UHD 2000/2001 Catalog UHD Catalog Home | Course Descriptions | Engineering (ENGR) Table of Contents | Previous Section | Next Section | Index | How to Use the Online Catalog 1302 96 Engineering and Technology Fundamentals (3-3-0) Prerequisites: ENGR 1301 and credit or enrollment in MATH 1302. Overview of techniques and fundamental principles used in engineering, science and technology. Topics include: dimensional analysis and units, measurements, representation of technical information, problem solving, and an introduction to selected science and engineering topics. 1400 PC Applications in Engineering (4-3-1) Prerequisite: MATH 1301. Application of PC hardware and software to engineering problems. Data acquisition and computational methods for structures, piping and electronics. Intensive use of the NSF sponsored laboratory for data acquisition, transmission and analysis of data. Modern technology approach to computations/mechanics. 1401 Engineering Graphics and Visualization with Lab (4-3-4) Laboratory fee required: $12. Introduction to graphics, with emphasis on drafting techniques: use of instruments, lettering, geometric constructions, multiview projections, auxiliary views, sectional views, sketching drawings for electrical, piping and structural applications. Introduction to computer-aided drafting. Applications of Instrumentation. (ENG 1304) 1402 Fire and Safety Hazard Recognition with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: MATH 1302. Laboratory fee required: $12. Physical, chemical, electrical, and natural hazards and their relationship to loss of property and/or life. Safe location, storage, transportation and handling practices to eliminate or control the risk of fire and other hazards in the home, business and industry. Experiments and computer simulations. 1403 Fire Suppression and Detection Systems (4-3-1) Prerequisite: MATH 1302. Laboratory fee required: $12. The design, installation, maintenance and utilization of portable fire-extinguishing appliances and pre-engineered systems. Operational capabilities and utilization requirements of fire detection and signaling systems. Fire detection and suppression applied in practical problems. Experimental demonstrations and computer simulation of hazard detection systems. 1404 Automatic Fire Suppression Systems with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: MATH 1302. Laboratory fee required: $12. Detailed current standards for selection, design, installation, operation, and maintenance of automatic fire suppression systems. Experiments and computer simulations. 1480 Occupational Safety Techniques (4-3-1) Prerequisite: MATH 1302. Laboratory fee required: $12. Occupational facilities, equipment and operations and their inherent hazards. Directed toward worker, machine and environmental control. Equipment demonstrations and computer simulation of safe equipment operation. 2304 Computer-Aided Drafting and Design I (3-2-2) Prerequisites: ENGR 1301 or department approval. Laboratory fee required: $12. An introduction to Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) systems commonly used in industry. Topics include introduction to CADD systems, basic drawing and editing commands, drawing annotations, dimensioning, cross hatching, creation and use of drawing symbols, generation of engineering drawing and drawing database. 2407 Surveying with GIS-GPS (4-3-3) Prerequisite: MATH 1302. Laboratory fee required: $12. Field training in the use of electronic measurement devices, EDMs, total stations and global positioning systems applied to construction projects. Field recording of data, uploading to microcomputers; CADD processing of field data for traverse adjustment and computation of areas and construction volumes; downloading of data for field layout. Applications to environmental measurements. Surveying applied to flood prevention. 2409 Engineering Mechanics with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisites: ENGR 2308 and MATH 2401. Laboratory fee required: $12. Study of elastic bodies, stresses and strains, axial loads, torsion, beam stresses, beam deflections, combined stresses, connections and behavior of materials under tension, compression and torsional loading. Study of thermal properties of materials. Applications of instrumentation. 2410 Analysis of Engineering Networks with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Laboratory fee required: $12. This course applies energy principles to the analysis of common networks. Piping systems, electric circuits and structural networks are studied under basic principles of conservation and dissipation of energy. Applications to fluids, electricity and mechanics. Computer simulation of engineering networks. 3302 97 Engineering Economics (3-3-0) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Time value of money, annual cost, present worth, future value, capitalized cost, break-even analysis, valuation and depreciation, income taxes. Economic evaluation of engineering alternatives and proposals. Use of spreadsheets. Introduction to optimization. 3303 Codes and Specifications (3-3-0) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Fundamental principles underlying development of specifications to comply with industry codes including: OSHA, NFPA , and UBC., Application of codes to types of construction, contracts, bidding procedures, analysis of office organization, and manufacturer’s specifications. 3305 Computer-Aided Drafting and Design II (3-2-2) Prerequisites: ENGR 1401 and ENGR 2304. Laboratory fee required $12. Advanced topics in Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) systems commonly used in industry. Topics include advanced drawing, editing and dimensioning commands, generation of 3-D drawings, extracting database information from drawings, applications in piping, structural and electrical drawings. 