Proposed Core Category
Component Area Option (CAO) B [90]
The Engineering Curriculum Team representative, Jamie Turner, has submitted a Core course proposal to add ENGR 2301, Engineering Mechanics: Statics, to the LSC Core in the Component Area Option (CAO) B [90] area.
Application Documents
- Application
- Syllabus
- Additional Documentation
Course Description
Basic theory of engineering mechanics, using calculus, involving the description of forces, moments, and couples acting on stationary engineering structures; equilibrium in two and three dimensions; free-body diagrams; friction; centroids; centers of gravity; and moments of inertia.
Prerequisites
PHYS 2425 - University Physics I (4)
Corequisites
MATH 2414 - Calculus II (4) - completed or concurrent enrollment
Student Learning Outcomes
- State the fundamental principles used in the study of mechanics.
- Define magnitude and directions of forces and moments and identify associated scalar and vector products.
- Draw free body diagrams for two- and three-dimensional force systems.
- Solve problems using the equations of static equilibrium.
- Compute the moment of force about a specified point or line.
- Replace a system of forces by an equivalent simplified system.
- Analyze the forces and couples acting on a variety of objects.
- Determine unknown forces and couples acting on objects in equilibrium..
- Analyze simple trusses using the method of joints or the method of sections.
- Determine the location of the centroid and the center of mass for a system of discrete particles and for objects of arbitrary shape.
- Analyze structures with a distributed load.
- Calculate moments of inertia for lines, areas, and volumes.
- Apply the parallel axis theorem to compute moments of inertia for composite regions.
- Solve problems involving equilibrium of rigid bodies subjected to a system of forces and moments that include friction.
- Solve problems involving dry sliding friction, including problems with wedges and belts.