56 courses with the subject ENGT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course studies electrical theory and practice. It provides to students an exposure to electromagnetic theory. Use of basic electrical equipment is introduced.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Students are introduced to traditional and modern methods in engineering and technology graphic visualization, drawing, drafting, CAD software, and 3D modeling. Emphasis is placed on how visualization is used in both design and production.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course familiarizes students with computers through presentation of selected hardware and software concepts. Opportunities for extensive hands-on practice with application programs are provided.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Applications of mathematics to a variety of technical areas. Topics covered include application of: complex numbers, vectors, descriptive and stochastic statistics, mathematical models, curve fitting, error analysis and computer methods.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course studies the history of technology and engineering and the qualifications, duties and responsibilities of related careers.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This is a first course in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. Topics related to Thermodynamics include the Zeroth, First and Second Laws, the gas laws, thermodynamic systems and the Carnot cycle while those related to Fluid Mechanics will cover laminar and turbulent flow, buoyancy and the Bernoulli equation.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course introduces students to the historical development, philosophies, and curriculum frameworks that are required in teaching Technology/Engineering at the grade 5-12 level. Students investigate a variety of models and curriculum designed to meet the framework standards. Students will experience a variety of middle and high school settings to become familiar with successful systems and practices.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course involves the study of laws of equilibrium of rigid bodies. Topics examined include analysis of trusses, beams, friction, kinetics, centroids and moments of inertia.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course serves as an introduction to the behavior of real materials under the influence of forces and couples. Topics covered include axial, shear, torsional and flexural stresses and strains.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Students are introduced to methods for testing the mechanical and thermal properties of commonly used materials in industry, and the statistical background for quality control.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course studies on residential construction with emphasis on building construction methods, practices, and procedures. The materials, equipment, and techniques used to construct a structure are examined, and architectural problems related to construction are researched.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course introduces the fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering. Students will acquire knowledge of engineering soil characteristics and behavior under various stress such as compression, expansion and shear. Topics covered include sieve analysis, grain size distribution, soil classification systems, consolidation, compaction, Atterberg’s limits, bearing capacity, piles and an introduction to footings design.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Develop understanding and skills related to various workshop processes involved in electrical engineering. Workshop safety, electrical wiring and assembly, winding practice, domestic electrical appliances, soldering and de-soldering techniques, electronic project construction techniques, use of electronic bench equipment, preparation of reports.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course introduces the principles and techniques used to analyze and design linear circuits with an emphasis on DC circuits.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course further develops the concepts and techniques appropriate to the design and analysis of analog electronic circuits. It provides sufficient background for students who wish to elect upper-level electronics courses.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course focus on the fundamentals of programming and algorithmic problem solving in practices, and the use of MATLAB for the solutions of contemporary application problems. Upon completion, students will possess the programming skills necessary to perform computational analysis in any engineering disciplines and science majors.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course studies renewable and non-renewable forms of energy and sustainable practices including material selection, embedded energy, and material reuse. Students build and test both commercial and laboratory made devices and offers in-depth knowledge of energy supplies and sources. The course treats, in detail, topics as how rate of formation is slower than replacement, how energy sources could be best utilized and to identify the technology associated with energy resources and sustainability. The course will include some field trips.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring The course covers the planning, design and development of municipal water and wastewater treatment plants. Topics discussed include coagulation, flocculation, softening, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection for potable water and preliminary, secondary, and tertiary treatment stages for wastewater treatment.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course covers heavy equipment and highway construction with emphasis on highway planning, highway materials, pavement design, geometric design, traffic flow and control, driver characteristics, and highway construction and maintenance.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall With a focus on light wood framing and the single family dwelling, building components and systems are developed to create site specific design solutions communicated and organized using modern drawing and modeling tools. Students are also introduced to roles of life-safety codes, building regulations, and design for sustainability.