Component Type	Contact Hours
Laboratory	3.0
Seminar	2.0

Enrollment Component	Per Semester	Per Section	Multiple Sections?	Comments
Lecture and Lab	20	20	No	n/a

SIS Program Code	Program Title	Required or Elective?
14AEBS	Aerospace Engineering	Elective
14MEBS	Mechanical Engineering	Elective

Catalog Description

NDT/NDE is a 3-credit elective course covering the general defect and damage types in materials and structures, principles of NDT/NDE techniques, and NDT/NDE applications. Associated lab modules (3 weeks) provide hands-on opportunities to students on often used NDT/NDE methods including magnetic particle, ultrasonics, and eddy current methods. A final project team will work on research and industrial NDT/NDE solutions.

Justification for each revision:

As a means of ensuring safety, quality, reliability and cost-effective maintenance, nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT /NDE) has been paid greater attention than ever in materials, design, manufacturing, civil, aerospace, mechanical, and energy industry. There is no associated course offered by MAE to prepare undergraduate students for their career in NDT /NDE. In this new undergraduate NDT/NDE course, both fundamentals of NDT/NDE and lab modules will be taught so that interested students can be knowledgeable about NDT /NDE techniques and gain some hands-on experiences to meet the immediate need of NDT /NDE skills in industry across the world. A final project will offer students a opportunity to look closely at the research and industrial NDT/NDE problems and the possible solutions. Specific goals of the NDT/NDE course are for students to:

• Understand the fundamentals of NDT/NDE techniques through hands-on experiments and real-time observations;

• Be familiar with and able to use key NDT/NDE instrumentation and techniques;

• Experience NDT /NDE research through problem-based learning in the final projects;

• Be prepared for pursuing advanced degree and/ or NDT /NDE-related industrial career.

As a special topic course (MAE 495), the NDT/NDE course was firstly offered in fall2013 with the grant support from American Society of Non-destructive Testing (ASNT). The course was offered again as MAE 495 in fall2015. The enrollment number for 2013 and 2014 were 11 students and 15 students, respectively. Inspired by the very positive feedbacks received from students who took MAE 495 NDT /NDE course, I am convinced that NDT /NDE course should be offered as a regular elective course at MAE.

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GEP Categories

Humanities Open when gep_category = HUM

Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:

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Obj. 1) Engage the human experience through the interpretation of culture.

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Obj. 2): Become aware of the act of interpretation itself as a critical form of knowing in the humanities.

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Obj. 3) Make academic arguments about the human experience using reasons and evidence for supporting those reasons that are appropriate to the humanities.

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Mathematical Sciences Open when gep_category = MATH

Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:

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Obj. 1) Improve and refine mathematical problem-solving abilities.

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Obj. 2) Develop logical reasoning skills.

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Obj.O 1) Use the methods and processes of science in testing hypotheses, solving problems and making decisions

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Obj. 2) Make inferences from and articulate, scientific concepts, principles, laws, and theories, and apply this knowledge to problem solving.

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Obj. 1) Examine at least one of the following: human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes.

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Obj. 2) Demonstrate how social scientific methods may be applied to the study of human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes.

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Obj. 3) Use theories or concepts of the social sciences to analyze and explain theoretical and or real-world problems, including the underlying origins of such problems.

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Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:

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Obj. 1) Distinguish between the distinct approaches of two or more disciplines.

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Obj. 2) Identify and apply authentic connections between two or more disciplines.

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Obj. 3) Explore and synthesize the approaches or views of two or more disciplines.

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Visual & Performing Arts Open when gep_category = VPA

Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:

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Obj. 1) Deepen their understanding of aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of artistic traditions.

List the Instructor's student learning outcomes that are relevant to the GEP Visual & Performing Arts Objective 2:
Obj. 2) Strengthen their ability to interpret and make critical judgements about the arts through the analysis of structure, form, and style of specific works.

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Obj. 3) Strengthen their ability to create, recreate, or evaluate art based upon techniques and standards appropriate to the genre.

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Health and Exercise Studies Open when gep_category = HES

Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:

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Obj. 1) Acquire the fundamentals of health-related fitness, encompassing cardio-respiratory and cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, muscular flexibility and body composition.

