Biological Systems Engineering (BSE)

249 Engineering Principles for Biological Systems. II; 3 cr. Applications of basic engineering principles such as mass and energy balances, psychrometric heat and mass transfer and fluid flow to problems encountered in agricultural and biological systems including grain conditioning, fruit and vegetable storage, food processing, animal housing, and environmental control. P: Math 221.

351 Structural Design for Agricultural Facilities. II; 3 cr. Introduction to agricultural building codes and loads; structural analysis; wood, concrete and soil properties; wood and reinforced concrete design; construction specifications. P: EMA 201.

364 Engineering Properties of Food and Biological Materials. I; 3 cr (P-D). Study of various physical, mechanical, thermal and other properties of food and biological materials. Importance of such property values on the design and operation of various food and bioprocess engineering systems. P: BSE 249 & ME 361 or ChE 310, or cons inst.

365 Measurements and Instrumentation for Biological Systems. II; 3 cr. Principles of instrumentation and measurement systems, analysis of experimental data, electronic components, instrumentation for measuring various parameters of biological systems (temperature, force, flow). P: Stat 224 & ECE 376 or cons inst.

372 On-Site Waste Water Treatment and Dispersal. (Crosslisted with Civ Engr, Soil Sci) I; 2 cr. On-site treatment and dispersal of waste water from homes, commercial sources and small communities. Sources, pretreatment units, nutrient removal units, constructed wetlands, surface and soil dispersal systems, recycle and reu se systems, regulations, alternative collection systems. P: Chem 103.

409 Career Management for Engineers. I, II; 1 cr. Information to aid engineers in career decision making including: personal time and fiscal management, job selection, career development, leadership, legal aspects of engineering, professional ethics. P: Sr st.

472 Sediment and Bio-Nutrient Engineering and Management. I; 3 cr. Hydrologic, biologic and engineering applications in the design and management of sediment and bio-nutrient control systems. P: Jr st in Engr or cons inst.

473 Irrigation and Drainage Systems Design. I; 2 cr. Engineering and management applications of soil-plant-water relationships applied to drainage and irrigation design. P: Jr st in Engr or cons inst.

475 Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machinery. (Crosslisted with ME) I; 3 cr. Engineering design principles of machines for the production, processing and handling of crops for food, fuel, bio-mass and fiber. Environmental and biological factors that influence machine design and operation. Economic and capacity analysis of machines and systems. P: EMA 202 or ME 240, or cons inst.

476 Engineering Principles of Off-Road Vehicles. (Crosslisted with ME) II; 3 cr. Engineering design principles of heavy-duty vehicles intended for off-road use: fuels, engine cycles, engine principles and construction, clutches, mechanical and hydrostatic transmissions, final drives, traction systems, traction modeling, dynamic behavior, suspension systems and braking. P: ME 361, EMA 202 or ME 240 or cons inst.

509 Biological Systems Engineering Senior Design. I; 3 cr. Individual or team work on a biological systems engineering design project: problem identification, information retrieval, specification writing, development and analysis of alternative solutions, selection methodology. P: Sr st.

542 Food Engineering Operations. (Crosslisted with Food Sci) II; 4 cr (r-B-A). Lectures and experiments in food engineering operations selected from topics such as: thermodynamics, transport processes, biological kinetics and bioreactor design, thermal process calculations, separation processes, process instrumentation and control, process design and economics, and the use of computers. P: Food Sci 440, Sr st, or cons inst.

571 Small Watershed Engineering. II; 3 cr. Application of engineering principles to small, ungauged watershed analysis. Application of hydrologic and sedimentologic principles to upland watersheds for run-off and sediment control. P: Sr in Engr or Grad st or cons inst.

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

251 Engineering Spatial Measurements. I, II; 2 cr (P-E). Introduction to the fundamentals of engineering measurements; units of measurement; significant figures; errors in measurement; measuring devices and their calibration; measurements of distances, angles, elevations and other engineering quantities; construction measurements; reference coordinate systems for point positioning, datums; mapping. P: Math 221, ME 170 or cons inst.

290 Construction Systems. II; 3 cr. Course focuses upon the building construction industry. Buildings include many engineered systems, such as foundations, structural, and exterior cladding. Course addresses construction methods and techniques for sitework, excavation, paving, cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, masonry, structural steel, and moisture protection. Course uses case examples of individual systems. P: So st.

