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Engineering: Electrical |
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EEL 5668C - Advanced Kinematics and Control of Robotic Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Course Description: In this course, the advanced concepts on kinematics, dynamics and control of robotic systems will be covered. Additional topics include trajectory planning and control algorithms for autonomous vehicles, obstacle avoidance, and cooperative control. Furthermore, ongoing research issues in the field of robotic vehicle planning and control will be explored.
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EEL 5669C - Autonomous Robotic Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Strong background in programming and digital logic design.
Course Description: This course is a project-based intensive semester program, with an integrated introduction to robotics, autonomy, real-time operating systems, and systems engineering. Students specify and design a small-scale yet complex robot capable of real-time interaction with the natural world. Topics covered include embedded systems control, computer vision, localization and planning, mapping algorithms, and sensor integration into real-time operating systems. Students design, assemble, and program a scale-model autonomous, self-driving vehicle. They learn to integrate and program radar sensors, visual sensors, inertial sensors, and GPS mapping, in a series of project challenges: Obstacle detection and wall following, visual servoing, mapping and localization, and motion planning. The final exam is a capstone demonstration of all accomplishments and is a Grand Prix time trial, race, and presentation by the students.
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EEL 5685C - Embedded Control
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and EEL 3702C - Digital Logic Design or comparable or permission of program director.
Course Description: Microprocessors as an embedded element of engineering systems are discussed in this course. Topics include hardware and software control, interface, command, networks, information, sensing, and display. Coursework focuses on the underlying mathematics, specifying performance of dynamic systems, system analysis, controller design and implementation on typical hardware platforms in C.
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EEL 5741C - Microcomputers
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and EEL 3702C - Digital Logic Design or comparable or permission of program director.
Course Description: The course will discuss microcomputers and microcontrollers and explore the subjects of memory addressing modes, instruction sets, central processing units / microprocessors, C and assembly language programming in the context of the course, debugging software and hardware, computer buses, interrupts, real-time events, memory, I/O, counters, timers and interfacing techniques.
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EEL 5820 - Digital Image Processing
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Department Chair Approval.
Course Description: This course provides the theoretical and practical basis required for understanding Digital Image Processing fundamentals and their applications. Topics covered: Image Transforms, Image Enhancement, Edge Detection, Image Segmentation, Image Restoration, Image Compression.
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Engineering: Electrical and Electronic |
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EEE 3304C - Analog Electronics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3112C - Circuits 2
Course Description: This course covers the design of integrated circuits for use in analog applications as well as feedback of linear small-signal amplifiers, gain, and frequency response. Students will identify appropriate standards for solid state amplifiers and sub circuits and then design, simulate, construct and test them to meet the stated specifications.
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EEE 3308 - Transistor Circuit Design
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEE 3304C - Analog Electronics
Course Description: Discrete transistor circuits; amplifiers for Low Frequency, High Frequency, tuned and power applications biasing; computer-aided design; noise; switching applications; operational amplifiers; and linear circuits are discussed.
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EEE 3310 - Digital Electronics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3111 , EEL 3111L , and EEL 3702C - Digital Logic Design
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: EEL 3112C - Circuits 2
Co-requisite: EEL 3112C - Circuit 2
Course Description: This course focuses on the implementation of logic devices, MOSFET’s, and BJT’s. Students will analyze logic families including NMOS, CMOS, and TTL. The fundamentals of digital memory circuits are also covered.
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EEE 3351 - Electronic Devices
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: CHM 2045 - Chemistry 1 and CHM 2045L - Chemistry 1 Laboratory and EEL 3111 - Circuits1
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: EEL 3112C - Circuits 2
Co-requisite: EEL 3112C - Circuits 2
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the internal operation, terminal characteristics, and material physics of semi-conductors and op-amps. Transistors, diode models and applications are also discussed. Principles of semiconductor devices and microelectronic circuits will be examined, along with the characteristics of diodes, multi-junction devices, metal oxide semiconductors and Field Effect Transistor based devices.
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EEE 3396C - Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3112C - Circuits 2 and
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the internal operation, terminal characteristics, and material physics of semi-conductors. Transistors, diode models and applications are also discussed. The laboratory will reinforce technical lecture and complete group projects regarding the application of semiconductors to industry. Teams are required to give verbal and written technical and managerial reports.
