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EG161 Introduction to Robotics (3 credits)
An introduction to the field of engineering. The student will design and build a computercontrolled robot. Topics covered include technical drawing using CAD, instrumentation, digital logic, machining skills, computer interfacing, and computer programming.
Laboratory required. January only.

EG161 Introduction to Robotics Lab (1 credit)
Laboratory experience in the construction and programming of small robots.
Corequisite: EG161

EG272 Circuit Theory (3 credits)
An introduction to electrical circuits including voltage, current relationships of circuit elements, energy concepts, Kirchhoff’s circuit laws, mesh and nodal analysis, and equivalent sources; elementary transient circuit behavior and fundamentals of single phase a.c. circuits. Laboratory required.
Corequisite: PY202

EG321 Electronics (3 credits)
Topics covered are: principles of diode and transistor circuits, device models and physics, equivalent circuits, graphical and analytical means of analysis, biasing, stabilization, amplifiers, frequency response, FETs, and operational amplifiers.
Prerequisites: EG272, MA152

EG323 Digital Logic (3 credits)
Introduction to hardware building blocks used in digital computers. This course covers basic gates, Boolean algebra, multiplexors, and arithmetic functions, combinatorial and sequential circuit synthesis, as well as flip-flops, counters, busses and registers. Different design techniques will be covered.
Prerequisite: PY202

EG323L Digital Logic Lab (1 credit)
Laboratory experience in design, fabrication, and debug of digital logic circuits.
Corequisite: EG323

EG325 Introduction to Engineering Design (3 credits)
An introduction to techniques in engineering design through work on a series of small projects drawn from various engineering disciplines. The course will include introduction to Schematic Capture software as well as circuit board fabrication and test.
Prerequisites: EG272 , EG323

EG332L Applied Electronic Circuits (3 credits)
Studies the practical elements of the analog electronics theory covered in EG272 and EG321.  This includes the use of analog instruments, and the fabrication and debug of practical transistor and OpAmp circuits. Included is a review of the theory of OpAmp circuits and necessary content concerning BJT transistors.
Prerequisite: EG272; Corequisite: EG321

EG351/CS220 Microcomputer Interfacing (3 credits)
Introduction to the field of microcomputers. Topics include microcomputer organization and architecture, machine and assembly language programming, interrupts, serial interfacing, D/A and A/D interfacing. (Note: Cross-listed with Computer Science.)
Prerequisite: MA171 or EG323

EG351L/CS220L Microcomputer Interfacing Lab (1 credit)
Laboratory experience in assembly level programming and debug, as well as fabrication of microcomputer interfacing circuitry. Projects include human/computer interfacing, A/D conversion and serial communication.
Prerequisite: EG323L; Corequisite: EG351/CS220

EG401 Signals and Systems (3 credits)
Covers frequency domain analysis of signals and systems, Filtering, Sampling, and Modulation, Laplace transforms, Z transforms, pole-zero plots, Linear feedback systems, Convolutions, Linearity, time-invariance, causality, and stability of systems.
Prerequisites: MA212, EG272

EG412L Signals and Systems (4 credits)
EG451 Senior Design (3 credits)
A practical design course for seniors in Engineering based on an assigned project. The student will design and construct a project using a systems approach that will involve all aspects of engineering. A departmental talk and typewritten report on the project is required.
Prerequisite: Senior standing or 20 credit hours of Engineering sequence

EG452L Applied Programming (3 credits)

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Engineering Department
Eastern Nazarene College | 23 East Elm Avenue
Quincy, Massachusetts 02170 
Phone: 617-745-5805 | email: Engineering Department Head