COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering
Degrees Offered:B.S., M.S., Ph.D
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Chair:Lee, Tzung-hang
The Department
Established in 1970, the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering aims to provide opportunity and facilities for advanced study in the fields of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and further to meet the needs of national economic and technological development.
The main goals of the graduate program include: to provide training to graduate students in research and development work; to train the instructors of the local junior colleges and promote technology of the local area; to assist the industry with engineering expertise and promote joint research and development projects.
Faculty
Professors
Chao, Choung-lii ; Hong, Zu-chang ; Kang, Shung-wen , Lee, Tzung-hang ; Lin, Ching-bin ; Liu, Chao-hwa ; Shih, Chien-jong ; Yang, Lung-jieh ; Yeh, Fung-huei
Associate Professors
Li, Ching-lun ; Tsay, Huoy-shyi ; Wang, Yin-tien ; Yang, Jr-syu
Lecturer
Tai, Chuan-wen
Degree Requirements
- Requirements for a degree of B.S. in Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering: Successful completion of 145 credits of courses, including 106 credits of required courses and 24 credits of elective courses.
- Requirements for a Master's degree: Successful completion of 30 credits of courses, including 24 credits of required courses and 2 credits of Seminar. Students are also required to submit a written master's thesis completed under the supervision of a faculty member, and pass an Oral Examination.
- Requirements for a degree in Ph.D.: Successful completion of 31 credits of courses, including 21 credits of required courses and 4 credits of Seminar. Students are required to pass a qualifying examination within the first two years, publish at least two research papers in any journal listed in Science Citation Index, submit a written doctoral dissertation completed under the supervision of a faculty member, and pass an oral examination.
Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Courses
E0031 Engineering Graphics (1/1) Graphic instruments and their use; graphic geometry; lettering; orthographic drawing and sketching; pictorial drawing and sketching; auxiliary views; sectional views and conventions; dimensions, notes, limits, and precision.
E0034 Engineering Mathematics (3/3) This course covers ordinary differential equations, vectors, matrices, Laplace transform, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations and complex analysis.
E0038 Industrial Engineering (0/3) The purpose of this course is to help students understand the general methodology of IE. The content of this course consists of four parts, planning, design, production and management.
E0165 Automatic Control (3/0) This course covers the Laplace Transform, mechanical system modeling, stability of linear control systems, time-domain analysis, root-locus techniques, frequency domain analysis, and design of control systems.
E0176 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (0/3) The objective of this course is to provide students with a necessary principle and practical knowledge of refrigeration and its applications.
E0180 Strength of Materials (2/2) This course addresses the following subjects: material properties; uniaxial force members; plane stress and plane strain; torsion of circular sections, stresses in beams, deflections of beams, and energy concepts.
E0231 Materials and Metallurgy Testing Lab. (1/0) Tensile and torsion strength test; impact test; Rockwell; Brinell and Vickers hardness test; Fatigue test; microstructure of general and standard test; taking pictures of test specimens.
E0296 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (0/1) Error estimation; manometers; Pitot tube; Bourden gauge calibration; static water pressure; forced vortex; Reynolds experiment; hydraulic bench; open channel; Venna contracta; impact experiment; Venturi tube; orifice meter; head loss measurement.
E0300 Fluid Mechanics (3/0) Dimensional analysis and similitude, internal incompressible viscous flow, external incompressible viscous flow, introduction to compressible flow, steady one-dimensional compressible flow.
E0431 Intermediate Mechanics of Materials (0/3) Analysis of stress and strain; unsymmetrical bending; statically indeterminate beams; columns; inelastic analysis; energy methods.
E0445 Intermediate Dynamics (0/3) Principle of impulse and momentum for three dimensional motion of a rigid body; Euler's equations of motion; principle of virtual work; Lagrange's equations of motion; dynamic balancing of rotating machinery.
E0671 Engineering Applications of Computers (2/2) This course includes methods for solving single-variable equations, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical integration and differentiation, ODE, and linear systems.
E0690 Electrical Engineering and Electronics Lab (1/0) A series of experiments designed to let students learn the basic principles of electronic devices, and gain hands-on experience on their applications.
