Prerequisites

ENS L103 MUST BE TAKEN CONCURRENTLY.

Course Credits

3.00

Description

"This course provides exposure to engineering practice, with particular focus on electrical engineering components such as circuit elements and systems. It seeks to go beyond the mathematics and provide an intuitive appreciation of functional devices. Examples taken from a broad swath of technological history illustrate significant crossroads, decisions, and inventiveness. Emphasis is placed on learning to think as an engineer - assessment of problems, candidate solution tradeoffs, and implementations. Frequent exercises in creative engineering design will be used. Students will be required to design several elementary devices, such as a magnet, a capacitor, a timing device, and a motor, which they will enter in a competition for overall strength, compactness, accuracy, or speed. Sometimes assignments relate to """survival on an island""" concerns, such as communication or drinking water. Students also learn about reverse engineering by selecting, building, troubleshooting, and presenting an electronic kit of their choice. A term paper determining the engineering behind a topic of their choice will also be written and presented. On occasion (see ENS L103) there will be team competitions between various smaller groups in the class."

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Prerequisites

PHYS 151

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Forces, statics, and dynamics of rigid bodies, stress and strain analysis, kinematics, computer aided analysis. Focus on professional standards in practice for design of structures.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

ENS L333 concurrently

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This course will introduce programming concepts in the context of solving engineering problems. Emphasis will be placed on applying the high-level programming skills learned to particular platforms such as embedded systems. Students will implement various microcontroller programming exercises as well as an end of the semester project.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Prerequisites

MATH-265 and PHYS-152

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Temperature, thermodynamic systems, heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics, ideal gases, heat engines, Second Law of Thermodynamics, reversibility, entropy, enthalpy. Also included are statistical mechanics, phase transitions, chemical equilibrium, Gibbs' theorem, Nernst equation and heterogeneous systems. Normally offered fall semester.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Must be taken Concurrently w/ ENS-103

Course Credits

1.00

Description

"The Lab is designed to provide opportunities to gain familiarity with engineering tools. Students will be introduced to parts (e.g. learn the resistor color code), test equipment (multimeters, proto-typing trainers, signal generators, and oscilloscopes), and construction techniques (wiring, soldering, troubleshooting).Although it varies from year to year, Class Projects can be built during the Lab sessions. In the past these have included a 25 Watt electric generator, various door lock systems (both mechanical and electronic), and an AM transmitter and receiver (all projects made from scratch). It is likely that 2010-2011 may introduce some robotic creations for a competition. Electronic kits and motors can also be built and serviced in the Lab. There is an ajoining machine shop, which can be utilized (with supervision), for fabricating items. Individual creativity is encouraged, and informal problem solving sessions occasionally occupy lab time. However, the lab is accessible outside of the traditional scheduled time.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Prerequisites

ENG-102, PHYS 152 AND L152;

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Emphasis on clarity, precision, accuracy, and conciseness in scientific writing. Assignments include a team-based design-contest proposal, an oral presentation on current scientific topics, a team-based design of an experiment with a write-up and an oral presentation, a paper on engineering ethics concerning the Challenger and an instruction manual. Memo writing, summary writing, and resumes are also included.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Prerequisites

ENS 333 concurrently

Course Credits

1.00

Description

The Programming for Engineers lab is designed to supplement the Programming for Engineers Course.

Term Offered