Graduate Courses (MEMA)

The Mechanics and Materials course offerings perform three major functions. First, and most importantly, they are interdisciplinary vehicles for staff and students who study and conduct research in those increasingly important problems requiring a blending of mechanics and materials. Second, they provide the support base for graduate students to pursue studies in the traditional areas of either applied mechanics or materials science.

The following courses described in the TAMU Graduate Catalog in the section entitled Mechanics and Materials (MEMA) are part of the curriculum in aerospace engineering:

601. Theory of Elasticity. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 605 and MEEN 603.
602. Continuum Mechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 603.
604. Mathematical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics. (3-0). Credit 3.
605. Energy Methods. (3-0). Credit 3.
606. Multifunctional Materials. (2-1). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 606 and MSEN 606.
607. Flow and Fracture of Polymeric Solids. (3-0). Credit 3.
608. Nanomechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 608 and MSEN 608.
609. Materials Science. (3-0). Credit 3.
610. Applied Polymer Science. (3-0). Credit 3.
611. Fundamentals of Engineering Fracture Mechanics. (3.0). Credit 3.
612. Wave Propagation in Isotropic and Anisotropic Solids. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 612
613. Principles of Composite Materials. (3-0). Credit 3.
614. Physical Phenomena in Materials. (3-0). Credit 3.
616. Damage and Failure in Composite Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 616. 625. Micromechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 617.
626. Mechanics of Active Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 618.
633. Theory of Plates and Shells. (3-0). Credit 3.
635. Structural Analysis of Composites. (3-0). Credit 3.
641. Plasticity Theory. (3-0). Credit 3.
646. Introduction to the Finite Element Method. (3-0). Credit 3.
647. Theory of Finite Element Analysis. (3-0). Credit 3.
648. Nonlinear Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics. (3-0). Credit 3.
649. Generalized Finite Element Methods. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 649.
651. Viscoelasticity of Solids and Structures I. (3-0). Credit 3.
689. Special Topics in… Credit 1 to 4.

The following courses described in the TAMU Graduate Catalog in the section entitled Materials Science and Engineering (MSEN) are part of the curriculum in aerospace engineering:

601. Fundamental Materials Science and Engineering. (4-0). Credit 4.
602. Advanced Materials Science and Engineering. (4-0). Credit 4.
606. Multifunctional Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO 606 and MEMA 606.
608. Nanomechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-listed with AERO and MEMA 608.