Understanding of the basic principles of programming and computer systems; Applications of programming to the solution of engineering problems; Control structures, functions, arrays, pointers, and structures. Laboratory experiments of programming for concepts.
Equivalent to COSC 214.
This course reviews the fundamentals of good academic writing in English, teaches essay writing essentials and research skills in two rhetorical modes (persuasion and argumentation), and provides practice in writing essays in these modes, research papers and oral presentations.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or TOEFL 550+ (paper) or 80+ (computer).
This course is designed to help students develop effective professional communication skills, both orally and in writing. In this course, students learn how to write emails, memos, letters, proposals, reports, and other forms of employment correspondence. In addition, this course helps students sharpen their presentation skills. Broadly, this course enables students to behave professionally and effectively in their prospective jobs.
Prerequisite: ENGL 210.
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.
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.
This broad survey course provides a narrative of British history from 1066, including political, social, and cultural developments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Through reading, writing, and speech, students will become familiar with the persuasive strategy described in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and consider how that strategy can be employed in professional and personal situations in writing, public speaking, and negotiation.
This course teaches students rhetorical modes in short essays and journalism, including memoirs, reportage, and reflective essays. Students will practice a writing style focusing on conciseness and clarity, effective oral presentations, and reading articles, essays, and other increasingly complex materials.
This course addresses the ethical problems in journalism, public relations, and advertising, particularly in today’s digital media environment.
Prerequisite: CMNS 301.
This course integrates methods, perspectives, and concepts of Peace Studies, Culture Communication, and Peace Journalism to explain contemporary debates in the global public sphere. It considers how cultural stereotypes about ideology, religion, and culture frame Arabs and Americans in the mass media. RHU students will engage with students from collaborating universities in the United States in online, asynchronous conversation and participate in shared projects that explore the role of the media in influencing Arab and American relations.
This course is designed to provide a practical introduction to the fundamental principles of public speaking and a forum for practicing public speaking skills. Students will learn how effective speeches are conceived, prepared, and delivered through various instructional strategies (discussion, class workshops, readings, lectures, and presentations).
This course surveys some key figures, movements, and texts in cultural studies from the 19th century to the present. The concentration will be on the historical, political, religious, cultural, and institutional aspects during this period. Students will read, analyze, and interpret certain primary works to gain insight into the contexts in which they originated.
This course will examine motivational factors that influence children’s learning. Topics include attribution theory, teacher influences (expectancy effects), learning structures (competitive vs. cooperative learning), family influences (the socialization of achievement), cultural influences (how cultural background impacts college performance), and individual differences (intrinsic motivation and sex differences in learning).
The course surveys selected works in English or translation from non-Anglo-American cultural traditions. Texts can be drawn from African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature focusing on their historical and cultural contexts.
This course will survey language acquisition theories. It will deal with human language processing, learners’ motivational factors, and contextual factors influencing language learning. It will uncover the principles of first and second language acquisition.
This course introduces the psychology discipline's theories, concepts, and viewpoints. The course is directed toward understanding human behavior by dealing with topics such as the history of psychology, learning, personality, behavior, motivation, perception, social psychology, mental health, and other areas.
This course studies the dynamics and effects of social influences on individual human behavior. In this course, students will explore topics such as attitude changes, social beliefs, roles, conformity to group processes, and prejudices, with special attention given to the Middle Eastern perspective.
This course presents the theories of personality, including psychoanalytic, behaviorist, humanist, and others, while considering different factors that shape personality and behavior. The study includes methods of assessing personality.
This course examines the biological, sociological, and cultural influences on the psychology of women. It includes such topics as gender stereotypes, the development of gender roles, gender comparisons, women and work, love relations, women’s physical and mental health, violence against women, and women in later adulthood.
This course examines scientific research on happiness and its practical application in three main areas: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. This course also presents practical ways to promote and maintain a sense of well-being and happiness in all aspects of one’s life.
This course is intended to help students be aware of the consequences of war and conflicts on children's mental health and well-being. The course will examine a variety of effects, emphasizing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological conditions that result from war. The course will empower the students with the techniques of working with children affected by war.
