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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
• Interdisciplinary Design & differentiation & integration
Manufacturing • Use of simple data
• Calculus II acquisition equipment
• MATLAB & C Programming • Use MATLAB to solve math and
• Computing & Algorithm II & lab engineering problems
• Newtonian Mechanics & lab
• Math/Science Elective

Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Multivariate Calculus • Differential & Integral Calculus to
• Digital Systems I model electromagnetic
• Economic Principles system behavior
• Electricity & Magnetism & lab • Use of basic electrical
• Introduction to Humanities measurement equipment
• Circuits I & lab or Applied Circuit (e.g. DVM’s, signal
& lab generators, oscilloscopes)
• Differential Equations/Laplace • Prepare for Engineering
• Discrete Mathematics Economic Analysis course
• Introduction to Social Sciences • Ability to analyze and build
• Microcomputers I basic electric circuits
• Ability to design logic systems
and use FPGA’s
State-of-the-Art
Get In The Lab LAB
FACILITIES
• Our state-of-the-art labs are open long
hours and are packed with PCs and
development hardware and software
for all kinds of embedded systems.
Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• In our Digital Systems Lab, you’ll get • Prepare students to write
a chance to learn the fundamentals • Written & Oral their thesis
Communication II
of digital design using discrete • Probability & Statistics • Expand knowledge in
components and programmable logic— • Electronics I the Humanities
the building blocks of all advanced • Microcomputers II • Ability to analyze and build
digital hardware. • Computer Architecture electronic circuits
• Advanced Humanities Elective • Understand and use RISC
• Our Computer Networks Lab is where • Real-Time Embedded micro controllers
you can experiment with network design Computers • Simulate micro processor
and explore the protocols and security operations using VHDL
features of the Internet and • Design and analyze
real-time embedded
industrial intranets.
micro processor applications
• In our Microcomputers Lab, you’ll study
programming for embedded computer
systems at the assembly-code level, Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
allowing you to create fast, streamlined • Apply knowledge to address
programs and develop powerful • Advanced Social Science Elective contemporary issues
• Computer Networks
interrupt-driven systems. • Math/Science Elective • Solve real world problems
• Our REACH Lab — Research in • EE Elective • Experimental design
• Understand computer network
Engineering and Collaborative Haptics • Two Free Electives topologies and protocols
• Senior Seminar
is where you will “touch” virtual objects • Two CE Electives
by using forces, vibrations or movement • Engineering Elective
in simulations. • Technical Elective
• Senior CE Design Project