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Vibration Engineering

The course includes determination of loads due to base motions and moving loads; methods of static lateral load analysis; approximate dynamic nalysis; concepts of mass, damping, and stiffness for typical structures; design for inelastic behavior.

Power Plant Design

Study of the fundamental concepts in the design and installation of typical power plants such as steam power plant, diesel electric plant, geothermal power plant as well as other generating plants using unconventional sources of energy. It includes the study of location capacity and economic consideration.

ME Laws, Contracts and Ethics

The course deals with the study of public and private engineering contracts, preparations and writing specifications, procedures and instruments in bidding and sales of equipment and services. It also includes the study of M.E. Code of Ethics and ethical issues in the work life of an engineer.

Machine Shop Theory and Practice

Classification, uses and operation of machines: lathes, shapers, planers, drilling and boring machines, milling machine, cutters, grinding machines, measuring instruments; machine tools and accessories; practical exercises and projects.

Workshop Theory and Practice

Workshop safety and organization; simple workshop measuring instruments, hand tools, fitting bench work, bench drill and bench grinder; sheet metal working; principles of welding processes; welding metallurgy; joining processes; testing and inspection of welds; foundry and metal casting.

DC and AC Machinery

The course deals with performance characteristics and operation including losses and efficiencies of DC and AC machines such as alternators, induction / synchronous motors, synchronous converters and transformers. It includes demonstrations and laboratory experiments.

Safety Engineering

The course deals with the principles of industrial accident prevention ans safety organization. It also deals with accident analysis, selection and application od remedy / corrective action, industrial health and environmental concerns.

Industrial Processes and Plant Inspection (OJT)

A course dealing with the study of industrial plant processes, the equipment involved in the process as well as the nergy profile of the industrial sector. The study may include actual plants, thermal and gas turbine plants, hydroelectric and geothermal plants, dendothermal and refinery plants, and environmental impact. It includes submission of written report and/or writing thesis.

Industrial Plant Design

The course deals with the different aspects of a project feasibility study; amrket and product considerations; design or selection and specification of processes, industrial equipment and materials requirement determination; capital requirements determination; capital structure; financing and environmental impact. Student project is required.

Air Conditioning Theory and Design

The course deals with Psychrometric properties of air; factors affecting human comfort; air distribution and basic duct design, drying, heating and ventillation; cooling load calculations; complete design of an airconditioning system and its components.

Refrigeration Engineering

The course is designed to provide a thorough foundation of the thermodynamic principles and components of mechanical refrigeration systems; cycles and associated equipment, and the effect of their operation on the environment.

Fluid Machinery

The course deals with the principles and operation of axial and centrifugal fluid machineries such as fans, pumps, compressors and turbines; selection and specification of equipment for application to industry giving due consideration to the effect on the environment.

Mechanical Engineering Lab 3

The course deals with theanalysis and performance evaluation of refrigeration, airconditioning and ventillating systems; practical realization of the basic theories and principles governing the complete test and operation of a mechanical plant with due concern on its environmental impact.

Mechanical Engineering Lab 2

The course deals with the basic principles, use, care, solution, constitution and calibration of industrial instruments such as pressure gauges, strain gauges, platform scales, speed measuring devices, palnimeters, viscosimeters, orsat apparatus, and calorimeters.

Mechanical Engineering Lab 1

Study of the basic principles, use, care, selection, construction and calibration of industrial instruments such as pressure gauges, strain gauges, platform scales, speed measuring devices, planimeters, viscosimeters, ORSAT apparatus, calorimeters, etc.; experiments in instrumentation and control measurement.

Machine Design II

Study of journals, gears, welded joints; selection and use of bearings and flexible power transmitting elements; empirical design of machine elements; design of complete machines; preparation of deatail and assembly drawings.

Machine Design I

Study of the design of machine elements such as shafts, screws, springs, keys and couplings; combined stresses and theories of failures; variable loading and stress concentration; factors of safety and endurance limit in design.

Heat Transfer

The course deals with the different modes of heat transfer; laws governing conduction, convection and radiation and ite application to the design of common heat exchangers such as condenser, colling coils and evaporators; and the environmental impact of their operation.

Internal Combustion Engines

The course deals with principles involved in internal combustion, carburation and fuel injection; fundamentals and basic principles in combustion engine design, how they function and how they operate and applications with due consideration on environmental impact.

Instrumentation and Engineering Control

The course deals with the theories and principles involved in instrumentation, process measurement, and process control systems. It includes demonstrations and laboratory experiments.

Thermodynamics 2

A course dealing with the application of thermodynamic laws to the analysis of vapor power cycles, gas compression cycles, two-phase systems (gasvapor mixtures), and reactive systems.

Thermodynamics 1

A course dealing with the thermodynamic properties of pure substances, ideal and real gases, and the study and application of the laws of thermodynamics in the analysis of processes and cycles involving pure substances.

