This is the first semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  Before this course begins, it is expected that you review Ch. 1 of the Baura Medical Device Technologies textbook, which was discussed in ENGR 201.  Every three course meetings, you will be introduced to two medical devices.

This will be an intense course because we will cover the relevant physiology, clinical need, history, and system descriptions of eighteen fundamental medical devices.  You will also be introduced to several medical device systems, including medical instruments, electrical stimulators, and combination products.  We need this foundational background to discuss medical device product development and regulation in ENGR 381 and ENGR 391.
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 341L

This laboratory course has two distinct parts.  In Part I of this course (Weeks 3-9), students will be introduced to the graphical user interface, data acquisition, and sensors of common medical devices.  The lab experiments are synchronized with the presentation of medical device topics in ENGR 341.  Normally, students will meet in the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Lab from 11:00 – 1:00 for each lab.  However, for the three course meetings held at the Maywood campus, we will meet at the white van outside Cuneo Hall at 10:00 AM, and will return by 2:00 PM.  Guest lecturers from Stritch Medical School will provide an introduction to imaging and administer their Radiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Labs.

In Part II of this course (Weeks 1, 2, 12-15), each student group will create an iPhone Nursing App for a Sponsor from the School of Nursing.  The first two weeks of the course are devoted to discussing foundational topics related to the App project, and are purposely separated from weeks when the students can continue programming these Apps during course meetings.  This time separation will enable student groups to meet with their Sponsors to finalize App requirements early in the project.  Creating this App using the Swift programming language will enable students to create documents related to Food and Drug Administration design control, specifically a Software Requirement Specification and Software Design Specification. 
PREREQUISITE: Concurrent enrollment in ENGR 341.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to a medical device product development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 341.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 381.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During the first four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to recurrence solving, sorting, and data structures.  They then learn how design and verify medical device software using model-based engineering.  The Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (FDA CDRH) must clear or approve each medical device before it can be legally sold in the United States.  Over the last decade, CDRH has conducted research into how model-based engineering increases medical device software quality and the likelihood that a device will perform as intended.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to advanced data structures and graph algorithms.  Separately, software issues that the FDA considers during medical device submissions are highlighted.

This course introduces students to advanced topics in the design and analysis of analog and digital electronic circuits. Areas of emphasis include an introduction to semiconductor physics, diodes, BJT transistors, CMOS devices, advanced operational amplifier circuits and frequency response fundamentals. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 351L.

This lab provides a first experience working with semiconductor devices (diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, Operational Amplifiers) for the design, creation and analysis of microelectronics using lab instruments. 
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry. Each week, you will be introduced to a computer engineering product development topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 351

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 382

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The areas of emphasis are the analysis of the methods and algorithms used in computer engineering. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the computing performance and efficiency improvement of engineering systems.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The course consists ofan introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs), ladder logic programming, relays, safety issues, hardware troubleshooting, the design of human-machine interface programsand the performance and efficiency evaluation of controllers in programmable systems and embedded systems. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the implementation of programmable systems in control and automation.

This is the first of three Specialization courses in Environmental Engineering. We will cover a wide range of topics that constitute the fundamentals of environmental engineering. Students will be expected to integrate environmental principles with concepts from earlier coursework in science, mathematics, thermodynamics, and engineering systems.

Emphasis will be placed on principles of aquatic chemistry, chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, environmental soil and biogeochemistry, environmental organic chemistry, surface and groundwater hydrology, atmospheric processes, and fate and transport modeling of contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Course material will draw heavily from environmental case studies and contemporary issues. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266 and ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 361L

This laboratory course introduces students to analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and titration, relevant to environmental engineering practice. This course emphasizes the design of field sampling campaigns of water and soil environments and the statistical data analysis of experimentally estimated water and soil parameters.  
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 361.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include "a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work." We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to an environmental engineering development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 361.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 383.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Theoretical and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water which include reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are presented, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing. Re-use of water and waste products are also covered.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Overview of engineering solutions to present day environmental issues. Technologies focused on the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the modeling and design of best management practices for stormwater management, an exploration of conventional and renewable energy technologies and the design of green.

