Please refer to the Cornell roster notes for the application process for MAE 4340/4341: https://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/FA14/
Course Information
Taking MAE 3240 and MAE 3250 Concurrently in Summer at Cornell
You may take MAE 3230 and 3240 concurrently in the Summer, offered Co-op first session, May 22-July 7. You do not need to participate in the Co-op Program to take MAE 3230, 3240, 3250 and 3260. MAE 3250 and 3260 will be offered Co-op second session, July 2-August 15).
Engrd 2210, MAE 2030 and 2120 will be offered during the six-week Summer Session.
Schedules and additional details for Summer: http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/
Important MAE Course Info For Fall 2014
Please be advised the Fall 2014 online roster and student center MAE classes and course schedules are not yet updated and currently reflect Fall 2013 courses and schedules. Updating will begin on Monday and will be completed by the end of March, if not sooner.
Here are some changes you will see:
MAE 3060, Spacecraft Engineering, will now be offered each Fall, taught by Professor Mason Peck. We will also be retaining MAE 3050 in the Fall term, taught by Professor Pepiot.
MAE 4700/5700, Finite Element Analysis for Mech and Aero Design (also senior design, MAE 4701), will be offered in the Fall, taught by Professor Zabaras.
MAE 4150, GPS: Theory and Design, will not be offered next academic year.
MAE 4340, and senior design, MAE 4341, Innovative Product Design via Digital Mfg, taught by Professor Shepherd, will be limited enrollment. Application process will be announced Summer 2014.
MAE 5200, Dimensional Tolerancing in Mechanical Design, taught by Professor Voelcker, will be offered either Fall 2014 or Spring 2015, to be determined Summer 2014.
Student Center Not Updated for Fall 2014
Important—when you are looking at the Fall 2014 schedule on Student Center, please be advised this is the schedule from Fall 2013. The Fall schedule will be updated by the end of March and you should consult with the online roster for accurate time and room information and for any additional class notes. Please do not depend on Schedulizer or any other of these programs for final course schedules.
USE THE CORNELL ROSTER
If you are entering the M.Eng. Program in the Fall or are currently in the Early M.Eng. Program, you will be unable to pre-enroll in April. You will be able to enroll when electronic enrollment resumes prior to the Fall 2014 semester.
Spring 2014 Schedule Review
Strongly recommended: Check your Spring schedule for courses and credits. If what you believe you registered for is not appearing on Student Center or if the credits are incorrect, you risk not getting credit for what you are taking. Students on project teams or who are performing independent research should pay extra attention. If you think you dropped a course and it still noted on Student Center, then you can still electronically drop this course.
- For project teams and ind. research, one of these courses should be appearing: MAE 1900, MAE 4900, and for FSAE–MAE 4250.
- For senior design, one of these courses should be appearing: MAE 4291 (project teams or independent research), or for classes: MAE 4xx1. All senior design courses begins with a four and ends with a one.
Pre-Enrollment and Other Important Dates – Advantages of Using the Cornell Roster
Cornell Roster: Course and room information can be obtained on the web at http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/SP14/
Use the Cornell Roster when Fall 2014 courses (and subsequent semesters) are posted online. Schedulizer and other programs are not accurate, but may be used as a guide. The Roster lists the most up-to-date information and lists comments, and may also include pdf flyers for new course descriptions not yet posted in the Courses of Study http://courses.cornell.edu/
FRIDAY 2/14/14
Last Day to register without incurring late registration fees
SATURDAY 2/15/14
February Break Begins
WEDNESDAY 2/19/14
Instruction Resumes at 7:30am
FRIDAY 3/14/14 by 4:00pm
LAST DAY TO DROP a course without a “W” appearing on transcript and without a petition (end of 7th week)
ABSOLUTE LAST DAY TO CHANGE GRADE OPTIONS (from S/U to Letter, or from Letter to S/U)
MONDAY 3/17/14
First day a “W” will appear on transcripts for courses dropped by petition
SATURDAY 3/29/14
Spring Break Begins
MONDAY 4/7/14
Instruction Resumes at 7:30am
WEDNESDAY 4/9/14 – WEDNESDAY 4/23/14
Pre-Enrollment for FALL 2014 begins/ends for each class:
All periods begin at 7:00am and end at 4:00pm
Graduate/Professional 4/9/14 – 4/11/14
Senior Students (as of FA14) 4/14/14 – 4/16/14
Junior Students (as of FA14) 4/16/14 – 4/18/14
Sophomore/Freshman Students (as of FA14) 4/21/14 – 4/23/14
FRIDAY 4/25/14
ABSOLUTE LAST DAY TO DROP A COURSE (petition required). A “W” will appear on the transcript for these courses (end of 12th week)
WEDNESDAY 5/7/14
LAST DAY of CLASSES
THURSDAY 5/8/14 – SUNDAY 5/11/14
Study Period
MONDAY 5/12/14
First Day of Scheduled Final Exams – Good Luck!
