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EGGN-3911 Co-op IA
0 hours
First half of the first term for an engineering or computer
science student to work in industry part-time for one semester. A
final report is required. Students enrolled in part-time co-op must
register for six or more credit hours to maintain full-time student
status.
Prerequisite: junior status in engineering or computer
science and enrollment in the co-op program.
(Fee $40).
EGGN-3912 Co-op IB
0 hours
Second half of the first term for an engineering or computer
science student to work in industry part time for one semester. A
final report is required. Students enrolled in part-time co-op must
register for six or more credit hours to maintain full-time student
status.
Prerequisite: EGGN-3911 Co-op IA .
(Fee $40).
EGGN-3920 Co-op II
0 hours
Second term for an engineering or computer science student
to work in industry for one semester. A final report is required.
Prerequisite: EGGN-3910 Co-op I or EGGN-3912 Co-op IB.
(Fee
$75).
EGGN-3921 Co-op IIA
0 hours
First half of the second term for an engineering or computer
science student to work in industry part time for one semester. A
final report is required. Students enrolled in part-time co-op must
register for six or more credit hours to maintain full-time student
status
Prerequisite: EGGN-3910 Co-op I or EGGN-3912 Co-op IB.
(Fee $40).
EGGN-3922 Co-op IIB
0 hours
Second half of the second term for an engineering or computer
science student to work in industry part time for one semester. A
final report is required. Students enrolled in part-time co-op must
register for six or more credit hours to maintain full-time student
status.
Prerequisite: EGGN-3921 Co-op IIA. (Fee: $40).
EGGN-3930 Co-op III
0 hours
Third term for an engineering or computer science student
to work in industry for one semester. A final report is required.
Prerequisite: EGGN-3920 Co-op II or EGGN-3922 Co-op IIB.
(Fee:
$75). May be repeated.
EGGN-3931 Co-op IIIA
0 hours
First half of the third term for an engineering or computer
science student to work in industry part time for one semester. A
final report is required. Students enrolled in part-time co-op must
register for six or more credit hours to maintain full-time student
status.
Prerequisite: EGGN-3920 Co-op II or EGGN-3922 Co-op
IIB.
(Fee $40). May be repeated.
EGGN-3932 Co-op IIIB
0 hours
Second half of the third term for an engineering or computer
science student to work in industry part time for one semester. A
final report is required. Students enrolled in part-time co-op must
register for six or more credit hours to maintain full-time student
status.
Prerequisite: EGGN-3931 Co-op IIIA. (Fee $40). May be
repeated.
EGGN-3960 Competition Project
–Sp
0 hours
Engineering juniors on a school of engineering intercollegiate
design competition may use this course to provide on their
transcript a record of their participation throughout the year. The
name of the competition will be designated.
EGGN-4010 Senior Seminar
–Fa
0 hours
Required weekly meeting of senior engineering majors to
discuss the transition into the professional work environment.
Prerequisite: senior status in engineering or computer science.
(Fee: $35)
EGGN-4960 Competition Project
–Sp
0 hours
Engineering seniors on a school of engineering intercollegiate
design competition may use this course to provide on their
transcript a record of their participation throughout the year. The
name of the competition will be designated.
Mechanical Engineering (EGME)
EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics
–Fa
1 hour
Introduction to basic techniques of sketching, drawing,
dimensioning, multiple views, sectioning, multi-view projections,
and pictorial views. Introduction to commercial software for three-
dimensional solid modeling and preparing engineering drawings.
(Fee: $25)
EGME-2050 Computational Methods
–Sp
4 hours
Introduction to computer programming and the numerical
methods for solving roots of equations, simultaneous linear
algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, integration,
introduction to finite-difference approximations, and least-squares
curve fits.
Pre- or Corequisites: MATH-2710 Calculus III; MATH-
2740 Differential Equations.
EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials
–Fa
4 hours
Introduction to the properties of metallic, ceramic, polymeric,
and composite materials; plastic deformation, strengthening,
fracture, fatigue, corrosion, diffusion, equilibrium and
nonequilibrium processes, phase diagrams, electrical and
magnetic properties, and application to materials selection. Three
lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite:
EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials.
(Fee: $100)
EGME-2430
3 hours
Contemporary Manufacturing Processes
–Fa
Contemporary processing techniques of materials including
machining, casting, forming, hot and cold working; conventional,
NC, and CNC machining as well as 3D printing; inspection
techniques, quality control, and production methods.
Prerequisites:
EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials.
(Fee: $55)
EGME-2510 Statics
–Fa
3 hours
Introduction to analyzing forces in isolated and connected rigid-
body systems; vector analysis, forces, moments, resultants, two-
and three-dimensional equilibrium, centroids, moment of inertia,
friction, trusses, frames, and machines. Design project required.
Prerequisites: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics; PHYS-2110
General Physics I; MATH-1720 Analytical Geometry and Calculus
II.
(Fee: $10)
EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials
–Fa
5 hours
Introduction to analyzing forces in isolated and connected rigid-
body systems; vector analysis, forces, moments, resultants, two-
and three-dimensional equilibrium, centroids, distributed loading,
moment of inertia, friction, trusses, frames, and machines.
Introduction to the theoretical and experimental analysis of
deformable bodies subject to applied loads; normal and shear
stress and strain, strain energy, torsion, stresses in beams,
deflection of beams, combined stress, stress transformation,
failure theories, and buckling of columns. Design project required.
Prerequisites: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics; PHYS-2110
General Physics I; MATH-1720 Calculus II.
(Fee: $25)
EGME-2570 Statics and Dynamics
–Fa
3 hours
Free-body diagrams, vectors, resultant forces, two- and three-
force members, friction, simple machines, center of gravity, and
moments of inertia. Kinematics and equations of motion of a
particle for rectilinear and cervilinear motion. Planar kinematics of
rigid bodies. Kinetics for planar motion of rigid bodies, including
equations of motion and principles of energy and momentum.
Prerequisites: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics; MATH-1720
Calculus II; PHYS-2110 General Physics I.
(Fee: $10)
EGME-2630 Dynamics
–Sp
3 hours
Introduction to kinematic and kinetic analysis of particles,
systems of particles, and rigid bodies; position, velocity,
acceleration, non-rotating and rotating frames of reference,
Newton’s laws, work, energy, impulse, momentum, conservative
and non-conservative systems, and vibration of single-degree-of-
freedom systems. Design project required.
Prerequisite: EGME-
2510 Statics or EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials.
Pre- or Corequisite: MATH-2740 Differential Equations.
(Fee: $10)
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Course Descriptions
EGGN-3911 – EGME-2630