Approved Courses
The following list includes undergraduate courses that have been approved as of June 2010. Courses added after that date do not appear in this list. Courses eliminated after that date may still appear. Not every course is offered regularly. Students should consult the Schedule of Classes at www.testudo.umd.edu to ascertain which courses are actually offered during a given semester.
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
| Number |
|
Eligibility |
| 000-099 |
|
Non-credit course |
| 100-199 |
|
Primarily freshman course |
| 200-299 |
|
Primarily sophomore course |
| 300-399 |
|
Junior, senior course not acceptable for credit toward graduate degrees |
| 386-387 |
|
Campus-wide internship courses; refer to information describing Experiential Learning |
| 400-499 |
|
Junior, senior course acceptable for credit toward some graduate degree |
| 500-599 |
|
Professional School course (Dentistry, Architecture, Law, Medicine) or post-baccalaureate course |
| 600-899 |
|
Course restricted to graduate students |
| 799 |
|
Master Thesis credit |
| 899 |
|
Doctoral Dissertation credit |
Use the search box below to view the approved courses.
Courses in "ENES-Engineering Science"
ENES - Engineering Science
ENES 100 Introduction to Engineering Design (3)
One hour of lecture, two hours of laboratory, and two hours of
discussion/recitation per week. Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in
MATH140.
Students work as teams to design and build a product using computer
software for word-processing, spreadsheet, CAD, and communication
skills.
ENES 102 Mechanics I (3)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of discussion/recitation per week.
Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in MATH140. Restriction: Must be in a
major in ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering. Formerly: ENES110.
The equilibrium of stationary bodies under the influence of various
kinds of forces. Forces, moments, couples, equilibrium, trusses, frames
and machines, centroids, moment of inertia, beams, friction,
stress/strain, material properties. Vector and scalar methods are used
to solve problems.
ENES 104 Introduction to Materials and their Applications (3)
Restriction: Must be in the Young Scholars Program.
Creating a new technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, or plastic
electronics requires developing the materials first. In this class we'll
explore materials science and engineering where engineers change the
properties and/or behavior of a material to make them more useful. The
course covers the chemical composition, phase transformations, corrosion
and mechanical properties of materials as well as their electrical,
thermal, magnetic and optical properties. Learn about the unlimited
possibilities for innovation and adaption through the exciting field of
nanotechnology.
ENES 106 Achieving Success in Mathematics (3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
An exploration of the skills and habits needed to successfully complete
introductory mathematics courses.
ENES 107 Achieving College Excellence (1-3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
An exploration of the skills and habits needed to successfully complete
the introductory chemistry course for engineering students. Course will
also include strategies for a successful first year experience.
ENES 113 Virtus Living and Learning Community Seminar I (1)
Restriction: Must be in first year Virtus program.
The seminar focuses on personal and professional development related to
the field of engineering with a strong emphasis on clarifying career
goals and decisions. Additional topics include an introduction to basic
tools, undergraduate research opportunities, and campus and engineering
resources.
ENES 115 FLEXUS Living and Learning Community Seminar I (1)
Restriction: Must be a first year FLEXUS Participant (coded as WCY).
The seminar focuses on personal and professional development related to
the field of engineering with a strong emphasis on clarifying career
goals and decisions. Additional topics include an introduction to campus
and engineering resources, basic tools, and undergraduate research
opportunities. Students will discuss issues of concern through a variety
of book readings, self-reflections, and panel discussions with
practicing women engineers.
ENES 116 FLEXUS Living and Learning Community Seminar II (1)
Prerequisite: ENES215, ENES115, and ENES116. Restriction: Must be a
second year FLEXUS participant (coded as WCY).
The seminar focuses on personal and professional development by
enhancing technical ability, understanding educational options through
minors and student projects in engineering, identifying and employing
strategies and skills for academic and professional success, and
developing career commitment through networking and mentoring. Students
develop professional portfolios in preparation for a future internship
or job.
ENES 140 Discovering New Ventures (3)
Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Additional information: This course may count as an elective for a
student at the University of Maryland, depending on the student's
specific degree program. It cannot be counted towards the requirements
for the Smith School of Business Entrepreneurship Fellow Program.
Students explore dynamic company startup topics by working in teams to
design a new venture. This multi-disciplinary course helps students to
learn the basic business, strategy, and leadership skills needed to
launch new ventures. Topics include learning how to assess the
feasibility of a startup venture, as well as how to apply best practices
for planning, launching, and managing new companies. Students discuss a
wide range of issues of importance and concern to entrepreneurs and
learn to recognize opportunities, assess the skills and talents of
successful entrepreneurs, and learn models that help them navigate
uncertainty.
