Engineering

ENGR 1000 Research, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Internship I: 1 semester hour

This program provides engineering students an opportunity to work closely with faculty and industry professionals on research projects during the academic year and/or summer. These projects help prepare students for graduate school and the workforce in engineering fields by enhancing critical thinking and team-work and providing hands-on experience in applying theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom to practical engineering problems. Students will be exposed to professional development and technical and academic seminars.

ENGR 1010 Introduction to Engineering: 1 semester hour

This course, required of all new Freshman with an interest in Engineering, is designed to assist students in their transition to the university experience and to UMSL by giving students the knowledge and tools needed to succeed as scholars. Students will learn about faculty expectations, support services, and student life, as well as engineering.

ENGR 1414 Elementary Engineering Design: 2 semester hours

Prerequisites: MATH 1030 and MATH 1035, or MATH 1045, or a satisfactory score on the UMSL Math Placement Examination, obtained at most one year prior to enrollment in this course, or consent of instructor. The course presents fundamental concepts and processes (project planning, design practices, teamwork, innovation, and systems integration) involved in designing engineering systems as it relates to civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Students work in teams either as competing design teams or complementary sub-system design teams to apply the concepts to design, build, and test series of engineering projects. The students will submit a design report and give a project presentation at the end of semester.

ENGR 1818 Foundations of Engineering Design and Practice: 3 semester hours

This course introduces students to the foundations of engineering design, teamwork, and professional practice while developing essential information literacy skills. Students will learn structured approaches to engineering problem-solving, project planning, and communication, with an emphasis on identifying, evaluating, and integrating information into design solutions. Through design-build-test projects, students will experience engineering in action, connecting technical skills with broader issues of sustainability, ethics, and societal impact.

ENGR 2000 Research, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Internship II: 1 semester hour

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. This program provides engineering students an opportunity to work closely with faculty and industry professionals on research projects during the academic year and/or summer. These projects help prepare students for graduate school and the workforce in engineering fields by enhancing critical thinking and team-work and providing hands-on experience in applying theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom to practical engineering problems. Students will be exposed to professional development and technical and academic seminars.

ENGR 2022 Engineering Economics and Project Management: 3 semester hours

Application of economics to engineering and industrial problems that require a knowledge of engineering for their solution.

ENGR 2310 Statics: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: MATH 1900 and PHYSICS 2111. Statics of particles and rigid bodies. Equivalent systems of forces. Distributed forces; centroids. Applications to trusses, frames, machines, beams, and cables. Friction. Moments of inertia. Principle of virtual work and applications.

ENGR 2320 Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics: 3 semester hours

ENGR 2310 and MATH 2000 (may be taken concurrently). Basic theory of engineering mechanics, using calculus, involving the motion of particles, rigid bodies, and systems of particles; Newton’s Laws; work and energy relationships; principles of impulse and momentum; application of kinetics and kinematics to the solution of engineering problems.

ENGR 2330 Introduction to Thermodynamics: 3 semester hours

Prerequisite(s): MATH 1900 and PHYSICS 2112/PHYSICS 2112L. An introduction to the basic concepts of thermodynamics including the properties of substances and ideals gases. Introduction to the concepts of a thermodynamic system, control volumes, heat, work, and internal energy. Introduction to the first and second laws of thermodynamics with engineering applications.

ENGR 2332 Mechanics of Materials: 3 semester hours

Prerequisite(s): ENGR 2310. Basic concepts of stress and strain in common engineering materials. An introduction to Hooke's law and the Poisson effect. Analysis of axial, shear, flexural, torsional, and combined stress and strain in structural members. Shear and moment distribution in beams. An introduction to the deformation of structural members under load.

ENGR 3000 Research Entrepreneurship Innovation Internship III: 1 semester hour

Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. This program provides engineering students an opportunity to work closely with faculty and industry professionals on research projects during the academic year and/or summer. These projects help prepare students for graduate school and the workforce in engineering fields by enhancing critical thinking and team-work and providing hands-on experience in applying theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom to practical engineering problems. Students will be exposed to professional development and technical and academic seminars.

ENGR 3300 Applied Thermodynamics: 3 semester hours

Prerequisite(s): EENG 2310. Gas and vapor mixtures, cycles, availability, imperfect gases, thermodynamic relations, combustion, chemical equilibrium, power systems and design projects. Effects of design choices on the earth and living systems.

ENGR 4000 Research, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Internship IV: 1 semester hour

Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. The purpose of this program is to provide engineering students an opportunity to work closely with faculty and industry professionals on research projects during the academic year and/or summer. These projects help prepare students for graduate school and the workforce in engineering fields. Also, participating in research projects prepares students in critical thinking, team-work, and hands-on experience in applying theoretical knowledge gained in classroom to solving practical engineering problems. Students will be exposed to professional development, technical and academic seminars. SURE, links undergraduate students with faculty and industry mentors, and introduces them to advanced research tools and database at the frontier of engineering.

ENGR 4400 Fundamentals of Engineering (FE Exam) Review: 1 semester hour

Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. The FE exam is generally the first step in the process of becoming a licensed professional engineer (P.E.). The aim of this course is to review the material covered in the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam.