Terry Island
Asst. Director
Undergraduate Academic Studies
Mechanical Engineering Department
Today’s Presentation
• Who’s who in ME at UMD
• What is Mechanical Engineering?
• Research: from micro robots to a more
perfect golf ball
• Course plan – junior/senior courses
• Projects, study abroad
• Internships/coop, careers
Contacts for prospective students:
Dr. Sami Ainane
Director, Student Affairs
2188 Glenn Martin Hall
ainane@umd.edu
301-405-5310
Dr. David Bigio
Assoc. Professor
Director, Undergraduate Studies
2184 Glenn Martin Hall
dbigio@umd.edu
301-405-5258
Terry Island
Asst. Director
Undergraduate Academic Studies
2186 Glenn Martin Hall
tisland@umd.edu
301-405-2199
UMD Mechanical Engineering Profile
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Faculty-tenured/track 44
Professional Society Fellows 63
Emeritus/Visiting/Research Faculty 30
Undergraduate Students 669
•SAT 25/75 % 1280/1410
•Incoming freshmen GPA 4.04/4.0
• Graduate Students 314
• Research Expenditures $20.8M
• Research Revenues $26.2M
Freshmen (70 to 80 students)
BS Degrees 2007/2008: 170
Transfer students
Change of major from outside and inside College of Engineering
Program Nb. Of Students
Honor’s Program 93
Gemstone
35
College Park Scholars 45
Hinman CEO’s
Quest
4
15
Athletes 3
Inventis 5
Automotive Projects 50
Beyond Classroom 2
Eco-House
1
Global Communities 1
Human Powered Submarine 30
Study Abroad 23 (up 64%)
Solar Decathlon 6
Engineers Without Borders 6
Research/Labs 90
Teaching Fellows 17
Coop/Internship 227
What is Mechanical Engineering?
Turning Ideas into Reality
– The broadest of all the engineering disciplines in its range of
activities and functions
– Concerned with design, manufacture and operation of a wide
range of components, devices, or systems:
• microscopic parts to gigantic gears
• more efficient heating, ventilation, refrigeration
• laser technology
• biomedical applications
• automotive industry
• computer-aided design, automation, robotics
• predictive maintenance and reliability technologies
I decided to major in ME because..
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…“I was always interested in how things worked so I looked at various
engineering disciplines and saw that ME affords the best fit for what I
wanted in terms of a career choice and interests. The ME curriculum covers
some electrical, some civil, some aero.. so I got some practice and have
some opportunities in a lot fields.”
Senior ME, class of ’09
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…“Mechanical Engineering offered me the most diverse choice in job
opportunities. Selecting between medical, military, automotive, and robotics
isn’t easy but they all related through mechanics. This choice offers me the
opportunity to travel the world and become involved in many different
projects.”
Robert Newby, Senior ’08
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…“I was good at math and science but mainly I was very interested in how
things work and were put together. I have been very curious throughout my
life. I was also big into trying to invent new things.”
Sophomore ME, class of ‘11
Mechanical Engineering is Cool
Problem: Ozone Depletion
Solution:
Ben & Jerry's
A fire-hydrant-size apparatus called a thermo acoustic freezer
made its debut at a Ben & Jerry's in Manhattan. Inside the core
of the steel cooling unit, which was attached to a standard icecream cabinet, a loudspeaker emitted a 195-decibel screech to
keep quarts of ice cream cold. From the outside, you could hear
only a soft hum.
Mechanical Engineering is Cool
Problem: Global Warming
Solution
Biomass feedstock is fed into a plasma reactor, which holds one or more plasma
arc torches. These plasma torches heat the biomass to roughly 5,000 degrees
Celsius. All organic components are transformed into a clean and useful
synthetic gas (also known as syngas) containing principally carbon monoxide
and hydrogen gases.
Mechanical Engineering at UMD
Dr. Elisabeth Smela
MEMS
Imagine a machine so small that it is imperceptible to the
human eye. Imagine working machines with gears no bigger
than a grain of pollen. Extensive applications for these
devices exist in both commercial and defense systems.
Recent studies by Systems Planning Corporation
have estimated the market for Intelligent Micro-machine
based systems to be around $100 Billion/year
Mechanical Engineering at UMD
Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter
Bugs can go places that humans can’t; they cooperate better
than almost any other organism; some of them can even fly. It’s
those desirable traits that are driving robotics toward a future
that looks more like A Bug’s Life than The Jetsons.
Within a decade or so, swarms of mechatronic bugs outfitted
with sensors and wireless transceivers will likely be burrowing
through the rubble of buildings to search for earthquake
survivors and scrabbling over the hull of a spacecraft to repair
damage in-flight. They’ll also be the home inspector’s trustiest
tool. Imagine the bots scurrying into a house’s plumbing looking
for leaks, boring into the insulation in search of asbestos, or
checking out that sketchy crawl space.