310 Fluid Mechanics. I, II; 3 cr. Fluid statics and dynamics, dimensional analysis, flow of an ideal fluid, flow of a real fluid—including laminar and turbulent flow, applications to engineering problems. P: Math 234 & EMA 202 or equiv.

320 Environmental Engineering. I, II; 3 cr (P-E). Fun-damental sanitary aspects of environmental engineering. Role of the engineer in the control of the environment; water supply and wastewater problems; solid waste disposal; air pollution; and administration in environmental engineering. P: 1 year college chem.

330 Soil Mechanics. (Crosslisted with GLE) I, II; 4 cr. Basic principles of soil mechanics and fundamentals of application in engineering practice; soil composition and texture; classification; permeability and seepage; consolidation; settlement; shear strength; lateral earth pressures; fundamentals of retaining structures, shallow and deep foundations, slope stability; sub-surface exploration; lab. P: EMA 303 or 304 & Civ Engr 310 or con reg.

340 Structural Analysis I. I, II; 4 cr. Analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate beams, trusses, and rigid frames; deflections by virtual-work, moment-area; influence lines; force methods; structural design loads, introduction to structural design, approximate methods. P: EMA 303 & Mech Engr 307 or con reg.

440 Structural Analysis II. I or II; 3 cr. Analysis of structures by displacement methods with computer solutions. Slope deflection and moment distribution methods. Derivation of stiffness matrices for two-dimensional frames. Introduction to commercial structural analysis software. Shear deformations. P: Civ Engr 340.

442 Wood Structures I. I or II; 3 cr. Properties of wood, basic concepts of structural design, design of wood structural members by Lrfd including beams, columns and connections. Sawn, glued-laminated, sheathing and composite wood construction products. Concrete formwork. P: Civ Engr 340.

445 Steel Structures I. I or II; 3 cr. Design loads, codes, specifications and standards; philosophies of design; load and resistance factor design (LRFD); allowable stress design (ASD); properties and types of structural steel; residual stresses; behavior and Lrfd design criteria for tension members, compression; laterally braced and unbraced beams; essentials of bolted and welded connections. P: Civ Engr 340.

447 Concrete Structures I. I or II; 3 cr. Behavior of reinforced concrete structural elements; concepts of design and proportioning sections for strength and serviceability; background of specification requirements; strength design applied to beams, columns, and members under combined axial load and bending; continuous beams. P: Civ Engr 340.

492 Integrated Project Estimating and Scheduling. II; 3 cr. Principles of estimating and scheduling for the construction industry, engineer's preliminary and final estimates' quantity take offs and cost and duration determinations for major items related to a construction project; use manual and computer techniques. P: Jr st.

496 Electrical Systems for Construction. I or II; 3 cr. Basic electricity, utility systems, standards and codes, electrical construction materials, branch circuit design, motor branch circuit design, feeder and service design, estimating and management concepts in electrical contracting, grounding, lighting, telecommunications. P: Physics 202.

497 Mechanical Systems for Construction. II; 3 cr. Introduction to building mechanical systems. Plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection, automation/controls and process systems. Introduction to mechanical systems design and cost estimating. Mechanical system management. P: Physics 202.

498 Construction Project Management. I or II; 3 cr (A). Characteristics of Construction Industry; project organizations; the design and construction process; labor, material, and equipment utilization; cost estimation; construction pricing and contracting; construction planning; cost control, monitoring accounting; and management systems construction. P: Jr st or cons inst.

530 Seepage and Slopes. (Crosslisted with GLE) I or II; 3 cr. Practical aspects of seepage effects and ground water flow. Stability of natural and man-made slopes under various loading conditions. Design and construction of earth dams and embankments. Flow net and its use; wells; filters; total and effective stress methods of slope analysis; selection of pertinent soil parameters. P: Civ Engr 330.

531 Retaining Structures. (Crosslisted with GLE) I or II; 3 cr. Rigid and flexible earth retaining structures. Analysis and design of retaining walls, anchored bulkheads, braced cuts, tie back cuts, mechanically stabilized earth, and slurry trench walls. Lateral earth pressure due to soil, water, surcharge loads, etc., local and overall stability and the design of anchorage and bracing systems. P: Civ Engr 330; Comp Sci 310 or cons inst.

