Education
Graduate Students in Computational Mechanics Spring 2019
The activity proposes to develop permanent special topic course, and/or course module that could be integrated into undergraduate and graduate courses. Across all partners among UTEP, TSU, and FIU, engineering courses will be installed to train BS, MS, and Ph.D. students in broad areas of NNSA’s interest with particular emphasis on ceramic and polymer material synthesis, fabrication, characterization techniques, materials degradation and failure mechanisms, nondestructive evaluations, and advanced structural materials to solve critical problems in nuclear engineering. The proposed courses are:
This course focuses on several functional materials including ceramics and polymers that can be used in advanced materials systems for nuclear energy application such as sensing, energy storage, energy harvesting, and high temperature harsh environment. It provides diverse and rich content to the students about how research in the area of nano-material, manufacturing, and energy conversion in advancing the science and engineering domains.
This course is an introductory course in solid mechanics. Students will be introduced to topics such as Cartesian tensors, stress and strain, behavior of engineering materials, linear elastic behavior, constitutive equations, fracture and stress intensity factor, and solid mechanics for advanced materials.
This course focuses on several smart ceramic materials including piezoelectric, pyroelectric, thermoelectric, and their application in engineering systems such as sensing and actuation. In addition, polymer processing and rheology and their application in polymer processing will be discussed. The course content includes lecture, technical presentation, literature search, and presentation to enrich the learning outcome