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2016-2017 Catalog [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION] Use the dropdown above to select the current catalog.
Engineering Courses
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Department of Engineering
Engineering
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ENGR004 HM - Introduction to Engineering Design and Manufacturing
Credit(s): 4
Orwin, staff. Design problems are, typically, open-ended and ill-structured. Students work in small teams applying techniques for solving design problems that are, normally, posed by not-for-profit clients. The project work is enhanced with lectures and reading on design theory and methods, and introduction to manufacturing techniques, project management techniques and engineering ethics. Enrollment limited to first-year students and sophomores, or by permission of the instructor. (Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): WRIT001 HM
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ENGR011 HM - Autonomous Vehicles
Credit(s): 3
Clark, Durón, Harris, Lape. Interdisciplinary introduction to design and programming in the context of small autonomous vehicles. Topics and activities include: energy and sustainability; applied mechanics; sensors and actuators; constructing chemical, mechanical and electrical systems; embedded software development in C; a design competition. Enrollment limited to first-year Harvey Mudd students and any-year off-campus students (as space permits). (Fall)
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ENGR013 HM - Energy Systems Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Staff. This course covers the science, engineering and policies of a variety of energy technologies capable of significant growth as well as an integrated systems approach to conceptualize, model and analyze energy projects and programs. Topics include energy technologies and systems associated with stationary combustion, nuclear power, transportation, wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal. Students collaborate to choose, design and develop a novel green product to address a sustainability need. (Fall)
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ENGR038 HM - Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Environmental Design
Credit(s): 3
Staff. The course introduces the concept of estimating the environmental impacts of a product or service from ‘cradle to grave’ or ‘cradle to cradle’. This growing field of research and applications is known as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In a combination of lectures explaining the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of LCA (incl. guest lectures by practitioners) and hands-on practical exercises using available software for LCA students learn about the steps involved in conducting a LCA, the associated data needs and assumptions, the interpretation of the results, and how they can meaningfully inform product design and manufacturing decisions. Working in groups, students complete their own LCA in the last part of the course.
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ENGR072 HM - Engineering Mathematics
Credit(s): 1.5
Bassman, Lape, Yong (Mathematics). Applications of differential equations, linear algebra, and probability to engineering problems in multiple disciplines. Mathematical modeling, dimensional analysis, scale, approximation, model validation, Laplace Transforms. (Spring, first half)
Prerequisite(s): MATH035 HM and MATH065 HM
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ENGR079 HM - Introduction to Engineering Systems
Credit(s): 3
Staff. An introduction to the concepts of modern engineering, emphasizing modeling, analysis, synthesis, and design. Applications to chemical, mechanical, and electrical systems.
A course materials fee, payable to the HMC Department of Engineering, applies. No textbook purchase required. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing, PHYS024 HM , and MATH045 HM
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ENGR080 HM - Experimental Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Staff. A laboratory course designed to acquaint the student with the basic techniques of instrumentation and measurement in both the laboratory and in engineering field measurements. Emphasis on experimental problem solving in real systems. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR079 HM
Corequisite(s): ENGR072 HM
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ENGR082 HM - Chemical and Thermal Processes
Credit(s): 3
Bright, Cardenas, Lape, Spjut. The basic elements of thermal and chemical processes, including: state variables, open and closed systems, and mass balance; energy balance, First Law of Thermodynamics for reactive and non-reactive systems; entropy balance, Second Law of Thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles, and efficiency. (Fall and Spring)
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ENGR083 HM - Continuum Mechanics
Credit(s): 3
Bassman, Cardenas. The fundamentals of modeling continuous media, including: stress, strain and constitutive relations; elements of tensor analysis; basic applications of solid and fluid mechanics (including beam theory, torsion, statically indeterminate problems, and Bernoulli’s principle); application of conservation laws to control volumes. (Fall and Spring)
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ENGR084 HM - Electronic and Magnetic Circuits and Devices
Credit(s): 3
Wang, Yang. Introduction to the fundamental principles underlying electronic devices and applications of these devices in circuits. Topics include electrical properties of materials; physical electronics (with emphasis on semiconductors and semiconductor devices); passive linear electrical and magnetic circuits; active linear circuits (including elementary transistor amplifiers and the impact of non-ideal characteristics of operational amplifiers on circuit behavior); operating point linearization and load-line analysis; electromagnetic devices such as transformers. (Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR079 HM and PHYS051 HM
