| |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| |
-
ECE 1390 - INTRO TO IMAGE PROCESSING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introductory subjects in image processing include image spaces and image representation, image enhancement, edge detection, edge and region based segmentation, and feature extraction and object recognition. Spatial and frequency domain approaches will be addressed with emphasis on spatial domain approaches. Some problems are solved on the computer in the c programming language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Undergraduate Swanson School of Engineering; LVL: Sr
|
| |
-
ECE 1391 - PROJECTS IN COMPUTER VISION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A set of full-term group projects attacking problems in image processing and computer vision. Projects will typically involve the development of problem solutions on computer vision workstations in the c programming language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1472 - ANALOG COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis of modern analog communication systems, including the theory underlying their design and practical implementation issues. Various forms of amplitude and angle modulation. Amplifiers, mixers, detectors, phase-lock loops, and the design of transmitters and receivers. Probability, random signals, optimal receivers, noise and performance analysis. Case studies including telephone, commercial radio, and television.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1552; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1473 - DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis of modern digital communications systems, including the theory underlying their design and practical implementation issues. Baseband digital signaling: pam, PCM, quantization, ISI, multiplexing. Modulation formats: ask, FSK, BPSK, DPSK, GAM. Probability, information channel capacity random signals, optimal receivers and performance analysis. Case studies include modems, satellite systems, and cellular telephone.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1552; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1552 - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Signal representation, continuous time systems, Fourier series, Fourier transform, laplace transform, discrete time systems, Fourier analysis of discrete time systems, z transform, the discrete Fourier transform.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0290 and ECE 0031; PROG: Undergraduate Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1562 - DIGITAL AND ANALOG FILTERS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Active filter design; operational amplifier circuits; cascade design with first-order and biquad circuits; Butterworth and Chebyshev low pass filters; sensitivity and frequency transformations. Digital filter design; IIR filter design using bilinear transformation; window design of fir filters; realization of IRR and fir filters.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1552; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1563 - SIGNAL PROCESSING LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Data acquisition and computer based measurements. Recursive and fir filters. Frequency response and filter implementations using FFT’s.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1201 and 1552; PROG: Undergraduate Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1570 - SPEC TOPCS: SIGNALS & SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
An undergraduate course dealing with special topics of current interest in control, signal, and image processing, speech processing, and telecommunications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ECE 1673 - LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Introduction to feedback control systems, mathematical models, second order systems response and identification, system types, steady-state errors, root locus analysis and design, bode plots, nyquist theory and frequency domain compensation techniques. Includes a laboratory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1552; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1710 - POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND SMART GRIDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Review of power engineering fundamentals, load characteristics and distribution transformers, design of distribution substations, design considerations of primary and secondary systems, substation grounding, voltage drop and power loss, application of capacitors to distribution systems, distribution system voltage regulation and system software, smart grid technologies, energy management.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0031 or COE 0031; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1750 - POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERSION THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis of power electronic circuits. Converter concepts, models and metrics. Rectifiers. DC-DC converters. Inverters. Thermal and reliable design. Control and applications, e.g. photovoltaic and motor drives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0257 or COE 0257 and ECE 1552
|
| |
-
ECE 1769 - POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to modern power systems and methods of analysis. Transmission lines, network representations, network solutions, balanced and unbalanced faults, real and reactive load flow study techniques, and basic concepts in stability and economic dispatch.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0031 or COE 0031; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1770 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ELECTRONIC MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An undergraduate course dealing with special topics of current interest in power.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0132 or COE 0132; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1771 - ELECTRIC MACHINERY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Application of magnetostatics to the design of magnetic circuits, actuators, sensors and rotating electric machines. Performance characteristics of transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines and DC machines. Includes a laboratory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0031 or COE 0031; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1773 - POWER GENERATION, OPERATION, AND CONTROL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Area control error (ace), automatic generation control (AGC), characteristics of power generation units, economic dispatch of generators, unit commitment, hydrothermal coordination and storage, interchange power, limited energy supply, optimal power flow, power system security, production cost modeling, state estimation, transmission system effects, unit commitment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1673 or 1769; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1775 - POWER QUALITY
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
An introductory power systems laboratory course providing hands-on experience covering various electric power topics. The course will be conducted in the Electric Power Systems Laboratory and will include lectures, analytical and simulation assignments, and laboratory procedures. Topics include: familiarization with lab equipment and safety, power system equipment, power conversion equipment, and electric machinery.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1710 or ECE 1769 or ECE 1771; PLAN: Electrical and Computer Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1885 - DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Seminars are designed to acquaint the student with aspects of engineering that are not normally encountered in classes and school activities and include a wide range of topics such as the significance of engineering as a profession, and ethical problems in engineering and skills required for a successful engineering career.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1896 - SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A full-term engineering project involving definition, literature search, prototype design, construction, with written and oral reports. Senior design course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0031 or COE 0031 and (ECE 0257 or COE 0401 or CS 0401); PROG: Undergraduate Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ECE 1898 - ENGINEERING PROJECT
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
An investigation of an approved engineering subject under the supervision of a faculty monitor. Must be approved in advance by the faculty monitor and the department chair.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
|
| |
-
ECE 2295 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ELECTRONICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An MS level course in special topics of current interest in electronics.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: School of Engineering students only.
