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Engineering H192
Engineering Fundamentals & Laboratory II (4 Credits)
Classrooms: HI 206 or HI 346
Hands-on Laboratory: HI 208
Instructors: Paul Clingan
Joanne DeGroat
John Demel
Rick Freuler
Mike Miller
Clingan.3@osu.edu;
DeGroat.1@osu.edu;
Demel.1@osu.edu;
Freuler.1@osu.edu;
Miller.94@osu.edu;
HI 223
DL 656
HI 244E
HI 244H
HI 305
292-8565, 431-1167 (h)
292-2439
292-2427, 901-2996 (h)
688-0499, 436-2202 (h)
292-2080, 854-0675 (h)
Lab TAs:
James Copus
Aaron Lambert
Ted Pavlic
Jeff Radigan
Rajat Taneja
Copus.2@osu.edu;
Lambert.139@osu.edu;
Pavlic.3@osu.edu;
Radigan.4@osu.edu;
Taneja.5@osu.edu;
HI 209
HI 209
HI 209
HI 209
HI 209
688-0436
688-0436
688-0436
688-0436
688-0436
UTAs:
Matt Bielozer
David Bradway
Lori Engelhardt
Mike P Johnson
Katie Moffitt
Jen Nappier
Ted Pavlic
Matt Reeder
Zak Schank
Kristen Six
Liza Toher
Tim Yoder
Bielozer.1@osu.edu;
Peggy Blake
Blake.116@osu.edu;
Bradway.3@osu.edu;
Shelley Buchholz Buchholz.17@osu.edu;
Engelhardt.18@osu.edu; David Hawn
Hawn.4@osu.edu;
Johnson.2255@osu.edu; Matt Kreager
Kreager.14@osu.edu;
Moffitt.20@osu.edu;
Craig Morin
Morin.20@osu.edu;
Nappier.6@osu.edu;
John Neyer
Neyer.3@osu.edu;
Pavlic.3@osu.edu;
Jeff Radigan
Radigan.4@osu.edu;
Reeder.54@osu.edu;
Joe F Ryan
Ryan.311@osu.edu;
Schank.1@osu.edu;
Eric Schmidt
Schmidt.298@osu.edu;
Six.17@osu.edu;
Sean Smith
Smith.3700@osu.edu;
Toher.1@osu.edu;
Dan Trares
Trares.3@osu.edu;
Yoder.138@osu.edu;
Introduction and Course Organization:
Engineering H192 is your second course in engineering problem solving and includes Engineering
Problem Solving, Computer Programming, and Engineering Laboratory. This course is the second
in a three-course sequence of Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory and is coordinated with
either Math 162G or Math 152A and with Physics 132E/G/J courses.
This course meets four times each week for a 108-minute class period Monday through Thursday.
For most of the class periods, the class will meet in the scheduled classroom (either HI 206 or
HI 346) for a 108-minute session which will have a lecture component followed by a daily exercise
or programming/computer lab component. During these scheduled computer lab times, the students
are expected to work on the daily assignments related to the lecture topic or on their current
Engineering Laboratory project. Students may need some additional unscheduled computer lab
time (available in HI 324) to complete their assignments. For one class period in seven out of the
ten weeks, the class will go to lab (in HI 208) for a scheduled hands-on laboratory exercise on either
Wednesday or Thursday. There will be no hands-on laboratory exercise in the first, eighth, or tenth
week of the quarter.
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Course Objectives:
Engineering H192 provides the engineering student with a fundamental understanding of problem
solving, engineering graphics and communication, computer programming, and laboratory
experimentation. Engineering H192 presents concepts of computer programming in an engineering
problem solving environment. The emphasis is on problem solving techniques and writing
engineering reports. Algorithms are developed for repetitive operations, decision making, and
evaluation of alternative courses of action. Various techniques are presented for problem
decomposition into manageable modules. Included in ENG H192 are a number of “hands-on”
team-oriented engineering laboratory experiments with an introduction to data acquisition and data
analysis. A team design project is also included.
Programming constructs for implementation of repetitive operations and decision making/branching
are developed and presented in a generic as well as programming-language-specific format.
Computation/numerical programming is emphasized. Programming concepts are presented in a
language-independent manner and implemented in C/ C++. An introduction to MATLAB will also
be presented, and there will be some exposure to LabView.
