COURSES TAUGHT

EM 200: Statics
Catalog Description Force systems, equilibrium, structures, distributed forces, friction, virtual work, moments of inertia, vector algebra. Prerequisites: Credit for Physics 195 and credit or concurrent registration in Mathematics 151.


AE 310: Aerospace Structural Analysis
Catalog Description: Methods of structural analysis of problems encountered in flight of aerospace vehicles. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 301 (Mechanics of Materials).


AE 410: Aerospace Structural Dynamics
Catalog Description: Methods of structural analysis of problems encountered in flight of aerospace vehicles. Prerequisites: Credit or concurrent registration in Aerospace Engineering 310


EM 510: Finite Element Methods in Aerospace Structures
Catalog Description: Static and Dynamic analysis of aerospace structures utilizing finite element methods. Prerequisites: Aerospace Engineering 310 (Aerospace Structural Analysis).


EM 600: Structural Optimization
Course Description: Introduction to formulation of structural optimization problems, mordern methods of linear and nonlinear mathematical programming, structural design sensitivity analysis. Application of numerical optimization techniques to numerical structural analysis such finite element method. Prerequisites: A course in numerical analysis (e.g., ME 512) and in advanced engineering mathematics (e.g., E510). Proficiency in a high level programming knowldge and knowedge of finite element analysis is highly desirable.



EM 621: Theory of Elasticity
Catalog Description: Analysis of stress and strain: stress-strain relations; Equations of elasticity; uniqueness theorem; compatibility conditions; flexure and torsion. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 301 (Mechanics of materials) and Engineering 501 (Advanced Engineering Mathematics).


EM 727: Theory of Elastic Stability
Catalog Description: Stability of elastic systems. Differential equations of stability by summation of forces and moments, and by the variational method. Applications. Prerequisites: Engineering Mechanics 621.