ENES 141 Introduction to High-Tech Product Development and Marketing (3)
Multi-disciplinary course covers basic concepts in technology marketing,
business, engineering, and entrepreneurship in the context of developing
and marketing innovative technology products and services. Mix of
lectures, experiential learning, and hands-on team projects, culminating
in student team presentations of high-tech product concepts and
marketing plans.
ENES 142 Introduction to Innovative Thinking and Creativity (3)
Methods for improving the flexibility and originality of thinking and
exploring multiple approaches to creating and sustaining high levels of
innovation. Topics include personal thinking preferences, eliminating
mental blocks, creative thinking techniques, idea selection approaches,
teaming techniques for creativity, design for interaction, and
intellectual property.
ENES 143 Communication Essentials for Entrepreneurs (3)
Credit only granted for: ARCH403, COMM107, COMM200, ENES143, HLTH420,
INAG110, JOUR130, or THET285.
Learn the processes and skills needed to give effective business
presentations related to start-up ventures. Focus on how to research
topics and companies; organize material based on speaking goals;
analyze audience groups to meet speaking expectations; prepare
informative and compelling presentation slides; deliver speeches
professionally and effectively, and actively listen and provide speaker
feedback to fellow students.
ENES 151 EES Fellows First Year Seminar I (1)
Restriction: Restricted to EES Fellows students.
This course is designed to prepare you to be successful in your first
year in engineering, and throughout your educational career and work
experiences. We will discuss Clark School education and research
programs, the future of engineering, engineering as a profession,
student communities and projects, and success skills.
ENES 152 Engineering Transfer Seminar I (1)
Restriction: Restricted to EES Fellow students and new transfer
students.
An introduction to University life for new transfer engineering
students. Students will explore how to successfully bridge the gap
between the community college and the university. Students will explore
campus resources and learn about internships, undergraduate research,
study abroad and other academic opportunities. During the semester we
will focus on areas that promote academic success and time management,
effective study skills, career decision-making, and student development
processes will also be explored.
ENES 181 Dialogue with the Dean (1)
Restriction: Must be in a major in ENGR-A. James Clark School of
Engineering; and Must be a new freshman or transfer student.
Introduction to Engineering as a Profession, Overview of Martin
Institute and Clark School Education and Research Programs, The Future
of Engineering and Engineering Education, Basic Technological Literacy,
Business and Entrepreneurship Issues for Engineers, the Joy of
Discovery, Student Projects: How to get involved, Research and
Development Programs: How to get involved, What the corporate sector
expects from a new engineering graduate.
ENES 182 Engineering the Future (1)
An overview of the challenges facing society where the fields of
engineering and science are being asked to provide the technologies
underlying the proposed solutions including nanotechnology, sustainable
energy, transportation, biotechnology, climate change, novel material
and environmental impact. Also covered will be an understanding of how
the different fields of engineering will play a role in solving these
challenges.
ENES 190 Introduction to Design and Quality (4)
Three hours of lecture and two hours of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Also offered as: BMGT190. Credit only granted for: BMGT190 or ENES190.
Expose engineering and business students to the principles of total
quality, using experiential team learning and technology aided
approaches. The first of four courses in total quality.
ENES 201 Introduction to Computer Aided Design (1)
Fundamentals of CAD using a solid modeling package (e.g. Pro/E or
AutoCAD). Two- and three-dimensional drawings. Dimensioning and
specifications. Introduction of CAD-based analysis tools. Students will
complete a design project.
ENES 210 Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis and Decision-Making in 21st Century Technology Ventures (3)
Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
This multi-disciplinary course helps students learn the principles of
entrepreneurial opportunity analysis and decision-making in an
increasingly dynamic and technically-inclined society. Emphasis is
placed on how aspiring technology entrepreneurs can develop their
entrepreneurial perspectives to develop winning entrepreneurial plans
for their future ventures.
ENES 215 FLEXUS Living and Learning Community Seminar III (1)
Prerequisite: ENES115 and ENES116. Restriction: Must be a second year
FLEXUS participant (coded as WCY).
The seminar focuses on personal, academic and professional success by
cultivating leadership skills, developing self-confidence and
self-efficacy in academic and technical ability and encouraging self
awareness, identifying and employing strategies for academic and
professional success, further enhancing career development through
networking, mentoring and role modeling, and developing awareness of
diversity issues, specifically gender diversity.
ENES 216 FLEXUS Living and Learning Community Seminar IV (1)
Prerequisite: ENES115, ENES116, and ENES215. Restriction: Restricted to
second year FLEXUS participants.
The seminar focuses on gender diversity and its cross-sections with
culture. Students continue to enhance their leadership and mentoring
skills, participate in networking opportunities with women in leadership
roles and careers in engineering, and engage in opportunities for
outreach and service-learning. Students will also complete a culminating
semester project.
