B. Syllabi of Courses B. 1 Syllabi of Required Engineering Courses

Required Course: COMM R110 Fundamentals of Speech Communication

Theory and practice of public speaking; training in thought process necessary to organize speech content for informative and persuasive situations; application of language and delivery skills to specific audiences. A minimum of 5 speaking situations.

Fulfills the communications core requirement for all undergraduate students and provides instruction in exposition (the communication of ideas and information with clarity and brevity). The course emphasizes audience and purpose, revision, organization, development, advanced sentence structure, diction, development within a collaborative classroom. Evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student’s work.

1. 
   Think like a writer;
   
2. 
   Form and support a thesis;
   
3. 
   Integrate and synthesize other’s ideas with their own and cite information correctly;
   
4. 
   Develop planning, drafting, and revising processes;
   
5. 
   Work productively in groups;
   
6. 
   Edit and revise effectively.
   

1. 
   Writing Process including heuristics, gathering, drafting, collaborating, revising, editing.
   
2. 
   Role of purpose and audience.
   
3. 
   Specific and appropriate detail.
   
4. 
   Thesis development and support.
   
5. 
   Critical reading and thinking.
   
6. 
   Analysis of one’s own work and the work of others.
   
7. 
   Summary.
   
8. 
   Response to writing – both personal and academic.
   
9. 
   Organization and logical presentation of material.
   
10. 
    Synthesis and integration.
    
11. 
    Collaboration and consensus.
    
12. 
    Revision strategies.
    
13. 
    MLA documentation.
    
14. 
    Stylistic strategies.
    
15. 
    Editing strategies.
    
16. 
    Meta-writing.
    
17. 
    Portfolio assembly.
    

30% of final grade from midterm portfolio.

10% of final grade from participation.

60% of final grade from the final portfolio.

No exams are given.
Professional Component: Communications and Ethics (General Education)
Prepared by: Mary Sauer
Revised: October 17, 2003


Required Course ECON E201-Introduction to Microeconomics
Catalog Description Credit 3. Class 3.

E201 is a general introduction to microeconomic analysis. Discussed are the methods of economics, scarcity of resources, the interaction of consumers and businesses in the marketplace in order to determine price, and how the market system places a value on factors of production.

1. 
   Understand supply and demand diagrams and find the equilibrium price and output.
   
2. 
   Compute the elasticity of demand and supply.
   
3. 
   Understand the principles of consumer behavior.
   
4. 
   Understand the relationship between output and costs.
   
5. 
   Distinguish between the concepts of technical and economic efficiency.
   
6. 
   Understand how price and output is determined in the four different market structures.
   
7. 
   Discuss when there is a case for regulating a market.
   
8. 
   Understand the concept of externalities and of market failure in the presence of externalities.
   
9. 
   Fully understand the principle of comparative advantage and its role in free trade.
   
10. 
    Discuss the losses that result from tariffs and quotas.
    

1. Production Possibilities

2. 
   Opportunity Costs
   
3. 
   Supply and Demand
   
4. 
   Price Floors and Price Ceilings
   
5. 
   Elasticity
   
6. 
   Consumer Behavior
   
7. 
   Cost curves
   
8. 
   Short run Competitive supply
   
9. 
   Long-run Competitive equilibrium
   
10. 
    Monopoly and Perfect competition
    
11. 
    Regulation
    
12. 
    Externality
    
13. 
    Comparative advantage
    
14. 
    Tariffs and Quotas.
    

Review of plane analytic geometry and trigonometry, functions, limits, differentiation, applications of differentiation, integration, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and applications of integration.

1. 
   Understand the concept of (one- and two-sided) limit
   
2. 
   Be able to compute limits for rational and trigonometric functions
   
3. 
   Understand the concept of continuity
   
4. 
   Be able to determine where rational and trigonometric functions are continuous
   
5. 
   Understand the concept of derivative
   
6. 
   Be able to compute derivatives for rational, algebraic, trigonometric, and composite functions
   
7. 
   Be able to solve a variety of problems using the derivative (these problem including linear approximation of functions, related rate problems, optimization of functions, and the graphing of functions)
   
8. 
   Understand the concept of integral
   
9. 
   Be able to compute integrals of polynomial and simple trigonometric functions using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
   
10. 
    Be able to find areas and volumes of various simple solids (such as solids of revolution) using integration.
    

The following outline is based on 3 periods per week for a 15 week semester (1 period = 85 class minutes). The number of periods per chapter is only a guide --- the actual number may vary from section to section. Since many other courses have this course as a co- or prerequisite, all material described below are covered.

1. 
   A Preview of Calculus (1 period)
   
2. 
   Functions (3 periods)
   
3. 
   Limits and Rates of Change (6 periods)
   
4. 
   Derivatives (10 periods
   
5. 
   Applications of Differentiation (9 periods)
   
6. 
   Integration (5 periods)
   
7. 
   Applications of Integration (5 periods)
   
8. 
   Slack time, review and exams (6 periods)
   

Transcendental functions, techniques of integration, indeterminate forms and improper integrals, conics, polar coordinates, sequences, infinite series and power series.

