COURSES DESCRIPTION

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

INEL 4075 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  (MATE 3063 OR MATE 3185) AND FISI 3172.  Only for Civil, Industrial, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering students.  Laws and fundamental concepts that govern the behavior of electric and magnetic circuits; ideal models of resistors, voltage and current sources, capacitors and inductors; three-phase circuits and transformers.

INEL 4076 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONIC
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: INEL 4075.  Only for Civil, Industrial, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering students. Fundamentals and applications of analog and digital electronics.

INEL 4085  FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSFORMERS AND ELECTRIC MACHINERY
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisite:  INEL 4075.  Only for Civil, Industrial, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering students.  Electromechanical energy converters such as transformers; induction, synchronous and direct current machines; distribution systems where these converters are used.

INEL 4086 TRANSFORMERS AND ELECTRIC MACHINERY  LABORATORY
One credit hour.  One three-hour laboratory per week.  Co-requisite:  INEL 4085.  Only for Civil, Industrial, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering students.  Voltage, current electrical and mechanical power measurements and other parameters related to the operation of single phase, three phase, and direct current equipment.

GENERAL ENGINEERING

INGE 3011 ENGINEERING GRAPHICS
Two credit hours.  One hour of lecture and two one-and-one-half-hour laboratories per week.  Principles of graphic language.  Fundamentals of delineation, analysis and solution of space problems, symbols and standards as applied in engineering.  Freehand drawing as a tool for visualization.  Principles of orthographic projection, sections, auxiliary views and conventional practices.  Pictorial drawings:  axonometric, oblique and perspective.  Introduction to descriptive geometry.  Hand and computer-aided drawing.

INGE 3016 ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisite:  MATE 3031 OR MATE 3144 OR MATE 3183.  Development of algorithms and their implementation in a structured high level language.  Programming techniques applied to the solution of engineering and mathematical problems.

INGE 3017 COMPUTER AIDED GRAPHICS
Two credit hours.  Two two-hours of lecture-laboratory periods per week.  PrerequisitesÑ  INGE 3011 AND INGE 3016.  Fundamentals of computer aided graphics in engineering.  Description of the equipment, development of programs and data systems, use of commercial programs modeling of geometric figures.

INGE 3031 ENGINEERING MECHANICS-FLUIDS
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisite:  MATE 3031 OR MATE 3144 OR MATE 3183.  Analysis of force systems; the laws of equilibrium; analysis of simple frames and cables, distributed forces; friction, centroids and moments of inertia.

INGE 4001 ENGINEERING MATERIALS
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  (QUIM 3002 OR QUIM 3042) and (FISI 3161 OR FISI 3171).  A study of the basic principles that govern the properties and behavior of engineering materials; atomic structures, interatomic forces, amorphous and crystalline structures; phase transformations; elasticity, plasticity and flow; the study of the capabilities and limitations of such materials, metals, cementing materials, protective coating and lubricating materials.

INGE 4011 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS I
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 3031 and (MATE 3032 or MATE 3184).  Stresses and strains due to axial loads; torsional loads; stresses due to flection; shear and moment diagrams.

INGE 4012 MECHANICS OF METERIALS II

Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 4011 and (MATE 3063 or MATE 3185).  Analysis of statically determinate and inderterminate beams; three moments theorem; stresses due to combined loads; column theory; dynamic loads.

INGE 4015 FLUIDS MECHANICS
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 3032 and (MATE 3063 or MATE 3185).  Elements of mechanics of fluids and fluids statics.  Development of the fundamental equations of fluid mechanics and its applications.  Introduction to dimensional analysis and similitude.  Motion of ideal and real fluids including internal and external viscous flows.  Introduction to the use of hydraulic machinery.

INGE 4016 FLUID MECHANICS LABORATORY
One credit hour.  One three-hour laboratory period per week.  Co-requisite:  INGE 4015  Laboratory work supplementing classroom instruction in mechanics of fluid phenomena, measuring devices and techniques, and the testing of fluid machinery.

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

ININ 4007 INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  (MATE 3063 or MATE 3185) and ECON 3021.  Principles of design and control; decision models in engineering and industrial systems.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

INME 3810 PRODUCT DISSECTION
Two credit hours.  One hour of lecture and tow hours of workshop per week.  Prerequisite:  INGE 3011.  Product dissection uses hand-on dissection exercises to develop in students the ability to understand a machine in not only its functionality but also in terms of its history, social impact, the design methodology, the market constraints, and the customer needs.  Use of proper technical vocabulary to describe mechanical and electrical components.  Learn oral, written, and drafting communication skills.

INME 4001 THERMODYNAMICS
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  QUIM 3002 and FISI 3174 and FISI 3172.  A study of the first and second laws of thermodynamics; properties, equations of state, and thermodynamic relations.

INME 4002 THERMODYNAMICS II
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4001.  The application of the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics to the study of power and refrigeration cycles and combustion processes.  Introduction to gas dynamic: concepts, nonreactive mixtures and psychrometrics.

INME 4003 THERMODYNAMICS III
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4001 and INME 4015.  Analysis and design of piping, ventilation, and heat exchanger systems.  Study of pump and compressor characteristics and operation.  Simulation and optimization f these systems.

INME 4005 MECHANISM DESIGN
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 3032 and INGE 3017.  Fundamental concepts in the design of mechanisms including synthesis and kinematic and kinetic analysis.  Mechanisms to be studied include linkages, cams, gears, gear trains, and flexible connectors.

INME 4007 METALLURGY FOR ENGINEERS
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture and two-hour laboratory per week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4001 and INGE 4001.  A study of the relationship of the mechanical properties of metals to their micro and macro structure, with emphasis on the application of metals in the fields of engineering.

INME 4009 AUTOMATIC CONTROLS
Three credit hours.  Two hours of lecture and one two-hour laboratory per week.  Prerequisites:  MATE 4009, INGE 3032, INEL 4075 and either INEL 3105 or INEL 4005.  Use, calibration and sensitivity of instruments for measuring temperature, pressure, volume, strain, and fluid flow; analysis of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, mechanical and pneumatical servomechanisms; control systems and their characteristics, such as response, sensitivity and stability.

INME 4011 DESIGN OF MACHINE ELEMENTS I
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 4012 and INGE 4001.  Application of the fundamentals of statics dynamics, strength of material, and materials science to the design of machine members and other mechanical elements.

INME 4012 DESIGN OF MACHINE ELEMENTS II
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4011.  Analysis and design of specific machine components including screws, nuts, springs, gears, bearings, shafts, brakes, clutches

INME 4015 HEAT TRANSFER
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 4015, MATE 4009, INGE 3016 and INME 4001 or INME 4045.  Fundamentals of steady and unsteady conduction, forced and natural conduction, forced and natural convection and radiation.  Introduction to heat exchangers.

INME 4031 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY I
One credit hour.  One three-hour laboratory per week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4015, INEL 4076 and INME 4002.  Principles and application of the data acquisition planning.  Instrumentation technique; analysis and reduction of data and technical report writing. 

INME 4032 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY II
One credit hour.  One three-hour laboratory per week.  Prerequisite:  INME 4031.  Continuation of INME 4031.  Experiments and projects in Mechanical Engineering and related fields.

INME 4055 MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Three credit hours.  Three hours of lecture per week.  Prerequisites:  INGE 4001.  Different manufacturing processes and machine tools; influence of the method of fabrication upon the properties of materials; computer and numerical control of machine-tools; use of plastics.

INME 4056 MANUFACTURING PROCESSES LABORATORY
One credit hour.  One three-hour laboratory per week.  Co-requisite:  INME 4055.  Demonstrations and operation of machine-tools in modern manufacturing.

INME 4057 ENGINEERIGN DESING
Four credit hours.  Two hours of lecture and two three-hour periods of computation per  week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4002, INME 4007, INME 4012, and INME 4015.  Formulation, design and analysis of engineering projects; creative aspects of design; design methodology, safety, liability and patents.  Technical presentations, both oral and written.

INME 4058 COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN
Three credit hours.  Two hours of lecture and two hours of computation per week.  Prerequisites:  INME 4012 and INGE 3017.  Study of the basic concepts underlying the state-of-the-art engineering software.  Use of engineering design software and interactive workstations in the design of machine elements, energy conversion systems, transfer processes, and control systems.