May 11, 2024  
2021-22 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-22 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.

 

Engineering

  
  • ENGR 2210 - Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: CHEM 1110 /CHEM 1111 . Origin and behavior of materials. Classifications of materials. Physical metallurgy-mechanical and physical properties, crystalline structure, imperfections in solids, phase diagrams, failure mechanisms in materials, hardening and tempering, isothermal diagrams. Involves hands-on experiences through lab sessions in the use of metallurgical and mechanical testing equipment. Lecture and laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3510 - Electrical Circuit Analysis II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2130  and MATH 3120 . Analysis of the RC and RL first-order circuits. Use of Laplace Transform techniques to analyze linear circuits with and without initial conditions. Characterization of circuits based upon impedance, admittance, and transfer function parameters. Fourier series, circuit analysis with Fourier transform, determination of frequency response of circuits, filter design. Lecture.


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  • ENGR 3520 - Digital Circuits Fundamentals

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2130  and CSCI 1170 . Introduces logic design with emphasis on practical design techniques and circuit implementation. Topics include Boolean algebra; theory of logic functions; mapping techniques and function minimization; logic equivalent circuits and symbol transformations; transistor-transistor-logic (TTL)/metal oxide semi-conductor (MOS) logic into gate implementations; electrical characteristics; propagation delays; signed number notations and arithmetic. Digital design using random logic and programmable logic devices (FPGAs and CPLDs). Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3530 - Electronics and Instrumentation

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 3510 . Introduces use and analysis of electronic circuits and input mechanism of various sensors, design of analog signal conditioning systems based on the system requirement, as well as understanding the theory and the art of modern instrumentation and measurements (I&M) systems. Topics include BJT and MOSFET circuit model and analysis; operational amplifier; instrumentation amplifier; survey of sensor input mechanisms; analog signal conditioning and sensor application; measurement system architecture; errors in measurement; standard used in measurement. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3540 - Introduction to Feedback Control

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 3520 , ENGR 3530 , MATH 3120 . ENGR 3530  may be taken concurrently. Introduces classical feedback control in electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, and other continuous-time dynamic systems. Discusses how to model, evaluate, and design SISO and linear control systems using differential equations, transfer function, root locus, and frequency response methods. Hands-on experiments involving Matlab, Labview, transducers (sensors), and actuators (motors) used to complement the theoretical aspects of the course. Embedded control also introduced. Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3550 - Fluid Mechanics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2120  and MATH 3110 . Continuum, velocity field, fluid statics, manometers, basic conservation laws for systems and control volumes, dimensional analysis. Euler and Bernoulli equations, viscous flows, boundary layers, flow in channels and around submerged bodies, one-dimensional gas dynamics, turbo-machinery. Applications in hydraulic, pneumatic, and fluidics discussed. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3560 - Mechanics of Materials

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2210 , ENGR 2110 , and MATH 1920 . Plane stress, plane strain, and stress-strain laws. Application of stress and deformation analysis to members subjected to centric, torsional, flexural, and combined loading. Introduces theories of failure, buckling, and energy methods.


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  • ENGR 3570 - Machine Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2100 , ENGR 2120 , and ENGR 3560 . Analytical design methods. Stress analysis, working stress, combined stresses, failure theories, fatigue failure. Design techniques for shafts, fasteners, gears, bearings, and belt and chain drives. Includes a design project. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3590 - Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2120  and CSCI 1170 . The kinematics and dynamics of machinery and its applications to mechatronic systems. Analysis of motion translation/rotation in machinery, energy of machine mechanisms. Involves projects, seminars, and workshops regarding graphical, analytical, and numerical techniques for dynamic analysis and synthesis of machines. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 3915 - Technical Project Management and Soft Skills

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Project management as sanctioned by the International Project Management Institute and how to assess and boost emotional intelligence or soft skills. Student successfully completing course will earn 20 Professional Development Units (PDUs) issued by the International Project Management Institute.


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  • ENGR 3920 - Engineering Safety

    3 credit hours
    Safety and health in the manufacturing, construction, and utilities industries, including pertinent laws, codes, regulations, standards, and product liability considerations. Organizational and administrative principles and practices for safety management and safety engineering, accident investigation, safety education, and safety enforcement.


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  • ENGR 3930 - Systems Engineering

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 2100 , ENGR 3915 , and ENGR 3970 . An interdisciplinary course with both technical and management aspects of large, multifaceted engineering projects. Special emphasis placed on design, implementation, and improvement of mechatronic systems. Topics include systems engineering, engineering management, economics, quality control and engineering, project management, production systems planning and operations, and human factors.


