Departments & Fields of Study: Engineering Common Courses| - Cornell University

Engineering Communications Courses:

Courses in this category, offered by the Engineering Communications Program (ECP), develop writing and oral-presentation skills needed by engineers.

Engineering Distribution Courses:

Courses in this category are sophomore-level courses cross-listed with a department. These courses are intended to introduce students to more advanced concepts of engineering and may require pre- or corequisites.

ENGRD 2020 - Statics and Mechanics of Solids (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2100 - Introduction to Circuits for Electrical and Computer Engineers (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2110 - Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2112 - Object-Oriented Design and Data Structures - Honors (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2190 - Mass and Energy Balances
ENGRD 2200 - The Earth System (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2210 - Thermodynamics (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2300 - Digital Logic and Computer Organization (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2510 - Engineering for a Sustainable Society (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2520 - The Physics of Life (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2600 - Principles of Biological Engineering (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2610 - Mechanical Properties of Materials: From Nanodevices to Superstructures (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2620 - Electronic Materials for the Information Age (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2640 - Computer - Instrumentation Design (crosslisted)
ENGRD 2700 - Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
ENGRD 3100 - Introduction to Probability and Inference for Random Signals and Systems (crosslisted)
ENGRD 3200 - Engineering Computation (crosslisted)

Courses of General Interest:

Courses in this category are of general interest and cover technical, historical, and social issues relevant to the engineering profession. These courses may also include seminar or tutorial type courses.

Introduction to Engineering Courses:

Courses in this category are first-year level courses intended to introduce students to various aspects of engineering. They have no prerequisites and most are cross-listed with a department.

ENGRI 1100 - Lasers and Photonics (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1101 - Engineering Applications of Operations Research
ENGRI 1110 - Nanotechnology (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1120 - Introduction to Chemical Engineering
ENGRI 1130 - Sustainable Design for Appledore Island (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1131 - Water Treatment Design (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1140 - Materials: The Future of Energy (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1160 - Modern Structures (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1170 - Introduction to Mechanical Engineering (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1190 - Biomaterials for the Skeletal System (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1200 - Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1210 - Modern Computing Devices: Smart Phones to Supercomputers (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1220 - Earthquake! (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1270 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Engineering (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1280 - Security, Privacy, and Information Network Design: Wiretaps to Facebook (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1290 - Energy: From Atoms to Zephyrs (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1310 - Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1610 - Computing in the Arts (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1620 - Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1810 - Electronics for Human-Machine Interfaces (crosslisted)
ENGRI 1820 - Electricity Lights Camera Action: Nanoengineering for the Future of Bits and Bytes (crosslisted)