2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
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William L. Dunn, Head
Professors: Beck, Dunn, Eckels, Fenton, Hosni, Jones, McGregor, Pacey, Shultis,Thompson, and Wang; Associate Professors: Cai, Lease, Madanshetty, Schinstock, White, and Xin; Assistant Professors: Abdou, Betz, Bindra, Derby, Roberts, Singh, and Spaulding; Instructor: Wanklyn; Emeriti Professors: Appl, Azer, Ball, Eckhoff, Faw, Gorton, Gowdy, Hightower, Huang, Lindholm, Merklin, Pauli, Simons, and Swenson.
3002 Rathbone Hall
785-532-5610
Fax: 785-532-7057
E-mail: info@mne.k-state.edu
www.mne.ksu.edu
Mechanical engineering is a broad profession that traditionally comprises three primary subfields: energy, mechanisms and machinery, and controls. The work done by mechanical engineers includes the design, construction, and use of systems for the conversion of energy available from natural sources (water, fossil fuels, nuclear fuels, solar radiation) to other forms of useful energy (for transportation, heat, light, power); design and production of machines to lighten the burden of servile human work and to do work otherwise beyond human capability; processing of materials into useful products; and creative planning, development, and operation of systems using energy, machines, and resources; and manufacturing.
The curriculum includes engineering science courses in the sophomore and junior years and engineering application courses in the junior and senior years. Laboratory courses and humanities and social science electives are found throughout the curriculum. The laboratory and application courses provide opportunity for development of student creativity, use of design methodology, and other aspects of engineering design.
The entire curriculum serves as preparation for the industrial design project where teams of students are assigned to work on realistic engineering problems supplied by industrial sponsors. This brief internship gives new mechanical engineering graduates the experience and confidence to move quickly into productive and satisfying careers.
Because of the broad and fundamental nature of the curriculum, mechanical engineering provides an excellent background for careers in such fields as law, medicine, social services, urban design, and business management in addition to traditional engineering professions.
Mission statement
The mission of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering is to (1) provide rigorous and challenging educational experiences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to enable students to attain their full potential, (2) conduct scholarship that is of national and international repute to generate new knowledge and technology for the benefit of society, and (3) provide service through outreach programs to our profession, the state, and the nation.
MNE program educational objectives
Graduates of the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department will, within a few years of graduation: (1) apply technical knowledge and skills in their chosen profession or toward advanced study to the greater benefit of society and the State of Kansas, (2) work productively within their professions and communities, and (3) demonstrate integrity, responsibility, and accountability in their professional activities, and actively participate in professional development.
MNE student outcomes
Graduates of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering will have (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability; (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (g) an ability to communicate effectively; (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning; (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues; (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice; (l) an ability to apply principles of engineering, basic science, and mathematics (including multivariate calculus and differential equations) to model, analyze, design, and realize physical systems, components or processes; and work professionally in both thermal and mechanical systems areas.
Individual Programs
The electives in the curriculum provide the opportunity for students to develop skills of individual interest. Students with clear career objectives may be permitted to substitute appropriate courses for some of the required courses. For example, students interested in the aerospace industry can choose elective courses in propulsion, aerodynamics, aircraft stability and control, and composite materials. A special interest in automobiles may prompt students to choose elective courses in internal combustion engines, machine vibrations, composite materials, and thermodynamic analysis. The combinations are extensive. Students may elect a program leading to specialized engineering practice or to postgraduate study in engineering, science, medicine, business, or law.
The nuclear engineering option prepares students for professional positions in industry, government, private practice, and postgraduate studies in the application of nuclear technology. Engineering fundamentals are emphasized throughout the curriculum with the nuclear engineering courses in the junior and senior years. Students may organize a program suited to their particular needs and interests.
Bachelor of Science
Minor
Mechanical Engineering
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ME 101 - Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Credits: (2) Introduction to the mechanical engineering curriculum and profession. Orientation for successful transition of new students to college life. Engineering approach to problem solving and computer use in all areas of mechanical engineering. Exchange of information regarding academic, technical, social, ethical, and professional matters between students, faculty, and practicing professionals.
Note Must be taken during the student’s first eligible fall or spring semester in mechanical engineering.
Two hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: MATH 220.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 212 - Engineering Graphics Credits: (2) Technical sketching, study of basic principles of projective geometry, multiview drawings, pictorials, reading and interpreting drawings, introduction to CAD, sectioning, dimensioning.
