Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Certificates in Mechanical Engineering

The following graduate certificates are offered in Mechanical Engineering:

Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Modeling Techniques
Microelectromechanical Systems/Nanoelectromechanical Systems (interdisciplinary)
Composites and Materials
Renewable Energy Engineering
Integrated Engineering Systems (interdisciplinary)
Nanotechnology (interdisciplinary)

Design & Manufacturing Engineering

Contact: Dr. Sammy Shina
978 934-2950
sammy_shina@uml.edu

This 12 credit certificate program is aimed at educating engineers in modern design and manufacturing practices for developing world class products at the highest customer satisfaction and quality, at lowest cost and within engineering project budgets and schedules. It has a strong practice oriented curriculum and is taught by experienced faculty drawn from both academia and senior engineers and managers of high technology companies.

Required Courses:

22.573 Manufacturing Systems Engineering
22.574 Design for Reliability Engineering

Choose Two of the Following Courses:

22.571 Collaborative Engineering and Quality
22.575 Industrial Design of Experiments
22.576 Engineering Project Management
22.579 Robotics
10.523 Electronic Material Processes

Structural Dynamic Modeling Techniques

Contact persons:

Peter Avitabile
978-934-3176
peter_avitabile@uml.edu

Christopher Niezrecki
christopher_niezrecki@uml.edu
978-934-2963

This certificate is aimed at educating engineers in very critically needed techniques for modeling structural dynamic applications. In all undergraduate curriculums accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org, the materials presented bring the student to a firm comprehension and understanding of static design configurations but does not go beyond this point to address the practical reality of structural dynamic response for meaningful design configurations. Therefore, many new or practicing engineers are not prepared to address these types of problems. This suite of courses in this certificate provides materials that have strong, practical relevance and provides tools and techniques to address these structural dynamic applications. Both hands-on and product oriented practice will be emphasized.

A total of four courses (12 credits) are required for the certificate with one required course (which must be either 22.550 Advanced Vibrations or 22.515 Structural Dynamic Modeling Techniques).

The courses in this certificate are:

22.550 Advanced Vibrations
22.515 Structural Dynamic Modeling Techniques
22.513 Finite Elemment Analysis I
22.516 Experimental Modal Analysis
22.517 Structural Dynamics
22.518 Signal Processing
22.524 Fundamentals of Acoustics
22.603 Special Topics in Structural Dynamics and Modal Analysis
22.611 Matrix Methods

MEMS/NEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems/Nanoelectromechanical Systems)

Contact persons:

Hongwei Sun
hongwei_sun@uml.edu
978-934-4391

Byungki Kim
byungki_kim@uml.edu
978-934-2568

This 12-credit certificate program will provide an interdisciplinary education and training for engineers who will work in the fast growing MEMS/NEMS industry with microsystems design methods, advanced microfabrication, packaging and assembly techniques, VLSI circuits design and fabrication, nanoelectronics, nano-assembly and integration, material processing. Both hands-on and product oriented practice will be emphasized.

Choose four courses with at least one course from Group 1 and at least one course from Group 2.

Group 1

22.557 Microsystem Design
22.553 MEMS & Microsystems

Group 2

16.710 Special Topics in Nanoelectronics
10.524 Self Assembly and Nanotechnology

Group 3

10.523 Electronic Material Process
16.502 VLSI Design
16.504 VLSI Fabrication

Composites and Materials

Contact persons:

Julie Chen
julie_chen@uml.edu
978-934-2992

Emmanuelle Reynaud
Emmanuelle_Reynaud@uml.edu
978-934-2961

James Sherwood
james_sherwood@uml.edu
978-934-2992

This certificate is aimed at educating engineers in the design, manufacture and structural analysis of composite materials. The use of composite materials is growing in the transportation, defense and recreational industries, and thus there is a need for engineers with expertise in composite materials. The design of composites is explained through classical laminate theory and micro- and mesomechanics. Various methods such as resin-transfer molding, compression molding, are discussed. Structural analysis of composites is presented using classical laminate theory and finite element methods with applications in the determination of structural stiffness, ultimate failure, fracture and fatigue. Both hands-on and product oriented practice will be emphasized.

