This integrated approach can most easily be built around four sophomore level courses designed to convey the basic conservation and acconting framework that is at the heart of all engineering disciplines. However, the open-ended nature of the materials and textbooks offers remarkable flexibility for integrating and adapting the course materials into existing departmental curricula. Engineering is a unified and coherent body of knowledge. An engineering eduation built upon this simple premise produces engineers who can work comforatbly across and within desciplines who can readily learn and retain an expanding body of knowledge who can think, practically and conceptually. Material in each of these courses is required for a complete understanding of the other.
Subsequent courses build upon the foundations established in the first two courses.