Upon completing this course the students will have developed effective techniques for analyzing
engineering problems, developing algorithms for their solution, and writing an engineering report
on their solution. They will have received a solid grounding in computer programming with C/
C++ and an introduction to MATLAB, and they will have seen examples of alternative languages.
They will have programmed and used two major types of computer systems in the College of
Engineering: personal computers and Unix-based workstations.
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to:
1. Understand problem solving methods and procedures in order to solve elementary engineering
problems.
2. Develop computer algorithms; construct logic diagrams; prepare, run, and report on computer
programs to solve assigned problems using the REGION ONE Computer Laboratory UNIX
Workstation computing systems, C/ C++, and MATLAB.
3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of:
(1) Terminal or workstation operation;
(2) UNIX Command Language;
(3) vi and/or other UNIX editor;
(4) C/C++ programming language;
(5) Interactive programming techniques;
(6) Program testing and debugging;
(7) Graphic and alphanumeric screen output;
(8) An interactive environment for numerical computation, data analysis, and graphics –
MATLAB;
(9) Data validation techniques;
(10) Laboratory procedures and data acquisition fundamentals;
(11) Proper documentation and reporting methods.
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4. Set up computer systems to monitor and interact with the physical world, including experiments
with data acquisition, real time data analysis, and programmed logic control.
Assignments and Grading:
Daily assignments will be due at the beginning of the lecture periods. Seven hands-on laboratory
problems will be submitted with either formal or memo-style reports. Examinations will include six
scheduled 10-minute quizzes, several unannounced hands-on lab quizzes, two 108-minute
midterms, and one two-hour final exam. A small design project will be completed during the tenth
week. The course letter grade will be based on the sum of the products of average grade received
and percent assigned for each of the following areas:
Component of Course Grade
Daily Assignments (26)
Engineering Hands-on Lab Reports (7)
Midterm Examinations (2)
Quizzes (6)
Journal Entries (10)
Design Project w/ Documentation (1)
Final Exam (1)
Percent
26.0%
17.5%
22.0%
12.0%
3.0%
5.5%
14.0%
Each student enrolled in the course will receive a letter grade after completion of all parts of the
assigned work in a manner that is satisfactory to the course instructor. A minimum grade of 50% is
required in every component to receive a passing grade in the course.
Daily Assignments, Engineering Laboratory Problems, and Journals:
Daily assignments are to be submitted by including a copy of the computer program source code
and computer-produced output stapled together with the assignment handout sheet. Due dates are
indicated for all daily assignments. A penalty will be assessed for late work. If a daily assignment
is turned in late, but within one class period of the time due, its grade may be reduced by 30%.
Assignments submitted after one class period past the time due may be given 0 points; however,
they will be graded for accuracy. It is suggested that you keep your graded assignments in a 3-ring
binder for future reference.
A formal report or a memorandum report is to be submitted for each of the Engineering Laboratory
problems. Due dates are indicated on the schedule. Late reports will be penalized. All lab reports
from the hands-on labs must be submitted whether they are late or not.
Journal entries must be submitted electronically to http://feh.eng.ohio-state.edu/journals.html or as
otherwise instructed by no later than 11:59 PM each Sunday. In certain special situations, the
deadline may be extended (3-day weekends, network or server failure, etc.). Late journal entries
will not be accepted.
The solution to an assignment or a laboratory problem must represent each student's own work
except for work done by students assigned to teams. It is considered unlikely that students working
independently will arrive at identical solutions, that is, exactly the same computer programs and
results. A UNIX system account is established for each student enrolled in Engineering H192.
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Students are expected to follow all the rules of the computer labs at all times. Each student must
use his or her account only. The sharing of files and account information, such as a password, is
strictly prohibited. Note also that smoking is prohibited inside any of the buildings on campus and
that no food or drink are allowed in the classrooms or labs.
Course Materials: (All required, except as noted)
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ENG H192 Winter 2003 Course Packet Materials (available at COPEZ) consisting of:
"Class Notes"
"Lecture Notes"
"Daily Assignments"
Required Text – C How to Program, by Deitel & Deitel, 3rd Edition
Required Text – MATLAB – An Introduction with Applications, by Amos Gilat
Access-required Text – The New Way Things Work, by Macauly, 1998 Edition (or 1988)
Reference Text – Tools and Tactics for Design Teams, by Dominick, et al.
