May 20, 2024  
2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Automotive Engineering Technology

  
  • AET 2570 - Advanced Engine Performance, Diagnosis, and Service

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: AET 1310 , 2550 
    Description: Diagnosis and repair techniques for automotive fuel, emission, ignition, and engine computer systems. Selection and application of appropriate diagnostic equipment.
  
  • AET 2590 - Advanced Automotive Transmissions

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: AET 1360 
    Description: Troubleshooting and overhaul procedures on hydraulically operated transmission and transaxles; torque convertors; fluid couplings; and computerized transmissions and transaxle system controls.
  
  • AET 2600 - Production Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: All AET courses below 2600
    Description: Line and simulated work on all phases of automobile mechanics.
  
  • AET 2630 - Introduction to Hybrid Vehicles

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: AET 1460 , 2310 , 2550 
    Description: Introduction to Hybrid Vehicle propulsion systems. Hybrid vehicle designs, fundamentals of 3 phase permanent magnet and AC induction, motor/generator systems. Fundamentals of high voltage battery pack and energy management systems. Introduction to hybrid vehicle systems diagnosis, service, and repair.

Construction Engineering Technology

  
  • CCET 1210 - Construction Surveying

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1200 
    Description: Surveying as applied to construction; with special emphasis on cross-section, slope stakes, grades, layout of utilities and buildings, differential and profile leveling; measuring distances, elevations, and angles with a transit.
  
  • CCET 2450 - Residential Mechanical Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: The course provides an extensive training from basic to advanced Heating and Air Conditioning.  Designed to focus on the fundamentals of mechanical components, troubleshooting techniques of the mechanical system.  Particular focus will be on types of energy used for residential and commercial buildings.
  
  • CCET 2500 - Construction Materials and Methods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Study of the properties uses and availability of wood, steel, sand, concrete, reinforced concrete, blocks, bricks and other commonly used construction materials.
  
  • CCET 2540 - Jobsite Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Introduces the fundamentals of construction jobsite management and project management in today’s work environment. The course will explain the construction manager’s role in jobsite documentation and record keeping, layout and control, meetings and employee labor relations, safety management, subcontracting, purchasing, project quality management, time and cost factors, and claims and the process of payment.
  
  • CCET 2600 - Construction Safety and Health

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Study of the importance of safety in construction; cost of accidents; Worker’s Compensation; OSHA construction standard, safety practices, compliance of safety and health programs and policies; job safety, hazard analysis; workplace stress and health issues; ISO 14000.
  
  • CCET 2700 - Construction Estimating

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Quantity estimates for all materials used in building; concrete and masonry foundation, brick pavement and other brickwork, earthwork required in cut and fill of an area, earthwork for road construction.
  
  • CCET 2715 - Wood Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1020 , 1200  or MATH 1730 
    Description: Simplified design of wooden posts, beams, joist, rafters; wooden columns, decks, built-up beams; connections for wood structures; wood truss design for glue laminated timber; design of wood bracing.
  
  • CCET 2720 - Architectural Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGT 1020 
    Description: Use of computer aided design software (AUTOCAD) in drawing architectural floor plans, sections, elevations; dimensioning, plotting, area calculation, and surveyor drawings.
  
  • CCET 2740 - Water and Sewer Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Application of environmental principles to land planning and development. Waste water treatment processes and system design. Review the sources of drinking water; treatment of water and treatment of wastes; disposal of water sewage; treatment of disposed water and sewage.
  
  • CCET 2750 - General Contracting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: An overview of the contracting business focusing including on issues facing residential contractors in today’s marketplace. Various areas of construction will be explored and discussed include financial responsibilities, insurance considerations, taxes, advertising, management of employees and general information pertinent to the operation of a construction business. The course will also explore contracts, local governmental agencies, and retirement planning.
  
  • CCET 2790 - Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CCET 2715 
    Description: Fundamental of construction planning and scheduling using CPM arrow and precedence networks; resource allocation and leveling; PERT; Hands-on experience in using project software.
  
  • CCET 2840 - Construction Codes and Standards

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Application of building codes and standards in structural design, materials, energy conservation, fire safety, electrical, plumbing, heating, cooling, ventilation, indoor air quality, radon, accessibility, safety and acoustics.

