Course Listing

Concept Sketching, Use of Colour and Texture, Formal Mechanical Engineering Drawings, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, and Technical Writing Communication.

Three lectures, plus one tutorial or lecture (one hour) devoted to applications at the discretion of the instructor; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering program or Honours Art Program

Static and dynamic characteristics of instruments, statistical analysis of measurement errors, variable conversion elements and signal amplification. Metrology, measurement of strain and force, pressure, flow, temperature and power.

Two lectures, one lab (three hours); second term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering program
Antirequisite: MECH ENG 2B02

3 unit(s)
Static and dynamic characteristics of instruments, statistical analysis of measurement errors, variable conversion elements and signal amplification. Metrology, measurement of strain and force, pressure, flow, temperature and power.
Two lectures, one lab (three hours every other week); second term
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Level II of any Mechatronics Engineering program
Antirequisite(s): MECHENG 2B02, 2B03

Design/Build/Test projects involving synthesis, modelling, and analysis.

Two lectures, one lab (three hours); second term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering program or Honours Art program

Design synthesis, fundamental principles of standard design elements, mechanical and fluid power elements, formal mechanical design drawing requirements, component specification and optimization.

Three lectures, One Tutorial; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering program or Honours Art Program

Principles of statics as applied to deformable solid bodies. Stress and strain, elastic behaviour of simple members under axial force, bending and torsion. Principle stresses; statical indeterminacy.

Three lectures, plus one unit comprising tutorials or lectures devoted to applications at the discretion of the instructor; first term
Prerequisite: PHYSICS 1D03 and registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering program

Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. Analysis of planar mechanisms. Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis methods. Motion with respect to a rotating frame reference. Work, energy and momentum principles.

Three lectures, plus one unit comprising of tutorials or lectures devoted to applications at the discretion of the instructor; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering program
Antirequisite: CIV ENG 2A03, 2Q04, ENGINEER 2Q04, MECH ENG 2QR4

Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. Analysis of planar mechanisms. Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis methods. Motion with respect to a rotating frame reference. Work, energy and momentum principles.

Three lectures, plus one unit comprising of tutorials or lectures devoted to applications at the discretion of the instructor; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering program
Antirequisite: CIV ENG 2A03, 2Q04, ENGINEER 2Q04, MECH ENG 2QR4

Introduction to the principles of thermodynamics, and applications in engineering. Basic concepts: energy systems, properties of pure substances, entropy. Laws of thermodynamics, power and refrigeration cycles.

Three lectures, one tutorial; second term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level II of any Mechanical Engineering program
Antirequisite: ENGINEER 2H03, 2W04

Singularity functions, generalized Hooke's law; shear stress, shear flow in beams; shear centre. Biaxial and unsymmetrical bending, analysis of indeterminate beams and frames using energy methods, impact loads. Buckling of compression members. Introduction to yield criteria.

Three lectures, One Tutorial; second term
Prerequisite: ENGINEER 2P04 or MECH ENG 2P04

A general introduction, encompassing the wide field of activities from iron and steel making through casting, rolling, forging, to cold forming, metal cutting, welding, bonding, electrical machining, surface treatment, mechanical handling, assembly, cleaning, packaging.

Three lectures; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in any Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering program, or, registration in Level II or IV of the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program.
Cross-Lists(s) MAN TECH 4MT3

3-D stress transformation, curved beams, thick walled pressure vessels, contact stresses, fatigue, bolted and welded joints, machine elements. The laboratories feature a major design project from concept development through analysis to formal report preparation.

Four lectures, one lab (two hours); second term
Prerequisite: ENGINEER 2P04 or MECH ENG 2P04; and MECH ENG 2Q04, 3A03

An introductory course in numerical analysis covering such topics as numerical differentiation, integration, curve-fitting and the solution of differential equations and systems of linear equations and non-linear equations.

Four lectures; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in any Mechanical Engineering program

Laboratory exercises in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and solid mechanics.