This course is the first of four engineering design courses in the Engineering curriculum. Major topics in this course include engineering estimation, three dimensional computer-aided design, 2k factorial design, teamwork, engineering ethics, requirement specifications, and design iteration.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering students.

This seminar offers a shared learning experience with an assignment of a service project and exposure to Industrial Advisory Board members and Loyola administrators and faculty. In addition to providing intellectual enhancement to the program, these seminars give us a time and place to regularly interact.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering freshman.

This course introduces students to environmental, biomedical and computer engineering-based sensors and signal analysis techniques.  Major topics in this course include an introduction to common biomedical sensors, electronics, signals, sampling, analog-to-digital conversion, c programming, microcontroller system architectures, and microcontroller programming.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 101, COMP 170, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in CHEM 171.

ENGR 311 covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals and representations of linear, time-invariant systems.  Major topics in this course include convolution, Fourier series, Fourier Transform, and unit impulse and unit step functions. Applications are drawn broadly from engineering and physics.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, concurrent enrollment in MATH 266.

ENGR 312 introduces numerical methods and control systems theory. Students are exposed to root finding, numerical integration and differentiation, numerical solutions to ODEs, curve fitting and regression techniques, classical control system theory methods (Laplace transforms and transfer functions, root locus design, Routh-Hurwitz stability analysis, Bode and Nyquist plots) and the state variable method (controllability and observability).

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311

This course is an introduction to discrete-time signal processing and system identification. Major topics include the z-transform, infinite/finite impulse response filters, discrete/fast Fourier transform, models of linear time-invariant systems, and parameter estimation methods.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 312

This course is an introduction to electronic circuits and devices. Major topics in this course include an introduction to Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Current Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage Law, Nodal and Loop analysis, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, and alternating current steady-state analysis.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 311 and MATH 266

This course provides an introduction to basic chemical and thermal processes. Major topics include open and closed systems, control volumes, microscopic vs. macroscopic, mass and energy balances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy balance, exergy balance, thermodynamic cycles, thermodynamic property relations, gas laws, and chemical thermodynamics.

PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, CHEM 171, ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This course is an introduction to digital design. Major topics in this course include, but is not limited to, binary conversions, logic gates, combinational logic design, sequential logic design, microprocessor architecture, and an introduction to hardware description languages.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

Mechanics covers the fundamentals of modeling continuous media. Major topics include stress, strain, and constitutive relations; elements of tensor analysis; basic applications of solid and fluid mechanics; and application of conservation laws to control volumes.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This lab course enables students to experiment with concepts learned in concurrently taken core engineering courses ENGR 322, ENGR 323 and ENGR 324.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324.

This course introduces concepts related to the structure, properties, and processing of materials commonly used in engineering applications. Major topics include material structure, bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline structures, imperfections, properties of metals, metal alloys, ceramics and polymers, phase transformation, and material failures.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324, ENGR 324L.

This is the first semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  Before this course begins, it is expected that you review Ch. 1 of the Baura Medical Device Technologies textbook, which was discussed in ENGR 201.  Every three course meetings, you will be introduced to two medical devices.

This will be an intense course because we will cover the relevant physiology, clinical need, history, and system descriptions of eighteen fundamental medical devices.  You will also be introduced to several medical device systems, including medical instruments, electrical stimulators, and combination products.  We need this foundational background to discuss medical device product development and regulation in ENGR 381 and ENGR 391.
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 341L

This laboratory course has two distinct parts.  In Part I of this course (Weeks 3-9), students will be introduced to the graphical user interface, data acquisition, and sensors of common medical devices.  The lab experiments are synchronized with the presentation of medical device topics in ENGR 341.  Normally, students will meet in the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Lab from 11:00 – 1:00 for each lab.  However, for the three course meetings held at the Maywood campus, we will meet at the white van outside Cuneo Hall at 10:00 AM, and will return by 2:00 PM.  Guest lecturers from Stritch Medical School will provide an introduction to imaging and administer their Radiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Labs.

