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Introduction to the UCI MAE Department Fall 2020 Introduction to the UCI MAE Department 1 OUTLINE • Introduction to MAE • Research and Courses • MAE Graduate Student Organization Marc Madou Roger Rangel Graduate Advisor Department Chair and • Chancellor's Professor of HSSoE Graduate Affairs Office Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Mechanical and Engineering; Biomedical Aerospace Engineering; Chemical and • Engineering Faculty Profiles Biomolecular Engineering Research Interests: Research Interests: Heat transfer, spray Miniaturization science combustion, two- (MEMS and NEMS) with phase flows, fluid emphasis on chemical and instability and biological applications, C- atomization. MEMS and CD based fluidics. 2 MAE Department Mission Statement • Mechanical Engineering: One of the most diverse and versatile engineering fields, mechanical engineering combines facets of mathematics, physics, biology and system engineering. Mechanical engineering careers center on creating technologies to meet human needs. This includes solving today's problems and creating future solutions in health care, energy, transportation, world hunger, space exploration, climate change, and more. • Aerospace engineering: The primary field of engineering concerned with the design, development, testing, and production of aircraft, spacecraft, and related systems and equipment it is made up of two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering • MAE Mission Statement: Our mission is to educate students, at all levels, to be the best engineers and leaders in the nation and world by engaging them in a stimulating community dedicated to the discovery of knowledge, creation of new technologies, and service to society. 3 Highlights of MAE Department Department Student Population Research Faculty and Recognition Affiliated Centers History and Degrees Offered 1983 1298 $ 11.2 M Research 31 Full-time faculty 7 World-Class Center Department of Undergrads Expenditures 15 Adjuncts and joint and Institute Affiliations Mechanical appointees Engineering 220 5 Research Thrusts • Advanced Power founded Graduate Students • Dynamics and Honors: and Energy Program Controls 3 National Academy of (APEP) 1990 Degree offered: Engineering Department • Fluid Dynamics and • UCI Combustion 2 Fellows AAAS expands to include • Master of Propulsion Laboratory Aerospace Science (M.S.) 4 Fellows ASME • Thermal and • Integrated Engineering 4 Fellows AIAA • Doctor of Transport Sciences Nanosystems Philosophy 2 Fellows IEEE Research Facility (Ph.D.) • Mechanics of 2 Fellow APS (INRF) • Master of Materials and Engineering Structures 1 Mexican Academy of • National Fuel Cell (M.Eng.) Science Foreign Member Research Center • Systems Engineering (NFCRC) and Design 1 Swedish National Academy of Engineering Foreign • UCI Irvine Materials Member Research Institute 1 Office of Naval Research (IMRI) Young Investigator Award • Center for Complex 7 NSF Career Awards and Active Materials4 1 National Academy of (CCAM) Inventors • Beckman Laser 5 Distinguished Professors Institute 1 Chancellor’s Professor Difference Grad and Undergrad School • Courses • Classes dig deeper, assume you learned undergrad course material • More initiative in learning is expected from you • Multiple references rather than one textbook • Smart, hardworking classmates the norm • Research and Teaching • Participate in creating new knowledge, i.e., research • Work individually with faculty research advisor • Opportunities to teach, e.g., informal, TA 5 Goals/Expectations/Advice for Graduate Students • Make academics your 1st priority • Take initiative in your educational development, recognize knowledge gaps and fill them in • Develop broader impact perspective • Engage with, and benefit from, the intellectual community – classmates, labmates, faculty • Attend seminars Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Association (MAE-GSA) 6 Mechanics of Materials and Structures - Research Areas of Interest: ● Nanoscale Mechanics ● Morphing Structures ● Active Materials ● Machine Learning ● Defect Formation/Propagation ● Deformation and Failure ● Advanced Manufacturing ● Composites 7 Mechanics of Materials and Structures - Faculty Ramin Bostanabad Penghui Cao Edwin Peraza Tim Ruppert Lorenzo Valdevit Mark Walter Hernandez Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor of Associate Professor in Professor in Materials Professor of Teaching in Materials Science and Science and Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Mechanical and Aerospace Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Engineering Engineering; Materials Mechanical and Aerospace Professor (Joint Appt.) in Engineering Science and Engineering Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Research Interests: Associate Professor (Joint