Mechanical Engineering at UMD
Flexible Macro-electronics
Rollable display, printable thin-film solar cell and electronic skin
Dr. Teng Li
At the 2007 Pitti Uomo Fashion Show last week, Italian manufacturer ZEGNA, in
collaboration with SOLARC (a Berlin based technology firm), presented an article of
clothing that can take in solar energy and convert it into electrical energy. Plugging
in iPods and mobile devices into one’s clothing to recharge their respective
batteries is now an actuality and this is the first generation of “wearable
electronics”.
Flow around Prosthetic Heart Valves –
(Balaras)
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Diseased valves replaced with
artificial prosthesis surgically
Improperly designed valves
increase risk of failure, or
causing clot formation
(thrombogenesis)
Mechanical bi-leaflet
Bio-prosthetic
Flow over a Golf Ball
• How do you make a better
golf ball?
– Dimples play complex role in
flow transition
• How does placement affect
drag and lift at typical stroke
conditions?
• Computations
– Computations require 1 month
on a 1000 processor cluster
Transition
here?
Or
here?
Re = 10k
Re = 75k
Department of Mechanical Engineering – Course Map
PHYS 270/271
General
Physics:Electrodynamics, Light,
Relativity &
Modern Physics
CHEM 135
General
Chemistry
ENES220
MATH140
Calculus I
Electronics &
Instrumentation I
Instrumentation II
ENME 462
ENME 361
Differential
Equations
Calculus II
ENME 382
Mechanics of
Materials
ENME 351
Electronics &
MATH 246
MATH 141
PHYS 161
ENME 350
Vibrations,
Controls and
Optimization I
ENME 4XX
Vibrations,
Controls and
Optimization II
ENME 4XX
ENME 4XX
Engineering
Materials and
Manufacturing
Process
General
Physics:
Mechanics and
Particle
Dynamics
ENME 4XX
ENES221
Dynamics
ENME 271
Introduction to
MATLAB
ENME 201
Careers in
Mechanical
Engineering
ENGL 393
Technical
Writing
ENES 102
Statics
PHYS 260/261
ENES 100
Introduction to
Engineering
Design
General
Physics:
Vibration,
Waves, Heat,
E&M
ENME 232
Thermodynamics
ENME 331
Fluid
Mechanics
ENME 392
MATH 241
Calculus III
Statistical
Methods for
Product and
Processes
Development
ENME 332
ENME 4XX
Transfer
Processes
ENME 371
Product
Engineering
and
Manufacturing
ENME 472
Integrated
Product and
Process
Development
ENME 4XX
Mechanical Engineering at UMD
ENME 371
This course is aimed at providing junior-level
undergraduate engineering students with some
of the fundamentals needed in developing
new products. Through a cooperative
education partnership arrangement with
Black & Decker, a new product is introduced
to the class. Engineers from this corporation
present a series of lectures on their real-life experience with this product.
The students work as teams to complete assigned course projects related
to the new product development. During the redesign Pro/ENGINEER, a
method of rapid prototyping, are introduced. These tools aid the students
in developing new components and in visualizing their ideas in the learning
process.
Mechanical Engineering at UMD
Flexible Macro-Electronics
Renewable Energy
Virtual Reality
Smart Systems
Mechanical Engineering at UMD
MEMS Technology
Electronic Packaging
CAD-CAM
Medical Robotics
Mechanical Engineering Career Paths
Program
What is Career Paths?
Preparing Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students for their
next step (in industry, graduate school, or research) by offering:
– Courses in a focus area
– Out of classroom experiences to enhance personal and
professional preparation
– Undergraduate research
– Internships in industry
Mechanical Engineering Divisions:
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Mechanics and Materials
Design and Reliability of Systems
Electronic Products and System
Thermal, Fluids & Energy Sciences
Mechanical Engineering
majors
Career Paths Program
2nd semester
sophomores &
1st semester juniors
Mechanics
and Materials
Electives
Design & Reliability
of Systems
Corporate events
Electronic Products
and Services
Summer research
Thermal Fluids
Internships
ENME 201
Sign Up for
Career Paths
TFES Course Offerings
Spring Semester
Fall Semester
Environmental Energy
– ENME 423: Building Cooling,
Heating, and Power (BCHP)
Integration
Environmental Energy
– ENCE 489: Solar Decathlon
– ENME 489K: Renewable Energy
Technologies
– ENME 489W: Pollution and Waste
Technology
– ENME 489A: Air Pollution
Fluid Mechanics
– ENME640 Fluid Mechanics (Grad)
– Courses outside department
– ENAE 311 Aerodynamics I
(compressible flow)
– ENAE 455 Aircraft Propulsion
and Power
– ENCE 432 Ground Water
Hydrology
– MATH462 PDE for Engineers
Fluid Mechanics
– ENME 489P: Ship & Submarine Design
— Human Powered Submarine
– ENME 489T: Fluid Mechanics of
Biological Systems
– Courses outside department
– ENAE 416 Viscous Flow & Aerodynamic
Heating
– ENAE 488B Introduction to CFD
– ENCE 431 Hydrologic Engineering
– MATH462 PDE for Engineers
Engineers Without Border
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