Courses
| Fall 2023 | UNIV-EN 1131 University Success (syllabus) |
| Spring 2023 | ME/AE 5314, Fracture Mechanics (course sway page). |
| Spring 2022 | ME/AE 5314, Fracture Mechanics (syllabus) |
| Fall 2021 | ME/AE5323, Engineering Research Methods (syllabus) |
| Spring 2021 | MAE 1312, Engineering Statics (syllabus) |
New Course Development
ME5390/AE5301 Structural Health Monitoring
This course gives an overview of an emerging technology field called Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). SHM refers to the broad concept of evaluating the performance of structural components in real-time using a variety of sensing techniques, to provide advanced warning of future structural failures. It has become an increasingly important technology in civil, aerospace, and structural engineering to ensure the safe operation of various structures, such as bridges, skyscrapers, aircraft, and spacecraft. This course will introduce the fundamentals of SHM as well as recent developments in sensor technologies, damage detection techniques, and signal processing algorithms. Special emphasis will be given to optical fiber sensors and ultrasonic non-destructive inspection techniques.
Fun Projects for K-12 Students
How to make music using wind chime pipes
This project demonstrates how we can use the principle of mechanical engineering for making music. The students are given a set of wind chime pipes with different lengths. They can measure and record the frequencies of the wind chime pipes using a MATLAB GUI program. By finding the relationship between the pipe frequencies and the pipe frequencies using Excel, they can calculate the pipe lengths that are required to play the song “Mary had a little lamb“.
Download files for this project. The files are described as the following
1. Wind Chime.ppt: step-by-step instructions
2. Record.m: MATLAB program for measure the frequency of the wind pipe
3. five pipes.xls: excel files for finding the relationship between pipe frequency and pipe length.
4. Frequencies of music notes.pdf: a table lists the frequency of music notes
5. Mary had a little lamb.pdf: music notes