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  • ENGR 3970 - Engineering Economy

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Development of capital budgets. Justification of capital projects using time value of money concepts. Replacement analysis. Review of justification of actual capital projects and computer applications. Introduces economic risk assessment and Lean Six Sigma from an economic viewpoint.


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  • ENGR 4500 - FE Exam Preparation

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisite: Senior standing or completion of all 3000-level courses. Review of topics covered on the general session of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. Covers all aspects of engineering curriculum including mathematics, engineering probability and statistics, chemistry, computers, ethics and business practices, engineering economics, engineering mechanics (statics and dynamics), strength of materials, material properties, fluid mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and thermodynamics.


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  • ENGR 4501 - Topics in Mechatronics Engineering

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of department. Introduces new topics in various areas of advancement in engineering as related to mechatronics, automation, and robotics. Content varies depending on topics addressed.


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  • ENGR 4510 - Programmable Logic Controllers and Networks

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 3520  and ENGR 3530 . Introduces programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Emphasizes ladder diagrams and programming of PLC. Introduces network systems such as DeviceNet, ProfiNet, and ProfiBus. Emphasizes the integration of PLCs in automation systems. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.
     


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  • ENGR 4520 - Electrical Power and Machinery

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 3510 . Single- and three-phase power circuit calculations with phasor diagrams and electromagnetic laws. Magnetic field and circuit analysis. Variable frequency drives. Electromechanical energy conversion and rotating machinery modeling and analysis. Construction, equivalent circuit, and performance analysis of three-phase transformers and DC, induction, and synchronous motors. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 4530 - Controls and Optimization

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 3540 . Introduces modern control theory to the students. Topics include state-space analysis and design, nonlinear and optimal control, controllability, observability, robust control, and digital control. Introduces basics of discrete event dynamic systems.


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  • ENGR 4580 - Mechatronic System Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 3550  and ENGR 3590 . Presents specifics in the mechanical design of mechatronic systems. Includes problem analysis, conceptualization, design/material selection, and performance analysis. Addresses mechanical subsystems, bill of materials, and economic analysis of the system. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ENGR 4590 - Automation System Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 4580  and ENGR 4510 . Capstone design project. Design and analysis of a complete mechatronic system using controllers, sensors, and actuators. Advance systems programming with current industrial network programs and GUIs. Implementation of project and process management principles as well as professional documentation and presentation. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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Engineering Technology

  
  • ET 2310 - Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design I

    3 credit hours
    Covers basic technical drawing/sketching and drafting concepts using personal computers, plotters, and appropriate CAD software. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.
     


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  • ET 2920 - Industrial Orientation Internship

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Provides industrial exposure for students with little or no industrial work experience. Students will be placed in an acceptable company for introductory industrial experiences. Arrangement for this course must be made in advance. Students may take from one to three credit hours; may be repeated for up to a maximum of three credit hours. Pass/Fail.


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  • ET 2930 - Cooperative Education Experience I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of department. Provides students with opportunity for on-the-job training in conjunction with on-campus academic experiences. Students will participate in professional growth seminars. Pass/Fail.


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  • ET 3210 - Machine Tool Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 2210  and ET 2310 . Metals, their sources, manufacture, and properties; basic metalworking hand tools, measurements; layout; drawing and safety. Exercises in the use of the basic machine tools in machine shop work. Lecture and laboratory. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3360 - Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: CMT 3320  or ET 2310 . Utilizes PC and CAD software to develop skills in the creation and analysis of mechanical solid models for design and production purposes. Includes the use of shading and rendering to enhance three-dimensional model display and the extraction of two-dimensional engineering drawings. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3601 - Electrical Circuit Analysis I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 1100  and MATH 1910 . Fundamentals of electrical circuits. Addresses basic circuit components and quantities. Emphasis on DC circuit calculations and theorems. Uses lab equipment to build and test DC circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3602 - Electrical Circuit Analysis II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3601  and MATH 1910 . Addresses basic circuit components and quantities of AC circuits. Introduces three-phase circuits and transformers. Emphasis on AC circuit calculations and theorems. Uses lab equipment to build and test AC circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3610 - Introduction to Electricity and Electronics

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710  or MATH 1730 . Orientation to direct current, alternating current, magnetism, filters, and semiconductor devices. Rectifier-filters and basic transistor amplifiers are also examined as representative electronic circuits. Use of meters, oscilloscopes, and other test instruments are stressed in the laboratory. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3615 - Principles of Electricity

