Page 3 - Engineering Physics Brochure
P. 3
Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Differential & Integral Calculus to
• General Chemistry or Principles of model mechanical system behavior
Chemistry & Lab • Express mechanical concepts in
• Written & Oral everyday language
Communications I • Use common lab safety procedures
• Computing & Algorithm I • Write a basic lab report
• Calculus I • Essential concepts of
• General Chemistry II or Industrial data acquisition
Organic Chemistry & Lab • Concrete strategies in
• Economic Principles problem solving
• Calculus II • Structured programming using
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab contemporary language
• Prepare workplace documents
• Deliver effective presentations
• Manage time effectively
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Introduction to Humanities • Differential & Integral Calculus
• Multivariate Calculus to model electromagnetic
• Matrix Algebra system behavior
• Introduction to Social Science • Express electromagnetic concepts
• Introduction to Humanities in everyday language
• Electricity & Magnetism & Lab • Write a formal lab report
• Computer Modeling • Graphically analyze data by
• Data Acquisition & Control comparing to functional fits
• Differential Equations & Laplace • Use a digital multimeter
Transforms • Use error analysis to interpret data
• Modern Physics Lab • Use analytical & symbolic software
tools to visual complex data
Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
Get In The Lab • Circuits I & Lab • Construct & analyze circuits
• In our Environmental Scanning Electron • Written & Oral • Communicate in a variety of
technical, professional genres
Microscopy Lab, you’ll use one of Communication II • Document a major project
Michigan’s most powerful microscopes to • Boundary Value Problems
analyze the composition of materials that • Vibration, Sound & Light in a thesis
go into many popular products. You’ll be • Electromagnetic Fields & • Electromagnetic domains
able to study the ingredients of anything Applications • Apply statistics knowledgeably
from an outboard motor, to an artificial hip • Mathematical Statistics I • Recommend & interpret a
replacement, to an iPod. number of methods of
• Materials Science &
• Our Acoustics Lab is where you’ll get a Nanotechnology material characterization
chance to analyze the behavior of anything • Theoretical Mechanics • Apply advanced mathematics to
that vibrates or makes sound. You can • Technical Elective systems involving electromagnetic
eliminate the dead spots on your electric State-of-the-Art waves, vibrations & sound
guitar, measure the sound radiation from a LAB
loudspeaker you designed and built, learn
how to design and test a listening room, or FACILITIES
find the sweet spot on a baseball bat.
• The Fiber Optics Lab is where you’ll
unlock the secrets of telecommunications. Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
You’ll experiment with photonics and • Quantum Mechanics • Manipulate images with
optoelectronics and learn how to create geometrical optic elements
technologies such as barcode scanners and • Optics & Lab • Use Monte Carlo methods to
bandwidth testers. • Advanced Humanities Elective
• Advanced Social Science Elective model stochastic systems
• In our Nanotechnology Lab, you can make • Acoustic Testing & Modeling • Demonstrate an ethical
iron oxide nanoparticles and microbubbles, decision-making process
characterize them using an x-ray • Advanced Physics Elective • Apply principles of leadership
diffractometer and optical microscope, • Thermodynamics & Statistical
and learn how they can be used as a Physics • Use advanced laboratory
potential method for cancer treatment via • Senior Seminar equipment such as spectrum
magnetically -induced hypothermia. • Two Free Electives analyzers & calibrated sensors
• Our Computational Physics Lab is • Three Technical Electives • Analyze & interpret measured
where you will develop and simulate • Culminating Undergraduate data to better understand a
mathematical models of dynamic physical Experience complicated system
systems. By applying physics theory to • Engineering Capstone • Develop computational/numerical
biological systems you will uncover the Design Experience models of complicated systems
physical details of how cells undergo • Perform a literature search and
internal reorganization to change shape, summarize the background
divide, and crawl along surfaces.
to a problem
