Engineering and Mines (ENGR)  Department Info

ENGR 102 -- Introduction to Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Engineering design, effective team participation and career preparation. Students are expected to participate in hands-on design projects, develop education/career plans and initiate development of the personal and management skills necessary for life long learning.
Prerequisite(s):  or Concurrent registration, MATH 124 or MATH 125.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

ENGR 170 -- Problem Solving Using Computers  (3 units)
Description:  The design of problem-solving algorithms, their implementation in a structured programming language, and their application in engineering.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

ENGR 195C -- Women in Science and Engineering  (1 unit)
Description:  Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons, usually in a small group setting. Designed to give students insight into the concepts and practices which typify different academic disciplines, and introduce students to the methods and standards of the discipline for discovering new knowledge, the values which characterize the field of study, advances in the field, impact on society, and career opportunities.  This is a First-Year Colloquium Course.
Identical to:  W S 195C.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 196A -- Survey of Engineering Professions  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 196B -- Planning Engineering Design  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 196H -- Honors Proseminar  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 211C -- Engineering Science Module - Statics  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Statics - forces, moments, equivalent force systems, support conditions, freebody diagrams, equilibrium equations, and applications areas.
Prerequisite(s):  PHYS 141, MATH 129.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211E -- Engineering Science Module - Mechanics of Solids  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Mechanics of Solids - relationship between external forces acting on elastic and inelastic bodies and the resulting behavior; normal and shear stresses, applications to bars, beams, shafts and columns, and combined stresses.
Prerequisite(s):  ENGR 211C.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211F -- Engineering Science Module - Fluid Mechanics  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Fluid Mechanics - fluid properties, hydrostatics, conservation of mass, energy, and momentum, pressurized systems and open channel flow.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 223, ENGR 211C.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211I -- Engineering Science Module - Dynamics  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Dynamics - dynamics of particles and rigid bodies as applied to mechanical systems; introduction to mechanical vibrations.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 254, ENGR 211C.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211K -- Engineering Science Module - Thermodynamics  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Thermodynamics - system definitions, properties and evaluation, 1st and 2nd law theory (open and closed systems) and applications.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 223, PHYS 241.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211M -- Engineering Science Module - Circuits  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Circuits - gain a fundamental working knowledge of basic DC and AC circuits, learn how to solve DC, AC, and power related questions on electric circuits, identify electrical devices in an everyday setting and be able to describe their basic operating characteristics.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 254, PHYS 241.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211P -- Engineering Science Module - Engineering Economics  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Engineering Economics - methods and modern techniques of engineering economic analysis for decision making, cost estimation, cash flow evaluation, taxes and depreciation, percent value, annual equivalent, internal rate of return, cost/benefit analysis, sensitivity analysis.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 129, ENGR 102.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 211R -- Engineering Science Module - Materials Science for Engineers  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is offered over the web and has a complete set of materials including pre-requisite review material, course content, quiz problems, and exercise problems. There will be scheduled instructor office hours and scheduled chat sessions for students to obtain help with the material. The students work at their own pace during the 5 week session and then take a final exam at the end. Materials Science for Engineers -atomic structure, arrangement, defects, and mobility diffusion, phase diagrams, ferrous metallurgy and corrosion, electrical, mechanical, and magnetic properties of materials.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEM 103A.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 249 -- Technology and The Growth of Civilizations  (3 units)
Description:  Surveys prehistory and history of technology worldwide, ranging from stone tools to semiconductors. Emphasizes the cultural context of technology. Extensively illustrated with slides and film.
Identical to:  ANTH 249; ANTH is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 251 -- Social Constraints on Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Influence of consumers, organizations, state and national governments and international treaties on engineering in the USA, Japan and selected other nations.
Identical to:  MSE 251; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 257 -- Materials Science of Art and Archaeological Objects  (3 units)
Description:  The methods, content and practice pertinent to the study of art and archaeology. Materials science provides one of the keys for interpreting objects in their historical and cultural context.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Natural Sciences (NATS 101, 102, 104). Credit for this course or MSE 259 but not for both.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Natural Sciences.
Credit for:  3 units engineering science.
Identical to:  MSE 257; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 258 -- Laboratory for Materials Science of Art and Archaeological Objects  (1 unit)
Description:  Laboratory exercises involving the materials science of art and archaeological objects.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Natural Sciences (NATS 101, 102, 104).
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Natural Sciences.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering science.
Identical to:  MSE 258; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 259 -- Society and the Technology of Art and Archaeological Objects  (3 units)
Description:  The course focuses on art and archaeological objects and their technology to lead into discussions about the priorities of social groups in particular places and historical settings.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Individuals and Societies (INDV 101, 102, 103, 104). Credit is allowed for this course or MSE 257, but not for both.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Individuals and Societies.
Identical to:  MSE 259; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 265 -- Engineering Economic Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Methods and modern techniques of engineering economic analysis for decision making, evaluations of economic alternatives, cost control, capital budgeting, managerial cost accounting, deterministic inventory theory and decision-making under uncertainty.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 129, ENGR 102.
Credit for:  3 units engineering science.
Identical to:  SIE 265; SIE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

