Thesis-based Master of Science

Course-based Master of Science

1st Semester

ECTS

ECTS

ΜΕΜ 501 Special Topics in Higher Mathematics

7

ΜΕΜ 501 Special Topics in Higher Mathematics

7

ΜΕΜ 502 Advanced Dynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 502 Advanced Dynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 532 Advanced Thermodynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 532 Advanced Thermodynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 504 Research Methods

5

ΜΕΜ 504 Research Methods

or

ΜΕΜ 555 Advanced Topics in Mechanical and Materials Engineering

5

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Total

33

Total

33

2nd Semester

ECTS

ECTS

ΜΕΜ 584 Master Thesis (preparatory stage)

5

ΜΕΜ 505 Seminar

2

ΜΕΜ 505 Seminar

2

Elective course

5

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Total

28

Total

28

3rd Semester

ECTS

ECTS

ΜΕΜ 585 Master Thesis

30

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Elective course

7

Total

30

Total

28

Thesis-based Master of Science

ECTS

Course-based Master of Science

ECTS

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

MEM 501 Special Topics in Higher Mathematics

7

MEM 501 Special Topics in Higher Mathematics

7

ΜΕΜ 502 Advanced Dynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 502 Advanced Dynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 532 Advanced Thermodynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 532 Advanced Thermodynamics

7

ΜΕΜ 504 Research Methods

5

ΜΕΜ 504 Research Methods

or 

ΜΕΜ 555 Advanced Topics in Mechanical and Materials Engineering

5

ΜΕΜ 505 Seminar

ΜΕΜ 505 Seminar

2

ΜΕΜ 505 Seminar

ΜΕΜ 505 Seminar

2

Thesis-based Master of Science

ECTS

Course-based Master of Science

ECTS

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

MEM 537   Solar Energy Engineering

7

MEM 537   Solar Energy Engineering

7

MEM 503 Advanced Mechanics of Materials

7

MEM 503 Advanced Mechanics of Materials

7

MEM 514 Computational Fluid Mechanics

7

MEM 514 Computational Fluid Mechanics

7

MEM 531 Computational Methods

7

MEM 531 Computational Methods

7

MEM 534 Robotics

7

MEM 533   Organic Photovoltaics

7

MEM 535 Advanced Manufacturing

7

MEM 534 Robotics

7

MEM 536 Advanced Fluid Dynamics

7

MEM 535 Advanced Production Engineering

7

MEM 552   Advanced Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering

7

MEM 536 Advanced Fluid Dynamics

7

MEM 553 Design of Energy Efficient Buildings

7

MEM 538 Solid State Physics and Energy Materials

7

MEM 556 Biomechanics

7

MEM 539 Thermokinetics of Materials: An Energy Approach

7

MEM 558   Biomaterials

7

MEM 552   Advanced Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering

7

MEM 553 Design of Energy Efficient Buildings

7

MEM 554 Entrepreneurship

7

MEM 556 Biomechanics

7

MEM 557 Medical Physics

7

MEM 558 Biomaterials

7

Course Code

Course Title

Course Description

MEM 501

Special Topics in Higher Mathematics

Topics in general topology and real analysis. Complex analysis, conformal mappings, singular value decomposition. Topics in abstract algebra and in algebraic and differential geometry. Topics in numerical linear algebra and in algebraic graph theory. Convex sets, convex functions, duality and optimization. Calculus of variations, reduction to canonical form. Partial differential equations and boundary value problems, potential theory.

MEM 502

Advanced Dynamics

Spatial particle kinematics. Relative motions. Kinetics of mass particle and their systems. Spatial kinematics of rigid bodies. Rotations and orientation of a rigid body in space. Equations of motion of rigid bodies using the Newton/Euler formalism. Work, energy, momentum and their conservation in 3D space. D’Alembert Principle and virtual work. Generalized coordinates. Lagrange Equations. Hamilton Principle. Kane method.