In Part II of this course (Weeks 1, 2, 12-15), each student group will create an iPhone Nursing App for a Sponsor from the School of Nursing.  The first two weeks of the course are devoted to discussing foundational topics related to the App project, and are purposely separated from weeks when the students can continue programming these Apps during course meetings.  This time separation will enable student groups to meet with their Sponsors to finalize App requirements early in the project.  Creating this App using the Swift programming language will enable students to create documents related to Food and Drug Administration design control, specifically a Software Requirement Specification and Software Design Specification. 
PREREQUISITE: Concurrent enrollment in ENGR 341.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to a medical device product development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 341.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 381.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During the first four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to recurrence solving, sorting, and data structures.  They then learn how design and verify medical device software using model-based engineering.  The Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (FDA CDRH) must clear or approve each medical device before it can be legally sold in the United States.  Over the last decade, CDRH has conducted research into how model-based engineering increases medical device software quality and the likelihood that a device will perform as intended.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to advanced data structures and graph algorithms.  Separately, software issues that the FDA considers during medical device submissions are highlighted.

This course introduces students to advanced topics in the design and analysis of analog and digital electronic circuits. Areas of emphasis include an introduction to semiconductor physics, diodes, BJT transistors, CMOS devices, advanced operational amplifier circuits and frequency response fundamentals. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 351L.

This lab provides a first experience working with semiconductor devices (diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, Operational Amplifiers) for the design, creation and analysis of microelectronics using lab instruments. 
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry. Each week, you will be introduced to a computer engineering product development topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 351

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 382

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The areas of emphasis are the analysis of the methods and algorithms used in computer engineering. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the computing performance and efficiency improvement of engineering systems.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The course consists ofan introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs), ladder logic programming, relays, safety issues, hardware troubleshooting, the design of human-machine interface programsand the performance and efficiency evaluation of controllers in programmable systems and embedded systems. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the implementation of programmable systems in control and automation.

This is the first of three Specialization courses in Environmental Engineering. We will cover a wide range of topics that constitute the fundamentals of environmental engineering. Students will be expected to integrate environmental principles with concepts from earlier coursework in science, mathematics, thermodynamics, and engineering systems.

Emphasis will be placed on principles of aquatic chemistry, chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, environmental soil and biogeochemistry, environmental organic chemistry, surface and groundwater hydrology, atmospheric processes, and fate and transport modeling of contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Course material will draw heavily from environmental case studies and contemporary issues. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266 and ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 361L

This laboratory course introduces students to analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and titration, relevant to environmental engineering practice. This course emphasizes the design of field sampling campaigns of water and soil environments and the statistical data analysis of experimentally estimated water and soil parameters.  
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 361.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include "a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work." We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to an environmental engineering development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 361.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 383.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Theoretical and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water which include reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are presented, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing. Re-use of water and waste products are also covered.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Overview of engineering solutions to present day environmental issues. Technologies focused on the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the modeling and design of best management practices for stormwater management, an exploration of conventional and renewable energy technologies and the design of green.

This course is the first of four engineering design courses in the Engineering curriculum. Major topics in this course include engineering estimation, three dimensional computer-aided design, 2k factorial design, teamwork, engineering ethics, requirement specifications, and design iteration.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering students.

This seminar offers a shared learning experience with an assignment of a service project and exposure to Industrial Advisory Board members and Loyola administrators and faculty. In addition to providing intellectual enhancement to the program, these seminars give us a time and place to regularly interact.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering freshman.

This course introduces students to environmental, biomedical and computer engineering-based sensors and signal analysis techniques.  Major topics in this course include an introduction to common biomedical sensors, electronics, signals, sampling, analog-to-digital conversion, c programming, microcontroller system architectures, and microcontroller programming.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 101, COMP 170, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in CHEM 171.

ENGR 311 covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals and representations of linear, time-invariant systems.  Major topics in this course include convolution, Fourier series, Fourier Transform, and unit impulse and unit step functions. Applications are drawn broadly from engineering and physics.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, concurrent enrollment in MATH 266.

ENGR 312 introduces numerical methods and control systems theory. Students are exposed to root finding, numerical integration and differentiation, numerical solutions to ODEs, curve fitting and regression techniques, classical control system theory methods (Laplace transforms and transfer functions, root locus design, Routh-Hurwitz stability analysis, Bode and Nyquist plots) and the state variable method (controllability and observability).

