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This course presents the student with a general vision of the most important areas in Mechanical Engineering, and also their impact on the current technological society. Topics about fundamentals of engineering design, materials engineering, manufacturing processes, energy,English,- conversion, machine design and construction are discussed from several points of view, both empirical and analytical.

This course trains students in the planning and execution of experiments in the context of real practice of Engineering and discusses topics such as systems of units, basic measurement of phenomena, collecting data, sampling and basic signal analysis, among others.

Complementary course of exercises and laboratories in IMEC 1001 Fundamentals of Experimentation

Additional IMEC 1000 exercise and laboratory course - Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

This course provides students an introduction to the concepts, tools and basic biology and medicine applications.

Thermodynamics is the first of four courses required in the energy conversion area. This course focuses on the understanding and application of the first and second law of thermodynamics to the analysis of basic macroscopic thermodynamic systems. Thus, it deals with the study of the various energy forms and its transference through the system boundaries in the forms of heat and work. Additionally, pure substances are studied and closed and open systems are analyzed. The course is complemented with the study of the Otto, Diesel, and Brayton power cycles.

One of the most common problems for an engineer is to decide proportions, shape and materials for an element of a machine or structure, which have to support external forces during a lifespan without excessive wear, deformation or fracture. The purpose of this course is to provide at the student with bases on structural design unifying concepts from applied mechanics and science of materials.

This course gives the student a conceptual framework for understanding the behavior of materials in engineering: metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. This course emphasizes in the relation between the structure at several scales (nano, micro and macro scale) and the physical and mechanical properties of materials in order to understand the mechanical processes of fabrication as well as treatments to modify properties.

This is a project-based course that approaches technical drawing as an Engineering language and shows how it is a powerful tool for design and communication. The projects challenge the student and require that he or she use graphic means to communicate technical ideas. Freehand drawing and the use of contemporary CAD techniques are especially encouraged.

Additional IMEC 1503 exercise and laboratory course - Graphic Design in Engineering

One of the most common problems an engineer is faced with is to decide proportions, shape and materials to be used in a machine or structure, which must support external loads during a certain lifecycle, with no evidence of excessive wear, deformation or fractures.  Hence, the purpose of this course is to provide the structural design fundamentals, based on a unified treatment of the mechanics applied and the materials science. As such, the Deformed Solids Mechanics study can be summarized in the knowledge of the following aspects: · Analysis of induced stress and deformation in a loaded body, which may be studied through the use of balance methods (laws of force), the force-deformation ratios (unitary stress-deformation) and the geometrical deformation compatibility conditions (each deformed portion in a body must adjust to other adjacent bodies). ·         Determination, through analysis or tests, of the highest load that a mechanical structure or element can hold with no damages or failures caused, or without jeopardizing the function for which it was selected. ·         Determination of body shape and selection of the most appropriate, efficient materials to withstand a certain force system, under specific operating environmental conditions (design function). The growing demand of more and more sophisticated structures and machinery components obliges engineers to have a clear understanding of stress, deformation and material property components. Hence, the course must offer students ideas and information needed to understand the basic concepts of deformable body mechanics and, therefore, promote the creative design process. Furthermore, students must develop imitation and / or algorithm application skills in the solution of mathematical models applied to the calculation of mechanical elements and to the analysis and synthesis (division of material stress and deformation problems, including movement restriction and proposal of global solutions).  

Additional IMEC 1520 exercise and laboratory course - Deformed Solids Mechanics

This is the first course of a series of three courses in the area of Mechanical Systems in the Mechanical Engineering Program. This course focuses on the basic concepts of applied mechanics in engineering (free body diagram, degrees of freedom, Newton’s laws, etc). This course is structured in three parts: the first part is dedicated to fundamentals; the second part is dedicated to statics of particles, bodies and systems; the third part is dedicated to dynamics of particles (kinematics and kinetics; motion in a plane, conservation of energy and linear momentum).

Additional IMEC 1541 exercise and laboratory course - Rigid Solids Mechanics

Automation and production research group seminar where participants demonstrate their progress in the research topics they are working on.