Continues ENSY 7440, a thesis-scale project in technology commercialization. 4 Hours. Discusses geometrical transformations, CAD/CAM data exchange formats, prototyping techniques, and PDM. Students should have some prior knowledge of materials science, electrochemistry, and/or semiconductor physics. Introduces concepts of industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, and sustainable development. Continues IE 7440, further developing a thesis-scale project in technology commercialization. Topics include mixed-systems integration; sensors, actuation systems; brief overview of dynamic systems modeling, response characterization, and closed-loop controllers; interfacing; data presentation systems and processes; microprocessors; real-time monitoring and control; and applications of mechatronic systems. Topics include the diffusion equations, mechanisms of diffusion in crystalline solids, random walk theory, ionic conduction, high-diffusivity paths, diffusional and nondiffusional phase transformations, and microstructural evolution in material processing. In particular, this involves designing of jobs, machines, operations, and work environments in systems and organizations so that they are compatible with human capabilities, characteristics, and limitations. IE 7315. Requires work/training with a sponsoring organization or employer to improve a process or develop a project that is of significant value to the organization and demonstrates a quantifiable market impact while enhancing the student’s technological and engineering depth and fostering the student’s leadership development. Examines applications in the operation of public programs (e.g., public health systems, government programs) and public safety (e.g., security, emergency preparedness, and disaster response). ME 7300. Continuum Mechanics and Nonlinear FEM. Offers students an opportunity to conduct full-time research under faculty supervision. Lean thinking is imperative for organizations aspiring to stay competitive in global markets. Topics include introduction to variational approach and energy methods applied to motions of deformable body in three dimensions; vibrations of distributed-parameters systems including strings, bars, shafts, beams, membranes, and plates. Topics include work, energy, heat, temperature, available energy, entropy, first and second law of thermodynamics, simple systems, closed and open systems, availability loss and irreversibility, heat engines, multicomponent systems, mixtures of gases, chemical reactions, and chemical equilibrium. Covers control and programming of robots, steady state errors, calculations of servoparameters, robot vision systems and algorithms, as well as imaging techniques and the concept of mobile robots. The course work, along with participation in cocurricular professional development elements, earn the Graduate Certificate in Engineering Business. Covers concepts in design and control of dynamical systems. IE 7285. Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering. The spirit of collaboration guides a use-inspired research enterprise focused on solving global challenges in health, security, and … Students may also petition to waive a core course by demonstrating evidence of their having passed a similar approved IE or OR graduate course. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students. Offers continuing dissertation supervision under individual faculty supervision. MEIE 6800. Offers insight about the energy consumption crisis, sustainable energy sources, PV system components, and solar markets. Printed Copy of Catalogs: A bound, printed copy of the Northeastern University catalogs (undergraduate, graduate, and College of Professional Studies undergraduate) may be purchased from NU Reprographics. Students are given case studies to illustrate the complexity of implementing energy systems and are expected to complete a major project involving proposing an energy system. EMGT 6600. 0 Hours. Covers a wide range of sociotechnical systems and is focused on human performance, human system integration, and evaluation. MATL 5380. The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) offers comprehensive research and educational programs for both Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students. May be repeated without limit. Topics include the history and evolution of gas turbine engines, thermodynamic cycles, conventional and alternative aviation fuels, combustion fundamentals, fuel injection and atomization, advanced wall cooling techniques, mechanisms of combustion noise and approaches to noise control, and design and performance for ultra-low emissions. Covers basic aspects of computer graphics and CAD/CAM. Explores human, mathematical, entrepreneurial, managerial, and engineering aspects of project management. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students. Offers topics of interest to the staff member conducting this class for advanced study. 0 Hours. MATL 6270. Offers theoretical or experimental work under individual faculty supervision. Presents and reviews fundamentals of calculus, such as limit, differentiation, integration, power series, vector spaces, and multivariable functions needed for thermodynamic analysis. Requires prior completion of ME 5659 or a graduate-level course in modern control. 4 Hours. The mission of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is to educate persons for professional and technical excellence; to perform research to advance the science and practice of engineering; to engage in service activities that advance the department, the university, and the profession; and to instill in ourselves and our students habits and attitudes that promote ethical behavior, professional responsibility, and careers that advance the well-being of society. The PS form may be modified at any time as the students progress in their degree programs. Requires graduate study in related field or permission of instructor. It calls for process changes to eliminate waste, shorten product delivery time, improve product quality, and curtail costs, while improving customer satisfaction. Examines the evolution of the learning organization and its role in the management of R&D and technology, the influence of the rapid changes in technology, and the globalization of the marketplace through group-oriented case studies. Introduces other driving forces and transport processes relevant to microscale flows, such as surface tension (capillarity) and electrokinetics. Studies fundamental principles in fluid mechanics and thermal systems analysis. EMGT 7996. Defines work and heat interactions and calculates the amount of energy transferred during thermodynamic processes. 