This course explores practical theories for understanding congregational conflict and various perspectives on conflict transformation. Students will reflect on their styles of dealing with conflict and learn new ways of responding. They will explore practices of dialogue and mediation for addressing conflict in interpersonal, small group, and congregational settings to develop an approach to addressing inevitable situations of difference, change, and conflict in various situations.
An introduction to the theories of abnormal behaviors, including addiction and substance abuse, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, depression, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, phobias, schizophrenia, and sexual disorders. Students will consider the theoretical implications and treatments for various abnormal behaviors.
This course is designed for psychology, sociology, communications, and other social sciences students. It introduces them to advanced research design and methodology, including statistical analysis.
Prerequisite: MATH 220.
This course explores a variety of sociological theories and approaches to understanding society. The student will learn about human social life, groups, and societies and be helped to detect the social influences shaping our lives. The approach used in this course is a self-exploratory process that develops individual and social awareness. A secondary objective is discussing methods common to sociology, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminism.
This course introduces the study of sociological concepts as they apply to the institution of education. Students will examine race, class, status, poverty, and bureaucracy issues in the educational setting. They will also examine current perspectives and research about the social aspects of the learning process.
This course deals with cultural issues like cultural awareness, enculturation, acculturation, and cultural shocks. It involves hands-on activities to promote cultural awareness and equip students with skills for dealing with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. It includes team-oriented research and presentation that reflects all the cultural aspects and some minute details of the culture they choose to work on.
Students in this course examine communication theory and case studies to gain insight into the factors that affect human communications. It aims to improve students’ communication skills and equip them with techniques to enhance the quality of their relationships. The course also offers strategies for managing interpersonal conflicts.
This course examines contemporary Arab society, considering its social structures and groups, cultural patterns, and other aspects of the society. Students consider current issues related to Arab culture and society.
Co-requisite ENGL 210.
This course analyzes the role of culture in an individual’s sense of identity, emphasizing how it manifests in the Middle East.
The course addresses class, status, and gender inequalities, examining how they affect individuals and society.
This course tackles the social issues of various political ideologies' historical and contemporary evolution. It aims to develop students’ understanding of the social bases of politics and political ideologies, along with the recent changes in the socio-political world. Different economic and political philosophies are considered, and their effects on the fate of nations and their citizens are detected.
Probability and conditional probability, Discrete and continuous random variables, marginal distributions, expectation, variance-mean-median-covariance and correlation, conditional expectation, Normal distribution, Sampling distribution, Prediction and confidence intervals, Hypothesis testing, and regression line and correlation coefficients.
Prerequisite: MATH 211.
This course provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of several basic environmental functions, the complicated nature of environmental systems, and the need for multidisciplinary solutions to environmental problems. Topics covered include the hydrosphere, water quantity and quality, soil and the soil ecosystem, biological resources, waste disposal, air pollution, ozone depletion, acid rain, and global warming. The course also includes a set of experiments that offer students practical experience in different environmental analysis settings, including air and water quality.
Prerequisite: None.
First-order linear differential equations, linear differential equations of second and higher order, linear differential equations with variable coefficients, series solutions, systems of differential equations, Laplace transforms, and their inverses.
This course covers fundamental topics in Electricity and Magnetism: Electric forces and Electric Fields for discrete and continuous charge distribution, Gauss’s Law, Electric Potential, Capacitance and Dielectrics, Kirchhoff’s rules, Magnetic Fields and Forces, Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Law, Magnetic Flux and Gauss’s Law in Magnetism. It also includes a laboratory component that introduces students to the “real world” by offering a set of experiments in electricity and magnetism.
Circuit elements and laws, mesh and node equations, network theorems, energy storage elements, RC, RL, and RLC circuits, Laplace Transform, sinusoids and phasors and introduction to network theory. Sinusoidal (AC) steady state, mutual inductance, transformers, and introduction to three phase circuit.
Prerequisite: PHYS 191 or Equivalent.
Error Analysis, solutions of nonlinear equations using fixed point- Newton-Raphson-Muller’s methods, solution of linear system using Gaussian elimination-iterative methods, interpolation and approximation using Taylor series-Lagrange approximation-Newton polynomials, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical optimization, solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations using Euler’s and Heun’s and Rung-Kutta methods, MATLAB codes Related to the topics mentioned above.
Prerequisite: MATH 311.
