2018-19 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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) EGGN-3510 Systems Optimization –Fa 3 hours The course covers the theory and procedures for optimizing multi-variable, nonlinear, constrained problems with application to system design and optimization. Topics include the formulation of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions, numerical algorithms for solving different classes of problems, linear programming, gradient algorithms, and special topics applicable to senior design projects. Prerequisites: MATH-2710 Calculus III; MATH-2740 Differential Equations. EGGN-3610 Biomedical Engineering Systems –Sp 3 hours Introduction to the field of biomedical engineering and the application of engineering to the field of medicine; fundamental aspects of measuring and modeling physiological systems, biomedical device design, tissue engineering, bioelectric phenomena, biosensors, physiological modeling, biomedical imaging, and biomaterials. Team taught by ME and EE professors. Prerequisites: Engineering major with junior standing; BIO-1110 Introduction to Biology or GBIO-1000 Principles of Biology. (even years) EGGN-3710 2 hours Biomedical Engineering Research –Fa, Sp, Su Student will undertake an original research project under the direction of a departmental faculty mentor, approved mentor within a summer research program, or within an approved academic internship experience. Submission and approval of a research proposal must precede registration. Prerequisites: major in engineering; minor in biomedical engineering; junior status; permission of advisor, and approval of research topic. (Fee: $150) EGGN-3910 Co-op I 0 hours First term for an engineering or computer science student to work in industry for one semester. A final report is required. Students completing a co-op work assignment and registered for this course are granted full-time student status. Prerequisite: junior status in engineering or computer science and enrollment in the co-op program. (Fee $75). 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). 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) EGME-3010 2 hours Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I –Fa Experiments using the wind tunnel, engine test cell, testing machines in the mechanics laboratory, vibrations laboratory, fluids laboratory, refrigeration laboratory, and heat transfer laboratory are conducted. Students measure mechanical phenomena such as acceleration, force, pressure, temperature, strain, fluid flow, viscosity, and heat transfer using transducers, instrumentation, and PC-based data acquisition. Students design some of the experiments. Two 2-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisites: EGME-2630 Dynamics; EGEE-2050 Circuits and Instrumentation. Corequisites: EGME-3110 Thermodynamics; EGME-3210 Fluid Mechanics. (Fee: $100) EGME-3020 2 hours Mechanical Engineering Laboratory II –Sp Continuation of EGME-3010. Two two-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: EGME-3010 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I. Corequisite: EGME-3150 Heat Transfer. (Fee: $100) EGME-3050 3 hours Introduction to Finite Element Analysis –Sp Introduction to basic components of the finite element method including element selection, shape functions, strain-displacement and stress-strain relations, formulation of the stiffness matrix for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D elements, linear strain and isoparametric formulations, application of boundary conditions, and interpretation of results; application to 2-D and 3-D problems and experience using a commercial code. Prerequisites: EGME-2050 Computational Methods; EGME-2530 Statics and Mechanics of Materials. (Fee: $25) EGME-3110 Thermodynamics –Fa 5 hours Introduction to engineering thermodynamics, properties of pure substances, work, heat, first and second laws of thermodynamics, energy, enthalpy, and entropy. Specific application to power, refrigeration cycles, and combustion processes. Prerequisites: CHEM-1050 Chemistry for Engineers; MATH-2710 Calculus III. EGME-3130 Internal Combustion Engines –Sp 3 hours Introduction to internal combustion engines, fuel-air cycles, engine simulation, emissions, engine performance and alternative fuels. Prerequisites: EGME-2630 Dynamics; EGME-3110 Thermodynamics. EGME-3150 Heat Transfer –Sp 3 hours Introduction to conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer in one and two dimensions; free and forced convection, analytical and computational techniques applied to Fourier’s Law of conduction, Newton’s Law of cooling, and Stefan-Boltzman’s Law of thermal radiation. A heat exchanger design project is required. Prerequisites: EGME-3110 Thermodynamics; EGME- 3210 Fluid Mechanics. Corequisite: EGME-2050 Computational Methods. EGME-3170 Thermal Systems –Sp 2 hours Introduction to engineering thermodynamics, properties of pure substances, work, heat, enthalpy, and first law of thermodynamics. Introduction to conduction and convection modes of heat transfer. Prerequisites: CHEM-1050 Chemistry for Engineers; MATH-2740 Differential Equations. EGME-3210 Fluid Mechanics –Fa 3 hours Introduction to fluid properties, fluid statics, and the concepts, definitions, and basic equations for subsonic fluid dynamics; Navier-Stokes equation, viscous and invisid fluid flows, potential flow analysis, boundary layers, laminar and turbulent flows, analytical and computational solutions, vector fields, and finite- integral-control-volume method. Prerequisites: MATH-2710 Calculus III; MATH-2740 Differential Equations. EGME-3430 Principles of Physical Metallurgy –Sp 3 hours Introduction to the physical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys; crystal structure, phase equilibria, defects, strengthening mechanisms, and kinetics of reactions. Prerequisite: EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials. EGME-3450 Plastic and Composite Materials –Sp 2 hours Introduction to the properties and processing of plastics, resins, and adhesives; rheology, creep-deformation history, and injection molding. Fiber-reinforced, carbon-carbon, and metal-matrix composites are analyzed for strength, anisotropy, and applicability. Prerequisite: EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials. EGME-3610 3 hours Kinematics and Design of Machines –Sp Introduction to the analysis and synthesis of motion in planar mechanisms and linkages; velocity and acceleration analysis, cam design, gears, simple and compound gear trains, computer solution and simulation. Design project required. Prerequisite: EGME-2630 Dynamics. (Fee: $40) EGME-3850 Mechanical Design –Sp 3 hours Further development of load determination, stress, strain, deflection and failure theories; integration of an iterative problem solver in the design process; and analysis of fatigue failure. Introduction to the design of mechanical components including shafts, keys, couplings, bearings, gears, springs, and fasteners. Prerequisite: EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials. Corequisites: EGME-3020 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory II; EGME-3610 Kinematics and Design of Machines. (Fee: $25) Page 256 2018–19 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2018–19 Undergraduate Academic Catalog Page 257 Course Descriptions Course Descriptions EGGN-3510 – EGME-2430 EGME-2510 – EGME-3850 ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE