Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall the following topics: UAS structure, remote sensing, automation, artificial intelligence and performance; UAS data management, processing and analytics; UAS regulations, airspace, flight planning and weather; and UAS business types, markets and opportunities
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Gain experience managing UAS-related projects to solve real-world business problems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply photogrammetry techniques to process drone imagery into geo-rectified 3D models
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply different sensors such as visible imagery cameras, thermal cameras, multi-spectral cameras and lidar sensors to solve various engineering / business problems
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use the COE makerspace and shop for prototype fabrication and as needed in future coursework
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Utilize the fundamentals of the engineering design process and apply them in a laboratory setting
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Implement individual learning and cooperative teamwork skills through independent research and collaborative problem solving
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Utilize technical written and oral communication skills including making plots and formatting figures, creating parts and technical drawings, and writing concisely and clearly to communicate ideas
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Utilize engineering software that is required in upper-level engineering courses
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret a given engineering schematic in the context of equilibrium
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Determine the need for free body diagram(s) or appropriate sketch(es)
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Draw the free body diagram(s) with appropriate annotations
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Generate the governing equations informed by the free body diagram(s)
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Solve the governing equations
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Critically review results to ensure answers are realistic
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Derive kinematic relationships among position, velocity and acceleration for systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply and solve Newton-Euler equations to analyze the motion of systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply and solve work-energy equations to analyze the motion of systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply and solve momentum equations to analyze the motion of systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply basic physical and mathematical principles to engineering research problems
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply basic mechanics principles to engineering research problems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate technical concepts to a diverse audience via verbal or written media
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compute stresses, strains, and deformations for structures experiencing tension, compression, torsion, bending, and thermal loads
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Combine analyses for different types of loading
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze engineering structures for failure by yield and buckling
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform a tensile test
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Calculate material properties from tensile test data
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Compare experimentally determined values to theoretical values
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Plot experimental data in an efficient and effective manner
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify sources of error and uncertainty in mechanical tests
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use knowledge of construction materials behavior to select and specify materials for construction of civil engineering facilities
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use knowledge of construction materials behavior to monitor construction of civil engineering facilities
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Conduct experiments with standardized testing protocols, interpret test results, and communicate results and interpretation in technical reports
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Design and conduct forensic studies to determine the role of material properties or construction methods in facility failures
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Use teamwork and communication skills relevant to the selection, specification, monitoring, and testing of construction materials
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the nature of an engineering problem and devise a simplified model that estimates expected behavior
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Perform various types of finite element analyses such as static structural, thermal, modal, harmonic, transient, random vibration, nonlinear materials, nonlinear contact, and buckling analyses
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Qualitatively and quantitatively verify the results using visual observations, a variety of simplified calculations, preliminary analysis, tabulated results, and numerical techniques
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Prepare and present informative reports on finite element modeling results
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Navigate the mechanical design process through a group design project to include defining the problem, generating concepts, analyzing the design, and defining the manufacturing methods
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply fundamentals from their Engineering Mechanics coursework to analyze, guide, and modify their designs
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Gain proficiency in Computer Aided Drafting software and a familiarity with tools in the machine shop
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate a professional level of communication (written, graphical/drawing and verbal) and presentation skills with clients, instructors, and peers
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Numerically solve systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs)
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Numerically solve 1-D boundary value problems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Numerically solve eigenvalue problems
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply the basic techniques of Monte Carlo methods
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply the basic techniques of numerically solving partial differential equations (PDEs)
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Apply techniques from outcomes 1-5 to multi-step engineering problems
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Create UNIX or Linux shell scripts to aid workflow in scientific computing
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Formulate physical problems in mathematical and computational terms
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify software needs for solving numerical models of science and engineering applications
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Write and modify computer programs in a compiled programming language
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Estimate the accuracy of computed results
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply basic physical and mathematical principles to engineering research problems