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311

This course is an introduction to discrete-time signal processing and system identification. Major topics include the z-transform, infinite/finite impulse response filters, discrete/fast Fourier transform, models of linear time-invariant systems, and parameter estimation methods.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 312

This course is an introduction to electronic circuits and devices. Major topics in this course include an introduction to Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Current Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage Law, Nodal and Loop analysis, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, and alternating current steady-state analysis.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 311 and MATH 266

This course provides an introduction to basic chemical and thermal processes. Major topics include open and closed systems, control volumes, microscopic vs. macroscopic, mass and energy balances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy balance, exergy balance, thermodynamic cycles, thermodynamic property relations, gas laws, and chemical thermodynamics.

PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, CHEM 171, ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This course is an introduction to digital design. Major topics in this course include, but is not limited to, binary conversions, logic gates, combinational logic design, sequential logic design, microprocessor architecture, and an introduction to hardware description languages.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

Mechanics covers the fundamentals of modeling continuous media. Major topics include stress, strain, and constitutive relations; elements of tensor analysis; basic applications of solid and fluid mechanics; and application of conservation laws to control volumes.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This lab course enables students to experiment with concepts learned in concurrently taken core engineering courses ENGR 322, ENGR 323 and ENGR 324.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324.

This course introduces concepts related to the structure, properties, and processing of materials commonly used in engineering applications. Major topics include material structure, bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline structures, imperfections, properties of metals, metal alloys, ceramics and polymers, phase transformation, and material failures.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324, ENGR 324L.

This is the first semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  Before this course begins, it is expected that you review Ch. 1 of the Baura Medical Device Technologies textbook, which was discussed in ENGR 201.  Every three course meetings, you will be introduced to two medical devices.

This will be an intense course because we will cover the relevant physiology, clinical need, history, and system descriptions of eighteen fundamental medical devices.  You will also be introduced to several medical device systems, including medical instruments, electrical stimulators, and combination products.  We need this foundational background to discuss medical device product development and regulation in ENGR 381 and ENGR 391.
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 341L

This laboratory course has two distinct parts.  In Part I of this course (Weeks 3-9), students will be introduced to the graphical user interface, data acquisition, and sensors of common medical devices.  The lab experiments are synchronized with the presentation of medical device topics in ENGR 341.  Normally, students will meet in the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Lab from 11:00 – 1:00 for each lab.  However, for the three course meetings held at the Maywood campus, we will meet at the white van outside Cuneo Hall at 10:00 AM, and will return by 2:00 PM.  Guest lecturers from Stritch Medical School will provide an introduction to imaging and administer their Radiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Labs.

In Part II of this course (Weeks 1, 2, 12-15), each student group will create an iPhone Nursing App for a Sponsor from the School of Nursing.  The first two weeks of the course are devoted to discussing foundational topics related to the App project, and are purposely separated from weeks when the students can continue programming these Apps during course meetings.  This time separation will enable student groups to meet with their Sponsors to finalize App requirements early in the project.  Creating this App using the Swift programming language will enable students to create documents related to Food and Drug Administration design control, specifically a Software Requirement Specification and Software Design Specification. 
PREREQUISITE: Concurrent enrollment in ENGR 341.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to a medical device product development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 341.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 381.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During the first four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to recurrence solving, sorting, and data structures.  They then learn how design and verify medical device software using model-based engineering.  The Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (FDA CDRH) must clear or approve each medical device before it can be legally sold in the United States.  Over the last decade, CDRH has conducted research into how model-based engineering increases medical device software quality and the likelihood that a device will perform as intended.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to advanced data structures and graph algorithms.  Separately, software issues that the FDA considers during medical device submissions are highlighted.

This course introduces students to advanced topics in the design and analysis of analog and digital electronic circuits. Areas of emphasis include an introduction to semiconductor physics, diodes, BJT transistors, CMOS devices, advanced operational amplifier circuits and frequency response fundamentals. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 351L.

This lab provides a first experience working with semiconductor devices (diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, Operational Amplifiers) for the design, creation and analysis of microelectronics using lab instruments. 
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry. Each week, you will be introduced to a computer engineering product development topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 351

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 382

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The areas of emphasis are the analysis of the methods and algorithms used in computer engineering. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the computing performance and efficiency improvement of engineering systems.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The course consists ofan introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs), ladder logic programming, relays, safety issues, hardware troubleshooting, the design of human-machine interface programsand the performance and efficiency evaluation of controllers in programmable systems and embedded systems. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the implementation of programmable systems in control and automation.

