Engineering

Originated from Stanford University’s Life Design Lab (Bill Burnett and Dave Evans), this course employs a method called “design thinking” to help students from any program develop a constructive and effective approach to finding and designing their vocation after university. Through small group discussions, in-class activities, personal reflections and individual coaching, this course teaches students to use design thinking to explore many of life’s major challenges, such as pursuing careers they love and finding personal fulfillment. Topics include the integration of work and worldviews, ideation techniques, a portfolio approach to thriving, designing to increase balance and energy, and how to prototype all aspects of life. The course touches on the realities of engaging the workplace, and practices that support vocation formation throughout the career of students. The capstone assignment is the creation of an “Odyssey Plan” focusing on taking actions in the 3-5 years following their graduation. For Engineering students only. Graded P or F.

Production technology covers major part of manufacturing processes applied for creating form and shape of the product. The manufacturing processes covered in this course include: casting processes, such as sand casting, shell mold casting, die casting and investment casting; forming processes, such as hot and cold forging, rolling, extrusion, bending, deep drawing, wire drawing and spinning; shearing operations such as blanking and fine blanking; metal cutting methods such as turning, milling grinding, threading and drilling; non-traditional machining processes, such as chemical, electrochemical, erosive, laser and ultrasound machining; joining processes including metallurgy, weldability of the materials and different welding methods, such as fusion welding and solid state welding processes. 

The course introduces the principles of probability and statistics and their applications in engineering. Topics include the relationship between probability and statistics; random variables; probability distributions; mathematical expectation; random sampling; estimation; tests of hypotheses, and regression analysis. 

This course covers the fundamental concepts of databases—an essential component in implementing e-business information systems—including the entity-relationship model, relational databases, and the use of structured query language (SQL). Through individual projects, students also explore how to integrate databases with business information systems. Topics include Introduction to Database Industrial Information Management, Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL), Relational model and normalization, Database design using normalization, Data modelling with the entity-relationship model, Transforming data models into a database design, SQL for database construction and application processing, Database redesign, Managing multi-user databases, Web Server Environment, and Data warehouses, business intelligent systems, and big data. 

Systems do not in general naturally behave in a manner which accords with the user’s wishes. Systems must in general be extended by the addition of a controller in order to force them to behave in an acceptable fashion. The controller may be a human (as in the case of the driver of a car for example), but the controller may also be a human-designed engineering system in its own right. In the latter case the controller is called an automatic controller. This course addresses the need for, the value of and the design of automatic controllers for some of the most common classes of engineering systems. Automatic controllers appear in more or less every engineering environment, from automotive/aerospace to biomedical equipment and including almost everything in between.

This course introduces the hydrologic cycle and relevant atmospheric processes: water and energy balance, radiation, precipitation, snow, infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, groundwater flow, streamflow, and flood processes. In addition, AI applications in hydrologic processes are covered. Topics include The Hydrologic Cycle, Atmospheric Water, Runoff and Streamflow, Groundwater, and Soil Water.

Prerequisite: ELEMENTARY FLUID MECHANICS

This course focuses on the key principles of jet propulsion technology, the basic structure of aircraft engines, and key design methods. It will help students understand the key criteria for selecting engines for current aircraft, and familiarize them with the basic structure, primary functions, and fundamental technical parameters of each aircraft engine component. Students will also learn how to apply this foundational knowledge to complex engineering problems. This course will empower students to select power systems for various aircraft and design the key technical parameters of powerplants for new flight systems.

This course introduces students to the foundations of game creation and provides an overview of different aspects of game development. Students learn C# Programming (industry standard), starting with console application, then GUI games on various platform with graphics, dialog boxes, and user control. The course includes an overview of topics including game architecture, interface design, graphics for games, audio for games, prototyping and play testing. Students implement their creative gaming ideas by using the latest gaming tools. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course introduces the fundamental concept of carriers, operating principles of PN diodes and MOSFETs. Topics include IV characteristics in different operating regions and their impact on the performance of logic gate, the foundational concepts of inverters and analyze their performance in terms of power and delay trade-off. The course introduces logic synthesis and the fundamental timing analysis of logic gates. Besides the static CMOS logic, students examine pass logics or transmission gates logics.

This course offers a study of the fundamental and applied knowledge of the laws that determine fluid motion with an emphasis on high-Reynolds-numbers flows and gases and their application to the description of problems of interest in aerospace engineering.