Teaching

Dr. Peter L. Bishay

Courses at Mechanical Engineering, CSUN

Spring 2025:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)
- ME 595SMS: Design of Smart Mechanical Systems

Fall 2024:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)

Summer 2024:
- ME 309: Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems

Spring 2024:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)

Fall 2023:
- ME 309: Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)

Summer 2023:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2023:
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)

Fall 2022:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)
- ME 536: Mechanical Design with Composites

Summer 2022:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2022:
- Sabbatical.

Fall 2021:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)
- AE 480: Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering

Summer 2021:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2021:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)
- ME 595SMS: Design of Smart Mechanical Systems

Fall 2020:
- ME 309: Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing / Smart Prosthetics)
- ME 536: Mechanical Design with Composites

Summer 2020:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2020:
- ME 309: Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Prosthetics)

Fall 2019:
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Prosthetics)
- ME 595SMS: Design of Smart Mechanical Systems (New Experimental course proposed by Dr. Bishay)

Summer 2019:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2019:
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Prosthetics)

Fall 2018:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Prosthetics)

Summer 2018:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2018:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Prosthetics)

Fall 2017:
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Prosthetics)
- ME 531: Mechanical Design with Composites

Summer 2017:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab

Spring 2017:
- ME 386/L: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)

Fall 2016:
- ME 436/L: Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (Smart Morphing Wing)

Summer 2016:
- ME 309: Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems

Spring 2016:
- ME 486B: Senior Design Project (SEARCH: Earth-Independent 1G Space Station)

Fall 2015:
- ME 486A: Senior Design Project (SEARCH: Earth-Independent 1G Space Station)
- ME 531: Mechanical Design with Composites

Courses taught at other Universities

Saint Martin’s University, Mechanical Engineering
- ME 411 & MME 511: Smart Materials and Structures [Proposed by Dr. Bishay] (Summer 2015)
- ME 350: Parametric Solid Modeling (Spring 2015)
- GE 206: Mechanics of Materials (Spring 2015)
- ME 404 & MME504: Finite Element Analysis [Proposed by Dr. Bishay] (Fall 2014)
- ME 305: Engineering Computer Applications (Fall 2014)

University of California, Irvine, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- MAE 80, CEE 80, ENGR 80: Dynamics (Spring 2013)
- MAE 295: Multifunctional Materials and Structures (Winter 2013)
- MAE 150, ENGR150: Mechanics of Structures (Teaching Assistant: Fall 2012, Fall 2013)

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- MAE 650:291: Introduction to Mechanics of Materials (Summer 2011)

Cairo University, Aerospace Engineering
- AER 403B: Aircraft Structural Design (Teaching Assistant: Spring 2010)
- AER 403A: Structural Design of Flight Vehicles (Teaching Assistant: Fall 2007, 2008, 2009)
- AER 405B: Rocket Propulsion Systems (Teaching Assistant: Spring 2010)
- AER 203A: Mechanics of Structures (Teaching Assistant: Fall 2007)

Innovative Teaching Interventions

ME309 (Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems)
- Summer 2016: Introducing Undergraduate Research in Numerical Analysis of Engineering Systems Course.


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ME386/L (Computer-Aided Analysis and Design and Lab)
- Summer 2019: Teaching the finite element method fundamentals to undergraduate students through truss builder and truss analyzer computational tools and student-generated assignments mini-projects.


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ME436/L (Mechanics and Design of Composite Materials and Lab)
- Fall 2022:
Prepreg. Manufacturing:

Composite Sandwich Structures:

Wet Layup Manufacturing:

Composite Manufacturing Course Project:

- Fall 2021:
Prepreg. Manufacturing:

Composite Manufacturing Course Project:
Carbon fiber laminate with embedded 3D-printed parts; Periodic composite beams; Fiber-glass wing; Composite sandwich panels.

- Spring 2021:
Introducing COMSOL Multiphysics Composites Module to ME436L

- Fall 2018:
Composite Manufacturing Course Project:

Design Challenges and CADA:


- Fall 2016:
Composite Manufacturing Course Project:


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AE480 (Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering)
- Fall 2021:
Enhancing engineering students’ understanding using “The geek’s live scripts”


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ME536 (Mechanical Design with Composites)

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ME595SMS (Design of Smart Mechanical Systems)

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