This is the first of three Specialization courses in Environmental Engineering. We will cover a wide range of topics that constitute the fundamentals of environmental engineering. Students will be expected to integrate environmental principles with concepts from earlier coursework in science, mathematics, thermodynamics, and engineering systems.

Emphasis will be placed on principles of aquatic chemistry, chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, environmental soil and biogeochemistry, environmental organic chemistry, surface and groundwater hydrology, atmospheric processes, and fate and transport modeling of contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Course material will draw heavily from environmental case studies and contemporary issues. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266 and ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 361L

This laboratory course introduces students to analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and titration, relevant to environmental engineering practice. This course emphasizes the design of field sampling campaigns of water and soil environments and the statistical data analysis of experimentally estimated water and soil parameters.  
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 361.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include "a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work." We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to an environmental engineering development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 361.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 383.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Theoretical and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water which include reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are presented, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing. Re-use of water and waste products are also covered.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Overview of engineering solutions to present day environmental issues. Technologies focused on the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the modeling and design of best management practices for stormwater management, an exploration of conventional and renewable energy technologies and the design of green.

This course is the first of four engineering design courses in the Engineering curriculum. Major topics in this course include engineering estimation, three dimensional computer-aided design, 2k factorial design, teamwork, engineering ethics, requirement specifications, and design iteration.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering students.

This seminar offers a shared learning experience with an assignment of a service project and exposure to Industrial Advisory Board members and Loyola administrators and faculty. In addition to providing intellectual enhancement to the program, these seminars give us a time and place to regularly interact.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering freshman.

This course introduces students to environmental, biomedical and computer engineering-based sensors and signal analysis techniques.  Major topics in this course include an introduction to common biomedical sensors, electronics, signals, sampling, analog-to-digital conversion, c programming, microcontroller system architectures, and microcontroller programming.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 101, COMP 170, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in CHEM 171.

ENGR 311 covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals and representations of linear, time-invariant systems.  Major topics in this course include convolution, Fourier series, Fourier Transform, and unit impulse and unit step functions. Applications are drawn broadly from engineering and physics.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, concurrent enrollment in MATH 266.

ENGR 312 introduces numerical methods and control systems theory. Students are exposed to root finding, numerical integration and differentiation, numerical solutions to ODEs, curve fitting and regression techniques, classical control system theory methods (Laplace transforms and transfer functions, root locus design, Routh-Hurwitz stability analysis, Bode and Nyquist plots) and the state variable method (controllability and observability).

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311

This course is an introduction to discrete-time signal processing and system identification. Major topics include the z-transform, infinite/finite impulse response filters, discrete/fast Fourier transform, models of linear time-invariant systems, and parameter estimation methods.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 312

This course is an introduction to electronic circuits and devices. Major topics in this course include an introduction to Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Current Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage Law, Nodal and Loop analysis, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, and alternating current steady-state analysis.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 311 and MATH 266

This course provides an introduction to basic chemical and thermal processes. Major topics include open and closed systems, control volumes, microscopic vs. macroscopic, mass and energy balances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy balance, exergy balance, thermodynamic cycles, thermodynamic property relations, gas laws, and chemical thermodynamics.

PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, CHEM 171, ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This course is an introduction to digital design. Major topics in this course include, but is not limited to, binary conversions, logic gates, combinational logic design, sequential logic design, microprocessor architecture, and an introduction to hardware description languages.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

Mechanics covers the fundamentals of modeling continuous media. Major topics include stress, strain, and constitutive relations; elements of tensor analysis; basic applications of solid and fluid mechanics; and application of conservation laws to control volumes.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This lab course enables students to experiment with concepts learned in concurrently taken core engineering courses ENGR 322, ENGR 323 and ENGR 324.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324.

This course introduces concepts related to the structure, properties, and processing of materials commonly used in engineering applications. Major topics include material structure, bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline structures, imperfections, properties of metals, metal alloys, ceramics and polymers, phase transformation, and material failures.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324, ENGR 324L.

