Teaching

ME/EMA 540  Experimental Vibration and Dynamic System Analysis

• Catalog Listing
• Course Outline and Information
• Highlights from Final Projects:
  • Modal Test of Elizabeth Ashman Bridge on UW Campus (Presentation)
  • RV-7 Airplane Ground Vibration Test: (Photos) (Report)

EMA 542  Advanced Dynamics

• Catalog Listing
• Dynamics Links
  • A ball rolls freely without slipping on a rotating turntable.  What is its path in fixed space?  Why? (animation of the solution, and here’s a Youtube video that shows this but doesn’t really explain why. )
  • Hugh Hunt’s web site with several other interesting dynamics videos.

EMA 545  Mechanical Vibrations

• Catalog Listing
• Course Outline and Information
• Links
  • Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
  • Sound and Vibration Magazine
• Animations:
  • Animation of two degree-of-freedom vehicle model to an initial displacement of the front wheels.

EMA 610  Structural Finite Element Model Validation

• Catalog Listing
• Course Outline and Information

EMA 642  Satellite Dynamics

• Catalog Listing
• Course Outline and Information

EMA 747  Nonlinear and Random Mechanical VIbrations

• Catalog Listing

Prof. Allen has also taught EMA 615: Nanomechanics and IntEng 102: Introduction to Society’s Engineering Grand Challenges