Curriculum

Sample Schedule for A.S. Degree Full-time Students

Below is a sample schedule showing courses that A.S. degree students should take during their first two years at a community college and the second two years at FSU's program at Cecil College.

First Year - Fall

Arts and humanities general education 3
Physics I 4
Freshman Composition 3
Calculus I 4
TOTAL 14

First Year - Spring

Statics 3
Intro. to Engineering Design 3
Physics II 4
Calculus II 4
Arts and humanities general education 3
TOTAL 17

 

Sophomore Year - Fall

General Chemistry I 4
Physics III 4
Thermodynamics 3
Differential Equations 3
Mechanics of Materials 3
TOTAL 17

Sophomore Year - Spring

Social sciences general education 6
Dynamics 3
Calculus III 4
Other elective (either general education or engineering based on community college requirements) 3-4
TOTAL 15-16

 

Junior Year - Fall

ENME 350 Electronics and Instrumentation I 3
ENME 331 Fluid Mechanics 3
ENES 300-level Programming Concepts course 4
ENGL 338 Technical Writing 3
TOTAL 13

Junior Year - Spring

ENME 351 Electronics and Instrumentation II 3
ENME 382 Engineering Materials and Mfg. Processes 3
ENME 332 Transfer Processes 3
ENME 373 Advanced Computer-Aided Design 3
TOTAL 12

 

Senior Year - Fall

ENES 401 Fundamentals of Energy Engineering 3
Technical Elective (300-400 level ENES, ENME, or ENEE course, or CHEM 304) 3
ENES 491 Seminar 3
Identity and Difference course 3
Arts/Humanities GEP course 3
TOTAL 15

Senior Year - Spring

ENME 405 Fundamentals of Materials Engineering 4
ENEE 408 Capstone Design Project 3
ENME 425 Microfabrication 3
Technical elective (300-400 level ENES, ENME, or ENEE course, or CHEM 304) 3
Elective (any) 3-4
TOTAL 16-17

Possible Technical Electives:

  • CHEM 304 Computational Techniques in Chemistry
  • ENES 401 Fundamentals of Energy Engineering
  • ENME 361 Vibration, Controls and Optimization I
  • ENME 371 Product Engineering and Manufacturing
  • ENME 391 Statistical Methods for Product and Process Devleopment
  • ENME 400 Machine Design
  • ENME 488 Special Problems in Mechanical Engineering
    • Mechanics of Composite Materials
    • Introduction to Ceramics
    • Introduction to Polymers
    • Materials and Processes for Micro/Nanoscale Systems (MEMS)
    • Steel: Processing and Properties
    • Electromechanical Properties
    • Fracture of Materials
    • Corrosion
    • Biomaterials
    • Phase Transformation in Solids
    • Modeling and Simulation of Materials
    • Finite Element Analysis