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Introduction to the analysis and design of digital and computer circuits, Boolean algebra, binary arithmetic, combinational logic, sequential logic, registers, counters, adders, comparators, and computer organization.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course introduces Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) to design and implement digital gates arrays. It will focus on design and build circuits according to design objectives. The designed digital circuits will be simulated, compiled and verified by the complement labs.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Students continue their development and understanding of the physical building components and systems in buildings, develop site specific design solutions, and communication of these solutions. The focus is steel and concrete construction in commercial and other publicly occupied buildings. Understanding of lifesafety codes, regulations, and design for sustainability is continued.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course introduces the principles and practice of surveying. Surveying and use and care of surveying instruments, such as measuring tape, engineer’s level, theodolite, and total station. It includes horizontal and vertical measurements, layout, traverse, area computations, analysis, and adjustments of systematic and random errors, stadia surveying, and mapping.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course studies mass production theory, systems and procedures in metalworking which includes engineering design and leads to prototype development.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course studies mass production theory, systems and procedures in woodworking and residential construction, includes engineering design and leads to prototype development.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course explores the principles of preparing comprehensive unit pricing and systems approach for construction. It focuses on the preparation of detailed quantity take-off and cost estimates based on construction drawing and contract documents.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course introduces various shop-floor measurement techniques and provides an understanding of the basics of mechanical, optical and electrical measurement methods.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Selected manufacturing processes that represent additive and subtractive operations on various materials, such as metals, polymers and organic materials and a discussion of the manufacturing systems where these are carried out are discussed.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course addresses the rationale for ERP systems, their essential relational database structure and shows how a basic ERP system can be created through programming.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course is a study of structural systems and structural elements. Emphasis is placed on systems and construction procedures used in commercial and industrial projects.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course introduces Robotics and Mechatronics from the industrial applications perspective. A study of mechanics and kinematics is integrated with electronics and programming to develop an understanding of how industrial robotics are employed to facilitate production.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This is the first of two methods courses and will focus on content pedagogy of engineering/technology at the middle and secondary level. Teacher candidates design and implement standards-based instruction and assessments that are aligned with best practices for teaching and learning in engineering/technology. Special emphasis is placed on employing a variety of instructional practices and classroom management strategies that provide learning opportunities for diverse student populations and enhance multicultural pluralism. Disciplinary literacy is particularly emphasized to enhance reading, writing, speaking, and listening in technology / engineering education. A pre-practicum of 25 hours is required.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years The Co-generation and Waste Recycling course will focus on analyzing engineering and co-generation systems to meet industrial process needs and use of reject heat to integrate with the production plant. The course will also cover responsibilities of co-generators and their interconnection cost. Students will run computer programs for metering practices and other metering options.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course is designed to provide the prospective technology/engineering teacher with a series of related academic, observational and participatory experiences based on the fundamental elements of the teaching-learning process. Students develop, implement and evaluate a variety of short-range instructional methods. A pre-practicum experience in a public technology education program is a requirement of the course to meet state regulations for licensure.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years During this course the student is presented experiences that relate directly to the development of a course of study. Students also have the opportunity to analyze and develop strategies pertaining to curriculum development. A pre-practicum experience in a public technology education program is a requirement of the course to meet state regulations for licensure.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring The course stresses both hardware design and system software development and automated test system for electronics and electrical circuit systems in the engineering technology. It introduces the operation of the interfaces to test systems assembly and development of full-scale systems.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course introduces Statistical Quality Control. Topics include Pareto Analysis, the Ishikawa diagram, Quality Function deployment, Deming’s principles, applications of the Binomial, Normal and Poisson Distribution, Hypothesis Testing, Control Charts, and the Lean Six Sigma quality management principles that identify customer’s needs, improve processes and reduce waste.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course trains student in project planning and scheduling. Topics covered include Work break down structure, critical path method, PERT, networks and float.
