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This course requires students to implement, test and demonstrate a solution to a problem statement related to engineering technology systems.  Students will learn to demonstrate achievement of the program’s learning objectives throughout the course.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to demonstrate the program’s outcomes of mechanical engineering technology through an engineering project.

This course requires students to produce individual or group projects based upon a Mechanical Engineering Technology centric experience. Students will learn how to apply the hypothesis and design concepts of a senior project.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to demonstrate attainment of the program’s learning outcomes for mechanical engineering technology.

This course provides the student with applied practical training through collaboration with industry partners.  Students will learn how to apply acquired competencies and skills in a technical setting facility.  Upon successful course completion, students will able to demonstrate a working knowledge of a mechanical engineering technologist’s duties and responsibilities.

This course provides the student with applied practical training through collaboration with industry partners.  Students will learn how to apply acquired competencies and skills in a technical setting facility.  Upon successful course completion, students will able to demonstrate a working knowledge of a mechanical engineering technologist’s duties and responsibilities.

This course provides the student with applied practical training through collaboration with industry partners.  Students will learn how to apply acquired competencies and skills in a technical setting facility.  Upon successful course completion, students will able to demonstrate a working knowledge of a mechanical engineering technologist’s duties and responsibilities.

This course provides the student with applied practical training through collaboration with industry partners.  Students will learn how to apply acquired competencies and skills in a technical setting facility.  Upon successful course completion, students will able to demonstrate a working knowledge of a mechanical engineering technologist’s duties and responsibilities.

This course provides the student with applied practical training through collaboration with industry partners.  Students will learn how to apply acquired competencies and skills in a technical setting facility.  Upon successful course completion, students will able to demonstrate a working knowledge of a mechanical engineering technologist’s duties and responsibilities.

This course describes the dynamic behavior of particles; translation, rotation and plane motion of a rigid body; and the principles of conservation of energy and momentum.  Students will learn how to analyze the dynamics of exemplary mechanical systems.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to solve kinematics and kinetics problems related to mechanical systems.

This course introduces students to mechanical components and system design and provides analysis/design of clutches, brakes, belts and roller chain.  Students will learn about indeterminate normal loading, superposition of stresses and deflections, compound stresses, columns and fatigue, theories of failure, shaft design and deflections of shafts with non-uniform moments of inertia involving computer verification, antifriction bearings, engineering materials, and helical compression springs.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to design and assemble mechanical components into engineering systems.

This course introduces the basic concepts of finite element analysis (FEA) method.  Students will learn about linear algebra, truss and beam, and heat transfer elements subjects to steady state conduction and convection. Upon successful course completion, students will be able to perform forces, stress, displacement and heat analysis of various mechanical and structural engineering systems using use a FEA software.

This course describes instrumentation for measurement and control of physical variables, with emphasis on basic circuit analysis, electrical instruments, sensors and measurement principles, and automatic controls from a systems point of view.  Students will learn the basics of electronic instrumentation, theory and application of Laplace transforms in control systems.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to design or simulate electronic instruments to measure and control physical variables encountered in mechanical systems.

This course consists of experimentation involving the use of the various instrumentation devices studied in the Instrumentation & Industrial Control course.  Students will learn instrumentation and industrial control through laboratory experimentations.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to operate electrical instruments, build electronic circuits to measure and control physical variables that govern mechanical systems.

This course describes the fundamentals of thermodynamics including work and heat; the classical approach to first and second laws of thermodynamics; ideal gas, entropy, reversibility, irreversibility; and study of various processes and cycles.  Students will learn the laws of thermodynamics and their applications in mechanical systems.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to calculate parameters of fluids throughout various thermodynamics processes and cycles.

This course describes the basic principles of heat transfer, including theory and applications of conduction, free and forced convection and radiation heat transfer, heat exchangers, and heat transfer measurement.  Students will learn the theory and applications of heat transfer as applied to internal combustion engines, steam engines, engine dynamometers, refrigeration and heat pumps, solar energy systems, and heat exchangers.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to safely design or analyze devices involved in exchange of heat.

This course consists of experimentation involving the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer, as applied to internal combustion engines, steam engines, engine dynamometers, refrigeration and heat pumps, solar energy systems, and heat exchangers.  Students will learn the basics of thermodynamics and heat transfer through laboratory experimentations.  Upon successful course completion, students will be able to perform experiments related to various modes of heat exchange, analyze, and interpret the results.