TUESDAY 5/20/14
Last Day of Scheduled Final Exams
SUNDAY 5/25/14
COMMENCEMENT
If You Need Transition to Java for Spring 2014
Transition to Object-Oriented Programming. CS 1130.
Juniors, Seniors and MEng Students Interested in Energy Issues
To: Juniors, Seniors and MEng Students Interested in Energy Issues
From: Professors Paulette Clancy, David Hammer and Andrew Hunter
Date: January 20, 2014
Subject: The Energy Engineering Seminar Series, Spring Semester, 2014
Fridays at 12:20 – 1:10 PM — 165 Olin Hall
(ChemE 5880, ECE 5880 or MAE 5469)
Organizational Meeting and first seminar January 24, 2014:
“Making Sustainable Energy Choices when Everything Matters”
Professor Jeff Tester, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
David Croll Chair, Sustainable Energy Systems
Are you interested in energy-related topics, such as when (if ever) we might run out of fossil fuel, whether fuel cells are nearing economic viability, how we might be producing electricity 50 years from now, and what some of the environmental consequences of energy use are? Then consider spending one lunch hour per week during Spring 2014 listening to talks on these and other energy-related subjects at the Energy Engineering Seminar Series.
Students wishing to attend most or all of the weekly Energy Seminars are encouraged to register for ChemE 5880, ECE 5880 or MAE 5469, 1 credit, S/U (or letter grade). You will be asked to attend 9 (or 13) seminars and turn in 9 (or 13) 1-page summaries of the seminars to receive a grade of S (or A).
Seminar speakers will be Cornell faculty members from several departments as well as engineers and executives from government and industry. The time is Friday from 12:20 PM to 1:10 PM, and the room is 165 Olin Hall.
Students from any department in Engineering or the Physical Sciences should find these talks understandable.
The first meeting of the course, an organizational session with an introductory seminar, will be Friday January 24, 2014, 12:20-1:10 PM in 165 Olin Hall. The seminar topic is, “Making Sustainable Energy Choices when Everything Matters,“ and the speaker will be Professor Jefferson Tester of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Lab Swap Procedure for MAE 3260, 3272, 2250, and 2030
Need to change your lab but the lab you want is full?
1. Go to first floor of Upson Hall and you will see lab swap sheets posted on the bulletin board between 112 and 110 Upson.
2. Note your name, e-mail, current lab and the lab you want.
3. Check back frequently to see if there is anyone you can trade labs with.
4. Contact the person you want to trade labs with and then arrange to arrive, at the same time, to 104 Upson Hall to complete an add/drop form.
5. Submit the form to 158 Olin Hall
New Course for Seniors and M.Eng.
MechE Summer 2014 Class Offerings – Revised
For Summer Session 2014 Details:
http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/index.php
The following MAE courses will be offered Summer 2014:
MAE 2120; Engrd 2210; MAE 2030 (formerly TAM 2030), 6-week Summer Session, June 23-August 5
MAE 3230; MAE 3240 (may be taken concurrently), May 22-July2
MAE 3250; MAE 3260, July 7-Aug 15
You do not need to be participating in the Co-op Program to take courses offered for Co-op students.
