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Mechanical Engineering (ME)

50 courses in the 1982–83 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.

ME 126 Engineering Concepts 2W,S 2C,4L 0.5

A continuation of GEN E 115 with

‘applications of graphics, measurement ‘

and other analytic principles to introductory problems in the various disciplines of Mechanical engineering; an introduction to engineering design methods as applied to Mechanical Engineering and including specification development, information-gathering, concept formulation, feasibility analysis ~ and report writing.

Prereq: GEN E 115

Course Descriptions 363 Mechanical Engineering.

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ME 200 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering 1F,W 1C 00

Discussion of Structure of Mechanical Engineering curriculum, operation of Department, Faculty, University, technical societies.

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ME 201 Advanced CalculusF,W 3C,1T 0.5

Infinite series: Tests for absolute; conditional, uniform convergence; power series; series expansions; differentiation and integration. Partial differentiation: total derivatives; estimation of errors; chain rule; geometry; maxima and minima; Taylor series; Jacobians. Multiple integration: areas, centroids, moments of inertia, centres of gravity. Vector analysis: gradient divergence, curl, Laptacian; integra! theorems.

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ME 202 Statistics for Engineers (Equivalent to MF,W 3C,1T 0.5

SCI 21)

Frequency distributions; measures of central tendency; standard deviation and other measures of dispersion: moments, skewness, kurtosis. Probability, Binomial, Poisson, normal, multinomial distributions. Theory of sampling and statistical estimation. Tests of hypotheses; significance. The t-test and chi-squared test. Curve fitting by least squares. Correlation and regression. Analysis of variance. Experimental design.

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ME 203 Ordinary Differential EquationsS,F 3C.1T 0.5

First and simple higher order equations. Solution of linear equations by various methods; non-linear equations transformable to linear form. Simultaneous equations. Laplace transforms. Series solutions. Fourier series.

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ME 212 DynamicsF,W 3C,1T 0.5

An introduction to the kinematics of particle and rigid body motion. Impulsemomentum equations. Work-energy methods and Euler's equations. Simpie gyroscopes. Vibrations.

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ME 215 Structure and Properties of MaterialsF,W 3C,3L 0.5

The relevance of materials to engineering practice. The microstructure of materials, crystallinity and crystal imperfections, glasses and amorphous solids.

Elastic and plastic deformation in metals, viscoelasticity of plastics, fracture of brittle and ductile solids. Electrical and magnetic properties of materials.

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ME 219 Mechanics of Deformable Solids 1F,W 2C,1D1T 0.5

An analytical treatment of statics and resistance of materials. Equilibrium of particles, rigid bodies and deformable bodies. Vector fields. Introduction to stress and strain. Stress-strain relationships. Elastic and inelastic behaviour of prismatic members subjected to axial, shearing, torsional

and flexural deformations.

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ME 220 Mechanics of Deformable Solids 2S,F 2010.1T 0.5

A general treatment of the behaviour of structural components from the study of stress and strain in solids. Topics include super-position, energy theorems, theories of failure, elastic and inelastic analysis of symmetrical bending, torsion of circular members, columns and stability, and virtual work

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ME 230 Control of Properties of MaterialsS,F 3C,3L 0.5

Phase equilibria, non-equilibrium behaviour, heat treatment of metals, diffusion, strengthening processes. Alloying, composite materials, cold and hot working. Failure of engineering materials; creep, fatigue, corrosion and other environmental degradation processes. Prevention of service failures.

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ME 250 ThermodynamicsS,F 3C,1L 0.5

The engineering science of energy. The scope and limitations of thermodynamics. Macroscopic approach to heat, work, energy and the First Law. Properties and state of simple substances. Control-mass and controlvolume energy analysis. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, principle of increase of entropy, limiting cycle efficiencies, criteria for equilibrium.

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ME 300 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering 2S,W 1C 0.0

Technical specialties in Mechanical Engineering, discussion of options, curriculum, seminars and technical topics in the various options.