One lab (three hours); both terms
Prerequisite: Registration in any Mechanical Engineering program

Fluid properties and statics, conservation laws, applications of the continuity, momentum and energy equations, dimensional analysis and similarity, boundary layer flow, internal and external flows.

Three lectures, one tutorial (two hours); first term
Prerequisite(S): Both MATH 2M03 and 2MM3 (or 2M06), or both MATH 2Z03 and 2ZZ3, or both MATH 2PO4 and 2Q04; and registration in any Mechanical Engineering program

Application of the laws of conduction, convection and radiation to problems in heat transfer. Steady and transient conduction in solids. Laminar and turbulent convection. Radiation heat transfer processes. Boiling and condensation heat transfer.

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisite: MATH 2M03 (or 2M06), or MATH 2Z03, and MECH ENG 2W04

Case studies using modern product development methods, value engineering, product specification, rapid product development, lean design and continuous improvement. Product liability and robust design.

Three lectures, one tutorial; second term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV or above of any Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering program or permission of the department

Application of mechanical engineering principals to biomechanics problems including cellular biomechanics, hemodynamics, circulatory system, respiratory system, muscles and movement and skeletal biomechanics.

Three lectures, One Tutorial; first term
Prerequisites: MECH ENG 2Q04; 3A03; 3O04; or permission of the department

The objective is to learn blood flow mechanics through the circulatory system and its subsystems. The course examines mechanics of circulation, mechanobiology and biomechanics of different components of circulatory system, in-vivo and in-vitro techniques and their medical applications.
Three lectures, one tutorial; first term
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Level IV or above of any Engineering program or Integrated Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences (IBEHS) program

Introduction to experimental and computational biomechanics including biomechanical testing concepts and application of finite element methods in simulations of biomechanical structures/systems.

Three lectures; second term

Fundamentals of metal removing processes, including mechanics and tribological aspects of material removal. Application of theory to the practice of machining processes such as turning, milling, drilling and grinding.

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 3C03

Introduction, microfabrication and micromachining fundamentals, scaling effects, mechanics and transduction at microscale, actuation and sensing methods - Electrostatic, piezoelectric, thermal, electromagnetic, resonant, tunneling and microfluidic techniques. Capacitative sensors, resonators, lab on chip devices, microfluidic devices, micromirrors, assembly techniques for MEMS, microsystem packaging.

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV or above of any Mechanical Engineering program or permission of the department.

Enrolment is limited.

Integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and computer control. Sensors, actuators (including pneumatic and hydraulic), modelling using building block and state space methods, model-based control, programming of PLCs with practical demonstrations.

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 4R03, SFWR ENG 3DX3 or ECE 3CL4 and registration in any Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or Electrical Engineering program; or permission of the department.

Acoustic quantities; noise measurements and analysis; noise standards; sound generation, propagation, absorption, transmission; acoustic materials; noise control techniques; case studies.

Three lectures; first term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 4Q03

Computational Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer covering: concepts of modelling and numerical analysis, governing equations of thermo-fluid problems, finite-difference discretization methods. Use of commercial computational software for solving thermo-fluid problems.

Three lectures; One Tutorial (one and one-half hours); second term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 3F04

Fundamental theory and practical applications of robotic manipulators and mobile robots. Equations of motion, robot dynamics and statics, motion planning, introduction to machine vision, basics of robot programming.

Three lectures; first term
Prerequisite: ENGINEER 2Q04 or MECH ENG 2Q04 and registration in any Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering program; or permission of the department

Introduction for engineering students to the techniques of industrial design, case studies and introduction to illustration techniques.
Dr. Sowa (sowavm@mcmaster.ca)

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 2C03 (or 2C04)

A major mechanical or manufacturing engineering design or experimental project to be completed under the supervision or co-supervision of a faculty member holding an appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

One lecture, two labs (three hours); both terms
Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV Mechanical Engineering; or Level V Mechanical Engineering and Management or Mechanical Engineering and Society.

