INTRODUCTION TO FINITE ELEMENTS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ( E M A 303 or M E 306), graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Motivate variational treatment of free energy to obtain governing equations Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Formulate finite element approximations to linear partial differential equations Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Choose appropriate approximation space (mesh, basis, quadrature) for a given application Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess stability and accuracy of linear finite element computations Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Motivate variational treatment of free energy to obtain governing equations Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Formulate finite element approximations to linear partial differential equations Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Choose appropriate approximation space (mesh, basis, quadrature) for a given application Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess stability and accuracy of linear finite element computations Audience: Graduate