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The course is the laboratory component for ENGR 3320. Laboratory fee.

This lab is designed to help you understand electronic devices and how they work. The goal of the labs is to achieve an understanding of electronics through hands on experience. By the end of the lab, students should have attained some very practical skills and be adept at debugging circuits. Students will also have a much better knowledge of all the tools that they can use to both construct and trouble shoot electronics.

This course is a foundational course for all inter-disciplinary engineering science majors.  It is a crucial component of the ENGR 3337 Digital Logic Design course. Corequisite: ENGR 3337, Prerequisites: ENGR 1320 and ENGR 2430. Lab fee.

This course introduces students to the engineering design process as practiced by professional engineers. Particular focus will be given to design inspirations from the natural world. Students will work in teams to study a mechanism found in nature and draw on the lessons learned to design a bio-inspired educational product, such as a toy or learning tool. Topics covered will include team building, brainstorming techniques, project management, design iteration, design optimization, ethical issues in engineering design, and reflection on career goals. Particular emphasis will be given to the communication of the design team’s results. Prerequisite: ENGR 1310 and ENGR 1320. Lab fee. 

Engineering students in this course learn to apply science, mathematics, and engineering design to the service of humanity. A particular in-need group will be chosen prior to each semester for the design teams to serve. Student will spend time evaluating the needs of the target group and developing products that will improve their lives in a concrete way. Students will be asked to reflect on the experience and how it pertains to their own career goals.  Prerequisites: ENGR 1310 and ENGR 1320. Lab fee.

Independent study in engineering may be conducted under the guidance of a faculty member. Course may be taken at the sophomore level through the senior level. One to four hours of credit may be specified. Prerequisite: Written consent of the supervising professor, department chair, and Dean prior to registration. Lab and administrative fee.

This course offers students an introduction to the design of machine elements. Topics include an overview of the design process, engineering mechanics, failure criteria, design with static and variable loading criteria, transmission elements, bearings, gears, and lubrication. Students will be introduced to engineering software to design and analyze mechanical systems. Prerequisites: ENGR 3420 (3320/3120), ENGR 2311. Lab fee.

This course introduces junior-level engineering students to the concepts of stress and strain with applications to design and analysis of structures. The goals include developing skills relating to modeling and analysis of simple structures subject to axial, torsional, and bending loads. This course incorporates hands-on experience with standard test methods for the mechanical properties of a range of materials. Prerequisites: ENGR 2320 and MATH 2330. Lab fee.

This course covers the use and application of the fundamental concepts of nonlinear electronic circuits. Nonlinear, piecewise linear, and large and small signal analysis and design concepts are emphasized. Essential concepts covered in the course include the p-n diode, bipolar junction and field effect transistors. Prerequisite: ENGR 2430, Lab fee.

This course is designed to familiarize computer science and engineering students with the fundamental concepts in the field of digital logic design. This course will consider problems from the following areas: Boolean algebra, number systems and representations, analysis and design of combinational and sequential logic circuits, minimization, small and medium scale integrated devices, programmable logic and simulation of digital circuits. Prerequisites: ENGR 1320 and ENGR 2430 (ENGR 2130/2330). Lab Fee.

This course extends the study of thermodynamics by exploring the design of gas power cycles, vapor power cycles and refrigeration cycles. Topics include analysis of property relations, gas mixtures, gas-vapor mixtures, and combustion. Prerequisites: ENGR 2345.

This course will cover fundamentals of optics including the following topics: geometrical optics, electromagnetic waves, diffraction, interference, polarization, Fourier optics, laser fundamentals, and optical communication basics. Prerequisite: PHYS 2422. Lab fee. 

The course is an introduction to basic tenets implicit in the molecular realm of material structures, i.e., atomic, crystalline and micro-structures of solids with a coverage of several classes of materials, i.e., metals, ceramics, and composites. Course study focuses on the scientific basis for the mechanical properties exhibited by molecular structures, i.e., phase transitions, multiphase equilibria and chemical reactions, with govern the thermodynamic properties of macroscopic materials observed in nature. The application of these materials to various fields of engineering and science is presented. Prerequisites: PHYS 2422 or PHYS 2412.