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EEE 4304C - Analog Electronics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3112C - Circuits 2 and EEE 3351 - Electronic Devices (new proposed number)
Course Description: This course covers the design of integrated circuits for use in analog applications as well as feedback, power amplifiers, active filers and oscillators. Students will identify appropriate standards for solid-state amplifiers and sub circuits and then design, simulate, construct and test them to meet the stated specifications
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EEE 4350 - Physical Electronics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEE 4351 - Electronic Devices
Course Description: Semiconductor fundamentals, pn diodes, bipolar transistors, Schottky diodes, heterojunctions, JFETs, MESFETs, and MOSFETs are presented in this course.
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EEE 4376 - Analog Integrated Circuits
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEE 3351 Electronic Devices
Course Description: Design and analysis of bipolar and MOS analog integrated circuits. Topics include operational amplifier design, analog multipliers, active loads, current sources, feedback, frequency response, and compensation. Emphasis on design and computer simulation
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EEE 4510 - Digital Signal Processing
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: STA 3032 - Probability and Statistics, EEL 3135 - Systems and Signals and MAS 3105 - Linear Algebra,
Co-requisite: EEL 3112C Circuits 2
Course Description: In this course, you will study digital signal processing, sampling and quantization, A/D & D/A converters, discrete time systems, convolution, z-transforms, transfer functions, digital filter realizations, fast Fourier transforms and analog & digital filter design.
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EEE 4531 - Techniques for High Fidelity Acquisition
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEE 3351 Eectronic Devices
Co-requisite: EEL 4652 - Control Theory
Course Description:
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The course covers the concepts, planning, design, tools, and skills related to acquiring high quality signals. Methods include extracting signals from noise, designing measurement systems to minimize noise and disturbance effects, and identifying and ameliorating sources of noise. The course also investigates measurement error using statistical analysis and sensors dynamic models.
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EEE 5311 - Analog IC Design
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: “Graduate Standing or Department Chair Approval.”
Course Description: The course covers discrete transistor circuits; amplifier stages, tuned amplifiers, active loads, output stags, op-amps, feedback, frequency response, and compensation.
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EEE 5507 - Advanced Digital Signal Processing
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Permission from VP of Academic Affairs or Designee
Course Description: This course focuses on advanced structures and techniques for advanced digital signal processing (digital signal processing and their properties in relation to application requirements); for example real-time, low bandwidth, and low-power operation. Topics include: Hilbert transform relations, Optimal FIR filter design, time-dependent Fourier transform and filter banks, cepstral analysis and de-convolution, parametric signal modeling, multi-rate signal processing, and multidimensional signal processing.
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EEE 5517 - Digital Image Processing and Communication
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEE 4510 - Digital Signal Processing
Course Description: This course provides the theoretical and practical basis required for understanding and designing modern image processing and communication systems. The content covered will focus on still images and convey certain concepts from digital video (image sequencing).
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Engineering: Environmental |
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ENV 2003 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAC 2312 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2 and PHY 2048 - Physics 1 and CHM 2045 - Chemistry 1
Course Description: The application of basic principles and equations dealing with water, air, and solid and hazardous wastes; material and energy balances; and chemical and biochemical cycles. Topics include water resources, water quality and pollution, air quality and pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, and environmental legislation.
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ENV 2930 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Course Description: A comprehensive study on selected topics in Environmental Engineering.
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ENV 3005C - Environmental Lab II
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENV 3004C
Course Description: This course combines in-depth analysis of common analytical methods used in the environmental engineering industry with field monitoring and remote sampling techniques of smart watersheds. These methods include advanced spectrometry techniques, chromatography, and hydrologic quantification. Course material is integrated into the design and implementation of monitoring systems for the University stormwater management facilities.
(Amended 10/25/2021)
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ENV 3008 - Environmental Chemistry
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: CHM 2046 - Chemistry 2
Course Description: Survey of principles of chemistry with applications to water, emphasizing properties, composition, redox equilibria, and complexation; environmental organic chemistry; earth’s atmosphere with emphasis on chemical composition, gaseous inorganic pollutants and oxides, and photochemical smog.
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ENV 3897 - Applied Environmental Research
Credits: 2
Course Description: Students are involved in engineering projects throughout the university experience and have the opportunity to make meaningful impacts on a local or regional level. In the process, communication and writing skills are developed. This course builds on and extends knowledge and skills that are foundational to the capstone sequence.
