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        mechanical engineering workshop   such as: the rate-of return (ROR), the
        and to familiarize students with   present worth (PW), the future worth
        industrial engineering aspects  (FW), the annual equivalent (AE),   Major Requirements
                                      cost-benefit analysis and breakeven
        CSC 201 - Structured          and payback analysis. Other topics
        Programming I                 include replacement analysis,   CIV 201 - Statics
        Credit Hours: 3               inflation and depreciation. The course   Credit Hours: 3
        Prerequisite: MTT 102 or MTT 102  enables students to make suitable   Prerequisite: MTT 102 + PHY 102
                                      decisions in their professional life
        The main objective of this course is to   when they have to make a decision   Basic force concepts and equilibrium
        provide students with the logic and   on ethical and economical basis.  analysis; distributed forces; centroids;
        tools required to develop structured                         moments of inertia; application to
        software programs in C++. C++ is a   COE 101 - Introductory Artificial   structural elements.
        challenging programming language   Intelligence
        that is based on both structured   Credit Hours: 3           MIS 200 - Introduction to
        programming and object-oriented   Prerequisite: STT 100      Management Information
        programming methodologies.                                   Systems
                                      This course introduces students   Credit Hours: 3
        However, this course focuses on   to broad topics in artificial
        structured programming as the main   intelligence (AI) and machine   Prerequisite: ENG 200 + ITD 100 or
        learning objective. It also serves as a   learning without requiring them to   equivalent
        preliminary foundation for learning   have a computing or mathematical
        the object-oriented programming   background. Students will have a   This course focuses on the
                                                                     fundamental issues in using
        methodology.                  closer look at the booming field   information technologies to manage
        COE 202 - Engineering Ethics,   of AI and develop insights on   and organize business processes.
        Economy and Law               how it drives value for the society   The premise of the course is that
                                      in virtually  all sectors including
        Credit Hour: 3                business, healthcare, education,   compared to traditional firms,
                                                                     digital firms heavily rely on a set of
        Prerequisite: ENG 200 + MTT 102   engineering, and governance. The   information technologies to organize
                                      course covers basic AI concepts and   and manage their businesses in a
        This course integrates two    terminologies, applications, tools,   sustainable and ethical environment.
        interrelated general engineering   and performance evaluation in an   Managers of digital firms need to
        disciplines, namely: ethics and   accessible way to a wide range of   identify the challenges facing their
        economy. In the first part of the   audiences. Students are introduced   firms; discover the technologies that
        course, the students are introduced   to supervised learning including   will help them meet these challenges;
        to ethical issues that practicing   classification and regression, deep   design business processes to take
        engineers may face in their   learning, unsupervised learning, and   advantage of the technology; and
        professional practice. This includes a   reinforcement learning. They are also   create management procedures
        discussion of the code of ethics and   trained on using simple yet powerful   and policies to implement the
        responsibility of engineers, ethical   AI tools to empower their creativity   required changes. Topics include,
        theories, ethical problems-solving   and innovation in problem solving, AI   role of information technology
        methods, and case studies based   strategy design, process automation,   in business, IT infrastructure,
        on real events that illustrate the   and cost reduction, and thus add   enterprise applications, e-business,
        problems faced by engineers. The   value to their future employers. This   the role of technology in sustainable
        case studies also show the effects of   is done through a practical course   development and ethical issues
        engineering decisions on society.  component designed to allow   raised by the use of information
        The second part of the course gives   students to build simple data-driven   technology. Please note that as an
        students a working knowledge   AI using Excel. The data used in   introduction course to the field of
        on making economic comparison   these laboratories is collected from   management information systems
        of investment alternatives in   different domains such as health,   (MIS), this course provide an overview
        engineering project environment.   environmental science, business, and   of wide range of topics in MIS. For
        This includes description of the   engineering.              each topic discussed in this course,
        interest and time value of money                             there will be more advanced courses
        relationships, methods of comparing                          for in-depth discussion.
        alternatives using economic concepts



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