Choose any four courses from the following list with at least one course from Group 1 and at least one course from Group 2.

Group 1

22.578 Advanced Materials
22.591 Mechanical Behavior of Materials

Group 2

22.596 Composit Materials
22.697 Structural Applications of Composite Materials

Group 3

22.514 Finite Element Analysis of Composites
22.570 Polymer Nanocomposites
22.597 Processing of Composites
Material processing course from Plastics Engineering with permission of certificate coordinators

Renewable Energy Engineering

Contact person:

John Duffy
john_duffy@uml.edu
978-934-2968

This 12 credit certificate provides engineers and scientists with a rigorous but practical grounding in the fundamentals of renewable energy systems for design, research, development and manufacture. The certificate is part of a long-standing interdisciplinary graduate degree program in renewable energy engineering with experienced faculty. The courses address topics ranging from green building technologies (basic insulation and efficiency, passive solar heating and cooling, daylighting, solar hot water) to photovoltaic and wind systems, solar electrolyzers and fuel cells to stochastic process modeling of irradiation.

Choose any four classes from the following list with at least one of the four being 22.521 Solar Engineering Fundamentals or 22.527 Solar Systems Engineering. Other suitable courses may used for the certificate with the permission of the coordinator.

22.521 Solar Engineering Fundamentals (online)
22.527 Solar Systems Engineering (online)
22.504 Energy Systems Design Workshop
16.528 Alternative Energy Systems
22.528 Photovoltaic Manufacturing
95.537 Geometrical Optics
95.538 Physical Optics
95.577 Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
10.528 Advanced Transport Phenomena
87.572 Energy and the Environment
24.509 Dynamic Systems Analysis

Other suitable courses may be used as electives for the certificate with prior permission of the coordinator.

Integrated Engineering Systems

Applied Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering departments

Contact:

Dr. Craig Armiento
craig_armiento@uml.edu
978-934-3395

As companies increasingly undertake engineering projects that bring together a wide range of disciplines for manufacturing an integrated product, it is often necessary to assemble teams of experts in these various disciplines, and prepare managers who have a fundamental, overall understanding of several different engineering areas. The certificate is designed to respond to the need for trained professionals who are responsible for managing complex engineering systems integrating algorithms, information, software and hardware. Completion of certificate courses in areas complementary to the individual's specific training will serve as an important starting point for engineering managers (and prospective managers) who need to solve complex interdisciplinary problems at the interfaces of electrical, computer, mechanical, materials engineering, and computer science and applied physics.

The program consists of six clusters:

Applied Physics
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Within each cluster, there are a number of carefully selected courses ranging from introductory graduate level to more advanced, specialized electives.

Students must successfully complete four courses (12 credits), one or two of which may be taken in their area of expertise. The remaining courses must be taken in separate and different cluster areas. Courses are selected in consultation with one (or more) graduate program coordinators to best meet the student's needs in terms of background, interests, and work requirements. It may be necessary for students to take prerequisite course(s) if they do not have appropriate backgrounds for a particular cluster course.

CLUSTER AREAS AND DESIGNATED COURSES:

APPLIED PHYSICS

95.553 Electromagnetism I
95.554 Electromagnetism II
95.540 Image Processing (4 credits)
95.578 Integrated Optics: Wave Guide and Lasers
95.535 Introduction of Quantum Mechanics I
95.547 Laser Physics and Applications
95.538 Physical Optics and Waves
95.577 Solid State Electronic and Opto-Electronic Devices
95.521 Statistical Thermodynamics