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ENV 4042 - Environmental Sensing
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Permission from Department Chair.
Course Description: Current and coming technologies for environmental sensing and their use in sustainable design (including robotics, drones, remote sampling and testing, transmission).
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ENV 4044 - Data Analytics for Sustainable Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Permission from Department Chair
Course Description: The analysis of environmental data sets for sustainable design, planning and remediation.
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ENV 4053 - Environmental Impacts of Power Generation
Credits: 3
Course Description: Renewable and non-renewable power generation; environmental impacts at local, regional and global levels; hazardous wastes; and sustainability.
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ENV 4063 - Environmental Toxicology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: CHM 2046 - Chemistry 2
Course Description: Effects of environmental toxicants on humans, animals, and the environment. Modified content appropriate for upper level undergraduate students.
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ENV 4121 - Fundamentals of Air Pollution Engineering/Control Design
Credits: 3
Course Description: Sources, effects and regulation of air pollutants. Meteorology and dispersion of pollutants. Sampling and analysis of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. Photochemical air pollution and mobile sources. Principles of particulate and gaseous emission control; design and operation of particulate and gas control equipment to meet federal emission standards.
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ENV 4346 - Green Process Design
Credits: 3
Course Description: Includes process analysis, green chemistry, waste prevention, pollution prevention; students are taught to critically analyze process flowsheets to determine critical control points, identify opportunities to prevent waste generation, identify recycling or reuse opportunities, and optimize economics.
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ENV 4368 - Environmental Sensor Informatics
Credits: 3
Course Description: Modern data analysis for the interpretation of large networks of sensors for intelligent environmental monitoring and sustainable management of the environment.
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ENV 4403 - Sustainable Nanotechnology
Credits: 3
Course Description: Intentional and unintentional impacts of nanotechnology on the environment.
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ENV 4514 - Water and Wastewater Treatment
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Permission from Department Chair, Provost, or Designee
Course Description: Design of water and wastewater treatment units.
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ENV 4538 - Advanced Instrumentation for Environmental Analysis
Credits: 3
Course Description: Use of modern instrumentation (including imaging, x-ray analysis, etc.) for environmental analysis.
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ENV 4610 - Sustainable Logistics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: This course introduces students to current and future trends in logistics technology, policy, and sustainability. Topics include resource sustainability, environmental impacts of existing and emerging technologies and local environmental conditions and the global climate.
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ENV 4941 - Capstone I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Senior status, at least two elective courses in the program and Permission from Department Chair.
Course Description: Open-ended design project in which students work in teams. Oral presentations and written reports cover alternates considered, design assumptions, cost, safety, and feasibility. This is a communication-intensive course.
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ENV 4942 - Capstone II
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENV 4941 - Capstone I
Course Description: This course is a continuation of ENV 4941 - Capstone I. Student teams will continue to work and refine their projects. Open-ended design project in which Senior students lead research teams. Oral presentations and written reports cover alternates considered, design assumptions, cost, safety, and feasibility. This is a communication-intensive course.
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Engineering: General |
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EEL 4724 - Hardware Design with FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3702C - Digital Logic Design
Course Description: Introduction to rapid hardware prototyping and reconfigurable computation. Fundamentals of RTL design, FSM and FSMD based designs, and System on Chip based approaches. Design constraints, timing closure, and power analysis. Realization of various hardware systems on an actual FPGA board.
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EGN 1006 - Career Design for STEM Disciplines
Credits: 1
Course Description: This foundation course will provide students with an experience to engage in the academic process, training in skills for academic survival and professional success with implementation through participation in hands-on team project using basic skills from various STEM disciplines. Students will be introduced to teaming and leadership skills to gain introductory knowledge of design principles and exercise communication skills basic to academic and professional success.
Primary Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring Rotation Year Annually
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EGN 1007 - Concepts and Methods for Engineering and Computer Science
Credits: 1
Course Description: Students learn foundational skills, calculation methods, and basic programming in Excel for engineering problems. This course supports students’ abilities to calculate and analyze data and provide them a foundation for applying engineering skills throughout the curriculum, in internship, and employment.
