Some attention is given to heat transfer and fluid dynamics. The course contains a significant design project. Offered fall semester of odd years. The structure, processing, and properties of engineering materials are studied with an emphasis on metallic systems. Also covered are material selection, linear elastic fracture mechanics and dislocation theory.
Course contains a significant research component.
Offered spring semester of even years. An introduction to the basic properties of fluids in motion. Offered spring semester of even years. Implementation and advanced design of digital programmable logic arrays and layout of analog microchips is performed in the lab portion of this course. Electronics topics also include Karnaugh maps and minimization, sequential logic and state machines, device modeling with computer-aided design, controllers, computer hardware, architecture, memories, and interrupt systems.