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A PROPOSAL FOR A GRADUATE PROGRAM LEADING TO

M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Mechanical Engineering

Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA 92521

Phone: (909) 787-2417, Fax: (909) 787-2899

Date of Initial Preparation: September 28, 2000

Revised date: December 18, 2000

Second Revision: January 16, 2000

submitted by

The Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the College of Engineering

Curtis Collins, Assistant Professor

Frank Jacobitz, Assistant Professor

Qing Jiang, Professor

Shankar Mahalingam, Professor

Lung-Wen Tsai, Professor

Kambiz Vafai, Professor

Akula Venkatram, Professor and Chair

Guanshui Xu, Assistant Professor

and the Mechanical Engineering Cooperating Faculty

Jie Chen, Professor, Electrical Engineering

Marek Chrobak, Professor of Computer Science

Jay Farrell, Associate Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering

William A. Jury, Professor of Soil Physics

Ping Liang, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Umar Mohideen, Assistant Professor, Physics

Joseph M. Norbeck, Professor, Chemical/Environmental Engineering

to be

Approved by the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Objectives of the Proposed Graduate Program 1

1.2 Historical Development of the Field and Departmental Strength in the Field 2

1.3. Development and Projected Growth of the Graduate Program 4

1.4. Relationship to and Support from Other Programs at UCR 5

1.5. Relationship to Other Programs Within the UC System 7

1.6. Administration 7

1.7. Plan for Evaluation of Program 7

2. PROPOSED GRADUATE PROGRAM 8

2.1. Program Administration 8

2.2. Admission 11

2.3. Standard of Scholarship 11

2.4. Master of Science Degree Programs 12

2.5. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Program 13

3. PROJECTED NEED 19

3.1. Student Demand for an ME Graduate Program 19

3.2. Opportunities for ME Graduate Students 20

3.3. Economic Development 20

3.4. Regional Interests 20

3.5. Faculty and Undergraduate Program Interests 21

4. FACULTY 22

5. COURSES AND CURRICULA 25

5.1. Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering 25

5.2. Undergraduate Courses in Mechanical Engineering 26

5.3. Proposed Graduate Courses in Mechanical Engineering 27

5.4. Relevant Upper-Division and Graduate Courses Offered by Other UCR Departments 33

6. RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS 35

6.1. FTE Faculty 35

6.2. Teaching Assistants, Graduate Fellowships, and Start-Up Funds 35

6.3. Space – Bourns Hall 36

6.4. Library Acquisitions 36

6.5. Graduate Laboratories and Support Facilities 37

6.6. Computing Facilities 39

7. CHANGES IN SENATE REGULATIONS 40

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 41

APPENDIX A: LETTERS FROM COOPERATING FACULTY

APPENDIX B: CURRICULUM VITAE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY AND THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COOPERATING FACULTY

APPENDIX C: LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM CHAIRS OF DEPARTMENTS WITH COOPERATING FACULTY

APPENDIX D: SUPPORT LETTER FROM THE DEAN, BOURNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

APPENDIX E: SUPPORT LETTER FROM INDUSTRY

APPENDIX F: LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM CHAIRS OF OTHER UC PROGRAMS OFFERING M.S. AND PH.D. DEGREES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (UC BERKELEY, UC DAVIS, UC IRVINE, UC SAN DIEGO, UC SANTA BARBARA. LETTER FROM UCLA PENDING)

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering proposes the establishment of a Graduate Program offering Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of California, Riverside. Currently, the department of Mechanical Engineering offers only a B.S. degree. Since its inception in 1994, the number of undergraduate students has grown from 1 to 136. To support this growth, the faculty strength has reached eight, effective July 1, 2000. The ME department has been very fortunate to attract three full professors to its ranks from other well-established universities in the country, in just the last year. A significant incentive to these recent hires was the expectation, based on the College’s recent history, that Mechanical Engineering will have a graduate program in place within a year. Since this is not the case currently, thirteen graduate students supervised by our faculty are enrolled in their previous universities of employment. The department’s ability to continue conducting cutting edge research, raise research funding, and enhance the educational mission of the University of California will depend on the establishment of a graduate program. To ensure that research in the ME department has impact, we will focus on niche areas that will allow UCR to distinguish itself from other UC programs. The program will emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of the field.

1.1. Objectives of the Proposed Graduate Program The objectives of the proposed graduate program in Mechanical Engineering at UC Riverside are to:

• Create an educational program that will produce engineers with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. The program, consisting of advanced course work and independent research activities, will equip graduates with the training and education required to enter careers in industry, government, and academia. In addition to obtaining a broad knowledge of mechanical engineering, students will be expected to develop an in-depth understanding of their chosen area of specialization. By taking courses from an array of sub-fields, graduates will be well-positioned to successfully carry out multidisciplinary responsibilities in their chosen profession;

• Fill a current void in the Riverside/San Bernardino area, commonly called the Inland Empire. The region looks for a school that can offer Mechanical Engineering research and education at the Ph.D. level. The rationale for initiating a College of Engineering at UC Riverside was based on regional demographics and the predicted need for engineers in the rapidly growing Inland Empire;

• Maintain and enhance the research productivity of the Mechanical Engineering faculty. This will in turn enable us to attract and retain top students and faculty. Graduate education is vitally important to the mission of the University of California;

• Strengthen and expand important research areas in the UC system;

• Meet the technology needs and demands of regional and national economic development;

• Maintain and enhance the excellence of the mechanical engineering undergraduate program. It is vitally important for faculty to conduct leading edge research so their work will enhance the classroom, laboratory, independent study, and research experience of undergraduate and graduate students.

The enrollment in the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program has been rapidly increasing since its inception in 1994, as shown in the table on the following page:

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Table 1.1 Growth history of the ME undergraduate program

Total ME Year of Academic Freshmen Total ME Growth Rate

Program Year Enrollment Enrollment (%) 1 1994-95 0 1

2 1995-96 0 3

3 1996-97 2 21

4 1997-98 28 60

5 1998-99 33 87 45%

6 1999-00 33 111 28%

7 2000-01 39 136 23% The Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program was reviewed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in 1998, and accreditation was granted in July 1999. The summary report by the examining panel indicated that the ME curriculum and laboratory facilities are comparable to the best in the country. Having passed the major milestone of ABET accreditation, it is time to initiate a graduate program.

1.2. Historical Development of the Field and Departmental Strength in the Field Mechanical Engineering is one of the oldest branches of engineering with a rich tradition that traces its roots to as far back as 200 BC when Archimedes invented and systematically studied the first machines, pulleys and levers. Mechanical engineering became the discipline, as we now know it, during the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, when engineers invented the steam engine, the machinery that used the steam engine, and the associated factory infrastructure for mass production. Modern mechanical engineering is an extremely broad field that can be divided into three major areas: Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Design and Control, and Mechanics and Materials. The UCR graduate program proposes to offer courses and research opportunities in all these areas, with an emphasis on the cross-disciplinary nature of these major fields. The faculty strength has reached a critical mass where this is now feasible. A brief history of the engineering program provides the context for discussing the details of the proposal.

1.2.1. History of the College of Engineering The College of Engineering at UC Riverside was established by the Regents in July 1988 with the understanding that the College would initially offer baccalaureate majors in Chemical Engineering (with Chemistry and Biochemistry options), Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and that graduate programs would be initiated later. Preliminary curricula for these majors were approved by the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate in 1986 and were included in the proposal for the establishment of the College [1].

The rationale for initiating the College of Engineering at UCR was based on regional demographics and the predicted demand for engineers over the next two decades. The Riverside/San Bernardino region, commonly called the Inland Empire, is a rapidly growing area. Between 1980 and 1989 Riverside County grew 60.2% (the second-fastest growing county in the state) and San Bernardino grew 54.1% (the fifth-fastest growing county in the state), compared with a statewide growth rate of 22.8% for the period [3,4]. Riverside and San Bernardino counties are expected to continue to be two of the fastest growing counties in California over the next 50 years, at about three times the state's average growth rate [5,6]. UCR is one of the fastest growing UC campuses, and its enrollment is projected [7] to reach 15,000 by the academic year 2005-2006 from 10,000 in 1998-1999. There is strong support for the campus and campus growth in the Inland Empire because of the critical role that the UCR campus is playing in the future development of the region.

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The first freshmen were admitted to Engineering at UCR in Fall 1989, the year following approval of the College of Engineering by the Regents. In July 1992, the Department of Computer Science, originally associated with the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, was transferred into the College of Engineering. In June 1993 the first Electrical Engineering undergraduate majors graduated and in the following year, the first Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering undergraduate majors graduated. The Mechanical Engineering Program admitted its first freshmen in 1994 and graduated its first undergraduate majors in June of 1998. There are currently (September 2000) more than 1,441 undergraduate students in the five engineering programs and the newly established Computer Engineering program.

In their first year of eligibility (the year following the first graduating class), the Chemical, Electrical, and Environmental Engineering programs sought and received accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)[2]. The College of Engineering at UCR offers ABET accredited degrees in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering. The Mechanical Engineering Department received accreditation in 1999, its first year of eligibility.

The Computer Science Graduate Program was established prior to the transfer of the Department of Computer Science to the College of Engineering. When proposed, the College of Engineering was expected to develop graduate programs in the disciplines of Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering. The Electrical Engineering Graduate Program and the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Graduate Program were both established in 1998. Currently, these programs have a total of 20 M.S. students and 48 Ph.D. students between them.

1.2.2. Mechanical Engineering at UCR The Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program admitted its first freshmen in the academic year 1994-1995, and graduated its first majors in June of 1998. Each of these graduates was offered at least one employment opportunity in mechanical engineering prior to or shortly after graduation. The Program has been growing rapidly since its inception, and the current enrollment is 136. The baccalaureate degree for the program was reviewed favorably by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)[8] in 1998, and accreditation was granted in 1999.

About 30% of the total labor force in the Inland Empire commute to Los Angeles and Orange counties for employment. There is a strong incentive to increase the number of jobs in the Inland Empire to mitigate this situation. The region needs to retain and attract engineering and manufacturing firms. A graduate program in mechanical engineering at UCR will be an important component in the overall development of the region 1. by meeting the ever-increasing need of industries for well-trained engineers with advanced training, 2. by providing opportunities for engineers in local industries to pursue graduate degrees while maintaining

employment and 3. by providing opportunities for joint university/industry research and development.

The graduate program will offer courses in all the major areas of mechanical engineering. However, graduate student research will be tied to faculty strengths. Currently, the faculty consists of eight members whose research interests cover the three major thrusts of mechanical engineering: Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Design and Control, and Mechanics and Materials. The ME department has been very fortunate to attract three full professors to its ranks from other well-established universities in the country, in just one year. A significant incentive to these recent hires was the expectation, based on the College’s recent history, that Mechanical Engineering will have a graduate program in place within a year. The department’s ability to continue conducting cutting edge research, raise research funding, and enhance the educational mission of the University of California will depend on the establishment of a graduate program. To ensure that research in the ME department has impact, we will focus on niche areas that will allow UCR to distinguish itself from other UC programs. The proposed research focus areas are briefly described in the following paragraphs.

• Design and Control

Professors Curtis Collins and Lung-Wen Tsai conduct research in this focus area. Professor Collins’s research is in the general area of Design and Control with emphasis on Robotics. In designing a mechanism, one usually avoids the associated singularities and limit points of the three-dimensional motion of the mechanism. The research program that Professor Collins has initiated at UCR is based on the premise that

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one can take advantage of these pathologies in designing efficient mechanisms. Professor Collins has set up a new laboratory to evaluate his theoretical results. Professor Lung-Wen Tsai joined the ME Department in Fall 2000. Professor Tsai's research interests include design theory and design methodology, design automation, kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms, automotive engineering, robot manipulators, micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) and other intelligent servomechanisms. Professor Tsai brings his vast industrial (Hewlett Packard and General Motors) and academic (University of Maryland) experience in these areas to UCR.