Credit(s) Offered: concurrent with the practicum This course is taken in conjunction with the practicum. Using peer collaboration and self-reflection, teacher candidates explore strategies to improve instruction, promote positive student behavior and social-emotional growth, and provide leadership at a school-wide level. The course also serves as a culminating experience in which candidates produce a Teacher Work Sample (TWS), a multi-step performance assessment that models the planning-teaching-assessment cycle of the professional educator, and that provides evidence of the candidate’s readiness to teach. Cross-listed with BIOL 4012 , CHEM 4012 , ENGL 4012 , HIST 4012 , MATH 4012 , and SCI 4012
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Students will develop an enhanced understanding of building system, the design of architectural space and its relationship to its surroundings, and how this affects human activity and behavior. Concepts dealing with light, texture, human scale and the role of building components are studied in context of the built environment.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course addresses the knowledge and skills required to control production systems and manufacturing processes through the use of computers, by integrating software and hardware components in a formal systems model.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The scope of this course will entail the problems presented to a designer by an unimproved land site. Proper design concepts will be applied as techniques and materials are selected. Solutions will be presented in the form of drawings and estimated costs. Legalities relating to construction codes and zoning will be emphasized.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course studies how the American system of juris prudence impacts the practices of the construction industry. The legal actions of contracts and torts as they apply to the construction industry are analyzed and applied. The production and interpretation of construction documents are explored.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course focuses on the basic elements of microprocessors & microcontrollers embedded systems. It introduces microprocessors (the heart of microcomputer), computer architecture, and fetch and execute cycles. It stresses microprocessor instruction sets and assembly language programming. It will also introduce hardware configurations, pin functions and microprocessor modes of operation.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course introduces control concepts, feedback control systems and transfer functions. The mathematical modeling of control systems includes the Laplace transform methods, state-space models, block diagrams and signal flow graphs. It introduces the system characteristics, system performance, Routh-Hurwitz stability analysis, and frequency response methods.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course covers the effective use of performance contracting energy financing /service mechanisms that bring economics, energy, and the environment into an appropriate perspective. It covers the processes to effectively provide performance contracting services as they apply to different market segments, such as business, utilities, and the governments.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Seminar in Energy offers in-depth knowledge of current topics and sources. The course treats, in detail, many topics such as planning and performance criteria, design, procurement and construction. At times, it can be advantageous for an owner to negotiate a contract for its project with a preselected contractor. This course will cover the different negotiating contracts and will include some field trips.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course studies the professional responsibilities and procedures used in the practice of architecture including the roles and relationships of architects to their clients and to the design and construction industry in general. Ethical and legal responsibilities of the profession, the business of architecture, service delivery methods, contract agreements, and the types of services provided are discussed.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring The Seminar in Civil and Environmental Engineering Technology deals with new challenges, trends and issues facing and required to be addressed by civil and environmental engineers in the 21st century.
Credit(s) The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the principles and best practices of project management with emphasis on time, cost, quality and environmental impact management for construction projects.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This is the second part of the methods course that focuses on Technology / Engineering Education pedagogy at the middle and secondary level. Teacher candidates continue designing and implementing standards-based instruction and assessments that are aligned with best practices for teaching and learning in Technology/Engineering Education. Special emphasis is placed on employing a variety of instructional practices and classroom management strategies that provide learning opportunities for diverse student populations and enhance multicultural pluralism. Moreover, teacher candidates will gain knowledge in using technology to facilitate teaching and learning appropriate for the needs of diverse learners and across varied subject areas. This course also addresses select Technology/Engineering Education subject matter knowledge (5-12) required by ESE. A pre-practicum of 25 hours is required.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is the middle (junior high) school component of the student teaching experience for all technology education teacher candidates. The teacher candidate will be afforded the opportunity to experience all aspects of the middle (junior high) school instructional environment. The teacher candidate works collaboratively with a master teacher, administrators, supports staff, and parents in the successful completion of this educational activity.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is the senior high school component of the student teaching experience for all technology education teacher candidates. The teacher candidate will be afforded the opportunity to experience all aspects of the senior high school instructional environment. The teacher candidate works collaboratively with a master teacher, administrators, supports staff, and parents in the successful completion of this educational activity.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Students apply acquired skills and techniques to a specific project relative to their concentration of study. The project identifies a real-world engineering technology problem, issue, event, developing technology, or case study to which the student will research, exploring, evaluate, and theorize a solution in a final paper and project/presentation format.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Students will acquire their career based professional skills and knowledge through the internship as an off-campus experiential learning activity. They have to get pre-approval from the department/university prior to involve in the internship project on-site to get internship credits.
Source: Fitchburg State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
