Engineering | 2026-2027 Academic Catalog | SIU

Orientation for first year, engineering students. Course is designed to increase students' understanding of engineering as a field of study and as a profession. Emphasis is placed upon becoming a team player in engineering and developing an effective strategy for academic success in mathematics, science and engineering courses. Restricted to first year engineering students or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 1

Special approval needed from an Engineering Academic Advisor.

Credit Hours: 1-3

Special approval needed from an Engineering Academic Advisor.

Credit Hours: 1-3

Special approval needed from an Engineering Academic Advisor.

Credit Hours: 1-3

Introduces the student to the use of digital computers in the solution of technical problems that are specifically designed for the engineering and technology student. Problem analysis, flowcharting, coding, diagnostics, execution, and solution verification are discussed. Programs written in C++ language. Prerequisite: Mathematics 111 or equivalent with C or better.

Credit Hours: 2

Basic circuit elements and concepts. Introduction to pSpice and MATLAB. Methods of circuit analysis. Mesh and nodal methods. Circuit theorems. Superposition principle. Energy storage elements. Transient analysis of first-order circuits. Introduction to second-order circuits. Sinusoidal steady-state analysis. Phasors and phasor diagrams. Basic electrical measurements and instrumentation. Prerequisite: MATH 250 with a grade of C or better or concurrent enrollment in MATH 250.

Credit Hours: 3

Principles of statics; force systems; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; trusses; frames; 2-D centroids; friction; moments of inertia; distributed loads; 3-D centroids; internal forces; shear and bending moment diagrams. Mass moment of inertia. Prerequisites: MATH 150, PHYS 205A and PHYS 255A, all with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Fundamentals of particle and rigid body dynamics, kinematics and kinetics of a single particle and system of particles, application of Newton's laws and energy and moment principles in solving problems involving particles or rigid bodies in planar motion. Introduction to kinetics of rigid bodies in three dimensions. Prerequisites: MATH 250, ENGR 250, and PHYS 205A, all with C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to interpreted programming languages and programming principles. Introduction to programming microcontrollers. Covered materials will have an emphasis on their relationship to aspects of robotics. Prerequisite: MATH 111 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 2

(University Core Curriculum: Students with a catalog year prior to Summer, 2012 only) [IAI Course: L1 905] An introduction to the study of the relationship between humans, resource consumption, pollution and the resulting environment, the effects of current human pollution and resource consumption on the environmental quality of the future, the interrelation of human population resource consumption and pollution, methods of minimizing resource consumption and human pollution through both technological controls and changes in human behavior. Prerequisite: high school chemistry or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to the mechanics of deformable bodies. Stress and strain, torsion, stresses and deflections in beams and columns, influence lines, statically indeterminate beams. Prerequisites: ENGR 250 and MATH 250, both with C or better. Lab fee: $30.

Credit Hours: 3

Laboratory only. For transfer students who have satisfied the lecture but not the laboratory component of the 350A requirement. Prerequisite: ENGR 350C with C or better. Lab fee: $30.

Credit Hours: 1

For transfer students articulation only. This course is used to designate that a student has completed ENGR 350A without a laboratory.

Credit Hours: 2

Overview of numerical procedures such as root finding, curve fitting, integration, solutions of simultaneous equations, and solutions of ordinary differential equations. Emphasis will be on applications of these techniques to problems in civil, environmental and mechanical engineering. Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of MATH 305.

Credit Hours: 3

Fluid properties, fluid statics, fluid flow, governing equations, dimensional analysis and model-prototype relationships, closed conduit flow, open-channel flow. Introduction to numerical modeling. Prerequisite: ENGR 261 with C or better, completion of/concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351 preferred. Lab fee: $30.

Credit Hours: 3

For transfer students who have satisfied the lecture but not the laboratory component of the ENGR 370A requirement. Prerequisite: ENGR 370C with C or better. Lab fee: $30.

Credit Hours: 1

For transfer students articulation only. This course is used to designate that a student has completed the lecture component of ENGR 370A without a laboratory.

Credit Hours: 2

Individual projects and problems selected by student or instructor. Open to 4th Year students only. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor.

Credit Hours: 1-6