• Fluid and Thermal Sciences

There are currently four faculty members in this broad research area. The research of Professors Frank Jacobitz and Akula Venkatram focuses on different aspects of Environmental Transport. Dr. Venkatram is involved in modeling short and long range transport and chemical transformation of air pollutants. Dr. Jacobitz’s research involves direct numerical as well as large eddy simulation of stratified shear layers, such as that found in the atmospheric boundary layer. The faculty hiring plan had identified environmental transport as a niche area that will allow UCR to distinguish itself from other UC campuses. This area has been strengthened with the arrival of Professor Shankar Mahalingam from the University of Colorado in Fall 2000. His expertise is in the analysis and numerical simulation of laminar and turbulent reactive flows. His primary interest is in modeling combustion as might occur in large wild land fires. Recently he has been involved in other fluid areas such as modeling of cardiovascular fluid dynamics problems. Professor Kambiz Vafai, formerly at Ohio State University, also joined the ME Department, effective Fall 2000. He is an internationally known authority in heat and mass transfer. He is best known for his contributions to multiphase heat and mass transfer in porous media. He has made significant contributions in the areas of heat pipes and micro-channel heat sinks for electronic cooling design, condensation and phase change, flow and heat transfer in the cooling of aircraft brakes, heat transfer regulation and augmentation.

• Mechanics and Materials

Professors Qing Jiang and Guanshui Xu are involved in this research area. In addition, Professor Lung-Wen Tsai, mentioned under the Design and Control focus area, conducts research in the area of MEMS. This involves consideration of material selection and mechanics modeling. Dr. Jiang has conducted research in broad areas of applied mechanics and materials including fracture of solids, phase transformation of solid crystals induced by electric and/or mechanical loading programs, and reliability of ferroelectric materials. Dr. Xu’s research involves development of computational methods and their applications to modeling complex phenomena, such as fracture, dislocation nucleation and stress waves, which are critical to the performance of electronic devices. Professors Jiang and Xu are currently conducting basic research into the physics governing the reliability of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials and the performance of MEMS made of such materials. The Mechanical Engineering Department has identified smart materials and MEMS as a niche area, and in the coming years, we plan to recruit additional faculty members to strengthen this area.

1.3. Development and Projected Growth of the Graduate Program We plan to initiate the graduate program as soon as possible, with the 2001-2002 academic year as the desired target. The Mechanical Engineering Department currently has eight full-time faculty members. Currently, one senior member has been serving as the major advisor of three graduate students through his affiliation with the university he was employed with prior to joining UCR. Three senior members of the faculty arrived in Fall 2000. Between them, they are supervising ten M.S. and Ph.D. students through their affiliation with universities at which they were employed. These thirteen students could be enrolled at UCR, if a graduate program were in place. In addition, these faculty members are constantly pursued by potential applicants interested in doing graduate work, under their supervision. Thus, they will bring a trail of applicants to whom we need to be in a position to respond by offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering as soon as possible. The Mechanical Engineering Department is currently positioned to hire one more faculty member for the 2001-2002 academic year. This will bring the full-time faculty strength to nine. A mid-level or senior faculty addition means additional graduate students are likely to accompany them to UCR. Because these senior faculty require an immediate home for their graduate students, the initiation of a graduate program is vital to the growth of the Mechanical Engineering Department. It is anticipated that ten to fifteen students will enter the program at its initiation.

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The Mechanical Engineering Department is expected to have at least 9 full-time faculty members by July of 2001, the targeted initiation date for the graduate program. In addition, it has 7 cooperating faculty members. Our College’s 5-year plan [9] calls for the undergraduate enrollment in mechanical engineering to increase from 136 in the current academic year (2000-2001) to 250 in 2005-2006, and correspondingly, the faculty will increase from 8 (as of September 2000) to 14 FTE. A projection for the size of the graduate program giving a breakdown of M.S. and Ph.D. students for the first five years of operation is shown in Table 1.2, assuming that the program is approved by July 2001.

Table 1.2 Projected Graduate Student Enrollment for First Five years

Academic Year

New Students

New MS

New Ph.D.

Current MS

Current Ph.D.

Total Enrolled Graduates

Cumulative Graduates

# of non-RA's

2001-2002 10 6 4 6 4 10 0 0 102002-2003 10 6 4 12 8 20 0 0 202003-2004 12 8 4 14 12 26 6 6 222004-2005 12 8 4 16 16 32 6 12 242005-2006 15 10 5 18 21 39 8 20 27

1.4. Relationship to and Support from Other Programs at UCR

1.4.1. Benefits to the ME Undergraduate Program

The proposed graduate program will strengthen the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program in the following aspects:

1. The graduate program is expected to increase the number of funded research projects and interaction with private companies and national laboratories. This will provide undergraduate students more opportunities for integrated education through participation in research projects and internship programs.

2. The graduate program will create a pool of qualified teaching assistants. Currently, it is extremely difficult to find students qualified to be TAs for mechanical engineering undergraduate courses, especially for upper division courses. We have tried to hire part-time lecturers from local companies to cover this need, but we have not been able to find qualified people who are willing to work part-time during normal work hours.

3. A mechanical engineering graduate program with significant cross-disciplinary research activities will provide opportunities for the growth of other engineering and science graduate/undergraduate programs.

4. Finally, faculty will be in a position to offer undergraduate technical elective courses in their fields of expertise. For these courses to be current and on par with other universities and industry needs, it is imperative for the department to be engaged in graduate research and education.

1.4.2. Relationship to the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT)

The College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) is a center for collaborative research by university, industry, and regulatory agencies on environmental problems. Founded in 1992, CE-CERT has been designated as California's “Lead Center for Air Pollution and Technology” by the California Environmental Protection Agency. CE-CERT is housed in a 36,000 sq. ft. office and laboratory complex located two miles from the UCR campus in an industrial park. The laboratories at CE-CERT have been designed and developed to address air pollution and technology issues, with particular emphasis on automobiles.

Professor Akula Venkatram has collaborated with CE-CERT scientists in the development and experimental evaluation of air pollution models. This collaboration will increase in the future when the Fluid and Thermal

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Sciences group adds an experimentalist who can take advantage of the excellent laboratory facilities at CE-CERT. Professor Shankar Mahalingam, with expertise in modeling and analysis of turbulent combustion, joined the UCR ME faculty in July 2000. He is expected to have major collaborative projects with CE-CERT scientists who are investigating methods of reducing emissions from IC engines. His strengths on fundamental scientific investigations complements CE-CERT’s applied focus.

1.4.3. Relationship to the Center for Nano-Engineering and Smart Materials

The proposed UCR Center for Nano-Engineering and Smart Materials Research will serve as an inter-college (the College of Engineering and the College of Natural and Agriculture Sciences) research cluster. The center facilities which are being planned will include an electronic thin film deposition laboratory, a nano-scale lithography laboratory, and radio frequency device characterization laboratory. A significant number of the engineering faculty affiliated with the center will be drawn from the Mechanical Engineering Department. This group will focus on smart materials and MEMS research, which has been identified as one of the niche research areas for the Department.

1.4.4. Relationship to Electrical Engineering

One of the niche areas of the Mechanical Engineering Department, modeling of smart materials and MEMS, (Microelectromechanical systems) overlaps with the MEMS-based electronics research area in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCR. Collaboration between the two MEMS groups will become inevitable once the ME graduate program is in place.

The Electrical Engineering Program has significant strength in the control aspects of robotics. It is envisioned that the Kinematics and Design group in the Mechanical Engineering department will complement the Control Group in EE .

1.4.5. Relationship to Chemical/Environmental Engineering

The research activities of the Fluid and Thermal Sciences group within the Mechanical Engineering Department overlap with those of the Chemical/Environmental Engineering Programs. Professor Venkatram has a joint appointment with the Chemical/Environmental Department in view of his research interests in air pollution modeling. Dr. Jacobitz’s research in turbulence in stratified shear flows is relevant to environmental applications. Professor Mahalingam’s research in turbulent combustion, including his efforts on reduced kinetic mechanisms, is also relevant to Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Professor Vafai’s work related to transport phenomena is often carried out in both ME and ChE departments at several universities. He is thus an asset to Chemical Engineering.

The Mechanics and Materials group of the Mechanical Engineering Department plans to collaborate with the Chemical Engineering Program in developing micro chemical sensors using MEMS technology.

1.4.6. Relationship to Computer Science and Engineering Ties have been established with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The work has been focused on the development and implementation of parallel computational methods for performing direct numerical simulations. Further collaboration is expected with recent the arrival of Professor Mahalingam in 2000.

1.4.7. Relationship to the Chemistry and Physics Programs

The Mechanics and Materials Group of the Mechanical Engineering Department has strong ties with the Condensed Matter Group of the Physics Program and the Physical Chemistry Group of the Chemistry Program through their common interest in materials research. In fact, these three groups will form the majority of the faculty affiliated with the proposed UCR Center for Nano-Engineering and Smart Materials Research.

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1.5. Relationship to Other Programs Within the UC System Because mechanical engineering covers a large fraction of what we call engineering, it is a vital component of most engineering programs. All the UC campuses have strong ME graduate programs. UC Berkeley has 44 full-time faculty members and 275 graduate students. UC Davis has 24 full-time faculty members and 120 graduate students. UC Santa Barbara has 18.85 full-time faculty members and 72 graduate students. UC Los Angeles has 30 full-time faculty members and 200 graduate students. UC Irvine has 19 full-time faculty members and 61 graduate students. UC San Diego has 40 full-time faculty and 90 graduate students. Most of these programs are actively recruiting new faculty members.

A mechanical engineering department in the research oriented UC system cannot survive without a graduate program in the long run. While overlap between research conducted at UCR and that conducted at other UC campuses is unavoidable, we realize that UCR needs to excel in niche areas to attract high quality graduate students. For example, in the Fluid and Thermal Sciences group, we will emphasize micrometeorology and small-scale dispersion processes in the atmospheric boundary layer to set us apart from other UC campuses. Only UC Irvine has a research program in micrometeorology.

The emphasis at UCR on the theoretical aspects of MEMS is designed to reduce overlap with other MEMS programs, which tend to focus on hardware and fabrication. Similarly, the emphasis on theoretical kinematics is designed to reduce competition with other UC campuses.

1.6. Administration The Mechanical Engineering Department will administer the proposed graduate program. The Mechanical Engineering Department functions as a department within the College of Engineering. Led by a Department Chair, it administers its own academic programs, and has its own budget.

1.7. Plan for Evaluation of Program The Mechanical Engineering Department faculty will review and evaluate the graduate program in the third year of its existence in conjunction with the initial in-house review conducted by the UCR Graduate Council. Thereafter, the UCR Graduate Council will conduct a review every six or seven years, consistent with the policy of the UCR Academic Senate.

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Chapter 2

PROPOSED GRADUATE PROGRAM

The proposed admission policies and degree requirements for the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program are summarized in this section.

2.1. Program Administration

The Graduate Program Committee, whose members will be appointed by the Department Chair, will administer the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program. During the course of their degree programs, M.S. and Ph.D. students may be guided by one or more advisory committees, including the Graduate Examination Committee, the Thesis Committee, and Dissertation Committee. Descriptions of each of these committees and their administrative responsibilities are given below.

2.1.1. Graduate Program Committee

The members of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program Committee will be appointed by the Department Chair (see Section 2.1.2). The committee will be composed of:

• three (3) Mechanical Engineering faculty members, and

• the Graduate Advisor who serves as chair of the committee (see Section 2.1.2)

The Graduate Program Committee will be responsible for overseeing courses, curricula, admission, degree requirements, administration of student assistantship awards, and other policy matters. Specific responsibilities include:

• review and recommend action on proposed new graduate courses and changes in existing graduate courses;

• recommend M.S. and Ph.D. degree requirements and progress requirements;

• review admissions applications and make admission recommendations to the Graduate Division at UCR;

• review and approve students' course registrations and add/drop petitions;

• review and approve petitions for advancement to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree;

• recommend appointments for Graduate Examination Committees, Thesis Committees, and Doctoral Committees to the Department Chair and Dean of the Graduate Division;

• advise and review students' programs of study and progress toward degree objectives;

• review and recommend action by the Graduate Advisor on student-initiated petitions;

• recommend candidates for graduate fellowships;

• recommend teaching assistant and grader appointments to the Department Chair;

• review TA evaluations from students, staff, and faculty;

• recommend annual recipients of outstanding TA awards to the Associate Dean.

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A graduate student representative will be selected (by the students) to provide input on matters pertaining to graduate course work, degree requirements, and other student concerns. This student’s role is to serve as a liaison between the faculty and students. This student will not be a member of the committee and will not have voting privileges. This student representative will be invited to all Graduate Program Committee meetings, but excused from discussions pertinent to specific student records. All recommendations of the Graduate Program Committee will be submitted for approval by appropriate committees and officials of the Mechanical Engineering Department, the College, and the campus.