4 Hours. Offers students an opportunity to understand the phenomenological aspects of nonlinear and time-dependent material behavior and to obtain the ability to develop and use mathematical models that describe inelastic deformation behavior. In addition to our Boston campus, some graduate programs are offered at regional campus locations. Develops a model for the hourly direct and diffuse radiation under a cover of scattered clouds and the transmission and absorption of this radiation by passive and active systems. I have a friend who took EMT courses, but she did them at BU (as a Northeastern student). Introduces normal and oblique shock waves and the Prandtl-Meyer expansion applied to supersonic flows over bodies and surfaces. Intended for students who have completed all required PhD course work and have not yet achieved PhD candidacy; students who have not completed all required PhD course work are not allowed to register for this course. Covers the mechanics of plates using classical theory (cylindrical bending, rectangular plates, and circular plates) and plate theory with shear deformation. Focuses on electronic principles and the processing techniques underlying the processing/structure/property relationships of materials. ME 5657. Materials Processing and Process Selection. Studies the role and function of engineering organizations based on modern behavioral science concepts as well as the application of psychology to industry relative to human relations, group dynamics, tests and measurements, personnel practices, training, and motivation. Consists of fundamentals, properties (emphasis on electronic properties), applications, and advanced topics. ENSY 5800. Find A-Z • Students enrolled in any of the MIE department programs or concentrations may change their current program or concentration no sooner than the beginning of their second full-time semester of study. MATL 7365. Computational Fluid Dynamics with Heat Transfer. Covers definition, design criteria, and technology. Human Factors Engineering. Courses must be approved by the coordinator of Jewish studies at Northeastern. Heat Conduction and Thermal Radiation. 4 Hours. EMGT 5964. Discusses classical, Bayesian, and median rank methods for analysis of components and systems reliability. ME 7255. Toggle AccordionGraduate Studies. 4 Hours. The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) offers comprehensive research and educational programs for students pursuing the Master of Science (MS) in Industrial Engineering. The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) offers comprehensive research and educational programs for students pursuing the Master of Science (MS) in Industrial Engineering. 0 Hours. Offers students an opportunity to prepare for the PhD qualifying exam under faculty supervision. Examines financial statement ratio analysis along with the use of the capital asset pricing model as it relates to risk and return. Independent Study. Also covers the analysis necessary for such long-term financial decisions as issuance of stock or bonds; contracting of leases or loans, and financing of a new enterprise; mergers, capital budgeting, the cost of capital, and the valuation of a business. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students. These basic concepts provide the preamble for the presentation of the more complex multiphase and porous flow transport behavior. ME 6260. Engineering/Organizational Psychology. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to identify the problem, split it into subsystems, develop mathematical models of each sub-system, and implement in Python. Topics include data reduction, data exploration, data visualization, concept description, mining association rules, classification, prediction, and clustering. If the research advisor is outside the MIE department, before the thesis option can be approved, a faculty member with 51 percent or more appointments in the MIE department must be chosen as co-advisor, and a petition must be filed and approved by the co-advisor and the MIE Graduate Affairs Committee. Presents applications such as mass properties calculations, assemblies, mechanical tolerancing, simulation, finite element mesh generation, process planning and CAPP, CNC part programming, and Web-based CAD/CAM. Discusses surface and volume integrals, conservative vector fields, and surface flux. ME 5655. ME 6201. 4 Hours. Students enrolled in a master's degree have the opportunity to also pursue one of the many engineering graduate certificate options in addition to or in combination with the MS degree. MEIE 6850. IE 5617. Includes energy, exergy, and thermoeconomic cost factors in the presented case studies. Our cutting-edge and vibrant doctoral programs include PhDs in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and an interdisciplinary PhD (housed in the College of Engineering). Discusses mass, energy, and entropy balance relations as well as conversion devices, such as turbine, compressors, pumps, valves, and energy exchangers. Offers an advanced course in numerical methods applied to fluid flows with heat transfer. ME 5690. Makes a study of the economics of a domestic water and/or space heating system using f-chart analysis. For example, our supply chain resilience research is trying to understand and mitigate persistent drug shortages in the United States. Emergency Information • Engineering Project Management. Explores decisions under uncertainty. 4 Hours. 4 Hours. Biosensor and Human Behavior Measurement. Highlights applications such as industrial processing, life sciences, and environmental remediation. IE 7200. Topics include Laplace transform, power series, Fourier series, numerical methods for ODEs, matrices, finite dimensional linear vector spaces, eigenvalue problems, applications to systems of ODEs, vector field theory, curvilinear coordinates, and integral theorems. 4 Hours. Provides an advanced course that is a comprehensive treatment of the problems involved in the combustion of liquid, gaseous, and solid fuels in both laminar and turbulent flow. Topics include brief review of elasticity, fluid mechanics and probability theory, characterization of engineering surfaces, standard surface topography descriptors, Gaussian and fractal characterization of surface topography, surface profilers, contact mechanics, Hertzian contact, contact of rough surfaces, real area of contact, empirical contact formulas, rolling contact, friction of solids, wear mechanisms, theory of lubrication, compressible and incompressible Reynolds equation, effects of slip flow, classification of bearing types, elastohydrodynamic lubrication, foil bearings, and boundary lubrication. Focuses on responsible conduct of research, research misconduct (plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication), research ethics, and professional and personal development. Covers integration of electronic/electrical engineering, computer technology, and control engineering with mechanical engineering to provide a self-contained, modern treatment of mixed systems along with their computer simulation and applications. 