532 Foundations. (Crosslisted with GLE) I or II; 3 cr. Shallow and deep foundations. Analysis and design of footings, mats, piers and piles, and related fill and excavation operations. Consolidation settlement, time rate of settlement, stress distribution, elastic (immediate) settlement, load bearing capacity; methods to reduce settlements and increase shear strength; the selection of a foundation system. P: Civ Engr 330 & Comp Sci 310 or cons inst.

Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics (EMA)

201 Statics. I, II, SS; 3 cr (P-I). Principles of mechanics, force systems, equilibrium, structures, distributed forces, moments of inertia of areas, and friction. P: Math 222 or con reg. Open to Fr.

202 Dynamics. I, II, SS; 3 cr (P-I). Kinematics, force-mass-acceleration relations, work and energy, impulse and momentum, moments of inertia and mass. P: EMA 201 or 214; and Math 222; or cons inst.

303 Mechanics of Materials. I, II, SS; 3 cr (P-I). Stress and strain, torsion, bending of beams, shearing stresses in beams, compound stresses, principal stresses, deflections of beams, statically indeterminate members, columns. For civil engineers. P: EMA 201 & Math 222.

405 Practicum in Finite Elements. I, II; 3 cr. Use of finite elements (FE) for solving practical problems in mechanics. Elementary theory of FE is discussed. A commercial computer program is used for applications. Major emphasis is on behavior of FE, modeling, and evaluation of results for correctness. P: EMA 214, 303, 304, or 306; EMA 202 or 221; knowledge of elementary matrix algebra or cons inst.

506 Advanced Mechanics of Materials I. I, SS; 3 cr. Analysis and design of load-carrying members, shear center, unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, beams on elastic foundations, energy methods, theories of failure, thick-walled cylinders, stress concentrations, design to prevent failure by excessive elastic deformation, plastic deformation and fracture. P: EMA 214, 304, or 306/307.

Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)

315 Production Planning and Control. II; 3 cr. Techniques and applications of control concepts in the design of inventory, production, quality, and project-planning systems; use of the computer as a component in such systems. P: Stat 311 & Comp Sci 110 or equiv.

323 Operations Research-Deterministic Modeling. I; 3 cr (P-I). Basic techniques for modeling and optimizing deterministic systems with emphasis on linear programming. Computer solution of optimization problems. Applications to production, logistics, and service systems. P: IE 313, Math 222, and either Math 320 or 340.

510 Facilities Planning. (Crosslisted with ME) I; 3 cr. Introduction to plant location theory and analysis of models of plant location; models for determining plant size and time phasing; line balancing models; techniques for investigating conveyor and other material handling problems; and models of plant layout. P: IE 315, 323, 349 or cons inst. 

Mechanical Engineering (ME)

160 Architectural Graphics. I, II; 3 cr (P-E). The skill of communicating through the graphic media of freehand and instrumental drawing. Architectural presentation, isometric, perspective and shades and shadows. P: Open to Fr.

170 Civil Engineering Graphics. I, II; 2 cr. To develop an awareness of and appreciation for work that is characteristic of civil engineering. Graphical communication including lettering, drawing equipment and techniques; geometric construction, orthographic projections, pictorial drawing, and technical sketching, isometric, oblique and perspective projections, descriptive geometry, computer-aided design drawing, applications to civil engineering problems. P: Open to All Undergrads.

350 Advanced Graphic Analysis. I, II; 3 cr (P-I). Graphical construction of plane and space curves and surfaces. Advanced topics in descriptive geometry. Vector analysis in two and three dimensions. Transformation of axes for solids. Nomography as it applies to engineering problems. Graphical constructions useful for simulation and in solving engineering problems. Vehicle employed for graphics in the above material will be the microcomputer. P: ME 232 or cons inst.

361 Thermodynamics. I, II; 3 cr (P-I). First and second laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic properties of gases, vapors, and gas-vapor mixtures; energy-systems analysis including power cycles, refrigeration cycles and air-conditioning processes. Introduction to thermodynamics of reacting mixtures. P: Math 234 & Comp Sci 310, ME 240 or EMA 202, or equiv.