|
| |
-
ECE 2521 - ANALYSIS STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Probability theory, random variables, sums and limits of random variable sequences, time and frequency domain, modeling of continuous and discrete random signals, lease square estimation.
Academic Career: GRAD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter GRD
Course Requirements: School of Engineering students only.
|
| |
-
ECE 2523 - DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Discrete time-signal processing, discrete fourier transform and fft implementation, design and stability considerations of fir and iir filters, filter implementation and finite register effects.
Academic Career: GRAD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: GradLG/SU3
Course Requirements: School of Engineering students only.
|
Emergency Medicine |
| |
-
EM 1102 - EMERGENCY MEDICINE TECHNICIAN
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course provides the learners with the cognitive knowledge and values to develop as an emergency medical professional at the basic life support level. This course meets all of the minimum training requirements as established by the U.S. Department of Transportation in the EMT, National Education Standards. This course provides the learner with the opportunity to develop basic life support psychomotor skills. Successful completion of this course makes the learner eligible to become certified by the National Registry of EMT’s and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Sch Hlth & Rehabilitation Scs
|
| |
-
EM 1104 - EMT CLINICAL
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: EM 1102; PROG: Sch Hlth & Rehabilitation Scs
|
| |
-
EM 1111 - FOUNDATIONS OF EMERGENCY CARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on pre-hospital assessment and therapeutic intervention of adult and pediatric patients with acute traumatic injury and includes advanced airway assessment and procedural intervention for patients with acute respiratory pathophysiology. Students will explore emergency medical services systems and appreciate their role and responsibility as pre-hospital practitioners. Learning strategies include scenario-based case presentations with a focus on critical thinking and decision-making. This course is paired with a required lab component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1112 - PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introductory course in pathophysiology for entry level healthcare providers. This course focuses on human responses to illness expressed at the physiologic, pathophysiologic, experiential, and behavioral levels. Human responses are examined in terms of assessments appropriate to selected problems, rationale for medical interventions, and therapeutic effectiveness. Topics include: general principles of pathophysiology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1113 - PHARMACOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to the categories of pharmacological agents and the application of pharmacological concepts to clinical practice. Emphasis will be placed on understanding physiologic medication action. A separate medication lab is offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1114 - MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Practical skills lab designed to allow students to develop the psychomotor skills of medication administration. Skills include: phlebotomy, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections,IV cannulation,IV medication administration, inhalation, endotracheal and sublingual administration, and pharmacology math. This course also provides the students with the practical skills needed for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) care.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1115 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to introduce students to the principles and techniques of physical examination. Students will be taught an organized systemic approach to assessment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1116 - PHYSICAL EXAM LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Practical skills lab designed to assist in the development of psychomotor skills of patient assessment, airway management, ventilation and trauma care skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1117 - EMS OPERATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to expose the paramedic student to various field operations procedures. Topics include: medical incident command, rescue awareness and operations, hazardous materials awareness and operations, crime scene awareness.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1122 - CARDIOLOGY AND RESPIRATORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the specific pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the cardiac patient. Topics inlcude 3 lead and 12 lead ECG interpretion, cardiac anatomy and physiology, patient assessment and management, ACLS, pharmacological, and other therapies. This class is offered with a required lab course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1123 - CARDIOLOGY LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This lab section in conjunction with Assessment Based Management Lab provide case based learning for the students related to general adult emergencies. Students will participate in case based sessions that allow them to work on a simulated patient that is suffering from a specific illness or injury and allows the students to develop strong patient, resource, and scene management skills that they can take with them into their field practice. This lab helps to promote strong clinical decision making skills that will allow the students to function as a strong clinical provider in the field.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS or BPH or BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1124 - ADULT MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on pre-hospital assessment and therapeutic intervention of acute and chronic adult pathophysiology. Students will explore the different processes of patient care for special populations across the life span. Learning strategies include scenario-based case presentations with a focus on critical thinking and decision-making. This course is paired with a required lab component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1125 - OB/GYN, NEWBORN, AND PEDIATRIC CARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the specific pathophysiology, assessment and management of common medical and trauma conditions in pediatric patients. Additional information regarding obstetrics, neonates and gynecologic patients will be presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1126 - ASSESSMENT BASED MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This lab section in conjunction with Cardiology Lab provide case based learning for the students related to general adult emergencies. Students will participate in case based sessions that allow them to work on a simulated patient that is suffering from a specific illness or injury and allows the students to develop strong patient, resource, and scene management skills that they can take with them into their field practice. This lab helps to promote strong clinical decision making skills that will allow the students to function as a strong clinical provider in the field.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS or BPH or BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1131 - CLINICAL 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Designed to accompany the fall semester courses, these clinical rotations focus on the development and documentation of history taking and assessment skills. Additionally psycho motor skill development in a clinical setting is emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1132 - CLINICAL 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Designed to accompany the spring semester courses, these clinical rotations focus on the integration of psychomotor skills with assessment and history taking. In addition to scheduled rotations students will spend the last weeks completing a summative field evaluation. This evaluation consists of 80 field hours with the student functioning as a primary care provider.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1152 - ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is designed to engage students in current aspects of healthcare impacting patients and healthcare practitioners. Topics are extremely diverse in assuring all possible domains of healthcare are addressed. Various methods of presentation are utilized in this course. Healthcare delivery at national and international models is explored.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1153 - ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Survey course designed to teach the principles of adult education, classroom management skills, selection of teaching aides and development of lesson plans. Students will function as teaching assistants in EMS education programs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1154 - HEALTH CARE RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course provides an overview of basic concepts of research, including statistics, measurement and design. This course emphasizes the ability of the student to read and evaluate research papers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1155 - LEGAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is meant to provide students with a survey of some of the major legal issues facing emergency medical services providers and administrators, and those who aspire to those positions. This course will focus on the practical issues confronting EMS organizations. Major areas to be addressed include the law of negligence and medical malpractice; consent and refusal of emergency care; “do not resuscitate” issues; the legal aspects of documentation; confidentiality and HIPAA; EMTALA and ER diversions; fraud and abuse; personnel management; OSHA; legal issues for non-profit EMS organizations; the basics of EMS reimbursement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1158 - FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR HEALTH CARE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Finance and Accounting provides an introduction to the basic concepts of accounting and financial management in health care. The course is geared for professionals who do not anticipate serving primarily in a financial management role. The concepts will be studied in the context of their practical application.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BS-H, BPH)
|
| |
-
EM 1160 - PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide the student with the tools necessary to promote the long-term viability of an EMS service. This course has been designed to prepare the student to be a leader of traditional or entrepreneurial ems opportunities. Guest speakers will be utilized for their expertise in the administration of EMS agencies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1166 - SENIOR INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The Internship is designed to allow students to gain valuable experience in an educational, clinical or administrative aspect of healthcare. Students are asked to find internships in their specific area of healthcare interest. The internship can take place domestically or internationally.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1168 - LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Thorough reading, review, and discussion of germane reference materials, this class will explore the components of leadership for industry, organization, and individual as applicable to US Health Care in general and more specifically Emergency Medical Services as part of the health care system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1169 - CRITICAL CARE MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course focuses on advanced assessment and therapeutic intervention common in the critical care setting for both adult and pediatric patients. Emphasis is placed on continuum of critical care interventions during inter-facility transport. The course follows the ASTNA core curriculum outline, the PA DoH Pennsylvania Air Ambulance Transport Educational Program guidelines and is approved for continuing education by the IBSC. Topics highlighted include intra-aortic balloon pump management, hemodynamic monitoring and pharmacology, and initiation and maintenance of the mechanically ventilated patient.Learning strategies include lecture with integrated scenario-based case presentations and a focus on critical thinking and decision-making.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1170 - CRITICAL CARE PARAMEDIC 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on advanced assessment and therapeutic intervention common in the critical care setting for both adult and pediatric patients. Emphasis is placed on continuum of critical care interventions during inter-facility transport. The course follows the ASTNA core curriculum outline, the PA DoH Pennsylvania Air Ambulance Transport Educational Program guidelines and is approved for continuing education by the IBSC. Topics highlighted include body systems assessment, analysis of laboratory diagnostics, hemodynamic monitoring and pharmacology, and chemically facilitated management of the crash airway. Learning strategies include lecture with integrated scenario-based case presentations and a focus on critical thinking and decision-making.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences students only.