4 Hours. Mechanics of Contact and Lubrication. The research advisor must be a full-time or jointly appointed faculty. 0 Hours. 4 Hours. The program requires fulfillment of the 16-semester-hour curriculum required to earn the Graduate Certificate in Engineering Leadership, which includes an industry-based challenge project with multiple mentors. Additional topics may include generalized functions and integral transforms; variational calculus and applications; and approximate methods of engineering analysis, including asymptotic expansions, perturbation methods, and weighted residual methods. Covers the fundamentals of lean thinking and how to apply this knowledge to practical problems. Gas Turbine Combustion. An independent study must be petitioned and approved by the academic advisor. IE 8960. I want to register for a course in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences or the D’Amore McKim School of Business. Reviews basics of machine learning, discusses important neural network architectures, and presents neural network training methods and algorithms. IE 7275. Develops analogies between heat and momentum transfer including the Reynolds, Taylor, and Martinelli analogies. Discusses difficulties associated with environmental impact assessments and the development of decision analysis tools to weigh the tradeoffs in technical, economic, and environmental performance, and analyzes specific case studies. Requires undergraduate heat transfer course. The four-digit number indicates the course level. Mechanical Behavior and Strengthening Mechanisms. EMGT 6225. 4 Hours. Mechanical Engineering with Concentration in Thermofluids. Passing of the language assessment at the end of this course can be used to waive the TOEFL/IELTS requirements for co-op eligibility within the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. 4 Hours. Topics include typology of mass-customized production systems, manufacturing processes for MC, information needs of MC, customer focus, marketing issues, technology enablers, implementation methods, and case studies. Industrial engineering (IE) applies mathematical modeling and analytical tools to make better decisions for designing and managing efficient and effective systems. Requires successful completion of the seminar program. 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Covers kinematics and dynamics of robot manipulators, including the development of kinematics equations of manipulators, the inverse kinematics problem, and motion trajectories. 1-4 Hours. Students willing to pursue the thesis option must first find a research advisor within their first year of study. Selected problems are specific to industrial engineering applications with examples of inventory systems, queuing systems, production planning and control, supply chain management, transportation, network flows, forecasting, scheduling, Monte Carlo simulation, regression analysis, sensitivity analysis, and decision support systems in data science and machine learning to test and learn from models. Discusses the fundamentals of chemical kinetics. Offers dissertation supervision under individual faculty supervision. Offers students an applied project setting in which to apply their curricular learning. Reviews topics from modern control engineering and characteristics of nonlinear systems. Complete 12 semester hours from the course list below. Today, they also play primary roles in the development of new technologies in a variety of fields—energy conversion, solar energy utilization, environmental control, prosthetics, transportation, manufacturing, robotics, and new-materials development. MATL 7374. The specific neural network models covered in this course include feedforward neural networks such as deep learning architectures, radial basis function networks, support vector machines, self-organizing feature maps, and recurrent networks. Offers students an opportunity to demonstrate their development of a marketable technology product or prototype with an industrial engineering focus and produce a written documentary report on the project to the satisfaction of an advising committee. MATL 7395. Electrochemical Energy Storage. 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Offers students an opportunity to explore various innovations in the field of energy storage that can be helpful for fulfilling our current energy storage needs. The program requires the applicant to have earned or be in a program to earn a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Northeastern University. Covers approximate methods, Rayleigh’s Quotient, Rayleigh-Ritz method, method of functions expansion, Galerkin’s and assumed mode methods, design and analysis of a variety of vibration-control systems, and recent advances in vibration of micro- and nanoscale systems. Offers students an opportunity to develop and present a plan for the demonstration of a marketable technology product or prototype with an industrial-engineering focus. Presents various factors that determine the stress and strength of components and their impact on system reliability. Makes extensive use of active learning exercises and simulations, and case studies from different disciplines, to help students learn how lean principles are applied in manufacturing and also in less traditional areas such as knowledge work and healthcare systems. Requires prior completion of ME 4570 or equivalent. MC is important in many sectors including computers, automotive, healthcare, banking, insurance, and tourism. An industrial engineer collects this information and evaluates alternatives to make decisions that best advance the goals of the enterprise. About. 4 Hours. Discusses statistical models for analysis and prediction of random phenomena. Focuses on the fundamental equations of convective heat transfer including heat transfer in incompressible external laminar boundary layers, integral boundary layer equations, laminar forced convection in internal flows, and turbulent forced convection in internal and external flows. MATL 6285. The integrated 32-semester-hour degree and certificate will require 16 hours of advisor-approved industrial engineering technical courses. ME 5600. Among the projects they undertake are design and implementation of a computer-integrated supply chain or manufacturing system, facilities planning for a variety of industries, design of a robotics system in a manufacturing environment, long-range corporate planning, development and implementation of a quality-control system, simulation analyses to improve processes and make operational decisions, design of healthcare operations to enhance patient safety and improve efficiency, productivity, and development of computer systems for information control.