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

16.550 Advanced Digital System Design
16.561 Computer Architecture Design
16.581 Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing
16.510 Digital Signal Processing
16.572 Embedded Real-Time Systems
16.575 FPGA Logic Design Techniques
16.552 Microprocessors Systems II and Embedded Systems
16.582 Network Design: Principles, Protocols, and Applications
16.573 Operating Systems and Kernel Design for Computer Engineers
16.521 Real Time DSP
16.502 VLSI Design
16.504 VLSI Fabrication

COMPUTER SCIENCE

91.561 Computer Security I
91.562 Computer Security II
91.563 Data Communications I
91.564 Data Communications II
91.549 Mobile Robots
91.515 Operating Systems I
91.516 Operating Systems II
91.548 Robot Design
91.523 Software Engineering I
91.524 Software Engineering II

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

16.528 Alternative Energy Sources
16.506 Antenna Theory and Design
16.532 Computational Electromagnetics
16.513 Control Systems
16.529 Electric Vehicle Technology
16.507 Electromagnetic Waves and Materials
16.512 Electronic Materials
16.519 Engineering of Submicron Machines
16.590 Fiber Optic Communications and Networks
16.543 Introduction to Communication Theory
16.509 Linear System Analysis
16.505 Microwave Electronics
16.533 Microwave Engineering
16.515 Power Electronics
16.584 Probability and Random Processes
16.571 Radar Systems
16.517 MMIC Design and Fabrication

MATERIALS ENGINEERING

26.544 Advanced Plastics Materials
10.506 Interfacial Science and Engineering and Colloids
10.507 Material Science and Engineering
26.503 Mechanical Behavior of Polymers
10.523 Nanodevices and Electronic Materials
10.527 Nanomaterials Science and Engineering
10.541 Nanostructural Characterization by SEM, TEM, and AFM
26.518 Plastics Product Design

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

22.512 Applied Finite Element Analysis
22.571 Concurrent Engineering and Quality
22.523 Cooling of Electronic Equipment
22.574 Design for Reliability Engineering
22.516 Experimental Modal Analysis
22.524 Fundamentals of Acoustics
22.575 Industrial Design of Experiments
22.573 Manufacturing Systems Engineering
22.591 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
22.515 Modal Analysis- Theoretical Methods
22.579 Robotics
22.562 Solid Mechanics
22.527 Solar Systems Engineering
22.550 Vibrations

Nanotechnology

Civil & Environmental, Mechanical, Plastics Engineering departments

Contact:

Dr. Jackie Zhang
jackie_zhang@uml.edu
978-934-2287

The program will provide students with a fundamental knowledge of nanotechnology and is intended to respond to the increasing demand for trained professionals in nanoscience and technology. The certificate is designed for students with a background in chemistry, physics, biology, or any branch of engineering who want nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing workforce preparation. Students may focus on a concentration area based on their interests and background. Courses in each concentration area are carefully designed to provide both analytical and practical competence. Students may take any combination from the electives list.

Core Course: (required)

25.550 Introduction to Nanotechnology

Core Courses: (Choose one)

10.541 Nanostructural Characterization by SEM, TEM, and AFM
84.510 Electron Microscopy of Advanced Materials
84.525 Analysis of Advanced Materials

Elective Courses: (choose two courses)

Materials

10.506/527 Interfacial Science and Engineering and Colloids
22.578 Advanced Materials
26.513 New Plastics Materials
26.598 Smart Polymers

Manufacturing

10.523 Electronic Materials Processing
10.524 Self-assembly and Nanotechnology
10.535 Cell & Microbe Cultivation
10.545 Isolation & Purification of Biotech Products
16.504 VLSI Fabrication
25.551 Nanomanufacturing I
25.526 Nanoscale Plastics Processing
26.502 New Plastics Processing Techniques

Design and Devices

16.502 VSLI Design
16.512 Electronic Materials
16.508 Quantum Electronics for Engineers

Health and Environmental Impacts

19.503 Toxicology and Health
19.514 Aerosol Science
19.525 Industrial Hygiene and Ergonomics 19.557 Toxic Use Reduction
19.610 Exposure Assessment
19.617 Measurements of Airborne Contaminants