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KHALIFA UNIVERSITY of Science, Technology, and Research
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H i s t o r y
Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) was inaugurated on 13 February 2007 by the President of the UAE: His Highness Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The board of Trustees which is chaired by His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces was announced on 26 February 2008. KUSTAR is an Abu Dhabi Government initiative and is owned solely by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The University opened its current campus in Abu Dhabi in October 2008 to add to the campus in Sharjah (formerly Etisalat University College). The university’s future Abu Dhabi campus is currently being developed. The Sharjah branch campus has a very proud history that stretches back to 1989 and on 11 February 2008 was merged with the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research to form the foundation of KUSTAR. Khalifa University offers a wide range of programs that are designed to be flexible, competitive, and intellectually stimulating. The programs at Khalifa University are currently offered through its College of Engineering.
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Division of Student Services The Division of Student Services is dedicated to providing quality services and support for students on and off-campus. The Division advocates for students’ needs, facilitates student involvement in their learning and personal development, and supports students as they accept responsibilities associated with membership in a campus community. Operating within the framework of intentional student development, the Division is committed to promoting a caring, cooperative campus environment that values diversity and appreciates the dignity of all people.
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Students at Khalifa University are encouraged to participate in curricular as well as co-curricular activities. The university wants students to be engaged in a student-centered manner with a variety of educational, recreational, cultural and social activities enabling students to develop personal and professional talents and interests. Students are provided with facilities such as meeting rooms, student lounges, activity rooms, TV rooms, and prayer rooms. In addition, Khalifa University provides on-campus services tailored to the needs of its students such as personal and career counseling and a nurse/health educator. The aim is to promote a campus climate that enhances the educational, physical, social, and emotional well-being of students, and creates a collaborative, caring, and participative academic environment.
University residence halls offer an environment in which students from different parts of the country have the chance to meet and learn from one another. Student housing is available at both the Sharjah and Abu Dhabi Campuses. All housing facilities are managed by on-site staff. Based on availability and demand, student housing is subject to priority allocation. In general, housing priority is afforded to students who are UAE Nationals residing beyond 100 km commuting distance to campus. Priorities and costs are subject to change.
Campus security and emergency services are provided by the campus security department which operates twenty-four hours daily. These services can be requested by calling or contacting the security office.purpose built campuses; one in Abu Dhabi, where the central administration for the University is located, and the second one in Sharjah.
The Sharjah Campus provides purposebuilt student housing for men, which is located on campus. The Abu Dhabi campus provides leased off-campus accommodation for both male and female students. Transportation is provided to and from the campus.
AERO 201- (3-0-3) Engineering Dynamics )Cross listed with MECH 201; CIVE 201(* Prerequisite: ENGR 200 Review of kinematics and kinetics of particles: rectilinear and curvilinear motions; Newton’s second law; energy and momentum methods. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies: plane motion of rigid bodies; forces and accelerations; energy and momentum methods.
AERO 215
Introductions to Aerospace Engineering (2-3-3)
AERO 240
Thermodynamics (3-0-3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 111
*(Cross listed with MECH 240)
Introduction to the field of aerospace engineering, basic aerospace systems and disciplines and a working vocabulary of the field. Demonstration of conceptual design through examples.
Prerequisite: PHYS 121
AERO 220
Introduction to the concept of energy and the laws governing the transfers and transformations of energy. Introduction to the thermodynamic description of matter with a particular emphasis to non-ideal gas behavior and two-phase mixtures. Emphasis on the notions and processes that dominate power generation and industrial refrigeration.
Aerospace Materials (3-0-3)
Prerequisite: PHYS 121 Materials (metals, alloys, polymers) in engineering service; relationship of inter-atomic bonding, crystal structure and defect structure (vacancies, dislocations) to material properties; polymers, ceramics, composites, phase diagrams and alloys; microstructure control (heat treatment) and mechanical properties; material failure; corrosion. AERO 225
Mechanics of Solids (3-3-4)
*(Cross listed with MECH 225; CIVE 225)
Co-requisite: MATH 212
AERO 321
Aerospace Structures (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: AERO 225; AERO 220 Basic concepts of the design/failure criteria for aerospace structures, advanced strength of materials analysis of elastic structures, materials selection, structural assemblies, vibration and bending of plates and beams and analysis of aircraft skin structures.
Prerequisite: ENGR 200 The course is an introduction to the mechanics of deformable solids applied to basic engineering structures. It covers the concepts of stress and strain at a point; deformation of axial members; symmetric and asymmetric bending of elastic and elastic-perfectly plastic beams; torsion of open and closed section; beam deflection; stress and strain transformations, and elastic buckling of columns.
AERO 335
Aerodynamics I (3-3-4)
Prerequisite: AERO 240 Introduction to aerodynamics; conservation equations (integral and differential forms) for mass, momentum, and energy; potential flow; irrotational versus rotational flow; airfoil and wing analysis; boundary layers on plates and airfoils; normal shock waves, oblique shock and expansion waves, subsonic compressible flow over airfoils.
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