| source University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (X) |
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department General Engineering (X) |
Introduces the engineering profession and the curriculum in General Engineering. Laboratory activities introduce technical and business-related issues in engineering. Project emphasis is placed on creativity in the design process.
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Use of computer-aided design (CAD) software to model parts and assemblies. Use of parametric and non-parametric solids, surface and wireframe models. Part editing, two-dimensional documentation of models. Planar projection theory, including sketching of perspective, isometric, multiview, auxiliary, and section views. Spatial visualization exercises. Dimensioning guidelines, tolerancing techniques. Team design project. Credit is not given for both
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Introduces the important elements and metrics of business and product development/management: customers; profits; prices; Boothroyd/Dewhurst Design for Assembly; intellectual property; product and business planning; time value of money; Failure Mode and Effect Analysis; team building. Student teams are formed to develop the concept and business plan for a new product of their own choosing.
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Individual investigations of any phase of General Engineering selected by the students and approved by the department. May be repeated. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in general engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 9 hours.
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Fundamental concepts in the classical and computer-based analysis and design of structural and machine components and assemblies. External loads, internal forces, and displacements in statically determinate and indeterminate configurations: kinematics of linkages, gears, and cams; static forces in machines. Prerequisite:
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Stress/strain conditions; analytical and numerical (CAD) solution techniques; analysis of various engineering materials and configurations as applied to the development and application of design analysis criteria. Prerequisite:
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Preparation for experimental projects; introduction to mechanical and electrical instruments; mechanical testing of materials; introduction to experimental stress analysis and photoelastic methods. Prerequisite:
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Introduction to control systems and control systems technology. Sensors, actuators, modeling of physical systems, design and implementation of feedback controllers. Operational techniques used in describing, analyzing and designing linear continuous systems; Laplace transforms; response via transfer functions; stability; performance specifications; controller design via transfer functions; frequency response; simple nonlinearities. Credit is not given for both
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Introduction to an operations-research approach to engineering decision making: economic analysis of alternatives; linear, integer, basic nonlinear, and dynamic programming with specific application to engineering problems in profit and value; decision theory. Credit is not given for both
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Basic concepts underlying important applications of probability and statistics to the analysis of data in the context of engineering design and decision making; point and interval estimation and hypothesis testing for sampled data; categorical data analysis and goodness of fit; linear models, including multivariate regression and analysis of designed experiments; quality methods including sampling, control charts, and process specification. Credit is not given for both
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Understanding emotions in ourselves and others. Assessing and improving interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence competencies including self-regulation, motivation, empathetic listening, communication, influence collaboration and cooperation, conflict management, leadership, teamwork, and managing change. One Saturday laboratory session is required.
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A series of lectures and discussions by department faculty and visiting professional engineers on ethics, professional registration, the role of technical societies, and the relation of engineering to such disciplines as economics, sociology, and government. Approved for S/U grading only.
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Individual investigations or studies of any phase of General Engineering selected by the students and approved by the department. May be repeated in same term. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in general engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 9 hours.
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Nature and development of the legal system; legal rights and duties important to engineers in their professions; contracts, uniform commercial code and sales of goods, torts, agency, worker's compensation, labor law, property, environmental law, intellectual property. 3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. Counts toward campus Advanced Composition general education requirement. Prerequisite:
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Computer-aided design, analysis, and prototyping tools used in the produce development process. Principles of computer graphics and geometric modeling, including transformations, coordinate systems, parametric solid modeling, spline curves, and surface modeling. Finite element and kinematics analysis. Rapid prototyping, product dissection, CAD/CAM/CAE operability issues, and CAD collaboration tools. Prerequisite:
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Design of basic engineering components: structural members, machine parts, and connections. Principles applied include: material failure (yield, fracture, fatigue); buckling and other instabilities; design reliability; analytical simulation. 3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. Prerequisite:
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Introduction to concepts in engineering design, testing, and management for highly reliable components and systems. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite:
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Introduces the concept of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), and provides a review of probability, the role of NDE in Design, and the role of NDE in manufacturing and in maintenance. The primary Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) techniques, including visual methods, ultrasonic methods, acoustic emission, acousto-ultrasonics, radiological methods, electro-magnetic testing, eddy currents, penetrant methods, thermal methods, and holography, are introduced from the fundamental laws of physics. Includes industrial applications of these techniques towards flaw detection, material properties characterization, impact and fatigue damage evaluation, adhesion, etc. Current literature is examined. Prerequisite:
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Application of optimization techniques to engineering design problems. Emphasis is placed on problem formulation primarily in structural and mechanical engineering applications. Important theoretical results and numerical optimization methods are covered. Matlab programming assignments develop software for solving nonlinear mathematical programming problems. Prerequisite:
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Examines theory and techniques for control of dynamic processes by digital computer; linear discrete systems, digital filters, sampling signal reconstruction, digital design, state space methods, computers, state estimator, laboratory techniques. Prerequisite:
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Fundamental concepts and analytical methods for analysis and design of robot systems. Laboratory experiments complement the theoretical development. Same as
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