synthesis of mechanical systems. Study of motion, velocity, and acceleration related to linkages, cams, and gears. Machine dynamics.
ME 4730 (Thermo-Fluid Systems Design)
2 credits
Lec: MW 7:00-8:18PM Room: 1708
Bayraktar, T.
Prerequisite: ME 3630 ME 3640
Concepts of thermal systems; design of energy system components; modeling and simulation of thermal systems; application of principles in thermal science to an open-ended design project.
ME 4980* (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
3 credits
Lec: Tues/Thurs 4:45-6:03PM Room:1847
Iselin, J.
*Denotes streaming video delivery mode. This class does not meet face-to-face.
ME 4930 (Senior Design)
3 credits
Lec: Mon/Tues/Thurs
Zampaloni, M.
Pre-req: ME 3230, ME 3830, ME 3730, ME 4730
Team-based projects, primarily from industry. Open to graduating seniors only.
