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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Laboratory safety
• Calculus I • Use common lab equipment
• Written & Oral • Statistical analysis of
Communications I experimental data
• Computing & Algorithm I & lab • Ability to apply concepts of
• Principle or General differentiation & integration
Chemistry I & lab • Differential & Integral Calculus to
• Economic Principles model mechanical system behavior
• Calculus II • Begin to consider the economics of
• Organic or General engineering & design
Chemistry II & lab • Express mechanical concepts in
• Newtonian Mechanics & lab everyday language
• Use of simple data
inquisition equipment
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Introduction to Social Science • Prepare to address societal issues
• Multivariate Calculus • Differential & Integral Calculus to
• Matrix Algebra model electromagnetic
• Electricity & Magnetism & lab system behavior
• Introduction to Humanities • Use of basic electrical
• Differential Equations measurement equipment (e.g.
• Mathematical Statistics I DVM’s, signal generators,
• Modern Physics & lab oscilloscopes)
• Computer Modeling • Use of LABVIEW for data
• Data acquisition & control acquisition & control
• Ability to use MATLAB
to solve engineering
mathematical problems
Get In The Lab State-of-the-Art • Use analytical & symbolic software
LAB
• In our Environmental Scanning Electron FACILITIES tools to visual complex data
Microscopy Lab, you’ll use one of
Michigan’s most powerful microscopes to
analyze the composition of materials that
go into many popular products. You’ll be Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
able to study the ingredients of anything
from an outboard motor, to an artificial hip • Written & Oral • Prepare students to write
replacement, to an iPod. Communication II their thesis
• Our Acoustics Lab is where you’ll get • Circuits I & lab • Use of numerical techniques to
a chance to analyze the behavior of • Numerical Methods & Matrices solve differential equations
anything that vibrates or makes sound. • Physics of Waves • Expand knowledge in
You can eliminate the dead spots on • Materials Science & Nanotech the Humanities
your electric guitar, measure the sound • Recommend & interpret a
radiation from a loudspeaker you • Humanities Elective number of methods of
designed and built, learn how to design • Electromagnetic Fields
and test a listening room, or find the • Boundary Value Problems material characterization
sweet spot on a baseball bat. • Theoretical Mechanics • Apply advanced mathematics to
• The Fiber Optics Lab is where you’ll • Quantum Mechanics systems involving light, vibration,
sound & atomic models
unlock the secrets of telecommunications.
You’ll experiment with photonics and
optoelectronics and learn how to create
technologies such as barcode scanners Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
and bandwidth testers.
• Advanced Social Science Elective • Apply knowledge to address
• In our Nanotechnology Lab, you can • Partial Differential Equations contemporary issues
make iron oxide nanoparticles and • Vector Analysis • Ability to use data acquisition &
microbubbles, characterize them using control hardware
an x-ray diffractometer and optical • Real Analysis • Solve with sophisticated
microscope, and learn how they can be • Optics & lab
used as a potential method for cancer • Senior Seminar mathematical model
treatment via magnetically -induced • Intermediate Differential Equations • Manipulate images with
hyperthermia. • Abstract Algebra geometrical optic elements
• Our Computational Physics Lab is • Thermo & Statistical Physics • Use Monte Carlo methods to
where you will develop and simulate • Acoustical Measurement & Modeling model stochastic systems
mathematical models of dynamic physical • Complex Variables • Demonstrate an ethical
systems. By applying physics theory to • Methods of Applied Mathematics decision-making process
biological systems you will uncover the • Advanced Physics Electives • Experimental design
physical details of how cells undergo • Pursue a specialized advanced
internal reorganization to change shape, topic in depth
divide, and crawl along surfaces.
