College of Engineering Cal Poly Pomona Catalog 20092011
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CAL POLY POMONA CATALOG 20092011 applied science and the practical expertise to apply these principles to COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING actual situations. In keeping with professional expectations, each www.csupomona.edu/engineering engineering program incorporates these curricular areas into the Edward C. Hohmann, Dean educational experience: mathematics and basic sciences; engineering Cordelia Ontiveros, Associate Dean sciences and engineering design; and humanities and social sciences. Per ABET, accreditable engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: Engineering is a dynamic profession that provides the expertise to meet the technical challenges facing the nation. Cal Poly Pomona’s College of • an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and Engineering has a wellearned reputation of helping to meet these engineering, challenges by preparing engineers and engineering technologists who, • an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze upon graduation, are prepared to contribute to industry and are also and interpret data, ready for graduate studies. The emphasis on a strong theoretical background coordinated with early and significant laboratory • an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet experiences continues to make the college a leader in engineering desired needs, education. In consultation with its many constituencies, the College of • an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, Engineering has adopted the following as its principal educational • an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, objectives: • an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, • Preparation of graduates for immediate entry into the engineering • an ability to communicate effectively, profession, technically wellprepared in analysis and design, and • the broad education necessary to understand the impact of understanding their professional responsibilities for contemporary engineering solutions in a global and societal context, and future human welfare • a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong • Preparation of graduates as practicing engineers who communicate learning, effectively, work collaboratively, learn independently and act ethically • a knowledge of contemporary issues, and • Adoption by graduates of life long learning, including formal • an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering advanced studies, as necessary for continued effectiveness in the tools necessary for engineering practice. profession It is important to distinguish between Engineering and Engineering The College of Engineering provides study opportunities to under Technology. Engineering Technology is that part of the technological field graduate and graduate students in eleven disciplines, offering programs that requires the application of scientific and engineering knowledge leading to Bachelor of Science degrees in: and methods combined with technical skills in support of engineering activities; it lies in the occupational spectrum between the craftsman Aerospace Engineering and the engineer. The engineering technologist is more specialized than Chemical Engineering the engineer, focusing on a technical specialty within an engineering Civil Engineering discipline. Compared to the engineering curricula, there is less emphasis Computer Engineering on basic science and mathematics and engineering science and more Electrical Engineering emphasis on skills and knowledge of existing technology related to Industrial Engineering design support; production; and equipment selection, modification, and Manufacturing Engineering service. Studies for a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology Mechanical Engineering include coursework in mathematics and basic sciences; technical Engineering Technology sciences, specialties, and electives; and social sciences/humanities and Construction Engineering Technology communication. Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology As a result of Cal Poly Pomona’s "learn by doing" environment, graduates of the college continue to be in great demand by industry in southern The programs each require 198 units for the Bachelor of Science degree. California, helping Cal Poly Pomona fulfill its mission of service to the In addition, the college offers individualized programs leading to the people of California. Cal Poly Pomona’s engineering curricula demand Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering that students take computer programming and engineering orientation Management, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and courses in the freshman year, and that mathematics, basic science, and Engineering. general education courses begin concurrently. Throughout their educational programs students become adept at using both the All undergraduate engineering programs are accredited by the university’s computing facilities and the College’s computeraided Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. The programs in engineering laboratory facilities as part of their regular coursework. Engineering Technology are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Specific features of the curricula reflect the input of the college’s Commission of ABET. The address, phone number, and URL of ABET are: Industry Action Councils, composed of over 200 leaders in local industry. Many of the engineering science and engineering design courses have laboratory components. Study of the ethical issues that confront those in ABET, Inc. the practice of engineering and the need for professional registration are 111 Market Place, Suite 1050 an important part of the curriculum. In addition, many students pass the Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 3477700 Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FE) before they graduate. www.abet.org Departments host chapters of national professional societies and/or honor societies appropriate to their disciplines. Honor societies include Each engineering curriculum is designed to give the student both an Tau Beta Pi (engineering), Tau Alpha Pi (technology), Sigma Gamma Tau understanding of the fundamental principles of engineering as an 230 CAL POLY POMONA CATALOG 20092011 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (aerospace), Omega Chi Epsilon (chemical), Chi Epsilon (civil), Eta Kappa of a set of standardized characteristics and modes of behavior; it is a Nu (electrical), Alpha Pi Mu (industrial), and Pi Tau Sigma (mechanical). culture in an anthropological sense. This "Engineering Culture" has as its In addition, chapters of the following crossdisciplinary organizations are particular responsibility not only the maintenance and development of active: the Institute of Robotics Engineers; Society of Women Engineers; technical knowledge for the larger society, but also the codes of conduct National Society of Black Engineers; Society of Hispanics in Science and and practice for the application of that knowledge within the larger Engineering; and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. society. It has its own language, its own operating principles, its own beliefs and its own credos, all of which are extensions of those of the A Partnership in Engineering Education larger society. The members of this culture assume the responsibility for Recognizing that the professional education of students is a partnership the welfare of the larger society in technological matters, and are of faculty, staff, administrators and students, the college has identified characterized by their advanced and unique analytical and constructive the responsibilities and obligations needed for this partnership to abilities. succeed. All students of the college obtain a copy of the college’s The College of Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, policies and procedures from the website. The site is not meant as a Pomona has as its primary mission the preparation of students for entry substitute for the personal advising of students by faculty, but helps into the engineering culture. The College recognizes the credo of the promote an understanding of the fundamental operating tenets on which professional engineer and, as part thereof, that society’s safety and engineering education at Cal Poly Pomona is based. wellbeing demand that engineering professionals practice their craft All students, faculty, and staff of the College of Engineering should know with diligence. As educators, the faculty knows that professional and understand both the academic policies of the college and the diligence mirrors personal diligence. Accordingly, the faculty of the academic policies of the University as explained in the University College of Engineering, while subscribing to the academic policies of the Catalog. In many cases, the policies of the College of Engineering are university, also feels dutybound to expect their students and themselves rather strict interpretations of University policy, in keeping with the high to answer to the set of high academic standards corresponding to those standards that the faculty, students and the engineering profession as a of the engineering culture. whole expect of themselves. Hence, for students within the College of Engineering to successfully Students in the college are expected to bring to this partnership: complete the curriculum efficiently, with pride and with maturity, they must not only have mastered technical knowledge and skills, but must • a willingness to learn and demonstrate their mastery of the subject also have been diligent