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Robust Design and Quality Engineering

Introduction to robust design and quality engineering. Applications of design of experiments for product and process design optimization. Experimental design using orthogonal arrays and linear graphs. System models using Chebyshev’s orthogonal polynomials. Robustness in design and quality improvement for complex systems including Taguchi methods for quality engineering....
 

Design of quality control systems in manufacturing. Use of advanced statistical process controls, sampling inspection techniques, process capability, and other statistical tools. Also included are vendor sourcing and control tools, methods for establishing specifications and tolerances, quality function deployment, and other quality control techniques....
 

Concepts of system approach, system hierarchies, functional analysis, requirements, trade studies, and other concepts used to define and integrate complex engineering systems. Introduction to risk analysis and reliability, failure modes and effects analysis, writing specifications, and lean manufacturing....
 

Prepares students with a broad technical knowledge of solid oxide fuel cells, including scientific principles, materials properties and fabrication, design and manufacture, process engineering, economics. Technical focus targeting science and engineering students, or professionals seeking broad technical knowledge....
 

Introduction to electrochemical fuel cells for use in transportation and stationary power applications. Topics covered include types of fuel cells, single cell operation, stack engineering, overall system design, and safety, with emphasis on proton exchange membrane and solid oxide fuel cells....
 

Overview of fuel cells, fuel cell efficiency, types of fuel cells, applications of fuel cells, and fuels for fuel cells. Intended for students in science and engineering and fuel cell professionals desiring a technical knowledge of duel cells....
 

Equations of a continuum for small displacements, applications to linear elasticity. Kirchoff plate theory, problems in advanced strength of materials. Virtual work, minimum potential energy, force and displacement methods of structural analysis. Direct stiffness method. Approximate solutions, geometric stiffness matrix. Linearized buckling....
 

Numerical methods for solving linear systems of equations, linear least squares problems, matrix eigen value problems, nonlinear systems of equations, interpolation, quadrature, and initial value ordinary differential equations....
 

Project-oriented computational approach to solving problems arising in the physical/engineering sciences, finance/economics, medical, social and biological sciences. Problems requiring use of advanced MATLAB routines and toolboxes. Covers graphical techniques for data presentation and communication of scientific results....
 

Applications of partial differential equations; linear and quasilinear first order equations, characteristics; classification of linear second order equations; basic solution techniques for parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic equations; Green’s functions and integral methods....
 

Overview of methods to describe the qualitative behavior of solutions of nonlinear differential equations. Phase space analysis of fixed points and periodic orbits. Bifurcation methods. Description of strange attractors and chaos. Introductions to maps. Applications from engineering, physics, chemistry and biology....
 

Emphasis on acquisition of solution techniques; ideas illustrated with specific example problems arising in science and engineering. Applications of vector differential calculus, complex variables. Line-surface integrals; integral theorems; Taylor and Laurent series, contour integration....
 

This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of calculus on manifolds and group theory focusing on applications in robotics and control theory. We will begin with an overview of the use of differential geometry in control theory relative to other techniques and build a rigorous foundation from which current literature can be understood. Topics to be covered include: manifolds, tange......
 

This course provides a survey on the applications of optimization theory to problems in systems and control. We will start with an overview of the central topics and problems in optimization theory and gradually build a rigorous framework to pose, analyze, and solve a wide array of the problems in system theory. The topics in optimization to be covered include linear and nonlinear programming, ......
 

A networked dynamic system is a set of dynamical units that interact over an information exchange network for its coordinated operation and behavior. Such systems are ubiquitous in diverse areas of social and natural sciences and engineering, including multiple space, air, land, and underwater vehicles, energy systems, sociology, economics, and biology. Currently, there is an active research ef......
 

Design feedforward controllers for precision output tracking; inversion-based control of non-minimum-phase systems; effect of plant uncertainty on feedforward control; design of feedforward controllers for applications such as vertical take off and landing aircraft, flexible structures and piezo-actuators....
 

Colloquium on current topics in robotics and control systems analysis and design. Topics presented by invited speakers as well as on-campus speakers. Emphasis on the cross-disciplinary nature of robotics and control systems....
 

Theory and methods of system identification and adaptive control. Identification of linear-in-parameter systems, using recursive LS and extended LS methods; model order selection. Indirect and direct adaptive control. Controller synthesis, transient and stability properties....
 

Covers convex sets, separation theorems, theorem of alternatives and their applications, convex analysis, convex functions, conjugation, subgradients, convex optimization, duality and applications, linear and semi-definite programming. Linear matrix inequalities, optimization algorithms, applications in system theory and control, bilinear, rank minimization, optimization software....
 

General foundations of the fundamental concepts of motion, stress, energy, and electromagnetism for a continuum. General equations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Linear and nonlinear elastic, viscous, and inelastic materials....
 

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