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ME 304 Numerical Analysis =~S,F 3C1T 0.5 (Formerly ME 204)

A survey of numerical procedures with emphasis upon computer implementation using the WATFIV programing language. In particular, the following topics are covered: Interpolation, curve fitting, solution of non-linear equations, numerical integration, numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, matrix algebra and solution of systems of linear equations, and problems in the solution of partial differential equations.

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ME 305 Partial Differential EquationsS,W 3C,1T 0.5

Modeiling physical systems with distributed parameters. Boundary and initial conditions. Division into hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic equations by means of discriminant. Characteristics. Separation of variables; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Orthogonality. Fourier series. Gamma functions. Besse! and Legendre equations. Numerical solution of Laplace and diffusion equations. Analogue simulation techniques.

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ME 321 Kinematics and Dynamics of MachinesS,W 3C,1L 0.5

Principles of the geometry of motion, Uniform and non-uniform motion, linkage, gears, cams. Synthesis and analysis of mechanisms. Consideration of the dynamic forces in machines. Gyroscopic torque. Vibration analysis, response to shock, motion and force transmissibility, vibration isolation.

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ME 322 Mechanical Design 1F,W 3C,1T,1L 0.5

Analysis and synthesis of machine elements. Factors affecting working stresses, fatigue, creep and impact considerations. Design of shafting, springs, screws, Clutches, brakes and gears.

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ME 340 Manufacturing ProcessesS,W 3C,1T 0.5

The principles of manufacturing unit processes including casting, forming, machining and joining. Interactions between design, materials (metals, polymers, ceramics) and processes. Advantages and limitations, relative cost, and production rates of competitive processes.

Course Descriptions Mechanical Engineering

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ME 351 Fluid Mechanics 1S,W 3C,3L 0.5

Physical properties of fluids and fundamental concepts in fluid mechanics. Hydrostatics. Conservation laws for mass, momentum and energy. Flow similarity and dimensional analysis as applied to engineering problems in fluid mechanics. Laminar and turbulent flow. Engineering applications such as flow measurement, flow in pipes and fluid forces on moving bodies. Introduction to compressible flow.

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ME 353 Heat Transfer 1F,W 3C,2T,1L 0.5

Introduction to heat transfer mechanisms. The formulation and solution of steady and transient heat conduction. Radiant heat transfer including exchange laws and view factors. ; Introductory convective heat transfer.

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ME 354 Thermodynamics 2S,W 3C 0.5

Emphasis on applications of thermodynamics to flow processes, real fluids, evaluation of state functions of reai fluids. Non-reacting mixtures, reacting mixtures, equilibrium considerations. Introduction ta the kinetic theory of gases.

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ME 360 Introduction to Controt SystemsF,W 3C,2T.1L 0.5

Open loop and feedback control. Laws governing mechanical electrical, fluid and thermal control components. Analogies. Analysis of some engineering contro! systems using block diagram algebra, transient and steady-state operations. Different modes of controi. Review of Laplace Transform methods. Concepts of stability. Principles of analogue computer simulation. Brief treatment of linear flow graphs and bonadgraphs.

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ME 362 Fluid Mechanics 2F,W 3C,1T.1L 0.5

Basic. equations of two-dimensional flow, exact viscous solutions, introduction to lubrication, boundary layers, and introduction to turbulence. Turbomachinery fundamentals and applications. Selected advanced topics.

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ME 400 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering 3S,F 1C 0

Research frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, specific discussion of research done at Waterloo, seminars by members of research group.

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ME 423 Mechanical Design 2F,S 3C,1T 0.5

This is a continuation of the M E 322 course in analysis and synthesis of machinery, including advanced analysis of machine elements such as clutches, brakes, Couplings, journal bearings and gears. The latter part of the course includes advanced machine design concepts such as reliability, optimization and techniques tor stimulating innovative design. A synthesis project involving the machine elements studied is usually included. Prereg: M E 322

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ME 432 Physica! Metallurgy of Deformation and FractureF,S 3C 0.5

Microscopic origins of elastic and inelastic behaviour. Plastic flow at low and high temperatures with emphasis on the microscopic mechanisms and their application to engineering design. Deformation mechanism maps. Types of fracture and micromechanism fracture maps. Application of fracture mechanics. Fatigue and cyclic hardening behaviour. Environmental effects.

