1998-1999 Academic Catalog

School of Engineering, Nursing, and Science ENGR-344 Plastic and Composite Materials 3 hours Properties and processing of plastics, resins, and adhesives. Rheology, creep-deformation history, and injection molding. Fiber– reinforced, carbon-carbon, and metal-matrix composites analyzed for strength, anisotropy, and applicability. Prerequisite: ENGR-341 Properties ofEngineering Materials. ENGR-347 Feedback Control Systems-A 5 honrs Analysis and design of continuous-time feedback control systems; modeling, transfer functions, state-variables; root-locus, frequency response, Bode plots, Nyquist criterion; stability robustness, compensator design for petformance and robustness, PID, phase-lead, phase-lag, lead-lag, pole placement, state observers. Four lectures and one two-hour Jab per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-318 Linear systems. (Fee: $20) ENGR-351 Thermodynamics I-A 4 hours Introduction to engineering thermodynamics; properties of pure substances, work, heat, first and second laws of thermodynamics, energy and entropy. Prerequisite: CHEM-158 Che111ist1yfor Engineers; PHYS-272 Ge11eral Physics II. 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; MATH-388 Advanced Calculus I. ENGR-353 internal Combustion Engines-Sp 3 hours Development and design of piston engines and turbines, special design of combustion chambers, valve mechanism, and dynamic balancing. Prerequisite: ENGR-275 Mechanics II-Dy11a111ics; ENGR- 352 Ther111od)'l1Glllics II. ENGR-356 VHSIC Hardware Description Language-A 3 hours Design, testing, and. verification of combinational logic circuits and finite-state machines using the VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL); top-down design methodology, beginning with purely behavioral description decomposed into a structural descrip– tion using basic logic gates. Three lectures and a one-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-191 Digital Logic Design and ENGR- 221 FORTRAN or ENGR-280 "C" Programming. (Fee: $15) (odd years) ENGR-358 Advanced Digital Logic Design-A 3 hours Survey of logic families, arithmetic circuits, advanced finite-state machine design and implementation, introduction to computer organization, controller implementations, jump counters, branch sequencers, and microprogramming; emphasis on rapid electronic prototyping and the effective use of advanced computer aided design tools for minimization, simulation, and implementation of digital circuits. Prereq11isite: ENGR-191 Digital Logic Design; ENGR-302 Circuits I. ENGR-360 Fluid Mechanics-W 5 hours Basic concepts and fundamentals of subsonic fluid flows; introduc– tion to boundary layers and transition to turbulence. Prereq11isite: MATH-388 Advanced Calculus I; MATH-387 D(ff'ere11tial Equations; ENGR-221 FORTRAN. ENGR-36;5 Heat Transfer-Sp 4 hours Introduction to conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer; analytical and computational techniques. Design project required. Prerequisite: ENGR-351 Ther111ody11amics I; ENGR-360 Fluid Mechanics. Corequisite: ENGR-250 Numerical Methods. ENGR-373 Electrical Machines for Electrical Engineering Majors-A 3 hours Introduction to the principles of analysis and characteristics of AC and DC rotating machines, transformers, single- and three-phase motors and generators. Three lectures per week for seven weeks and one two-hour laboratory each week for 10 weeks. Will not substitute for ENGR-471 Electrical Machines (for mechanical engineers). Prerequisite: ENGR-303 Circ11its II. (Fee: $20) ENGR-374 Kinematics and Design of Machines-Sp 4 hours Introduction to analysis and synthesis of motion in planar mecha– nisms and linkages; velocity and acceleration, cams and cam design, gears, simple and compound gear trains; computer solution and simulation. Design project required. Prerequisite: ENGR-275 Mecha11ics II. ENGR-381 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I-W 3 hours Measurement of mechanical phenomena such as acceleration, force, pressure, temperature, fluid flow, viscosity, and heat transfer using transducers and PC-based data acquisition. Experiments using the wind tunnel, engine test cell, mechanics laborat01y, refrigeration, and heat transfer laboratory are conducted during two three-hour laboratories per week. Students design some of the experiments. Prerequisite: ENGR-250 N1111ierical Methods; ENGR-310 Electronics and Instrumentation. Corequisite: ENGR-352 Thermodynamics II; ENGR-360 Fluid Mechanics. (Fee: $30) ENGR-382 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory II-Sp 3 hours Continuation of ENGR-381. Two three-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: ENGR-381 Mechanical Engineeri11g Laboratmy I. Corequisite: ENGR-365 Heat Transfer. (Fee: $30) ENGR-388 Vibrations 3 hours Free and forced vibrations of mechanical systems having lumped mass and elasticity, single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems, matrix formulation, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Laplace Transform, dissipative systems; introduction to random, continuous, and nonlinear vibrations; engineering applications. Prerequisite: ENGR- 275 Mechanics II-Dynamics; ENGR-310 Electronics and !11str111nen– tatio11; MATH-387 D(ff'erential Equations. (Fee: $20) ENGR-389 Vibrations Laboratory 1 hour Laboratory experiments to demonstrate and support ENGR-388 Vibrations; function and calibration of motion detection transducers, measurement of the frequency response and impulse response function, electrodynamic shakers, instrumentation, Fast Fourier Transform and spectral analysis. Class meets two hours per week. (Fee: $30) ENGR-391 Electrical Engineering Internship 1-3 hours Opportunity in which an electrical engineering student works closely with an industrial advisor. Specific attention is given to solving a particular problem(s) in that industry or firm. A faculty advisor assists in supervising and approving the internship, including assessing the number of credit hours. A final report (approximately 7 pages per credit hour) describing the experience-including the problem and solution-is required. Cannot be used to satisfy elective credit requirements. Prerequisite: junior or senior engineering status and permission of.faculty advisor. A team of engineering st11de11ts compete(, at the S11permileage competition in Marshall, Michigan. Out of 32 schools, Cedarville was the only one to q11alify fll'o vehicles for competition. The blue beauty Eklectos took 5' 1' place and the sleek, silver Exstasis finished 11 11 '.

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