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        for the course CHE 205 including   group activities for the students that   engineers may face in their
        density measurements, separation   illustrate the principles and concepts   professional practice. This includes a
        of mixtures, spectrophotometry,   for the course BIO 205.    discussion of the code of ethics and
        titration, flame test, etc.                                  responsibility of engineers, ethical
                                      COE 101 - Introductory Artificial   theories, ethical problems-solving
        BME 301 - Applied Molecular   Intelligence                   methods, and case studies based
        and Cellular Biology for      Credit Hours: 3                on real events that illustrate the
                                                                     problems faced by engineers. The
        Engineers                     Prerequisite: STT 100          case studies also show the effects
        Credit Hours: 3               This course introduces students   of engineering decisions on society.
        Prerequisite: BIO 205         to broad topics in artificial   The second part of the course gives
                                                                     students a working knowledge
                                      intelligence (AI) and machine
        This course aims at familiarizing   learning without requiring them to   on making economic comparison
        biomedical engineering students with   have a computing or mathematical   of investment alternatives in
        the basics of molecular and cellular   background. Students will have a   engineering project environment.
        biology principles and concepts, and   closer look at the booming field   This includes description of the
        to apply biomedical and engineering   of AI and develop insights into   interest and time value of money
        principles to the understanding of   how it drives value for society   relationships, methods of comparing
                                                                     alternatives using economic concepts
        biological systems. The course aims   in virtually all sectors including   such as: the rate-of return (ROR), the
        at bridging the gap between biology   business, healthcare, education,   present worth (PW), the future worth
        and engineering.              engineering, and governance. The   (FW), the annual equivalent (AE),
        BIO 205 - General Biology I   course covers basic AI concepts and   cost-benefit analysis and breakeven
                                                                     and payback analysis. Other topics
        Credit Hours: 3               terminologies, applications, tools,   include replacement analysis,
                                      and performance evaluation in an
        Prerequisite: FWS 100         accessible way to a wide range of   inflation and depreciation. The course
                                                                     enables students to make suitable
        This course introduces the principles   audiences. Students are introduced   decisions in their professional life
        and concepts of biology with   to supervised learning including   when they have to make a decision
        the emphasis on the cell and its   classification and regression, deep   on ethical and economical basis.
        metabolic activity, genetics and   learning, unsupervised learning, and
        inheritance in living organism.   reinforcement learning. They are also   MTT 204 - Introduction to Linear
        This course attempts to offer an   trained in using simple yet powerful   Algebra
        introduction to biology. It presents   AI tools to empower their creativity   Credit Hours: 3
        the chemical basis of life, the living   and innovation in problem-solving, AI   Prerequisite: MTT 200
        cell as a structural unit of the living   strategy design, process automation,
        organism, photosynthesis, aerobic   and cost reduction, and thus add   The course aim is to provide
        and anaerobic respiration, cell   value to their future employers. This   engineering students with some
        division, genetics and biotechnology.   is done through a practical course   standard methods to solve first
        In addition, this course will cover   component designed to allow   order Separable, Exact, Linear and
        topics in the mechanisms of   students to build simple data-driven   Bernoulli differential equations.
        evolutions such as the Darwinian   AI using Excel. The data used in   Construct mathematical models of
        view of life and the history of life on   these laboratories is collected from   simple physical systems. Solve higher
        earth.                        different domains such as health,   order linear ODE’s with constant
                                      environmental science, business, and   coefficients. Solve ordinary linear
        BIO 205L - General Biology I   engineering.                  differential equations using infinite
        Laboratory                    COE 202 Engineering Ethics,    series and Laplace transform. Solve
        Credit Hour: 1                   Economy and Law             systems of differential equations.
        Co-requisite: BIO 205         Credit Hours: 3
         This course introduces the principles   Prerequisite: ENG 200 + MTT 102

        and concepts of biology with the   This course integrates two
        emphasis on laboratory skills and   interrelated general engineering
        practical hands-on experiences for   disciplines, namely: ethics and
        the students. This course will have   economy. In the first part of the
        laboratory experiments, simulated   course, the students are introduced
        experiments, demonstrations and   to ethical issues that practicing


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