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The General Engineering Department is formed by
professors with a multidisciplinary background from
different fields in engineering, architecture, and
science. It is mainly responsible for the academic
offerings in engineering during the first three years of
study. The choice of having a unique department to offer
the engineering foundation is based on the fact that all
engineering disciplines rest on common bases and also
that the administration and teaching of the basic
courses can be handled most efficiently outside of the
specialized departments.
The common foundation comprises Engineering Science
courses, such as, Engineering Graphics, Computer
Programming, Numerical Methods, Computer Graphics,
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
multidisciplinary nature, is involved in areas of
research that span from classical engineering science,
such as, Materials Science and Applied Mechanics to new
fields, such as Biomaterials and Bioinformatics. Due to
this characteristic, the Department is developing to
become the hub for inter- and multi-disciplinary
graduate programs and research in engineering. |
