New courses added
In the past week we have added four courses namely Engineering Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics II. These courses are sourced from MIT OpenCourseware and are accompanied by excellent course materials. Even though these four courses do not have video recordings of the lectures, students and lecturers will find the material available very useful and interesting.Engineering Mechanics is listed in the Civil Engineering section and the rest of the courses are listed in Aeronautical Engineering. However, all these four courses are fundamental engineering courses which are relevant in other fields such as Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology.
Engineering Mechanics provides an introduction to the mechanics of materials and structures and covers all relevant physical properties and fundamental laws governing the behavior of materials and structures. The emphasis of the course is on the physical understanding of why a material or structure behaves the way it does in engineering design.
The course, Thermodynamics covers the use the First Law of Thermodynamics to estimate the potential for thermo-mechanical energy conversion particularly in aerospace power and propulsion systems. Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics II cover the physical properties of a fluid and their consequence on fluid flow, expressed in terms of Mach and Reynolds numbers. You will learn about the conservation principles of mass, momentum, and energy for fluid flow and how to apply the basic mathematical tools to fluid dynamics. You will also learn the conceptual and quantitative models of inviscid, steady fluid flow over simple bodies and in channels. A few of the more important topics will be taken to a moderately advanced level in Fluid Mechanics II.
(04 Apr 2009)