Note Six hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: Plane geometry.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 390 - Topics in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (Variable) Topics selected in consultation with instructor. Intended for interdisciplinary studies or innovative studies in mechanical engineering.
Note Repeatable.
Requisites Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 400 - Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (3) The development and application of computer techniques to the problems of design and analysis in mechanical engineering, including computer programming (abstraction and problem solving; algorithms; control structures; input/output; functions; arrays and array processing).
Note Two hours lecture a week and two hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite or concurrent: MATH 551.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 499 - Honors Research in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (Variable) Individual research problem selected with approval of faculty advisor. Open to students in the College of Engineering honors program. A report is presented orally and in writing during the last semester.
Note Repeatable.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 512 - Dynamics Credits: (3) Vector treatment of kinematics, Newton’s Laws, work and energy, impulse and momentum, with applications to problems of particle and rigid body motion.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: CE 333. Prerequisite or concurrent: MATH 240.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 513 - Thermodynamics I Credits: (3) Properties of the pure substance. The first and second laws of thermodynamics. Gas mixtures and psychrometry.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: PHYS 213; MATH 222.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 523 - Thermodynamics II Credits: (3) Continuation of Thermodynamics I. Energy analysis, thermodynamic cycles, generalized thermodynamic relations, and reactive systems.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 513.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 533 - Machine Design I Credits: (3) Introduction to the design and analysis of machine elements. Emphasis on materials, loads, stress, strain, deflection, failure theories, and finite element analysis. Applications include design and analysis of shafts, gears, and fasteners, weldments, springs, bearings.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: CE 533 and ME 512.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 535 - Measurement and Instrumentation Laboratory Credits: (3) Theory and application of mechanical engineering measurements, instrumentation, and computer-based data acquisition.
Note One hour recitation and six hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 513 and ECE 519.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 Empirical and Quantitative Reasoning
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ME 563 - Machine Design II Credits: (3) Design and analysis of machine elements. Applications include design and analysis of bearings, gears, shafts, clutches, brakes, belt and chain drives, and hydraulic fluid power.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 533.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 570 - Control of Mechanical Systems I Credits: (4) Introduction to modeling and control of dynamic systems encountered by mechanical engineers. Topics include basic linear systems modeling and analysis; feedback control; time response and stability of dynamic systems; introduction to root locus and frequency response design.
Note Three hours lecture and three hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 240, ME 400, and ME 512. Prerequisite or concurrent: ME 535 or NE 612.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 571 - Fluid Mechanics Credits: (3) Physical properties; fluid statics; dynamics of ideal and real fluids (for incompressible and compressible flow); impulse and momentum; laws of similitude; dimensional analysis; flow in pipes; flow in open channels; flow about immersed objects.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 512. Prerequisite or concurrent: ME 513.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 573 - Heat Transfer Credits: (3) Fundamentals of conduction, convection, and radiation; principles of heat exchanger design and dimensional analysis.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 400, ME 571, MATH 240.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 Natural and Physical Sciences
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ME 574 - Interdisciplinary Industrial Design Projects I Credits: (3) Introduction to design theory, project management, team dynamics and socio-economic context of design, etc.; application of design principles, engineering analysis and experimental methods to an industrial interdisciplinary design project involving design, analysis, fabrication and testing.
Note One hour recitation and six hours lab per week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 535 or NE 612, ME 571. Prerequisite or concurrent: ENGL 415, or instructor approval.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 575 - Interdisciplinary Industrial Design Projects II Credits: (3) Continuation of ME 574 with emphasis on in-depth project experience. Also, discussion of career planning, graduate school, ethics, technical/professional societies, and engineering licensing.
Note One hour lecture and five hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 574 or instructor approval.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility
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ME 610 - Finite Element Applications in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (3) The application of the finite element method to the solution of engineering problems. Topics include introductions to the methods, linear elastic stress analysis, thermal analysis, and modeling limitations and errors. Commercial computer codes are used in the applications.
Requisites Prerequisite: CE 533. Prerequisite or concurrent: ME 573.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 615 - Applications in Mechatronics Credits: (3) Application of Mechanical and Electronic engineering to design. Microcontrollers; sensors; analog-to-digital signal conversion; DC motor operation and pulse with modulation; drive train configuration; embedded C programming; competition at Engineering Open House.
Note Three hours lecture a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 400 or ECE 431. Corequisite: ME 535 (not required if ECE 431 is taken).
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 620 - Internal Combustion Engines Credits: (3) Analysis of cycles, design and performance characteristics.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 523.
When Offered Fall, even years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 622 - Indoor Environmental Engineering Credits: (3) Ventilation, heating and cooling system design for buildings. Application of thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics principles for determination of building heating and cooling loads. Determination of ventilation requirements. Sizing, design and integration of environmental control systems.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite or concurrent: ME 573.
When Offered Spring, even years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 628 - Aerodynamics Credits: (3) A general introduction to aerodynamics including the analysis of lift, drag, thrust, and performance for subsonic aircraft, and the application of aerodynamic principles to design.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 571, MATH 240.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 631 - Aircraft and Missile Propulsion Credits: (3) Mechanics and thermodynamics of aircraft and missile propulsion systems; combustion; air breathing jet engines; rockets; applied compressible flow; propellants; performance and design of propulsion systems.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 523, 571, MATH 240.
When Offered Spring, odd years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 633 - Thermodynamics of Modern Power Cycles Credits: (3) The first and second law analysis of modern steam cycles for both fossil-fuel and nuclear-fuel installations, Cycle efficiency and factors affecting performance, such as cycle design, load factor, and auxiliaries. Thermal pollution resulting from steam cycles.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 513.
When Offered Fall, odd years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 635 - Dynamics of Flight-Stability and Control Credits: (3) Development of the general dynamic equations of motion for six-degree-of-freedom aircraft. Aerodynamic and propulsion force and moment models, linear and flat earth approximations, static and dynamic stability and control analysis. Longitudinal and lateral normal modes, stability augmentation and automatic control design and simulation.
Requisites Prerequisite or concurrent: ME 570.
When Offered Spring, odd years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 640 - Control of Mechanical Systems II Credits: (3) Design and analysis of control systems. Topics include linear and nonlinear systems modeling; parameter estimation/system identification; steady state errors; advanced root locus and frequency response design; controller implementation.
Note Two hours lecture and three hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 570 and MATH 551.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 651 - Introduction to Composites Credits: (3) Design, fabrication and testing of various composite materials. Analysis of mechanical properties of laminated composites.
Note Two hours recitation and 3 hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: CE 533 and senior standing in engineering.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 656 - Machine Vibrations I Credits: (3) A general consideration of free and forced vibration in machines for various degrees of freedom; critical speed; vibration isolation.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 512 and MATH 240.
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 699 - Problems in Mechanical Engineering Credits: (Variable) Note Repeatable.
Requisites Prerequisite: Approval of department head.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 701 - Development of Computer Applications In Mechanical Engineering Credits: (3) Nature of design, graphical user interface development to support computer-aided design, algorithms and computer graphics in computer applications, feature-based design, applications to design problems.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 400.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 716 - Intermediate Dynamics Credits: (3) General vector principles of the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies; applications to orbital calculations, gyrodynamics, and rocket performance; introduction to the energy methods of advanced dynamics.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 512, MATH 240.
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 720 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics Credits: (3) A continuation of ME 571 in the study of general topics in fluid mechanics. Conservation of mass and momentum principles with particular emphasis on analysis of inviscid (potential) flows, compressible flows, and more advanced viscous flows including boundary layers. Numerous applications utilizing numerical methods.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 571, MATH 240.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 721 - Thermal Systems Design Credits: (3) Thermal systems design including economics, simulation, and optimization. Includes heating, ventilating and air conditioning design and control.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 573.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 722 - Human Thermal Engineering Credits: (3) Application of thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics principles of the thermal analysis of the human body. Mathematical analysis and computer modeling of human response to the thermal environment. Evaluation of heat stress and cold stress. Protection from heat and cold. Requirements for thermal comfort and impact on human performance..
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 573.
When Offered Fall, odd years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 728 - Computer Control of ElectroMechanical Systems Credits: (3) Discrete modeling and analysis of dynamic physical systems in mechanical engineering. Sampling and data conversion and reconstruction. Real time implementation of control on a computer. Digital controller design and implementation. Laboratory exercises in control applications and design.
Note Two hours of recitation and three hours of laboratory per week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 570.
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 730 - Control Systems Analysis and Design Credits: (3) Use of classical analysis techniques for control system compensation. State space-control theory fundamentals are presented in addition to an introductory treatment of several major systems areas.
Requisites Prerequisite: ECE 530 or ME 640.