ΜΕΜ 555

Advanced Topics in Mechanical and Materials Engineering

This course is available to graduate students enrolled in a Masters program in Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science and Engineering, wishing to gain knowledge in a specific area for which no graduate level course is regularly offered. Students are assigned an advisor and are required to either present a formal report or write a 3-hour final examination at the end of the course. In the latter case, appropriate bibliography with the requisite course material will be provided by the advisor.

MEM 504

Research Methods

The purpose of this course is to educate the students to perform their research in an organised way, to find information concerning scientific papers from the library and to help them to write a good scientific paper for a conference of a scientific journal and good research proposals. It will help them also to realise the peer review process of the scientific papers and the importance of the various indices for measuring the research and published work of scientists. Other matters taught include the planning of experiments, data collection, the relationship with the supervisor and the risk management. Finally, the students will be trained on the writing of scientific reports/thesis/dissertations.

MEM 532

Advanced Thermodynamics

Study of the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics, properties and property relations, availability and available work/power. The course will include a historical review, the 1st law for open and closed systems, flow systems with SSSF and USUF, the 2nd law, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, Maxwell relations, equations of state and development of property tables. It will also include availability and maximum work/power derivations.

ΜΕΜ 537 

Solar Energy Engineering

The purpose of this lesson is to teach the students to realize the importance of renewable energy sources and specifically of solar energy in an effort to achieve energy conservation and sustainable development. For this purpose, the course will cover subjects related to the collection and storage of solar energy and the ways of utilization of this energy for heating and cooling and the production of electrical energy. Additionally, it will deal with subjected related to the large heliothermic power systems, seawater solar desalination, photovoltaics and the utilization of wind energy. The economics of the above applications will be examined in parallel to the ways of their exploitations.

ΜΕΜ 503

Advanced Mechanics of Materials

The aim of this course is to train students in the fundamental concepts of mechanics of materials within the framework of continuum media: concept of stress, strain and constitutive relations for metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Examples from the theory of elasticity, plasticity and viscoelasticity. Thermal phenomena, residual stresses, impact mechanics and instability phenomena.Creep, fracture and fatigue. Analytical and approximate solutions in beams, frames, shafts, vessels, plates and other 2-d and 3-d boundary value problems. Energy methods. Examples from mechanical and materials engineering.

ΜΕΜ 514

Computational Fluid Mechanics

Fluid mechanics is typically being studied in three ways: a) theoretically β) experimentally and c) computationally (Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)). The objective of this course is to offer a thorough examination of computational fluid mechanics techniques so that students can analyze realistic flows with the help of modern software. The course will cover introduction to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in mechanical engineering, governing equations of fluid dynamics (conservation of mass, momentum and energy), mathematical behavior of partial differential equations, basic aspects of discretization, the theory and numerical techniques of CFD, coordinate transformations, advanced numerical schemes, future CFD methodology, modern CFD software including grid generation and flow visualization tools. Students will work on projects with complex fluid flow systems

ΜΕΜ 531

Computational Methods

The course aims at teaching students the appropriate techniques for modeling and solution of engineering-oriented problems of interest via computational methods. The course covers: (a) Non-dimensionalization of a physical model, the determination of the relevant scales that characterize the problem (time, space etc) and the extraction of the pertinent non-dimensional groupings. (b) Introduction to the approximate solution of differential equations using asymptotic techniques. (c) Finite Difference solution of PDEs. (d) Finite Element solution of ODEs/PDEs.

ΜΕΜ 534

Robotic mechanisms, industrial robots, field and service robots, collaborating systems, non-holonomic behavior. Kinematics, rotation matrices, homogeneous transformations, direct kinematics, inverse kinematics. Differential kinematics, geometric Jacobian, singular points, redundancy analysis, inverse differential kinematics, analytical Jacobian, statics. Trajectory planning. Dynamics, Lagrange formulation, properties of the dynamic model, dynamic parameter identification, Newton-Euler formulation, direct and inverse dynamics, manipulability ellipsoids. Lyapunov theory, position control and trajectory tracking, constraint control. Non-holonomic behavior in robotic systems, controlability and the Frobenious theorem, examples of non-holonomic systems, structure of non-holonomic systems. Motion planning for non-holonomic systems. Navigation functions. Sensor fusion, Kalman filters (KF, EKF, UKF), particle filters. Robot programming. The Robotic Operating System (ROS).

