Department Courses Summary

ME120    Workshop

Introduction to the properties of engineering  materials.  Introduction to thebasic operations used in manufacturing.   Measuring instruments. Manual tools and their use in metals and wood. Electrical wiring.  The application of machine tools in manufacturing processes. Welding processes. (One lecture and 3 hours workshop).
 

ME121    Engineering Drawing

Instruments and their use, lettering, geometric construction, sketching.  Theory of
projection, multiview projection, pictorial representation, axonometric, oblique,
sectioning, dimensioning.  (One Lecture and 3 hours lab).
 

ME223 -  Mechanical Drawing

Drawing of typical mechanical pieces, surface finish, tolerance and allowance, fits
of assembled bodies, dimensioning, assembly drawings, drawing using CAD.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 121.
 

ME232    Dynamics

Kinematics of particles. Absolute and relative motion, Coordinates systems, fixed
and moving ones. Newtons,  Laws, linear, impulse and momention, energy and
work, angular momentum, motion of rigid body, and Eulers equations.

Requirements:  Civil Engineering 232.
 

ME321    Measurements Laboratory

Reports writing and analysis of results, measurements principles of distance,
velocity, acceleration, pressure, force, stress and strain, and temperature using
mechanical, electrical, and electronic devices.  Industrial application of
measurements techniques and their instrumentation. (One lecture and 3  hours
Laboratory).
 

ME331    Material Science

Structure of engineering materials, metals, ceramics and plastics.   Imperfections
and dislocations of crystal, ferrous and  non- ferrous alloys.   Phase diagrams, heat treatments and introduction to corrosion.

Requirements: Chemistry 143.
 

ME332    Machine Dynamics

Freedom, mechanisms, instant centers graphical and analytical calculations of
velocity and acceleration of linkages.  Analysis by complex numbers.  Cams, gear
trains.  Inertia forces in machines. Balancing of rotating  masses.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 232.
 

ME333    Thermodynamics

Thermodynamic concept and definitions, pure substances and their properties,
work and heat.  First law and its applications, second law and its applications.
Thermodynamic cycles.

Requirements: Physics 131.
 

ME334    Applied Thermodynamics

Analysis of thermodynamics power and refrigeration cycles, availability and
irreversibility.  Mixtures and psychrometry. Thermodynamic relations, combustion processes and  equilibrium, compressor.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 333.
 

ME335    Fluid Mechanics (I)

Properties of fluids, fluid statics, equilibrium of  floating and submerged bodies.
Principals and equations of fluid flow, viscosity and compressibility and its effect
on flow. Dimensional analysis and similitude.  Fluid measurements.  Fluid friction
in pipe flow and selection of pumps. (3 lectures per week, 6 experiments per semester).

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 232.
 

ME336    Fluid Mechanics (II)

Introduction to turbomachinery. Two dimensional  ideal  fluid flow.  Boundary
layer theory. One dimensional compressible fluid flow.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 335.
 

ME401    Practical Training

Practical training during summer in an approved firms for a period of   not less
than six weeks and in the field of student concentration.

Requirements: third or forth year level.
 

ME411    General Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

Experiments related to machine dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics,
production engineering, heat transfer, control, and vibration.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 321, 431.
 

ME430    Sanitary and Mechanical Engineering (For Architecture Engineering Students)

Sanitary fixtures and its installation, domestic hot and cold water supply networks, solid and liquid waste disposal.  Fire fighting systems, heating ventilation and air
conditioning systems.  Thermal insulation.

Requirements: Architecture Engineering 336.
 

ME431    Heat Transfer

One dimensional steady state conduction, fins.  Transient conduction.  Principles
of  forced  convection. Free convection.  Principles of  radiation heat transfer.
Introduction to heat exchangers.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 334 and 336.
 

ME432    Refrigeration and  Air conditioning

Refrigeration cycles. Heating and cooling load calculations, psychrometry.
Heating and cooling systems and equipment, design of water systems and
selection of pump. Design of air ducts and selection of fans.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 431.
 

ME433    Production Engineering (I)

Nature and properties of engineering materials, processes and methods to
manufacture and use of engineering materials, fundamentals of metal forming, and casting. Joining operations. Powder Metallurgy. Introduction to plastics
processing.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 331.
 

ME434    Production Engineering (II)

Measurement tools. Metal Cutting theory and  processes.  Introduction to
computer numerical control. Nontraditional machining techniques.  Introduction to quality control. Introduction to plant layout and material handling.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 433.
 

ME435    Machine Design (I)

Design theories and basic design principles. Surface durability, stress and failure.
Fatigue loading and failure, design of screws, design of welded joints, mechanical
springs.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 223, 332, Civil Engineering 233.
 

