1992-1993 Academic Catalog

ENGR-310 Electronics and Instrumentation--A 4 hours Fundamentals of engineering measurements and instrumentation; analog and digital oscilloscopes, multimeters, amplifiers, filters, digital data acquisition, LVDT's, strain gages, the1mocouples, accelerometers, and transducers to measure acceleration, velocity, displacement, temperature, and strain. Three lectures and one 2- hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ENGR-275 Dynamics and ENGR-201 Circuits I. (Fee: $30). ENGR-311Electronics1--W 5 hours Introduction to semiconductor electronics: diodes, bipolar and unipolar transistors. Five lectures per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-301 Circuits II. Corequisite: ENGR-321 Electronics Laboratory I. ENGR-312 Electronics II--Sp 4 hours Integration of physics of solid-state electronic devices and basic electronic circuits including low-level signal amplifiers, power supplies, operational amplifier circuits, control circuits, optoelectronics, switching devices and oscillators. Prerequisites: ENGR-311 Electronics I. Corequisite: ENGR-322 Electronics Laboratory II. ENGR-315 Digital Logic Design--A 4 hours Fundamentals of digital logic design, number systems, Boolean Algebra, Darnaugh maps, logic gate networks, programmable logic devices, read-only memories, combinational network design, flip flops, counters, state machines, sequential networks. Computer simulations and actual circuits are evaluated in the laboratory. Three lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. (Fee: $20). ENGR-316 Microprocessors--W 4 hours Microprocessor characteristics, assembly language, memory layouts, peripheral devices, microcomputer structures, interface design, control and data communications. Three hours of lecture and one 2-hour lab per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-315 Digital Logic Design. (Fee: $30). ENGR-318 Linear Systems--Sp 5 hours Introduction to linear-time-invariant analysis of continuous and discrete-time systems, Fourier and Laplace transforms, Z transfo1ms, and state variable representations. Prerequisite: ENGR-301 Circuits II. ENGR-320 Probability and Random Processes for Engineers 5 hours Introduction to probability and statistics for engineers, sample points, sample spaces, probability, random variables, random vectors, statistical averages, estimation, linear transformations, spectral analysis and Gaussian processes. May be used to meet the mathematics requirement for electrical engineers. ENGR-321 Electronics Laboratory I--W 1 hour Applications of the Electronics I course in solid-state electronic devices, emphasis on experimentation, analysis, synthesis, and reporting. Corequisite: ENGR-311 Electronics I. (Fee: $30) ENGR-322 Electronics Laboratory II--Sp 2 hours Design laboratory for the Electronics II course; design, build, and analyze linear electronic circuits using bipolar transistors, field– effect transistors, and operational amplifiers; low-level signal amplifiers, transistor biasing, equivalent circuits, electronic regulated and unregulated DC power supplies, special solid-state devices, frequency response, decibels, cascaded amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, UJTs, and control circuits. Corequisite: ENGR-312 Electronics II. (Fee: $30) ENGR-333 Electromagnetics--A 4 hours Development of vector calculus, Maxwell's equations, propagation of uniform plane waves, transmission lines, the Smith Chart, wave guides, Laplace's and Poisson's equations; introduction to antennas. Three lectures per week with alternating 2-hour laboratory and recitation periods. Prerequisite: MATH-387 Differential Equations. Engineering 103 ENGR-337 Principles of Automatic Control--A 4 hours Theoretical and experimental analysis of classical feedback control systems; modeling, transfer function formulation; frequency response, root locus, Bode plots, discrete systems, state space, and servomechanisms. Three lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-301 Networks. (Fee: $20). ENGR-341 Properties and Processing of Materials--A 4 hours Introduction to the properties of metallic, ceramic, polymer, and composite materials; relationship between these properties and in– service behavior through the study of processing methods. Three lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-277 Strength of Materials. (Fee: $20). ENGR-342 Principles of Physical Metallurgy 3 hours Physical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys; crystal structure, phase equilibria, defects and strengthening mechanisms, and kinetics of reactions. Prerequisite: ENGR-341 Properties and Processing of Materials. ENGR-351 Thermodynamics 1--A 4 hours Introduction to engineering thermodynamics; properties of pure substances, work, heat, first and second laws of thermodynamics, and entropy. Prerequisites: CHEM-158 Chemistry for Engineers and PHYS-273 General Physics III. ENGR-352 Thermodynamics II--W 4 hours Continuation of ENGR-351 with specific application to power, refrigeration cycles, and combustion processes. Prerequisite: ENGR-351 Thermodynamics I. ENGR-355 Heat Transfer--Sp 4 hours Introduction to conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer; i.e. analytical and computational techniques applied to problems. Prerequisites: ENGR-211 Numerical Methods, ENGR- 351 Thermodynamics I, ENGR-360 Fluid Mechanics. ENGR-360 Fluid Mechanics--W 5 hours Basic concepts and fundamentals of viscous and non-viscous flows, introduction to boundary layers and transition to turbulence. Prerequisite: MATH-388 Advanced Calculus I, MATH-387 Differential Equations. ENGR-371 Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines--Sp 4 hours Analysis and syntheses of force and motion in mechanisms and planar linkages; velocity and acceleration, cams, gears, gear trains, balancing of rotating machines. Prerequisites: ENGR-171 Computer Aided Design, ENGR-275 Mechanics II. (Fee: $30). ENGR-381 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I--W 3 hours Measurement of mechanical phenomena such as acceleration, force, pressure, temperature, fluid flow, and hear transfer using analog and digital data acquisition. Two 3-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-310 Electronics and Instrumentation. Corequisites: ENGR-352 The1modynamics II, ENGR-360 Fluid Mechanics. (Fee: $30). ENGR-382 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory II--Sp 3 hours Continuation of ENGR-381. Two 3-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-381 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I. Corequisites: ENGR-355 Heat Transfer, ENGR-371 Machine Kinematics. (Fee: $30). ENGR-390 Engineering Economy 3 hours Economic decision making in engineering; personal finance, industrial management, cost, taxes, financing, ethics, comparing alternatives, replacement, and uncertainty. ENGR-399 Project Design 1-3 hours An elective course for students to get academic credit for extracurricular design work related to their ministry or design competitions. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.