2004-2005 Academic Catalog

99 Engineering School of Engineering, Nursing, and Science costs are incorporated into the total cost and grade for the final product. Formal design reports and presentations required. Two three-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: EGEE-4810 Electrical Engineering Senior Design I. (Fee: $100) EGEE-4950 1-3 hours AdvancedTopics inElectrical Engineering Selected topics in electrical engineering at the 4000-level that expand the depth of existing 3000- and 4000-level courses or expose the students to advanced concepts not taught in other courses; topics may be proposed by the engineering faculty or students. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission. Mechanical Engineering Courses EGME-1810EngineeringGraphics –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-1820SolidModeling –Sp 1 hour Advanced techniques using a PC and commercial solid- modeling software to create three-dimensional solid models; techniques of solid modeling including extrusions, cuts, lofting, sweeps, drawing generation and assemblies. Includes bill of material management, sheet metal, and mold design. Prerequisite: EGME-1810 Engineering Graphics. (Fee: $25) EGME2050Computational 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-2310ManufacturingandFinance –Fa 3 hours Introduction to the fundamentals of manufacturing and contemporary materials processing, molding, casting, forming, machining, inspection techniques, and quality assurance. Applications to the time value of money, break-even and payback analysis, and economic analysis of engineering alternatives. Prerequisite: EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials. EGME-2410 Properties of Engineering Materials –Sp 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-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-1710 Calculus I. (Fee: $25) EGME-2630Dynamics –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 two-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisites: EGME-2630 Dynamics; EGEE-2050 Circuits and Instrumentation. Corequisites: EGME-3110 Thermodynamics; EGME-3210 Fluid Mechanics. (Fee: $100) The 2003 Home Fire-Fighting Robot team designed and built an autonomous robot that was able to overcome floor obstacles and navigate around furniture in the rooms while on a “seek and put-out-the- fire” mission. The robot’s main components included two battery- powered servo motors, seven distance sensors, one flame sensor, one micro-controller, and one large Field Programmable Gate Array. At the international competition in Hartford, Connecticut, the Cedarville team took 1 st place in the college division. Faculty advisor, Dr. Clint Kohl, entered a robot in the most advanced division and took fourth place.