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ME 435 Industrial MetallurgyF,W 3C 0.5

This course is intended for those students interested in acquiring a working knowledge of metallurgy. It will cover: Metals and alloy systems, irancarbon alloys, heat treatment and the function of alloying elements in steel, corrosion and scale resistant alloys, copper and nickel base alloys, light metals and their alloys; casting, hot and cold working of metals; soldering, brazing and welding; corrosion and oxidation; metal failure analysis.

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ME 443 Metat Casting ProcessesW 3C 0.5

Moulding from the liquid state. Review of applicable heat transfer and fluid theory. Influence of time in casting. Solidification time, freezing waves and riser design. Pouring time, fluidity, grating and running. Hot tears, distortion, shrinkage and residual stresses. Die casting; thermal stability, pressure pulse effects. Other casting methods.

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ME 448 Production Engineering: Design of Manufacturing SystemsW 3C,2T 0.5

The interaction and relationship of manufacture to the factory organization. Product design and development.

planning and control of production. Principles of mass and flow production. Machine loading and line balancing. Design analysis and evaluation techniques of plant layout and materials handling systems as basic components of a manufacturing facility and system.

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ME 452 Energy Transfer in BuildingsW 3C 0.5

Thermodynamic properties of moist air; psychometric charts; humidity measurements; direct water contact processes; heating and cooling of moist air by extended surface coils; solar radiation; heating and cooling of loads on buildings; effects of the thermal environment; air conditioning ahd calculations; air flow in and around buildings, diffusers.

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ME 456 Heat Transfer 2F,S 3C 0.5

Selected topics in heat transfer fundamentals and applications. Topics to be covered include the fundamentals of convection with analytical solutions to simple laminar flow problems and approximate solutions to turbulent flow problems based on analogies between momentum and heat transfer. Also covered is radiant exchange in grey enctosures and in black enclosures containing emitting-absorbing gases. The remaining topics will be chosen trom design of heat exchangers; condensation heat transfer; boiling heat transfer, and the treatment of problems in heat conduction.

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ME 459 Energy ConversionS,F 3C 0.5

Review of reserves and consumption trends of Canada’s and the world’s energy resources. Design of fossil-fuel central power plants including boiler efficiency calculations and advanced steam and binary cycles. Review of atomic physics including fission and fusion energy. Design of nuclear fission power plants including design of reactor core for critical conditions, fuel cycles and radiation hazards. Design considerations for solar energy conversion devices including: availability of solar energy, solarthermal converters, thermal storage and photovoltaics. Principles of fuel cells and some aspects of their design. Other topics as appropriate.

Course Descriptions — 365 Mechanical Engineering

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ME 462 Introduction to AutomationS,F 3C,2T,3L 0.5

Number systems, Codes and Coding, minimization techniques applied to design of logic systems. Comparison of microprocessors, memories, input/ output logic elements; design and application of Digital systems for data collection, and control of pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical systems; comparison of software and hardware techniques in such applications.

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ME 463 Tribology 1S,F 3C 0.5

The science of friction, lubrication and wear. The topography and contact mechanics of real surfaces. The measurement of friction and wear. Friction and wear theories for elastic and plastic contact. Lubrication mechanisms; hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, elastohydrodynamic, boundary, extreme pressure, and solid

_ film. Physical and chemical properties

of lubricants. Bearings and their selection.

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ME 469 F,W 3C 0.5

Introduction to the Environmental. Sciences

Composition and structure of the atmosphere and oceans. Thermodynamics of moist air. Hydrostatic equation. Stability. Winds and current on a rotating earth gradient, geostropic and inertial flow. Vertical variation of wind, convention, thermals, plumes, basic diffusion theory-coastal currents, gulf streams, tides, internal waves.

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ME 482 Mechanical Engineering ProjectsS,F,W 9L 0.5

Engineering assignments requiring the student to demonstrate initiative and assume responsibility. Student activity is guided and co-ordinated by-a faculty supervisor. In selecting projects, particular account is taken of the student's field of specialization: Projects, in general, involve technical disciplines beyond the strictly mechanical engineering field.

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ME 524 Advanced Dynamics and StressW 3G,1T 0.5

~ Analysis in Design

This course is related to M E 423, although M E 423 is not an essential prerequisite. M E 524 brings together dynamics and stress analysis in an application to design of dynamic

machinery. Basic kinematic and dynamic concepts are reviewed and extended. Langrangian and computer simulation methods are introduced. Basic stress analysis methods are reviewed and indeterminate structures are discussed, along with finite-element and other computer techniques. A design project {involving synthesis), utilizing the concepts studied, is usually included.

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ME 525 Mechanical Vibrations in MachinesF,S 3C 0.5

Fundamentals of mechanical vibration. Forced, transient and nonlinear vibrations. Numerical methods for multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Continuous systems. Vibration isolation. Measurement of vibration. Use of models and the analogue computer.

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ME 527 Mechanics of Deformable Solids 3W 3C 0.5

Analysis of stress and strain in three dimensions, plates and shells, stress functions, plastic stress-strain concentrations. Residual stress, thermal stress and creep. Energy methods.

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ME 531 Physical Metallurgy of Structures andF,S 3C 0.5

Transformations : : Nucleation and growth in metals. Diffusion and sintering. Fundamental aspects of condensed phase equilibrium in binary and ternary metal systems. Non-equilibria in metal systems. Surface phenomena. Corrosion and oxidation in metals. Applications to industrial metais and alloys.

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ME 534 Non-metallic MateriatsW 3C 05 ‘

Structure of amorphous and crystalline plastics. Polymerization, controt of properties of piastics by crosslinking and additives. Glasses, properties of fibers, refractories, abrasive materials, oxides, carbides, properties and applications of graphite. Brittle fracture, viscoelasticity and rheological models.

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ME 541 Deformation ProcessesW 3C,1L- 0.5

Principles of deformation processes including forging, rolling, drawing, : extrusion and sheet metalworking. Basic methods of analysing pressures, forces and deformation. Process control and limitations. Interaction of process, equipment and material; workability.

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ME 544 WeldingW 3C 0.5

Features and advantages of the various welding processes. Welding arc characteristics. Temperature distributions around welds. Metallurgy of the weld metal and heat affected zone in various alloys, including carbon and stainless steels, and aluminum alloys. Origin of various weld defects and methods of detecting them. Static and dynamic design of welded joints. Residual stresses, distortion and fracture of welds.

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ME 548 Numerical Control of Machine Tools 1S,F 3C,4L 0.5

Data storage and processing. Basic requirements of a Numerically Controlled Sytem. Analysis of Numerically Controtled Machine Tools and their effect on the performance of the servo-drive system, Data preparation. Programming for Numerically Controlled Machine Tools. Advantages and economies of Numerically Controlled Machine Tools. Prereq: M E 462 or permission of instructor.

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ME 557 Combustion 1W 3C 0.5

Combustion thermodynamics; introduction to chemical kinetics of combustion; Combustion properties of fuels; Flammability of combustible mixtures. Flame propagation mechanisms, pre-mixed and diffusional: Stability of flames; Introduction to combustion aerodynamics, jet flames; Atomization; Droplet and spray combustion; Elementary ignition concepts and theory; Basic detonation theory.

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ME 561 Fiuld Power Control SystemsS,F 3C 0.5

Properties of hydraulic fluids. Design and function of conventional hydraulic and pneumatic circuits. Characteristics of flow and pressure control valves. Speed control in fluid power circuits.

Performance of pumps and fluid motors.

