UNDERGRADUATE 

Innovation in Design. 2 credits. Engineering and architectural creativity; role, function, enhancement, integration in design methods. Team taught.

Statics.  3 credits. Engineering mechanics concepts; force systems; static equilibrium; centroids, centers of gravity; shear and moment diagrams; friction; moments of inertia..   

Dynamics.  3 credits.  Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies.  Energy methods and impulse/momentum solutions to dynamic problems.  

Statics and Strength of Materials.  4 credits.  Force and moment systems, force resultants, equilibrium, truss analysis, stress, strain, material properties, tension and compression loading, beam theory.

GRADUATE

Natural Fiber Thermoplastic Composites.  3 credits.  Lecture and laboratory course on the design and manufacture of natural fiber thermoplastic composites.  Fundamentals of natural fibers and polymers.  Fundamentals of natural fibers and polymers, compounding, die design, material structure, short fiber composite theory, creep, creep-rupture, applications, and product engineering.

Engineered Wood Composites.  3 credits.  Lecture course on the design and use of engineered wood composite materials.  Beam and plate elements are included.

Design and Processing of Wood Composites.  3 credits.  Lecture and laboratory on the theory and practice of manufacturing non-veneer wood composites.

Advanced Mechanics of Materials.  3 credits. Elastic stress-strain relations, shear center, unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, elastic stability, elastically supported beams, energy methods, thin plates, shells.

Graduate Seminar.  1 credit.  Lectures and reports on current developments in research and practice.