Curricular Items
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008Curricular Items
Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
Program Revision:
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Technology (0832)
New Course:
ENT 420 Professional Experience in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Corequisites/Prerequisites: ENT 335, ENT 411, and ENT 421. Prerequisites: ENT 301, ENT 302, ENT 311, ENT 312, ENT 331, ENT 401, TEC 201, and TEC 311. Exposure to professional engineering design concepts/methodologies; MET portfolio development and evaluation of MET subject matter necessary for the senior design project; senior design project proposal development. Required for mechanical engineering technology program.
Course Revisions:
CIS 400 Visual Basic Programming for the Windows Environment. Prerequisite: CIS 251 or CIS 361. Students gain experience with an object-oriented, event-driven programming language using a modern integrated development environment. Students write programs utilizing basic data types, control structures, multiple forms, user-defined classes, arrays, and collections and access data from forms, files, and databases.
ENT 422 Machine Design II. Prerequisite: ENT 420.Advanced topics in machine design. Students design a major project involving preliminary analysis, working drawings, fabrications, and testing of a prototype. Required for mechanical engineering technology majors.
Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation:
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY and HUMANITIES
TEC 319 Technology and Values. Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Social and ethical impacts of technology; the often-conflicting roles of historical and current creators and users of technology; examination of selected current technical-ethical issues of societal importance.
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:
New Courses:
ENT 102 Introduction to Equation-Solving Software
ENT 314 Solid Modeling
SCI 503 Initial Science Teaching Experience
SCI 550 Professional Development in Science Education