Lagrange theorem, boundary conditions of first-order equations, non-linear first order PDE’s, Charpit’s equations, second order PDE’s, classification: hyperbolic, parabolic, and elliptic, the method of separation of variables, introduction to Fourier series and integrals, boundary value problems: heat equation, wave equation, Laplace equation, and finite-length strings.
Prerequisite: MATH 314.
This course emphasizes the fundamental principles of chemistry, including stressing atomic structure, bonding, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, acids and bases, and solution equilibria.
Physical and chemical properties of earth, structure of the earth, plate tectonic theory and continental drift, volcanism; mountain building processes, surface processes, mineralogy, formation and classification of rocks, earth hazards, geological problems related to civil engineering such as landslide and earthquake, geologic maps, geophysical exploration methods, earth works and tunneling.
Prerequisite: None. Annually.
A general overview deals with cell structure, function, physiology, anatomy, and physiology of the human body systems. These include cardiovascular, central nervous, respiratory, urinary, digestive, immune, and musculoskeletal systems. The course also offers a set of experiments that deal with basic biological processes and advanced biological assessments.
Static laws; force vectors and operations; force system and moment; free body diagram; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies in 2D and 3D; plane trusses and frames; cables; internal forces: shear and moment diagrams; centroid and center of mass; moment of inertia; and friction.
This course covers semiconductors, PN junctions, diode theory and circuits, bipolar junction transistors, transistor fundamentals, transistor biasing, amplifiers, MOSFETs, and operational amplifiers.
Prerequisite: ELEC 210.
This is a Lab course with experiments in Electrical and Electronic Circuits. It covers passive electrical elements and sources; lab instruments; voltage divider circuits; Thevenin’s theorem; RC circuits; diode circuits; Op-Amp circuits; BJT and MOSFET characteristics.
Co-requisite: ELEC 320.
Introduction to dynamic modeling of mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, thermal, fluid, and mixed discipline systems; Block diagrams and computer simulation (MATLAB); State-variable solution; Laplace Transform solution; Laplace transform properties; inverse Laplace transform; transfer function, frequency response, first and second order systems.
Prerequisite: MATH 314. Annually.
This course covers the fundamentals of instrumentation and measurement of various physical quantities. Topics include sensor types, technologies, characteristics and calibration; design of a measurement system; statistical analysis of measured data; measurement noise and uncertainties; data acquisition, data storage and display devices; signal conditioning and interface electronics concepts including filtering, A/D and D/A conversion, amplification, modulation, compensation; applications;
Prerequisite: ELEC 320, Annually.
The lab experience complements the topics covered in MECA 341. Students learn to use the NI ELVIS platform, LabVIEW programing and data acquisition systems characteristics to build a measurement system, perform data analysis and senor calibration, and design and build signal conditioning circuits for various types of measurements. The lab involves a team project to integrate all instrumentation and measurement tools and techniques are applied to build a measurement system and submit a report.
Co-requisite: MECA 341.
This course focuses on the analysis and design of systems control. Measure control system performance; Transient and steady-state response analyses; Topics include analytical solutions analysis in time, and S domain, root locus, Bode, Nyquist, Lead Lag controller design, and PID compensator design are covered, Analysis and design control systems in state space. Control system analysis and design using MATLAB and SIMULINK; set up a control system and understand and optimize its performance;
Prerequisites: MECA 340. Annually.
The aim of this course is to provide a deep understanding for the integration of microcontrollers in mechatronic systems starting from the technologies used to develop embedded systems, to the internal features and peripherals of microcontrollers/microprocessors (timers, interrupts, analog-to-digital converters…). In this course, students develop various microcontroller programs for mechatronic applications, including the usage of I/O and communication peripherals.
Prerequisite: CCEE 221 and MECH 200.
This course is an integration of all mechatronics systems design modules. It consists of an overview of mechatronics; mechatronics systems design strategies; advanced modeling; usage of control strategies; design of electric actuators; design of sensors; power electronics; hardware and software integration; Team projects on design and implementation of integration between mechanical, electrical and control systems.
Prerequisite: MECA 440, 441 and 442.
Brief review of statics; proper use of different coordinate systems: Cartesian and normal/tangential axes; kinematics of a particle: rectilinear, curvilinear, and relative motion; kinetics of a particle: force and acceleration, work and energy, impulse and momentum; planar kinematics of a rigid body: translating and rotating axes, absolute and relative motion; planar kinetics of a rigid body: force and acceleration, work and energy, impulse and momentum.