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710  or MATH 1730 . An overview of basic electrical circuits and systems, direct current circuits, alternating current circuits, and electrical devices and control schemes. Electrical motors, relays, solenoids, transformers, and power supplies examined. National Electric Code also examined. For students enrolled in Construction Management or Concrete Industry Management. Laboratory exercises stress the use of test instruments and the construction of basic electrical circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3620 - Digital Circuits Fundamentals

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3601  or permission of instructor. Provides thorough coverage of basic digital electronic circuits analysis and design. TTL and CMOS families examined. Number systems, mapping, and minimization techniques covered. Digital design using random logic and programmable logic devices (FPGAs and CPLDs). Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3630 - Electronics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3602  or permission of instructor. Introduction to analog electronics. Defines basic parameters and theory of operation of discrete semiconductor devices. Introduces fundamentals of electronic circuits analysis and design. Applications illustrate use and laboratory projects provide hands-on experience. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3640 - Digital Circuits Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3620 ; corequisite: ET 3630  or permission of instructor. In-depth study of sequential circuit analysis and design that includes sate machine design. Emphasis on the use of available development boards using both FPGAs and CPLDs and their respective CAD tools. PLDs programmed using latest relative CAD systems. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3650 - Introduction to Microprocessors

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: CSCI 1170  and ET 3620 . Covers architecture of microcontrollers and microprocessor-based systems and their related components. Machine language programming extensively used to solve problems and demonstrate the relationship of the microprocessor and its supporting peripherals. Basic microcomputer architecture also emphasized. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3660 - Communication Electronics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3630  or permission of instructor. Theory of electronic circuits as applied to communication; special electronics circuits required in communications systems. Testing theory and procedures. Various methods of electronic communications. Testing and evaluation of electronic circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3670 - Computer-Assisted Printed Circuit Board Design

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3620  and ET 3630  or permission of instructor. Utilizes computer software to develop skills in creating schematic and printed circuit board artwork for use in printed circuit board production. Includes plotting, printing, and generating all necessary documents required for fabrication. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3860 - Strength of Materials

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 2110 . The mechanics of materials emphasizing the analysis and design of statically determinate beams, columns, and structural members in torsion and application of the three moment equations to statically indeterminate beams.


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  • ET 3910 - Introduction to Operations Management

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. A foundation course in manufacturing and service operations management. Problem-solving applications emphasized.


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  • ET 3920 - Industrial Internship I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Student is employed by an acceptable industry for industrial experience. Credit given for actual work with employer. Arrangement for this course must be made in advance. Pass/Fail.


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  • ET 3950 - Metrology

    3 credit hours
    Overview of methods and procedures of precision measuring and gauging as used in inspection and quality control by industry. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3960 - Industrial Quality Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Covers breadth and some depth in quality technology. Explores history of quality, present techniques, and future predictions. Covers six-sigma methodology at the “greenbelt” level. Certification after industry project. Lecture.


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  • ET 4230 - Advanced Machine Tool Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3210 . Taper turning, boring and thread chasing, and calculations of screw threads and other operations. Gear terminology and calculations; practice gear cutting on the milling machine; use of index head. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4280 - Computer-Aided Manufacturing: Numerical Control (NC)

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 2310  and ET 3210  or consent of instructor. The role of NC in today’s manufacturing environment; machines and machine control systems of a typical installation. Justifying NC equipment. Emphasis on writing and debugging programs for a three-axis milling machine and a two-axis turning machine utilizing both computer numerical control and computer-aided part programming. For those with little experience or seeking to broaden their knowledge. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4330 - Advanced Computer-Aided Drafting

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3360  or permission of instructor. Topics include customizing menus, 3-D concepts and surface modeling, AutoLisp, rendering, and slide shows. Interactive computer drafting and design using advanced AutoCAD software and add-ons. Primarily for students who want to increase their capabilities using CAD. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4340 - Design of Machine Elements

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3860 . Analytical design methods. Stress analysis, working stress, combined stresses, failure theories, fatigue failure. Design techniques for shafts, fasteners, gears, bearings, and belt and chain drives. Includes a design project.


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  • ET 4440 - Fire Safety

    3 credit hours
    Fundamental methods of fire protection, prevention, and suppression. Includes characteristics and behavior of fire, fire hazards of materials and buildings, codes and standards for fire prevention and protection, fire protection equipment and systems, and fire fighting forces and how they operate.


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  • ET 4450 - Industrial Hygiene

    3 credit hours
    An introduction to industrial or occupational hygiene–that science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses, arising in or from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers or citizens of the community.