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ENGR085 HM - Digital Electronics and Computer Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Harris. This course provides an introduction to elements of digital electronics, followed by an introduction to digital computers. Topics in digital electronics include: Boolean algebra; combinational logic; sequential logic; finite state machines; transistor-level implementations; computer arithmetic; and transmission lines. The computer engineering portion of the course includes computer architecture and micro-architecture: levels of abstraction; assembly-language programming; and memory systems. The digital electronics portion of Engineering 85 may be taken by non-engineering majors as a stand-alone half course under the number ENGR085A HM . (Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): CSCI005 HM or CSCI005GR HM or CSCI042 HM
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ENGR085A HM - Digital Electronics
Credit(s): 1.5
Harris. This course provides an introduction to elements of digital electronics, intended for non-engineering majors who may be interested in pursuing other advanced engineering courses that require this background. Lectures for this course coincide with lectures for the first half of ENGR085 HM . (Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): CSCI005 HM or CSCI005GR HM or CSCI042 HM
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ENGR086 HM - Materials Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Krauss, Dato. Introduction to the structure, properties, and processing of materials used in engineering applications. Topics include: material structure (bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline structures, imperfections); equilibrium microstructures; diffusion, nucleation, growth, kinetics, non-equilibrium processing; microstructure, properties and processing of: steel, ceramics, polymers and composites; creep and yield; fracture mechanics; and the selection of materials and appropriate performance indices. (Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): PHYS051 HM , ENGR082 HM , and ENGR083 HM
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ENGR091 HM - Intermediate Problems in Engineering
Credit(s): 1-3
Staff. Independent study in a field agreed upon by student and instructor. Credit hours to be arranged.
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ENGR101 HM - Advanced Systems Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Bright, Cha, Clark, Durón, Wang, Yang. Analysis and design of continuous-time and discrete-time systems using time domain and frequency domain techniques. The first semester focuses on the connections and distinctions between continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems and their representation in the time and frequency domains. Topics include impulse response, convolution, continuous and discrete Fourier series and transforms, and frequency response. Current applications, including filtering, modulation and sampling, are presented, and simulation techniques based on both time and frequency domain representations are introduced. In the second semester additional analysis and design tools based on the Laplace- and z-transforms are developed, and the state space formulation of continuous and discrete-time systems is presented. Concepts covered during both semesters are applied in a comprehensive treatment of feedback control systems including performance criteria, stability, observability, controllability, compensation and pole placement. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR079 HM
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ENGR102 HM - Advanced Systems Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Bright, Cha, Clark, Durón, Wang, Yang. Analysis and design of continuous-time and discrete-time systems using time domain and frequency domain techniques. The first semester focuses on the connections and distinctions between continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems and their representation in the time and frequency domains. Topics include impulse response, convolution, continuous and discrete Fourier series and transforms, and frequency response. Current applications, including filtering, modulation and sampling, are presented, and simulation techniques based on both time and frequency domain representations are introduced. In the second semester additional analysis and design tools based on the Laplace- and z-transforms are developed, and the state space formulation of continuous and discrete-time systems is presented. Concepts covered during both semesters are applied in a comprehensive treatment of feedback control systems including performance criteria, stability, observability, controllability, compensation and pole placement. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR101 HM
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ENGR111 HM - Engineering Clinic I
Credit(s): 3
Harris, staff. Participation in engineering projects through the Engineering Clinic. Emphasis is on design of solutions for real problems, involving problem definition, synthesis of concepts, analysis, and evaluation. (Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing in engineering or permission of Clinic director
Concurrent Requisite(s): ENGR122 HM -
ENGR112 HM - Engineering Clinic II
Credit(s): 3
Harris, staff. Participation in engineering projects through the Engineering Clinic. Emphasis is on design of solutions for real problems, involving problem definition, synthesis of concepts, analysis, and evaluation. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR004 HM , ENGR080 HM , and ENGR111 HM or permission of Clinic director
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ENGR113 HM - Engineering Clinic III
Credit(s): 3
Harris, staff. Participation in engineering projects through the Engineering Clinic. Emphasis is on design of solutions for real problems, involving problem definition, synthesis of concepts, analysis, and evaluation. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR004 HM , ENGR080 HM , and ENGR111 HM or permission of Clinic director
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ENGR114 HM - Engineering Clinic
Credit(s): 1-3
Harris, staff. A continuation of Engineering Clinic for juniors who elect a second semester. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Clinic director
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ENGR115 HM - Project Management
Credit(s): 3
Little, Remer. This course teaches tools and techniques commonly used in managing engineering projects, including work breakdown structures, PERT/CPM analysis, and budgeting, forecasting, and aspects of project control. It also introduces use of models and operations research techniques in selecting and assigning resources to projects. Students are required to develop and implement a work plan for a small-scale project, typically a Clinic project. (Fall)