Research Interests: Appt.) in Mechanical and Engineering Design under uncertainty, Research Interests: Research Interests: Mechanics of Aerospace Engineering probabilistic machine Fundamental Morphing structures, Director: Institute for multifunctional materials, learning, materials understanding of the building energy efficiency. deployable structures, Research Interests: Design and Manufacturing informatics, computational mechanisms by which origami, tensegrity, active Nanoscale Mechanics and Innovation (IDMI) microstructure materials plasticity deform materials, structural Materials. Research Interests: characterization, topology and fail, particularly in optimization. optimization. extreme environments. Optimal design, fabrication and experimental characterization of micro- architected materials 8 Mechanics of Materials and Structures – Courses Highlight • MAE 254 Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Continuum Mechanics) • MAE 258 Mechanical Behavior of Solids - Continuum Theories (Materials Modeling) • MAE 259 Mechanical Behavior of Solids - Atomistic Theories •MAE 207 Advanced Finite Elements •MAE 248 Mechanics of Smart Structures •MAE 255 Composite Materials and Structures ENGRMAE 256. Nanomechanics. 4 Units. •MAE 256 Nanomechanics •MAE 282 Engineering Design Under Nanoscale materials and the experimental and computational Uncertainty techniques used to measure their properties. Mechanical behavior is the •MAE 295 Failure and Fracture main focus, but other material properties such as diffusion and electron transport are discussed. Restriction: Graduate students only. 9 Dynamics and Control - Research Areas of Interest • Control Theory and Algorithms • Autonomous and Distributed systems • Navigation and Flight systems • Machine Learning 10 Dynamics and Controls - Faculty David Copp Tryphon Georgiou Faryar Jabbari Zak Kassas Solmaz Kia Athanasios Sideris Haithem Taha Assistant Professor of Distinguished Professor of Professor of Mechanical Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Professor of Mechanical Associate Professor of Teaching of Mechanical Mechanical and and Aerospace Mechanical and Aerospace Mechanical and and Aerospace Mechanical and and Aerospace Aerospace Engineering Engineering Engineering Aerospace Engineering Engineering Aerospace Engineering Engineering Research Interests: Research Interests: Research Interests: Research Interests: Cyber-physical systems Systems and control; Research Interests:. Research Interests: Research Interests: Dynamical systems and Control theory, (CPS), autonomous vehicles decentralized/distributed Machine learning, Neural Geometric nonlinear Optimal control and control, mathematical particularly in robust and (aerial, ground, underwater), algorithm design for multi- network control, Robust control theory; unsteady estimation, hybrid physics, applied nonlinear control systems. satellite-based navigation, agent systems; control aerodynamics and aeroelasticity; dynamical systems, mathematics. Saturation control and intelligent transportation cooperative navigation; energy storage, control applications for systems (ITS), cognitive and sensor fusion; fault optimization, calculus of pedagogy. combustion and fuel cell software-defined radio (SDR), detection. variations and optimal research. Controller sensor fusion. control; flight dynamics design for systems with and autopilot design; limited actuator capacity, airplane performance with emphasis on active and configuration and hybrid control aerodynamics. systems for earthquake engineering. 11 Dynamics and Control- Courses Highlight • MAE206 Nonlinear Optimization Methods • MAE241 Dynamics • MAE270A Linear Systems I • MAE 239 Dynamics of Unsteady Flow • MAE 270B Linear Systems II • MAE 272 Robust Control • MAE 273 Robot Control ENGRMAE 275. Nonlinear Feedback Systems. 4 Units. • MAE 274 Optimal Control • MAE 275 Nonlinear Feedback Advanced tools for feedback control system analysis and synthesis. Norms, operators, Lp • MAE 276 Geometric Nonlinear Control spaces, contraction mapping theorem, Lyapunov • MAE 277 Learning Control Systems techniques along with their extensions. Circle criterion positivity and passivity. Applications to • MAE 278 Estimation/Filtering nonlinear control methods, such as sliding mode or • MAE 295 Inertial Navigation adaptive techniques. • MAE 295 Networks & Control Prerequisite: ENGRMAE 270B • MAE 295 Stochastic Control Restriction: Graduate students only. • MAE 295 Satellite Systems 12 Fluid Dynamics and Propulsion - Research Areas of Interest • Aeroacoustics • Electrosprays • Aeroelasticity • Jet & Rocket Propulsion • Biomedical Flows • Multiphase Flow • Combustion Theory • Turbomachinery • Computational Fluid Dynamics • Turbulence 13 Fluid Dynamics and Propulsion - Faculty Said Elghobashi Manuel-Gamero Perry
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