2.1.2. Graduate Advisor and Graduate Program Assistant

The Graduate Advisor will be nominated by the Mechanical Engineering Faculty through annual election, approved by the Mechanical Engineering Chair, and appointed by the Dean of Graduate Division. Assisted by the Graduate Program Assistant, the Graduate Advisor will administer the graduate program under the policy established by the Graduate Program Committee. The responsibilities of the Graduate Advisor include:

• chairing the Graduate Program Committee;

• coordinating the recruitment activities for the Graduate Program;

• coordinating advising sessions for graduate students;

• holding orientation sessions for incoming graduate students on various aspects of graduate study;

• recommending temporary faculty advisors for new graduate students;

• counseling students on selecting research advisors.

• ensuring completion of annual reviews of student performance.

2.1.3. Faculty Advisors

Faculty advisors will advise students on curricular planning, research, examination preparation, and provide M.S. thesis and/or Ph.D. dissertation supervision.

The Graduate Advisor generally will assign each incoming student a temporary faculty advisor after consultation with faculty members. It is expected that within the first two quarters of study, each graduate student will select a permanent faculty advisor for his or her graduate degree program. Changing/selection of a permanent faculty advisor is initiated by request of the student, and approved by the desired faculty member and the Graduate Program Committee. The student's faculty advisor can be either a mechanical engineering faculty member or a cooperating faculty member. A cooperating faculty member is appointed to the ME department by the Chair. The appointment is preceded by a nomination that must be must be approved by faculty designated as voting members.

2.1.4. Graduate Examination Committee

The responsibility of the Graduate Examination Committee will be to administer comprehensive examinations for M.S. students following Plan II (see Section 2.4.2) and the Ph.D. preliminary examinations (see Section 2.5.2). Specific duties are:

• determine appropriate subject matter for the examinations;

• prepare questions for the examinations;

• administer the examinations;

• evaluate student responses to the examination questions;

• determine the outcome (Pass or Fail) for each student taking the examinations;

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• recommend remedial actions for Ph.D. students who do well overall in the preliminary examination but show deficiencies in specific subject areas.

Each Graduate Examination Committee will consist of a minimum of three (3) members: a chairperson (the student's faculty advisor), and at least two additional faculty members. Graduate Examination Committee members are nominated by the student's faculty advisor and appointed by the Graduate Advisor. All committee members should normally be voting members of the Academic Senate. Any exceptions must be supported by a memo of justification from the student's faculty advisor and must be approved by the Graduate Program Committee. It is recommended that for the Graduate Examination Committee of Ph.D. students, four (4) members be appointed: a chairperson (the student's faculty advisor), three (3) other UCR faculty members.

2.1.5. M.S. Thesis Committee

For each M.S. student following Plan I, a M.S. Thesis Committee is to be formed shortly after the permanent faculty advisor is chosen, but not later than the quarter before the student intends to finish the program. The M.S. Thesis Committee is responsible for the academic guidance and evaluation of the student. A primary task of the M.S. Thesis Committee is to determine whether or not the student's M.S. thesis is acceptable towards fulfilling the requirements of the M.S. degree in the Mechanical Engineering Program.

A M.S. Thesis Committee consists of the student's faculty advisor (chair) and two (2) additional UCR faculty members who are nominated by the student's faculty advisor and approved by the Graduate Program Committee. After review of the nominations, the Graduate Dean will appoint the M.S. Thesis Committee on behalf of the Graduate Council.

2.1.6. Ph.D. Qualifying Committee

Following successful passage of the Ph.D. Preliminary Examination, a Ph.D. Qualifying Committee will be formed to evaluate a student's readiness for advancement to candidacy. The Ph.D. Qualifying Committee will be responsible for reviewing the student's Ph.D. dissertation proposal and administering an oral defense of the proposal. Based on the written proposal and oral defense, the Ph.D. Qualifying Committee will make a recommendation to the Graduate Division regarding advancement to candidacy.

A Ph.D. Qualifying Committee consists of the student's faculty advisor (chair) and four (4) additional members who are nominated by the student's faculty advisor and approved by the Graduate Program Committee. At least, three (3) members of the Ph.D. Qualifying Committee are regular or cooperating members of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty. One member of the Qualifying Committee, designated the "outside member", should be neither a regular nor co-operating faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department, but should be a voting member of the UC Academic Senate. Exceptions must be qualified for a UC faculty appointment, and must be supported by a memo of justification from the student's faculty advisor. After review of the nominations, the Graduate Dean appoints the Ph.D. Qualifying Committee on behalf of the Graduate Council.

2.1.7. Ph.D. Dissertation Committee

The responsibilities of the Ph.D. Dissertation Committee are:

• supervise dissertation research;

• review and approve the written dissertation (see Section 2.5.4);

• administer and evaluate the oral dissertation defense (see Section 2.5.4);

• make a recommendation to the Graduate Division whether or not a Ph.D. degree be conferred.

A Ph.D. Dissertation Committee consists of a minimum of three (3) UCR Academic Senate members. All committee members should be in a position to offer guidance and be able to judge the scholarship of the dissertation

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work. Membership of a Doctoral Dissertation committee should be nominated by the student's faculty advisor, approved by the Graduate Program Committee, and appointed by the Dean of the Graduate Division.

2.2. Admission

In addition to the requirements outlined herein, all applicants to the graduate degree programs of Mechanical Engineering must meet the general requirements of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate and the UCR Graduate Council as set forth in the UC Riverside General Catalog.

2.2.1. Admission to the Master of Science Degree Program

Applicants to the Master's degree program should have an undergraduate degree in engineering or physical sciences or mathematics, a satisfactory GPA for the last two years of their undergraduate studies, and high scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test. All official transcripts, official GRE reports and three (3) letters of recommendation must be submitted for evaluation. Foreign students and permanent residents whose first language is not English must also submit an acceptable TOEFL test score prior to admittance: Paper TOEFL exam score ≥ 550 or a Computerized TOEFL score ≥ 213.

2.2.2. Admission to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Degree Program

An M.S. or equivalent degree in engineering or physical sciences or mathematics is normally required for admittance to the Ph.D. program, although applicants with exceptional undergraduate or research record may be admitted directly into the Ph.D. program without an M.S. degree. Applicants for the Ph.D. degree must also meet the same requirements as for the Master's programs.

Students in the M.S. program of Mechanical Engineering who desire to pursue the Ph.D. degree must formally apply for admission to the Ph.D. program.

2.2.3. Transfer of Credits

Petitions to the Graduate Division for transfer of credits will be considered by the Graduate Program Committee when the work is necessary to fulfill graduate degree requirements.

The total number of units that a student will be allowed to transfer into their graduate record at UCR from institutions from non-UC campuses is eight (8) quarter credits. These units must have been taken in graduate status in an institution of recognized standing with a grade of "B" or better and these units cannot be used to reduce the minimum residency requirement or minimum requirement in 200 series courses taken at UCR.

Credit for graduate work completed at other UC campuses may be granted in excess of the eight units. Up to one-half of the units required for a Master's degree may be transferred from other UC campuses including 200 series unit requirements. Students receive both units and grade point for this work when it is transferred to UCR. Approval from both the Graduate Program Committee and the Graduate Division must be obtained before such units can be accepted for credit.

2.3. Standard of Scholarship

In order to graduate, students must have a GPA of 3.00 or better in all 100/200 coursework related to the degree. Students with a GPA of less than 3.00 will be placed on probation. If a student's overall GPA drops below 3.00, or quarterly GPA drops below 3.00 for two consecutive quarters, or has 12 or more units of "I" or "NC" grades, they are considered to be making unacceptable progress and may become subject to dismissal.

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2.4. Master of Science Degree Programs

The M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering can be earned by either one of two plans: by completion of a thesis (Plan I), which reports a creative investigation of a defined problem, or by passing a comprehensive examination (Plan II). For the M.S. degree, students must meet a minimum residency requirement of three quarters, one complete academic year, in the University of California. At least two of these three quarters must be spent at UCR. Registration in at least 4 units of 100 or 200 level course work is necessary for each quarter of academic residence. Students should enroll in 12 units each quarter unless the Graduate Advisor grants an exception. All international students whose first language is not English will have to demonstrate proficiency in spoken English by securing a “clear pass” score on the SPEAK test, prior to graduation. Students are however encouraged to complete this requirement within their first year of residence at UCR.

2.4.1. Master of Science Plan I (Thesis)

The M.S. degree, Plan I, requires completion of a minimum of 36 units of approved course work and submission of an acceptable M.S. thesis. At least 24 of these units must be in graduate courses (200 series courses). Of these, one unit of seminar (ME 250) and at least 7, but no more than 11 units of Directed or Thesis Research credits (ME 297 or 299) are required. No more than 8 units of course work requirement may be satisfied using Directed Studies (ME 290) or Individual Internship (ME 298I).

Course work used to satisfy the student's undergraduate degree requirements may not be applied toward the 36 unit M.S. requirement. However, UCR undergraduates who have no more than two courses or eight units of course work remaining in their bachelor degree program, and who have been admitted to graduate status may begin course work for their advanced degrees at the beginning of the final quarter of undergraduate study. After entering the graduate program, these students may petition to transfer these units to their graduate record. These units cannot have been used towards the bachelor's degree.

An acceptable M.S. thesis must be submitted. The M.S. thesis may be based on:

• a research or advanced design project, either analytical, computational or experimental;

• an extensive report consisting of theoretical, computational or experimental contribution to mechanical engineering;

The student's M.S. Thesis Committee (see Section 2.1.5) is responsible for approving the thesis. After submission of the M.S. thesis, the student will be given an opportunity to defend his/her thesis in an examination. The student will then modify the thesis based on comments received during the defense. Upon approval, two unbound copies of the final thesis in a format compatible with the guidelines set forth by the Graduate Division must be submitted for deposition in the Graduate Division.

2.4.2. Master of Science Plan II (Comprehensive Examination)

The M.S. degree, Plan II, requires completion of a minimum of 36 units of approved course work and successful passage of a comprehensive examination. At least 24 of these units must be in graduate courses (200 series courses). Of these, one unit of seminar (ME 250) is required. No more than 7 units of course work requirement may be satisfied using Directed Studies (ME 290) or Individual Internship (ME 298 I).

Course work used to satisfy the student's undergraduate degree requirements may not be applied toward the 36 unit M.S. requirement. However, UCR undergraduates who have no more than two courses or eight units of course work remaining in their bachelor degree program, and who have been admitted to graduate status may begin course work for their advanced degrees at the beginning of the final quarter of undergraduate study. After entering the graduate program, these students may petition to transfer these units to their graduate record. These units cannot have been used towards the bachelor's degree.

The comprehensive examination will be prepared and administered by the Graduate Examination Committee (see Section 2.1.4). The student will be allowed to choose between an oral or a written examination. The examination

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will cover a broad range of topics chosen from upper division undergraduate courses and graduate courses taken by M.S. students.

Subsequent to the examination, the Graduate Examination Committee will issue a passing or failing grade. If a student fails in the first attempt, he or she may retake the examination at the next scheduled comprehensive examination period. No more than two attempts to pass the exam are allowed.

The M.S. Comprehensive Examination will be held, usually, during the fall quarter of every year, and whenever needed.

2.4.3. Normative Time

The normative time for a student to complete the M.S. degree under either Plan I or Plan II is six (6) quarters.

2.5. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Program

The Ph.D. degree will provide an opportunity for students to pursue a program of research in a specialized area and to develop a dissertation that "embodies the results of original research and gives evidence of high scholarship". The procedures for satisfying the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at UCR will consist of four (4) principal parts, each of which is discussed in greater detail in subsequent sections:

1. Successful completion of an approved program of course work;

2. Passing a written and oral Ph.D. preliminary examination;

3. Approval of a written and oral defense of a Ph.D. dissertation proposal;

4. Defense and approval of the Ph.D. dissertation.

The first two requirements will be administered by the Graduate Examination Committee (see Section 2.1.4). The third requirement will be overseen by the Ph.D. Qualifying Committee (see Section 2.1.6) and the fourth requirement is supervised by his/her Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (see Section 2.1.7). In addition to these requirements, students must meet the minimum residency requirement of six quarters in the University of California, three of which must be spent in continuous residence at UCR. A student must maintain continuous registration until all degree requirements have been fulfilled. If such registration is not possible, the student must secure an approved leave of absence from the department and the Graduate Division. All international students whose first language is not English will have to demonstrate proficiency in spoken English by securing a “clear pass” score on the SPEAK test, prior to graduation. Students are however encouraged to complete this requirement within their first year of residence at UCR.