These courses will be offered at the same time in Summer 2014 as they were in Summer 2013.
If You Are Taking MAE 2030 Dynamics Spring 2014
From Professor Ruina, instructor for MAE 2030, Dynamics, Spring 2014
I like this course and most students do also. But it is also somewhat challenging for most students, at least here and there.
Things go best if you come prepared. Here is what I expect at the start.
ODEs.
You should know, in a familiar kind of way, not a rote kind-of-remember it kind of way, these equations and their solutions:
\dot x = 0
\dot x = c any constant
\dot x = f(t) any function
\dot x = ax
\ddot x = 0 or const or f(t)
\ddot x + cx = 0
\ddot x – cx = 0
You should be able to code up Euler’s method of numerical solution to any equation of this form, without looking up anything:
\dot x = f(x,t) (with f(x,t) given.
STATICS:
You should be able to competently do any homework, prelim or final exam problem from the Statics part of TAM 2020. If you got them wrong when you took the class, you should learn how to do them right. The Strength part (stress, strain, etc) is not used at all in 2030.
Especially this means being competent at Free Body Diagrams and at Vectors (dot product, cross product, solving vector equations). You can review all of this in your TAM 2020 text or in my book which is online here:
http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/Book/
MATLAB:
You should be able to get around in Matlab. This means being able to make plots, write functions, write loops, vaguely understand error messages, etc.
If you have NO experience with Matlab you could be fully\ up to speed if you spend an honest 2 hours a day, for a week, doing any Matlab tutorials.
If you can do all of these without looking up anything, you should be fine. Best is if you can do them more than one way. This list is not exhaustive, just representative of the kind of thing you should be able to do.
* Plot a circle that looks round.
* Find 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + … 100^2 using loops
* Find 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + … 100^2 using .^
* Write a function that takes as input any list of numbers and finds, without using the matlab median command, the median number in the list.
* Given any two lists of numbers, make an array that is the times table for the two lists.
* Euler’s method (See ODEs above).
CS Java 1-Credit Transition Course Revision for Spring 2014
The decision has been made to offer the self-paced version of CS 1-credit transition Java (with required Discussion attendance and firm deadlines). It will be offered Spring 14 and Spring 15.
DID YOU KNOW…?
1. MechE has four female saxophone players in the Cornell Marching Band, one of whom is the manager.
3. There were over 4500 sign-ins in the Emerson Machine Shop in Spring 2013.
4. The decision has been made to offer the self-paced version of CS 1-credit transition Java (with required Discussion attendance and firm deadlines). It will be offered Spring 14 and SP15.
5. Students may not double-count MechE course requirements with the exception of minors or with dual/double major courses.
6. Students should use the Cornell Course and Time Roster for accurate scheduling information: http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/SP14/
7. MechE is the largest undergrad Major in the College of Engineering at Cornell. Last year, 121 B.S., M.E. degrees were awarded, and we anticipate 153 for the Class of ’14, and 164 for the Class of ’15. By the end of 2015, we anticipate an additional 14 Independent Majors who Majored in MechE from 2013-2015.
8. After you secure a job or internship, we’d enjoy seeing where you are going, so post your job and location on the map located between Upson 110 and 112.
9. Foreign Languages, whether AP or taken here or elsewhere, are categorized as FL – foreign language, and may be counted as liberal studies. Students who place out with a Department Exam for Chinese languages, e.g., Mandarin, may fulfill one of the 2000-level required liberal studies.
10. AP liberal studies classes are 1000-level.
11. Technical Writing is fulfilled by MAE 4272, a required senior class.
MAE 4900 (research and project team) and MAE 4291 (senior design) reports due (approx) December 12
To allow time for grading of reports, please discuss with your project team /research advisor if (MAE 4900) and when (MAE 4291) reports are due–if possible, around December 12.