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EGN 2001C - Skills and Design 1
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: MAC 2311 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1
Course Description: This course aims to integrate engineering design activities with engineering graphical communications using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and professional skills emphasizing teaming and leadership, and communication in a variety of mediums. Computer Aided Design (CAD) software is used as a tool to create 2D and 3D sketches, 3D parts, 3D assemblies, and engineering drawing per industry standards. Skills in parametric modeling include planning and model strategy, dimensioning and tolerances, perspectives, and use of basic features in the CAD software. The project will allow students to integrate these basic skills with additive manufacturing processes to develop solutions to real world engineering problems. This course will develop students’ knowledge of design processes as well as basic mechanical engineering skills, which will begin to prepare them for future open-ended problems in their capstone design course.
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EGN 2002C - Skills and Design 2
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: EGN 2001C - Skills and Design 1
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: EGN 3311 - Statics
Course Description: This course aims to advance the knowledge and experience of students to use engineering tools and professional skills to seek solutions to real world problems. Students will engage in engineering design activities, use Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, and continue to mature with professional skills emphasizing teaming and leadership, and communication in a variety of mediums. Intermediate Computer Aided Design (CAD) skills including parts assembly, model motion and analysis, and design tables. The project will allow students to integrate these intermediate level skills with subtractive manufacturing processes. This course will enhance students’ knowledge of design processes as well as build intermediate level mechanical engineering skills, which will continue to prepare them future open-ended problems in their capstone design course.
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EGN 2127L - CAD
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: An introduction to the techniques for creating solid models of engineering designs. Topics include three-dimensional modeling of parts and assemblies, visualization, orthographic and isometric free-hand sketching, and computer-generated design documentation. Industry applications will be a specific focus.
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EGN 2250 - Thermal and Fluids Engineering I
Credits: 3
Course Description: Application of control volume balances of mass, momentum, energy and entropy in systems of practical importance to all engineers. Identification of control volumes, properties of pure materials, mass and energy conservation for closed and open systems, second law of thermodynamics, Bernoulli equation, fluid statics, forces and heat transfer in external and internal flows, conduction and radiative heat transfer.
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EGN 3015C - Mechanical Lab Design 1
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3321 - Dynamics and EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials and EGN 2002C - Skills and Design 2
Course Description: This course aims to build on skills learned during in proceeding courses and put them to use towards designing and executing mechanical engineering laboratories. Student teams will investigate and then develop demonstrable laboratory apparatuses of mechanical engineering principles and phenomena including heat transfer, fluids, vibrations, and control systems. Students will be guided through the process with educational primers on principles that will be investigated while being taught general design practices and processes. The course will include functional representations, concept evaluation, planning, and require extensive written communication and documentation. Teams will utilize Labview and data acquisition (DAQ) cards for the development of the mechanical systems laboratories. This course will enhance students’ knowledge of design processes as well as core mechanical engineering topics and prepare them to tackle future open ended problems in their capstone design course.
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EGN 3016C - Mechanical Lab Design 2
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3015C - Mechanical Lab Design 1
Course Description: This course is a continuation of EGN 3015C - Mechanical Lab Design 1 . Students will be reassembled into teams and tasked with reverse engineering and refining previously created alpha prototype laboratory apparatuses. After refinement student teams will perform testing along with simulation, verification, and validation of their experiments. Teams will then engage in peer-to-peer learning with other laboratory groups and eventual cycle through all the student generated laboratory exercises in heat transfer, fluids, vibration, and controls. Additionally, student teams will also cycle through other fundamental mechanical engineering laboratory exercises including mechanics and materials and beam deflection.
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EGN 3321 - Dynamics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3311 - Statics and MAC 2312 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2
Course Description: Study of the motion of particles and rigid bodies applying the vector approach. Topics include motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body; relative motion; kinetics of translation, rotation, and plane motion; work-energy methods; impulse-momentum
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EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAC 2312 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2 and EGN 3311 - Statics and PHY 2048 - Physics 1
Course Description: Topics include properties of materials; Mohr’s Circle; Hooke’s Law for isotopic materials; stress and strain; stress strain diagrams; design loads; safety and working stresses; shear and moment diagrams; beams of two materials; indeterminate axially-loaded members; torsional shearing stresses and loads; displacements; and flexural and transverse shear stresses.
