Engineering Courses

Here is a sample schedule of the courses you will take.

Junior Year

Senior Year

Junior Year

Physics (Full Year)

Students will explore the world around them with a compliment of theory and hands-on experience.  Major topics of study include motion, force, energy, momentum. Waves, wave applications, and Einstein’s theory of special relativity.  Emphasis will be placed on problem solving skills and real world applications. 

Engineering Design Lab: AutoCad & SolidWorks (Full Year)

This course will introduce the student to real world engineering graphics. Subject material will include use of scales, pencils and angles, orthographic projection, oblique and isometric sketching and drawing, sectioning, auxiliary views and dimensioning. After the basics of technical drafting have been explored, CADD (computer aided design and drafting) will be taught using 2D AutoCAD and 3D SoildWorks computer programs.  There will be an emphasis on engineering application of the skills acquired in the course to structural and mechanical drawings and projects. 2 + 2 Eligible

Manufacturing Lab (Full Year)

This hands-on course covers the basic principles of manufacturing from conception through design to building a product. An emphasis is placed on industrial professionalism and team building. Topics include: lab safety, material and selection, hand tools, power tools, machine tools, foundry, welding, and fabrication. This course will benefit students interested in engineering and/or manufacturing. 2 + 2 Eligible

English (Full Year)

Students are placed into one of two English courses on the basis of scores on the CPT (Computerized Placement Test), an assessment tool used by Mt.  Hood Community College to place students into appropriate reading and writing courses. Students who score into WR80 or WR90 will take Junior English, while those who score into WR115 or WR121 will take College-Prep English. Both courses provide opportunities for students to read and write in a variety of genresin order to prepare them for both college and the workplace. Reading and writing topics include exploration of learning styles and interests, identity development, and sources of power to meet goals and affect change on personal, local, and global issues.

Junior English emphasizes writing and reading fundamentals, including basic writing conventions, paragraph development, vocabulary building, and literal comprehension of high-school level reading selections. 

College-Prep English emphasizes critical thinking, reading, and writing skills necessary for success in college. Students scoring into WR115 will learn basic structures in expository essay writing, including the 5-paragraph essay. Those scoring into WR121 will advance beyond 5-paragraph essays. All students will read a mixture of high-school and college-level texts, with an emphasis on reading analytically and supporting conclusions about the inferential meaning of texts. HS or ECO Eligible

Senior Year

Computer-Assisted Manufacturing and Drawing (One Semester)

This course will refresh the skills learned in the CAL junior year “Engineering Design Lab” course concerning hand sketching, manual drafting, 2D AutoCAD drafting, and 3D SoildWorks parametric modeling software. There will be an increased emphasis on learning and applying engineering problem solving skills and techniques to real world engineering and manufacturing projects using engineering computer software.  In addition, senior capstone projects will be accommodated and facilitated as much as possible into all coursework. 2 + 2 Eligible

Engineering Process (One Semester)

This course is an introduction to engineering process using manual and computer-aided drafting skills. Included will be design communication, multi-view and pictorial representation, process analysis and solutions leading to actual production planning. ECO Eligible

Projects with Lab (Full Year)

Students will be introduced to many new engineering topics and will have opportunities to experiment through hands-on project development, including the senior capstone project. New topics include modern control technology, electric power generation, engineering economics, machine design, dynamics, and kinematics. Student will have opportunities to work on personal projects, group projects, and senior capstone projects simultaneously. 

Capstone Lab (Full Year)

This course covers principals of design process, brainstorming, engineering documentation, project scheduling, and team building.  An emphasis will be placed on industrial partnership with local manufacturers and building sustainable business relationships. Students will be focused on senior capstone projects as individuals or as teams to take and innovative idea through the design process to finished product with mentorship from business partners.

English (Full Year)

Students are placed into one of two English courses for their senior year. Students who successfully complete College-Prep English their junior year OR earn a B or higher in WR115 at CAL their junior year OR who score into WR121 on the CPT (Computerized Placement Test) will take College Composition. All others will take Senior English. Through short-stories, novels, plays, and poems, students in both courses will experience a wide array of narratives that reflect American culture while learning how to express themselves within the major rhetorical styles—description, narration, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, process, and argument.  Students will also develop their presentation skills, and all presentations will be relevant to their respective disciplines.

Senior English will prepare students for college composition courses, with an emphasis on learning basic structures in expository essay writing, including the 5-paragraph essay. Students will read a mixture of high-school and college-level texts, with an increasing emphasis on reading analytically and supporting conclusions about the inferential meanings of texts.  

College Composition students are asked to write several major essays based on curricular themes. Instruction focuses on crafting essays for a specific, intended audience, using specific details and examples, applying the standard conventions of English, and using words exactly to avoid wordiness, ambiguity, and unidiomatic expressions. First semester assignments emphasize expository writing, while second semester assignments emphasize persuasion based upon analyses supported with evidence and logic. HS or ECO Eligible