Includes quality assurance concepts, measurements and calculations, terminology, and random sampling. Focuses on testing procedures common to construction in the northwest. Includes problems involving actions and reactions on structures and machines in two and three dimensions. Also covers friction, moments of inertia and centroids. Offers abundant opportunity to solve engineering problems.
Analysis is applied to circular shafts, beams, columns, and pressure vessels.
Covers combined stresses, statically indeterminate systems and properties of structural materials. Presents data analysis techniques, computational methods, mathematical models including basic statistics using spreadsheets. Emphasizes physical, chemical, and biochemical testing of water. CMET 131, WR 115. Develops understanding of mass, energy, heat, work, efficiency, ideal, and real thermodynamic cycles and processes.