Engineering Problem Solving

Last updated: 3/10/2014

Author Information

Professor Rajeevan Amirtharajah
University of California Davis

Course Details

Description

There are three goals for this curriculum:  
Students who enrolled in the course will learn MATLAB through solving sustainable/renewable engineering related problems. Students will also gain hands-on experience working with hardware (developed based on Arduino UNO) to gather sunlight data. The course emphasizes topics in solar cell technology, but other topics such as green building design and electric vehicles are also briefly covered. 
   
This course targets lower division undergraduate students (however, some senior students also enroll) in all engineering and scientific disciplines. The pre-requisite for the course is only differential and integral calculus. No computer science (programming) courses are required. 
 
Important: Although students are introduced to various topics in sustainable engineering, the goal of the course is to teach engineering problem solving (and how to use MATLAB to model and solve engineering problems) and not sustainable engineering.

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Course Contents

Lectures

Lab 1

Lab 2

Lab 3

Lab 4

Projects

Project 1

Project 2

Solar Module

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