ΜΕΜ 535

Advanced Production Engineering

Aim of the course is to teach the different systems of production used in industry, and methods of improving productivity of the manufacturing process. Methods of organizing and planning production, according to the system the manufacturing company is using. Methods of automation of the Manufacturing processes and the use of integration of new technologies. Methods of optimising the production system of the company.

ΜΕΜ 536

Advanced Fluid Dynamics

The course of Advanced Fluid Dynamics aims to further enrich the knowledge of students in fluid dynamic analysis issues, so that they can study more complex problems of viscous, non-Newtonian (e.g. blood flows) and compressible flows. The issues to be addressed include: Viscous flow equations of motion and hemodynamics, compressible viscous fluid (equations Navier - Stokes). Exact solutions of the Navier Stokes equations (including pulsatile hemodynamic flows). Boundary layer theory and integral analysis in a control volume – exact solutions in two dimensions. Turbulent flow - Models of turbulence. Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and Rheology. Compressible flow, Mach number, adiabatic and isentropic steady flow, isentropic. Compreessible flow in converging-diverging nozles, Shock, 2D hypersonic flow, etc.

ΜΕΜ 552

Advanced Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering

Introduction to Land and Offshore Drilling: Introduction to land and offshore drilling, types of drilling rigs, types of oil platforms. Petroleum Engineering: Drilling methods and equipment, well casing, drill pipe and drill collars, drilling bits, drilling fluids/mud, vertical drilling, directional drilling, horizontal drilling, deviation control, ‘‘kicks’’ (blow-out and blow-out preventers), trouble shooting. Distillation/refining of crude oil, paraffinic, naphthenic, aromatic and asphaltic hydrocarbons, content of crude oils in foreign substances, products of crude oil, classification of crude oils, characterization parameters of crude oils, correlation index, distillation processes, separation, petroleum conversion, petroleum treatment, feed-stock and product handling, crude oil pretreatment-desalting. Reservoir Engineering: Introduction to reservoir engineering, how hydrocarbons are formed, types of rock formations, temperature and pressure of reservoirs, nature of reservoir fluids, characteristics of reservoir rock, porosity of reservoir rock, permeability of reservoir rock, absolute, effective and relative permeability, properties of reservoir fluids, volumetric behavior of reservoirs, phase diagrams, black oil, gas condensates, wet gas, dry gas, prediction and evaluation of reservoir properties, ideal and non-ideal gases, real gases, bubble point or solution gas reservoir, dew point or retrograde condensation reservoir, single phase reservoir, prediction of initial gas in place, production/separation of gas, under-saturated oil reservoirs, compressibility of formation and of reservoir fluids, reservoir water influx, methods of production, by volumetric depletion, by water influx, by separation/expansion of gas, prediction of initial oil in place, material balance equation. Petroleum Economics Evaluation: Purpose of evaluation, parameters affecting evaluation, economics of refining, economics of transportation, economics of production, the role of independent exploration companies, pricing structure of petroleum. 

ΜΕΜ 553

Design of Energy Efficient Buildings

The main purpose of the course is the students to understand the environmental and economic consequences of irrational use of energy in buildings and to appreciate the importance of saving energy. The specific aims of the course: The students will acquire the necessary knowledge in relation to the principles of energy performance of buildings, the related legislation, regulations and ministerial orders so as to be in a position to carry out studies on energy performance of buildings and issue the necessary certificates and reports. To be able to carry out technoeconomic studies for possible suggestions which will target to modify buildings. Finally, to inform the students about the energy resources and familiarize them for the energy audits in buildings. Analysis of the basic principles and computational tools pertaining to the design of buildings with low energy consumption with respect to heating, air-conditioning, service hot water and lighting. Basic solar geometry. Adaptation of the building in the built and natural environment. Thermal protection of shells and exploitation of the thermal capacity of shells with respect to heating systems. Sizing of openings, solar gains and undesirable loads. Natural and artificial lighting. Optimization of ventilation, natural cooling and solar shading as means of reducing cooling loads. Alternative methods of heating and cooling by incorporating RES systems in the building shell. Cypriot and European legislation for new and existing buildings. Insulation regulation, techno economic studies, determination of building materials properties, thermo-photography and other measuring equipment. Determination of thermal comfort. The course is accompanied by a suitable design-based project.

ΜΕΜ 556

Biomechanics

The scope of the course is to introduce the basic concepts of biomechanics and establish a foundation upon which other courses on biomedical engineering will be developed. Specifically, the course deals with applications of mechanics (static and dynamic) of solid objects and fluid mechanics problems in biomedical engineering such as: blood rheology, hemodynamics, musculoskeletal biomechanics, muscle and movement and cellular biomechanics. Emphasis is given on modeling and clinical applications.

ΜΕΜ 558

Biomaterials

The objective of this course is to educate the students on the fundamental characteristics and properties of biomaterials, so that they can understand the response of these materials to different biological systems and stimuli. The course will examine physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of materials such as metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and natural materials used for biomedical applications, biomaterial response to biological systems (such as mechanical breakdown, corrosion, dissolution, leaching, chemical degradation, and wear), and living tissue response to biomaterials (such as inflammation, wound healing, carcinogenicity, immunogenicity, cytotoxicity, infection, local/systemic effects).

ΜΕΜ 533

Organic Photovoltaics

Organic semiconductors are based on organic electronic materials (conjugated polymers and small molecules) that can absorb light and conducting charge. Their semiconducting properties can be varied through chemical engineering and importantly in contrast to conventional inorganic semiconductors they can be processed from solution at low temperatures so that flexible solar cell devices can be manufactured by relatively low cost. The course will provide knowledge for the applications of solution processed electronic materials for solar cell applications. The course will focus on the relationship between the material properties their methods of processing and the function of devices for high performance (efficiency and Lifetime) Organic Photovoltaics. The course also includes an introduction to research and development of hybrid perovskite photovoltaics.

ΜΕΜ 538

Solid State Physics and Energy Materials

This course offers to the graduate student of the department, at master’s level, an advanced picture of selected topics in solid state physics and condensed matter. Since the master program is attended by students coming from various undergraduate programs in engineering and pure sciences (physics, chemistry, etc.), teaching starts from a fundamental background theory which is necessary for a deeper analysis of the chapters that follow. These chapters include topics on both mechanical and thermal properties and optoelectronic properties of materials, so they cover student interests who wish to specialize into general mechanical engineering, energy, renewable sources of energy, as well as micro/nanoelectronics and photonics. Thus, the central goal of the course is dual: to offer the student the necessary theoretical skills and to develop his/her analytical thinking, and help the student to get a deeper knowledge of modern cutting edge topics in mechanical engineering and materials science.

ΜΕΜ 539

Thermokinetics of Materials: An Energy Approach

Gas-gas, solid-solid and solid-gas reaction equilibria. The various topics on a per domain basis are given as follows. Gaseous reaction systems: controllable equilibrium states both at constant pressure or fugacity and constant volume, thermodynamic modeling, algorithmic simulations. Solid state reactions: Raoultian and Henrian solutions, controllable equilibrium states at isothermal isobaric and isothermal isochoric conditions and rapid thermal annealing, thermodynamic modeling, algorithmic simulations. Solid gas reaction equilibria: controlling the solid state equilibria and microstructural characteristics of the solid phase by regulating the corresponding equilibria states at the vapor phase, algorithmic simulations.

ΜΕΜ 554

Entrepreneurship

The aim of the course is to introduce engineering students (from all disciplines) to the basic ideas, principles, and procedures of technological entrepreneurship and new product development. The modules cover, equally, activities in an existing technology company or the creation of a new company.

ΜΕΜ 557

Medical Physics