COURSE FACT SHEET FOR PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PROGRAM REVIEW

1. Title, Course, Number, and Credit Hours. (Explain credit load of course if it is in some way unusual.)
Engineering Dynamics, ENGR 302 , 3 credits

2. What is the catalog course description for the course?
Dynamics and kinematics of particles and rigid bodies in rectangular, polar and spherical
coordinates. Work-energy and impulse-momentum theorems for rigid body motion.
Oscillations of particles and systems. Applications to engineering systems.

3. What are the prerequisites or other background required of students for this course? Are these requirements adequate?
ENGR 220 and Math 192 are the prerequisites which are necessary and adequate.

4. How does this course fit into the departmental program?
This is a required course for Engineering Physics and Industrial Engineering students as well as for pre-engineering students.

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 all engineering students ( industrial engineering, engineering physics
and pre-engineering).

6. How is this course important to a particular field of study?
This is a fundamental problem solving engineering course.

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?
This course requires more advanced math skills than Statics or Physics 251. This course is
taught at all engineering schools and most junior colleges with engineering transfer
programs.

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 requires more advanced math skills than Statics or Physics 251. It is also more
intensely oriented towards developing problem solving skills than Physics 251.


9. When, how and by whom is this course taught?
This course has taught in the evening in the spring semester, during alternate years. Dr.
Burns teaches this course .

10. Are the current holdings of the O'Keefe Library adequate to support this course or are additional materials needed?
Yes, in particular the computers can be used to run the supplementary software.