Engineering

Provides a broad introduction to the engineering profession for those with little or no prior exposure to the subject while providing a foundation for additional study in engineering. Students are introduced to the engineering profession and different disciplines of engineering. The interdependency of these disciplines will also be explored through the completion of projects that require input from several disciplines of engineering.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to electronics. The coursework places emphasis on the fundamental theories and laws required for understanding electronics. Learning activities focus on the entry-level skills required in the field of electronics. It also provides an opportunity for students to develop a working vocabulary of key terminology. Lecture and laboratory topics include developing a comprehensive foundation of direct current and alternating current circuits, the basic skills of circuit analysis, design, and testing, Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws.

An introduction to the concepts and characteristics of forces and couples. Topics include but are not limited to distributed forces, center of mass, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Additional topics include trusses and frames, internal forces, shear, moment distribution in beams and area moments of inertia.

Introduces students to the concepts of stress and strain and their tensor properties. Topics include but are not limited to elastic stress strain relations, analysis of stress and deformation in members subject to axial, torsional, bending and combined loading and column stability.

This course is an introduction to a powerful programming language and development environment for engineers and scientists. Programming concepts are illustrated with various engineering application examples. Topics of study include the programming environment, plotting, manipulating matrices, operators, built-in functions, user-defined functions, user controlled input and output, relational and logical operators, repetition structures, symbolic mathematics and numerical methods.

Covers kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. Topics also include but are not limited to acceleration, work, energy, power, impulse and momentum.