Engineering

Students are introduced to the world of engineering and manufacturing through activities that showcase how products are designed and built. Teams design, build, and test a weight-bearing structure, as-well-as reverse engineer a product to improve its design. Classroom and laboratory exercises are designed to expose the student to the different engineering and advanced manufacturing disciplines. Lab sessions provide hands-on exposure to the concepts discussed in the lecture sessions. This course does not require any prior engineering background.

Students work in teams to design, build, program, and test increasingly complex electro-mechanical robots. The course teaches how robots move (locomotion and kinematics), how they sense (perception), and how they reason about their environment (planning). Students are exposed to robotics related career options in the manufacturing, service, and medical industries. Labs consist of extensive hands-on use of autonomous and industrial collaborative robots. This course does not require any prior engineering background. (3 class hours/2 laboratory hours).

This course begins a student's preparation for a career in electronic, renewable energy, and related fields; it is also well structured for those interested in just expanding their background into the world of electronics. The course focus is on electrical circuit theory as well as analog and digital signal processing. Laboratory experiments are used to reinforce basic concepts and develop laboratory skills, as well as to provide system-level understanding. This course does not require any prior engineering background.

This introductory course explores careers in engineering, architecture, and design. Principles associated with 3D design, visualization, documentation, and product simulation are taught through hands-on use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) modeling software. In addition, student designed parts are fabricated using both additive (3D printing) and subtractive (CNC milling, laser cutting) techniques to enhance the understanding of the design to manufacturing process.

This course introduces students to the elements and practices of computer programming through the MATLAB computation and visualization environment. Assuming no prior background in computer programming, this course will enable one to write programs that solve problems involving the manipulation of numbers. Procedural and object-oriented programming techniques will be taught. Students will be required to complete numerous in-class examples and homework assignments. During the semester, other technical high-level programming languages (e.g., Python) will be introduced through lecture discussion.

Learn about exciting operations and assembly careers in modern manufacturing environments that use Industry 4.0 automation technologies. State of the art equipment as well as online virtual reality simulators are used to teach about factory floor automation equipment processes. The course prepares students for the Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) C-101 and C-102 Associate Industry Certification exams.

Master the Industry 4.0 automation skills needed to have a rewarding career in modern manufacturing environments that use Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies for data analytics and process optimization. State of the art equipment as well as online virtual reality simulators are used to teach about factory IIoT, networking equipment, and related data analytics. The course prepares student for the Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) C-104 IIoT, Networking and Data Analytics Industry Certification exam.

Students analyze the structural integrity of mechanical devices such as frames, trusses, beams and cable. Using vector algebra and calculus, understand how Newton's Laws can address engineering static equilibrium problems and master free body diagram construction. Vectors, dot and cross product, moment of a force, reduction of loadings to an equivalent force, construction of free body diagrams, calculation of reaction forces and moments for structures, static equilibrium loadings are among the topics covered.

Learn about the branch of applied mathematics concerned with the study of forces and torques, and their effect on motion. The course focuses on kinematics, vector descriptions of a point, vector equations related to velocity and acceleration, Newton’s Law for a particle, angular velocity and acceleration, moment of inertia of a rigid body, parallel axis theorem, work/energy for a particle and a rigid body, and conservation of momentum and angular momentum.

This is the first of two courses that begin a student's preparation for a career in electronics and related fields. The course is structured for those interested in expanding their background into the world of electronics. The course focus is on DC and transient electric circuit analysis, use of computer-based circuit simulation, and operational amplifier circuits. Laboratory experiments reinforce course concepts, develop laboratory and measurement skills, and provide system-level understanding.

Thermodynamics (a branch of physics) is a study of heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. The laws of thermodynamics describe how fundamental physical quantities (temperature, energy, and entropy) behave under various circumstances. The course focuses on concepts of thermodynamics, the laws of thermodynamics, work, heat, energy, the Carnot Cycle, energy conservation, enthalpy, specific heat, efficiency, entropy, phase, phase change, heat engines, and heat transfer.