Reference Text – A Guide to Writing as an Engineer, by Beer
3.5 inch floppy disks (at least 2) or a 100MB Zip disk
Engineering Problem Paper
Some Useful On-line Resources
The Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program website:
http://feh.eng.oho-state.edu
How Things Work references:
http://www.howstuffworks.com
http://howthingswork.virginia.edu
C/C++ Programming resources by others:
http://oscinfo.osc.edu/training/C/html
http://www.howstuffworks.com/c.htm
http://devcentral.iftech.com/articles/C++/default.php
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/notes/top.html
On-line Guides and Tutorials for MATLAB by others:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/education/basics.shtml
On-line help for working with Excel and Word (and other MS Office applications) by others:
http://www.uwec.edu/help
The MIT Handy Board:
http://handyboard.com
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CLASS
DAY
PRB.
NO.
01-06
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READING
ASSIGNMENT
Class organization. Course introduction. (L01)
Syllabus
Introduction to engineering problem solving
techniques and algorithms. Problem identification,
requirements for solution, developing and executing
plans for solving problems, reporting results. (L02)
Structured approach to engineering problem solving:
organizing tasks, top-down design techniques, logic
diagrams, purpose and types of logic diagrams, flow
charts, action diagrams, pseudo code. (L03)
The UNIX computing environment. Workstations,
UNIX, X windows, networked environment, data &
program files, login, vi editor. C program structure.
Executable, assignment statements. (L04)
Data types in C/C++. int, long, float, double, char.
Math operators. Math library: math.h header file.
Increment, decrement operators. Shortcuts. (L05)
CN Sec. 1, 2, 3,
DD Chap. 1
DUE
01-07
E1
01-08
E2
01-09
E3
01-13
E4
01-14
E5
01-15
or
01-16
01-16
or
01-15
01-20
E6
Lab 1
01-21
E7
QUIZ #2. Logical and relational operators. Control
statements – branching: if, if-else, if-else if-else.
(L08)
DD Sec. 3.4-3.6,
4.10-4.11
E6
01-22
or
01-23
01-23
or
01-22
E8
Control statements – branching: switch-case. The
break statement. (L09)
DD Sec. 4.7, 4.9
E7
Engineering Laboratory – Digital Circuits.
Write-up on FEH
website, TWTW
340-341
Lab 1
DD Sec. 3.1-3.10,
CN Sec. 9
E1
CN Sec. 4, 5, 7, 8
E2
DD Sec. 2.5, 2.6,
3.11, 3.12
E3
QUIZ #1. Writing algorithms in computer
language. Input and output functions in C: scanf,
printf, getc, putc, getchar, putchar. stdio.h and
stdlib.h header files. (L06)
Data files in C. Opening, closing: fopen, fclose.
Reading, writing: fscanf, fprintf. (L07)
DD Chap. 9
E4
DD Sec. 11.111.5
E5
Engineering Laboratory – Data Acquisition
Principles.
Write-up on FEH
website, TWTW
310-315, 320-321
No Classes – Martin Luther King Holiday.
Lab 2
Key to abbreviations: CN = Class Notes; DD = Deitel & Deitel; MAT = MATLAB – An
Introduction with Applications; TWTW = The New Way Things Work
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READING
ASSIGNMENT
DUE
01-27
E9
Control structures – Repetition: indefinite iteration,
while, do-while loops; definite iteration, for loops.
(L10)
DD Sec. 3.7-3.9,
Chap. 4
E8
01-28
E10
DD Chap. 6
E9
01-29
or
01-30
E11
QUIZ # 3. Arrays – Assigning values to array
elements, character strings, processing array data.
(L11)
User-written function sub-programs. Function
prototypes, the return statement, returning one
value. (L12) Scope of variables. (L13)
DD Sec. 5.1-5.12
E10
01-30
or
01-29
Lab 3
Engineering Laboratory – Product Dissection and
Analysis.
Write-up on FEH
website, TWTW
14-15, 36-39,
274-275, 280-281
Lab 2
02-03
MIDTERM EXAM #1.
