Degree Details
Course Descriptions
CS 1113 Introduction to Computing
An introduction to algorithmic problem solving in the context of a modern programming language.
Such topics as problem solving strategies, basic data structures, data and procedural abstraction,
and algorithm complexity are discussed. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisite: MTH 1113 or equivalent
Offered fall semester
CS 3213 Computer Architecture
A study of design alternatives in computer architecture. Instruction set architectures, memory
subsystems organization, interfacing concepts, and issues arising in managing communication
with the processor are covered. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisite: CS 1113
Offered spring semester
EE 2213 Digital Electronics
A study of bipolar and MOS switching circuits, combinational and sequential logic design and
programmable logic devices. Includes a design component. Two hours lecture-discussion and
one two-hour laboratory per week.
Offered fall semester
EE 2223 Electrical Circuits
A study of electrical circuits using Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws and Thevenin's and Norton's
theorems including time and frequency domains. First and second order circuits are studied
including RC, RL and RLC components. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 1122 and MTH 2114
Offered spring semester
EE 3313 Electronics I
A study of diodes and transistors, including BJTs and FETs and the circuits that use them.
Topics include biasing, rectifiers, limiters, clamps, amplifiers and switches and operational
amps. Two hours lecture-discussion and one three-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 2223
Offered fall semester
EE 3323 Digital Systems
A continuation from EE 2213 of the design and analysis of digital systems with particular
emphasis in one or more areas of application. Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour
laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 2213
Offered fall semester
EE 3423 Signal Processing
Includes signal representation, Fourier techniques, convolution, correlation, AM, PM, and FM
modulation, spectral density, filter synthesis, and signal control. Includes a design project.
Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 2223
Offered spring semester
EE 4123 Electromagnetics
Application of Maxwell's equations to transmission lines, waveguides and antennas.
Includes antenna design. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 3313
Offered spring semester
EE 4203 Fiber Optic Communication
A study of fiber optic communications including the optical channel, fiber optic sources
and receivers. Includes the study of LEDs, lasers, p-n and pin diodes, photodiodes and APDs.
Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EN 3313
Offered upon sufficient request
EE 4213 Electronics II
A study of the analysis and design of electronic circuits using diodes, BJTs and FETs. Topics
include low and high frequency effects, power amps, oscillators, filters and converters. Two
hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 3313
Offered upon sufficient request
EE 4303 Digital Signal Processing
Theory and techniques of characterizing discrete time signals. Includes Fourier and Z-transform,
flow graphs, digital filter design, quantization effects and spectral estimation. Includes a
design component. Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 2223
Offered upon sufficient request
EE 4403 Advanced Digital Systems
Topics may be selected from advanced logic design, coding, digital filters, computer systems,
digital communications, or digital control. Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour
laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 3323
Offered upon sufficient request
EE 4413 Digital Communications Theory
Study of digital communications systems may include such topics as QAM, FSK, CPM, M-ary, PSK, ISI,
coding theory, or correction theory/coding. Lab implements various communications in digital form.
Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EE 3423
Offered fall semester
EE 4503 Data and Computer Communications
A study of data transmission, encoding, multiplexing, networking, circuit and packet switching, and
local and wide area networks. Also computer communication architecture including networking and
protocols. Includes a design component. Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory
per week.
Prerequisites: CS 1113 and EE 2213
Offered upon sufficient request
EE 4703 Antennas
A study of antenna systems including the monopole, dipole, loop, helical, microstrip antennas, and
parabolic dish, as well as arrays. The course covers the topics of radiation pattern, directivity,
gain, efficiency, impedance tuning, and an introduction to propagation. Includes antenna system design.
lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 3313.
Offered upon sufficient request
EN 1112 Engineering Concepts and Design
A first course in engineering involving basic engineering concepts and the design process. Two hours
lecture-discussion per week.
Offered fall semester
EN 1121 Production Techniques Laboratory
Basic training in the areas of welding, metal fabrication and machine tools. Two two-hour laboratory
periods per week.
Offered spring semester
EN 1122 Concepts in Electrical Engineering
An introduction to electrical circuits: Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Laws, Thevenin and Norton equivalent
circuits, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Two hours lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 1134
Offered spring semester
EN 1222 Concepts in Mechanical Engineering
An introduction to the profession and its special arenas. Calculation adventures in structures,
machine components, materials, motion, thermal and energy systems and system design. Use is made
of computerized solvers and CAD. Two hours lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 1134
Offered spring semester
EN 2222 Instrumentation Lab
An introduction to laboratory procedures, basic instrumentation techniques and reporting of
laboratory work. Includes the use of testing apparatus, oscilloscopes, various transducers,
statistical analysis of data and uncertainty analysis. One hour lecture-discussion and one
three-hour laboratory period per week.
Prerequisites: EN 1122, EN 1222, and MTH 1144
Offered spring semester
EN 2322 Engineering Economics
A study of economics as applied to engineering decision making. Consideration is given to
reliability, maintainability and feasibility in comparisons of costing and payback schemes.
The economic impact of environmental and safety considerations are explicitly included.
The context is a free enterprise system, subject to government regulation and investment
capitalization. Two hours lecture-discussion per week.
Offered spring semester
EN 3213 Engineering Materials Science
A microscopic study of engineering materials, with emphasis on how structures relate to
properties. lecture-discussion-laboratory per week. (Same as PHY 3213)
Prerequisites: CHM 1124
Offered fall semester
EN 3222 Design Lab
Student works on design projects in a team context. Four hours in laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: EN 2222
Offered spring semester
EN 3313 Engineering Fields
An integrated study of electric, magnetic, fluid, thermal and other fields. Gauss's
law and Laplace's and Poisson's equations with an introduction to Maxwell's equations.
Numerical and graphical techniques. Two hours lecture-discussion and one three-hour
laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: PHY 2124 and MTH 2123
Offered fall semester
EN 3513 International Problem Solving in Engineering and Business
An opportunity for students to acquire the knowledge, ability, and predisposition to
work effectively with people from other cultures who define problems differently than
they do. Through course instruction and interactions, students examine the historical,
social, cultural, religious, political and value systems that impact how people approach
problems differently, and are prepared to work in multi-cultural, diverse professions.
Offered fall semester
EN 4113 Engineering Design I
A study of specifications, feasibility, modeling, optimization methods, elements of
professionalism, and economic analysis. Initiation of the senior design project with
written and oral reporting of preliminary work. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 3222 and MTH 2123
Offered fall semester
EN 4123 Engineering Design II
A capstone course to integrate previous engineering learning experiences in problem
formulation and solution. Includes the completion of the major design project initiated
in Engineering Design I, with written and oral reporting of the work. Involves
supervision of freshman design students. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 4113
Offered spring semester
EN 4303 System Design with Microprocessors
A study of the application of microcomputers to systems with output related to input.
Particular emphasis is given to interfacing techniques. Includes one design project.
Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: CS 1113 and EE 2213
Offered upon sufficient request
EN 4323 Control Systems
A study of linear, continuous and digital, time-invariant control systems from both
the classical transform and modern state-variable points of view. lecture-discussion
per week.
Prerequisites: EE 2223
Offered spring semester
EN 4403 Engineering Management
A study of elements and process of engineering project management covering applicable
subjects such as managerial processes, organizational behavior issues, project and task
scheduling, cost estimating/evaluation/control, critical path evaluations, resource
allocation, integrated tracking and control systems, risk analysis, problem identification,
recovery processes and techniques, decision theory. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 2322
Offered upon sufficient request
EN 4503 Electro-Optics
A study of wave and ray optics, diffraction, reflection, refraction, and polarization in
free space and transmission lines, and waveguides. Laboratories include experiments with
lasers, detectors, emitters, optical fibers, photovoltaic devices, optical communication
and optical instrumentation. Two hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory
per week.
Prerequisites: EE 3313. Co-requisite: EN 3313
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 3113 Thermal Sciences
An introduction to the thermal sciences of mechanical engineering, providing an overview of
thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and heat transfer. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 1144 and PHY 2124
Offered fall semester
ME 3123 Dynamics
A vector analysis of the kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. Work,
energy, impulse and momentum. Modeling with differential equations. Solutions by analog
and numerical techniques. Includes the design of an experiment and a machine.
lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 2114 and ME 3313
Offered spring semester
ME 3223 Thermodynamics
A continuation from ME 3113 of the study of the laws of classical thermodynamics with a
brief introduction to compressible flow. Energy conservation in closed and flowing systems.
Application to power and refrigeration cycles. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: ME 3113 and MTH 1144
Offered spring semester
ME 3313 Statics and Strength of Materials
A design sequence from applied loads to selection of optimum material, shape, and size
for the elements in structures or machines. Forces are resolved in static equilibrium,
then elastic or plastic stress analysis is used to assure adequate strength and deflection.
lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 1222 and MTH 2123
Offered fall semester
ME 4103 Advanced Strength of Material
Multidimensional considerations of stress and strain through constitutive models. Study
of curved beams, pressure vessels, and machine components subjected to cyclic and thermal
loading. Consideration of failure modes including plastic deformation analysis, rupture
and fatigue. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: ME 3313
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 4113 Machine Design
Practical application of kinematics, materials mechanics and mechanical processes to the
design of machines and machine elements. Static and dynamic load analysis, stress analysis,
material selection and failure analysis. discussion-design per week.
Prerequisites: ME 3123
Offered fall semester
ME 4203 Mechanical Vibrations
A study of the oscillatory motions of bodies and the forces associated with them. Includes
the study of undamped and damped, free and forced vibrations, vibration of continuous systems
and random vibrations. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 2114
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 4213 Heat Transfer
A study of energy movement due to temperature differences via the mechanisms of conduction,
convection, and radiation. Includes a class design project. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 2114 and ME 3113
Offered fall semester
ME 4303 Finite Element Analysis
Finite element methods covering fundamental concepts and computer implementation. Topics
include solutions of boundary value problems in fluid and solid mechanics with thermal
effects and applications to engineering design. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: MTH 2114
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 4323 Fluid Mechanics
A study of the conservation of mass, momentum and energy in relation to laminar and
turbulent fluid flow. Viscous effects and application to steady and unsteady flow,
incompressible and compressible fluids. Includes an individual design project. Two
hours lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory period per week.
Prerequisites or corequisites: MTH 2114 and PHY 2124
Offered spring semester
ME 4403 Compressible Flow
One-dimensional compressible flow of perfect gases. Includes Mach waves, normal and
oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer expansion waves, isentropic flow in variable area ducts,
and flows in constant area ducts with friction or heat transfer. lecture-discussion
per week.
Prerequisites: ME 3113
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 4503 Viscous Flow
Study is pursued for special instances of Navier Stokes solutions, vorticity accounting,
creeping, laminar, unstable and turbulent flows. A case study in design is used to
compare true viscous behavior with simplified "design" equations. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: EN 3313
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 4603 Advanced Thermodynamics
An extension to the thermodynamics taught in ME 3113 and ME 3223 to the realms of analytic,
non-equilibrium and statistical thermodynamics. lecture-discussion per week.
Prerequisites: ME 3223
Offered upon sufficient request
ME 4703 Aerospace Propulsion
A study of aerospace propulsion devices, including jet engines and rockets. Application
of compressible flow, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics to propulsion systems. Includes
analysis of engine components. lecture-discussion per week.
Corequisite: 3223
Offered upon sufficient request