ENES 220 Mechanics II (3)
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENES102; and (MATH141 and PHYS161).
Restriction: Must be in a major in ENGR-A. James Clark School of
Engineering; and must not be in Engineering: Electrical program.
Stress and deformation of solids-rods, beams, shafts, columns, tanks,
and other structural, machine and vehicle members. Topics include stress
transformation using Mohr's circle; shear and moment diagrams;
derivation of elastic curves; and Euler's buckling formula. Design
problems related to this material are given in lab.
ENES 221 Dynamics (3)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite:
Minimum grade of C- in ENES102; and (MATH141 and PHYS161). Restriction:
Must be in a major in ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Systems of heavy particles and rigid bodies at rest and in motion.
Force-acceleration, work-energy and impulse-momentum relationships.
Motion of one body relative to another in a plane and in space.
ENES 232 Thermodynamics (3)
Prerequisite: PHYS261 and PHYS260. Restriction: Must be in a major in
ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering. Credit only granted for:
BIOE232, CHBE300, ENCH300, ENES232, ENMA461, ENME320, or ENME232.
Formerly: ENME232 and ENME320.
Introduction to thermodynamics. Thermodynamic properties of matter.
First and second laws of thermodynamics, cycles, reactions, and
mixtures.
ENES 270 Inventis-Professional Skills in Engineering (1)
Prerequisite: ENES170. Restriction: Must be in the Inventis program.
Engineering professional skills course focusing on team building,
communication skills, technical writing, technology management, and
intellectual property and standards.
ENES 288 Engineering Leadership Seminar (1-4)
Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in ENES100; or permission of
instructor.
Engineering leadership will be examined at the individual, team and
organizational levels.
ENES 317 Introduction to Engineering Leadership (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in ENES100; or students who have
taken courses with similar or comparable course content may contact the
department.
Focus is placed on general leadership theories in addition to real-world
applications of leadership in engineering education, industry, and
government.
ENES 388 Engineering Honors Seminar (1)
ENES 389 Selected Topics (3)
Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
ENES 390 Systems Thinking for Managerial Decision Making (3)
Prerequisite: ENES190 or BMGT190. Restriction: Must be in the QUEST
program. Also offered as: BMGT390. Credit only granted for: BMGT390,
BMGT498X, ENES390, or ENES498X.
An introduction to the theory, concepts, tools, and practices of systems
thinking to enhance managerial decision making. Offers a blend of
theory, real-life examples, and proven methods to initiate and sustain
an organization-wide reorientation towards systems thinking.
ENES 424 Engineering Leadership Capstone (3)
Prerequisite: ENES472, ENCE320, and ENES317; and permission of ENGR-A.
James Clark School of Engineering. Recommended: ENES100.
The work initiated in the Introduction to Engineering Leadership course
brings together further exploration of leadership styles and concepts.
ENES 435 Product Liability and Regulation (3)
Junior standing.
Key topics include, biotechnology, safety regulation, federal
preemption, product liability, professional negligence, antitrust,
privacy and information technology, risk modeling, environmental
protection, patent, copyright, trade secrets, reverse engineering,
scientific and technological evidence, international trade, engineering
ethics. Examples include plane crashes, computer chip protection, human
machine interfaces, nuclear power plants, internet censorship, flood
control, earthquakes and biomedical technology.
ENES 440 Science, Technology and Society: Certificate Program Capstone (3)
Restriction: Must be in the Science, Technology and Society certificate
program; or permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Credit only granted for: ENES440 or UNIV401. Formerly: UNIV401.
Capstone research seminar for students in the Science, Technology and
Society certificate program.
ENES 458 Topics in International Engineering (1-4)
Prerequisite: ENES100. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs.
A variety of topics related to engineering in a global context are
discussed including cultural aspects, cross-cultural communication,
international standards and law, and engineering and technology issues,
business behavior, attitudes and values of selected countries and
regions.
ENES 460 Fundamentals of Technology Start-Up Ventures (3)
Formerly: ENES489A.
Fundamental aspects of creating, organizing, funding, managing, and
growing a technology startup venture. This multidisciplinary course
will draw on management, business, legal, financial, as well as
technical, concepts. Students form teams and develop a business plan
for a technology company, based on each team's own business idea and
then present the plan to a panel of outside experts.
ENES 461 Advanced Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis in Technology Ventures (3)
Explores the factors that influence entrepreneurial opportunity analysis
in technology-based ventures. Uses a cognitive theoretical framework to
examine the integration of motivation, emotions and information
processing modes to make complex entrepreneurial decisions in fast pace
technology venture environments.