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply basic mechanics principles to engineering research problems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate technical concepts to a diverse audience via verbal or written media
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Idealize and analyze practical problems in solid mechanics, complicated by geometric and material complexity
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify the assumptions required to solve a solid mechanics problem and judge whether those assumptions are reasonable
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize the potential for structural and material failure and apply theories of failure appropriately for analysis and design
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. List the different types of composite materials and describe their manufacturing processes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the mechanical behavior of various composite materials under different types of loading conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Derive mathematical models and solve them for engineering stresses and deformations in a composite structure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe special theories for heterogeneous and non-isotropic materials and solve boundary value problems associated with composite structures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Use the knowledge acquired in this class to design and conduct a complex analysis, design, and/or experiment to address key challenges relevant to composite materials
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe mechanisms for initiation and growth of flaws in materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Derive the fields of stresses, strains, and displacements near a crack
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Predict crack growth using concepts of energy release rate and stress intensity factors
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze the effects of plasticity and nonlinearity on crack propagation
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Evaluate the use of fracture mechanics concepts and equations in a research manuscript
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Solve potential flow problems in the context of aerodynamics
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Model and solve for the potential flow over airfoils using two-dimensional panel methods
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze the performance characteristics of two- and three-dimensional lifting surfaces, including interpreting data and computing lift and drag polars
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Solve aerodynamics problems and interpret solutions using the appropriate non-dimensional parameters
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Plan a comprehensive campaign of wind tunnel testing
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Utilize state-of-the art instrumentation to measure aerodynamic loads on 2D and 3D models
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Perform a comprehensive uncertainty analysis of all the measurements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Perform numerical simulations of the flow past 2D and 3D object using state-of-the art commercially available software
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Report the results in a professional format, using appropriate normalizations, scientific notation, graphics, and tables
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Perform a grid resolution convergence study
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Determine the static and dynamic stability characteristics of an aircraft based on its geometrical and inertial properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use the formalism of control theory to describe an aircraft’s open-loop and closed- loop control schemes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Utilize appropriate software to describe an aircraft’s response to basic control inputs
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Experiment with analysis software to study “what if?” scenarios
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the quantitative relationship between thrust and stagnation and exit conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Optimize a rocket’s mass distribution
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply basic one-dimensional gasdynamics and combustion fundamentals to predict a rocket’s thrust
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Report in written form their understanding of rocket-related issues not covered in class
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply common laboratory techniques to measure dynamic system responses
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Demonstrate knowledge of instrumentation, data acquisition, signal processing, and results display for dynamic systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Formulate analytical models with parameters identified from measured signals
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Formulate and solve problems using various coordinate systems to describe the motion of systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Formulate and solve problems using impulse-momentum principles to generate equations of motion for systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Formulate and solve problems by applying Euler's equations to gyroscopic systems
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Employ appropriate numerical methods to advance equations of motion for systems of particles and rigid bodies
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Convert practical problems/systems into suitable mathematical models
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop the analytical vibratory response of a structure subjected to various types of excitation
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply computational methods to explore mathematical models of the vibratory response of structures subjected to various types of excitation
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Solve ordinary differential equations in the form of initial-value and boundary-value problems through substitution, integrating factors, and Laplace and Fourier transforms
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply methods of undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, and Green’s functions to solve inhomogeneous ordinary differential equations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify whether linear algebraic systems have a unique solution, no solution, or an infinite number of solutions and apply methods for solving algebraic systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Determine eigenvalues and eigenvectors of algebraic eigenvalue problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Determine whether a function is analytic in the neighborhood of some point in the complex plane and apply contour integration to evaluate integrals
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Identify appropriate combinations of methods for solving problems arising in engineering and scientific applications
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply local analysis and asymptotic methods to distinguish analytical and singular behavior of ordinary differential equations to approximate their solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply asymptotic methods to estimate the values of integrals
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use perturbative methods such as boundary-layer theory, WKB theory, and multi-scale analysis to analyze ordinary differential equations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply the method of characteristics and separation of variables to solve partial differential equations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Identify appropriate combinations of methods for solving problems arising in engineering and scientific applications