02-04
E12
Pointers. Functions returning more than one value,
referencing and de-referencing variables. (L14)
DD Chap. 7
E11
02-05
or
02-06
02-06
or
02-05
02-10
E13
Pointers. Use of pointers in array processing. Using
a C program to analyze experimental data. (L15)
DD Sec. 7.8, 7.10
E12
Lab 4
02-11
Engineering Laboratory – Analog Electronics: A DC Write-up on FEH
Power Supply.
website, TWTW
106-119, 160-163
Characters and strings. ctype.h, stdlib.h, stdio.h,
DD Chap. 8
and string.h library functions. (L16)
Lab 3
E16
QUIZ #4. Preprocessor directives, macros, user
libraries, user header files. (L17)
E15
02-12
or
02-13
E14
Introduction to MATLAB. Syntax, operators, useful MAT Sec. 1.1commands, vectors and matrices, simple plotting.
1.8, 2.1-2.9, 3.13.2, 5.1, 5.4
(L18)
E16
02-13
or
02-12
Lab 5
Engineering Laboratory – Stress and Strain.
Lab 4
E15
DD Sec. 13.113.5, 13.7
Write-up on FEH
website
Key to abbreviations: CN = Class Notes; DD = Deitel & Deitel; MAT = MATLAB – An
Introduction with Applications; TWTW = The New Way Things Work
E13
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CLASS
DAY
PRB.
NO.
02-17
E22
02-18
02-19
or
02-20
02-20
or
02-19
02-24
Lab 6
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READING
ASSIGNMENT
DUE
MATLAB script M-files. Simple keyboard input
and screen output. (L19)
MAT Sec. 4.1-4.7
E14
E23
MATLAB function M-files. Use of MATLAB for
data analysis. (L20) File transfer techniques.
(L20A)
MAT Sec. 6.16.10
E22
E24
MATLAB logical and relational operators,
MATLAB selection and repetition structures. (L21)
MAT Sec. 7.17.7, 3.5-3.6
E23
Engineering Laboratory – Aerodynamics and
Propulsion.
Write-up on FEH
website
Lab 5
E25
More MATLAB plotting. Element-by-element
operations. Solving simultaneous equations with
MATLAB. (L22)
MAT Sec. 5.15.10, 3.3-3.4
E24
02-25
E17
QUIZ #5. Data structures: struct, union. Defining,
initializing, accessing, using data structures.
Enumerated data types: enum. (L23)
DD Chap. 10
E25
02-26
E18
C++ enhancements to C. (L24)
DD Chap. 15
02-27
E19,
Hand
Out 1
C++ classes and data abstraction. (L25)
Programming the Handy Board. (L26)
DD Chap. 16
E17,
Lab 6
E18,
Lab 6
03-03
TOPIC
MIDTERM EXAM #2.
03-04
E20
C++ stream input/output. Screen and file I/O,
iostream.h and fstream.h header files. (L27)
DD Sec. 21.121.5
E19
03-05
or
03-06
E21
C++ stream input/output. Stream manipulators,
format states, error states. User defined types.
(L27)
DD Sec. 21.621.8
E20
03-06
or
03-05
Lab 7
Engineering Laboratory – The Stoplight. (Computer Write-up on FEH
control of a physical device.)
website
Key to abbreviations: CN = Class Notes; DD = Deitel & Deitel; MAT = MATLAB – An
Introduction with Applications; TWTW = The New Way Things Work
Hand
Out 1
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NO.
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READING
ASSIGNMENT
DUE
03-10
Hand QUIZ #6. C++ inheritance and overloading. (L28)
Out 2 Software Design Project (SDP). Introduction &
preliminary design. (L29)
Handout 2
E21
03-11
Software Design Project. Documentation and code.
(L30)
Handout 2
03-12
Software Design Project. Test and debug.
Lab 7
03-13
Summary and review for final exam. Course
evaluation and assessment. (LFX)
SDP
Key to abbreviations: CN = Class Notes; DD = Deitel & Deitel; MAT = MATLAB – An
Introduction with Applications; TWTW = The New Way Things Work
Final Exam will be: For 07:30 am Section – Tuesday, March 18, 07:30 am to 09:18 am.
( in your regular
For 09:30 am Section – Tuesday, March 18, 09:30 am to 11:18 am.
classroom )
For 11:30 am Section – Tuesday, March 18, 11:30 am to 01:18 pm.
For 01:30 pm Section – Tuesday, March 18, 01:30 pm to 03:18 pm.
For 03:30 pm Section – Tuesday, March 18, 03:30 pm to 05:18 pm.
Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology - Program Criteria
Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have:
(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
(b) and ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
(c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
(d) ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
(g) an ability to communicate effectively
(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in
a global and societal context
(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues
(k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary
for engineering practice
Introduced in this course:
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes