GENG 111 Engineering Graphics
Course description: This course discusses the fundamental concepts of engineering graphics. It also provides an introduction to computer graphics using CAD software. The following topics are covered: Drawing conventions such as standards, line types and dimensioning; drawing of inclined and curved surfaces; deducting the orthographic views from a pictorial; drawing full and half sections; deducting an orthographic view from given two views; pictorial sketching (isometric and oblique).
CVEN 210 Properties and Testing of Materials
Composition and properties of Portland Cements, special cements, gypsum, lime, and asphaltic materials. Properties and testing of aggregates and concrete. Concrete mix design. Use of stones, blocks and bricks. Ferrous and nonferrous metals. Wood. The laboratory component includes: tests on Portland cement, sieve analysis and grading of aggregate, specific gravity and absorption of coarse aggregate, Los Angeles abrasion test, slump test, measurement of air content, concrete mix, crushing of concrete cubes, split-tension test, rebound hammer and PUNDIT.
CVEN 214 Strength of Materials
Stress, strain, mechanical properties of materials, Hooke’s law, axial load, stress due to temperature, introduction to statically indeterminate members, axial load and axial stress, torsion and torsional stress, pure bending and bending stress, transverse shear and shear stress, combined loadings and stresses, stress transformation, introduction to design of beams, introduction to buckling of columns.
CVEN 220 Analysis of Structures
Type of loads. Stability and determinacy of structures. Analysis of determinate trusses, beams, and frames. Reaction computation. Axial force, shear force and bending moment diagrams. Deflection calculations by geometric methods and virtual work methods. Influence lines for determinate structures. Arches and cables. Introduction to statically indeterminate structures.
GENG 300 Numerical Methods
Course description: The numerical methods course involves solving engineering problems drawn from all fields of engineering. The numerical methods include: error analysis, roots of nonlinear algebraic equations, solution of linear and transcendental simultaneous equations, matrix and vector manipulation, curve fitting and interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, solution of ordinary and partial differential equations.
CVEN 321 Analysis of Indeterminate Structures
Analysis of indeterminate structures by the force method, slope deflection, and moment distribution. Deflection of indeterminate structures. Introduction to matrix analysis of structures: trusses, beams, and frames.