|
| |
-
EM 1171 - CRITICAL CARE PARAMEDIC 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on advanced assessment and therapeutic intervention common in the critical care setting for both adult and pediatric patients. Emphasis is placed on continuum of critical care interventions during inter-facility transport. The course follows the ASTNA core curriculum outline, the PA DoH Pennsylvania Air Ambulance Transport Educational Program guidelines and is approved for continuing education by the IBSC. Topics highlighted include intra-aortic balloon pump management, advanced shock management, and initiation and maintenance of the mechanically ventilated patient. Learning strategies include lecture with integrated scenario-based case presentations and a focus on critical thinking and decision-making. EM1170 is a pre-requisite course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1172 - ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE - WEB
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is designed to engage students in current aspects of healthcare impacting patients and healthcare practitioners. Topics are extremely diverse in assuring all possible domains of healthcare are addressed. Various methods of presentation are utilized in this course. Healthcare delivery at national and international models is explored.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1173 - ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE EDUCATION - WEB
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Survey course designed to teach the principles of adult education, classroom management skills, selection of teaching aides and development of lesson plans. Students will function as teaching assistants in EMS education programs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1174 - HEALTHCARE RESEARCH - WEB
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course provides an overview of basic concepts of research, including statistics, measurement and design. This course emphasizes the ability of the student to read and evaluate research papers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1175 - LEGAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE - WEB
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is meant to provide students with a survey of some of the major legal issues facing emergency medical services providers and administrators, and those who aspire to those positions. This course will focus on the practical issues confronting EMS organizations. Major areas to be addressed include the law of negligence and medical malpractice; consent and refusal of emergency care; “do not resuscitate” issues; the legal aspects of documentation; confidentiality and HIPAA; EMTALA and ER diversions; fraud and abuse; personnel management; OSHA; legal issues for non-profit EMS organizations; the basics of EMS reimbursement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1176 - SENIOR INTERNSHIP-WEB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The Internship is designed to allow students to gain valuable experience in an educational, clinical or administrative aspect of healthcare. Students are asked to find internships in their specific area of healthcare interest. The internship can take place domestically or internationally.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1177 - SENIOR SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Senior Seminar requires students to create a scholarly paper and presentation. Students are permitted to utilize the information gained during their internship if they desire. Students can also develop new materials based upon an approved topic in any healthcare area of interest to them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1178 - LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH CARE-WEB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Thorough reading, review and discussion of germane reference materials, this class will explore the components of leadership for industry, organization and individual as applicable to US Health Care in general and more specific Emergency Medical Services as part of the health care system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1179 - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - WEB
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of managing in organizations with a particular focus on healthcare organizations. The concepts will be studied in the context of their practical application.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1180 - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of managing in organizations with a particular focus on healthcare organizations. The concepts will be studied in the context of their practical application.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS, BPH, BS-H)
|
| |
-
EM 1181 - PROFESSIONAL ISSUES-WEB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide the student with the tools necessary to promote the long-term viability of an EMS service. This course has been designed to prepare the student to be a leader of traditional or entrepreneurial EMS opportunities. Guest speakers will be utilized for their expertise in the administration of EMS agencies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1182 - CRITICAL CARE MANAGEMENT-WEB
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course focuses on advanced assessment and therapeutic intervention common in the critical care setting for both adult and pediatric patients. Emphasis is placed on continuum of critical care interventions during inter-facility transport. The course follows the ASTNA core curriculum outline, the PA DoH Pennsylvania Air Ambulance Transport Educational Program guidelines and is approved for continuing education by the IBSC. Topics highlighted include intra-aortic balloon pump management, hemodynamic monitoring and pharmacology, and initiation and maintenance of the mechanically ventilated patient.Learning strategies include lecture with integrated scenario-based case presentations and a focus on critical thinking and decision-making.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1183 - FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR HEALTH CARE - WEB
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Finance and Accounting provides an introduction to the basic concepts of accounting and financial management in health care. The course is geared for professionals who do not anticipate serving primarily in a financial management role. The concepts will be studied in the context of their practical application.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences students only.
