Former VP and Co-Owner, Milex Products Inc. Bob Shaw is currently a volunteer consultant at Northwestern University and serves on the ME Advisory Board, the McCormick Advisory Committee, and is an ...

Introduction to the formulation and implementation of inelastic constitutive relations for solids. Viscoelasticity, rate-independent plasticity, viscoplasticity. State variable descriptions and ...

Factors influencing the proportioning of machine elements: stresses, deformations, and failure criteria as applied to shafts, springs, belts, bearings, gears. Design of Elements is a required course ...

All international PhD students whose primary language is not English are required to take the Versant English Test after arriving at Northwestern. All international PhD students whose primary language ...

Analysis of vibrations in single- and multidegree-of-freedom systems. Free and forced vibrations with various types of damping. Response to transite-state and transient excitations. Complex machines ...

Manufacturing has the largest economic multiplier effect of all industries, integrating both ideas and technologies across multiple disciplines, and aiming for the creation of processes and systems ...

Application of tools from differential geometry and Lie groups to problems in dynamics, controllability, and motion planning for mechanical systems, particularly with non-Euclidean configuration ...

Introduction to microelectromechanical devices with an emphasis on their manufacturing and mechanical behavior. Material properties, microfabrication technology, mechanical behavior of of ...

Strategies and methods of designing, manufacturing, and testing of mechanical products. Engineering drawing and CAD, design methods, material properties, failure modes, selection methodology, ...

Basis for advanced courses in fluid dynamics. Stress, flow kinematics, rate of strain, material derivatives, and general balance equations. Navier -Stokes equations and exact solutions.Course Syllabus ...

Embedded computing, software control of electromechanical systems, mechanical design and construction, sensors, actuators, digital and analog electronics. This is an advanced class in mechatronic ...

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