LIVING WITH THE LAB

Hands-On Engineering Education

Louisiana Tech operates on a quarter calendar. As a first-year engineering student, you’ll take Engineering 120, 121 and 122 along with co-requisite math and science courses. These two semester hour, project-based, courses meet twice per week for 110 minutes throughout the year. You’ll become increasingly independent and will be able to fabricate and test projects that are more and more complex and open-ended. Engineering 122 culminates at the First-Year Prototyping Showcase where you’ll present the smart products that you and your team have conceived, designed, fabricated and tested with minimal guidance from your professors.

In the Living with the Lab curriculum, you’ll use an Arduino microcontroller along with a collection parts to build a mobile robot.

Continuity between the freshman year and upper level courses is provided through projects implemented in the three sophomore-level engineering courses.

First-Year Courses

Engineering 122: Engineering Problem Solving III

Electromechanical systems, selected mathematics and science topics, design, basic fabrication techniques, troubleshooting, communication skills, global and societal issues, and computer applications

Engineering Technology 122: Engineering Technology Problem Solving III

Electromechanical systems, selected mathematics and science topics, design, basic fabrication techniques, troubleshooting, communication skills, global and societal issues, and computer applications

Second-Year Courses

Engineering 220: Statics and Mechanics of Materials

Syllabus
Truss Design Project
Lab 1 – Tensile Testing
Lab2 – Buckling
Lab3 – Force Measurement through Strain Gages

Engineering 221:  Electrical Engineering and Circuits

Lab1 – Build your own DC Voltmeter
Lab2 – Oscilloscopes and Time Varying Signals
Lab3 – Operational Amplifier Electronic Circuits

Engineering 222: Thermodynamics

Design of a Thermoelectric Cooler
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