This is the first semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  Before this course begins, it is expected that you review Ch. 1 of the Baura Medical Device Technologies textbook, which was discussed in ENGR 201.  Every three course meetings, you will be introduced to two medical devices.

This will be an intense course because we will cover the relevant physiology, clinical need, history, and system descriptions of eighteen fundamental medical devices.  You will also be introduced to several medical device systems, including medical instruments, electrical stimulators, and combination products.  We need this foundational background to discuss medical device product development and regulation in ENGR 381 and ENGR 391.
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 341L

This laboratory course has two distinct parts.  In Part I of this course (Weeks 3-9), students will be introduced to the graphical user interface, data acquisition, and sensors of common medical devices.  The lab experiments are synchronized with the presentation of medical device topics in ENGR 341.  Normally, students will meet in the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Lab from 11:00 – 1:00 for each lab.  However, for the three course meetings held at the Maywood campus, we will meet at the white van outside Cuneo Hall at 10:00 AM, and will return by 2:00 PM.  Guest lecturers from Stritch Medical School will provide an introduction to imaging and administer their Radiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Labs.

In Part II of this course (Weeks 1, 2, 12-15), each student group will create an iPhone Nursing App for a Sponsor from the School of Nursing.  The first two weeks of the course are devoted to discussing foundational topics related to the App project, and are purposely separated from weeks when the students can continue programming these Apps during course meetings.  This time separation will enable student groups to meet with their Sponsors to finalize App requirements early in the project.  Creating this App using the Swift programming language will enable students to create documents related to Food and Drug Administration design control, specifically a Software Requirement Specification and Software Design Specification. 
PREREQUISITE: Concurrent enrollment in ENGR 341.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to a medical device product development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 341.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 381.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During the first four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to recurrence solving, sorting, and data structures.  They then learn how design and verify medical device software using model-based engineering.  The Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (FDA CDRH) must clear or approve each medical device before it can be legally sold in the United States.  Over the last decade, CDRH has conducted research into how model-based engineering increases medical device software quality and the likelihood that a device will perform as intended.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering.  During four weeks, students increase their programming skills through exposure to advanced data structures and graph algorithms.  Separately, software issues that the FDA considers during medical device submissions are highlighted.

This course introduces students to advanced topics in the design and analysis of analog and digital electronic circuits. Areas of emphasis include an introduction to semiconductor physics, diodes, BJT transistors, CMOS devices, advanced operational amplifier circuits and frequency response fundamentals. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 351L.

This lab provides a first experience working with semiconductor devices (diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, Operational Amplifiers) for the design, creation and analysis of microelectronics using lab instruments. 
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, ENGR 323; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include “a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry. Each week, you will be introduced to a computer engineering product development topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 351

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Computer Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 382

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The areas of emphasis are the analysis of the methods and algorithms used in computer engineering. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the computing performance and efficiency improvement of engineering systems.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Computer Engineering. The course consists ofan introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs), ladder logic programming, relays, safety issues, hardware troubleshooting, the design of human-machine interface programsand the performance and efficiency evaluation of controllers in programmable systems and embedded systems. The course includes hands-on experiments and a design project related to the implementation of programmable systems in control and automation.

This is the first of three Specialization courses in Environmental Engineering. We will cover a wide range of topics that constitute the fundamentals of environmental engineering. Students will be expected to integrate environmental principles with concepts from earlier coursework in science, mathematics, thermodynamics, and engineering systems.

Emphasis will be placed on principles of aquatic chemistry, chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, environmental soil and biogeochemistry, environmental organic chemistry, surface and groundwater hydrology, atmospheric processes, and fate and transport modeling of contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Course material will draw heavily from environmental case studies and contemporary issues. 
PREREQUISITES: MATH 266 and ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 313 and ENGR 361L

This laboratory course introduces students to analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and titration, relevant to environmental engineering practice. This course emphasizes the design of field sampling campaigns of water and soil environments and the statistical data analysis of experimentally estimated water and soil parameters.  
PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 361.