E0693 Electrical Engineering (0/3) This course includes the basic concepts, analytical methods, basic circuits, circuit analysis, AC circuit analysis, frequency response, transient analysis, and AC power.
E0718 Computer Graphics (0/1) The main purpose of this course is to teach students to use Auto CAD and Microstation to draw both two and three dimensional engineering drawings.
E0777 Thermal Engineering Lab (1/0) Steam power plant; heat exchanger; heat conduction unit; thermal conductivity of liquids and gases unit.; natural convection; thermal wind tunnel; CPU Cooler unit.
E0782 Heat Transfer (0/3) This course covers the following subjects: basic modes of heat transfer, conduction, convection, natural convection, forced convection, heat exchangers, radiation, heat transfer with phase change.
E0815 Mechanism (2/2) Motion in machinery, velocity and acceleration analysis of mechanisms, transmission of motion, static and dynamic force analysis, balance of inertial forces, dynamic features of machinery.
E0818 Introduction to Robotics (0/3) The course includes the basic principles of robotics, manipulator kinematics, inverse kinematics, velocity and force transformation, trajectory generation, position and force control.
E0819 Fundamentals of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering (0/1) This is a freshman course designed to introduce basic concepts about mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering to beginning engineering students.
E0820 Engineering Materials (0/3) There are seven main sections: the structure of materials; properties of materials; metals; non-metallic materials; semiconductors; composites; and material selection.
E0826 Machine Design (2/2) This course covers basic background such as mechanics, strength of materials, materials properties, and the application such as threaded fasteners, power screws, rivets, springs, bearings, gears, shafts, clutches, brakes.
E0827 Machine Design Practice (0/2) Students are required to complete a mechanical engineering system design, or a component design. A written report and a final oral presentation are required in both cases.
E0828 Mechanical Drawing (1/0) This course covers the following subjects: section view; details and assembly drawing; the use of threads, fastener, key, rivet and spring; gear and cam; drawing of piping; welding; jigs and fixtures.
E0830 Manufacturing Processes (0/3) Topics include processes to change the shape of material; processes for machining parts to a fixed dimension, for joining parts or materials, and for obtaining a surface finish.
E0867 Applied Mechanics: (Statics) (0/3) Fundamental principles, statistics of particles, equivalent systems of forces, equilibrium of rigid bodies, centroids and centers of gravity, analysis of structures, forces in beams and cables, friction, moment of inertia, method of virtual work.
E0868 Applied Mechanics II: (Dynamics) (3/0) Kinematics of particles, kinetics of particles, Newton's second law, energy and momentum methods, systems of particles, kinematics of rigid bodies, kinetics of rigid bodies, introduction to mechanical vibration.
E0917 Introduction to Computer Integrated Manufacturing (0/3) The course includes the basic concepts in manufacturing information systems, manufacturing management, manufacturing engineering, factory automation, local area network, and programming in C language.
E0961 Electronics (3/0) This course covers semiconductors and diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors and power electronics, operational amplifiers, integrated circuit electronics, digital logic circuits, and digital systems.
E0962 CAD/CAM (0/2) Introduction of CAD/CAM techniques in mechanical engineering; CAD software（Auto CAD, MicroStation）; CAM software（Master CAM）; CNC machine center（Dyna 4400）.
E1034 Introduction to Computers and Programming (2/2) Information technology, personal productivity tools, hardware and communications, information systems, technological trends, problem solving with Fortran and computer-aided design.
E1108 Workshop Practice (1/1) The first topic is regarding woodworking, the second is about metal filing, the third is metal removal processes, especially for turning, and the final topic is the welding process.
E1197 Dynamic Systems (0/3) Topics of this course includes: translational and rotational mechanical systems, electrical systems, analytical solution of linear models, The Laplace transform and transfer function analysis, electromechanical systems, block diagrams, and computer analysis.
E1277 Fundamentals of Mechanical Vibrations (3/0) Dynamics, oscillatory motion, free vibration, energy methods, forced periodic vibration, initial conditions and transient vibration, damping, damped forced vibration, two degrees of freedom, nonlinear vibration.
E1314 Composite Materials (0/3) This course covers useful and practical information on fibers, metals, polymers, and ceramics; their fabrication into a matrix; resin-system composite design criteria; new fabrication methods, and details of machining.
E1426 Materials Machining Experiments (0/1) Cutting, milling, grinding, finishing electrical-discharge machining, sheet-metal forming, welding, diffusion bonding, roughness measurement, surface treatment, nondestructive testing.
E1503 Principle and Application of Sensors (0/3) Introduction to basic principles and applications of sensors. Optical sensors, LVDT, thermal sensors, strain gage, piezoelectric sensors, ultresonic sensor, and load cell.
E1529 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering Practice (1/1) Students need to integrate all the knowledge of previous courses in ME. There are several research groups, each which has its own research topic. The work must be completed in a year.
E1558 Computer Aided Analysis of Machinery (0/3) Vectors and matrices; computational linear algebra; kinematics and kinetics for planar mechanisms; modeling of planar mechanisms; connections; rolling motion; numerical methods for systems of ordinary differential equations; computer programming and software analysis.
S0434 Engineering Thermodynamics (3/3) Concepts and definitions; properties of a pure substance; work and heat; the first and the second law of thermodynamics; entropy; power and refrigeration cycles; thermodynamics of mixtures; thermodynamic relations; chemical relations; phase and chemical equilibrium.
Master's Program
T0102 Seminar (0/1) Lectures on the various subjects of mechanical engineering; the speakers are invited from industry, university, and related research institutes. Students should join discussion and hand in a report for each lecture.
E0156 Finite Element Methods (3/0) Matrix structure analysis of trusses, beams, and frames; energy principles; shape functions; stiffness matrices; load vectors; assembly of system equations; boundary conditions; isoparametric formulation; constraints; axisymmetric problems; plates and shells; dynamic problems.
E0424 Advanced Engineering Mathematics (3/0) Method of eigen-function expansion, The Dirac delta function and its relationship to Green's, Green's functions for ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations, calculus of variations, The Rayleigh Ritz Method, perturbation method, similarity Method.
E0445 Advanced Dynamics (0/3) Angular velocities and accelerations in moving reference frames; Eulerian angles and Euler parameters; constraints; Newtonian kinetics; energy principles; Lagrange's equations; constrained systems; multibody systems; modeling of dynamic systems.
E0458 Advanced Mechanical Engineering Design (0/3) Mechanical engineering design process, specification development/planning, conceptual design, product design, computerized mechanism design, mechanical design with FEM, proporbilistic mechanical design, computer aided optimum design, paper reading and discussion.
E0480 Control Theory (0/3) Review of various topics in undergraduate control courses; topics in recently developed control theory including analysis of control systems in state-space, design of control systems by state-space methods.
E0754 Elasticity (3/0) Stress; strain; compatibility condition; stress-strain relation; displacement formulation and stress formulation of elasticity problems; St. Venant theories of torsion and bending; general curvilinear coordinates; 2-D and 3D elasticity; Green's function approach.
E0783 Heat Conduction (0/3) One-dimensional and multidimensional steady heat conduction; transient heat conduction with time-independent and time dependent boundary conditions; transient condition involving heat source and sinks; heat condition during the freezing of binary alloys.
E0784 Convection Heat Transfer (0/3) Laminar boundary layer flow, laminar duct flow, laminar natural convection, natural convection in enclosures, transition to turbulence, wall turbulence, mass transfer, principle of convection through porous media, numerical methods in convection.
E0825 Mechanical Vibrations (3/0) This course focuses on the analysis of mechanical system vibrations. Topics will include dynamics of discrete systems, undamped and damped n-degreed-of freedom systems, and approximation of continuous systems.
E1286 Advanced CAD/CAM (0/3) Mathematical elements for computer graphics; CAD software packages; CAM software package; numerical control in NC; CNC/DNC; flexible manufacturing system.
E1287 Advanced Topics in Robotics (0/3) This course covers a number of advanced topics in robotics: kinematics geometry of manupulator, analysis of walking machines and multi-fingered gripper, dynamics, trajectory planning, and position, force and hybrid control schemes.
E1288 Modern Control Theory (0/3) Dynamic systems, feedback control system, analysis and design of control system by conventional methods, analysis design of control system by state-space methods, and analysis of nonlinear systems.
E1369 Manufacturing Principle of Molds and Dies (0/3) This course presents the traditional methods and non-traditional manufacturing methods for producing dies and molds. A final project on related topics is required to be submitted and presented.
E1372 Principle of Optimal Design (0/3) Mathematical formulation, conditions for optimality, linear programming, unconstrained optimization, constrained optimization, approximation techniques and sensitivity analysis, duality, Integer and discrete programming, multi-criterion optimization, fuzzy optimization, paper reading and discussion.
E1412 Micro Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer (0/3) Introduction to MEMS technologies, non-continuous effects, microfluids-a review, gaseous flow in small channels, fundamental issues in small scale heat transfer, heat transfer requires in microstructures, micro heat pipe.
E1422 Mechatronics (0/3) This course provides the student with a basic conception of mechatronics. The topics include system modeling and analysis of mechatronic system; mechanism design; implementation of control algorithms; introduction to servomechanic drives and sensors.
E1443 Micromanufacturing (0/3) Introduction to MEMS, photolithography, silicon micromachining, thin films, wet etching, dry etching, surface micromachining, electrochemical etching of silicon, wafer bonding, excimer laser micromachining, LIGA, micro EDM.
E1619 Vector Control of AC Drives (0/3) An advanced level course on electric machines which covers DQ modeling of AC machines, vector control principles, popular drive topologies, and microprocessor implementation of vector controls.
E1991 Vibration Control of Mechanical Systems (0/3) This course provides the concepts and analytical methods for the vibration control of mechanical systems. Review of free and force vibrations of mechanical systems both un-damped and damped, sensors, actuators, passive control, active control adaptive control, and case studies will be covered in this course.
E2581 Microfluidics (0/3) This course covers fundamentals of (ideal, viscous and compressible) fluid mechanics as well as the issues scaled down to micrometer range. Four case studies, including viscous damping, squeezing damping, capillary suction and electro-driven flow are discussed.
E2735 Fundamentals to Flat Panel Display (3/0) This course is one of the modified synchronous teaching programs for multidisciplinary education in 6 universities of Taiwan. The content of this course includes introduction to FPD, basics of polarization optics, liquid crystals, color engineering, projection tech, DLP/DMD, back light module, OLED, PDP, processing/facilities, automatic optical inspection and 3D display.
S0408 Design of Experiments (3/0) The experimental design is a tool for engineers and scientists to use for product design and development as well as process development and improvement. The use of experimental design in developing products is robust to environment factors and other sources. The use of experimental design early in the product cycle can substantially reduce development lead time and cost, leading to processes and products that perform better in the field and have high reliability.The topics covered in the course include the simple comparative experiments, the analysis of variance, various factorial designs, fitting regression models, response surface methods and robust parameter designs. The solution and analysis of using computer software are necessary to assist students in their study.
E2947 Precision Measurement (0/3) This course aims to study the goal and spirit of measurement. At the same time, learning how to use the measurement equipments such as laser interferometer, EDAX, LVDT, FESEM, and AFM to detect and to analyze specimens is also the main direction of this course. Some basic knowledge including errors in measurement, linear measurement, angular measurement, limits and tolerances, statistical quality control, CMM machine measurement will be reviewed briefly.
Ph.D. Program
E2332 Special Topics in Micro Machining (0/3) This course focuses mainly on the silicon bulk and surface micromachinings. Related technical issues and the integration with standard IC processing are also depicted in detail.
E0455 Advanced Numerical Analysis (0/3) The primary content aims at the learning of simulation techniques and advanced curve-fitting methods applied in engineering. Selected technical papers in Int. J. Numerical. Meth. Eng. are utilized for further reading and discussion.
E1997 Advanced Computer Aided Engineering Analysis (0/3) The first part covers finite element analyses of composite materials, heat conduction, fluid mechanics, and electromagnetic systems; the second part covers kinematic and dynamic analyses of planar and spatial mechanisms.
E2001 Advanced Micro Electromechanical System (0/3) Silicon micromachining, nonsilicon micromachining, nonlithographic processes. Mechanical issues of MEMS structures. Driving mechanisms for microactuators, including electrostatic, thermal, and fluidic actuation. Study of MEMS products and state-of-the-art research.
