ENGN - Engineering
Success skills for new engineering students. Introductory overview of the college's different majors leading into the profession of engineering.
Exploration of topics in the sciences and technologies of civil, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing and computer engineering. Course outcomes include study skills for engineering students and development of foundational skills including application of the Engineering Design Process to solve an engineering problem.
This course introduces engineering and engineering technology disciplines, and develops problem-solving and teamwork skills required in the design and commissioning of an engineered product. Students will collaborate in hands-on, group projects to understand the engineering design process and explore roles and responsibilities in an engineering team. Students will develop technical skills, such as identifying, formulating, and solving engineering problems, prototype creation and testing, representation and analysis of data using software packages to form conclusions and solve problems. Students will also learn professional skills needed to become successful engineering students and engineers including, but not limited to teamwork, project management, communication (written, oral, and graphical), engineering ethics, information literacy, and critical reading skills.
Introduction to engineering problem-solving through computer programming. Topics include computational thinking, program design, algorithm development, and testing. Programming language concepts will include variables, data types and expressions, assignment, control-flow statements, and functions. Laboratory exercises involve C++ and Matlab to solve engineering problems (information processing, simulation, data analysis).
Introduction to engineering problem-solving through computer programming. Topics include computational thinking, program design, algorithm development, and testing. Programming language concepts will include variables, data types and expressions, assignment, control-flow statements, and functions. Laboratory exercises involve C++ to solve engineering problems (information processing, simulation, data analysis).
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary topics for first year students enrolled in engineering or engineering technology majors.
Provides an introduction to career and employment preparation skills such as resume development, interviews, and internship and job seeking strategies for engineers.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary topics for second year students enrolled in engineering or engineering technology majors.
This course prepares the engineering and engineering technology students for the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination.
This course introduces Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) types and platforms (such as multirotor, fixed wing, hybrids) and explores mission planning, applications, payloads, flight authorization processes, and crew resource management. Additionally, this course introduces operation of autonomous vehicles in the National Airspace System including Universal Traffic Management, radio frequency allocations, and airport usage, including knowledge of government and industry compliance standards. Attention will be paid to topics of system integration for operations efficiency, risk management, safety, and human factors and human / machine interface in autonomous systems. Includes case studies.
A look at engineering multi-rotor Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) design. Course topics will include Stability and control of UAS, Electric propulsion and battery technology. Overview of sensors (lidar, sonar, vision etc.); autopilot design and automatic control; airframe structural design of UAS; Flight dynamics and simulation for UAS. Accompanying laboratory topics include motor/propeller testing, building small quadcopters, understanding system elements, PID tuning, programming UAS, and autonomous drone operations. Students will learn to specify all components including motors, propellers, power system, autopilot, GPS, power monitor, frame, etc. Additional topics will include autopilot setup, firmware configuration, telemetry configuration, ground station setup and sensor specifications and integration (lidar, sonar, radar, optical flow). Mission planning, and test flights will complete the course.
This course covers fixed wing aerodynamics and aircraft performance, propeller performance; basic stability and automatic control of aircraft. Introduction to vertical takeoff and landing, hybrid UAS design including tail sitting and lift-to-cruise configurations. Electric propulsion: motor selection, prop matching and system integration. Basic airframe structural design methods. Instrumentation for autonomous flight. Accompanying laboratory topics include: building small fixed wing/VTOL aircraft; autopilot configuration; flight test, planning and operations.
This interdisciplinary class is a mission based, collaborative course with majors across the college working alongside industry partners and or mentors. Students will work in teams to research, design, build (or rebuild existing) Unmanned Vehicles and apply them toward ecologically, humanitarian or 'customer based' focused projects.
Special interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary topics of interest with emphasis on emerging areas in engineering.
This course is designed to provide engineers and engineering technologists with the knowledge, skills and experience needed to create products and services that will be attractive to consumer markets and to bring those products and services to market in new commercial ventures. Topics covered include: how to evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities in the engineering field; elements of a viable business plan; governance models; management succession planning; use of social media; and creating an ethical engineering enterprise in the global economy.
This course covers the concepts, skills, and characteristics of effective and successful entrepreneurial leaders in the 21st century. The course covers leadership for entrepreneurial engineers through case studies and literature review in areas such as the fundamentals of leadership, ethical leadership, social capital, emotional intelligence, and three-dimensional leadership.
This course is the capstone of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation graduate certificate for engineers. With data and expertise through prior certificate coursework, students develop and present a comprehensive and viable entrepreneurial business plan in engineering. Topics covered include: Product lifecycle management, marketing and strategic planning, entrepreneurial finance, and effective presentation techniques. The final presentation is delivered to a panel of ODU faculty and engineering practitioners who provide sound feedback to the student.
A one-semester course covering advanced topics in bioelectrics. The course will cover advanced application of pulsed power and plasma in the medical, biological and environmental fields. (Cross-listed with ECE 630).
Nuclear power and nuclear energy; solar energy; wind energy; geothermal energy; hydroelectric power; hydrogen as energy resource; hydrogen fuel cells; hybrid technologies; global economics and environmental impacts of carbon-free energy.
System management principles; energy systems safety and security; automation and control; environmental effects and comparative risk assessment; energy storage; carbon sequestration; energy systems scale up issues; energy systems integration; hybrid systems; energy systems optimization; effects of public policies on energy systems management.
Special interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary topics of interest with emphasis on emerging areas in engineering.
Individual analytical, experimental, computational and/or design study selected by the student and supervised by the course instructor.
Critical evaluation of published literature; experimental design and analysis; optimization methods; pre-project planning; definition of scope, projects risks, technical, economical, social, and political constraints; execution strategies; effective proposal development.
Effective communication techniques, strategic planning, building collaborative relationships, conflict management, building high-performance teams, risk management, managing innovations.
Scope of engineering ethics, moral reasoning and ethical theories, the engineer's responsibility for safety, responsibilities to the employer, responsibilities to the public, rights of engineers, global issues, professional codes of ethics, case studies.
This course is a pass/fail course for master's students in their final semester. It may be taken to fulfill the registration requirement necessary for graduation. All master's students are required to be registered for at least one graduate credit hour in the semester of their graduation.