This is the first semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  ABET mandates that the curriculum must include "a culminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work." We meet this requirement within ABET Criterion 5 through your Capstone Design projects, which are sponsored by industry.  Each week, you will be introduced to an environmental engineering development or regulation topic during a 50 minute course meeting. For the remaining 5 hours, your group is expected to work on its Capstone Design project. You will also video-conference with your Industry Liaison and Faculty Advisor weekly.

You are fulfilling the University Requirement of Engaged Learning through ENGR 381 and 391, which are considered Fieldwork courses. During our first course meeting, we will discuss how you will record the time you spend on your project, as Fieldwork courses require at least 100 hours of field work. 
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 361.

This is the second semester of a two-semester Capstone Design series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.
PREREQUISITE: ENGR 383.

This is the second semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Theoretical and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water which include reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are presented, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing. Re-use of water and waste products are also covered.

This is the third semester of a three-semester Specialty course series for students specializing in Environmental Engineering.  Overview of engineering solutions to present day environmental issues. Technologies focused on the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the modeling and design of best management practices for stormwater management, an exploration of conventional and renewable energy technologies and the design of green.

This course is the first of four engineering design courses in the Engineering curriculum. Major topics in this course include engineering estimation, three dimensional computer-aided design, 2k factorial design, teamwork, engineering ethics, requirement specifications, and design iteration.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering students.

This seminar offers a shared learning experience with an assignment of a service project and exposure to Industrial Advisory Board members and Loyola administrators and faculty. In addition to providing intellectual enhancement to the program, these seminars give us a time and place to regularly interact.

PREREQUISITES: This class is restricted to Engineering freshman.

This course introduces students to environmental, biomedical and computer engineering-based sensors and signal analysis techniques.  Major topics in this course include an introduction to common biomedical sensors, electronics, signals, sampling, analog-to-digital conversion, c programming, microcontroller system architectures, and microcontroller programming.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 101, COMP 170, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in CHEM 171.

ENGR 311 covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals and representations of linear, time-invariant systems.  Major topics in this course include convolution, Fourier series, Fourier Transform, and unit impulse and unit step functions. Applications are drawn broadly from engineering and physics.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, concurrent enrollment in MATH 266.

ENGR 312 introduces numerical methods and control systems theory. Students are exposed to root finding, numerical integration and differentiation, numerical solutions to ODEs, curve fitting and regression techniques, classical control system theory methods (Laplace transforms and transfer functions, root locus design, Routh-Hurwitz stability analysis, Bode and Nyquist plots) and the state variable method (controllability and observability).

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311

This course is an introduction to discrete-time signal processing and system identification. Major topics include the z-transform, infinite/finite impulse response filters, discrete/fast Fourier transform, models of linear time-invariant systems, and parameter estimation methods.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 312

This course is an introduction to electronic circuits and devices. Major topics in this course include an introduction to Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Current Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage Law, Nodal and Loop analysis, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, and alternating current steady-state analysis.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 201, PHYS 112K, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 311 and MATH 266

This course provides an introduction to basic chemical and thermal processes. Major topics include open and closed systems, control volumes, microscopic vs. macroscopic, mass and energy balances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy balance, exergy balance, thermodynamic cycles, thermodynamic property relations, gas laws, and chemical thermodynamics.

PREREQUISITES: MATH 266, CHEM 171, ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This course is an introduction to digital design. Major topics in this course include, but is not limited to, binary conversions, logic gates, combinational logic design, sequential logic design, microprocessor architecture, and an introduction to hardware description languages.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 321, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

Mechanics covers the fundamentals of modeling continuous media. Major topics include stress, strain, and constitutive relations; elements of tensor analysis; basic applications of solid and fluid mechanics; and application of conservation laws to control volumes.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311, concurrent enrollment in ENGR 324L

This lab course enables students to experiment with concepts learned in concurrently taken core engineering courses ENGR 322, ENGR 323 and ENGR 324.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 311; concurrent enrollment in ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324.

This course introduces concepts related to the structure, properties, and processing of materials commonly used in engineering applications. Major topics include material structure, bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline structures, imperfections, properties of metals, metal alloys, ceramics and polymers, phase transformation, and material failures.

PREREQUISITES: ENGR 322, ENGR 323, ENGR 324, ENGR 324L.