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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.

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.

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.

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).

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