Materials Science, Engineering and Testing

The course deals with the properties of engineering materials including mechanical acoustic, electrical, magnetic, chemical, optical and thermal properties; laboratory experiments using equipment; tension, compression, bending, shear, torsion and impact tests.

Machine Elements 2

Study of the basic design cams, gears and gear trains; force analysis of machine elements and foundation; vibration analysis.

Machine Elements 1

The course deals with graphical and analytical study of displacement velocity and accelaration of basic mechanisms. It includes drafting work.

Engineering Management

A course covering the concepts of demand forecasting, production planning and control, inventory control and an introduction to methods engineering and quality control.

Engineering Economy


An introduction to basic accounting concepts, money-time relationships, depreciation, break-even analysis, basic methods for economy studies, and evaluation of investment alternatives with emphasis on technical applications.

Basic Electronics

Semiconductor Physics, P-N junctions, diodes, waveshaping circuits, transistors, characteristics and hybrid parameters, regions of operation, Ebers-Moll Model, DC and graphical analysis, stability, small-signal analysis, amplifier configurations, power amplifiers, classes of operations, heat sinking, DC power supplies, rectifiers, filters, regulators. A study of field effect transistors (FET) and vacuum tubes.

Elementary Electrical Engineering

Experimental laws and DC simple circuits, techniques of circuit analysis; source transformation, nodal analysis, mesh analysis. Thevenin and Nortons Theorem / Transient circuits; AC circuits.

Fluid Mechanics

A comprehensive study of the mechanics of fluid flow that uses the basic laws of conservation of mass, momentum and energy to fluid systems. Topics include pressure variation, measurements, dimensional analyses, viscous and inviscid flow in pipes, and compressible flow.

Strength of Materials

A course dealing with the relations between externally applied forces and their internal effects on bodies. Among the topics covered are: stresses, shear and moments in beams, vertical shear, bending moment, combied axial and flexural loads, thermal stresses.

Engineering Mechanics

Statics and dynamics; operations with the free body concept; equilibrium of coplanar and non-coplanar force systems; analysis of frames and trusses; friction, centroids and moments of inertia; motion of particles and rigid bodies; force, mass and acceleration; work and energy; impulse and momentum.

Computer Fundamentals and Drawing

Introduction to computer systems, fundamentals of algorithms; high level language; programming applications.

Engineering Drawing

Techniques and practices of engineering towards those elements and composites which are relevant to a particular field of engineering design and construction.

Physics 1 & 2

Mechanics, waves, sound, heat, electricity; magnetism; light.

Chemistry 1 & 2

Matter and energy; theory and atoms and molecules, chemical periodicity, principles of calculations of chemical changes; chemical bonding; solutions; chemical equilibrium; thermochemistry, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics; nuclear chemistry.

Differential Equations

A course in ordinary and partial differential equations covering methods of solutions and the basic principles behind these methods with applications to simple problems in engineering or physical sciences.

Integral Calculus

Topic formulas for integration; definite, geometric and physical applications of integration procedures; infinite series; hyperbolic functions; multiple integral applications of multiple integration.

Differential Calculus

A course covering the basic concepts and methods of the differential calculus together with its many application in geometry, physics and other fields. A logical development of fundamental principles is combined with emphasis on the computative and applied aspect which shows the power of the calculus as a tool of the engineers. Topics usually covered: functions, limits / continuity, derivatives and partial
derivatives, application; indeterminate forms.

Solid Mensuration

A course in solid mensuration covering such topics as mensuration of the area, perimeter and centroid of plane figures; mensuration of the volume and surface area of the solid pyramid, cylinder, cone and sphere.

Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry

Coordinate systems; equations and their loci; straight lines, conic sections and higher plane curves; transformation of coordinates.

Plane and Spherical Trigonometry


A course designed to provide the student knowledge in trigonometry covering such topics as generalized trigonometric functions, fundamental trigonometric identities, logarithms, solutions of right and oblique tringles, application of trigonometric functions, solutions of right and oblique spherical tringles.

Algebra

A course designed to give the student a better over all group of the essential algebraic techniques and manipulation needed in the study of higher mathematics. Topics covered include: fundamental operations of algebra, special products and factoring, fractions; exponents and radicals; linear, quadratic and higher degree equations, inequalities, ratio and proportions; the binomial theorem; probability, determinants and partial fractions.

Numerical Methods for Mechanical Engineers

A mathematical course that discusses a wide range of numerical methods for solving the types of problems that occur particularly in mechanical engineering. To fully realize the relevance of this course, a 3 - hour per week laboratory session is included to allow the students to use computer to solve mathematical problems.

