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Introduction to Engineering

Don’t enter engineering school freshman year as a rookie. Be prepared from first semester itself!

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Course Highlights

Build confidence in the stream you’ve chosen (or make adjustments)
Understand and prepare for commonly faced academic challenges
Think like an Engineer while solving a problem
Course instructor holds a Ph.D. and is a professor in Texas Tech Unive

About the Course

Language of Instruction: English

Course Description

Are you entering the engineering college prepared for success or you are leaving things to chance?

This online workshop provides you with a better understanding of the field of engineering, and introduces project-oriented learning approach. Importantly, you also get to review concepts from Math and Science that would help you build a solid foundation in Mathematics and science - the base of engineering.

The course includes:

Review of math and science concepts that are important in engineering
Overview of engineering problem solving and design process
Survey of current significant engineering challenges
Detailed analysis of different engineering fields
Help with student project

The course package:

10 LIVE interactive online classes + Access to class recordings
Course timings: Mondays from 6:30 PM to 8 PM Central time
Courseware: Videos + PPTs + Docs + PDFs
Online tests

The course outline:

Class No.	Topic
Week 1	Overview of different engineering fields, Grand Challenges, resources; Grand Challenge: reverse engineering the brain; learning styles inventory
Week 2	Review of important concepts: metric prefixes, standard units, Newton’s laws, etc; what do you really need to know, memorize, how important are graphing calculators
Week 3	Thinking “like an engineer”; engineering design and problem solving; simulation and modeling, common software
Week 4	Innovation and entrepreneurship; societal issues in engineering; ; introduction to parabolic oven project
Week 5	Introduction to civil engineering, Grand Challenge: Repairing aging infrastructure; bridges and bridge design, significance of vectors and trigonometry in engineering
Week 6	Continuation of week 5 topics, stress and strain, materials properties
Week 7	Introduction to mechanical engineering, energy transfer and heat transfer (for solar oven project), Grand Challenge: making solar energy affordable
Week 8	More on engineering design approach and the design of a prototype; predicting the solar oven performance; cost-benefit analyses
Week 9	Collecting and analyzing data continued – instrumentation and measurement, experimental error
Week 10	Collecting and analyzing data; mean and variance; best fit lines; microsoft excel models, writing great project reports

About the Instructor

Mary Baker
LUBBOCK, United States

Mary C. Baker is a Ph.D. holder who is working as a professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University. Her qualifications include:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1988
M.S. Applied Physics, Texas Tech University, 1985
B.S. Engineering Physics, Texas Tech University, 1983

She is a recipient of numerous awards, including:

IEEE Pulsed Power Student of the Year Award, 1989
Texas Tech Ex-Students Association New Faculty of the Year Award (College of Engineering), 1991
Moms & Dads Association Hemphill Wells New Faculty Teaching Award (University wide), 1992
Halliburton Award for Teaching and Research (College of Engineering), 1992
Butler Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008-2011

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