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Navigate the mechanical design process through a group design project focused on the aerospace industry
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply fundamentals from their base Engineering Mechanics coursework to analyze, guide, and modify their designs
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply fundamentals from the aeronautics and astronautics coursework to a design problem
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate a professional level of communication (written, graphical/drawing and verbal) and presentation skills with clients, instructors, and peers
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply knowledge of experimental techniques and measurement systems for mechanical components, structures and materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Work in groups in the formulation of analytical models, configuration of measurement systems, interpretation of experimental and theoretical results, and presentation of conclusions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use digital data acquisition systems, computer aided data reduction and display, and commercial software packages for modeling and data analysis
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate clarity and/or accuracy of written work
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply physical and mathematical principles to engineering research problems
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply mechanics principles to engineering research problems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate technical concepts to a diverse audience via verbal or written media
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in a special topic of Engineering Mechanics
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply key theories, concepts, and methods in a special topic of Engineering Mechanics, using appropriate tools, processes, and/or software
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply, Analyze or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in a special topic of Engineering Mechanics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Motivate variational treatment of free energy to obtain governing equations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Formulate finite element approximations to linear partial differential equations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Choose appropriate approximation space (mesh, basis, quadrature) for a given application
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Assess stability and accuracy of linear finite element computations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the use and limitations of finite element models in structural analysis
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Formulate and document results using common dissemination methods such as technical report writing and/or oral presentations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply common methods of finite element validation including vibration test design, test and analysis correlation, and model calibration
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform experiments to measure mechanics quantities of interest
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Measure mechanical properties of materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze experimental data in the context of theoretical solutions and experimental error
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Communicate methods, results, and analysis through written reports and/or oral presentations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Evaluate clarity and/or accuracy of written work
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the current state and potential future impact of micro and nanotechnology
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Explain how mechanics enters a new regime at the micro and nano scales where surfaces, interfaces, defects, material property variations, and quantum effects play more dominant roles
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use or adapt engineering mechanics concepts to describe behavior at the micro and nano scale
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe cross-disciplinary intersections and how mechanics is integrated with the fields of materials science, chemistry, physics, and biology at the micro/nano scale
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe, qualitatively and quantitatively, the response of viscoelastic materials in creep, relaxation, and cyclic loading
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Demonstrate proficiency in solving problems related to viscoelasticity
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe underlying mechanisms for viscoelastic behavior
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply concepts of viscoelasticity in an open-ended project
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Formulate and solve problems using attitude parameterizations to describe the motion of aerospace systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Formulate and solve problems using linear and angular momentum to generate equations of motion for spacecraft
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Formulate and solve problems using energy methods to predict the attitude motion of spacecraft
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Demonstrate knowledge of spacecraft stability and control theory to assess and enforce spacecraft attitude
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Graduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Graduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the physical sources of plastic deformation in materials
Audience: Graduate

2. Explain and apply traditional and advanced theories of plasticity
Audience: Graduate

3. Execute a computational study of plasticity with a common engineering material
Audience: Graduate

4. Given a material model, know how to evaluate the material parameters in the model
Audience: Graduate

5. Provide critical assessment of seminal and modern plasticity literature
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the principal attributes of the finite element method
Audience: Graduate

2. Explain and apply all components of the finite element method including strengths and weaknesses of approaches
Audience: Graduate

3. Execute a computational development project by deriving a method and coding within a solver
Audience: Graduate

4. Derive finite element formulations of general order
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate clear proficiency in all aspects of the finite element method
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall many important identities used in vector and tensor algebra
Audience: Graduate

2. Understand and use basic kinematics principles used in many fields of study
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the breadth of conservation principles commonly employed for use in more advanced applications
Audience: Graduate

4. Employ thermodynamic relationships readily with fundamentals of continuum mechanics
Audience: Graduate

5. Acquire skills in rigorous continuum mechanics principles
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physics and mathematics of turbulence theory and modeling
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe general features of turbulence
Audience: Graduate

3. Use analysis tools to solve problems and process data related to turbulence
Audience: Graduate

4. Use turbulence concepts to understand and explain turbulent behavior in more complex systems
Audience: Graduate