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EGN 3343 - Engineering Thermodynamics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAC 2313 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 3 and PHY 2049 - Physics 2 and MAP 2302 - Differential Equations
Course Description: The course deals with properties of a simple pure compressible substance, equations of state, the first law of thermodynamics, internal energy, specific heats, enthalpy and the application of the first law of thermodynamics to a system or control volume. The study of the second law of thermodynamics if discussed leading to the discovery of entropy as a property and its ramifications.
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EGN 3365 - Structure and Properties of Materials
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: CHM 2045 - Chemistry 1 and PHY 2048 - Physics 1
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: MAC 2312 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2
Course Description: The course introduces the fundamental concepts of materials science and engineering focusing the interrelationship between the microstructure of a material, its properties and its processing. The topics highlighted in this course are; material selection, crystallographic structure, diffusion, solidification, phase diagrams, phase transformation, microstructure and mechanical properties of different classifications of materials, which include metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. The analysis of mechanical properties, the manufacturing process, the material specifications for a selected application or component, and the advantages and limitations of selected material are presented.
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EGN 3466 - Discrete Event Simulation
Credits: 3
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: (STA 2023 or STA 3032 ) and COP 2271
Course Description: Discrete Event Simulation models a large complex system in order to study and analyze its dynamic behavior over time. Simulation of complex discrete-event systems with applications in industrial and service industries. Course topics include modeling and programming, simulations in one or more high-level computer packages such as simul8, input distribution modeling, generating random numbers, and statistical analysis of simulation output data. The course will contain a team simulation project.
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EGN 4334 - Mechanics of Composite Materials
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials
Course Description: This course introduces the concepts required to analyze composite materials. Topics to be discussed include: elastic behavior and strength of composites, failure analysis, unidirectional lamina and multi-directional laminate, effects of temperature and humidity, failure and design of composites.
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EGN 4352 - Applied Computational Mechanics of Materials
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 4350C - Finite Element Analysis in Mechanical Engineering
Course Description: Students will be exposed to theoretical background and real-life applications of finite element analysis to simulate and analyze mechanical systems. A commercial finite element software package will be used.
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EGN 4611 - Engineering Economics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Permission from Department Chair
Course Description: The objective is to help engineering students recognize and understand the importance of cost factors that are inherent in all engineering decisions. Development of ability to handle engineering problems that involve economic factors. The course includes economic environment, selections in present economy, value analysis, critical path economy, interest and money-time relationships, depreciation and valuation, capital financing and budgeting, basic methods for undertaking economic studies, risk, uncertainty and sensitivity, selections between alternatives, fixed, increment, and sunk costs, the effects of income taxes in economic studies, replacement studies, minimum cost formulas, economic studies of public projects, economic studies in public utilities. Effects of inflation are considered at each step.
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EGN 4715 - Propulsion and Combustion Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3343 - Engineering Thermodynamics
Co-requisite: EML 3015 - Fluid Mechanics
Course Description: Analysis of aircraft and missile propulsion systems; fundamentals of jet propulsion including air breathing and rocket engines. Presents aerospace propulsive devices as systems, with functional requirements and engineering and environmental limitations. Requirements and limitations that constrain design choices. Both air-breathing and rocket engines covered, at a level which enables rational integration of the propulsive system into an overall vehicle design.
Furthermore, the application of chemical, thermodynamic, and gas dynamic principles to the combustion of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels will be studied in this course, which includes stoichiometry, thermochemistry, reaction mechanism, reaction velocity, and temperature levels.
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EGN 4801 - Integrative Nanotechnology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGS 3625 - Engineering & Technology Project Management , EGN 3417L - Design 2
Course Description: The course explores the integration of nanotechnology into processes and devices across multiple systems, emphasizing interdisciplinary applications.
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EGN 4905 - Independent Study
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisites: Undergraduate standing, Permission from VP of Academic Affairs or Designee, and qualified faculty member to act as course instructor.
Course Description: This is an individualized undergraduate course directed by a faculty member and undertaken by a student without regular classroom instruction. The student is required to create with a faculty member a schedule of academic activities to investigate a specific technology, which results in specified graded deliverables.
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EGN 4930 - Special Topics
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisites: Senior Standing
Course Description: This course is an open forum to discuss new technical topics of interest to engineering and technology students. Topics are variable and based upon new developments in engineering, technology, and science.
