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PVCC cannot guarantee course frequency; however, to aid in student planning, courses typically are offered as indicated below.

F = Offered fall semester   Sp = Offered spring semester
Su = Offered summer Y = Offered once every academic year
IR = Offered irregularly
(Contact division office for next offering)

 
cr = Credit/credits

EGR 115 Engineering Graphics (3 cr, Sp/F)

Applies principles of orthographic projection, and multi-view drawings. Teaches descriptive geometry including relationships of points, lines, planes and solids. Introduces sectioning, dimensioning and computer graphic techniques. Includes instruction in Computer Aided Drafting. Teaches MatLab software and applies it to engineering problem solving.

Prerequisite: EGR 120.

EGR 120 Introduction to Engineering (2 cr, F/Sp)

Introduces the engineering profession, professional concepts, ethics, and responsibility. Reviews hand calculators, number systems, and unit conversions. Introduces the personal computer and operating systems. Includes engineering problem solving techniques using computer software.

Lecture 1 hour. Lab 3 hours.
Total 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ENG 3.
Co-requisite: CSC, 110, MTH 164, or MTH 166.

EGR 126 Computer Programming for Engineers (3 cr, IR)

Introduces computers, their architecture and software. Teaches program development using flowcharts. Solves engineering problems involving programming in languages such as FORTRAN, PASCAL, or C++.

Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: CSC 110.
Co-requisite: MTH 164 or MTH 166.

EGR 240 Solid Mechanics (Statics) (3 cr, F)

Covers basic concepts of mechanics, systems of forces and couples, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, and internal forces and analysis of structures. Also includes trusses, frames, machines and beams, distributed forces, friction, centroids, and moments of inertia.

Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: MTH 173 and EGR 115.
Co-requisite: PHY 241.

EGR 245 Engineering Mechanics-Dynamics (3 cr, Sp)

Presents approach to kinematics of particles in linear and curvilinear motion. Includes kinematics of rigid bodies in plane motion. Teaches Newton's second law, work-energy and power, impulse and momentum, and problem solving using computers.

Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: EGR 240.

EGR 246 Mechanics of Materials (3 cr, Sp)

Teaches concepts of stress, strain, deformation, internal equilibrium, and basic properties of engineering materials. Analyzes axial loads, torsion, bending, shear, and combined loading. Studies stress transformation and principal stresses, column analysis, and energy principles.

Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: EGR 240.

EGR 247 Mechanics of Materials Laboratory (1 cr, Sp)

Examines mechanical behavior of bars, rods, shafts, tubes and beams subjected to various types of loading. Introduces experimental stress analysis techniques, such as the use of strain gages and data reduction.

Laboratory 2 hours per week.

EGR 251 Basic Electric Circuits I (3 cr, Sp)

Teaches fundamentals of electric circuits. Includes circuit quantities of charge, current, potential, power, and energy. Teaches resistive circuit analysis; network theorems; and RC and RL circuit transient response with constant forcing functions. Teaches AC steady-state analysis, power, three-phase circuits. Presents frequency domain analysis, resonance, Fourier series, inductively coupled circuits, Laplace transform applications, and circuit transfer functions. Introduces problem solving using computers.

Prerequisite: EGR 115 and MTH 173.
Co-requisite: EGR 255.

EGR 255 Electric Circuits Laboratory (1 cr, Sp)

Teaches principles and operation of laboratory instruments such as VOM, electronic voltmeters, digital multi-meters, oscilloscopes, counters, wave generators, and power supplies. Teaches principles of circuit measurements, including transient and steady-state response of simple networks with laboratory applications of law and theories of circuits plus measurement of Ac quantities.

Co-requisite: EGR 251.

EGR 277 Digital Logic (3 cr, F)

Presents an introduction to digital logic, including such topics as number systems, Boolean Algebra, minimization techniques, implementation of digital functions, sequential machines, state diagrams, state tables, and programmable logic devices.

Prerequisites: MTH 173 and EGR 115.
Co-requisite: EGR 278.

EGR 278 Digital Logic Laboratory (1 cr, F)

Constructs digital logic circuits to verify analysis and design methods. Covers logic gates, combinational and sequential logic circuits, programmable logic devices, measurement techniques and report writing.

Co-requisite: EGR 277.

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