Course Descriptions

The origins of ethical thought; ethical principles and basic theories; personal, academic and professional ethics for engineers; environmental ethics; ethical implications of technology, computer ethics; ethics in research and experimentation.

Integration techniques; improper integrals. Infinite series, positive and alternating series, power series, Taylor and Maclaurin series. Polar coordinates. Vectors and motion in space, vector valued functions.

Charge and matter, electric field and Gauss' law, electric potential, capacitors, DC circuits, magnetic field, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, inductance, magnetic properties of matter, Maxwell's equations.

Experiments on: capacitors; DC circuits; magnetic field; Ampere's law; Faraday's law; inductance; magnetic properties of matter.

The basic biological concepts of structure and function of the human body. Body systems, such as the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, digestive, muscular, skeletal and reproductive system.

Objects and classes, constructors, static variables, constants and methods, visibility modifiers, passing objects and object arrays to methods, immutability, variable scopes, class abstraction and encapsulation, super and subclass concepts, inheritance, polymorphism, overriding, overloading, abstract classes, object-oriented design.

Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Essentials of microeconomics. Operations of markets. Scarcity and resource allocation. Demand and supply analysis and elasticities. Market efficiency and welfare. Consumer and producer surplus. Cost analysis of firms. Perfect competition and imperfect competition. Monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Externalities and internalities. Economics of factor markets.

Circuit variables. Circuit elements. Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws and Thevenin's/Norton's, and superposition theorems. Circuit analysis methods. Natural and step responses of first and second order circuits. Sinusoidal steady state analysis of electrical circuits. Power and energy.

Introduction to laboratory equipments, oscilloscope and signal generator. Two-terminal passive elements, Experimental verification of the fundamental circuit principles and theorems such as Ohm's, Kirchoff's laws and Thevenin's/Norton's, superposition theorems. Responses of first and second order circuits. Introduction to PSPICE.

Matrices, matrix addition, matrix and scalar multiplication, algebraic properties of matrix operations, special types of matrices, solving linear systems, elementary row and column operations, echelon form of a matrix, Gauss and Gauss-Jordan method, elementary matrices and finding the inverse of a matrix by using elementary operations, real vector spaces, definition, subspaces, span and linear independence, basis and dimensions, homogeneous systems, rank of a matrix, linear spaces with inner product, definition of the inner product, Gram-Schmidt process, orthogonal complements, linear transformation and their matrix representations, kernel and range of a linear transformation, matrix of a linear transformation, determinants, definition and properties of determinants, cofactor expansion, finding inverses by using cofactors, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial and equation of a matrix, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of symmetric matrices.