ENGT 100 — Fundamental Skills for Technology and Engineering
This course prepares students for success in an Engineering transfer program or Technology program with basic electrical and mechanical knowledge and experiences such as collecting and interpreting data, using appropriate units, basic troubleshooting, and reverse engineering. Students will use mathematical functions and graphs to model and analyze data collected from physical systems, and will get started in the physical world through general shop safety training and measuring with a carpenter's square, calipers, and micrometer. In addition, students will gain fabrication and assembly experience with hand and powered tools. Students will get started in the electronics world measuring voltage, current, and resistance, and will begin building breadboard circuits. Study may begin specialization into topics such as programming, refrigeration, pneumatics, and fluidics.