ENGR 333 - Engineering Fluid Mechanics (3 credits). (Prereq: ENGR 244 and ENGR 323, or permission of the instructor) This course develops methods for analyzing fluid behavior while at rest or in motion starting from Newton’s Laws and control volume concepts. Important representations for fluid kinematics are developed, such as streamlines and students are introduced to the Reynold’s Transport theorem. Energy and momentum methods of fluid dynamics problem solving are developed and applied to engineering problems in the design of pipe flow systems. S.

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The program's accrediting body, ABET, revised and updated their student learning outcomes and curriculum requirements effective this academic year. As a new program going for initial accreditation in 2020, the revisions necessitated a significant redesign of the Engineering Science program's major requirements, pattern of course offerings, and required and elective courses. A significant program outcome is to prepare graduates for professional licensure. A gap analysis was performed against ABET’s new curricular requirements as well as the latest content of the relevant license exams and the creation of several new courses was warranted, with subsequent accommodating adjustments to existing courses. This course creation addresses a need directly identified in the above analysis, specifically for an intermediate fluid mechanics course, required of all program majors, that focuses on engineering applications, such as pipe network design. Currently, the department offers a more advanced course in fluid mechanics ENGR/PHYS 430 Fluid Mechanics, but this course will be temporarily retired, repurposed to focus solely on differential flow analysis and set as a requirement in a future concentration proposal that is outside the scope of the current program changes. See attachments for details.

The main impact will be positive. Engineering science students will receive focused education in a critical area of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, which will increase their preparation for the licensure process post-graduation, rather than splitting the instructional time spent on these concepts with other more specialized and advances concepts.

A new lab fee $75 is requested, to fund acquisition of new lab and demo equipment and to maintain existing equipment and supplies which will now be dual-used (and bear an expanded user base) between ENGR 333 and ENGR 430.

The department currently offers the more advanced ENGR 430/PHYS 430 Fluid Mechanics course every S term anyway. The plan to temporarily suspend offering that course and begin offering the proposed ENGR 333 course in it's place means there will be no change in teaching loads.

Are any of the new resources needed for Accreditation purposes? Yes

A Lab fee of $75 is requested to generate funds to obtain new capital equipment for demonstrations and laboratories, and to maintain existing equipment. Substantial laboratory development is necessary for achievement of Program student learning outcomes, which has an impact on accreditation. ABET accreditation Criterion 7: Facilities establishes the standard to which laboratory support for instruction should attain to. The manual for ABET Program Evaluators (PEVs) persons states that facilities, including labs must be (1) “Adequate to support attainment of student outcomes and provide an atmosphere conducive to learning”, that Program facilities contain (2) “Modern tools, equipment , computing resources, and laboratories”, and that Program facilities be (3) “available, accessible, and systematically maintained and upgraded.” Source: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2019-2020/#GC7