2.5.1. Course Work

The program of course work should be formulated by the student and his/her faculty advisor within the one quarter after admission to the Ph.D. program and must be approved by the student's Ph.D. advisor and Ph.D. Examination Committee. It is understood that changes to this may occur as the student's research progresses. These changes should be documented after consultation with the Ph.D. advisor and Ph.D. Examination Committee. There is no strict course or unit requirement for the Ph.D. degree. The Mechanical Engineering Faculty recommends, however, a minimum of 36 units of graduate level and upper division courses, exclusive of seminar and research (ME 250, 297, and 299). Ph.D. students are required to take seminar (ME 250) for at least three (3) quarters.

Although Ph.D. students are not required to take the M.S. core courses, they are encouraged strongly to do so. If a Ph.D. student does not take the M.S. core courses, it is expected that he or she has already acquired the knowledge covered in those courses elsewhere such as part of a M.S. program at another institution. Familiarity and proficiency of the subjects covered in the M.S. core courses will be tested as part of the Ph.D. qualifying exam.

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Once accepted into the graduate program, students may pursue a Ph.D. degree, without completing an M.S. degree first.

It is expected that a Ph.D. student will pursue a program of study that includes 1) a major area of study intended to increase the student's depth of knowledge in a major area, i.e., an area of specialty in mechanical engineering; and 2) a minor area of study intended to support and increase the student's breadth of knowledge in the major area. It is expected that the minor area will be in a basic science area related to the student's area of specialty. A coherent program of at least 24 units of graduate course work in the major area should satisfy the major requirement. A coherent program of at least 12 units of graduate and/or upper-division course work in the minor area should satisfy the minor requirement.

2.5.2. Preliminary Examination

The purpose of the Ph.D. preliminary examination is to screen candidates for continuation in the doctoral program. The preliminary examination is administered by the Graduate Examination Committee, and it will be composed of two sessions:

Session 1: Engineering Principles;

Session 2: An area of specialty in mechanical engineering.

The Engineering Principles examination is a three-hour written test. It is designed to test understanding of concepts and methods used in mechanical engineering. The test will cover a variety of topics including Engineering Mathematics, Statics and Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics. Problems will be typical of those encountered in the upper division courses of undergraduate engineering or science curricula in US schools.

Session 2 of the Ph.D. preliminary examination will be conducted orally, and it will examine in-depth understanding of the area of specialization relevant to the proposed Ph.D. research. With the application to take the Ph.D. preliminary examination, the student must submit a statement of approximately 500 words expressing his/her research interest. The purpose of this statement is to aid the Graduate Examination Committee in preparing Session 2 of the preliminary examination.

The Ph.D. Preliminary examination will be normally offered once every year in the Spring quarter. Based on the results of the examination, a decision is made by majority vote of the Graduate Examination committee. The committee will make a recommendation that the student, either passes, conditionally passes, or fails the examination. 1) If the student passes, he/she will be permitted to develop a Ph.D. dissertation proposal. 2) If the student is declared to have passed conditionally, he/she will be permitted to develop a Ph.D. dissertation proposal after successfully completing additional course work. This decision will be made if in the committee's judgment the student has demonstrated proficiency in the subject matters, but some areas of weakness have been identified. Once the additional course work is completed, the student is declared to have passed the examination. 3) If the student fails the examination, he/she is given a second and final opportunity to retake either all, or a portion of the examination at its next offering. 4) If the student fails the examination a second time, he/she will be removed from the Ph.D. program. If the student has completed all requirements for the M.S. degree, he/she will be awarded the M.S. degree at that time. If the M.S. degree requirements have not been met, the student will be permitted to continue in the program, complete these requirements, receive the M.S. degree, and then be removed from the graduate program.

2.5.3. Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal and Qualifying Committee

After successful completion of the Ph.D. preliminary examination, the student, with advice from his/her advisor, recommends a Ph.D. Qualifying Committee (see Section 2.1.6) and prepares a dissertation proposal.

The dissertation proposal consists of a written document and an oral presentation/defense. Typically, a Ph.D. student will submit a dissertation proposal to his/her Ph.D. Qualifying Committee within one (1) year after successfully completing the preliminary examination. The Ph.D. Qualifying committee chairperson will normally

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schedule an oral defense within one (1) month of the written proposal submission. The presentation is given only to the Ph.D. dissertation committee members.

The written dissertation proposal should be typewritten, double-spaced, in standard typeface (12 pt) with 1” margins all around. Suggested organization for the Ph.D. dissertation proposal is as follows:

Introduction: This section should include the purpose, the objectives (or accomplishments), and the scope of the proposed research.

Background: This section should include a summary of the literature concerning research work related to the proposed dissertation and how the proposed research builds on or relates to previous work.

Approach and Methodologies: A narrative of how the research is to be conducted, including an overview of the general research approach and techniques. Also, any experimental designs, statistical methods, and conceptual or mathematical models to be developed or employed should be discussed.

Preliminary Results and Discussion: Presentation of preliminary research results and their relevance to the proposed dissertation.

Significance of the proposed research: The purpose of this section is to explain why the proposed research is relevant and needed.

Literature cited: All publications referenced within the proposal should be cited in the reference section.

The oral presentation/defense of the proposal focuses on the dissertation. The student should demonstrate considerable depth of knowledge in the student's area of specialty and a clear understanding of the research methods that are needed for successful completion of the dissertation research. The oral presentation/defense will begin with a presentation by the student on his/her dissertation topic and will be followed by questions and suggestions from the Ph.D. Qualifying Committee.

Based on the written proposal and oral defense, a decision will be made by the Ph.D. Qualifying Committee that the student either 1) be advanced to Ph.D. candidacy (approval of the application to candidacy), 2) be asked to modify and enhance his/her proposal. Once the modified proposal is considered satisfactory, the student will be advanced to candidacy, or 3) be requested to withdraw from the Program. This will normally be done after the student is given a second opportunity to retake the examination.

2.5.4. Ph.D. Dissertation Work and Defense

Following advancement to Ph.D. candidacy, the student formally begins his/her dissertation research. The progress of the dissertation is monitored by the student's Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (see Section 2.1.7). It is recommended that the Ph.D. candidate interact frequently with members of his/her dissertation committee to insure that dissertation progress is acceptable.

After completion of the dissertation research, a written draft copy of the completed dissertation must be submitted to the Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for review, evaluation, and determination of whether the draft thesis is ready for oral defense. Once a draft has been approved for defense, an oral defense of the dissertation will be scheduled, which shall be open to the entire academic community. This defense consists of a presentation followed by a question/answer period conducted by the Ph.D. Dissertation Committee and the audience.

Based on the written dissertation and the oral defense, the Ph.D. Dissertation Committee decides to 1) accept the dissertation and recommend to the Graduate Division that the Ph.D. degree be awarded, 2) ask that the dissertation be modified and redefended, or 3) decline acceptance of the dissertation (normally, only after a second opportunity is given).

After successfully defending the dissertation, the Ph.D. candidate must submit final copies of the dissertation that comply with the format requirements set forth by the Graduate Division. Copies are to be given to the department and the dissertation advisor, in addition to those required by the Graduate Division.

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2.5.5. Foreign Language Requirements

Following the practices common in this field, there will be no foreign language requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering.

2.5.6. Preparation for Careers in Teaching

Students are encouraged to be employed as Teaching Assistants for three (3) quarters during their graduate studies. The experience gained in this employment will serve to prepare students for teaching careers at the college level. The department will offer special courses, ME 301 (Apprentice Teaching), required of all TA's, to aid in the learning of effective teaching methods such as the handling of mechanical engineering discussion sections; preparation and handling of mechanical engineering laboratory sections; preparation and grading of homework, examinations, and lab reports; and student relations.

2.5.7. Normative Time

For completion of the M.S. degree Plan I (Thesis), the normative time for a typical student appointed as an RA or TA (50% time) is two years or 6 academic year quarters.

The suggested time allotments for an M.S. student, entering the program with a Bachelors degree are given below:

• Nine months, or 3 academic year quarters for M.S. coursework;

• Nine months, or 3 academic year quarters to formulate research plan and complete dissertation.

Full-time, self-funded students may be able to complete these requirements earlier.

Although the formal residence requirement for the Ph.D. degree is six quarters (two academic years), most students spend three to four years (nine to twelve academic year quarters) in full-time study beyond the Master's degree. The normative time to complete the Ph.D. degree for a typical student appointed as an RA or TA (50% time) is three (3) years (nine academic year quarters) for students holding an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field, from UCR and five (5) years (fifteen academic year quarters) for those entering the program without an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related field.

The suggested time allotments for a Ph.D. student, who enters the program without an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related field, are given below:

• Eighteen months or six academic year quarters for course work;

• Nine months or three quarters for dissertation proposal;

• Two years and nine months for completion (11 quarters including summer quarters) and defense of the dissertation.

2.5.8. Sample Programs

Sample Ph.D. programs for full-time Mechanical Engineering graduate students, expected to work as TA's/RA's, are shown in Table 2.1, Table 2.2, and Table 2.3. It is presumed that students enter the program with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and proceed directly to the Ph.D. degree

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Table 2.1 Sample Ph.D. Programs for Design and Control

Year Fall Winter Spring Summer

1 Methods of Engineering Analysis

Computational Methods in Engineering

Introduction to Robotics Directed Research

Theoretical Kinematics Advanced Dynamics Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics

(Preliminary Exam)

Elective Theory of Elasticity Elective

2 Linear Control Theory Computer-Aided Engineering Design

Elective

ME 297 Directed Research in Mechanical

Engineering

ME 297 Directed Research in Mechanical Engineering


(Select Dissertation Topic)

3 Directed Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Proposal

(Dissertation Proposal) (Dissertation Proposal) (Dissertation Proposal)

4 Dissertation Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research

5 Dissertation Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Defense

Table 2.2 Sample Ph.D. Programs for Fluid and Thermal Sciences




Computational Fluid Dynamics with Application

Directed Research

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics I

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics II

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

(Preliminary Exam)

Elective Applied Combustion and Environmental Applications

Elective

2 Transport through Porous Media

Special Topics in Fluid and Thermal Science

Elective

Special Topics in Fluid and Thermal Science





3 Directed Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research




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Table 2.3 Sample Ph.D. Programs for Mechanics and Materials




Elective Directed Research

Mechanics and Physics of Materials

Advanced Dynamics Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics

(Preliminary Exam)

Elective Theory of Elasticity Elective

2 Dynamic Behavior of Solids Elective Elective





3 Directed Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research Dissertation Research




2.5.9. Special Requirements There are no special requirements other than those mentioned above and the minimum requirements set forth by the UCR Graduate Division.

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Chapter 3

PROJECTED NEED

The University of California and the State of California has invested substantial resources in the development of the Bourns College of Engineering and the undergraduate mechanical engineering program. The establishment of a Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering will maximize the potential of the existing resources. A graduate program will allow the Mechanical Engineering faculty to participate fully in the UC mission: education and research. While the present faculty members in Mechanical Engineering have begun to develop meaningful research programs, these programs primarily involve post-doctoral and visiting graduate researchers due to the lack of a graduate program.

The proposed graduate program in Mechanical Engineering will be in a unique position to satisfy the increasing need for engineers trained in both the traditional and the newly emerging areas of mechanical engineering for the fast-growing economy of the Inland Empire. One of the underlying principles in founding the College of Engineering at UCR is to link mechanical engineering with the development of emerging technologies. This direction was made to allow the new engineering college at UCR to carve out a meaningful niche in the UC system. The College has committed substantial resources to the undergraduate programs, research laboratories, and faculty in mechanical engineering. A graduate program will be the culmination of the plan to develop a mechanical engineering program at the University of California, Riverside.

3.1. Student Demand for an ME Graduate Program

At this point, demand for the ME graduate program can only be gauged through informal channels. The Faculty routinely receive inquiries about graduate education in mechanical engineering at UCR. An informal survey conducted by the faculty members of mechanical engineering indicates that a significant percentage of undergraduate students in mechanical engineering want to pursue graduate studies. Most of these students would join a graduate program at UCR if it existed. The Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, based on a draft version of our proposal, comments "I can confirm that an additional graduate program in Mechanical Engineering is needed at the University of California and your new one at Riverside will help fill this gap. At UCSB, we receive many enquiries from employers who seek mechanical engineers with graduate degrees. Along with the other mechanical engineering graduate programs in California, we are unable to fulfill this demand." As one of our recruiting strategies, we plan to visit all Cal State and other institutions in the Southern California area to recruit promising students.

There is little guidance on estimating the number of graduate students likely to enroll in a new program such as ours. Our best estimates are based on initial graduate enrollment in the Electrical Engineering Department, which is comparable to the Mechanical Engineering Department in terms of undergraduate enrollment. Fourteen students entered the EE graduate program in Fall 1999, which was the first year of the program. This suggests that we should expect a similar number to enroll in the ME graduate program if it is initiated in Fall 2001. A brief summary of enrollment data from other UC graduate ME departments appears below. We attempted to contact all the departments via telephone and e-mail. The data presented is from departments that responded to our informal request.

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Table 3.1 Informal enrollment data from other UC ME Graduate Programs

Campus AY Applications

Received

# Enrolled MS Ph.D. M.S/Ph.D.

(Undecided)

UCB 1999/00

2000/01

647

637

76

76

26

21

27

23

23

32

UCSD 1999/00

2000/01

185

191

34

43

11

16

22

26

*

*

UCSB 1999/00

2000/01

143

143

18

15

6

4

6

5

6

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We thus believe that our estimates for growth, presented in Table 1.2, are reasonable. As noted previously, Riverside and San Bernardino counties are expected to continue to be the fastest growing counties in California over the next 50 years. However, as yet, there are no Ph.D. programs in mechanical engineering to serve the educational need of the growing Inland Empire. Based on our assessment we believe that students for the graduate ME program will come from five primary sources: 1) mechanical engineering undergraduates of UCR, 2) UCR students with B.S. degrees in natural science who wish to pursue a graduate engineering degree, 3) engineers employed at local industries and government agencies, 4) students from other universities in the US, and 5) students from abroad.

3.2. Opportunities for ME Graduate Students

The UCR Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program has grown at an average rate of 30% per year since its initiation, and the enrollment now stands at about 136. This program continues to grow in response to the perceived need for engineers in mechanical engineering. We expect a continuing demand for properly trained mechanical engineers. The demand for mechanical engineering graduate education does not come merely from mechanical engineering undergraduates, but also from students with baccalaureate degrees in other engineering or natural science disciplines (e.g. electrical engineering, environmental engineering and physics). The demand for graduate education in mechanical engineering is also likely to originate from developing countries such as India, China, and Mexico. This provides an opportunity for the proposed graduate program to influence policies and practices in these countries.

3.3. Economic Development

There is a strong need to increase the number of jobs in high-technology industries in the Inland Empire, because the population of Southern California is moving inland. The proposed graduate program in mechanical engineering will contribute to this effort. It is the objective of the UCR College of Engineering to foster high-tech industrial growth in the Inland Empire.

3.4. Regional Interests

The proposed ME graduate program will address the needs of local industry, economic plans of the Inland Empire, and educational needs of the three million people living in the Inland Empire. A high quality ME graduate program will enhance the technology/higher education profile of the Inland Empire and be an important component in the plan to develop a manufacturing-based economy in the Inland Empire. Demographic trends are favorable for growth in the Inland Empire; Riverside and San Bernardino counties are expected to continue to be two of the fastest growing counties in California over the next 50 years, at about three times the state's average growth rate [6]. Existence of strong research universities is an important element to high-technology industries. The strength in mechanical engineering is essential to the future economic development of the Inland Empire.

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3.5. Faculty and Undergraduate Program Interests

The lack of a graduate program negatively impacts research and undergraduate instructional programs, and makes it difficult to attract high quality research-oriented faculty, all of which are hallmarks of the University of California. Therefore, establishment of a graduate program is imperative if the Mechanical Engineering program is to recruit and retain first-rate faculty members, and to grow and prosper in a research oriented institution such as the University of California.

A number of government funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), have established policies that give research proposals a more favorable rating if they include an educational component [10]. In fact, a major reason cited in the negative decision to establish an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) at CE-CERT was the lack of graduate degree programs in engineering at UCR. The proposal jointly written by CE-CERT research staff and a number of College of Engineering faculty members received very high technical marks, but was not approved. It is clear that, without a graduate engineering program, the ME faculty will find it very difficult to attract major research funding from government agencies.

In another example, the Department of Defense's University Research Initiative Program cites support of graduate education infrastructure in U.S. academic institutions as one of its major goals [11]. Although not stated, we believe that federal funding agencies are making these policies not only to address current programmatic issues, but also to ensure that the U.S. will maintain a sufficient work force to meet the national research and development needs as we move into the next century. Thus, funded research at universities, including UCR, achieves multiple goals including:

1. addressing current research needs;

2. support university research infrastructure;

3. support faculty researchers;

4. support graduate student education;

5. enhance undergraduate education;

6. maintain the nation's technical and scientific work force.

Establishment of the proposed ME graduate program will be a key step to achieving these goals and filling an education/research void in the Inland Empire. With respect to the existing mechanical engineering undergraduate program, the proposed ME graduate program will contribute significantly to maintaining and enhancing its quality. Faculty quality is an important factor in developing a top-rated undergraduate program. Outstanding research faculty working at the forefront of emerging technologies provide undergraduate students with a vision of the future in their chosen profession, allows them to use state-of-the-art equipment and techniques, and gives them an opportunity to participate in meaningful research. These factors represent the fundamental difference between undergraduate education at a major research university like UCR and education from a typical teaching college. Another important contribution to the excellence of the undergraduate program is the pool of well-trained, qualified teaching assistants created by the existence of a graduate program. Currently, TAs are hired from graduate students in other engineering programs. Unfortunately, very few of the graduate students in other engineering programs are qualified to serve as a TA for mechanical engineering. As a result, most of the duties typically associated with TAs are handled by Lecturers. An ME graduate program will help meet the need for well-trained, qualified TAs to support the undergraduate programs.

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Chapter 4

FACULTY

The faculty of the proposed graduate program in mechanical engineering (ME) will consist of members of the Bourns College of Engineering's Mechanical Engineering Faculty, together with cooperating faculty members from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Physics and the Department of Environmental Sciences. Cooperating faculty members are selected based on their overlapping research interests with those of the proposed mechanical engineering graduate program. The proposed graduate program will benefit the research of both the regular faculty and the cooperating faculty of mechanical engineering, through joint research projects and through increased expertise and visibility of the campus in the research areas of mutual interest.

Based on their research interests, the regular and cooperating faculty members of mechanical engineering will provide expertise to the three areas of specialty, namely Design and Control, Fluid and Thermal Science, and Mechanics and Materials. These faculty members and their relationship to the three areas of specialty are given in Table 4.1.

Table 4.1 Faculty Listing According to Research Areas

Design and Control Fluid and Thermal Sciences Mechanics and MaterialsCurtis Collins Frank Jacobitz Qing JiangLung-Wen Tsai Shankar Mahalingam Guanshui XuJay Farrell Kambiz Vafai Umar MohideenJie Chen Akula Venkatram Marek ChrobakPing Liang Joe Norbeck

William Jury The Department of Mechanical Engineering was very successful during the AY 1999-2000 in attracting three new professors to its ranks (two in the Fluid and Thermal Sciences and one in the Design and Controls area). Also, it is planned that the Department will recruit one, possibly two additional full-time faculty members during the 2001-2002 academic year.

The following section includes brief biographical descriptions of the current faculty members, and their curriculum vitae can be found in Appendix B.

Curtis Collins (Assistant Professor) received a B.S. degree in bioengineering in 1990 from the University of California, San Diego. He received an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1993 and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1997 from the University of California, Irvine. He came to the University of California, Riverside, in 1999 after teaching mechanical design and performing research multi-limb robot manipulators at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include the design of multi-limbed robotic systems and human-machine interfaces for virtual reality and rehabilitation engineering.

Frank Jacobitz (Assistant Professor) received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1998. He joined UCR in July 1998. His research is focused on the numerical simulation of turbulence and turbulent transport in geophysical flow.

Qing Jiang (Professor) received his Ph.D. in engineering and applied sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 1990. Prior to joining UCR in January 1998, he was a professor in engineering mechanics at the

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University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He has published more than 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals in the area of mechanics and materials. His most recent research focuses on reliability of electronic materials and systems.

Shankar Mahalingam (Professor) received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. Prior to joining UCR in July 2000, Professor Mahalingam was a member of the mechanical engineering faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder for 11 years. His research expertise is in the analysis and simulation of laminar and turbulent nonpremixed flames. His current activities include research in the area of wildland fire modeling, and modeling of fluid dynamics for cardiovascular applications. He has published 25 referred publications in archival journals and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a member of the American Physical Society (APS) and The Combustion Institute.

Lung-Wen Tsai (Professor) received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1973. Prior to joining UCR in July 2000, Dr. Tsai was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland where he established a nationally recognized research and education program in mechanisms and machine design, automotive engineering, robot manipulators, and walking machines.. Dr. Tsai is the author of a book titled “Robot Analysis: The Mechanics of Serial and Parallel Manipulators.” He is the author and co-author of over one hundred journal and conference proceeding papers, and nine U.S. patents. Dr. Tsai is a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of ASME, and a member of SAE.

Kambiz Vafai (Professor) received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. Prior to joining UCR in July 2000, Dr. Vafai was a member of the faculty at the Ohio State University since 1981. He is recognized internationally as a leading expert on heat transfer in porous media, and he has published more than 100 research articles in peer-reviewed journals in this area. He has made significant contributions in the areas of heat pipes and micro-channel heat sinks for electronic cooling design, condensation and phase change, flow and heat transfer in the cooling of aircraft brakes, heat transfer regulation and augmentation. He is a Fellow of the ASME and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.

Akula Venkatram (Professor) received his PhD in Mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1976. Before joining UCR in 1993, he was involved in air pollution research at several government and private organizations. His research includes micrometeorology, dispersion and air pollution modeling. He has published about 50 peer-reviewed papers in these areas. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution.

Guanshui Xu (Assistant Professor) received his B.S. Degree in Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Brown University in 1994. He also spent two years as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the UCR Faculty in 1998 after three years as a project engineer in the oil service industry. He has published more than 10 research papers in the area of mechanics and materials. His most recent research interests are computational modeling of surface acoustic wave devices, three-dimensional fracture, and thermally assisted dislocation nucleation in crystals.

Cooperating Faculty from Computer Science and Engineering

Marek Chrobak (Professor) received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Warsaw University in 1985. His research interests include algorithms and data structures: on-line algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computational geometry, graph drawing, discrete tomography, web searching, computational biology, theory of computation: automata theory, complexity theory, computability and combinatorics and graph theory.

Cooperating Faculty from Electrical Engineering

Jie Chen (Professor) received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1990. He held a research fellow position jointly with the school of Aerospace Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He joined the UCR Faculty in 1994 and has also conducted research work in engine control and is interested in research topics in optimization and nonlinear dynamical systems.

Jay Farrell (Associate Professor) received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1989. He joined the technical staff at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA in 1989. While at

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the Draper Lab, he was principal investigator on several projects in the areas of intelligent and learning control systems for autonomous vehicles which was funded by NSF and the Naval Air Development Center. He is currently working to establish a strong research program in his main areas of research interest: signal processing; system identification; and, adaptation, learning, and artificial intelligence techniques for autonomous control systems.

Ping Liang (Associate Professor) received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. His research contributions include 2D and 3D differential geometric representations for object matching and recognition, an algorithm for constructing 3D models of objects from several 2D views that was adopted by industry, an adaptive self-calibrated vision system for robot hand/eye coordination, neural networks with learnable nonlinear synapses and contacts, and self organization and pattern formation in distributed robotic systems and in reaction-diffusion neural networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor for the journal Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing and the journal Pattern Recognition, and a member of program committees for several major international conferences.

Cooperating Faculty from Environmental Engineering

Joseph Norbeck (Professor) received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1973. He is the Yeager Families Professor of Environmental Engineering and the founding Director of the Bourns College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology. His research topics include characterization of vehicle and stationary source airborne emissions development of advanced vehicle technology such as hydrogen fuel-cells and electrical vehicles, transportation systems modeling, environmental modeling, renewable fuels, and stationary source emission control.

Cooperating Faculty from Environmental Sciences

William A. Jury (Professor) received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1973. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in the areas of measurement and modeling of organic and inorganic chemical movement and reactions in field soils, development and testing of organic chemical screening models, characterization of the spatial variability of soil physical and chemical properties, and evaluating volatilization losses of organic compounds. At present, he is conducting research in dissolution of nonaqueous phase liquids in soil, gas movement in structured soils, field measurement and modeling of preferential flow of tracers, pesticides, and viruses, measurement and modeling of Selenium fate in soil, and degradation during transport of volatile organic compounds.

Cooperating Faculty from Physics

Umar Mohideen (Assistant Professor) received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 1992. His research interests include fundamental force measurements, quantum optics and soliton phenomena, microcavity physics, nanostructure spectroscopy and dynamics, scanning microscopy techniques, nonlinear optics, dusty plasma physics and high intensity laser physics.

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Chapter 5

COURSES AND CURRICULA

The proposed graduate courses in mechanical engineering are outlined in this section. In addition, the requirements for the Bachelor of Science degrees in mechanical engineering are presented as background for the undergraduate education.

5.1. Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering

The major requirements for the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering at UCR are listed below:

English Composition:

Fulfillment of the College of Engineering requirement. One year sequence of college level instruction in English Composition, English 1A-1B-1C with satisfactory grades.

Humanities and Social Sciences:

12 units of Humanities. Including one course in World History; one course in Fine Arts, Literature, Philosophy, or Religious Studies; and one additional course in History, Fine Arts, Foreign Language (at level 3 or above), Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Ethnic Studies, Creative Writing (journalism), Humanities and Social Sciences, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, or Women's Studies. No course used to satisfy the English Composition requirement can be used to fulfill this requirement.

12 units of Social Sciences. Including one course in Economics or Political Science; one course in Anthropology, Psychology, or Sociology; and one additional course in Ethnic Studies, Geography (cultural geography), Human Development, Women's Studies, Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, Psychology, or Sociology. No course used to satisfy the English Composition requirement can be used to fulfill this requirement.

At least two of the Humanities and/or Social Sciences courses must be upper-division. Also, at least two courses must be from the same subject area (for example, two courses in Psychology), with at least one of the two being an upper-division course.

Lower Division Requirements:

Chemistry 1A, 1B, 1C

Computer Science 10

Electrical Engineering 1A, 1L

Mathematics 9A, 9B, 9C, 10A, 10B, 46

Mechanical Engineering 9, 10, 14

Physics 40A, 40B, 40C

Upper Division Requirements:

Engineering 100, 115, 116, 118

Mechanical Engineering 103, 110, 115, 120, 130, 131, 153, 160, 170, 175A/B

Electrical Engineering 132

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Statistics 155

Technical electives - 12 units

5.2. Undergraduate Courses in Mechanical Engineering

The following are the current course descriptions from the 1998-99 UCR General Catalog.

ME 009: Engineering Graphics and Design. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): None.

Graphical concepts and projective geometry relating to spatial visualization and communication in design, including technical sketching, instrument drawing, and computer-aided drafting and design.

ME 010: Statics. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 40B, MATH 009C.

Equilibrium of coplanar force systems; analysis of frames and trusses; non-coplanar force systems; frictions; distributed loads.

ME 014: Properties of Engineering Materials. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 001A, PHYS 040B.

Applications of basic principles of physics and chemistry to the selection and use of engineering materials. Relationship between structure and mechanical and electrical properties of technological materials.

ME 103: Dynamics. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 010, MATH 010A, CS 0101.

Three-dimensional vector representation of particle kinetics and kinematics. Newton's laws of motion. Kinematics of rigid bodies. Force-mass-acceleration, work-energy, and impulse-momentum methods of analysis.

ME 110: Mechanics of Materials. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 010.

Mechanics of deformable bodies subjected to axial, torsional, shearing, and bending loads. Combined stresses. Columns. Energy methods. Applications to the design of pressure vessels and structures.

ME 115: Advanced Fluid Mechanics. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): ENGR 115 or consent of instructor.

Incompressible viscous flow; boundary layer flow; potential flows; compressible flows.

ME 120: Analysis, Simulation, and Design of Dynamic Systems. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): EE 001A, EE 011A, ENGR 115, ME 103; or consent of instructor.

Modeling of dynamic engineering systems in various engineering domains. Analysis of response of linear systems models. Digital computer simulation.

ME 122: Vibrations. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 120 or consent of instructor.

Free and forced vibrations of lumped parameter systems with and without damping; resonance. Matrix methods for multidimensional systems. Normal modes, coupling, and normal coordinates. Use of conservation principles. Lagrange’s equation. Electromechanical analogs.

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ME 130: Mechanical Engineering Design. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): CS 010, ME 009, ME 103, and ME 110.

Kinematics, dynamics, and mechanical advantages of machinery. Displacement velocity, and acceleration analyses of linkages. Fundamental law of gearing and various gear trains. Computer-aided mechanism design and analysis. A design project is required.

ME 131: Computer-Aided Design of Mechanical Systems. (4)

Lecture: three hours; laboratory: three hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 130 or consent of instructor.

Design of planar, spherical, and spatial mechanisms using both exact and approximate graphical and analytical techniques. A computer-aided design project is required.

ME 153: Applied Finite Element Methods. (4)

Lecture: three hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 010B, ME 115; or consent of instructor.

Introduction to the finite element method (FEM) and its matrix formulation and computer implementation of FEM concepts. Pre- and post-processing techniques; graphics display capabilities; geometric and analysis modeling; design optimization. A term project using FEM codes is required.

ME 160: Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. (4)

Laboratory: six hours; discussion: two hours. Prerequisite(s): ENGR 116, ME 115, ME 120, ME 170; or consent of instructor.

Experimental analysis of fluid flow, heat transfer, structures, and thermodynamic systems.

ME 170: Experimental Techniques. (4)

Lecture: three hours; laboratory: three hours. Prerequisite(s): CS 010, EE 001A, EE 011A, ME 103; or consent of instructor.

Principles and practice of measurement and control and the design and implementation of experiments. Technical report writing. Dimensional analysis, error analysis, signal-to-noise problems, filtering, data acquisition and data reduction, statistical analysis. Experiments on the use of electronic devices and sensor.

ME 175A-ME 175B: Senior Design Project. (4-4)

Laboratory: nine hours; discussion: one hour. Prerequisite(s): senior standing in Mechanical Engineering.

Under the direction of a faculty member, students (individually or in small teams with shared responsibilities) propose, design, build, and test mechanical engineering devices or systems. A written report, giving details of the project and test results, and an oral presentation of the design aspects are required. Graded In Progress (IP) until both ME 175A and ME 175B are completed, at which time a final, letter grade is assigned.

5.3. Proposed Graduate Courses in Mechanical Engineering

A comprehensive list of graduate courses, with a brief synopsis of topics covered, is presented in this section. The precise topical outline is subject to change as new faculty members join the program. Some of the more advanced courses will be offered in even years, while others will be offered in odd years. The frequency of offerings will be dictated by demand. Initially, we will offer roughly 9 to 10 graduate courses per year. As the faculty strength grows with the program, we will increase the number as deemed appropriate. Since graduate research is increasingly multidisciplinary, we expect our students to take graduate courses in other departments on campus. To offset this, we expect that students from other departments will be taking some of our courses. The list of courses is divided into two headings; Primary Courses and Secondary Courses. Primary Courses will be offered frequently (at least once in two years), and Secondary Courses will be offered based on demand. Thus in any given year, we anticipate

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to offer 8 (or 7) Primary Courses and 2 (or 3) Secondary Courses. The lead instructor coordinating each course is noted in the list below.

PRIMARY COURSES

ME 200A: Methods of Engineering Analysis (4) (Mahalingam)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of instructor.

Elementary linear algebra theory, including vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalue problems, complex analytic functions, complex integration, integral transforms, solution methods for ordinary and partial differential equations.

ME 201A: Computational Methods in Engineering. (4) (Venkatram)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of instructor.

Numerical methods with computer applications. solution of systems of linear and nonlinear equations, interpolation, integration, regression methods, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differntial equations,

ME 220A: Theoretical Kinematics. (4) (Collins)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 200A or permission of instructor.

Spatial rigid body kinematics: Homogeneous transform, product of exponentials, and dual quaternion representations of rigid motions. Screw theory, Lie Theory, and Clifford Algebras are introduced to provide the underlying mathematical theory for studying robot kinematics, computer graphics, and mechanics.

ME 221A: Advanced Dynamics. (4) (Tsai)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 103 or permission of instructor.

Multibody Dynamics: 3D rigid body mechanics, Newton’s and Euler’s laws, 3D kinematics, Lagrange’s equations and Hamilton's equations, variational principles. Applications to multi rigid body systems and robotics.

ME 222A: Introduction to Robotics. (4) (Tsai)

Lecture: three hours; laboratory/discussion: one hour. Prerequisites: ME 120, ME 130, and EE 132 or permission of instructor.

Basic robot components, kinematic analysis of serial manipulators, Jacobian analysis, singularities, static force analysis, dynamic analysis, task planning, open- and closed-loop control strategies, introduction to parallel manipulators, and robot programming languages.

ME 230A: Computer-Aided Engineering Design. (4) (Collins and Tsai)

Lecture: two hours; laboratory: two hours. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

Fundamentals of interactive computer graphics, 3D representations of curves and surfaces, Bezier parameterizations, and optimization methods. Applications to mechanical system simulations, CAD, and engineering design.

ME 240A: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics I. (4) (Venkatram)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s) permission of instructor.

An introduction to fluid mechanics. Equations of motion, stress tensor, Navier-Stokes equation, boundary conditions, exact solutions, vorticity, and boundary layers.

ME 240B: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics II. (4) (Jacobitz)


Inviscid flow, Euler equation, Bernoulli equation, potential flow, wing theory, an introduction to stability theory and turbulence, an introduction to compressible flow.

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ME 241A: Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. (4) (Vafai)


Conduction, convection, radiation, energy and species conservation equations, analytical and numerical solution of transport problems.

ME241B: Transport through Porous Media. (4) (Vafai)


Current theories on flow, heat, and mass transfer in porous media and an understanding of the mechanisms involved in multiphase transport in porous media.

ME 241C: Electronic Cooling and Thermal Issues in Microelectronics. (4) (Vafai)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 241A or permission of instructor. A range of thermal issues associated with electronic products life cycle are discussed. Packaging techniques and analysis to minimize the temperature elevation caused by power dissipation are discussed and models for failure mechanisms in high temperature and high power electronics will be presented. Passive, active, and hybrid thermal management techniques for electronic devices and systems will be discussed along with computational modeling approaches as well as advanced thermal management concepts including single phase, phase change and heat pipes.

ME 246A: Computational Fluid Dynamics with Applications (4) (Mahalingam)

Lecture: Three hours, laboratory one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 240A or permission of instructor.

Finite difference, finite volume, finite element, and spectral methods, consistency, stability, and convergence of numerical schemes, governing equations for nonreacting and reacting flows, convection, diffusion, convection-diffusion problems, matrix solution methods - cylclic reduction, Fourier, Jacobi, Gauss Siedel, SOR, ADI, Chebschev acceleration, Lax-Wendroff scheme, McCormack scheme, Transonic small disturbance equation solution, Staggered grids, SIMPLE scheme, Discrete Fourier transform. Students will work on two substantial projects using commercial software made available in the CFD Laboratory.

ME 247A: Applied Combustion and Environmental Applications. (4) (Mahalingam)

Lecture: Four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 240A or permission of instructor.

Chemical reaction kinetics including thermo chemistry of fuel-air mixtures, description of in-cylinder combustion, premixed flame structure and propagation, ignition theories, pollutant formation and control

ME 250: Mechanical Engineering Seminar. (1)

A one unit course in which students attend research seminars presented by faculty, visiting scholars, and advanced Ph.D. students.

ME 261A: Theory of Elasticity. (4) (Xu)


Tensors. Strain and Stress. Equation of motions. Hook’s law. Typical boundary value problems of classical linear elasticity. Problems of plane stress and plane strain. Complex variable method. Variational principles.

ME 266A: Mechanics and Physics of Materials. (4) (Jiang)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

Characterization and modeling of mechanical, thermal, electric and magnetic behavior of materials as well as coupling properties, such as thermomechanical and piezoelectric properties. Topics may include phase transition and solidification.