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Obj. 2) Apply knowledge of the fundamentals of health-related fitness toward developing, maintaining, and sustaining an active and healthy lifestyle.

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Obj. 3) Acquire or enhance the basic motor skills and skill-related competencies, concepts, and strategies used in physical activities and sport.

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Obj. 4) Gain a thorough working knowledge, appreciation, and understanding of the spirit and rules, history, safety, and etiquette of physical activities and sport.

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Global Knowledge Open when gep_category = GLOBAL

Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:

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Obj. 1) Identify and examine distinguishing characteristics, including ideas, values, images, cultural artifacts, economic structures, technological or scientific developments, and/or attitudes of people in a society or culture outside the United States.

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Obj. 2) Compare these distinguishing characteristics between the non-U.S. society and at least one other society.

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Obj. 3) Explain how these distinguishing characteristics relate to their cultural and/or historical contexts in the non-U.S. society.

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Obj. 4) Explain how these disinguishing characteristics change in response to internal and external pressures on the non-U.S. society.

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US Diversity Open when gep_category = USDIV

Each course in the US Diversity category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.

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Obj. 1) Analyze how religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age identities are shaped by cultural and societal influences.

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Obj. 2) Categorize and compare historical, social, political, and/or economic processes producing diversity, equality, and structured inequalities in the U.S.

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Obj. 3) Interpret and evaluate social actions by religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age groups affecting equality and social justice in the U.S.

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Obj. 4) Examine interactions between people from different religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age groups in the U.S.

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Requisites and Scheduling

What percentage of the seats offered will be open to all students?

a. If seats are restricted, describe the restrictions being applied.

b. Is this restriction listed in the course catalog description for the course?

List all course pre-requisites, co-requisites, and restrictive statements (ex: Jr standing; Chemistry majors only). If none, state none.

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Additional Information

Complete the following 3 questions or attach a syllabus that includes this information. If a 400-level or dual level course, a syllabus is required.

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Major topics to be covered and required readings including laboratory and studio topics.

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Consultation

Instructional Resources Statement

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Course Objectives/Goals

Student Learning Outcomes

Through the study of MAE 440 course the student will be able to:

• Describe material and structure defects and the related NDT/NDE characterization methods

• Explain how defects affect the properties of materials and the performance of structures

• Perform selected NDT/NDE techniques for material characterizations and structure inspections

• Plan an independent research project in NDT /NDE

Student Evaluation Methods

Evaluation Method	Weighting/Points for Each	Details
Homework	20%	Homework/Quiz (10% Quiz + 10% HW, worst result to be dropped before taking average)
Exam	25%	Exam I
Exam	25%	Exam II
Project	30%	Final Project

Topical Outline/Course Schedule

Topic	Time Devoted to Each Topic	Activity
Course Syllabus and Policies	1 class	Course Syllabus and Policies; NDT /NDE history
NDT /NDE introduction	3 classes	NDT /NDE introduction: Material and structure defects, NDT /NDE techniques review, applications
Ultrasonic NDT /NDE	4 classes	Ultrasonic NDT principles, methods, equipment, and application cases
Acoustic Emission	2 classes	Acoustic emission principles, NDT /NDE methods, equipment and application cases
Midterm Exam	1 class	Midterm Exam 1 (25%)
Magnetic particle inspection	2 classes	Magnetic particle inspection: Magnetics, magnetic flux method, equipment and application cases
Eddy current NDT /NDE:	2 classes	Eddy current concepts, instrument, and application cases
Radiography NDT /NDE:	2 classes	Radiography NDT /NDE: Basic radiographic inspection principles, equipment, application cases
Penetrant NDT /NDE	2 classes	Penetrant NDT /NDE: Penetrant inspection principles, equipment, and application cases
Midterm Exam	1 class	Midterm Exam 2 (25%)
Lab module instruction	1 class	Lab module instruction: Introduction of lab modules
Lab Modules	6 classes	Lab modules : 3 lab experiments-ultrasound, eddy current and magnetic particle testing
Final Project	1 class	Final project topics introduction and presentation (30%)

Syllabus

MAE 440_syllabus.pdf

Additional Documentation

MAE 440_original_CAF.pdf

Additional Comments

Justification for this request

History

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Last approved: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:21:14 GMT

Last edit: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:21:14 GMT