Engineering (EGR)                     Course Schedules

The complete description of the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology is found in the College of Science and Technology.

EGR 120 Introduction to Engineering 3(3-0)
A general introduction to mechanical and electrical engineering with an emphasis on problem solving, engineering tools, engineering design processes, and teamwork. Prerequisite: MTH 106 or higher or permission of instructor.

EGR 251 Engineering Statics 3(3-0)
The course will cover free body diagrams and equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, internal forces in machines, and beams, friction, and application to machines. Prerequisites: EGR 120, MTH 132, PHY 145.

EGR 253 Engineering Dynamics 3(3-0)
Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. Relationship between the forces acting on bodies, mass, and the motion of the body. Introduction to vibrations. Prerequisites: EGR 251, MTH 133.

EGR 255 Strength of Materials 3(3-0)
Mechanical stress and strain, deformation under tension and compression, torsion of shafts, beam bending stresses and deflections, design of beam and shafts. Prerequisites: EGR 251, MTH 133.

EGR 290 Circuit Analysis I 3(3-0)
A general introduction to elementary electrical rules, theorems, and laws applicable to DC circuits. Topics include: Ohm's Law, series circuits, and parallel circuits. Prerequisites: EGR 120, MTH 133, PHY 146.

EGR 292 Circuit Analysis II 3(3-0)
A general introduction to elementary rules, theorems, and laws applicable to AC circuits. Topics include: sinusoidal signals, phasors, and series and parallel AC networks. Prerequisites: EGR 290.

EGR 294 Digital Circuits 3(3-0)
Numbering systems, binary codes, logic gates, combinational and sequential logical circuits, programmable logic devices, synchronous and asynchronous state machine, and microcomputer memory devices. Prerequisites: EGR 290.

EGR 296 Circuit Lab 3(1-4)
General exposure to basic laboratory safety and equipment, measurement techniques, and hands-on experience to experimentally verify electrical and digital circuits. Prerequisites: EGR 292, EGR 294.

EGR 355 Engineering Materials and Lab 3(2-2)
An introduction to physical metallurgy and mechanical/electrical properties of engineering materials such as metals, ceramics, and polymers. Prerequisites: CHM 131 or CHM 161; MTH 132, PHY 146.

EGR 356 Thermodynamics I 3(3-0)
Introductory course in engineering thermodynamics which covers general energy concepts, first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy, processes, and power cycles. Prerequisites: CHM 131 or 161, EGR 251, MTH 233, PHY 146.

EGR 358 Fluid Mechanics 3(3-0)
Study of the basic principles of fluid statics, fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's theorem, viscous flow, boundary layers, turbulence, pump selection, forces developed by fluids in motion. Prerequisites: MTH 133, PHY 145.

EGR 359 Machine Design I 3(3-0)
Introduction to machine design. Theories of failure and fatigue design, design of mechanical elements such as screws, fasteners, connectors, welded joints, and flexible mechanical elements. Prerequisites: EGR 255, IET 154, MTH 233.

EGR 371 Robotics & Automation 3(2-2)
Theory and application of robotics and automation including modeling of robot mechanism and driving components, robot control systems and components, robot motion control and programming. Prerequisites: CPS 180, EGR 251, EGR 296, MTH 232.

EGR 390 Microelectronic Circuit I 3(3-0)
A first course in modeling, characterization, application and design of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. Prerequisites: EGR 292.

EGR 392 Microelectronic Circuit II 3(3-0)
Advanced transistor amplifier analysis, feedback effects, power amplifiers, op-amps, filters, oscillators, data and power converters, and CMOS digital circuits. Prerequisites: EGR 390.

EGR 394 Computer Circuit Simulation 3(2-2)
This course reinforces basic circuit analysis principles using PSpice software and teaches students various computer circuit analysis and design techniques. Prerequisites: EGR 296, EGR 392.

EGR 396 Microprocessor Fundamentals 3(3-0)
Introduction to architecture, operation, and application of microprocessor systems and microcontrollers. Prerequisites: EGR 294, EGR 390.

EGR 398 Microelectronics and Computer Lab 3(1-4)
Laboratory exploration of semiconductor devices, discrete and integrated amplifiers; feedback; microcomputer systems including input/output, assembly language programming and interrupt processing. Prerequisites: EGR 392, EGR 396.

EGR 453 Vibration 3(3-0)
Introduction to concepts such as natural frequency, damping, resonance. Free and forced vibrations of undamped and damped, single-degree of freedom, multi-degree of freedom systems. Prerequisites: EGR 253, MTH 232.

EGR 456 Thermodynamics II & Heat Transfer 3(3-0)
Continuation of Thermodynamics I. In addition, fundamentals of heat transfer are studied, including steady state and transient heat conduction, convection, and radiation. Prerequisites: EGR 356, EGR 358, MTH 232.

EGR 458 Measurement and Instrumentation Laboratory 3(1-4)
Theory and application of mechanical measurements, instrumentation, and computer-based data acquisition. Prerequisites: EGR 255, EGR 296, EGR 356, EGR 358; STA 382.

EGR 459 Machine Design II 3(3-0)
Force analysis, and design of spur, helical, and bevel gears. Antifriction bearings, lubrication and journal bearings, shaft design, mechanical spring, clutches, brakes, and couplings design. Prerequisites: EGR 253, EGR 359.

EGR 490 Computer Data Acquisition & Instrumentation 3(3-0)
Introduction to data acquisition using A/D converters; fundamentals of transducers; dynamic response; amplifiers; theory of A/D and D/A converters; error analysis-statistics.  Prerequisites:  EGR 396, STA 382.

EGR 492 Automatic Control Systems 3(2-2)
Theory and design of automatic control systems including modeling of physical systems, control system characteristics, system stability analysis, frequency response analysis, and PID controller design. Prerequisites: EGR 371, EGR 392, MTH 232.

EGR 494 Power Electronics 3(3-0)
Operating characteristics of Bipolar Junction Transistors, IGBTs, MOSFETs and Thyristors, power converters, ac/dc rectifiers and dc/ac inverters. Prerequisites: EGR 392.

EGR 496 Communication Systems 3(3-0)
Amplitude, frequency, and pulse modulation, narrow-band noise, signal-to-noise ratios, pulse shaping, timing recovery, carrier synchronization, sampling, quantization, and coding. Prerequisites: EGR 492, MTH 233, STA 382.

EGR 498 Introduction to Electromagnetics 3(3-0)
A study of static and time-variant electric and magnetic fields, plane waves, guided waves, transmission line theory, radiation and antennas. Prerequisites: EGR 292, MTH 232, MTH 233.

EGR 499 Senior Design 3-6(Spec)
The senior capstone course that integrates design methods and engineering techniques in the context of a team working on an industrial project. Prerequisites: senior standing with at least 115 credits overall and 48 credits completed in a declared BSEE or BSME major; or department chair approval.

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