3308 Fluid Mechanics (3-3-0) Prerequisites: MATH 2401 and ENGR 2308. Fluid properties, fluid statics, flow concepts and basic equations, viscous effects, laminar and turbulent flow, pipe flow, momentum equation and energy equation. Use of software in designing flow systems. Applications to fire prevention systems. 3311 Structural Analysis (3-3-0) Prerequisite: ENGR 2309. Analysis of trusses, beams and frames using classical and matrix methods. Service and ultimate load analysis. Intensive application of computers to structural analysis. Experimental verification of analytical results. Vibration of structures. Experimental evaluation of existing structures for safety. 3312 Reinforced Concrete Design (3-3-0) Prerequisite: ENGR 2309. Analysis and design procedures based on ultimate load capacity based on the ACI Code, effects of creep, shrinkage, and temperature, torsional stresses and study of deflections. Computer applications to concrete design. Behavior of concrete members under fire and explosion conditions. 3401 Biomedical Instrumentation with Lab (4-3-1) Laboratory fee required: $12. Applications of electronics devices to monitoring biological systems. Origin of biopotentials. Bioelectrodes. Amplifiers for physiological measurements. Measurement techniques for cardiac and circulatory systems. Measurement of respiratory parameters. Measurement techniques for electrical activity of the brain. Electroencephalography. 3404 Digital Signal Processing with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Laboratory fee required: $12. Analysis of discrete time signals and systems. Include filter design and implementation, and introduction to least squares and other statistical signal processing techniques. Applications in speech and image are processing. 3406 Processing Control Systems with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Laboratory fee required: $12. Introduction to the physical and engineering aspects of electromechanical sensors and actuators. Includes underlying physical phenomena, practical devices, electrical and mechanical interfacing, and control of electromechanical systems. 3407 Industrial Robotics with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Laboratory fee required: $12. This course addresses the problem of controlling physical systems that operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Students will, in pairs, build their own robot, and program it to perform a variety of simple tasks. In addition, the course will cover the major paradigms of robot programming and will study architectures for building perception and control systems for intelligent robots. Applications to industrial and medical systems. 3409 PC Facilities Management with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Laboratory fee required: $12. This course addresses the problem of life cycle management of PC facilities. The course includes equipment selection, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and upgrading. Hardware and software aspects of the PCs and its communications are covered in the lectures involving theory and intensive practice. Economic aspects of PC facilities. Semester project is required. 4330 Systems Safety Management (3-3-0) Prerequisite: ENGR 2409. Fire and other hazards/safety techniques to recognize, evaluate and control potential occupational hazards. Critical path, LAD, PERT and human factors concepts. Computer simulations. 4350 Industrial Loss Prevention (4-3-1) Prerequisite: ENGR 2409. Laboratory fee required: $12. Specific industrial processes, equipment, facilities and work practices for detecting and controlling potential hazards. Computer simulation of hazard detection. 4360 Advanced Safety and Fire Problems (3-3-1) Prerequisite: Senior standing. Selected problems in the fire and hazards fields, occupational safety, occupational health and industrial security area. Research of state-of-the-art technologies to prevent or correct such problems. Development of computer software to simulate selected hazard conditions. 4370 98 Human Factors in Fire and Safety (3-3-1) Prerequisite: Senior standing. Case study of the influence of human behavior in life losses during hazardous situations. Cases include flood, tornado, fire, and explosions. 4380 Security of Computing Systems (3-3-0) Prerequisite: ENGR 1400. Security of hardware and software systems. Case study of information losses due to fire, flood and tornado. Software safety cases including viruses and distortion of code and data integrity. 4410 Industrial Hygiene Instrumentation with Lab (4-3-1) Prerequisite: ENGR 2409. Laboratory fee required: $12. Toxic or irritating substances, physical, biological, ergonomic and other occupational stress factors causing employee illness or discomfort. Environmental pollution sources and controls. Description, operation and application of quantitative instruments in general use in industrial hygiene. Computer simulation of industrial hygiene instrumentation. 4420 Fire Dynamics (4-3-1) Prerequisite: Senior standing. Study of the critical aspects of fire dynamics including: Fuels and combustion processes. Physical chemistry of combustion. Diffusion flame and fire plumes. Spread of flames. Production and movement of smoke. Computer simulation of fire dynamics. 4450 Industrial Safety (4-3-1) Prerequisite: ENGR 2409. Laboratory fee required: $12. Principles of fire dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics are combined with a general knowledge of automatic detection and suppression systems to analyze fire protection requirements for generic industrial hazards. Topics covered include safety separation distances, plan layout, hazard isolation, smoke control, warehouse storage and flammable-liquid processing and handling. Historic industrial fires influencing current practice on these topics are also discussed.