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  • ET 4590 - Manufacturing Automation Systems

    3 credit hours
    Technical, human, and business aspects of modern automation system. Includes automation controls, levels of control and major components/subsystems, object-based software components, intelligent actuators and sensors, emerging trends, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), industrial systems and supply chain applications, organizational approaches, and automation justification.


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  • ET 4600 - Programmable Logic Controllers

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3602  or permission of instructor. Introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Selection, operation, and troubleshooting. Ladder diagrams and programming of PLC emphasized. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4610 - Instrumentation and Controls

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3620  and ET 3630 . Devices and techniques used in the measurement of physical parameters. Consideration of accuracies and sources of error, identification of typical measurements, sensors and transducers, control stability and response. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4630 - Local Area Networks

    3 credit hours
    Provides the necessary foundation experience to understand the design, implementation, and management strategies of local and wide area networks (LAN/WAN). Data Communication Standards and protocol, fundamentals included. Will include lecture, laboratory activities, and a LAN design requirement. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4640 - Industrial Electricity

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3602  or permission of instructor. AC power theory and circuits for industrial applications, polyphase systems, power factor correction, and transformers. Theory, applications, and selection of motors and generators. Industrial motor control and power transmission. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4660 - Microprocessor Interfacing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3640  and ET 3650  or permission of instructor. Emphasis on interfacing various analog and digital devices to a microcontroller/microprocessor-based system: memory expansion, A/D and D/A, display devices, keyboards and keypads, electromechanical devices, and sensors. PLDs (FPGAs/CPLDs) interfaced to facilitate rapid prototyping of digital system design. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4670 - Microprocessor Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3640  and ET 4660  or permission of instructor. Advanced microprocessor system design. Emphasis on the design of core CPUs and imbedded components using high-density FPGA/CPLD development boards. Industrial applications of microprocessor-based systems. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4790 - Advanced Problems in Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of all courses in a given area or approval of instructor. For the advanced student who wishes to work on a designated problem in a specific area. Works on an individual problem or project independently under the guidance of an instructor.


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  • ET 4801 - Computer Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4802 - Electromechanical Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4803 - Mechanical Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3860 , ET 4340 , and ET 4815 . All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4815 - Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3810  or permission of instructor. Design and operation of heat and mass transfer systems which produce the needed environments for manufacturing operations, industrial processes, and human comfort. Systems that use mechanical equipment such as pumps, blowers, fans, compressors, and heat exchanges found in fields such as air conditioning, low temperature metallurgy, food preservation, chemical processing, and industrial manufacturing covered. Three hours lecture.


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  • ET 4830 - Vibration

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 2120 . Provides a broad-based background in vibration analysis and introduces present practices. Topics include free, damped, and forced vibrations with one degree of freedom; vibration isolation; free vibration with two degrees of freedom; and introduction to matrix formulation. Three hours lecture.


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  • ET 4850 - Fluid Power

    3 credit hours
    Systems and the basic components that make up these systems, including hydraulic, pneumatic, and fluidic. Emphasis on understanding the language and graphic symbols associated with fluid power, the performance characteristics of system components, and problem solving. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4860 - Robotics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 1910 ; CSCI (3 hours). Fundamentals of robots. Types of robots, types of controls, the prime movers, the application of robots in the industrial environment, and problem solving. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4900 - Productivity Strategies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Analysis, design, and implementation of productivity strategies and productivity improvement programs for a wide variety of organizations. Touches a spectrum of disciplines such as work design, quality, design engineering, and employee involvement. Includes lean manufacturing with certification available after successful industry project.


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  • ET 4920 - Plant Layout and Materials Handling

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 2310 . An overview of facility planning including equipment selection, work flow analysis, activity relationship analysis, and plant layout for product, process, and JIT requirements. Teams assigned actual projects in industry. CAD layout presentations to industry management required.


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  • ET 4990 - Industrial Engineering Systems

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. System design of work tasks including establishing time standards by time and motion study and work sampling; ergonomic design for integration of the human into the work task environment. Scientific methods supplemented by quality considerations with emphasis on statistical quality control (SQC). Computer software used for design and analysis.


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English

  
  • ENGL 1008 - Writing for English as Second Language (ESL) Students

    3 credit hours
    Open only to students whose native language is not English. Prerequisite to General Education English courses for ESL students who do not perform satisfactorily on diagnostic test given by the department. Introduces the ESL student to the process of English composition. Three lecture hours and two one-half hour lab sessions. Does not fulfill General Education English requirement.
     


