ES 138 - Engineering Concepts

Credit Hours: 1

An orientation course that focuses on the engineering field, with a discussion of past and present engineering trends and visitation lectures by various local practicing engineers and four-year engineering college transfer representatives. Basic technical skills such as computations and graphing are also covered.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

state the differences between technical team members: technician, technologist, and engineer;
explain some of the history of engineering;
choose a specific field of engineering that they will pursue;
specify which university they plan on transferring to upon graduation from SUNY Erie; and
perform approximate math computations without the use of a calculator.

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