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ENGINEERING

EGR 115 (2 CR.)

ENGINEERING GRAPHICS

Applies principles of orthographic projection and multi-view drawings. Teaches descriptive geometry including relationships of points, lines, planes, and solids. Introduces sectioning, dimensioning, and computer graphic techniques. Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 4 hours per week.

EGR 120 (2 CR.)

INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING

Corequisites are MTH 173 and ENG 111. Introduces the engineering profession, professional concepts, ethics, and responsibility. Reviews hand calculators, number systems, and unit conversions. Introduces the personal computer, operating systems and processing; engineering problem solving; and graphic techniques. Lecture 2 hours per week.

EGR 126 (3 CR.)

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS

Prerequisites are MTH 173 and EGR 120. Introduces computers, their architecture and software. Teaches program development using flowcharts. Solves engineering problems involving programming in languages such as FORTRAN, Pascal, or C++. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.

EGR 130 (5 CR.)

STATICS AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALS FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Prerequisite is MTH 166 or equivalent. Presents principles and applications of free-body diagrams of force systems in equilibrium. Analyzes frames and trusses. Presents principles and applications to problems in friction, centroids, and moments of inertia. Includes properties of materials, stress, strain, elasticity, design of connections, shear and bending in statically determinate beams, and axially loaded columns. Lecture 4 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 6 hours per week.

EGR 140 (3 CR.)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS - STATICS

Corequisites are MTH 277 and PHY 241. Introduces mechanics of vector forces and space, scalar mass and time, including S.I. and U.S. customary units. Teaches equilibrium, free-body diagrams, moments, couples, distributed forces, centroids, and moments of inertia analysis of two-force and multi-force members. Lecture 3 hours per week.

EGR 206 (2 CR.)

ENGINEERING ECONOMY

Presents economic analysis of engineering alternatives. Studies economic and cost concepts, calculation of economic equivalence, comparison of alternatives, replacement economy, economic optimization in design and operation, depreciation, and after tax analysis. Lecture 2 hours per week.

EGR 245 (3 CR.)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS-DYNAMICS

Prerequisites are MTH 277 and EGR 140. Presents approach to kinematics of particles in linear and curvilinear motion. Includes kinematics of rigid bodies in plane motion. Teaches Newton's second law, work-energy and power, impulse and momentum, and problem solving using computers. Lecture 3 hours per week.

EGR 246 (3 CR.)

MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Prerequisite is EGR 140. Teaches concepts of stress, strain, deformation, internal equilibrium, and basic properties of engineering materials. Analyzes axial loads, torsion, bending, shear, and combined loading. Studies stress transformation and principle stresses, column analysis and energy principles. Lecture 3 hours per week.

EGR 251-252 (3 CR.) (3 CR.)

BASIC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I-II

Prerequisite is MTH 174. Corequisite is PHY 231. Teaches fundamentals of electric circuits. Includes circuit quantities of charge, current, potential, power, and energy. Teaches resistive circuit analysis; Ohm's and Kirchoff's laws; nodal and mesh analysis; network theorems; and RC, RL and RLC circuit transient response with constant forcing functions. Teaches AC steady-state analysis, power, three-phase circuits. Presents frequency domain analysis, resonance, Fourier series, inductively coupled circuits, Laplace transform applications, and circuit transfer functions. Introduces problem solving using computers. Lecture 3 hours per week.

EGR 255 (1 CR.)

ELECTRIC CIRCUITS LABORATORY

Corequisite is EGR 252. Teaches principles and operation of laboratory instruments such as VOM, electronic voltmeters, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, counters, wave generators, and power supplies. Presents application to circuit measurements, including transient and steady-state response of simple networks with laboratory applications of laws and theories of circuits plus measurement of AC quantities. Laboratory 3 hours per week.

EGR 265 (4 CR.)

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND LOGIC DESIGN

Teaches number representation in digital systems; Boolean algebra; design of digital circuits, including gates, flip-flops, counters, registers, architecture, microprocessors, and input-output devices. Lecture 3 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 5 hours per week.

EGR 266 (3 CR.)

LINEAR ELECTRONICS

Prerequisite is EGR 252. Presents theory of solid-state materials, electronic devices, and device applications. Teaches fundamentals of electronics circuits. Includes electronics circuit design, diodes and waveshaping circuits, transistors as linear devices; BJT-based circuit modules, FET-based circuit modules, AC amplifiers, frequency response of AC amplifiers, negative feedback, distortion, amplifiers performance, and linear applications of operational amplifiers. Also includes design with IC OP amps, sine wave oscillators and communication systems. Lecture 3 hours per week.

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