When Offered Spring
Cross-listed ECE 730
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 738 - Experimental Stress Analysis Credits: (3) Experimental methods of investigating stress distributions. Photoelastic models, photoelastic coatings, brittle coatings, and resistance strain gauges applied to static and dynamic problems.
Note Two hours recitation and three hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite or concurrent: CE 533.
When Offered Fall, even years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
KSIS Course Search
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ME 760 - Engineering Analysis I Credits: (3) Methods of analysis employed in the solution of problems selected from various branches of engineering. Emphasis is on discrete systems.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 240 and senior standing.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 773 - Intermediate Heat Transfer Credits: (3) Conduction, convection and radiation, mass transfer, phase change, heat exchangers, introductory numerical methods.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: ME 573.
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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ME 777 - Monte Carlo Methods Credits: (3) The objective of this course is to explore various methods of Monte Carlo for solving direct and inverse problems in engineering. The course covers probability distributions; laws of large numbers and Central Limit Theorem; pseudorandom number generation; sampling, scoring, and precision; variance reduction procedures; Markov chain Monte Carlo; inverse Monte Carlo; solution of linear operator equations; particle transport simulation.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 240 or equivalent and knowledge of a programming language.
When Offered Spring, even years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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Nuclear Engineering
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NE 250 - Reactor Operations Laboratory Credits: (3) A basic course in reactor operator licensing, nuclear safety, and reactor operations with structured laboratory exercises.
Note Two hours lecture and one three-hour lab per week.
Requisites Prerequisite: PHYS 213.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 385 - Engineering Computational Techniques Credits: (2) Application of digital computer methods to the solution of engineering problems.
Note Two hours lecture a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 220.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 415 - Introduction to Engineering Analysis Credits: (3) Introduction to analytical, statistical, and numerical analysis, including computer programming, as applied to engineering.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 211 or 221.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 495 - Elements of Nuclear Engineering Credits: (3) Survey of nuclear engineering concepts and applications. Nuclear reactions, radioactivity, radiation interaction with matter, reactor physics, risk and dose assessment, applications in medicine, industry, agriculture, and research.
Note Three hours lecture a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 221, PHYS 213.
When Offered Fall, Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 Global Issues and Perspectives
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NE 612 - Principles of Radiation Detection Credits: (3) Operating principles and general properties of devices used in the detection and characterization of ionizing radiation. Fundamental methods of data interpretation and presentation.
Note Two hours recitation and three hours lab a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: NE 495.
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 620 - Problems in Nuclear Engineering Credits: (Variable) Specific studies in current and advanced problems in various phases of nuclear engineering.
Note Repeatable.
Requisites Prerequisite: Consult program director.
When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 630 - Nuclear Reactor Theory Credits: (3) Theory of neutron diffusion and thermalization with application to steady-state nuclear reactors.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: MATH 240, NE 495.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 648 - Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Credits: (3) Theory and measurement of nuclear and reactor parameters of fundamental importance to nuclear reactors and their operation.
Note Two hours lecture and three hours lab. a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: NE 612 and NE 630.
When Offered Spring
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 690 - Radiation Protection and Shielding Credits: (3) Basic concepts of radiation protection, doses, associated risks, and exposure limits. Properties of natural and other radiation sources, and evaluation of internal and external doses. Techniques for shield design including ray, point kernel, and transport theories for both neutrons and gamma rays.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: NE 495.
When Offered Fall
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 737 - Intermediate Radiation Measurement Applications Credits: (3) The course will cover physical principles and mathematical modeling of radiation-based measurement systems used in medical and non-medical applications. Topics include measurement principles and inverse methods, radio-gauging, radio-tracing, quantitative analysis methods, imaging with ionizing radiation, and radiation scanning.
Note Three hours lecture a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: NE 612, NE 690.
When Offered Spring, odd years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 761 - Radiation Measurement Systems Credits: (3) Principles of systems used to measure radiation. Applications to radiation monitoring, dosimetry, and spectroscopy.
Note Three hours recitation a week.
Requisites Prerequisite: NE 612.
When Offered Fall, odd years
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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NE 799 - Special Topics in Nuclear Engineering Credits: (Variable) Topical material of importance in nuclear engineering, such as controlled thermonuclear reactions, numerical analysis, Monte Carlo methods in radiation transport, effects of nuclear explosions, etc.
Requisites Prerequisite: Consent of program director.
When Offered On sufficient demand
UGE course No
K-State 8 None
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