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  • ENGL 1009 - Introduction to University Writing

    3 credit hours
    An introduction to the practices of university writing. Required for students whose writing assessment indicates placement. Emphasis on developing rhetorical knowledge; critical thinking, reading, and writing skills; understanding of the processes of writing; and knowledge of conventions. Does not fulfill General Education English requirements.


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  • ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing

    3 credit hours
    The first General Education English course. Emphasis on learning to adapt composing processes to a variety of expository and analytic writing assignments. Minimum grade of C- required to meet degree requirements.


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  • ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 . The second General Education English course. Emphasis on analytic and argumentative writing and on locating, organizing, and using library resource materials in the writing. Minimum grade of C- required to meet degree requirements.


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  • ENGL 2550 - Introduction to Peer Tutoring in Writing: Theory and Methods

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: B or better in ENGL 1020  or permission of the instructor. Techniques of tutoring with a variety of writers and genres and the theoretical and practical components of writing center work with a focus on how collaboration, composition, and learning theories and methods can be applied to tutoring in college as well as high school and middle school settings.


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  • ENGL 2580 - Teaching Internship

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: Permission of the internship director and completion of twelve (12) hours of academic coursework, including ENGL 1010 . A special elective course in which the student, under the supervision of an English Department faculty member and a partnering teacher in a community school, serves as an intern in a secondary school classroom. Students may not use this course to satisfy English major or minor requirements.
     


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  • ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Studies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An introduction to the study of literature. Focus on strategies for sophisticated reading, literary genres, literary criticism and research.


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  • ENGL 3007 - Writing and the Literary Imagination

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2020  or ENGL 2030 . Focuses on the relationship between literature, the imagination and culture, Uses different types of writing and reading to develop students’ ability to think critically about literature. Required of English minors.


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  • ENGL 3010 - British Literature I: Beginnings to 1700

    3 credit hours
    Open only to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000  or ENGL 3007  with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000 , applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of British literature from the beginnings to the end of the seventeenth century. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.


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  • ENGL 3020 - British Literature II: 1700-1918

    3 credit hours
    Open only to English majors and minors. Prerequisite:ENGL 3000  or ENGL 3007  with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of British literature from 1700 to 1918 with some reference to earlier and later works. Emphasis on literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.


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  • ENGL 3030 - American Literature: Colonial Era to the Present

    3 credit hours
    Open only to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000  or ENGL 3007  with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of American literature from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.


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  • ENGL 3110 - English Literature: The Medieval Period

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A reading of selected works from Old English literature, especially Beowulf, and Middle English literature, with emphasis on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and medieval drama.


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  • ENGL 3120 - English Literature: The Sixteenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the major authors (More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne) and genres (prose fiction, romance, epic, sonnet, lyric). Effects of cultural, political, and religious influences on the literature.


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  • ENGL 3130 - English Literature: The Seventeenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the major authors (Bacon, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Vaughan, Milton) and genres (essay, epic, lyric, sermon). Effects of cultural, political, and religious influences on the literature.


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  • ENGL 3135 - Introduction to Shakespeare

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000- level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on Shakespeare’s major plays which will be considered both as products of their author’s time and as enduring cultural artifacts. Special attention will be given to Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist and to his depiction of character, theme, and imagery.


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  • ENGL 3160 - English Drama: 1475-1642 (excluding Shakespeare)

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000- level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Plays written by Shakespeare’s predecessors, contemporaries, and immediate successors.


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  • ENGL 3210 - English Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Emphasizing writings which reflected or influenced historical and literary developments 1660-1800.


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  • ENGL 3220 - English Literature: 1790-1850

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A definition of English Romanticism and a study of works–mainly poems–by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.


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  • ENGL 3230 - English Literature: The Victorian Period

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The literature of England, 1830-1900. Emphasis on poetry and the novel.


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  • ENGL 3300 - Native American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces oral and written literature of native America in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts, with special emphasis on fiction, poetry, and autobiography.


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  • ENGL 3305 - Early American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of American literature from the first European encounters with the New World to the beginning of the nineteenth century.


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  • ENGL 3310 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of American literature from Washington Irving to Henry James. Concentration on Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Pragmatism. Selected novels.


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  • ENGL 3320 - Twentieth-Century American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of American literature from Theodore Dreiser to the present. Concentration on major authors. Selected novels.


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  • ENGL 3330 - Southern Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Early and modern Southern writers. Emphasis on the period 1920-present.


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  • ENGL 3335 - Special Topics in Southern Literature and Culture

    3 credit hours


    Interdisciplinary course which draws upon literature produced in and about the southern regions, with perspectives gleaned from anthropology, history, and sociology; gender and race studies; film, documentary, and media studies; music; and folklore.


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