1998-1999 Academic Catalog

Engineering ENGR-303 Circuits II-A 4 hours Phasor analysis of RLC circuits, sinusoidal steady state, mutual inductance, frequency response of operational amplifier circuits, Fourier and Laplace Transforms, and introduction to transfer functions. Computer simulations and bread-board circuits are constrncted and evaluated in the laboratory. Design project required. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-302 Circuits I. (Fee: $30) ENGR-310 Electronics and Instrumentation-A 4 hours Fundamentals of harmonic signals, voltmeters, analog and digital oscilloscopes, integrated circuits, operational amplifiers, characteris– tics of amplifiers, characteristics of active and passive filters, PC– based data acquisition, and transducers and conditioning circuits to. measure acceleration, velocity, displacement, temperature, and stram. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-275 Mechanics II-Dynamics; ENGR-276 Mechanics JII– Stre11gth ofMaterials; ENGR-302 Circ11its I. (Fee: $20) ENGR-311 Electronics I-W 5 hours Introduction to semiconductor electronics: diodes, bipolar and unipolar transistors. Five lectures per week. Coreq11isite: ENGR-321 Electronics Laboratory I. Prerequisite: ENGR-303 Circuits II. ENGR-312 Electronics II-Sp 5 hours Basic electronic circuits; frequency response of low-level signal amplifiers, power amplifiers, multistage amplifiers, feedback, power supplies, filters, and oscillators. Prerequisite: ENGR-311 Electronics I. Corequisite: ENGR-322 Electronics Laborato1y II. ENGR-315 Power Electronics-Sp 3 hours Fundamentals of power electronics including characteristics and application of semiconductor switches and device applications. Design project required. Prerequisite: ENGR-311 Electronics I; ENGR-321 Electronics Laboratorv I. (Fee: $15) (odd years) ENGR-316 Microprocessors-A. 4 hours Microprocessor characteristics, assembly language, memory layouts, peripheral devices, microcomputer structures, interface design, control and data communications. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Design project required. Prerequisite: ENGR- 191 Digital Logic Design. (Fee: $30) ENGR-318 Linear Systems-W 5 hours Introduction to linear time-invariant analysis of continuous and discrete time systems. Solutions involve both time and frequency domain methods, including Fourier, Laplace, and Z transforms. Five lectures per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-303 Circuits II. ENGR-319 Analog Filters-W 3 hours Introduction to the theory, design, and implementation of passive and active analog filters; basic filter strnctures, sensitivity, passive network synthesis, operational amplifier limitations, multiple– amplifier filters, and filter realization methods. Three lectures per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-318 Linear Systems. (odd years) ENGR-320 Probability and Random Processes for Engineers-Sp 5 hours Sample points, sample spaces, probability, random variables, random vectors, statistical averages, linear transformations, spectral analysis and random processes. May be used to meet the mathemat– ics requirement for electrical engineers. Prerequisite: ENGR-318 Linear Systems. ENGR-321 Electronics Laboratory 1-W 1 hour Application·s of the Electronics I. course;. solid-state. electronic. devices, emphasis on bread-boardmg, testmg, analysts, synthesis, and reporting. Design project required. One two-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-303 Cirrnits II. Corequisite: ENGR-311 Electronics I. (Fee: $30) ENGR-322 Electronics Laboratory II-Sp 1 hour Applications of the Electronics II course; design, analysis, bread– boarding, and testing of circuits discussed in lecture using bipolar junction and field effect transistors. De~i~n project required. On~ two-hour laboratory per week. Prereq111szte: ENGR-321 Electromcs I Lab. Corequisite: ENGR-312 Electronics II. (Fee: $30) (':<&£,,,[£ i{ (T JT tr ,..,. ,,- ~ - Engineering 111ajor Shane Sevo fimn Bel/evil/e, Michigan, was awarded a $),500 scholarship fi'o111 the American Co11s11/ti11g Engineering . Council (ACEC) for his essay dealing with 111ajor 111ora/ and/or etlncal problems conf)'Ol1ting engineers. He used this platform to slwr~ hml' the Christian's view is d!fferent fim11 the \Vorld's viell' and how faith 111 Christ makes this possible. ENGR-333 Electromagnetics-A 5 hours Development of vector calculus, Maxwell's equations, propagation of uniform plane waves, transmission lines, Smith Chart, wave guides, Laplace's and Poisson's equations. Four lectures with either a two– hour laboratory or recitation period per week. Prerequisite: MATH- 387 D(fj'erential Equations; MATH-388 Advanced Calculus I. Corequisite: ENGR-303 Circuits II. (Fee: $15) ENGR-337 Principles of Automatic Control-A 4 hours Theoretical and experimental analysis of classical feedback control systems for mechanical engineers; modeling, transfer function formulation; frequency response, root locus, Bode plots, and servomechanisms. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratoty per week. Design project required. Prerequisite: ENGR-302 Circuits I. (Fee: $20) ENGR-341 Properties of Engineering Materials-A 4 hours Introduction to the properties of metallic, ceramic, polymer, and composite materials; plastic deformation, strengthening, fracture, fatigue, corrosion, diffusion, equilibrium and nonequilibdum pro– cesses, phase diagrams, and electrical and magnetic properties; application to materials selection. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-276 Mechanics III-Stre11gth ofMaterials. (Fee: $30) ENGR-342 Principles of Physical Metallurgy 3 hours Physical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys; crystal structure, phase equilibria, defects, strengthening mechanisms, and kinetics of reactions. Prerequisite: ENGR-341 Properties ofEngineer– ing Materials. ENGR-343 Manufacturing Processes-W 3 hours Contemporary materials processing: molding, casting, forming, . machining, and hot and cold working; fundamentals of manufactunng, inspection techniques, and quality assurance. Prerequisite: ENGR-341 Properties ofEngineering Materials.