Former VP and Co-Owner, Milex Products Inc. Bob Shaw is currently a volunteer consultant at Northwestern University and serves on the ME Advisory Board, the McCormick Advisory Committee, and is an ...

On land, in air, in space, and underwater, as individuals and as teams, autonomous machines increasingly impact infrastructure, healthcare, security, manufacturing, and the environment. Our research ...

Fundamentals of surface contact: surface topography, asperity contact, interfacial phenomena. Friction theories and wear mechanisms. Temperatures in sliding contacts. Hydrodynamic, hydrostatic, ...

Introduction to microelectromechanical devices with an emphasis on their manufacturing and mechanical behavior. Material properties, microfabrication technology, mechanical behavior of of ...

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern, ranked among the top ten worldwide in mechanical engineering by the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and top five ...

Strategies and methods of designing, manufacturing, and testing of mechanical products. Engineering drawing and CAD, design methods, material properties, failure modes, selection methodology, ...

Friction. Kinetics of rigid bodies in planar motion. Equilibrium of rigid bodies. Mass centers and moments of inertia of rigid bodies, dynamics of rigid bodies in planar motion. Kinetics of particles.

The objective is to give students an introduction to the essential fluid mechanical concepts needed to work in some of the most contemporary areas of mechanical engineering: microfluidics, ...

Introduction to a wide range of computational techniques for engineering design. Modeling, simulation, optimization, design software, examples/projects with emphasis on computational techniques for ...

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This class covers the foundations of rigid multi-body mechanics. Topics include geometry of rigid bodies, rotating bodies, Lagrangian mechanics and variational principles, conservation of energy and ...

Structures fail due to improper manufacturing, accidents (overloads), and aging (fatigue, environmental damage). Intelligent Structural Health Management (ISHM) systems seek to prevent catastrophic ...