|
| |
-
EM 1184 - SENIOR SEMINAR-WEB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Senior Seminar requires students to create a scholarly paper and presentation. Students are permitted to utilize the information gained during their internship if they desire. Students can also develop new materials based upon an approved topic in any healthcare area of interest to them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1185 - BEYOND THE BODY - WEB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course was designed to introduce clinicians and health administrators to variables that influence health beyond behaviors, genes and germs. This course will introduce the “social ecology” model that addresses the broader social, environmental and policy factors that influence our health, which are known as “health determinants”.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1186 - CERTIFIED AMBULANCE CODER-WEB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course is designed to provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of the complex rules and requirements related to effective and compliant ambulance billing. The course focuses on a baseline of critical knowledge and commitment to excellence necessary to be a well-informed, conscientious and compliant ambulance billing professional.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1187 - ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY-WEB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Through didactic and practical sessions, students will have the opportunity to discover organizational theory and to evaluate an EMS agency. Through this course students will learn about the 11 components of an EMS system and how to use them to evaluate an EMS system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Mass Media
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1190 - CRITICAL CARE MANAGEMENT 1-WEB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deployed in a web-based format focuses on advanced assessment and therapeutic intervention common in the critical care setting for both adult and pediatric patients. Emphasis is placed on continuum of critical care interventions during inter-facility transport. The course follows the ASTNA core curriculum outline, elements of the PA DoH Pennsylvania Air Ambulance Transport Educational Program guidelines and is approved for continuing education by the IBSC. Topics highlighted include body systems assessment, analysis of laboratory diagnostics, hemodynamic monitoring and pharmacology, and chemically facilitated management of the crash airway. Learning strategies include lecture with integrated scenario-based case presentations and a focus on critical thinking and decision-making.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
|
| |
-
EM 1198 - INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course is designed for international emergency medicine students. It provides international emergency medicine students an opportunity to explore an area of emergency medicine that is of particular interest to them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Emergency Medicine (BS)
|
| |
-
EM 1199 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Provides students an opportunity to explore in depth an area of particular interest to them. It is the student’s responsibility to find a faculty member willing to undertake such a tutorial.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1250 - INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY HEALTH
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
The role of paramedics in the healthcare system is evolving in many parts of the country to include helping patients avoid unnecessary 911 calls and hospitalizations. This introductory course will prepare the paramedic to function as a community paramedic. This course will describe the difference between traditional ems and community paramedic assessments; introduce therapeutic communication techniques; describe mental and behavioral health issues and their effect on chronic disease management; review professional boundaries and provider wellness techniques; and review potential patient populations that could be helped through these new services.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1251 - MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Part two of the community paramedic introductory course will introduce therapeutic communication techniques that are essential for chronic disease management and the coordination of services needed to avoid the unnecessary utilization of EMS and hospital services. This course will discuss the business models used across the country for community paramedicine programs as well as how to design a program, describe documentation methods used and how to effectively become a patient advocate to help navigate the patient through the changing health care system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
EM 1260 - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Healthcare providers make dozens of clinical decisions every day. Errors in cognitive processes have been determined to be one of the most common causes of preventable death and disability in this country. The goal of this class is to examine the current science of decision making and the treats to optimal decisions. Students will learn to recognize system I and system II thinking and the benefits and limitations of each. Unconscious cognitive biases and heuristics that are commonly relied upon in everyday as well as professional decisions will be analyzed. The class will be taught in seminar fashion with active learning and discussion.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
Engineering |
| |
-