Prerequisite: CIVE 211. Annually.
Drafting principles; piece part and assembly drawings; generation of 2D and 3D drawings as well as solid models using AutoCAD; customizing AutoCAD for any particular application; generating 2D drawings using CAD/CAM software; generating parametric, feature-based solids using the AutoDesk Mechanical Desktop. Introducing mechanical Revit as a Building Information Modeling (BIM) software tailored for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) disciplines.
Mechanical stress, strain, and stress/strain relations under pure tension, compression, pure bending, and pure torsion of circular bars; 1-D thermal strain & stress; combined stresses; principal stresses; plane stress transformation & Mohr’s circle; basic 3-D elastic stress/strain relations; Euler-elastic buckling of columns.
Mechanization of motion; kinematic analysis of linkage mechanisms; graphical synthesis of planar mechanisms; synthesis of cam-follower mechanisms (graphical and analytical designs); gear terminology and types of gears used in machines; analysis and synthesis of gear trains; velocity, acceleration, and force analysis of mechanisms.
Prerequisite: MECH 200 and MECH 220. Annually.
This course seeks to impart fundamental concepts of thermal-fluid (including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer) to non-mechanical engineering students. These cover: thermodynamic state and properties of pure substances; concepts of work and heat, energy analysis of closed systems (First Law) and simple flow devices, Fluid statics; Bernoulli’s equation; Conservation of mass, momentum & energy, viscous flow in pipes, introduction to conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer.
Prerequisite: MATH 211. Annually.
Materials properties; tools of machine design; stress, strain, and deformation of machine parts; statistical methods; static and fatigue failure theories; design of machine parts for strength under steady loads; design of machine parts for rigidity, deflection of beams and rotation of shafts; design of machine parts for strength under cyclic/dynamic loads; codes and standards.
Prerequisite: MECH 320. Annually.
General overview of manufacturing; properties of materials; dimensions and tolerances; machining; casting; sheet metal forming; injection molding; thermoforming; plastic processing; fundamentals of process performance (rate, quality, cost, flexibility); variation and quality; sustainability; overview of additive manufacturing. Project.
This course addresses Boolean algebra and logic simplification techniques, data representation, and the design of combinational logic networks for decoders, encoders, multiplexers, and demultiplexers. Design of sequential logic devices including flip-flops, registers, and counters, as well as analysis of devices used to build logic networks, including programmable logic devices.
Equivalent to COSC 351.
This Lab covers design techniques and implementation of combinational and sequential logic circuits. Experiments include logic gates, design and implementation of logic circuits, combinational logic circuits (decoders, encoders, multiplexers, demultiplexers and adders), and design of sequential logic devices using flip-flops, registers, and counters.
Prerequisite: CCEE 221.
Equivalent to COSC 351L.
This course covers magnetic circuits, fundamentals of electromechanical energy conversion, construction, testing, steady-state analysis, and operational characteristics of DC machines, transformers, induction machines and synchronous machines.
This Co-op work experience is designed to provide students with a five-week short-term work experience in the field of mechanical engineering. Students are encouraged to network in the discipline-related industries. Report, poster, and power-point presentation, are required
Prerequisites: ENGL 217 ; Senior Standing.
This course addresses the design of embedded real-time systems, models of computation, validation techniques, and automatic synthesis. Finite state machines, synchronous languages, data flow networks, Petri nets, software optimization and performance estimation, operating systems and scheduling, system-level simulation, and interface-based design.
Prerequisite: CCEE 221. Equivalent to COSC 356.
This lab complements topics covered in the CCEE 426 course. It involves design of embedded real-time systems, models of computation, validation techniques, and automatic synthesis. Experiments include design using finite state machines, synchronous languages, data flow networks, petri nets, software optimization and performance estimation, scheduling, system-level simulation, and interface-based design.
Co-requisite: CCEE 426. Equivalent to COSC 356L.
Team-oriented, project-based experience that culminates in the creation of an artifact; milestones include project selection and proposal, creative solution, report, presentation, and demonstration of the created device.
Prerequisite: for the last semester of the BS Program, ENGL 217. Annually.
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