ENES 462 Marketing High-Technology Products and Innovations (3)
Examines the opportunities and challenges of marketing high-technology
products in turbulent environments requiring rapid decision making with
incomplete information. Explores how innovations are introduced at
frequent intervals, research-and-development spending is vital, and
there are high mortality rates for both products and businesses.
ENES 463 Strategies for Managing Innovation (3)
Emphasizes how the technology entrepreneur can use strategic management
of innovation and technology to enhance firm performance. Examines the
process of technological change, the ways that firms come up with
innovations, the strategies that firms use to benefit from innovation,
and the process of formulating technology strategy. Provides frameworks
for analyzing key aspects of these industries and teaches students how
to apply these frameworks.
ENES 464 International Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3)
Focuses on the need for every entrepreneur and innovator to understand
the global market in today's hypercompetitive world, and to appreciate
how to compete effectively in domestic markets by managing international
competitors, suppliers, and influences. Explore how the distinction
between foreign and domestic markets is becoming less pronounced.
Develop skills to identify and manage opportunities on a global basis.
ENES 465 Entrepreneurial Design Thinking (3)
Explores the use of design thinking as an approach to developing
customer-centered solutions to problems and fostering sustained
innovation within an orgranization. Through interactive lectures,
discussions, and hands-on, team-based activities, students will learn
design thinking strategies and apply them to finding innovative product-
or service-based solutions to contemporary issues.
ENES 472 International Business Cultures in Engineering and Technology (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher. Also offered as: SLLC472.
Credit only granted for: ARHU439B, ARHU439E, ARHU439T, ENES472, SLLC471,
SLLC472, or SLLC473. Formerly: ARHU439T.
The goal is to provide students with an understanding of cultural
aspects pertaining to global business and engineering and develop the
cultural understanding, attitudes, and communication skills needed to
function appropriately within an increasingly global and multicultural
working environment.
ENES 474 Global Perspectives of Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ENES100; or permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of
Engineering. Restriction: Must be in the International Engineering
Minor. Credit only granted for: ENES458M or ENES474. Formerly: ENES458M.
Faculty supervised research on aspects of engineering in a foreign
country including leading fields of research, key world markets, and
the culture of the engineering workplace. Students will produce a
comprehensive report exhibiting their expertise in their chosen country
and the field of engineering within.
ENES 478 Topics in Engineering Education (1)
Restriction: Must be in the Engineering Teaching Fellow program.
Repeatable to 3 credits if content differs.
Topics related to teaching engineering courses, particularly
project-based courses. Topics can include learning styles, student
development theory, multicultural issues in teaching, facilitating team
experiences, assessment, and academic integrity.
ENES 480 Engineering Honors Seminar I (1)
Restriction: Must be in College of Engineering Honors; and Junior
standing or higher.
Introduction to engineering leadership, professionalism, and ethics.
Discussions of leadership style, elements of success, professional
communication, codes of ethics, handling of ethical dilemmas, and the
characteristics of a professional.
ENES 481 Engineering Honors Seminar II (1)
Restriction: Must be in College of Engineering Honors; and Junior
standing or higher.
Introduction to engineering creativity and innovation in engineering.
Application of methods of creativity to topics in communication,
conducting research, and leadership.
ENES 489 Special Topics in Engineering (3-6)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Special topics in engineering.
ENES 490 Quest Consulting and Innovation Practicum (4)
Prerequisite: ENES390 or BMGT390. Also offered as: BMGT490. Credit only
granted for: BMGT490 or ENES490.
Final course in the QUEST Honors Fellows Program three-course
curriculum. Based on a team-based consulting project with one of QUEST's
professional partners. A project advisor and professional champion
supervise each student team. Requires extensive out-of-class work.
ENES 496 NASA Academy (4)
Two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher. Also offered as: CMPS496,
GEOG496. Credit only granted for: CMPS496, ENES496, or GEOG496.
A ten-week resident summer institute at Goddard Space Flight Center for
juniors, seniors and first-year graduate students interested in pursuing
professional and leadership careers in aerospace-related fields. The
national program includes research in a Goddard laboratory, field trips
to NASA centers, and a combination of lectures and workshops on the
mission, current activities and management of NASA. Students interested
in the Academy will find information at http://nasa-academy.nasa.gov
Application should be made by the end of January; sponsorship by an
affiliated State Space Grant Consortium is customary, but not required.
ENES 498 Special Topics in Entrepreneurship (3)
Two hours of lecture per week. Restriction: Must be in Hinman CEOs
Program. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs.
This entrepreneurship seminar and case study-based course will explore
technology entrepreneurship with a focus on leadership, marketing,
team-building, and management of new technology ventures and assumes
baseline knowledge of entrepreneurship. Students will learn skills
needed to succeed as a technology entrepreneur and how to apply best
practices for planning, launching, and growing new companies. This
course is a requirement of the Hinman CEOs program.
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