1. 
   Define algebraic and differential properties of the logarithmic and exponential functions (both natural and general), and the inverse trigonometric functions.
   
2. 
   Integrate using u-substitution, parts, trigonometric substitution and partial fractions, as well as approximate an integral using Riemann sums, the Trapezoidal Rule or Simpson’s Rule.
   
3. 
   Compute arc length and the moments of a planar lamina, to solve problems involving exponential growth and decay and to solve first-order differential equations using separation of variables and Euler’s method.
   
4. 
   Be familiar with parametric equations, polar coordinates and the conic sections.
   
5. 
   Approximate a function of one variable using Maclaurin or Taylor series and compute its interval of convergence.
   

The following outline is based on 3 periods per week for a 15 week semester (1 period = 85 class minutes). The number of periods per chapter is only a guide --- the actual number may vary from section to section. Since many other courses have this course as a co- or prerequisite, all material described below will be covered.

1. 
   Logarithmic Functions (5 periods)
   
2. 
   Inverse functions (3 periods)
   
3. 
   Techniques of Integration (7 periods)
   
4. 
   Improper Integrals (4 periods)
   
5. 
   Infinite Sequences and Series (11 periods)
   
6. 
   Analytic Geometry (4 periods)
   
7. 
   Polar Coordinates (4 periods)
   
8. 
   Slack time, review and exams (7 periods)
   

Spatial analytic geometry, vectors, curvilinear motion, curvature, partial differentiation, multiple integration, line integrals, Green's theorem.

1. 
   Understand vectors, the geometry of three-space, cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
   
2. 
   Understand curves in space and able to compute their arc length, velocity and acceleration vectors and curvature
   
3. 
   Understand the concept of partial derivative and able to apply it to problems of optimization (including problems involving Lagrange Multipliers)
   
4. 
   Understand the concepts of double and triple integrals and be able to apply them to computation of areas, volumes, masses and moments in rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinates
   
5. 
   Apply the concept of change of variables for multiple integrals to some elementary problems
   
6. 
   Understand the basics of vector calculus, including vector fields, line integrals, the Fundamental Theorem for Line Integrals, Green’s Theorem, surface integrals, Stokes’ Theorem and the Divergence Theorem.
   

The following outline is based on 3 periods per week for a 15 week semester (1 period = 85 class minutes). The number of periods per chapter is only a guide --- the actual number may vary from section to section. Since many other courses have this course as a co- or prerequisite, all material described below will be covered.

1. 
   Vectors and the Geometry of Space (7 periods)
   
2. 
   Vector Functions (4 periods)
   
3. 
   Partial derivatives (8 periods)
   
4. 
   Multiple Integrals (9 periods)
   
5. 
   Vector Calculus (9 periods)
   
6. 
   Slack time, review and exams (8 periods)
   

First-order equations, higher-order linear equations, initial and boundary value problems, power series solutions, systems of first-order equations, Laplace transforms, applications. Requisite topics of linear algebra: vector spaces, linear independence, matrices, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors.

1. 
   Identify and solve Initial Value Problems for the First Order DE including Separable, Linear, Exact, Homogeneous and Bernoulli type equations
   
2. 
   Set up and solve some application problems leading to First-Order Differential Equations
   
3. 
   Solve a Higher-Order Linear Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous equations with Constant Coefficients and of Cauchy-Euler type using Reduction of Order, Undetermined coefficient and Variation of Parameters. Solve some nonlinear second-order equations of special type using appropriate substitutions
   
4. 
   Ser up and solve some basic application problems leading to Second-Order DE (mostly harmonic oscillators in mechanical or electrical circuit context with or without forcing free or damped. Solve some basic Sturm-Liuville problems
   
5. 
   Find a power series solutions of Second-Order Differential Equations about ordinary points.
   
6. 
   Find Laplace transform and inverse Laplace transform of various functions using operational properties, solve Initial Value Problems using Laplace transform
   
7. 
   Learn basic operations on matrices, determinants, inverses, Gauss-Jordan elimination, differentiation and integration, solve eigenvalue problems.
   
8. 
   Solve systems of Ordinary Differential Equations. Solve non-homogeneous systems using fundamental matrices and variation of parameters.
   

The following outline is based on 3 periods per week for a 15 week semester (1 period = 85 class minutes). The number of periods per chapter is only a guide --- a rather large amount of slack/review time allows a greater degree of flexibility for the instructor to extend the lectures or discussions on the topics that the students may find particularly difficult, or to briefly review a concept or a method from Calculus.

1. 
   Introduction to Differential Equations (2 periods)
   
2. 
   First-Order Differential Equations (2.5 periods)
   
3. 
   Modeling with First-Order Des (1.5 periods)
   
4. 
   Differential equations of Higher Order (3.5 periods)
   
5. 
   Modeling with Higher Order Des (1.5 periods)
   
6. 
   Series Solutions of Linear Equations (1.5 periods)
   
7. 
   Laplace transform (3 periods)
   
8. 
   Introduction to Matrices (.5 periods)
   
9. 
   Systems of Linear First-Order Des (3 periods)
   
10. 
    Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations (3 periods)
    
11. 
    Slack time, reviews and exams (7 periods)