Hydrostatic and hydrokinetic transmission systems. Principles of sealing, filtration and heat control in hydraulic circuits. tndustrial applications of fluid power systems.

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ME 563 TurbomachinesW 3C 0.5

Classification of turbomachines, performance parameters and laws of modelling. Basic equation of flow in

Course Descriptions

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ME 566 Fluid Mechanics 3S,F 3C 0.5

Reynolds stresses, intensity and scale of turbulence. The “law of the wail”, logarithmic velocity profile and velocrity defect laws, effects of roughness. Pressure loss in pipes and conduits. Jets and wakes. Flow in diffusers and contractions, and experimental measurement techniques.

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ME 568 Noise Analysis and ControlW 3C 0.5

Basic acoustics. Legal aspects. Physiology of the ear. Signal analysis. Instruments and techniques. Noise reduction techniques, absorption, damping and barrier. Wave transmission and impedance. Handling industrial plant noise problems. Designing for minimum noise in engineering systems.

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ME 569 Fluid Mechanics-Design TopicsS,F 3C 0.5

A study of the design aspects of fluid mechanics, Unsteady flow, pipe and duct systems, two and three dimensional flow techniques, practical calculation of boundary layers, separa~ tion, base pressures, jets, wakes and shear layers, diffusers and flow distribution devices, flow control, twophase flow, instrumentation, wind tunnel modelling, wind loading. The course will be oriented to practical design techniques for flow systems, reactors, air pollution control equipment, etc.

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ME 571 Air Pollution 1S,F 3C 0.5

Nature and sources of air pollution, chemical and biological aspects, effects on heaith and environment. Physical aspects of the atmosphere, thermodynamics, vertical variation of wind and temperature, stability, convection, atmospheric turbulence, diffusion equations, plumes, thermals, jets in stratified flow, radioactive plumes, particulate dispersion, instrumentation (micrometeorological), air pollution control techniques and equipment monitoring instrumentation.

Music

Associate Professor, Chairman W. R. Maust, BS (EMC), BMus (Peabody Conservatory), MMus, PhO (indiana)

Associate Professor H. Martens, ARCT, LRSM, BA, MA (Minnesota), PhD (Columbia)

Lecturers

L. Enns, ARCT, BSM (CMBC), BMus (Wilfrid Laurier), MMus (Northwestern)

K. Hull. ARCT, BA (Waterloo), BMus, MMus (Western Ontario)

Part-time Lecturers D. Harrison, B/S (Waterloo)

G. Holmes, 8Sc (Columbia) ; W. Janzen, BMus (Manitoba), MMus (Wisconsin) .

M. Jarrett C. Johnston, BMus (Queen's), BEd (Western Ontario), MA (Toronto) ’

A. Martin, ARCT, BMus (Toronto).

MMus (Eastman)

Studio Instructors

Janet Auger, BMus (Toronto); Double Bass

Nina Brickman, BA (Manhattan School of Music, N.Y.); French Horn

Ronatd Brown, BM (New England Conservatory, Boston); Percussion

Barrie Cabena, FRCO, FRCCO, FTCL, ARCM: Organ

Stanley Clark; Trombone

Cedric Coleman, BM, MM (New England Conservatory, Boston); Bassoon

Kenneth Hull, ARCT, BA (Waterloo), BMus, MMus (Western Ontario); Piano

Thomas Kay, BM (Boston); Flute

Lilian Kilianski, BMus (Wilfrid Laurier).

Dip. in Opera Perf. (Toronto); Voice

James Mason, BM (Shenendoah Conservatory), MM (Catholic U., Washington); Oboe

Janes Noyes; Tuba

Doug Puilen; Saxaphone

Tibor Puskas; Guitar

Victor Sawa, BM (McGill), MM (New England Conservatory, Boston); Clarinet

John Tickner; Trumpet

Thomas Wermuth; Violin, Viola

Dianne Werner; BMus (Toronto), Art.Dip, (Western Ontario); Piano

Ifan Williams; Cello

Course Descriptions

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