ME 267A: Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics. (4) (Xu)


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Introduction of various formulations and computer implementation of finite element methods. Galerkin’s Method. Energy Method. Advanced techniques of automatic mesh generation. Nonlinear analysis. Modeling of multiphysical systems.

ME 275A: Dynamic Behavior of Solids. (4) (Jiang)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor

Analysis of vibrations of continuous bodies, such as beams and plates, and analysis of stress waves propagating in solid materials, including both bulk and surface waves.

ME 290: Directed Studies in Mechanical Engineering. (1-6)

Prerequisite(s): Consent of a faculty member

Individual studies on a specific topic of mechanical engineering under the direction of a regular or cooperating faculty member of mechanical engineering.

ME 297: Directed Research in Mechanical Engineering. (1-12)

Prerequisite(s): Consent of a faculty member.

Research and development of a dissertation topic or other research project performed under the direction of a regular or cooperating faculty member of mechanical engineering. It will be graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) only.

ME 298I: Individual Internship. (1-12)

Graduate standing in Mechanical Engineering.

Individual student or apprenticeship, three to thirty-six hours per week, with an approved professional individual or an approved organization and under the supervision of a faculty member, to gain professional experience and knowledge in mechanical engineering. A written report is required. It will be graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) only. The credits may be applied towards the M.S. degree should be no more than 6 units, and towards the Ph.D. degree should be no more than 12 units.

ME 299: Research for Thesis or Dissertation. (1-12)

Prerequisite(s): Consent of a faculty member.

Research and writing for a M.S. thesis or a Ph.D. dissertation. It will be graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) only.

SECONDARY COURSES

ME 222B: Advanced Robot Kinematics. (4) (Tsai)

Lecture: three hours; laboratory: one hour. Prerequisite(s): ME 200A and ME 220A or permission of instructor.

Kinematic study of serial and parallel manipulator systems including cooperating robots, walking machines and mechanical hands. Forward and inverse kinematics of serial and parallel manipulators. Mechanics of grasping, force distributions, redundancy resolution, and singularity analysis with applications to robot trajectory planning and design.

ME 222C: Robot Dynamics and Control. (4) (Collins)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 221A and ME 235, or permission of instructor.

Recursive formulations for serial and parallel manipulator dynamics using Newton-Euler and Lagrangian approaches. Structure of dynamics equations. Trajectory generation and motion control. Linear PID controllers, feedback linearization, introduction to adaptive control.

ME 235: Linear Control Theory. (4) (Equivalent to EE 235) (Electrical Engineering)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ENGR 118, concurrent with ME 200A or permission of instructor.

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State space representation of linear control systems. Linearization of nonlinear models. Controllability and Observability. Linear feedback and pole placement. Observer theory.

ME 236: Geometric Nonlinear Control. (4) (Collins)


Methods of differential geometry and Manifold theory applied to nonlinear control systems. Stability of Nonlinear systems. Center-Manifold theory. Controllability and feedback linearization.

ME 239: Special Topics in Design and Control. (1 to 4)

Lecture: one to four hours. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

Topics covering recent advancements in design and control. Other topics include Geometric Methods in Mechanics, Fundamentals of Computer Control, etc.

ME 240C: Micrometeorology. (4) (Venkatram)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 240A or permission of instructor

Surface energy balance, vertical structure of the boundary layer, atmospheric boundary layer, surface boundary layer, atmospheric turbulence, similarity theory, mean velocity and temperature profiles, urban boundary layer, Advection effects.

ME 241D: Convection. (4) (Venkatram)


Fundamentals of forced and free convective transport phenomena in laminar and turbulent, external and internal flows. Topics include analogy between momentum and mass transfer, scaling laws and numerical modeling, and convective heat exchanger design.

ME 241E Conduction Heat Transfer. (4 Units) (Vafai)


A study of the heat transfer equations and their application to heat transfer in solids. Analysis of transformation techniques and separation of variables among other techniques for solving the conduction problems.

ME 241F Radiation Heat Transfer. (4 Units) (Vafai)


Understanding the physical characteristics of radiation for black body radiation, gray body approximation and radiation surface properties. Understanding radiation problems in enclosure with or without gas radiation,and radiation exchange in non-participating media. Analyzing problems which include conduction, convection and radiation and introduction to radiation in participating media.

ME 247: Combustion Theory. (4) (Mahalingam)


Chemical equilibrium, reaction kinetics, detonation/deflagration, laminar flame propagation, diffusion flames, droplet combustion, turbulent combustion - theoretical concepts and current models for turbulent combustion.

ME 249A: Air Pollution Modeling. (4) (Venkatram)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): ME 240A or permission of instructor

Mass conservation equation in the atmospheric boundary layer, Gaussian distributions, Taylor's statistical theory, vertical and horizontal spread, dispersion in an inhomogeneous boundary layer, K-theory, Similarity theory, Lagrangian stochastic simulation, numerical methods, introduction to atmospheric chemistry.

ME 259: Special Topics in Fluid and Thermal Sciences. (1 to 4) (Jacobitz, Mahalingam, Vafai, and Venkatram)


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Topics covering recent advancements in fluid and thermal sciences. Other topics include Compressible Flows, Turbulence, Atmospheric Dynamics, Ocean Dynamics

ME 274A Modeling and Analysis of Microelectronic Devices (Qing)

Fundamental theories of physics and mechanics and their applications to the design of micro electronic devices. Properties and structure of electronic materials such as piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials. Techniques of modeling functionality and reliability of micro electronic devices.

ME 266B Failure Mechanisms of Materials (Xu)

Lecture: four hours. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, ME 266A, or permission of instructor.

Strength of materials. Fundamental failure mechanisms of materials under stress, electrical, and thermal loading. Nucleation and growth of defects in solids. The role of defects in mechanical behavior of materials.

ME 279: Special Topics in Mechanics and Materials. (1 to 4) (Jiang and Xu)


Topics covering recent advancements in applied mechanics and materials science. Other topics inlude Continuum Models of Solids, Experimental Mechanics and Materials, Thermodynamics of Solids, Acoustic Waves in Solids, Pieozoelectric Crystals, Ferroelectric Crystals,

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5.4. Relevant Upper-Division and Graduate Courses Offered by Other UCR Departments

Students may use upper-division and graduate courses offered by other UCR departments to meet the course requirements of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program subjected to the approval of the Graduate Program Committee for the relevance of the courses to the graduate program. The approval of the courses listed below will be waived:

Electrical Engineering:

EE 120A,B Logic Design, Digital Systems

EE 128 Data Acquisition, Instrumentation and Process Control

EE 140 Computer Visualization

EE 151 Introduction to Digital Control

EE 146 Computer vision

EE 144 Introduction to Robotics

EE 210 Advanced Digital Signal Processing

EE 224 Digital Communication Theory and Systems

EE 235 Linear System Theory

EE 236 State and Parameter Estimation Theory

EE 245 Advanced Robotics

Chemical and Environmental Engineering:

CEE 200 Advanced Engineering Computation

CEE 202 Transport Phenomena

CEE 206 Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Computer Science:

CS 130 Computer Graphics

CS 140A,B Algorithms and Data Structures

CS 170 Introduction to artificial Intelligence

CS 171 Introduction to Expert Systems.

Mathematics:

MATH 113 Applied Linear Algebra

MATH 120 Optimization Techniques

MATH 131 Linear Algebra I

MATH 132 Linear Algebra II

MATH 135A-135B Numerical Analysis

MATH 210A-210B Complex Analysis

MATH 213A-213B Partial differential Operators

MATH 133 Geometry

MATH 137A,B Plane Curves

MATH 138A,B Introduction to Differential Geometry

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MATH 145A,B Introduction to Topology

MATH 146A-146B-146C Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

MATH 149A-149B-149C Probability and Mathematical Statistics (or equivalent courses: STAT 160A-160B-160C)

MATH 151A-151B-151C Advanced Calculus

MATH 165A-165B Introduction to Complex Variables

MATH 171 Introduction to Modern Algebra

MATH 172 Modern Algebra

MATH 173 Introduction to Algebraic Geometry.

MATH 211A-211B Ordinary Differential Equations

MATH 212A-212B Partial Differential Equations

MATH 218 Nonlinear Analysis

MATH 220 Approximation Theory

MATH 241 Mathematical Physics: Classical Mechanics

Statistics:

STAT 155 Probability and Statistics for Science and Engineering

STAT 160A-160B-160C Elements of Probability and Statistical Theory (or equivalent courses: MATH 149A-149B-149C)

Physics:

PHYS 130A-130B Classical Mechanics

PHYS 134 Thermal Physics

PHYS 135A-135B Electromagnetism

PHYS 136 Electromagnetic Waves

PHYS 139L Electronic for Scientists

PHYS 150 Solid State Physics

PHYS 177 Computational Methods for Physical Sciences

PHYS 207 Continuum Mechanics

PHYS 210A Electromagnetic Theory

PHYS 210B Electromagnetic Theory

PHYS 212A Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

PHYS 212B Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

PHYS 205 Classical Mechanics

PHYS 206 Nonlinear Dynamics

PHYS 240A-240B-240C Solid State Physics

PHYS 242 Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces

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Chapter 6

RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS

The resource needs for the faculty FTE, library acquisition, equipment, space and other capital facilities and operating costs are discussed in this section.

6.1. FTE Faculty

The Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Riverside, has eight full-time faculty members (for the 2000-2001 academic year), and expect to have a strength of nine before the 2001-2002 academic year. In addition, the Department has seven cooperating faculty members from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Physics and the Department of Environmental Sciences. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering believe that they are able to initiate the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in the proposed focus areas of mechanical engineering by the 2001-2002 academic year. Pledged openings for new faculty members in mechanical engineering over the next five years will allow the Department to expand as the graduate program matures. (See supporting memo from Dean Tripathi included as Appendix D.)

Currently, the Mechanical Engineering Program offers about 20 undergraduate lecture and laboratory courses per year. It is proposed that an additional 9 or 10 graduate courses per year be offered for the first three years, starting with the academic year 2001-2002, to be taught primarily by the regular ladder-rank faculty. To accomplish this, the average teaching load of the ME faculty will be increased from three courses per year to four courses per year, and the regular full-time faculty will grow to nine by the Fall 2001, as planned [9]. It is projected [9] that the College of Engineering will grow rapidly in the next five years and its total enrollment will increase from the current 1441 to 1860 by the academic year 2003-2004, and correspondingly, the full-time faculty will increase from 32 to 82. This will provide a tremendous opportunity for the College of Engineering to develop top-rated graduate programs. During the same period, the student enrollment in mechanical engineering will increase from current 136 (as of September 2000) to 230 and the full-time faculty will grow from 8 to 14.

The strategy of faculty recruitment will be based on the hiring of faculty members who can work synergistically with the current mechanical engineering faculty in the three areas of specialty and complement existing research strengths at the Riverside Campus of the University of California.

6.2. Teaching Assistants, Graduate Fellowships, and Start-Up Funds

As noted previously, the Mechanical Engineering Program currently offers about 20 mechanical engineering lecture and laboratory courses per year on a regular basis. The projected increase of student enrollment from 136 currently to 230 by the academic year 2003-2004 would require the program to offer more courses, both multi-session core courses and technical electives. Also, it is anticipated that the Program will offer about 10 graduate courses each year. On average, one teaching assistant will handle two discussion sections and two laboratory sections each year. This workload translates into a need for 110 hours of teaching assistance per week, carried out by TA’s for Fall 2000. Thus, for Fall 2001, estimating a 20% growth in the undergraduate enrollment, we will require 130 hours of teaching assistance per week. This figure is expected to grow to 160 hours per week by AY 2003-2004. At this point in time, we do not expect to require TA's for our graduate courses. However, if the enrollment in a specific

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class warrants it, we would seek teaching assistance funding through the College of Engineering. Faculty recruitment, especially in applied areas, will also increase the need and support for qualified research assistants.

Currently, the Mechanical Engineering Department has to hire undergraduate students to serve as graders, because of the lack of a graduate program in mechanical engineering. These undergraduate graders are not qualified to serve as teaching assistants, and, as a result, most of the duties typically associated with teaching assistants are handled by faculty members. It will be much more beneficial and cost effective to hire graduate students with formal training in mechanical engineering.

