CATALOG 1952-1953


 ML. 489.-Manufacturing Operations. 2 hours, and 3 hours laboratory. 3
credits. Prerequisite. EM. 366 or Corequisite: EM. 367. Offered 1, 2, 3.
 Machinery, materials and processes used in manufacturing. Subjects covered include,
inspection; gages and instruments, gage design and application, jigs, and fixtures, de-
sign and application, and production using machine tools with application of handbook
data. Hesse, Engineering Tools and Processes. Laboratory Instructions.

 ML. 490.-Manufacturing Operations. 2 hours, and 3 hours laboratory. 3
credits. The second half of the course ML. 489-490. Offered 1, 2.
 Machinery, materials and processes used in manufacturing. Subjects covered in-
clude casting, die casting, forging, blanking, welding, cutting and inspection of
casting and weldments by magnaflux and X-ray. Hesse, Engineering Tools and Pro-
cesses; Rossi, Welding and Its Application. Instructors notes.

 ML. 491.-Machine Design I. 3 hours, and 3 hours drawing. 4 credits.
Prerequisites: ML. 281, EM. 366, EM. 367. Offered 1, 2.
 Stress analysis of machine elements, design procedure, design of machine elements.

 ML. 492.-Machine Design II. 2 hours,and 3 hours drawing. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ML. 491. Offered 1, 2.
 A continuation of ML. 491 with advanced problems in design, and the design of a
complete machine.
 ML. 493.-Mechanical Design. 3 hours. 3 credits. Offered 1.
 Special problems in design.
 ML. 494.-Mechanical Design. 3 hours. 3 credits. The second half of the
course ML. 493-494. Offered 2.

 GRADUATE COURSES
 Prerequisites: See the prerequisites for the various courses offered.
 ML. 581.-Advanced Mechanical Design. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites:
EM. 366, ML. 491. Offered 1.
 Study of exciting forces and frequencies, resonant and forced vibration; linear and
torsional vibrating systems; one, two and three mass systems; multi-mass systems and
their natural frequencies; systems of one to six degrees of freedom; vibration absorbers;
vibration dampers; and methods of analysis to determine harmonic frequencies and
amplitudes, effect of hysteresis, etc. Freberg and Kemler, Elements of Mechanical Vi-
brations.
 ML. 582.-Advanced Mechanical Design. 2 hours, and 3 hours laboratory.
3 credits. Prerequisite: ML. 491. Offered 2.
 Study of forces and stresses in machines produced by inertia and accelerations.
Governors, flywheels, brakes, clutches and gyroscopic action are studied. Ham and
Crane, Mechanics of Machinery.
 ML. 583.-Mechanical Research. Variable credit. Prerequisite: ML. 483-
484. Offered 1, 3.
 Research projects in Mechanical Engineering.
 ML. 584.-Mechanical Research. Variable credit. The second half of the
course ML. 583-584. Prerequisite: ML. 583. Offered 2, 3.


The statement "Offered 1" means offered first semester; 2, second semester; 3, summer session.