ENGR 317 -- Science Fiction Studies  (3 units)
Description:  Science fiction is studied as a genre of film and print fiction in which we can imagine future societies and future science and technology in utopian and dystopian forms.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Traditions and Cultures (TRAD 101,102,103,104).
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Identical to:  MSE 317; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 320 -- Introduction to Computer Aided Design  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to computer aided design concepts and techniques. Two and three-dimensional drawing presentation, methods of graphical communications, data analysis, design synthesis and production methods.
Prerequisite(s):  computer literacy (Windows/UNIX).
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design, 2 units engineering science.
Typical structure:  1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory.
Identical to:  ABE 320; ABE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 435 -- Corrosion and Degradation  (3 units)
Description:  The science of corrosion and degradation reactions and its application to engineering problems.
Prerequisite(s):  MSE 331R or MSE 412; or Prerequisite or Concurrent registration, CHEM 480B.
Credit for:  2 units engineering science, 1 unit engineering design.
Identical to:  MSE 435; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 454 -- Law for Engineers and Scientists  (3 units)
Description:  Topics covered in this course include patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, product liability contracts, business entities, employment relations and other legal matters important to engineers and scientists.
Identical to:  CHEE 454; CHEE is home department.
May be convened with:  ENGR 554.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 479 -- Culture and Materials Technology  (3 units)
Description:  Investigates the ways in which systems of technology are embedded in a cultural context and the resulting impacts on invention, innovation and conservation, technology transfer, and cultural change.
Identical to:  ANTH 479; ANTH is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 486 -- Technology and Society  (3 units)
Description:  The evolution of our technological civilization will be discussed with emphasis on possible future models of technological organizations and on the changing roles of the scientist and engineer.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering science, 2 units engineering design.
Identical to:  MSE 486; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 488 -- Scanning Electron Microscopy  (3 units)
Description:  Theoretical and practical aspects of electron-beam microanalysis. Lab emphasizes projects and independent research using scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis.
Prerequisite(s):  consult department before enrolling.
Credit for:  3 units engineering science.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
Identical to:  MSE 488; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 498A -- Cross-disciplinary Design  (3 units)
Description:  Students will work in cross-disciplinary teams to solve industry-sponsored real-world design problems using the design process. Teaming, design process, design concept, design proposal. ENGR 498A and ENGR 498B must be taken in consecutive semesters. Usually offered in the Fall.
Prerequisite(s):  senior status required.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 498B -- Cross-disciplinary Design  (3 units)
Description:  Students will work in cross-disciplinary teams to solve industry-sponsored real-world design problems using the design process. Construction, testing and evaluation of prototype design; design iteration to arrive at a final working system. Major design project. ENGR 498A and ENGR 498B must be taken in consecutive semesters. Usually offered in spring.
Prerequisite(s):  senior status required.
Credit for:  3 units engineering design.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

ENGR 501 -- Planning for Discovery  (3 units)
Description:  Generation and organization of ideas into an effective research program. Problem selection, research planning, research proposal preparation and presentation.
Prerequisite(s):  a basic course in physical chemistry.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  MSE 501; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 502 -- Research Proposal Preparation  (3 units)
Description:  Organization and planning of a specific research initiative in consultation with a potential advisor.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  MSE 502; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

ENGR 554 -- Law for Engineers/Scientists  (3 units)
Description:  Topics covered in this course include patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, product liability contracts, business entities, employment relations and other legal matters important to engineers and scientists. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper on a current topic.
Identical to:  CHEE 554; CHEE is home department.
May be convened with:  ENGR 454.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 596S -- Technology and Social Theory  (3 units)
Description:  Seminar in technology and social theory.
Identical to:  MSE 596S; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

ENGR 696H -- Science and Social Theory  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Identical to:  MSE 696H; MSE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.