ENGR 0005 - INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Often engineering and science are considered to be culturally independent. This, however turns out not to be the case. This course examines the constructs of science and engineering education, the practice of engineering, and industry and their underlying cultural bases. When offered off-campus in a foreign country, this course will also include site visits and field work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0011 - INTRO TO ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to basic topics in engineering, the role of the computer in engineering, ill structured problem-solving and report writing. The course includes material on the use of Unix, HTML, spread sheets, and MATLAB. Data analysis and curve fitting is done in both MATLAB and Excel. The writing component includes four detailed reports and includes an oral presentation. The course goals are: to introduce the fundamentals of what engineering is, what engineers do, why a diverse work force is needed and what values come with working in a group environment; to introduce the required library research skills and communication skills used by all engineers; to introduce the role of the computer in engineering problem solving, including the basic analytical, programming design, graphical, and problem solving skills used by most engineers in their profession; and to provide an overview of how material in the basic sciences and mathematics is applied by engineers to solve practical problems of interest to society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGR 0081 or ENGR 0181; PROG: School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0012 - INTRO TO ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to social topics in engineering, the role of the computer in engineering, ill-structured problem-solving and report writing. The course includes material on the use of MATLAB and C++. Students learn the fundamentals of computing in engineering, including program design, program development, and debugging. Applications to problems in engineering analysis with topics selected from ENGR 0011. The writing component includes four detailed reports and includes an oral presentation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0011 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); CREQ: MATH 0220 or 0230 or 0235 or 0240 or 0245 or 0280 or 0290; PROG: School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0015 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to basic topics in engineering, the role of the computer in engineering, ill-structured problem-solving and report writing. The course includes material on the use of UNIX, HTML, spread sheets, and MATLAB. Data analysis and curve fitting is done in both MATLAB and Excel. The writing component includes four detailed reports and includes an oral presentation. The course goals are: to introduce the fundamentals of what engineering is, what engineers do, why a diverse work force is needed and what values come with working in a group environment; to introduce the required library research skills and communication skills used by all engineers; to introduce the role of the computer in engineering problem solving , including the basic analytical, programming design, graphical, and problem solving skills used by most engineers in their profession; and to provide an overview of how material in the basic sciences and mathematics is applied by engineers to solve practical problems of interest to society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: (MATH 0220 or 0235) and (PHYS 0174 or 0475)
|
| |
-
ENGR 0016 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to social topics in engineering, the role of the computer in engineering, ill-structured problem-solving and report writing. The course includes material on the use of MATLAB and C++. Students learn the fundamentals of computing in engineering, including program design, program development, and debugging. Applications to problems in engineering analysis with topics selected from ENGR 0015. The writing component includes four detailed reports and may include an oral presentation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGR 0011 or 0015) and (MATH 0220 or 0235) and (PHYS 0174 or 0475) and PREQ or CREQ: (ENGCMP 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or 0004 0006 0020) or (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102; CUM GPA 2.0 or greater
|
| |
-
ENGR 0020 - PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
An introductory course in statistics. Topics covered include: data analysis, probability, randon variables, selsected discrete and continuous probability distributions, one sample and two sample estimation, hypothesis testing, experiments with two factors and introduction to regression analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0022 - MATERIALS STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the basic concepts of materials science and engineering. The concepts of atomic, crystal, micro- and macro-structure, their control and effects on chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties. Modification of properties by heat treatment and control of processing. Fundamental considerations in materials selection.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235) and (PHYS 0150 or 0174 or 0201 or 0475); PROG: School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0023 - PLUS 3 COSTA RICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0024 - INTERNATIONAL FIELD PROJECT - CHINA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0025 - INT’L FIELD PROJ-CZECH REPUBLC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0026 - INTERNATIONAL FIELD PROJECT - GERMANY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0027 - INTERNATIONAL FIELD PROJECT- FRANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0028 - ENGR+2: INT’L FIELD PROJ - CHILE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Engr+2 is an optional two-credit study abroad opportunity offered. In 2003 the course will involve a field study trip to Santiago Chile. The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0029 - INT’L FIELD PROJECT - CHILE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This one-credit project is for students who participated in the Chile summer program. Students will work in small groups to design, coordinate and create web pages. The project entails video processing and editing, source searching on the internet, and interviewing university experts on Chile. A short paper connecting the interviews and the special trading status that the US gave to Chile recently will also be required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