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ENGR116 HM - Cost Estimation and Modeling
Credit(s): 3
Remer. Principles of cost and schedule estimation and modeling for capital projects, and for estimation and budgeting of operations and maintenance of ongoing processes. Hardware and software and integrated design projects are included. Advantages and disadvantages of different estimation methods are explored. (Spring, alternate years)
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ENGR117 HM - Economics of Technical Enterprise
Credit(s): 3
Remer. Time value of money, interest rates, depreciation and depletion, personal and corporate taxes, investment yardsticks such as present worth, rate of return, payback period and cost/benefit analysis, venture analysis and comparison of alternative projects, cost estimation and inflation, personal economics and investments, current business economic topics, tempering economics with judgment. (Fall)
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ENGR118 HM - Engineering Management
Credit(s): 3
Little, Remer. Introduction to the concepts of modern management including the scientific, behavioral and functional schools of thought, motivational models, leadership styles, organizational structures, project management, and other areas of student interest. (Not to be substituted for any technical elective required for the major.) (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing
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ENGR119 HM - Preliminary Design
Credit(s): 3
Staff. This course examines the general principles associated with functional analysis and preliminary design and applies these principles to a particular design problem. Students in the course will be expected to demonstrate competency in the application of functional analysis techniques and setting of performance specifications, design of artifacts to meet the functional specifications, and documentation of successful designs. Students will be offered a choice of several design problems which may come from one of the traditional engineering disciplines (chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, etc.) or may cut across several boundaries. (Fall, alternate years)
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ENGR122 HM - Engineering Seminar
Credit(s): 0.5
Staff. Weekly meetings devoted to discussion of engineering practice. Required of junior engineering majors. No more than 2.0 credits can be earned for departmental seminars/colloquia. Pass/No Credit grading. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Juniors only
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ENGR124 HM - Engineering Seminar
Credit(s): 0.5
Staff. Weekly meetings devoted to the discussion of engineering practice. Required of senior engineering majors. No more than 2.0 credits can be earned for departmental seminars/colloquia. Pass/No Credit grading. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Seniors only
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ENGR131 HM - Fluid Mechanics
Credit(s): 3
Bright, Cardenas, Lape. Integrated approach to the subjects of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer through the study of the governing equations common to all three fields. Applications drawn from a wide variety of engineering systems. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR083 HM
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ENGR133 HM - Chemical Reaction Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Remer, Spjut. The fundamentals of chemical reactor engineering: chemical reaction kinetics, interpretation of experimental rate data, design of batch and continuous reactors for single and multiple reactions including temperature and pressure effects, and the importance of safety considerations in reactor design. (Fall, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR082 HM
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ENGR134 HM - Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics
Credit(s): 3
Lape, Spjut. The application of classical thermodynamics to engineering systems. Topics include power and refrigeration cycles, energy and process efficiency, real gases and non-ideal phase, and chemical reaction equilibria. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR082 HM
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ENGR136 HM - Mass Transfer and Separation Processes
Credit(s): 3
Lape. Principles of mass transfer, application to equilibrium-stage, and finite-rate separation processes. Extension of design principles to multistage systems and to countercurrent differential contacting operations. Applications from the chemical processing industries and from such fields as desalination, pollution control, and water reuse. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR082 HM
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ENGR138 HM - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Cardenas. Introduction to the main concepts and applications in modern environmental engineering. Included are surface and groundwater pollution (both classical pollutants and toxic substances); risk assessment and analysis; air pollution; and global atmospheric change. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR082 HM
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ENGR151 HM - Engineering Electronics
Credit(s): 3
Yang. Analysis and design of circuits using diodes, bipolar junction transistors, and field-effect transistors, following a brief treatment of solid state electronics and the physics of solid state devices. Analysis and design of single and multi-transistor linear circuits including operational amplifiers. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR079 HM and ENGR084 HM
Corequisite(s): ENGR153 HM
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ENGR153 HM - Electronics Laboratory
Credit(s): 1
Yang. Experimental evaluation of electronic devices and circuits. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR084 HM
Concurrent Requisite(s): ENGR151 HM -
ENGR155 HM - Microprocessor-Based Systems: Design and Applications
Credit(s): 4
Harris. Introduction to digital design using programmable logic and microprocessors. Combinational and sequential logic. Finite state machines. Hardware description languages. Field programmable gate arrays. Microcontrollers and embedded system design. Students gain experience with complex digital system design, embedded programming, and hardware/software trade-offs through significant laboratory and project work. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR085 HM or (ENGR085A HM and CSCI060 HM )
