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1.00 Credits
Experimental techniques for measuring the stresses, strains and deflections associated with tension, compression, bending and torsion in structural members. Course is designed to supplement mechanics of materials classroom work with experimental verification and visualization. Emphasis is on practical application, laboratory technique, safety, data-handling and report-writing. As the first of the engineering laboratory classes, this course represents an important introduction to hands-on engineering experimentation. Prerequisites: GE 206 or concurrent registration.
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1.00 Credits
Seminar students are given presentations from visiting speakers and professors providing them with a better understanding of what engineers do in industry. Students have the ability to make valuable contacts and invite presenters from engineering specialties of interest. Students will be responsible, either as individuals or as a team to schedule a guest speaker, conduct an interview, and submit a written biography on their chosen guest speaker. Freshmen register for GE 105. Transfer students register for GE 305.
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2.00 Credits
Introduction to professional and socioeconomic concepts essential to successful engineering practice and in preparation for senior design courses. Ethical codes of conduct are presented and case studies discussed with an emphasis on safety and public welfare. Discussion of relevant concepts in contract law, torts, professional and product liability as they relate to engineering practice. Introduction of economic analysis in decision-making, including benefit/cost ratio, capital recovery, pay-back period and rate-of-return methods, with application to economic feasibility studies of engineering projects. Prerequisite: junior standing in civil or mechanical engineering.
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3.00 Credits
Study of major world regions, their historical backgrounds, physical features, climate, political dynamics and economic resources.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an examination of different civilizations in many parts of the world from the beginning of mans origins to 1500 AD. Specifically, the course looks at the origin, religion, art, political development and military struggles of various cultures across the globe. Through this course students will be able to explain basic concepts such as civilization and the effects of market economies, warfare, and religion on the formation and maintenance of cultures. The students will also be able identify important historical figures as well as the geographical regions of various civilizations. Finally, students should have the competency to broadly explain the chronological events that have occurred throughout the history of the world.
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3.00 Credits
The course is a general examination of different civilizations in many parts of the world from the Renaissance to World War I. Specifically, the course looks at the political, economic and military struggles of various cultures across the globe and will provide explanations to understand the relationship between the Western and non-Western worlds. The course also studies the technological and philosophical revolutions as well as historical figures that shaped the world into what it is today. Consequently, the course explains how global interaction through trade, migration, religion and war contributed to the growing interconnectivity of the modern world. At the end of the course students should be able to broadly explain the chronological events that shaped the world at the beginning of the 20th Century.
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3.00 Credits
This class will examine African history, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa from the period 1000 to 1880AD. It will examine various African societies in their own right, while also considering their relationships with Europe, Asia, and the Americas through the exchange of Christianity and Islam, the growth and abolition of the slave trade, and the emergence of colonialism.
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3.00 Credits
Introductory survey of Middle East history. Examines key political, cultural and economic developments from the time of Muhammad to the present.
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3.00 Credits
General survey of the history of China and Japan. Emphasis on the important aspects of Chinese and Japanese civilizations, political, social and economic factors, the impact of the West, modernization, development, militarism, war and revolution.
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3.00 Credits
To be arranged with department advisor.
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