|
| |
-
ENGR 0031 - PLUS 3 ITALY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0032 - INTERNATIONAL FIELD PROJECT - BRAZIL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course involves lectures, company visits and sightseeing, and culminates in a research paper and presentation that focuses on a global industry and its value chain.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0033 - INTERNATIONAL FIELD PROJECT - VIETNAM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0034 - PITT IN FLORENCE: ENGINEERING OF THE RENAISSANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
|
| |
-
ENGR 0081 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 1
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGR 0011 or 0711; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0082 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 2
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716; PROG: Undergraduate Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0087 - TRANSFER SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
A 9 week seminar course for first semester regional and external engineering transfer students. The course discusses the transition to the Swanson School of Engineering and resources available to students at the University of Pittsburgh.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0088 - LEARNING AND COUNSELING
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0089 - COUNSELING
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0090 - SWANSON SUCCESS PROGRAM: A FRAMEWORK FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
The Swanson success class provides students with a series of academically-focused workshops critical to success within the Swanson School of Engineering and at the University of Pittsburgh. In this course, students will explore a variety of personal development topics including goal-setting, time prioritizing, motivation, and learning strategies. Students who invest the time and energy into this course, which is just one component of the student retention program, can expect to enhance their academic and personal efficiency as well as their performance in the classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
|
| |
-
ENGR 0131 - STATICS FOR CIVIL & ENVRL ENGNR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A basic course in statics. Utilizing the free-body diagram, the course covers forces and equilibria of particles, rigid bodies, surfaces, trusses, beams, cables, and other basic structural elements. Use is made of computers for problem solving.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0104 or 0150 or 0174 or 0201; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0135 - STATICS & MECHC OF MATERIALS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
First of a two course sequence covering statics and strength of materials. Topics covered include: concurrent force systems, equilibrium, axial loading, stress, strain, deformation, moments, equivalent systems, centroids, centers of mass, and distributed loads, free-body diagrams, equilibrium of rigid and deformable bodies, plane trusses, frames and machines, equilibrium in 3D, torsion and friction. Use is made of computers for problem solving.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235) and (PHYS 0150 or 0174 or 0201 or 0475); PROG: School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0141 - MECHC OF MATLS CVL & ENV ENGR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory course in the mechanics of deformable bodies, with special application to the range of topics needed by civil engineers. The course material covers internal strains, stresses and deformations which occur when a structure is subjected to applied loads. Problems with tie-in to practical design issues will be covered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0131 or 0135 or ET 0051; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0145 - STATICS & MECHC OF MATERIALS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Second of a two course sequence covering statics and strength of materials. Topics include: flexure; second moment of areas, shear force and bending moment diagrams, composite beams, shearing stresses, beam deflections, energy methods, Castigliano’s methods, moment area method, combined static loading and columns.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGR 0135 or ET 0051); PROG: School of Engineering
|
| |
-
ENGR 0151 - DYNAMICS CIVIL & ENVRN ENGNRS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A basic course in dynamics. Utilizing the Newtonian mechanics of particles, the course covers kinematics and kinematics of particles, kinetics of systems of particles, work and energy, introduction to vibration, single-degree-freedom systems, and two-degrees-of-freedom systems. Applications of dynamics in civil engineering problems. Use is made of computer solution to a two-story building vibration.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGR 0141 or 0145 or ET 0053) and (MATH 0250 or 0290 or 1035 or 0202); PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
|
| |
Page: 1 <- Back 10 … 11
| 12
| 13
| 14
| 15
| 16
| 17
| 18
| 19
| 20
| 21
… Forward 10 -> 52 |