Electronics Engineering Technology

  
  • EET 1030 - DC Fund and Circuits

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Analysis of electrical measurements of current, voltage, and resistance including Kirchhoff’s Law, Ohm’s Law, series, parallel and series-parallel circuits. Selected network theorems-superposition, Thevenin and Norton’s theorems and conductors and insulators.
  
  • EET 1040 - AC Fundamentals and Circuits

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1030  Corequisite: EET 1120 
    Description: Analysis of Alternating Current circuits, inductance, capacitance, reactance, impedance, series-parallel in alternating current circuits, network analysis, more complex circuits, transformers, and resonance.
  
  • EET 1120 - Applied Mathematics for Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Description:  Topics from Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry, and in Electronics Engineering Technology applications are covered.  Includes topics from algebra and geometry, right angle triangles and trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions and complex numbers.
  
  • EET 1150 - Calculus for Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1120 
    Description: Fundamental concepts, functions, average rate, limits, graphic differentiation. Derivatives, derivatives applied, integrals and integrals applied. Definite integrals, logarithmic and exponential functions.
  
  • EET 1210 - Electronic Test Equipment and Procedure

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Electronic instruments, how they work, and their uses in solving practical problems in the lab.
  
  • EET 1230 - Electronic Fundamentals and Circuits I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1040 , EET 1120 
    Description: Basic concepts of semiconductor diodes and bipolar transistors theory. Diodes and applications, Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) operation, biasing and small signal amplifiers. A study of Junction Field-Effect Transistor (JFET) and Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET transistor (MOSFET) operation, biasing, and small signal amplifiers. Analysis of Class A, Class B, and Class C power amplifiers.
  
  • EET 1240 - Electronic Fundamentals and Circuits II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1230 
    Description: Operational amplifiers and integrated circuits, operational amplifier applications, oscillators, active filters, voltage regulators, shockley diods, silicon controlled rectifier, diad, triac, unijunction transistor and opto-electronic devices.
  
  • EET 2030 - Digital Electronic Circuits I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1230  or permission of instructor
    Description: Concepts of number systems, binary and other number base systems, Boolean algebra and logic systems, logic gate circuits, adders, and flip-flips.
  
  • EET 2040 - Digital Electronic Circuits II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 2030 
    Description: Continuation of EET 2030 , with the study of shift register counter circuits, multiplexers, digital to analog (D to A) converters, A to D converters, and memory devices.
  
  • EET 2140 - Communication Circuits I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1150, EET 1240
    Description: Operation and theory of electronic communication systems. The theory of Amplitude Modulation (AM)/demodulation, Frequency Modulation (FM)/demodulation, and Side Bands.
  
  • EET 2150 - Communication Circuits II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 2140
    Description: Continuation of 2140 with the study of antennas, transmission lines, wave propagation, fiber optics.
  
  • EET 2320 - Microprocessor Circuit Construction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 2040 
    Description: Design of digital systems utilizing a microprocessor.
  
  • EET 2330 - Electronic Project I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 2040, EET 2140 Corequisite: EET 2150, EET 2320
    Description: Design, fabrication involving an approved electronic project.  Construction includes layout and fabrication of circuit, wiring, and the assembly.  The students test and analyze the performance of the project and submit a written report.
  
  • EET 2410 - Digital Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 1240 , EET 2030 
    Description: Communication techniques and systems used for digital data transfer. Digital transmission and various modulation techniques, RS-232 interface standard, other communication interfaces, telephone systems and modems, network, error detection, correction, and data security.
  
  • EET 2420 - Introduction to Computer Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 2320 
    Description: Introducing computer purposes, computer architectures: memory CPU, computer peripherals, high level language and data, data input/output, and voice recognition systems.
  
  • EET 2430 - Introduction to Operating Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: EET 2420 
    Description: Introducing interrelationships of software and hardware in computer systems. A study of scheduling, shared resources, multi-users, security files, multi-tasking, and DOS and UNIX operating systems.
  
  • EET 2440 - Introduction to Programmable Controllers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Introducing programmable logic controllers (PLC), PLC hardware, components, number systems and codes. Fundamentals of logic, basic PLC programming, developing fundamental PLC wiring diagrams and ladder programs, programming timers and counters, PLC editing and trouble-shooting, and PLC installation practices.
 

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