When the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program is started in AY 2001-2002, we would require funding for 13 graduate students, who will serve as TA’s, working 10 hours/week (at 25% appointment). Since the estimated number of entering students is 10, we will seek 3 TA’s from other departments in the college. In the subsequent years, all the TA’s will be ME graduate students. To ensure that the students are fully funded, the TA appointment at 25% level will have to be offset with partial-fee remission/NRTR/fellowship stipend. An estimate of this total cost is $28,000 per student, per year. Thus for year 1, we project that $182,000 for TA support and $182,000 in the form of fellowship, for a total of $364,000 will be required. For AY 2002-2003, we estimate 140 hours of teaching assistance per week. Thus, the funding required is $392,000 ($196,000 for TA support and $196,000 for fellowship). In addition, we request fee remission/NRTR/fellowship stipend for 6 students. This will require an additional fund of $168,000, bringing the total requested to $560,000. For AY 2003-2004 and 2004-2005, the projected estimate is roughly $800,000-$900,000 (roughly half for TA support and remainder for fellowships). These are based on the projected enrollment growth and graduation figures presented earlier in the proposal. It is assumed that Ph.D. students will be funded as GSR’s after their first two years through faculty grants. We realize that only high quality graduate students will be in a position to compete successfully for central fellowship assistance to be coordinated by the College of Engineering. Hence, we expect that not all, but only our very top applicants will be recommended for graduate fellowships. Estimates provided in this section are meant for planning purposes. The precise amount sought could be lower depending on the number of in-state students enrolled. Initially, based on our experience at other Universities, and within the UC system, we anticipate that most of the entering students will be from out-of-state. As the program matures, we hope to have a better balance of in- and out-of-state students. When this happens, and simultaneously as our faculty strength and research funding grows, we anticipate that the level of funding sought will decrease. In addition, one graduate fellowship and a block fellowship fund of up to $50,000 per year will be negotiated from the College of Engineering for contingencies that may arise due to funding delays that faculty may experience.

6.3. Space - Bourns Hall

The Mechanical Engineering Department is housed in the $41 million, 105,000 square-foot modern engineering complex, Bourns Hall. The building won an Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1996, an Honor Award from the AIA California Council, and an Architectural Design Award from the AIA Los Angeles Chapter in 1995.

In Bourns Hall, the Mechanical Engineering Department occupies 1,800 square feet of teaching lab space, 8,000 square feet of research lab space, and 600 square feet of computing lab space. When the program is initiated, this allocation will be sufficient for the graduate research programs. However, as the number of faculty and the number of course offerings with laboratories increase, there will be a need for additional space. As part of the pledged support for new FTEs in mechanical engineering, Dean Tripathi has stated that space needs of additional faculty will be met.

6.4. Library Acquisitions

The University of California, Riverside, has recently completed a new $29.7 million, four-story 106,000 square-foot Science Library. The engineering collection is housed in the new library, which is located next to Bourns Hall. The new library provides 1,500 reader and computer stations, about one million volumes in science and engineering, and hundreds of data base and on-line information sources.

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A high percentage of existing holdings in the UCR science libraries will support the proposed mechanical engineering graduate program, because this program will build on existing campus academic strengths and foci. Through interaction with the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, the Library has been increasing its holdings in mechanical engineering. The Library has recruited a librarian with special training in information technology assigned specifically to assist the engineering faculty and students.

In addition, on February 1, 1991 the University Library received a one-time allocation of $350,000 from the President's Office to support the College of Engineering. Collections were funded at $285,000, and personnel were funded at $65,000. These funds can be carried over into future fiscal years, which they have been.

Working with the College of Engineering Library Committee, the Library has developed a collection development plan to judiciously spend the start-up money. The plan has been followed slowly and carefully as engineering faculty members have been added. The success of the plan depends upon receiving annual funding for recurring costs to pay for journal subscriptions and new monographs. The Mechanical Engineering Faculty are taking an active role in the selection of books and journals to be acquired, to ensure that a research-oriented collection is established. This expenditure plan was developed in conjunction with the establishment of the undergraduate programs, and will be pursued regardless of the establishment of graduate programs. Although it is clear that additional resources will be eventually needed, it should be possible to start a graduate program without a substantial one-time increase in library funds. New resources for the Library are expected as the Riverside Campus and its College of Engineering continue to grow.

A list of currently available journals at UCR, relevant to ME faculty research appears below:

1) IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering 2) Journal of Symbolic Computation 3) Physics of Fluids 4) Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 5) Journal of Geophysical Research 5) Annales Geophysica 6) Geophysical Research Letters 7) Reviews of Geophysics 8) Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 9) Journal of Applied Meteorology 10) Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 11) Tellus 12) Annals of Biomedical Engineering 13) Biomedical Engineering 14) IEEE Transactions on Bio-medical Engineering 15) Circulation 16) Circulation Research 17) Combustion and Flame – electronic since 1995 18) Combustion Theory & Modeling (electronic) 19) The International Journal of Wildland Fire 20) Journal of Computational Physics 21) Progress in Energy & Combustion Science – electronic since 1995 22) Theoretical & Computational Fluid Dynamics (trial electronic) 23) Journal of Fluid Mechanics 24) Journal of Applied Mechanics 25) Philosophical Magazine 26) Philosophical Magazine Letters 27) Physical Review Letters 28) Journal of Robotic Systems 29) IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 30) International Journal of Robotic Research 31) Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics 32)

A list of journals that ME faculty would like for UCR to subscribe to appears below:

1) Mechanism and Machine Theory 2) Journal of Physical Oceanography 3) Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering 4) AIAA Journal (Library has holdings from 1963-1974) 5) Combustion Science and technology 6) Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 7) Symposium (International) on Combustion, now appearing as Proceedings of the Combustion Institute Symposium 8) Journal of Porous Media 9) International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 10) AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and heat Transfer 11) AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power 12) ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering 13) Numerical Heat Transfer Journal 14) ASME Journal of Mechanical Design 15) ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, measurement, and Control 16) Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 17) International Journal of Solids and Structures 18) International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 19) Smart Materials and Structures 20) IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 21) Journal of Elasticity 22) Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica 23) Acta Mechanica

6.5. Graduate Laboratories and Support Facilities

The Mechanical Engineering Faculty believe that laboratory experience is an extremely important component of engineering education. The Mechanical Engineering Department has, since its inception, devoted significant efforts to the continuous development of its laboratory courses and facilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology and equipment. Recently, the Mechanical Engineering Faculty reorganized the laboratory sections associated with lecture courses into separate undergraduate laboratory courses that reflect an interdisciplinary approach to

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understanding fundamentals of the three focused areas in mechanical engineering. The following principles have guided these efforts:

1. The labs must reflect the state-of-the-art technology in equipment, instrumentation, computer controls and interfaces, as well as methodology.

2. The labs must reflect a balance between breadth in mechanical engineering, and the focus areas of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty.

3. Certain teaching activities may be conducted in faculty research laboratories. This allows students to be exposed to the current research frontiers and the highly specialized instrumentation and equipment even before entering the proposed mechanical engineering graduate program.

Based on the proposed graduate program for mechanical engineering, we have identified the need for five teaching/research laboratories. Funds for research equipment in these laboratories come through faculty start-up funds, and extramural research projects. Additional funds to support undergraduate and graduate instruction will be sought through the College of Engineering. These will include computers, network infrastructure, software, laboratory equipment, and maintenance.

A brief description of these laboratories is listed below:

Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory:

A computational fluid dynamics laboratory will be set up to support the computational research in geophysical fluid mechanics, turbulent combustion, heat transfer, and environmental transport. The laboratory will include workstations for program development, numerical simulation of geophysical flow, and three-dimensional visualization of the simulation results. The numerical simulations will be performed simultaneously on a number of workstations that are connected by a high-speed network. In addition, the computational fluid dynamics laboratory will contain mass storage devices for the long-term storage of simulation results and high quality printers. Since September 2000, this laboratory has been established with computers brought by Professor Mahalingam from his previous place of employment at the University of Colorado. Additional computers are planned for purchase and installation during the year 2000.

Computational Mechanics and Materials Laboratory:

The Computational Mechanics and Materials Laboratory at UCR focuses on the development of computational methodology for the analysis of multi-physics systems and material properties at various length scales. The research objective is to pursue understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of the complex physical phenomena as well as the development of computer aided design tools for broad engineering applications. The laboratory will include networked workstations, peripherals and developer’s software. The current research subjects include analysis and simulation of dislocation nucleation; interdigital transducers; brittle matrix composites; hydraulic fracturing; and three-dimensional crack propagation.

Human-Machine Systems Research Laboratory

A Human-Machine Systems Research Laboratory is currently being developed here at the University of California, Riverside. The Human-Machine Systems Research Laboratory will be a test bed for multi-robot, telerobotic and mechatronic systems. The focus of our research is on the design of systems for the human-machine interface which include advanced input devices for computers, telerobotic and virtual reality systems, as well as assistive devices for the elderly and disabled. The efforts of this lab are divided into three main areas: 1) theoretical investigations into the kinematics and design of robotic mechanisms, 2) computer simulation and graphical interfaces for advanced mechatronic system design and control, and 3) hardware implementations for testing and evaluation of human-machine interface designs and assistive devices.

The Mechanical Engineering Department has a general support facility:

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The Machine Shop

The machine shop is an important resource for undergraduate education and graduate research. The equipment in the shop includes 4 milling machines (2 are numerically controlled), 4 lathes, drilling presses and sanding machinery, arc and gas welding equipment, and metal, woodcutting and sawing equipment. We have acquired an Electric Discharge Machining (EDM) system, which can be used to fabricate micron-sized components.

6.6. Computing Facilities

The engineering programs at UCR emphasize the use of computers in all aspects of the engineering curricula. Due to the increasing importance of computers in the engineering practice, computer work is incorporated in all lecture, laboratory and design courses offered. For computational work, the Mechanical Engineering Department has a micro-computing facility, UNIX computing facility, individual faculty computers, and on-line access to campus mainframe computing facilities.

6.6.1. Micro-computing Laboratory

The Micro-computing laboratory is a general facility for Mechanical Engineering students to perform engineering analysis and design for various courses, to write laboratory reports, term papers, and to create design documents. The laboratory is currently equipped with 40 networked Pentium computers interconnected to a laser printer. There is extensive software for word processing, general and engineering drawing, desk publishing, scientific computing, data analysis, database management as well as specialized software for mechanical design and analysis simulations.

6.6.2. UNIX Computing Facility

The UNIX based general computer lab is available to all undergraduate and graduate engineering students. The facility supports general scientific computation and experimentation, engineering design and simulation, electronic data communications, word processing, and project documentation. The lab is equipped with 16 Sun Sparcstations, a Sun Sparc file server, two networked laser printers, and extensive Unix workstation software for word processing, scientific computation, software development, and engineering design.

6.6.3. General Computing Facility for ME Faculty

The computers in faculty offices are purchased through extramural funds and/or a faculty member's initial complement. Every office is equipped with a high-end PC computer. All computers are connected to the College of Engineering UNIX server and to the campus Ethernet.

6.6.4. Other Facilities Available to the ME Program

The following facilities are available to the ME Graduate Program:

1. Micro-computing Laboratory operated by UCR Computing and Communications

2. VAX facility operated by UCR Computing and Communications

3. Visualization Lab operated by UCR Computing and Communications

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Chapter 7

CHANGES IN SENATE REGULATIONS

Establishment of the proposed Mechanical Engineering graduate program will not require any changes in the current Academic Senate regulations.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

[1] Proposal for a College of Engineering at UCR, University of California, Riverside, Oct. 9, 1986.

[2] UCR Bourns College of Engineering, ABET Accreditation Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume I, July 1994, I-14.

[3] Department of Finance (DOF) Report 89 E-2, February, 1989.

[4] Department of Finance (DOF) Report 90 P-2, January, 1990.

[5] California State Department of Finance (DOF) Report 91 P-1, May 1991.

[6] California State Department of Finance (DOF) Report 93 P-1, April 1993.

[7] Raymond L. Orbach, Technology is the Future, University of California, Riverside, November,

1998.

[8] UCR Bourns College of Engineering, ABET Accreditation Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Mechanical Engineering Program, July 1998.

[9] Satish K. Tripathi, Five-Year Plan for the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, January 1999.

[10] National Science Foundation, Notice No. 107, September 1989.

[11] Department of Defense, University Research Initiation Program Announcement, 1995.

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