Use of advanced analytical tools like MATLAB/SIMULINK, SCILAB/XCOS, etc. for solution of engineering problems and their applications (Application of these soft wares depends on the various problems formulated in different departments). Information literacy, information sources (media, publishers, aggregators); validity of information, plagiarism and legal aspects.
Information search – search engines, journal repositories, academic (social) networks, search strategies, personal contacts, tools for managing references. Integrating information literacy in research, cloud computing, audiovisual tools, e.g PowerPoint presentations. Literature review: Reading and summarizing relevant articles, critical analysis and evaluation of research, identification of themes and comparators, writing review documents and identification of research (or knowledge) gaps. Scientific method and nature of evidence: Experimental methods and design methods (as may be applicable to individual departments and research areas), data collection and management of quantitative data. Human participants – expert reviews, focus groups, questionnaires and interviews. Project management and report writing: project planning, report structure and style, general report writing techniques.

Philosophy of Engineering Design: techniques and analysis, synthesis and evaluation; The creative process: Design in the Corporate Environment: engineering research, marketing, finance and other corporate functions – and comprehensive design. Development Engineering; post-initial design development of new products, value engineering; development testing vs experimental research; case studies. Integrated treatment of mathematical modeling and analysis of systems. Modeling linear and nonlinear systems and their performance under transient, periodic and random loads, time domain and transfer techniques for linear continuous and discrete time systems. Transfer function, integral equation representation, and state model for selected control systems. State variable methods. State transition matrix for time- invariant and time varying continuous and discrete systems. Solving practical Engineering problems using
MATLAB/SIMULINK, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, etc). Adjoint Systems. Singularity functions and superposition integrals for linear systems. Distributed parameter system analysis. Selected numerical analysis methods and applications. Theory of design, material consideration, optimization techniques, similitude, stability, design of experiments and evaluation of results

A proposal report to be written and presented by the Masters degree student as a seminar to staff and students of ACE-SPED and other interested stake-holders.

An analysis of the physical, chemical and mathematical principles underlying modern manufacturing processes and processing equipment and technology. The economics of shaping and joining materials in the liquid, plastic and solid phases. Basi-plasticity. Melting and casting of metals. Fusion and sintering of metals. Hot forming and cold forming of metals. Explosive and hydro forming processes. Plastics and their manufacture. Joining of metals—metal cutting principles; cutting tool geometry and tool materials. Tool wear mechanisms. Milling and broaching; metal grinding principles. Economics of metal removal: electrochemical, electro-
erosion and laser machining. Ultrasonic machining. Vibration characteristics of machining operations. Additive manufacturing: 3D printing.

History of Machine tools. Classification of conventional machine tools and machining techniques. Introduction to precision engineering. Analysis of conventional machine tools main structure; primary and auxiliary motions: geometric surface  generation; power transmission and gear diagrams; machine tool kinematics. Analysis of kinematic schemes and constraints; development of a machine tool from determined principal design specifications; selection of maximum to minimum range of cutting speeds and feeds using geometric and/or arithmetic series. Design of gear boxes and power units. Stepless drives; design of spindles, spindle bearings and clutches. Design of mechanisms for rectilinear motion, periodic (intermittent) motions; reversing devices. Design of beds, columns, tables, cross rails, carriages and ways. Design of elements of machine tools control systems. Dynamic calculation and analysis in
machine tools design. Methods of static and dynamic tests. Machine tools building and rebuilding technology. Introduction to advanced machine tools.

Classification of industrial manufacture; analysis of machinery requirement; the concept of design for manufacture; theory of power absorption at tool point; merchant’s chip formation theory; built up edge phenomena and frictional behavior of the rake face; chip-less machining techniques. Abrasive machining and super finishing. High energy forming methods. Engineering metrology; statistical quality control. Design of jigs, fixtures, press tools and dies. The Concept of automation; selection of power medium and control techniques for automation; cam dependent mechanized systems; sequence controlled systems; cam-less automatics; in-process  error sensing techniques and adaptive control. Processing of non-metals. Numerically controlled  machines. Economics of numerically controlled machines (NC); NC machining centres; programming techniques; tooling and auxiliary equipment for NC. Materials handling techniques for automated manufacture of multi-component products. Logic and sequencing; introduction to robotics. Trends in modern manufacturing techniques:Electric Discharge Machining (EDM); Ultrasonic Machining (USM); Electro chemical machining (ECM); Laser Beam Machining (LBM), Electron Beam Machining (EBM), Plasma arc Machining (PAM), Ion beam Machining

Numerical Method: Polynomial Interpolation and approximation. Numerical integration; roots of equations; simultaneous linear equations and matrix inversions. Eigenvalues; numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. Partial differential equations. Partial Differential Equations— quasi-linear first order differential equations. Diffusion, wave and LaPlace-type differential equations. Fourier and related transform methods. Heat transfer, mechanics and gas dynamics applications. Practical techniques for ordinary differential equations. LaPlace transform applications; asymptotic expansions; regular and singular perturbation expansions. Examples in
heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Statistical methods.

