ENR 100 - Introduction to Engineering

1 Credit(s)

Unified foundation for all engineering majors. Topics covered include resume preparation, the PE licensure process, professional societies, the engineering design process, technical writing, research, engineering ethics, measurement and uncertainty, common engineering units (both SI and USCS), unit analysis, deductive reasoning, propositional logic, proofs, informal fallacies, cognitive biases, inductive reasoning, the scientific method, and the role of analysis and simulation in the design process. Students will design a real-world engineering system and compose a formal design report in accordance with engineering technical writing standards.