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The following are descriptions of Engineering courses

ENGR 1402    Fire and Safety Hazard Recognition w/Lab (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite MATH 1302

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         Physical, chemical, electrical, and natural hazards and their relationship to 

         loss of property and/ or life.  Safe location, storage, transportation, and

         handling practices to eliminate or control the risk of fire and other hazards in

         the home, business, and industry.  Experiments and computer simulations.

ENGR 1403    Fire Suppression and Detection Systems (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite MATH 1302, EET 1411

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         The design, installation, maintenance, and utilization of portable fire

         extinguishing appliances and pre-engineered systems. Operational 

         capabilities and utilization requirements of fire detection and signaling

         systems.  Fire detection and suppression applied in practical problems. 

         Experimental demonstrations and computer simulation of hazard detection

         systems.

ENGR 2302    Engineering and Technology Fundamentals (3-3-0)

                     Prerequisite credit or enrollment in MATH 1302

                     Overview of techniques and fundamental principles used in engineering, 

                     science and technology. Topics include: dimensional analysis and units, 

                     measurements, representation of technical information, problem solving, and 

                     an introduction to selected science and engineering topics.

ENGR 2404    Automatic Fire Suppression Systems w/Lab (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite MATH 1302, ENGR 2302

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         Detailed current standards for selection, design, installation, operation, and 

         maintenance of automatic fire suppression systems.  Experiments and

         computer simulations.

ENGR 2480    Occupational Safety Techniques (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite MATH 1302

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         Occupational facilities, equipment and operations and their inherent hazards. 

         Directed toward worker, machine and environmental control.  Equipment

         demonstrations and computer simulation of safe equipment operation.

ENGR 3350    Industrial Loss Prevention (4-3-0)

                     Prerequisite Departmental Approval

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         Specific industrial processes, equipment, facilities, and work practices for

         detecting and controlling potential hazards.  Computer simulation of hazard

         detection.

ENGR 4330    Systems Safety Management (3-3-0)

                     Prerequisite Departmental Approval

         Fire and other hazards/safety techniques to recognize, evaluate, and control

         potential occupational hazards. Critical path, LAD, PERT, and human factors

         concepts. Computer simulations.

ENGR 4360    Advanced Safety and Problems (3-3-0)

                     Prerequisite Senior Standing. ENGR 4420

         Selected problems in the fire and hazards fields, occupational safety,

         occupational health and industrial security areas.  Research of state-of-the-art

         technologies to prevent or correct such problems.  Development of computer

         software to simulate selected hazard conditions.

ENGR 4370    Human Factors in Fire and Safety (3-3-0)

                     Prerequisite Departmental Approval

         Case study of the influence of human behavior in life losses during hazardous

         situations. Cases include flood, tornado, fire, and explosions.

ENGR 4380    Security of Computing Systems (3-3-0)

                     Prerequisite ENGR 1400

         Security of hardware and software systems.  Case study of information losses

         due to fire, flood, and tornado.  Software safety cases including viruses and

         distortion of code and data integrity.

ENGR 4410    Industrial Hygiene Instrumentation w/Lab (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite CHEM 1307 or ENGR 1402

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         Toxic or irritating substances, physical, biological, ergonomic and other

         occupational stress factors causing employee illness or discomfort. 

         Environmental pollution sources and controls.  Description, operation, and

         application of quantitative instruments in general use in industrial hygiene.

         Computer simulation of industrial hygiene instrumentation.

ENGR 4420    Fire Dynamics (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite ENGR 1402, Departmental Approval

         Study of the critical aspects of fire dynamics including: Fuels and

         combustion processes. Physical chemistry of combustion.  Diffusion flame 

         and fire plumes. Spread of flames.  Production and movement of smoke.

         Computer simulations of fire dynamics.

ENGR 4450    Industrial Safety (4-3-1)

                     Prerequisite Departmental Approval

                     Laboratory fee required. $12.

         Principles of fire dynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics are combined

         with a general knowledge of automatic detection and suppression systems to

         analyze fire protection requirements for generic industrial hazards.  Topics

         covered include safety separation distances, plan layout, hazard isolation,

         smoke control, warehouse storage, and flammable liquid processing and

         handling.  Historic industrial fires influencing current practice on these topics

         are also discussed.

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