The Dynamic Systems & Control area focuses on principles and methods for designing and controlling engineered and natural systems. A broad-based perspective inspires a creative engineering approach to applications involving systems comprised of multiple interacting energetic devices or processes having a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Specific areas of concentration that contribute to this effort include acoustics, applied mechanics, bioengineering, computational sciences, constitutive behavior and design of materials, electromechanics, control and information theory, multibody dynamics, and system dynamics. Typical application areas include novel transducer designs, biomechanics at the cellular and human scale, dynamics and control of power and vehicle systems, and innovations in signal and information theory. Graduates from this program may be found in the automotive and aerospace industries as well as in national research laboratories and start-up industries.
- The DSC area does not set any area specific course requirements. Faculty supervisors are encouraged to design a course plan for each student which employs all available university course resources to address each student’s needs.
- Not every course is offered every semester, consult the course catalog for course availability.
- Under current Graduate Studies Committee rules, up to two undergraduate electives may be taken for credit by MS students, if they have not previously taken a similar course.
- The course lists which follow identify relevant courses; they are not course plans or a list of required courses. The lists are intended primarily to assist new students in planning their first year course schedule.
- The final degree plan for each student must be approved by the Graduate Advisor. In the case of PhD students, the final course plan must also be approved by the dissertation committee.
- Courses are listed in the format used in the on-line (registration) course schedule. More detailed course descriptions can be obtained by consulting the online Graduate Catalog.
Generic Course Listing
Suggested courses:
1. Mathematics
- ME 380Q 1-Engr Anly: Analytical Meths
- PGE 381K Engineering Analysis
- ASE 381P 1-Linear Systems Analysis
2. Dynamics
- ME 383Q 2-Dynamics of Mechanical Systems
- ME 383Q 4-Modeling of Physical Systems
- ME 392Q 6-Mechatronics I
- ME 384R 1-Robotics and Automation
- ME384Q 3-Time Series Analysis Modeling and Control
3. Control
- ME 384Q 1-IIntro to Modern Control
- ME 397 Robot Design and Control
- ME 397 Digital Control
- ME 397 Dsgn/Cntrl of Robots for Rehab
- ME 364L Automatic Controls Sys Desig (MSE students only)
Topic:Dynamics
Suggested courses:
- ME 380Q 1-Engr Anly: Analytical Methods
- ME 383Q 2-Dynamics of Mechanical Sys
- ME 383Q 4-Modeling of Physical Systems
- ME 384Q 1-Intro to Modern Control
- ME 392Q 6-Mechatronics I
- ME 384R 1-Robotics and Automation
- ME 397P Projects in Mechanical Engr
Topic: Controls
Suggested courses:
- ME 380Q 1-Engr Anly: Analytical Meths
- ME 383Q 2-Dynamics of Mechanical Sys
- ME 383Q 4-Modeling of Physical Systems
- ME 384Q 1-Intro to Modern Control
- ME 397 Digital Control
- ME 397 Robot Design and Control
- ME 397P Projects in Mechanical Engr
Topic: Robotics: Design, Modeling and Control
Suggested courses:
- ME 397 Robot Design and Control
- ME 397 Robot Mechanism Design
- ME 383Q 2-Dyanmics of Mechanical Systems
- ME 397 Cyber-Vehicle Systems
- ASE 381P 1-Linear Systems
- CS 395T Robot Learning from Demonstration and Interaction
- ECE 382V Human Robot Interaction
- ME 385J 22-Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
- ME 397 Rehabilitation Robotics and Engineering
- ME 397 Dsgn/Cntrl of Robots for Rehab
Topic: Multiscale modeling
Suggested courses:
- PGE 381K Engineering Analysis
- PGE 382L Num Meth in Petrol/Geosys Engr
- ME 383Q 2-Dynamics of Mechanical Sys
- ME 383Q 4-Modeling of Physical Systems
- ME 386P 2-Mechanical Behavior of Materials
- ME 386Q 10-High-Temperature Materials
- EE 396V Carbon and 2D Devices
- ME 359 Materials Selection (for MSE students only)
