Students majoring in Construction Management and Fire and Safety Engineering Technology will not follow the CFY curriculum. Instead, these students will take major-specific first-year courses taught by dedicated faculty, providing an immediate focus on their chosen field.
The CFY courses for all other engineering and technology majors provide a solid base on which to build your specialized engineering knowledge:
ENGR 1300 – Exploring Engineering and Technology with Success
Welcomes students with a diverse cross-section of backgrounds into the engineering college/profession with a variety of hands-on experiences that informs them of the different engineering careers/disciplines and offers them an opportunity to apply the engineering design process to meaningful, real-world projects. Students will further develop learning efficacy while discovering their passion, and finding meaningful connections in the engineering community.
ENGR 1301 – Foundations of Math and Science for Engineers
The course lays a solid foundation of math and science for underlying engineering courses. Focuses on developing critical thinking skills along with providing hands-on practical experiences. Focus areas include dimensional analysis, atomic structure, properties of matter, chemical bonding, vectors, vector algebra, derivatives, Newton’s Laws, thermodynamics, etc. Lectures, breakout practice/lab and project sessions.
ENGR 1302 – Logic and Computational Problem-Solving
An immersive project-oriented course where students explore real-world engineering problems, develop methodologies for solving problems logically and with computational tools, and validate solutions. A modern programming language (Python) is introduced.
ENGR 1303 – Engineering Visualization and Graphical Communication
Develop foundational knowledge and skills to effectively visualize and communicate complex three-dimensional designs and data sets. Through hands-on and practical applications, students learn techniques and tools to create visual spatial representations and conduct data analysis that aids in decision-making. Online 2D and 3D applications will be used, as well as spreadsheets and mathematical analysis software.
