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The General Engineering Department includes professors
with an interdisciplinary background
from different fields of engineering. It is mainly responsible for most
of the academic offerings in engineering during the
first three years of study. This is because all
engineering disciplines rest on a common foundation, and
the administration and teaching of the basic courses can
be handled most efficiently outside of the specialized
departments.
The common foundation, which can be described as the
study of applied physical science, or Engineering
Science, is composed of courses such as: Engineering
Graphics, Computer Programming. Numerical Methods,
Computer Graphics, Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of
Materials, Materials Science, and Fluid Mechanics. A
broad, yet in-depth, knowledge of all of these areas is
indispensable in every field of engineering, not only
for further studies, but also for the successful
practice of the engineering profession.
The
General Engineering Department, because of its
interdisciplinary nature, is involved in areas of
research that span from classical engineering science,
such as, Material Science and Applied Mechanics to new
fields, such as Biomaterial and Bioinformatics.
Due to this characteristic, the Department is developing
to become the hub for interdisciplinary graduate
programs and research.
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