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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Basic laboratory safety
• Principles of Chemistry & Lab • Use of common chemistry
• Written & Oral lab equipment
Communications I • Use of common manufacturing
• Interdisciplinary Design & equipment, including lathe, mill,
Manufacturing casting, and welding
• Calculus I • Use of Computer Aided Design
• Engineering Graphical (CAD) software
Communication • Apply concepts of differentiation
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab & integration
• Calculus II • Simple applications of engineering
• Intro to Social Sciences or mechanics (statics & dynamics)
the Humanities • Simple data acquisition equipment
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Economic Principles • Analyze simple analog
• Multivariate Calculus electrical circuits
• Electricity & Magnetism & Lab • Use basic electrical measurement
• Applied Electrical Circuits equipment (e.g. DVM’s, signal
• Intro to Social Sciences or generators, oscilloscopes)
the Humanities • Collect data using LabVIEW
• Statistics • Free Body Diagrams & Force Analysis
• Signals for Mechanical Lab • Determine stress and deflection in
• Differential Equations & Laplace a mechanical component
Transforms • Apply shear & bending
• Mechanics of Materials moment diagrams
• Science or Math Elective • Solve first & second order
differential equations
• Use MATLAB to solve engineering
mathematics problems
Get In The Lab
• In our e-Design and Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
e- Manufacturing Studio, you’ll use • CUE Intro Course • Stress & deflection analysis to the
collaborative design software, a table • Engineering Materials mechanical design of components
machining center and a prototyping • Numerical Methods & Matrices • Materials test equipment including
tensile test, hardness test, heat
machine to immerse yourself in • Mechanical Component Design I
treatment equipment, etc.
global product design • Intro to Mechanical Systems Design I • Use numerical techniques to solve
and manufacturing. • Intro to Social Sciences or
the Humanities differential equations
• The Energy Systems Lab—complete • Written & Oral • Use of an embedded controller
with its own wind tunnel, mini jet Communication II • Conduct stress & motion analysis
engine and fuel cells—is where you’ll • Probability & Statistics using Computer Aided Engineering
learn the elements of heat transfer, • Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software
thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. • Dynamics • Analyze rectilinear motion & rigid
body motion
• In the Crash Safety Center, you’ll • Thermodynamics • Work-energy &
study one of the most important State-of-the-Art impulse-momentum principles
facets of automotive design— LAB • Apply first & second laws
structural crash mechanics and FACILITIES of thermodynamics
passenger safety. • Conduct basic statistical analysis
• The Advanced Engine Research
Lab is where you’ll study engine Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
performance, using jet engines, • Fluid Mechanics • Analyze internal & external flows
hydrogen analyzers and emission tests. • Dynamic Systems with Vibrations • Model simple dynamic systems
• The primary focus of the DENSO • Two Advanced Humanities or Social using Bond graphs
International Dynamic Systems Science Elective • Solve equations of motion using
Design Studio is to allow students to • Two ME Electives MATLAB/Simulink
work on the design and analysis of • Heat Transfer • Analyze conduction, convection, &
radiation heat transfer
dynamic systems using advanced • Dynamic Systems with Control • Design heat exchange equipment
simulation/ modeling/control tools. • Senior Seminar
• Two Free Electives • Apply feedback control methods
• The Center for Fuel Cell Systems and • Energy Systems Lab • Data acquisition & control hardware
Powertrain Integration is where • ME Senior Design Project • Use of a PID controller
you’ll optimize fuel cell vehicles to • Culminating Undergraduate • Use wind tunnel & other flow
create urgently needed alternatives Experience measurement devices
to carbon-based fuel energy systems. • Use engine dynamometer & other
energy measurement devices
