This course introduces freshman students to poets with intrinsic literary merit. In addition to broadening the student’s understanding and appreciation of literature, the chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This course introduces literature through works of fiction, poetry, and drama. It introduces students to the pleasures of reading literature and to interpretative approaches to literature. It aims to provide students with competence in critical thinking and practice in close reading and analysis, knowledge of the formal characteristics of each genre, and appreciation of literary excellence. Readings include a variety of short stories, poems, and plays selected from a wide range of British, American, and World literature.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

Students study Shakespeare's representative comedies, histories, and tragedies in this course. The plays are read intensively and understood in the context of the period's theatrical conventions, the culture of play in early modern England, and the social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the period.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This broad survey course provides a narrative of British history from 1066, including political, social, and cultural developments.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with contemporary issues to enhance their level from historical and cultural points of view.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This course examines the ties between Europe and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the reaction of Middle Eastern societies to European intervention and influence.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This elective course aims to familiarize students with various events that shaped the evolution of social and economic developments in the Middle East to enhance their level from the historical and economic dimensions.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This is a study of some major topics in philosophy. The course emphasizes theory of knowledge, theory of mind, determinism and free will, and morality and ethical values. Along with some assigned readings, students will watch movies, the analysis of which will help them comprehend the content of the course better.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This course is a standard introduction to the formal techniques of argument analysis. Formal logic was invented to mirror and evaluate mathematical reasoning; however, this course will concentrate on the relationship between formal logic and everyday reasoning and language usage in general.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

People often wonder about what makes good ways to live and the right ways to act. They also speculate about the best way of life, what action is right, and what authority moral claims have over us. The course introduces students to the major moral theories and thinkers addressing these questions.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This course introduces contemporary philosophical thinking on ethical issues in business. Students will be exposed to important ethical issues they might face, asked to give sound ethical judgment to problems they might face in their line of work, helped become armed with a set of codes that will prepare them to confront and resolve ethical dilemmas they might encounter at work, and enabled to apply the techniques for analyzing and resolving ethical problems when they arise.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

This course introduces students to peace building and conflict prevention by examining the main theories on peace and security. It examines the ideas of Thucydides, Aristotle, Erasmus Grotius, Kant, Gandhi, and other thinkers who believed that the whole peace was of high value. It develops students’ critical skills and understanding necessary to translate their academic learning to specific practical situations, such as those posed by peace building either with the UN, governments, or NGOs. It helps understand the complex and interconnected challenges to peace and provides knowledge to meet them.

Co-requisite: ENGL 210.

Venture and innovation opportunities; concept and strategy; the Technopreneur; planning; resource acquisition and organization; financing, marketing and sustainability of enterprise. Prerequisite: ENGR 300. Annually.

Sensor and actuator technologies; classification and terminology of sensors and actuators; sensors characteristics; physical principles of sensing; measurement applications (position and speed, stress and strain, temperature, vibration and acceleration, pressure and flow…); Electromagnetic principles; solenoids and relays; electric motors (DC motors , Stepper motors…); Hydraulics actuators; Pneumatic actuators; interface methodologies and circuits; integration aspects; manufacturing techniques and material properties; team projects.

Prerequisite: MECA 341. Annually.

This course will give an overview of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and explores different PLC hardware components; number systems and codes; fundamentals of Logic; generation, loading and testing of PLC programs required to operate electrical motors and mechanical actuators used in industrial processes; developing fundamental PLC Wiring Diagrams and Ladder Logic Programs with an emphasis on programming timers and counters; integrated automation solutions through various programming architecture such as function-block and ladder diagrams; configuration of process visualization of a panel.

Prerequisite: ELEC 320. On demand.

Introductory historical development of robotics; static grasp analysis; rigid objects Kinematics; degrees of freedom; robot arm kinematics; inverse kinematics; dynamics; kinematic singularities; introduction of trajectory planning and control of manipulators, screw motions;.

Prerequisite: MECH 321. Annually.

Team-oriented project which includes conducting and formulating experimental laboratory work and/or design problems on a specific approved topic of specialty. The project includes literature review and scope of work as well as project proposal.

Prerequisites: Senior Standing, ENGL 217. Annually.

Team-oriented project which includes conducting and formulating experimental laboratory work and/or design problems on a specific approved topic of specialty. The project includes literature review, design work, data collection, experimentation, data analysis and technical writing.

Prerequisite: MECA 595A. Annually.