Introduction to nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nanotechnology in living systems, nanotechnology in biomedical devices, nano-biomaterials, characterization of biomaterials, nano-coatings, nano-biofunctional interfaces, biosensing and diagnostics, organs-on-chips

Three lectures; One Tutorial; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV of Engineering and IBEHS or permission of the instructor

Assessment of current and future energy systems, covering resources, extraction, conversion with emphasis on meeting regional and global energy needs in a sustainable manner. Different renewable and conventional energy technologies and their attributes. Evaluation and analysis of energy technology systems in the context of political, social, economic and environmental goals.

Three lectures, One Tutorial; second term
Prerequisite(s): MECH ENG 2W04 and 3O04 or permission of the department

Laboratory exercises in vibration analysis, machine structures, controls, heat transfer, gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.

One lab (three hours); both terms
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 3M02 (or 3M03) and registration in any Mechanical

Transient and steady state vibration of single- and multi-degree of freedom systems. Free and forced vibrations of single and multiple degree-of-freedom mechanical systems, transient response, damping and vibration isolation.

Three lectures; first term
Prerequisite: ENGINEER 2Q04 or MECH ENG 2Q04

Fundamentals of linear, continuous control systems. Control system performance in both time and frequency domains. Design and analysis of controllers.

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisites: Registration in Level III Mechanical Engineering; or Level IV Mechanical Engineering and Management or Mechanical Engineering and Society
Antirequisite: ELEC ENG 3CA3, 3CK4, 3TP3, 3TP4

Introduction to internal and external laminar and turbulent incompressible flows. Topics include turbulent boundary layers, aerodynamics and convective heat transfer.

Three lectures; first term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 3O04 or CHEM ENG 3O04; and registration in any Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering program

Theory of the finite element method, element derivation, solution procedures. Applications to static and dynamic mechanical systems using a finite element package.

Three lectures, one tutorial; first term
Prerequisite: Registration in Level IV or V of any Mechanical Engineering program

Compressible flows: Fanno and Rayleigh flows, normal and oblique shocks. Turbomachines: axial and radial flow gas and steam turbines, axial and radial flow compressors and fans.

Three lectures; second term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 2W04, 3O04

Design, operation and application characteristics of equipment commonly used in thermal systems. Modelling performance characteristics of piping systems, pumps, compressors, fans, heat exchangers, boilers and cooling towers. System simulation and optimization. Selection criteria of thermal equipment. Design optimization and system performance evaluation.

Three lectures, One Tutorial; first term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 2W04, 3O04, 3R03

Re-examination of laws of thermodynamics, analysis using second law of thermodynamics, multicomponent systems, psychrometry, HVAC systems, combustion systems, steam power systems and micro-nano systems.

Three lectures; first term
Prerequisite: MECH ENG 2W04
Antirequisite: MECH ENG 3D03

Individual research project over two terms to be arranged by mutual consent of a professor and the student with approval of the Department Associate Chair (Undergraduate).
No lectures, but student is expected to meet with the project advisor weekly.
First and second terms (2 units per term).

Prerequisites: A minimum GPA of 9.5, consent of a supervisor, and registration in Level IV Mechanical Engineering or Level V Mechanical Engineering and Management or Mechanical Engineering and Society.

This course focuses on internal combustion engines (ICE), including operations, thermodynamics, combustion, and characteristics of gasoline and diesel engines, as well hybrid powertrains.

Three lectures (one hour); first term
Prerequisites: Registration in any Mechanical Engineering program; or permission of the department.

Solid modelling theory, part creation, assemblies and rigid bodies, mechanism simulation, B-Splines, data exchange, CNC machining and inspection. Major project using computer laboratory facilities.

Three lectures, one lab (one hour); second term
Prerequisites: Registration in Level IV or above of any Mechanical Engineering program or Mechatronics Engineering program