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EGN 4941 - Internship
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Senior standing and Permission of Program Director
Course Description: Classroom theory will be integrated with a participatory and experiential learning and work experience in business, industry, government and other technology-oriented areas of student interest. Evaluation by work supervisor is required. Supervision by a faculty member or delegated authority, daily journal, and a post-internship report are also required.
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EGN 5419 - Advanced Design and Instrumentation for Engineers
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: This course will cover the theory, operation, and maintenance of common engineering test and characterization instruments. Teams will also learn how to identify instrument vendors in a marketplace, develop bid requirements, technically evaluate bids, plan for adequate site infrastructure, and present written and oral reports of findings.
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EGN 5429 - Mathematical Analysis 1
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing and consent of instructor
Course Description: Application of analytical methods to engineering problems, Differential equations, series solutions of differential equations (special functions), boundary-value problems and characteristic function representation, Laplace transforms, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, formulating and solving problems in engineering for systems of differential equations and partial differential equations, complex analysis.
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EGN 5430 - Mathematical Analysis 2
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing and consent of instructor
Course Description: Analysis of engineering mechanics by matrix theory and complex variables; introduction to numerical techniques, Linear algebra, matrix computations, systems of differential equations, eigenvalue problems, iterative solution of systems of algebraic equations, numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations, systems of nonlinear equations, optimization.
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EGN 5445 - Design of Experiments and Optimization
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or permission of the Department Chair.
Course Description: This course will begin with a brief introduction of engineering design and engineering optimization processes. The first portion of the course will be devoted to Design of Experiment (DOE) techniques to enable identification and quantification of design variables and systems modeling. The remainder of the course will be dedicated to classical engineering optimization techniques such as quadratic forms, minimization, linear programming, dynamic programming, Newtonian methods, and multi-objective optimization. Overall, the course will focus greatly on identifying opportunities for optimization as well as determining which optimization method is appropriate for a given opportunity.
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EGN 5470 - Advanced Engineering Math
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAC 2311 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1
Course Description: This advanced course in Mathematics analyzes the functions of a complex variable and the calculus of residues. It also covers subjects such as ordinary differential equations, and the Sturm-Liouville Theory. Applications to engineering problems are presented.
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EGN 5510 - Intellectual Property Management for Engineering and Technology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: This course covers intellectual property rights and ethics for engineers and scientists working in STEM fields. Intellectual property, rights available for its protection, commercialization under IP laws, and IP management are also discussed. Students apply classical moral theory and decision making to engineering and technology management situations encountered in academic and STEM careers. Students will also learn about the ethical use of these monopoly rights for the betterment of society.
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EGN 5903 - Independent Study
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and qualified faculty member to act as course instructor.
Course Description: This is an individualized graduate course directed by a faculty member and undertaken by a student without regular classroom instruction. The student is required to create with a faculty member a schedule of academic activities to investigate a specific technology, which results in specified graded deliverables. The specific topic may be related to the thesis or project that the student has selected.
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EGN 5915 - Research Methods
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Course Description: Research methods used in STEM programs at the graduate level are covered in this course. It is a hands-on class: students develop a research proposal in an area of their choice. Students identifying their thesis research topic and plan their work.
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EGN 5950 - Project
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Permission from VP of Academic Affairs or Designee
Course Description: Students will conduct a literature review and develop a proposal for a technical project under the supervision of graduate faculty. The project should facilitate engagement with both academic and professional communities and STEM-related industries. A successful project will explore, evaluate and extend creative uses of emerging methods, models and processes, and may include a professional experience with a company or external organization. This course may be repeated once for credit.
Primary Term(s) Offered: Summer Rotation Year Annually
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EGN 5970 - Thesis 1
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Permission from VP of Academic Affairs or Designee
Course Description: Students will make an original contribution to a technical topic, under the guidance of a faculty member, in a selected program. The student must submit a thesis or project proposal and must successfully defend the work in a public venue. The thesis or project should facilitate engagement with both academic and professional communities, and STEM related industries. The work should contribute to the respective knowledge bases of the communities and fields. A successful project will explore, evaluate and extend creative uses of emerging methods, models and processes.