ME436    Machine Design (II)

Rolling contact bearings. Design of spur, bevel and worm gears. Clutches and
brakes. Transmission of power through flexible elements.  Lubrication of journal
bearings.  Shafts and axles.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 435.
 

ME437    Mechanical Vibrations

Vibration of single and multi-degree of freedom systems, free and  forced
vibration, undamped and damped systems, resonance, balancing, support motion.
Vibration isolation, energy and mechanical impedance methods Lagrange
equations.  Vibration of continuous system.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 332, mathematics 234, 331.
 

ME511    Power Laboratory

Experiments related to energy conversion, turbomachinery, internal combustion
engines, and refrigeration and air conditioning.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 411.
 

ME512    Design and Production Laboratory

Selected experiment in engineering mechanics, production, machine design, and
vibrations.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 411.
 

ME520    Introduction to Graduation Project

Topic selection, preparation of literature material and equipment survey for senior project. Supervision  by one  or more faculty members.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 401, and should be taken before the last semester of graduation.
 

ME530    Graduation Project

Project design or research in mechanical engineering.  Supervision by one or more faculty members.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 520.
 

ME531    Energy Conversion

Conventional energy sources and its utilization.  Nuclear energy.  Environmental
impacts of energy conversion. Introduction to renewable energy resources.  Direct
energy conversion. Energy  storage. Energy  management and rational  use of
energy.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 334.
 

ME532    Control Theory

Principles of feedback control system, modeling of system signal flow  graph.
Feedback control system characteristics and performance. Routh - Hurwits
stability criterion, Root locus method.  Stability in the frequency domain.  Design
and compensation of feedback control systems.

Requirements: Math. 234, 331.
 

ME533    Quality Control

Principles and tools of quality control. Statistical aspects. Sample taking,
acceptance sampling plans, control charts process capability, statistical tools in
quality control. Introduction to total  quality management.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 434, Electrical Engineering 331.
 

ME536    Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering Design

Introduction  to hardware and software. Generation of  curves and surfaces.
Computer graphics, transformation, rotation, scaling, animation use of computer as a tool in design and analysis of mechanical elements and systems.  Simulation of the kinematics and the dynamics of the mechanical elements, optimal selection of elements.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 436.
 

ME535    Internal Combustion Engines

Air standard cycles, combustion processes in ICE. Compression ignition engines,
spark ignition engines. Engine parts design, supercharging, engine tests and
performance.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 431.
 

ME537    Turbomachinery

Two dimensional cascades. Axial flow turbines, compressors, pumps and fans.
Centrifugal pumps fans and compressors.  Radial flow turbines.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 334, 336.
 

ME5311    Refrigeration Engineering

The refrigeration systems. The refrigerants.  Multipressure and multi-temperature refrigeration. Absorption refrigeration. Design of refrigeration equipment.  Load  calculation and design of cold storage rooms.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 432.
 

ME5312    Plant Layout and Management

Plant location.  Process planing and factors effecting it.  Facility organization and
planing.  Material handling equipment.  Industrial  buildings and its maintenance.
Introduction to motion and time study. Introduction to operation management.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 434, Electrical Engineering 331.
 

ME534    Design and operation of power stations

Over view of different types of power stations, its components, features and
applications. Economic studies, load curves, station performance.  Selection of
station. Energy rates.

Requirements: Economics 337, Mechanical Engineering 431.
 

ME538    Industrial Automation

Simplification  of  Boolean functions, Switching elements. Pneumatic systems,
cylinders, valves, relays, sequential process. Ladder diagram cascade method.
Logic gates.  Programmers, logic sequences, programmable logic controllers PLC.

Requirements: Electrical Engineering 430, 431 Mechanical Engineering 532 or concurrent.
 

ME5321    Renewable Energy

Renewable energy resources.  Solar radiation, and solar energy  applications.
Wind energy potentials and wind energy applications for electricity generation and water pumping. Biomass resources and conversion process, biogas.  Microhydo system, geothermal resources.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 431.
 

ME5322    Elasticity and Plasticity

True stress-strain curves and relationships. Principles of photoelasticity two and
three dimensional methods.  Elastic stress concentrations around circular holes and attachments in biaxial stress fields with axial symmetry. Theory of elasticity
relationships, stress functions.  Applications including elastic stress concentrations around circular holes and attachments in biaxial stress field without axial
symmetry. Elastic- plastic analysis, residual stresses for thick cylindrical and
spherical shells.

Requirements: Mechanical Engineering 435.
 

ME5351    Special Topics in Power

Selected topic in power. Topic is chosen according  to student needs and faculty
availability.

Requirements: Department Consent.
 

ME5352    Special Topics in Design and Production

Selected topic in design and production.  Topic is chosen according to student
needs and faculty availability.

Requirements: Department Consent.