Electronic components. General considerations in the characterization of system components. Steady state analysis of systems containing strongly nonlinear components. Application of the above to the study of electronic systems. Laboratory consisting of construction of vibrators, modulators and other basic electronic devices. Hydraulic and pneumatic components and systems. Reading of descriptive materials concerning fluid power control. Techniques for the simulation of dynamic systems by digital computers. Project consisting of the development and use of digital computer simulation of a complex hydraulic power control system. Control theory
reduced to engineering practice through the analysis and design of actual systems in the laboratory. Experiments with pneumatic and electro-mechanical logic circuitry and with mechanical, hydraulic and electro-mechanical servo system. Systems analysis and synthesis
applied to a variety of positioning speed control and regulating system.

What is a Composite? The History and Technology of Composites. Composites as “The New Age Material”. Advantages of Composites over Homogenous Traditional Materials like Steel. Weight for Weight Ratio. Power over Rust and Degradation. Long-lasting Products. Very Low Cost of Production. One-room Factory Manufacture as Opposed to High Temperature Long Line of Factory Halls Required for Steel. Any shape Obtainable at Room Temperature during Manufacture. Products with High Impact Response. Most Highly Sought for Material Today for Use in Air, Sea, Land and Military Equipment. High Strength to Weight Ratio. The Complexity of Composites as Opposed to the Homogenous Simplicity in Steel. Tailoring to Meet Every Desired Need. The Production/Lamination Methods. Mechanics of Composites: The Constitutive Equations. Classification of Composite Materials: Polymer Matrix Composites; Metal Matrix Composites; Ceramic Matrix Composites; Carbon–Carbon Composites. Recycling Fiber-Reinforced Composites.Mechanics of Composites Terminology: Micromechanical Analysis of a Lamina & Macromechanical Analysis of aLamina: Stress, Strain, Elastic Moduli, Strain Energy. Hooke’s Law for Different Types of Materials: Anisotropic Material,Monoclinic Material, Orthotropic Material (Orthogonally Anisotropic)/Specially Orthotropic, Transversely Isotropic Material, Isotropic Material, Hooke’s Law for a Two-Dimensional Unidirectional Lamina:Plane Stress Assumption. Reduction of Hooke’s Law in Three Dimensions to Two Dimensions. Relationship of Compliance and Stiffness Matrix to Engineering Elastic Constants of a Lamina. Hooke’s Law for a Two-Dimensional Angle Lamina. Engineering Constants of an Angle Lamina. Invariant Form of Stiffness and Compliance Matrices for an Angle Lamina.

Industrial Internship for a duration of one month is compulsory for all ACE-SPED students. The internship, which is expected to be undertaken in one of our Sectoral partners establishments/industries/firms could lead to a project research and will culminate in a seminar presentation at the end of the internship.

ACE students are required to carry out a research-based project in any of the thematic areas of ACE-SPED under the guidance of an academic staff appointed by the Centre. This will be captured in a standard Project Report to be examined orally by a Board of Internal and External Examiners as laid down in the guidelines of the School of Postgraduate Studies of the University of Nigeria. The report shall not have been, in part of in full submitted for any other diploma or degree of this University or of another educational institution.

Fundamentals of additive manufacturing. Technical comparison of additive manufacturing with conventional manufacturing processes (e.g: CNC milling; injection moulding, casting, etc.) The work flow in additive manufacturing (polymers, resins, ceramics, and metals). Classification of materials in additive manufacturing. Designing for additive manufacturing. Post treatment of additive manufactured parts. Some known applications of additive manufacturing. How to calculate the cost of additive manufactured parts. Potentials of commercializing additive manufacturing. Relevance of additive manufacturing in energy materials and production.

A review of the phenomenology of creep and mechanisms of creep. Fatigue and fracture in pure metals and alloys. Discussion of the basic theory dealing with the nature and generation of creep. Kinetics and properties of dislocation in metals and their interactions with precipitates in alloys including the theory of diffusion. A detailed examination of the yield point phenomenon in pure metals and alloys including work-hardening processes.

Sketching techniques using computer: 2D sketches, geometric constraints; dimensioning sketches. Shape design: creating sketch features. Parametric parts; work features; swept shapes; chamfers and fillets. Holes, threads, patterning and mirroring of thin walled parts. Assembly design: designing assemblies and using project files in assembly designs. Constraining components—placing components in an assembly. Constraining components—creation environment design in an assembly. Interacting with an assembly—identifying parts in an assembly. Analysis and motion tools. Presenting an assembly. View creation—drawing creation

Brief review of mechanical vibrations with one degree of freedom. Variation Mechanics. Lagrange’s equation. Hamilton’s principle. Multi-degree of freedom systems. Approximate methods of calculating principal frequencies. Holtzer’s methods. Self-excited vibrations. Non-linear vibrations. Vibrations of continuous elastic systems, bars, beams, shafts, plates, etc.