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ENGR156 HM - Introduction to Communication and Information Theory
Credit(s): 3
Staff. Comprehensive treatment of explicit and random signal transmission through linear communication networks by generalized harmonic analysis including signal sampling and modulation theories. Treatment of noise in communication systems including design of optimum linear filters and systems for signal detection. Introduction to information theory including the treatment of discrete noiseless systems, capacity of communication channels, and coding processes. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR101 HM
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ENGR158 HM - Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design
Credit(s): 3
Harris. Introduction to digital integrated system design. Device and wire models, gate topologies, logical effort, latching, memories, and timing. Structured physical design and CAD methodology. Final team project involves design and fabrication of custom chips. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR084 HM and (ENGR085 HM or ENGR085A HM )
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ENGR160 HM - Autonomous Robot Navigation
Credit(s): 3
Clark. This course introduces students to a variety of autonomous mobile robot platforms, but concentrates on differential drive-wheeled robots. Topics to be covered include robot platforms and kinematic modeling, control structures, sensing and estimation, localization, and motion planning. The course has a heavy experimental component that involves computer programming of the robots and physical experiments. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Juniors and seniors only
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ENGR161 HM - Computer Image Processing and Analysis
Credit(s): 3
Wang. An introduction to both image processing, including acquisition, enhancement and restoration; and image analysis, including representation, classification and recognition. Discussion on related subjects such as unitary transforms, and statistical and neural network pattern recognition methods. Project oriented. (Fall, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR101 HM , ENGR102 HM , and programming proficiency
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ENGR164 HM - Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Orwin. The application of engineering principles to help pose and solve problems in medicine and biology. Focus on different aspects, particularly biomedical measurements, biosystems analysis, biomechanics, and biomaterials. (Spring, alternate years)
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ENGR166 HM - High-Speed PC Board Design
Credit(s): 3
Staff. This course provides the student exposure to fundamental and practical issues in the design and fabrication of printed circuit boards (PCBs), with primary emphasis on boards for high-speed digital circuits. Students work in teams to design a high-speed PCB, which can then be fabricated and subsequently tested by the students. Upon completing this course, students should be able to use appropriate CAD tools to capture a circuit schematic, choose a board cross-section, place components on a board and route wiring. Further, the course should enable students to recognize when circuit speed/size combinations are likely to make “high-speed effects” such as reflections and cross talk important, to know how to quantify these effects and their impact on performance, and to design their boards to reduce the deleterious effects to an acceptable level. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR084 HM and (ENGR085 HM or ENGR085A HM )
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ENGR168A HM - Introduction to Fiber Optic Communication Systems
Credit(s): 3
Yang. This course provides the fundamentals of optics and its applications in communication systems. The physical layer of optical communication systems will be emphasized. Topics include optical materials; dispersion and nonlinear effects; polarization and interference; and the basic elements of system implementation such as laser sources, optical amplifiers, and optical detectors. The course will include a multiple channel system design. (Spring, alternate years)
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ENGR171 HM - Dynamics of Elastic Systems
Credit(s): 3
Cha, Durón. Free and forced response of single-degree-of-freedom systems. Eigenvalue problem for multi-degree-of-freedom systems; natural modes of free vibration. Forced response of undamped and viscously damped, multi-degree-of-freedom systems by modal analysis. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR083 HM
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ENGR172 HM - Structural Mechanics
Credit(s): 3
Bassman, Cha. Introduction to elementary structural systems: trusses, beams. Force and deflection analysis. Energy methods. Stability. Introduction to finite element methods. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR083 HM
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ENGR173 HM - Applied Elasticity
Credit(s): 3
Staff. Introduction to the concepts of stress and strain. Application to the theory of bending and torsion. Topics in elementary elasticity. (Fall, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR083 HM
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ENGR174 HM - Practices in Civil Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Little, Cardenas. The student is exposed to the practice of civil engineering through a series of case studies discussed within the context of a broad-based engineering curriculum. Engineering fundamentals related to the selection and use of construction materials, stress and strain, and to the analysis and design of structural and transportation systems may be discussed. Types and specifics of case studies vary depending upon the instructor. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR079 HM , ENGR080 HM , and permission of instructor
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ENGR175 HM - Dynamics of Rigid Bodies
Credit(s): 3
