Student Learning Objectives
Students who complete ME 355 should be able to:
- Model a mechanical engineering system such as a thermal-fluid system, dynamic system, etc.
- Model a bioengineering system such as a musculoskeletal system, tissue system, blood flow, etc.
- Model a static system such as a truss, frame, etc.
- Model a dynamic system such as thermal conduction, vibration, fluid flow, etc.
- Use MATLAB to solve numerical problems
- Develop and document computer programs so that others can understand and use them to solve engineering problems.
- Select and apply the appropriate numerical method as part of an engineering problem solving methodology.
- Apply a numerical iterative method to solve a model
- Apply numerical integration to solve a model
- Apply an ordinary differential equation solution technique to numerically solve initial value problems consisting of a system of linear ordinary differential equations of any order
- Apply an optimization technique to optimize a system represented by a model
- Validate numerical results produced from applying a numerical solution technique to a model of a physical system
- Interpret numerical results produced from applying a numerical solution technique to a model of a physical system
- Describe how similar modeling techniques can be applied to different types of physical systems
- Describe how similar numerical solution techniques can be applied to solve models of different types of physical systems