COURSE FACT SHEET FOR DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM REVIEW

1. Title, Course, Number, and Credit Hours. (Explain credit load of course if it is in some way unusual.)
Engineering Statics, ENGR 220, 2 credits

2. What is the catalog course description for the course?
Vector and scalar treatment of forces. Resultants, equilibrium, friction, centroids, moments and products of inertia, external and internal forces. Applications to pulleys, trusses, frames, beams, friction.

3. What are the prerequisites or other background required of students for this course? Are these requirements adequate?
Math 192 and Physics 251 are adequate prerequisites.

4. How does this course fit into the departmental program?
Statics is a prerequisite for many upper level engineering courses. This course gives students the first opportunity to use their science and mathematics background for solving problems that are specifically engineering.

5. At what type of student is this course aimed? What gaps or needs in the curriculum is this course intended to fill?
This course is aimed at Engineering Physics majors, Industrial Engineering majors and pre-
engineering students. The level of problem solving is not reached in any other introductory
engineering course.

6. How is this course important to a particular field of study?
This course requires a background in physics and math, and is aimed at developing problem
solving skills.

7. How is this course different from any other courses in the catalog or why must the material covered in the course be treated separately instead of being incorporated into another course?
Engineering curricula require a separate course in Statics or Engineering Mechanics.

8. If this course is similar to another course in the catalog, explain why both courses should exist or suggest whether something should be dropped or changed.
This course uses the principles, theories and methods of Physics 251. However, the level of
problem-solving is more involved and this course is specifically required in Engineering
curricula.

9. When, how and by whom is this course taught?
This course has been taught in the day in the fall semester by Dr. Burns and has been taught
in the evening in the spring semester by part-time staff. It is now planned to teach this
course only one time each year and alternate day and evening offerings.

10. Are the current holdings of the O'Keefe Library adequate to support this course or are additional materials needed?
Yes.