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EGN 5972 - Thesis 2
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 5975 - Thesis 2
Course Description: This is a continuation of EGN 5975 - Thesis 2 . Students will continue to explore and conduct original research on a topic, under the guidance of a faculty member, in a selected concentration. The thesis project should make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge of the field. The student must submit a thesis proposal approved by a thesis committee and must successfully defend the work in a public venue. The thesis project should facilitate engagement with both academic and professional communities, and STEM related industries. The work should contribute to the respective knowledge bases of the communities and fields. A successful project will explore, evaluate and extend creative uses of emerging methods, models and processes.
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EGN 5975 - Thesis 2
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 5970 Thesis 1
Course Description: Students will explore and conduct original research on a topic, under the guidance of a faculty member, in a selected concentration. The thesis project should make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge of the field. The student must submit a thesis proposal approved by a thesis committee and must successfully defend the work in a public venue. The thesis should facilitate engagement with both academic and professional communities, and STEM related industries. The work should contribute to the respective knowledge bases of the communities and fields. A successful thesis will explore, evaluate and extend creative uses of emerging methods, models and processes.
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Engineering: Mechanical |
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EAS 4505 - Orbital Mechanics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3321 - Dynamics and EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials
Course Description: This course is an introductory course into the mechanics associated with space flight. Topics covered includes Keplar’s laws of planetary motion, interplanetary travel, orbital elements, geocentric orbits, time of flight, ground tracks, orbital transfers/maneuvers, and re-entry.
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EML 3015 - Fluid Mechanics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAC 2313 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 3 and EGN 3321 Dynamics and MAP 2302 - Differential Equations and EGN 3343 Engineering Thermodynamics
Course Description: The properties and behavior of fluids at rest and in motion are discussed in this course. Topics include fluid statics; transport theorem; flow of incompressible fluids; flow of real fluids in closed conduits, impulse and momentum; and fluid measurement.
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EML 3401 - Principles of Turbomachinery
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3343 - Engineering Thermodynamics
Co-requisite: EGN 3015C - Mechanical Lab Design 1
Course Description: This course is an introductory course into turbomachinery. Turbomachines are those in which energy is transferred to or from a continuously moving fluid by the motion of a rotating element. Some of the most common and important machines used in engineering and industry fall into this category, including those which absorb power, such as fans, compressors and pumps or other varieties of machines which generate power such as steam and gas turbines. This course introduces the principles of fluid machinery design with emphasis on the axial and centrifugal machinery. (Spring#2-odd year)
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EML 3452 - Energy Conversion and Sustainability
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAC 2313 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 3 and MAP 2302 - Differential Equations
Co-requisite: EGN 3343 - Engineering Thermodynamics
Course Description: This course introduces various types of alternative energy sources such as solar, bio, hydro, wind, ocean, and geothermal energy. Depending on energy sources and end use applications, various energy conversion and storage methods are utilized. Technological advantages and disadvantages associated with individual energy sources as well as their environmental impacts and sustainability are discussed.
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EML 3535C - Computer Manufacturing and Control
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 2002C - Skills and Design 2 and COP 2271C - Introduction to Computation and Programming and EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials
Course Description: Students will be exposed to introduction to the theory and practice of Computer Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing with emphasis in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and Computer Numeric Control (CNC) for manufacturing as well as Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) for controlling industrial processes.
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EML 3811 - Mechatronic Systems
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EEL 3111 and COP 2271 Introduction to Computation and Programming and MAP 2302 Differential Equations and EGN 3321 Dynamics
Course Description: An interdisciplinary course overviewing the design and analysis of mechatronic and robotic systems. Specific topics include sensors, basic signal processing, actuator modeling and implementation, and an introduction to system control. This class will include hands-on activities and laboratories to reinforce both practical and theoretical topics.
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EML 4224 - Control Systems - FEA Modeling
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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EML 4300 - Interoperability and Standards
Credits: 3
Course Description: Methodologies, processes and theory related to calibration, and sample preparation, process management and standards for related technology, materials and operations are discussed. Additionally the course will engage trade associations and standardization bodies to understand the related industry impact.
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EML 4500 - Design and Analysis of Machine Components
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials and MAP 2302 - Differential Equations
Course Description: Application of the principles of mechanics of materials in machine design. Topics include stress and deflection analysis of machine parts, variable loads, endurance limits, fasteners, bearings, power transmission, code consideration of pressure and vacuum vessels, and elements of design.
