Engineering Science Foundational Electives List

Effective Fall 2006

Select 3-5 courses from List A and 0-2 courses from List B for a total of 5 courses.

List A

CHEM 013 Chemical Principles (GN, 3) Continuation of CHEM 012, including an introduction to the chemistry of elements. Typically offered fall, spring, summer.
PREREQ: CHEM 012

AERSP 308 Mechanics of Fluids (3) Kinetics and dynamics of fluids; perfect fluid theory using complex variables; introduction to viscous flow theory; fundamentals of compressible flow. Typically offered spring.
PREREQ: E MCH 012 or 112H, MATH 251

E MCH 416H Failure and Failure Analysis of Solids (3) Examination and analysis of the various modes of failure of solid materials. Typically offered spring.
PREREQ: E MCH 013, E MCH 210, or E MCH 110H

E SC 400H Electomagnetic Fields (3) Irrotational and solenoidal fields, potentials, vector and scalar field and wave equations, biharmonic and wave functions in various coordinates, radiation. Typically offered spring.
PREREQ: E E 210, MATH 250

E SC 419 Electronics Properties and Applications of Materials (3) The course covers the electrical, optoelectronic, dielectric, and other electron-based properties of solids, semiconductors in particular, and their engineering/device applications. Typically offered spring.
PREREQ: E SC 312

List B

BIOL 141 Introductory Physiology (GN, 3) Explanation of the normal structure and function of the animal body, with special emphasis on buman body ststems. Typically offered fall, spring, summer.
PREREQ: none

CHEM 038 Organic Chemistry (3) Principles and theories; nomenclature; chemistry of the functional groups; applications of spectroscopy. Typically offered fall, spring.
PREREQ: CHEM 013

B M B 251 Molecular and Cell Biology (3) Biomolecules, genetic mechanisms, organization of cells and their organelles, DNA replication, protein synthesis, membranes, the cell nucleus, energy conversion. Typically offered fall, spring.
PREREQ: CHEM 013

BIOE 201 Analysis of Molecules and Cells (3) An analytical study of molecular and cellular phenomena including functional and metabolic interactions. Typically offered spring.
PREREQ: BIOL 141, CHEM 013, MATH 141, PHYS 212

BIOE 303 Bio-Continuum Mechanics (3) Mechanical properties of fluids and solids with applications to tissue mechanics and vascular system. Typically offered fall.
PREREQ: BIOL 141, E MCH 210, MATH 251

E SC 313 Introduction to Principles, Fabrication Methods, and Applications of Nanotechnology (3) Principles, fabrication methods and applications of nanoscale. Typically offered spring.
PREREQ: CHEM 012, CHEM 014, PHYS 212, PHYS 214

Honors sections of B M B 251 and CHEM 038 are offered in the fall semester.