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2024 - 2025 Catalog Year
Engineering and Engineering Technology University Transfer (Full-time)

Degree: Associate of Science
Division: Science, Mathematics and Engineering

Please confirm course list and requirements for transfer and application at the provided pathway link: https://udayton.edu/academy/majors.php

This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.

Fall Semester (First Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: The first course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Topics include limits and continuity, the derivative and its applications including related rates and optimization, L'Hopital's rule, antiderivatives, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, integration by substitution. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.

Prerequisites: MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics.

Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)

Description: A university-parallel course in chemistry for the science major. The first half of a comprehensive first-year survey of chemistry. Topics include the basics of matter, atoms and molecules, chemical reactions, bonding, molecular geometry and gases. Students registering for this course should have previously taken high school chemistry or equivalent. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.

Prerequisites: MAT 0300 or MAT 1450 or MAT 1470 or MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 or MAT 2270 or MAT 2280 or MAT 2290

Corequisites: CHE 1251

Corequisites: CHE 1211

Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.

 

Term hours subtotal:

16

Spring Semester (First Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: The second course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Techniques of integration, applications of integration, numerical integration, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, power series, parametric equations, polar coordinates, conic sections.

Prerequisites: MAT 2270 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: Fundamentals of mechanics including kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, oscillations, gravity, fluids, waves and sound, thermodynamics and kinetic theory, using calculus as appropriate. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Prerequisites: MAT 2270

Corequisites: PHY 2207

Corequisites: PHY 2201

Description: American political system at the national level, including process of government; democratic theory and development of the U. S. Constitution; citizen participation through voting; interest groups and political parties; structure, functions and powers of legislative, executive and judicial branches; issues of civil liberties and equal rights.

Notes: Choose two from: ECO-2160, ECO-2180, PLS-1120, PSY-1100 or SOC-1101 (must be from different subjects) *ECO 2160, ECO 2180, PLS 1120, PSY 1100, or SOC 1101 will meet the social science integrated course requirement at the University of Dayton with the completion of 30 credit hours*

Description: Basic nature of philosophy, its relationship to physical and social sciences and theology and its value to the individual.

Notes: Or PHI-2206

 

Term hours subtotal:

16

Fall Semester (Second Year)
Hours
 

Description: Vectors in the plane and space, dot and cross product of two vectors. Lines, planes and surfaces in space, vector-valued functions, arc length and curvature. Functions of several variables, partial derivatives with applications, multiple integrals with applications, line integrals, surface integrals, vector fields, Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem.

Prerequisites: MAT 2280 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: Electrostatics, DC conduction and circuits, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, quantum mechanics, optics and special relativity. Calculus used extensively. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Prerequisites: PHY 2201 and MAT 2280

Corequisites: PHY 2208

Corequisites: PHY 2202

Description:

Introduction to problem solving and programming using MATLAB. Topics include the MATLAB desktop, arrays, graphics, basic programming concepts and structures such as logical and relational operators, control flow statements, M files, functions and object oriented programming. Applications will be chosen from the sciences and engineering.

Notes: Fall Only

Prerequisites: MAT 1470

Description: Vectorial treatment of forces and moments. Analysis of trusses and frames. Centroids, friction and moment of inertia. Internal shear and moment for beams. Virtual work. This calculus-based course is designed for Engineering University Transfer students. Two classroom, three lab hours per week.

Prerequisites: MAT 2270 and PHY 2201

 

Term hours subtotal:

16

Spring Semester (Second Year)
Elective course signified by
Hours
 

Description: Solutions and applications of ordinary differential equations including separable, exact, homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear equations and others. Numerical approximation methods as well as substitutions, the total differential, separation of variables, integrating factors, undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, Laplace Transforms and power series methods are covered.

Prerequisites: MAT 2280 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: Utilize SolidWorks mechanical design automation software to build parametric models of parts and assemblies and learn how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies. Three classroom, three lab hours per week.

Description:

First and second laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic properties of gases, vapors and gas-vapor mixtures; energy-systems analysis including power cycles, refrigeration cycles and air-conditioning processes. Introduction to thermodynamics of reacting mixtures. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.

Prerequisites: MAT 2270

Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.

Notes: Or COM-2206 *COM 2206 or 2211 will meet the communication requirement at the University of Dayton with the completion of the Associate Degree.*

Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Any other college level English course)

Description: Microeconomic theory including price theory, the theory of the firm, resource demand and wage determination. Also includes public policy toward business, economic inequality, labor, trade, balance of payments and the economics of third-world nations. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.

Notes: Choose two from: ECO-2160, ECO-2180, PLS-1120, PSY-1100 or SOC-1101 (must be from different subjects) *ECO 2160, ECO 2180, PLS 1120, PSY 1100, or SOC 1101 will meet the social science integrated course requirement at the University of Dayton with the completion of 30 credit hours*

Prerequisites: DEV 0035 and MAT 0050 or MAT 1120

 

Term hours subtotal:

17

Summer Semester (Second Year)
Hours
 

Description: English Composition II, building on the skills in English Composition I, develops rhetorical literacy through research, critical reading and multigenre writing tasks. Through major and minor, cumulative and stand-alone assignments, students construct arguments and analyses, ethically incorporating academic sources while developing their own voices as writers and citizens.

Notes: Additional coursework recommended beyond Associate degree requirements

Prerequisites: ENG 1101

Description: Introduction to Western religions and cultural traditions, including beliefs, practices, stories, rituals and historical context.

Notes: Or REL-1111, REL-2204, or REL-2255 - Additional coursework recommended beyond Associate degree requirements

Description:

Introduction to computer-based solution of engineering and engineering technology problems. Includes the fundamentals and applications of computer-based software (MathCAD) and integration with other software for documentation of work, including proper use of units and unit systems. Software solution applications include graphing functions and data, basic statistical calculations, use of matrices, vectors, solution of simultaneous and an introduction to Boolean logic. One-half classroom, one and one-half lab hours per week.

Notes: Additional coursework recommended beyond Associate degree requirements

Prerequisites: MAT 0300 or MAT 1280 or MAT 1470 or MAT 1580

Description:

Stress and deformations, torsions, shear and moments in beams, stresses in beams, beam deflections, combined stresses and eccentric loading. This course is calculus based. One classroom, four lab hours per week.

Notes: Additional coursework recommended beyond Associate degree requirements

Prerequisites: MEE 2101

Description: Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies; acceleration, work, energy, impulse and momentum of particles and rigid bodies. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.

Notes: Additional coursework recommended beyond Associate degree requirements

Prerequisites: MEE 2101

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

This information is for planning purposes only. Sinclair College will make every effort to offer curriculum listed above but reserves the right to change, add and cancel curriculum offerings for unforeseen circumstances. View current catalog.