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EMET 326Mechanical Drives

3 credits · Electro-​Mechanical Engineering Technology · Penn State

Transmission of force and motion using linkages, cams, gears, belts, and hydraulic and pneumatic drives. EMET 326 Mechanical Drives (3) EMET 326 is designed to provide the students with the knowledge of various mechanical drives used in engineering. The course introduces the concepts displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of linkages, cams, gears and belts. Instructor may employ purely geometric methods or combine it with vector approaches. Differential and integral calculus for some of the topics and may considering using techniques of optimizations for mechanism synthesis. Static and dynamic force analysis of linkages is studied.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

You need:

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Spring (3 programs).

Required in (3)

  • Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology, B.S. (Altoona)
  • Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology, B.S. (Berks)
  • Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology, B.S. (Engineering)

One of the options in (1)

  • Rail Transportation Engineering, Minor
What it opens up

Courses that list EMET 326 as a prerequisite (3)

  • EMET 403 Electromechanical Design Project Preparation
  • EMET 405 Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
  • EMET 441 Mechatronics Project Design