Engineering (ENGR)

ENGR10
Freshman Engineering Seminar

Description: Overview of the engineering field as well as major specific information. Information will be provided to help with transitional needs to UNL and the College of Engineering (time management, study skills, and resources), involvement opportunities (student organizations, research, and study abroad), learning about engineering, and interactive learning to increase non-technical complete engineer competencies. Open only to first-year students considering or admitted to the College of Engineering.

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Credit Hours:0
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Grading Option:Pass No Pass
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:0

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ENGR20
Sophomore Engineering Seminar

Description: Overview of career opportunities in engineering and construction management. Emphasizes internships, cooperative education and career placement.

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Credit Hours:0
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Grading Option:Pass No Pass

Credit Hours:0

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ENGR100
Interpersonal Skills for Engineering Leaders

Prerequisites: Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of: ALEC 102, ENGR 100, or ENGR 100H

Description: Establishes a foundation in communication and leadership skills that is needed for engineering students to be successful in their academic endeavors and future career opportunities. Introduction to the principles and practices of positive interpersonal relationships for leadership development. Self-awareness, awareness of others, effective interpersonal communication, and the building of trust relationships as a basis for understanding and developing leadership.

This course is a prerequisite for: CSCE 488

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 2 Communication Competence
Experiential Learning:Community Engagement

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 2 Communication Competence

ENGR100H
Honors: Interpersonal Skills for Engineering Leaders

Prerequisites: Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of: ALEC 102, ENGR 100, or ENGR 100H

Covers same topics as ENGR 100 but in greater depth. Students in Honors lab section will be expected to complete this work through presentations, writing assignments, and specific Service Learning Project.

Description: Establishes a foundation in communication and leadership skills that is needed for engineering students to be successful in their academic endeavors and future career opportunities. Introduction to the principles and practices of positive interpersonal relationships for leadership development. Self-awareness, awareness of others, effective interpersonal communication, and the building of trust relationships as a basis for understanding and developing leadership.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR
ACE Outcomes: ACE 2 Communication Competence

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 2 Communication Competence

ENGR101
Introduction to Engineering

Description: Students will examine relevant and practical industrial and commercial engineering applications to gain necessary engineering skills that will help them succeed as a student as well as a professional engineer. A variety of engineering disciplines will be highlighted and discussed, as well as topics in the underlying physical, chemical, and biological scientific principles and processes related to each topic. The class will use a specified focus area that involves real world applications to aid in the conceptualization and learning of the course material. Students will develop engineering problem solving skills; gain expertise and experience using modern engineering and computational tools; and emulate an engineering team atmosphere - each of which can be applied to a professional engineering environment.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR191
Freshman Engineering Special Topics

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

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ENGR193
Kiewit Scholars Freshman Seminar

Prerequisites: Must be a Kiewit Scholar.

Description: Introduction to The Complete Engineer competencies with an emphasis on leadership and communication. Establishes what it means to be a Complete Engineer and demonstrates and develops the competencies, including industry mentorship from Kiewit. Skills will include greater self-awareness, understanding the complexities of leadership in today's world, and understanding the dynamics of interpersonal communication.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:2
Grading Option:Pass No Pass
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:1

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ENGR200
Professionalism and Global Perspective

Description: Enhance essential professional skills for personal and team success through investigating issues in a global context. Explore in-demand professional aptitudes (self-awareness, emotional intelligence, teamwork, communication, and workplace interaction expectations). Through industry/community interaction, explore cultural and business norms and the application of broader perspectives to identify issues/solutions responsive and adaptive to their global context

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGR 320

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 6 Social Science

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 6 Social Science

ENGR220
Technical Communication ICrosslisted with JGEN 200

Description: Introduction to written and oral communication and document design principles and strategies as applied in the sciences and technology. Communications for various audiences and/or purposes and/or situations.

This course is a prerequisite for: ECEN 494; ECEN 496; MECH 380

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGR250
Engineering Cooperative Education

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; permission of College of Engineering Dean's Office and department chair of student's engineering major.

All students in engineering participating in cooperative education must register each term prior to commencing work. P/N only. Special approval is required to take course for credit.

Description: Cooperative education work in a regularly established cooperative education work-study program in any engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:0-12
Max credits per semester:12
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Pass No Pass

Credit Hours:0-12

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ENGR291
Sophomore Engineering Special Topics

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

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ENGR300
Principles of Nuclear Engineering

Description: Introduction to nuclear engineering principles.

This course is a prerequisite for: MECH 421, MECH 821, ENGR 421

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1

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ENGR302
Introduction to Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Concepts

Description: History of nuclear development, basic concepts of radiation and radioactivity, radioactive waste management, global warming and the impact of nuclear power plants. Industrial applications, health physics, and nuclear medicine. Job opportunities at power plants, graduate school, and national laboratories. Tour of the University of Texas nuclear research reactor and demonstration experiments.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGR 402; MECH 421, MECH 821, ENGR 421

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1

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ENGR310
Utilization of Nuclear Technologies in Society

Description: The applications of nuclear science to society and the fundamental radiation principles utilized in these applications.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGR 411; MECH 421, MECH 821, ENGR 421

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR320
Leadership, Management and Ethics

Prerequisites: ENGR 200

Description: Explore professional leadership, ethics, project management tools and skills, and how to successfully implement and respond to change. In a team based environment, enhance essential professional skills for personal and team success by developing and presenting a responsive proposal considering: client needs, basic project controls and scheduling. Learn about personal styles, motivation and effectively implementing change. Examine ethical dilemmas regarding principles, stewardship, and civics from ethical, legal, and expediency perspectives.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship ACE 6 Social Science

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship ACE 6 Social Science

ENGR350
Engineering Cooperative Education

Prerequisites: Junior standing; permission of College of Engineering Dean's Office and department chair of student's engineering major.

