Engineering
15 courses · Chabot College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026 · Fall 2026
ENGR 10 Introduction to Engineering
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 Lecture
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduction to careers, activities, and topics related to the field of engineering, including computer applications, design and problem solving. Help students determine what degrees and certificates are needed to reach their engineering career of choice. Complete engineering sample projects including bridge design, 3D modeling/3D printing, robotics, and circuits. This course will help determine if engineering is the career for you.
ENGR 11 Engineering Design and Analysis
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 18 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- ENGR 10
- Advisory
- ENGR 22
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
An introduction to the engineering design process from a practical and professional perspective. Student teams work on a term-long engineering project that entails the creation of a design for a useful object with moving parts that requires the application of some external power source. Conceptual and Critical/Final design reviews require teams to describe and justify the effectiveness, and likely customer-acceptance, of the design. The student designers: select materials, components, sources of supply; produce detailed parts-lists; create using CAD-tools detailed and dimensioned production and assembly drawings; create formal electrical and fluid-control component interconnection schematics; provide a detailed estimate for the production-cost. When needed students use engineering software tools (such as MATLAB) to assess and predict the kinematic, structural, thermal, electrical, fluid-flow, wear/corrosion, optical, and magnetic performance of the proposed design. Students are encouraged to build from the design plans a form-and-fit mock-up, or if possible a fully functioning prototype.
ENGR 15 Engineered Systems and Sustainability
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 Lecture
- Prerequisite
- MTH 1, CHEM 1A
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
An introduction to key engineered systems (e.g., energy, water supply, buildings, transportation) and their environmental impacts. Basic principles of environmental science needed to understand natural processes as they are influenced by human activities. Overview of concepts and methods of sustainability analysis. Critical evaluation of engineering approaches to address sustainability.
ENGR 16 Designing Information Devices and Systems I
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 54 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- MTH 2, CSCI 14
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course focuses on the fundamentals of designing modern information devices and systems that interface with the real world, providing a foundation for core topics in signal processing, learning, control, and circuit design while introducing key linear-algebraic concepts motivated by applications. Modeling is emphasized to deepen mathematical maturity in both labs and homework, students will engage computationally, physically, and visually with the concepts being introduced.
ENGR 22 Engineering Design Graphics
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 36 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- MTH 22
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduction to the engineering-design process, and to technical-graphic communications tools used by engineers. Student will be introduced to the following content and skills: conceptual design of products; development of spatial reasoning skills; orthographic and axonometric projection-drawing techniques; tolerance analysis for fabrication; documentation of designs through engineering working-drawing; and the use of 2D and 3D CAD software as a design tool. The use of CAD software is an integral part of the course.
ENGR 25 Computational Methods for Engineers and Scientists
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 54 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- MTH 1 (completed with a grade of "C" or higher)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Methodology and techniques for solving engineering/science problems using numerical-analysis computer-application programs MATLAB, SimuLink, Livescripts, app designer and Excel. Technical computing and visualization using MATLAB software. Examples and applications from applied mathematics, physical mechanics, electrical circuits, biology, thermal systems, fluid systems, and other branches of science and engineering.
ENGR 36 Engineering Mechanics -Statics
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 36 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- ENGR 25, PHYS 7A, PHYS 4A, MTH 2
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Force systems under equilibrium conditions; vector properties of forces, moments, couples, and resultants; rigid body structures; hydrostatics; shear and bending-moment diagrams; friction; centroids; area/mass moments of inertia. Graphical, algebraic, and numerical (computer) solutions of vector mechanics problems.
ENGR 40 Thermodynamics
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 Lecture, 18 Lab
- Prerequisite
- CHEM 1A, ENGR 25, PHYS 25, MTH 25, PHYS 7B, PHYS 4C (PHYS 7B or PHYS 4C may be taken concurrently)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course introduces the fundamentals of energy storage, thermophysical properties of liquids and gases, and the basic principles of thermodynamics. The course focuses on application of the concepts to various areas of engineering related to energy conversion and air conditioning. The use of computing tools that facilitate problem solving, design analysis, and parametric studies in thermodynamics will be integrated throughout the course.
ENGR 43 Electrical Circuits and Devices
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 54 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- ENGR 25, MTH 25, PHYS 25, PHYS 7C, PHYS 4B, MTH 4 (MTH 4 may be taken concurrently)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduction to basic electrical engineering circuit-analysis and devices. DC, transient and AC circuit analysis methods, Kirchoff’s laws, nodal/mesh analysis, network theorems, voltage and current sources, resistors, capacitors and inductors. Thévenin/Norton equivalent circuits. Natural and forced response of first and second order circuits. Steady-state sinusoidal circuit voltage/current analysis, and power calculations. Frequency response, phasors, Bode plots and transfer functions. Low/High/Band pass filters. Operational Amplifiers in DC, transient, and AC circuits. Diode and NMOS/PMOS FET characteristics. Diode and MOSFET circuits. Introduction to basic integrated-circuit technology and layout. Digital signals, logic gates, switching. Combinatorial logic circuits using AND/NAND OR/NOR gates. Sequential logic circuits using RS, D, and JK Flip-Flop gates. Computer based circuit-operation simulation using SPICE and MATLAB software. Electronics laboratory exercises demonstrating basic instruments, and experimental techniques in Electrical Engineering: DC current/voltage supplies, Digital MultiMeters (DMM), RLC Meters, oscilloscopes, and AC function generators. Measurements of resistance, inductance, capacitance, voltage, current, transient response, and frequency response.
ENGR 45 Materials of Engineering
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 54 Lecture, 54 Lab
- Prerequisite
- ENGR 25, PHYS 25, MTH 25, PHYS 7A, PHYS 4A, CHEM 1A
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Application of principles of chemistry and physics to the properties of engineering materials. The relation of micro-structure to mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties of metals. Solid material phase equilibria and transformations. The physical, chemical, mechanical and optical properties of ceramics, composites, and polymers. Operation and use of materials characterization instruments and methods.
ENGR 47 Engineering Dynamics
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 Lecture, 18 Lab
- Prerequisite
- ENGR 36
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course covers dynamics for engineering applications, where motion is involved. It includes the kinematics and dynamics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies in two and three dimensions. Also included are orbital motion and satellites, vibrations, which are present in many engineering situations, Euler angles, which are necessary to completely describe the orientation of an object in space, and variable mass systems, such as rockets and jet engines.
ENGR 85 Introduction to Solid Mechanics
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 Lecture
- Prerequisite
- ENGR 36
- Advisory
- ENGR 45, MTH 4, MTH 6
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course reviews the concepts of stresses, strains and material laws with emphasis on elastic properties as well as yield and fracture criteria. Topics include stresses and strains in beams, torsion, deformations of beams and frames, work and energy, statically indeterminate beams and frames, second order bending theory, and elastic instability.
ENGR 211 Engineering Project Prototyping
- Units
- 54
- Hours
- 54 Lab
Workforce preparation in engineering design and development. Students will develop and design their own engineering prototype. This will involve design tools, automated and hand fabrication, electronic assembly, coding, measurement and testing.
ENGR 222 Computer Aided Drafting
- Units
- 54
- Hours
- 54 Lab
This course will help students who are enrolled in or who have completed ENGR 22 or other CAD course to prepare for the SolidWorks Design certification exam, Autodesk certification exam, or similar CAD/CAM program with industry certification.
ENGR 225 MATLAB
- Units
- 54
- Hours
- 54 Lab
This course will help students who are enrolled in or who have completed ENGR 25 or other mathematical modeling course to prepare for the Mathworks certification exam, or similar program with industry certification.