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Demonstration and practice in safety regulations regarding machines and hand tools, shop organization and set up, practice with hand tools and machine operations: filing, cutting, drilling, chiseling, shaping, turning, boring, threading, milling, arc and gas welding.

Introduction to design process. Graphics and Design, Free and sketching, Orthographic and axonometric projection methods, Sectioning and Dimensioning. Development of ideas with free hand sketches. 2D and 3D Computer Graphics. Documentation drawings by Computer Software. Solid Modeling.

Vectors, equilibrium of particles, principle of transmissibility, moment of forces, couples, equilibrium of rigid bodies, analysis of trusses, forces in beams and cables, shear and moment diagrams, center of Gravity, center of mass, centroid for a body, moments of inertia, radius of gyration.

Kinematics and kinetics of a particle and a system of particles, space mechanics, impulsive motions, kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies in plane motion, introduction to mechanical vibrations.

Simple states of stress and strain, torsional stresses, bending and shearing stresses in beams. Compound stresses, analysis of plane stress, combined stresses, analysis of thin-walled pressure vessels, deflection of beams.

Circuit variables and elements, circuit laws and simple resistive circuits, nodal and mesh analysis, Thevenin's theorem, Norton theorem, superposition theorem, natural and step responses of first-order RL and RC circuits, natural and step responses of series and parallel RLC circuits, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, phasor analysis, power calculations for single-phase circuits, pspice analysis.

Training in component identification, electrical schematics and soldering techniques, laboratory experiments related to 0600205 course contents, laboratory experiments illustrating electrical systems in everyday life: automotive systems, power supply design, electric energy consumption, ...etc.

Fundamental concepts, properties of a pure substance, equations of state, tables, thermodynamic surfaces, work and heat, first law of thermodynamics, applications to systems and control volumes, second law of Thermodynamics, heat engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps, principle of Carnot cycles, principle of the increase of entropy, applications to systems and control volumes, irreversibility and availability, power and refrigeration cycles.

This course covers the basic concepts of engineering economics as applied to the evaluation of capital investment alternatives in both the private and public sectors of our economy. Attention is given to the time value of money by showing the concepts and techniques for evaluating the worth of products, systems, structures, and services in relation to their cost, economic and cost concepts, calculating economic equivalence, comparison of alternatives, replacement economy, economic optimization in design and operations, cost estimation of products and systems.

Vector Calculus. Divergence theorem and Stoke's Theorem. Coordinate systems and transformation. Solution of Maxwell's equations and wave equation: applications for electrostatic and Magneto-static fields. Capacitance and inductance evaluations. Discrete mathematics. Complex variables and complex integrations.

In this course the students are introduced to the proper procedure in engineering design. This procedure includes: problem formulation, brain storming, selection of best idea, implementation of the idea and testing it. The principles in each of these steps are explained and clarified using carefully selected case studies, homework, and class work assignments. This course is offered as an elective course for all engineering students.

Probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, statistics in engineering, descriptive statistics sampling distributions, estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, simple regression.

Solving applied engineering problems using numerical methods and computer programming. The primary programming language is MATLAB. Numerical methods include error analysis, roots of nonlinear algebraic equations, solving linear and transcendental simultaneous equations, matrix and vector manipulation, curve fitting and interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, solving ordinary differential equations.

Engineering ethics, meaning importance and implementation, professional concepts, methods of ethics analysis, local and international code of ethics and case studies.

Analytic function, residues, contour integration. Power series solutions of ordinary differential equations: Bessel's, Legendre's, Chebysheve's and Laguerre's functions. Matrix algebra eigenvalues, eigen-functions, and solutions of systems of differential equations, linear integral equations. Software applications.