Mechatronics

This course introduces the mechatronics field to the students. Mechatronics is the integration of electronics, electrical & controls engineering field and computer technology with mechanical engineering. This course focuses on sensors and transducers, signal conditioning, measurement systems, pneumatic and hydraulic activation systems and programmable logic controller application.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 6

Analysis of the different energy transformation in mechanical systems and the accounting of all energy units involved in the transformation. Performance test of air conditioning unit and hydroelectric power plant.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 5

Study, analysis and performance evaluation of internal and external combustion engines, steam turbines, boilers, condensers, evaporators and cooling towers.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 4

Study and evaluation of the performance of fluid machineries such as pumps, compressors, turbine and fans.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 3

Steam calorimetry, flowmeters and weirs flow in pipes and heat transfer in piping and impact of jet apparatus.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 2

Study and analysis of different types of fuels and lubricants including test of properties and characteristics of fuels and lubricants at different conditions. Fuel gas analysis.

Mechanical Engineering Ethics

Study of public and private engineering contract, preparation, and writing of specifications, procedures and instruments in bidding, sales and sales agreements. Study of the code of ethics and ethical issues in the work life of an engineer. Discussion on Mechanical Engineering Code and Laws are also included.

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 1

Basic principles, use, care, selection, construction and calibration of industrial instruments. Experiments on instrumentation and control measurement used in engineering such as pressure gauges, strain gauges, platform scale, speed measuring devices, planimeters, viscosimeters, orsat apparatus and calorimeters.

Fundamentals of Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Operation

It deals with the fundamentals of numerical control (NC) and its evolution to computer numerical control (CNC). This course is designed to familiarize the students with CNC principles, coordinate systems of CNC machines and their programming (G-Codes), CNC lathe and milling machines are used to fabricate mechanical components.

Advanced Mechanical Engineering Mathematics

This course deals with advanced mathematical concepts and methods. It includes matrix solutions for linear and differential equations and numerical methods for solving non - linear equations, differential equations and integrals.

Fluid Machines

Study of the application of fluid flow analysis to fluid machineries and transport equipment such as pipes, conduits, ducts, turbines, pumps, fans, blowers, and compressors, and fluid flow measurement and control. Selection and specification of equipment.

Fluid Mechanics

Study of the mechanics of fluids flow that uses the basic laws of conservation of mass, momentum and energy to fluid systems. Pressure variation, measurements, dimensional analysis, viscous and inviscid flow pipes, and compressible flow.

Heat Transfer

Study of the fundamental aspects of steady - state heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation and the analysis of heat transfer equipment. It also includes an introduction to unsteady state heat transfer and numerical and graphical methods of heat transfer analysis. Computer modeling and applications are also included.

Industrial Plant Design

A comprehensive study of the different utilities and requirements of an industrial plant including cold air / cold space requirements, compressed air, water supply, air distribution systems, combustion gas disposals (draft systems), machinery foundations and fans and blowers.

Introduction to Electronic Circuits

Introduces the students to the different electronic devices such as diodes and transistors. Here, the engineering models of such devices or components are examined. Emphasis is given on the analysis of circuits that contain these semiconductor devices.

Machine Design 1

Introduction to the process of mechanical design, which includes simple and variable stress analysis and application to simple machine elements. It also introduces the use of computer design software.

Air Conditioning Engineering

Study of psychrometric properties of air and factors affecting human comfort including design of air distribution and air duct systems, drying, heating and ventilation; cooling load calculations and analysis of air - conditioning system and the selection and specification of components. Introduces HVAC computer software.

Combustion Engineering

Thermodynamic principles involved in internal and external combustion engines; fuel properties, combustion considerations, carburetion and injection, engine performance and testing.

Machine Elements 2

Basic design of cams, gear trains, pulleys, and transmission with considerations on foundation and vibration.

Machine Design 2

Continuation of Machine Design 1. Provides the concepts, procedures, data and decision analysis and techniques to design machine elements commonly found in mechanical devices and systems such as gears, bearings, springs, etc. Enhances the use of computer design software.

Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics 1

Applications of thermodynamic concepts and laws to processes wherein the working substances are modeled as real gases and mixtures (ideal gases, real gases and vapors). Thermodynamic analysis of vapor power cycles, gas-vapor mixtures and reactive systems.

Power Plant Engineering

Fundamental concepts in the design and installation of typical power plants such as steam power plants, diesel - electric power plants, geothermal power plants, as well as other generating plants using unconventional sources of energy. Study of location, capacity and economic justification of a power plant.

BS Mechanical Engineering


The Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering is a broad field of engineering that provides a strong foundation on the various types of machines, their elements, operation, construction and functions to prepare graduates for works related to machine design.  

It also encompasses the traditional areas of mechanical design, energy and environment, fuel and combustion technologies, engineering materials, and product safety as well as the high-tech areas such as mechatronics and robotics.

The training provided by the program prepares the students in various career options in industry, academia and government. The fields of practice include operations, maintenance, installation, testing, research and development, design, consulting, management, sales, marketing, and teaching.