E2119 Precision Machine Design (0/3) Accuracy/repeatability/resolution, error budget, semikinematic design, linear slides, flexure, aerostatic/hydrostatic bearing, drives, sensors and transducers, metrology system, machine structure.
E2207 Control of Electric Machinery (0/3) This course covers the modeling of ac motors, principle of field orientation and vector control, power converters, and the dynamics of ac motor drives.
E2208 Precision Machining of Brittle Materials (0/3) Mechanical properties of brittle materials, micro/nano indentation/scratch, critical depth of cut, ductile/brittle transition, ductile mode machining, ultra-precision machining of brittle materials, surface integrity/analysis.
E2233 Precision Mechanical Measurements (0/3) This course focuses on the measurements and related analysis for precision mechanical systems. Topics will include data acquisition, sensors, calibration of sensors, FFT, and system measurements.
E2246 Manufacturing of Nanomaterials (0/3) It is the aim of this course to study the principle and application of nanotechnique three broad areas: (1) the synthesis of nanoparticles, (2) the production of nanomaterials, and (3) the build up of nanostructures.
E2247 Optoelectronics Engineering (3/0) Basic principle of geometric optics, physics optics and laser, laser application of optoelectronics in precision measurement and application of optoelectronics in fiber optics manufacture.
E2507 Heat Pipe Science and Technology (0/3) The Purpose of this course is to make a thorough presentation of the basic and advanced techniques for analyzing various heat pipe systems under a variety of operating conditions and limitations.
E2509 Vibration Damping (0/3) This course provides a systematic phenomenological development of the theory of dynamic behavior of damping materials, as well as guidelines for the application of the theory in practical situations. Topics will include fundamental concepts, characterization of damping in structures and materials, behavior of damping materials, modeling of structural response of damped systems, and applications of porous materials.
E2510 Vacuum Physics and Technology (3/0) This course includes gas kinetic theory, pressure measurement, vacuum pumps, vacuum materials and vacuum systems.
E2493 Precision Machining of Molds Made of Ultra-Hard Materials (3/0) Hard mold material has attracted a lot of attentions and heavy investment recently, so the focus of this course is learning how to machine the hard mold materials. The diamond turning, diamond grinding, ELID and energy beam methods will be involved in this course.
E2578 Nanoimprint (0/3) Nanoimprint coarse includes：further modifying and opfimizing our electron beam ithography system; developing a variety of novel resist technologies, such as inorganic resists, thin single-layer resists, and double-layer resists; and exploring new nanofabrication technigues related to EBL, and application of nanoimprint lithography in fabricating nanoscale electronic, optic, and magnetic devices.
E2579 Computational Fluid Dynamics (0/3) Introduce engineering graduate students to Computational characteristics of the Navier Stokes Equations, Unique fluid mechanics aspects of nonlinear advection terms, boundary conditions, and turbulence models, Grid preparation with Cartesian and unstructured mesh generation software, Hands on familiarity with FLUENT/GAMBIT and other software products.
E2580 Physical Property of Materials (0/3) The coarse focuses on the engineering properties of the various classes of materials. The properties of materials are organized into five parts, Mechanical properties, Electrical properties, Optical and Dielectric properties, Magnetic properties, And Thermal properties.
E2944 Colloquium on International Technology Research (3/0) The course addresses professional topics relevant to mechanical engineering science, technology and business. Specific subjects include Natural resources, Energy and Environment, Global Warming phenomena, Change of climate, Power and electricity, Renewable energy, Rapid advances in Asia, Bio-fuels, Business across the Taiwan Strait, US industries and US economy. The course also emphasizes English writing, and speaking, and reporting.
E2581 Microfluidics (0/3): The first half of this course reviews overall fluid mechanics including conservation laws, dimensional analysis, potential flows, viscous flows and compressible flows. The later-half discusses the effect of miniaturization on fluidic problems, e.g. slip phenomena, air damping due to viscous friction/squeezing effect, capillary suction flows, EOF, DEP, EHD flows, etc.
E2939 Surface Engineering (0/3) The modification of surface condition is one of the critical concepts in gaining the materials with specific properties. The principle, benefits and shortcomings, hardware design and materials applications of surface modification techniques are introduced in this course. Some basic knowledge including vacuum technology, plasma theory and surface science will be reviewed briefly at the beginning of this course.
