Course descriptions

Steady and transient one and multi-dimensional heat conduction in systems: numerical methods and special applications. Internal and external laminar and turbulent forced convection, natural convection and condensation. Heat transfer by radiation. Heat exchangers and basics of heat transfer system design.

Introduction to system modeling, system response and control. Laplace Transform. Transfer functions and block diagrams. Basic automatic controllers. Modeling of mechanical electrical and electronic systems. System response analysis. Routh stability criteria. Feedback control systems. System types. Principles of controller design. Root-Locus analysis. Frequency response analysis.

It is realized in an industrial corporation which conducts “Design, Research & Development and organizational” activities in its structure for minimum 20 workdays during summer vacation. Students also observe organizational functioning and management activities in the corporation and report the performed activities according to a format determined by Mechanical Engineering Department. The language of the report is Turkish and it is English for foreign students and/or the activities performed abroad. (This is a “Pass/Fail” type of activity and achievement will not be evaluated by letter grades.)

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The objective in this project is to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic science and mathematics and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation. The Project must also include the most of the following features: • Development of student creativity,• Use of open-ended problems, • Development and use of modern design theory and methodology,• Formulation of design problem statements and specification,• Consideration of alternative solutions,• Feasibility considerations, production processes, Further it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact. The information about innovation, enterpreneurship, sustainable developent, engineering standards and intellectual property is also given in lectures.

Area Elective-I

Principles of solid mechanics, vectors, forces, equilibrium, structural analysis, internal loadings, kinematics of a particle, planar kinematics of a particle, planar kinematics of a rigid body.

Planar Kinematics of a rigid body, moments of inertia, ad angular acceleration, rigid body translation: force and acceleration, work, energy, mechanical vibrations, damped and undamped vibrations, Basics of mechanics of materials, mechanical properties, force and stress, axial loading, torsion, Shear, bending, torsion and combined stress, Mohr’s circle, deformation, statistically indeterminate systems, buckling of columns

Engineering materials and their properties. Crystal structures and defects. Solid state diffusion. Elastic and plastic deformation of materials. Phase concept and phase diagrams. Fe-C phase diagram. Phase transformations and TTT Diagrams. Basic heat treatments. Engineering materials: metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Principles of corrosion and protection. Basics of the conventional manufacturing processes for metals: casting, metal forming, machining, welding and powder metallurgy. Production reporting.

Fundamentals and concepts of thermodynamics. Applications of first and second laws of thermodynamics to closed systems and flow processes. Thermodynamics property tables and charts. Power cycles. Fundamentals of heat transfer. Conduction, convection and radiation. Applications of knowledge of thermodynamics and heat transfer to design and analysis of automotive and mechatronics systems