Bassman. Kinematics, mass distribution, and kinetics of systems of particles and rigid bodies. Formulation of equations of motion with: Newton/Euler equations; angular momentum principle; power, work and energy methods. Numerical solutions of nonlinear algebraic and ordinary differential equations governing the behavior of multiple degree of freedom systems. Computer simulation of multi-body dynamic systems. Construction of physical systems for comparison with simulation. (Fall)
Corequisite(s): ENGR083 HM
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ENGR176 HM - Numerical Methods in Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Cha, Wang. This course focuses on the application of a variety of mathematical techniques to solve real-world problems that involve modeling, mathematical and numerical analysis, and scientific computing. Concepts, calculations and the ability to apply principles to physical problems are emphasized. Ordinary differential equations, linear algebra, complex analysis, numerical methods, partial differential equations, probability and statistics, etc., are among the techniques that would be applied to problems in mechanical, electrical, chemical and civil engineering. Examples are drawn from fluid mechanics, heat transfer, vibration of structures, electromagnetics, communications and other applied topics. Program development and modification are expected as well as learning to use existing code. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR072 HM
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ENGR179 HM - Deformation and Fracture of Solids
Credit(s): 3
Staff. Elements of stress and strain, elastic and plastic deformations of solid materials, fracture mechanics, strengthening mechanisms, thermal and thermo-mechanical processing, effects of microstructure, failure modes and analysis of service failures. (Fall, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR083 HM and ENGR086 HM
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ENGR181 HM - New Product Development
Credit(s): 3
Krauss. This course will introduce the theory and practice of a process used for new product development that considers design, management and manufacturing components. Students will identify needs (market or humanitarian) amenable to an engineered product solution, select and scope the project need they will address, quantify the impact of a solution through a business case, design and develop multiple prototype solutions, validate the resulting product and solicit funding for a launch. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing and ENGR004 HM
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ENGR182 HM - Manufacturing Planning and Execution
Credit(s): 3
Gokli. This course provides a fundamental understanding of manufacturing and focuses on “practical” elements of how factories are laid out, how they are optimized and how they are managed and measured. It introduces students to the vocabulary, processes and tools of manufacturing with hands-on experience. This course is designed to have one class of lectures followed by a class of hands-on exercises to effectively internalize the knowledge. The course teaches three main learning modules: shop floor management, quality management and supply chain management. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR004 HM
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ENGR183 HM - Management of Technical Enterprise
Credit(s): 3
Gokli, Little, Krauss. This course provides a fundamental understanding of management practices in a technical enterprise. Instructors teach three main learning modules: financial management, people management and company management. Students will learn processes, tools, organization and measurables in all three learning modules. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR004 HM
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ENGR190 HM - Special Topics in Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Staff. An upper division or graduate technical elective treating topics in engineering not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the engineering department.
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ENGR191 HM - Advanced Problems in Engineering
Credit(s): 1-3
Staff. Independent study in a field agreed upon by student and instructor. Credit hours to be arranged.
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ENGR205 HM - Systems Simulation
Credit(s): 3
Bright. An examination of the use of high-speed digital computers to simulate the behavior of engineering and industrial systems. Both continuous and discrete systems are treated. (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR101 HM and ENGR102 HM
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ENGR206 HM - Optimization Techniques in Engineering Design
Credit(s): 3
Bright. Presentation of techniques for making optimum choices among alternatives; applications to engineering design problems. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR205 HM
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ENGR231 HM - Advanced Transport Phenomena
Credit(s): 3
Bright, Lape. Integrated approach to the subjects of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer, through the study of the governing equations common to all three fields. Applications drawn from a wide variety of engineering systems. (Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR131 HM
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ENGR240 HM - Introduction to Compressible Flow
Credit(s): 3
Cardenas. The effects of compressibility in the governing integral and differential equations for fluids. The effects of friction, heating and shock waves in steady one-dimensional flow. Unsteady wave motion and the method of characteristics. Two-dimensional flow over air foils, linearized potential flow and the method of characteristics for supersonic flow. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR131 HM
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ENGR278 HM - Advanced Structural Dynamics
Credit(s): 3
Cha. Free and forced response of continuous systems, including the vibration of strings, rods, shafts, membranes, beams, and plates. One dimensional finite element methods: discretization of a continuum, selection of interpolation functions, and determining the element mass and stiffness matrices and the corresponding load vector. Introduction to special topics, including the effects of parameter uncertainties on the dynamics of periodic structures and model updating in structural dynamics. (Spring, alternate years)
Prerequisite(s): ENGR171 HM
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