Not only Liberal Arts but also scientific culture will be taught in new courses for Spring 2015 at the SU Florence Center
Contact Gael Noyes at SU Abroad: gknoyes@syr.edu or (315) 443-0252
The SU Florence Center is now home to the essential spring semester courses for second-year students in aerospace, civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering. Enjoy a semester abroad without falling behind on your track to graduate!
You’ll also have access to all of the field trips and community engagement opportunities that SU Florence has to offer. A minimum 3.0 GPA is required to apply, though students with a GPA between 2.5 and 3.0 may petition to enter the program.
To apply, visit suabroad.syr.edu/admissions and begin your online application.
CIE 274: Sustainability in Civil and Environmental
Systems (3 credits) spring only
Introduction to systems theory and concepts applied to natural and built environments. Sustainability, ecosystems, mass and energy balances, chemical transformation and reactions. Basic principles for sustainable civil and environmental engineering design and decision making.
Prerequisites: CHE 106 (General Chemistry Lecture I) OR 109 (General Chemistry Lecture I, Honors and Majors) OR 151 (General Chemistry for Engineers Laboratory) AND
MAT 296 (Calculus II)
ECS 325: Mechanics of Solids (4 credits) spring only
Theory of deformation, stress, stress resultants, transformation. Elastic and inelastic constitutive behavior. Equilibrium. Tension and torsion of bars; flexure and shear of beams; pressure vessels. Thermoelasticity. Elastic and inelastic stability. Energy methods. Prerequisites: ECS221(Statics) and MAT 397 (Calculus III)
ECS 222: Dynamics (3 credits) spring only Dynamics of a particle. Newton’s law and D’Alembert’s principle. Plane motion. Cartesian, polar, and local
coordinates. Energy and momentum methods. Motion of a rigid body. Review of vector algebra and moments of inertia. Prerequisites: MAT 296 (Calculus II) AND ECS 221
(Statics)
MAE 251: Thermodynamics (3 credits) spring only
Basic concepts in engineering thermodynamics. Thermodynamic properties of solids, liquids, and gases. First and second laws of thermodynamics. Reversible and irreversible processes. Entropy equation. Energy analysis of basic cycles.
Prerequisite: PHY 211 (General Physics I) OR 215 (General Physics I, Honors and Majors)
MAT 485: Differential Equations and Matrix Algebra for Engineers (3 credits) spring only
Solution of ordinary differential equations, including series methods. Vector spaces, matrix algebra, rank, linear systems, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Credit not given
for both MAT 485 and MAT 414, nor for both MAT 331 and 485. Prerequisite: MAT 397 (Calculus III)
