The Engineering Science program seeks to guarantee that every student is prepared for a lifetime of creative engineering design work. There are many correct solutions to engineering design problems-they differ in their simplicity, elegance, cost, and social and environmental impacts. Every student learns how to formulate problems, find correct solutions, and choose among these solutions for an efficient design. For most students, the first design experience is in the course ENS 220 Introduction to Computer Engineering. Next, in the laboratory, ENS 221 students take the paper designs worked out in ENS 220 and build, test, and evaluate their own designs. In ENS 362 Microcontrollers, the design, building, testing, and evaluation of more complicated engineering systems is performed. In this fashion, students are prepared to handle real-world design projects including related issues of economics, aesthetics, environmental problems, reliability analysis, and safety.
In the courses ENS 310, ENS 336, ENS 471, ENS 380, ENS 441, ENS 450, and in all of the electives, there is a formal design component incorporated. In these courses, the designs are tested and evaluated using computer simulation or calculation. The actual construction, testing, and evaluation of student designs occur in the laboratory courses. The most important design experience for all students is obtained in the capstone courses ENS 491 Advanced Engineering Design I and ENS 492 Advanced Engineering Design II. These are project-oriented courses in which students are asked to participate in the design of a major real-world system.
Core Requirements
ENS 110 Engineering Graphics
ENS 136 Computer-Aided Engineering
ENS 220 Introduction to Computer Engineering
ENS 221 Digital Electronics Laboratory
ENS 241 Electrical and Electronic Circuits
ENS 249 Basic Measurement Laboratory
ENS 250 Engineering Mechanics
MTH 229 Calculus Computer Laboratory
MTH 231 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I
MTH 232 Analytic Geometry and Calculus II
MTH 233 Analytic Geometry and Calculus III