Binary, octal, hexadecimal number systems. Basic logic component: AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND gates. Operations on binary numbers and logic gates. Method of running programs on computers: interactive programming; batch processing; time sharing; Introduction of computer languages such as: C++, Java, Python, etc. Data types: integers, reals, strings, etc. Basic program structure; loops; branching subroutines. Data input/output structures in various languages. Basic program design: flow charts. Introduction to matrix-based engineering computational software tools; Scilab, MATLAB, GNU Octave, Python, etc. Basic language elements: variable types and naming conventions, comments and continuation lines. Mathematical functions, pre-defined variables. Dynamic type of variables. Working with matrices: creating matrices; special matrices, access to matrix elements, elementary matrix operations, higher level linear algebraic operations. Implementing conditional statement. Functions: defining functions, debugging functions.
Graphics: creating 2Dplots, contour plots, 3D surface plots; modifying plot titles, axes and legends. Exporting plots in vector and bitmap formats.

The emphasis will be on advanced methods of solution rather than theory of ordinary and partial differential equations. Power and product series and special functions. Contour integral representation. Integral transform. Conformal mapping. Wienner-Hop techniques.

Choice of broad research area with considerations of interdisciplinary topics, Identification of  research/ knowledge gaps and research objectives. Role of technical reports in engineering projects. Fundamental principles of technical writing. Format of different types of reports, outlines, purpose and scope, technical discussion details, role of appendix, function of figures, equation editors, tables and illustration. Literature search, references (citing’s and listings). Nature of recommendations and conclusions. Guides for writing memoranda, business letters. Oral presentation of technical reports and thesis. Synopsis writing Developing long-term research plan, Identification of potential funding agencies and their requirements. Research objectives in relation to interests of the funding agencies. Estimating Page 13 of 14 research timelines, Budget preparation, manpower requirements and availability, research facilities, legal issues, etc.

Advanced version of ACE 601

A proposal report to be written and presented by the PhD candidate as a seminar to staff and students of ACE-SPED and other interested stake-holders.

Review of advanced techniques and computational software for the modeling, simulation and  optimization of Engineering Systems such as MATLAB, Engineering Equation Solver, EES, Maples, Spreadsheet, etc. Application of one or more of these software to the solution of common problems in engineering such as systems of linear algebraic equations; interpolations and curve fitting; roots of equations; numerical integration; initial value problems; boundary value problems; eigen -value problems; parametric analysis and optimization. The history of Finite Element Methods: past and present practices. A survey of computing methods. Mathematical foundation of FEM. Weak forms of the governing equations obtained from the variational formulation. Assembly of the master matrices and solution to obtain the field variables. A survey of methods of solution of the matrices. Specific application to equations of

Tensor Algebra. Integral theorems (after Gauss or Stokes). Kinematics and deformation (Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations), force and stress vectors. Cauchy, Kirchhoff and Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors. The balance Laws: mass, energy, momentum and angular momentum balances). The constitutive laws. d'Alembert's principle and the principle of virtual work. Linear and nonlinear elasticity, thermo-elasticity and viscoelasticity. Computational continuum mechanics: strong and weak formulation of the boundary-value problem, fundamental numerical concepts (discretization techniques for static and dynamic systems, linearization techniques and
iterative analyses of nonlinear systems). Analyses of different thermomechanical systems.

Industrial Internship for a duration of one month is compulsory for all ACE-SPED students. The internship, which is expected to be undertaken in one of our Sectoral partners could lead to a project research and will culminate in a seminar presentation at the end.

A thesis shall embody original scholarship and independent research which must make a distinct contribution to knowledge in an area of control and instrumental engineering. The thesis must be submitted in an approved format and defended in an oral examination

A final progress report to be written and presented by the PhD candidate as a seminar to staff and students of ACE-SPED and other interested stake-holders. After successful revisions the PhD thesis shall be sent to a duly appointed External Examiner. Final examination of the thesis shall be by viva voce presentation

Multivariate normal distribution. Distribution of linear and quadratic forms. General linear hypothesis (full rank). Least square theory. Test of hypothesis. Hotelling’s T2 and Wishart distribution. Application in multivariate tests. Classification problems. Component and factor analysis.

Three-dimensional kinematics and kinetics of rigid single- and multi-body systems. Equations of motion: the concept of dynamic equilibrium, d'Alembert's principle and the principle of virtual work, generalized coordinates and forces, degrees of freedom, calculus of variations, Lagrangian and Eulerian dynamics, and the floating frame of reference formulation. Deformable bodies dynamics. Applications to robotics, mechatronics, biomechanics, machine tools, launch/aero, and vehicle dynamics (each student should apply the acquired knowledge to one of these areas).