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EML 4542 - Materials Selection in Design and Manufacturing
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Junior Standing and EGN 3365 - Structure and Properties of Materials and EGN 3331 - Strength of Materials
Course Description: This course examines the selection and application of the materials predicated on materials science and engineering case studies covering most engineering applications. The course examines a systematic approach for the development of a new idea or product and facilitate the continuous improvement processes for products currently on the market. The approach is based on evaluating open-ended design problems with respect to the interrelationship between material, shape, function and processes used to produce a variety of products. Through the design process, engineering materials and their properties are explored using the Ashby Materials Selection Charts using case studies and design experiences that focus on materials selection and multiple constraints, the factors involved in materials processing and design, and the use of data sources.
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EML 4951C - Engineering Design Senior Capstone 2
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EML 4950C Engineering Design Senior Capstone 1
Course Description: This course is a continuation of EML 4950 - Engineering Design Senior Capstone 1 . Student teams will continue to work and refine their projects utilizing engineering analysis/testing techniques along with customer feedback. Teams will also apply robust design analysis, fault tree analysis and create extensive documentation. This course meets communication/writing-intensive requirements.
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EML 5040 - Numerical Methods and Simulation
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 5470 Advanced Engineering Mathematics
COP 5090 Scientific Computation and Programming
Course Description: This course will introduce basic numerical analysis techniques with MATLAB and simulation software, which are used to solve engineering problems. It will cover a range of numerical analysis techniques related to solving systems of linear algebraic equations, matrix eigenvalue problems, nonlinear equations, polynomial approximation and interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, ordinary and partial differential equations. Students will learn how to apply Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics to simulate case studies with real-world applications using computational tools such as ANSYS, COMSOL, and other commercial software. Students will gain hands-on experience using programs for solution of problems in stress analysis, heat transfer, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, bio-engineering, and other areas in mechanical engineering.
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EML 5103 - Intermediate Thermodynamics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Permission of Department Chair.
Course Description: This course study the thermodynamic approach to processes and engines; alternative formulations for single phase and Legendre transformations; Maxwell relations; phase diagrams; steady flow combustion and irreversible process.
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EML 5152 - Mass, Momentum, and Thermal Transport
Credits: 3
Course Description: This course covers a combination of fundamental theories governing mass, momentum, and energy transport in various modes and applications. Topics include convection in laminar and turbulent flows, mass transfer, and radiative energy transport. Additional topics may include multidimensional and transient conduction, free convection, phase change heat transfer, and radiation exchange in enclosures. Students should be familiar with vector calculus, differential equations, and scientific computing, as well as have prior understanding of basic conservation and constitutive laws in fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
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EML 5210 - Intermediate Dynamics and Modern Controls
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: EGN 5470 - Advanced Engineering Math Credits: 3 and
COP 5090 - Scientific Computation and Programming Credits: 3
Course Description: Dynamics of particles, rigid bodies, and distributed mass systems. Topics include Hamilton’s principle, Lagrange’s equations, Numerical methods, and Mechanisms. Control theory for linear and non-linear systems; controllability and observability. Linear state feedback and state estimators, compensator design.
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EML 5237 - Intermediate Mechanics of Materials
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or permission from Department Chair.
Course Description: This course will be taught in a modular format by 2 faculty members. The advanced theory of mechanics will be explored in this course, and applied to metal fatigue and composite mechanic research areas. Students will review fundamental concepts of stress and strain as related to isotropic materials and further extended to other material types (anisotropic, orthotropic, etc.). Essentially, the course will serve to bridge fundamental elementary concepts of mechanics to advanced mechanic concepts. Students will learn fundamental advanced mechanic concepts as applied to bending and torsion analysis, energy concepts (i.e., principle of virtual work, Castigliano’s theorem, Rayleigh-Ritz, etc.), beam theory, plate theory, and buckling and vibration. An introduction to fatigue/fracture mechanics, and composite mechanics will be presented.
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EML 5539 - Advanced Computer Applications for Engineering Innovation
Credits: 3
Course Description: This course will introduce students to the use of MatLab in solving advanced engineering problems. Topics include vectors and matrices, handling data, program flow, functions, 2D and 3D graphics, engineering statistics. Applications in the areas of dynamics, vibrations, control systems, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, optimization and biological systems may be explored.
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