All students in engineering participating in cooperative education must register each term prior to commencing work. P/N only. Special approval is required to take course for credit.

Description: Cooperative education work in a regularly established cooperative education work-study program in any engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:0-12
Max credits per semester:12
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Pass No Pass

Credit Hours:0-12

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ENGR391
Junior Engineering Special Topics

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

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ENGR395
Engineering Internship

Prerequisites: Undergraduate major in the College of Engineering; sophomore standing; permission from instructor.

Description: Provides an opportunity to reflect on experience gained through an internship related to the major field of study and an integral or important part of their program of study. Develop non-technical professional skills through reflective writing assignments. May be repeated.

Course details
Credit Hours:0-1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Pass No Pass
Offered:FALL/SPR
Experiential Learning:Internship/Co-op

Credit Hours:0-1

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ENGR400
Professional Ethics and Social Responsibilities

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Professional relations, personal requirements, civic responsibilities, and ethical obligations for engineering practice. Legal registration of engineers and architects. Subprofessional and professional services. Changing conditions in engineering practice. Requirements for placement in engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Pass No Pass
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:1

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ENGR402
Energy Systems and Resources

Prerequisites: ENGR 301.

Description: Energy as a critical component of civilization. The critical role of energy from the economic and political point of view world wide. Energy resources available, the technology to use the resources, the economics of energy production, the environmental consequences of energy use, and energy policy.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR410
Radiation Protection and Shielding

Prerequisites: MATH 221 and ENGR 421.

Description: Basic principles and concepts of radiation protection and shield design. Dosi-metric units and response functions, hazards of radiation doses, radiation sources, basic methods for dose evaluation, and shielding design techniques for photons and neutrons.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR411
Nuclear Reactor Theory

Prerequisites: ENGR 310.

Description: Introduction to neutron diffusion theory, neutron moderation, neutron thermalization, and criticality condition of nuclear reactor.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGR 412

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR412
Nuclear Reactor Analysis

Prerequisites: ENGR 411.

Description: Group diffusion method, multiregional reactors, heterogeneous reactors, reactor kinetics, and change in reactivity.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR420
Nuclear Reactor Engineering

Prerequisites: MECH 421/821/ENGR 421.

Description: The physics governing nuclear reactors and the design principles for commercial nuclear power plants. Reactor designs currently operating in the power industry.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR421
Elements of Nuclear EngineeringCrosslisted with MECH 421, MECH 821

Prerequisites: ENGR 300 or ENGR 301 or ENGR 310; MATH 208/MATH 208H; and PHYS 212/PHYS 212H

Description: Survey of nuclear engineering concepts and applications. Nuclear reactions, radioactivity, radiation interaction with matter, reactor physics, risk and dose assessment, applications in medicine, industry, agriculture, and research.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGR 410; ENGR 420

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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ENGR447
Multi-disciplinary Engineering Capstone

Prerequisites: Senior standing, professional admission to an engineering program, and instructor permission.

Description: Definition, scope, analysis, synthesis, and the design for the solution of a comprehensive engineering problem in any major area of engineering, with emphasis on multi-disciplinary engineering problems.

Course details
Credit Hours:2-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded
Experiential Learning:Student Teaching/Education Practicum

Credit Hours:2-6

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ENGR450
Engineering Cooperative Education

Prerequisites: Senior standing; permission of College of Engineering Dean's Office and department chair of student's engineering major.

All students in engineering participating in cooperative education must register each term prior to commencing work. Pass/No Pass only. Special approval is required to take course for credit.

Description: Cooperative education work in a regularly established cooperative work-study program in any engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:0-12
Max credits per semester:12
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Pass No Pass

Credit Hours:0-12

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ENGR469
Technology, Science and Civilization

Prerequisites: Senior standing

Description: Study of the development of technology as a trigger of change upon humankind, from the earliest tools of Homo habilis to the advent of the radio telescope in exploring the creation of the universe. Tracing paths from early science to development of the sciences and technologies that dominate the new millennium.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship

ENGR490
Global Experiences

Prerequisites: Permission.

Choice of subject matter and coordination of on- and off-campus activities are at the discretion of the instructor.

Description: Individual or group educational experience combining classroom lectures, discussions, and/or seminars with field and/or classroom studies in a foreign country.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Graded
Experiential Learning:Education Abroad

Credit Hours:1-3

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ENGR491
Senior Engineering Special Topics

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

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ENGR493
Kiewit Scholars Advanced Seminar

Prerequisites: Students must be in good standing in the Kiewit Scholar program.

Description: Focuses on developing and fostering community, gaining exposure to industry leaders and mentors, and enhancing self-awareness and leadership skills.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Pass No Pass
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:1

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