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.)
Strength of Materials, ENGR 303, 3 credits

2. What is the catalog course description for the course?
Plane stress, plane strain, stress-strain relationship,
and elements of material behavior. Elements of stress and deformation applied to members subject to centric, torsion, flexural and combined loadings. Elementary considerations of theories of failure, buckling, repeated and impact loads.

3. What are the prerequisites or other background required of students for this course? Are these requirements adequate?
Math 192 and ENGR 220 are the prerequisites. An additional math course would be helpful.

4. How does this course fit into the departmental program?
This course is taught at all engineering colleges, usually as a core requirement in several engineering fields.

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 Industrial Engineering majors and pre-engineering students, particularly those wanting to major in civil and mechanical engineering.

6. How is this course important to a particular field of study?
This course develops the fundamental relationship between the applied forces and internal effects and sets the transition to application. It permits the student to take up where the theories leave off and provides a means for the development of engineering judgment.


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 is more applied to a specific engineering area than the other engineering science courses.

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.
Many of the mathematical methods used are similar to those in Engineering Statics. However this course is at a more advanced level and extends beyond the theoretical approach.

9. When, how and by whom is this course taught?
The course has generally been taught in the evenings in the fall semester by part-time faculty (Susan Foss).

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