May 12, 2024  
2021-2022 College Catalog 
    
2021-2022 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


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Education – General/Post Degree

  
  • EDC 292B - Student Teaching II: Secondary

    4 Credits, 10 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 9 lab periods

    Continuation of the student teaching experience in a grades 6-12 Educator Preparation Program (EPP) Internship classroom. Includes classroom management, learning objectives, assessment, lesson planning, differentiation, and collaboration.

    Prerequisite(s): EDC 292A  
    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course. EDC 292A  and EDC 292B together constitute EDC 292 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Implement proactive classroom management techniques. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 3)
    2. Develop congruent learning objectives tied to content standards. (InTASC 4)
    3. Use data to drive instruction. (InTASC 6)
    4. Implement effective lessons with varied instructional strategies. (InTASC 7, 8; International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2)
    5. Implement appropriate differentiation strategies for diverse learners. (InTASC 1, 2)
    6. Collaborate with students, parents, colleagues and mentors. (InTASC 10)

    Outline:
    1. Classroom Management
      1. Establishing and reinforcing procedures
      2. Maintaining a positive classroom culture
      3. Responding to challenging behaviors
    2. Learning Objectives
      1. Using content standards and learner data to write objectives
      2. Determining cognitive complexity using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
      3. Developing assessments that align with objectives
    3. Assessment
      1. Implementing formative assessments
      2. Implementing summative assessments
      3. Using student data to drive instruction
    4. Lesson Plans
      1. Writing lessons using Essential Elements of Instruction (EEI)
      2. Distinguishing between teacher-centered and learner-centered pedagogy
      3. Using varied instructional strategies
      4. Reinforcing learning objectives during instruction
    5. Differentiation
      1. Differentiating the content
      2. Differentiating the process
      3. Differentiating the product
    6. Collaboration
      1. Collaborating with students
      2. Collaborating with parents
      3. Collaborating with colleagues and mentors


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21

Education – Special/Post Degree

  
  • EDC 287 - Structured English Immersion – Elementary

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Overview of Structured English Immersion (SEI) instruction for English Learners (ELs) in the elementary grades.  Includes SEI foundations, English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), language acquisition and development, identification and assessment of ELs, cultural assets, and research-based instructional strategies for elementary ELs.

    Information: Meets SEI Endorsement requirements for the Arizona Department of Education.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Explain the legal and historical foundations of Structured English Immersion (SEI) [Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 9; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 6]
    2. Describe Arizona’s Language Development Approach (LDA) (InTASC 2; CEC 1)
    3. Identify elements of language acquisition and development (InTASC 1; CEC 1)
    4. Analyze English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) (InTASC 4; CEC 3)
    5. Examine the role of culture in learning (InTASC 3; CEC 2)
    6. Apply strategies for teaching and assessing ELs (InTASC 6, 7, 8; CEC 4, 5)

    Outline:
    1. Structured English Immersion (SEI) Foundations
      1. Legal cases
      2. Federal and state laws
      3. Societal trends and issues
    2. Arizona’s Language Development Approach (LDA)
      1. SEI terminology
      2. Principles of Arizona’s LDA
      3. Arizona’s SEI models for elementary grades
    3. Program Placement of ELs
      1. Identification and Assessment
      2. AZELLA
      3. Diversity of ELs
    4. Elements of Language Development
      1. Language acquisition theories
      2. English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
      3. Relationship between ELPS and English Language Arts (ELA) standards
      4. Foundations of language
    5. Instructional Practices
      1. Reading foundational skills for elementary ELs
      2. Research-based reading instruction
      3. Vocabulary development
      4. Writing development
    6. Asset-Based Behaviors and Expectations
      1. Cultural influences
      2. Cultural competence
      3. Celebrating cultural diversity
      4. Leveraging cultural assets
      5. Social and emotional learning (SEL)
    7. Home and School Connections
      1. Funds of knowledge
      2. Family engagement
      3. Parental rights
    8. Integrated and Targeted Instruction in Elementary Settings
      1. Receptive communication
      2. Productive communication
      3. Interactive communication
      4. Language skills
      5. Differentiation strategies
    9. Assessment, Monitoring, and Feedback
      1. Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multitiered Systems of Supports (MTSS)
      2. Types of assessments
      3. Data-driven instruction
      4. Timely and meaningful feedback
      5. Student self-reflection
      6.   Testing accommodations for ELs


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2021/2022
  
  • EDC 288 - Structured English Immersion – Secondary

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Overview of Structured English Immersion (SEI) instruction for English Learners (ELs) in the secondary grades.  Includes SEI foundations, English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), language acquisition and development, identification and assessment of ELs, cultural assets, and research-based instructional strategies for secondary ELs.

    Information: Meets SEI Endorsement requirements for the Arizona Department of Education.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Explain the legal and historical foundations of Structured English Immersion (SEI) [Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 9; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 6]
    2. Describe Arizona’s Language Development Approach (LDA) (InTASC 2; CEC 1)
    3. Identify elements of language acquisition and development (InTASC 1, CEC 1)
    4. Analyze English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) (InTASC 4; CEC 3)
    5. Examine the role of culture in learning (InTASC 3; CEC 2)
    6. Apply strategies for teaching and assessing ELs (InTASC 6, 7, 8; CEC 4, 5)

    Outline:
    1. Structured English Immersion (SEI) Foundations
      1. Legal cases
      2. Federal and state laws
      3. Societal trends and issues
    2. Arizona’s Language Development Approach (LDA)
      1. SEI terminology
      2. Principles of Arizona’s LDA
      3. Arizona’s SEI models for secondary grades
    3. Program Placement of ELs
      1. Identification and Assessment
      2. AZELLA
      3. Diversity of ELs
    4. Elements of Language Development
      1. Language acquisition theories
      2. English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
      3. Relationship between ELPS and English Language Arts (ELA) standards
      4. Foundations of language
    5. Instructional Practices
      1. Reading foundational skills for secondary ELs
      2. Research-based reading instruction
      3. Vocabulary development
      4. Writing development
    6. Asset-Based Behaviors and Expectations
      1. Cultural influences
      2. Cultural competence
      3. Celebrating cultural diversity
      4. Leveraging cultural assets
      5. Social and emotional learning (SEL)
    7. Home and School Connections
      1. Funds of knowledge
      2. Family engagement
      3. Parental rights
    8. Integrated and Targeted Instruction in Secondary Settings
      1. Receptive communication
      2. Productive communication
      3. Interactive communication
      4. Language skills
      5. Differentiation strategies
    9. Assessment, Monitoring, and Feedback
      1. Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multitiered Systems of Supports (MTSS)
      2. Types of assessments
      3. Data-driven instruction
      4. Timely and meaningful feedback
      5. Student self-reflection
      6.   Testing accommodations for ELs


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2021/2022
  
  • ESE 251 - Educational Psychology

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Overview of how children develop (physically, psychologically, socially, and cognitively) and the ways in which this information guides instruction. Includes theories of how learning is constructed and describes various factors that impact learning, such as student differences, motivation, engagement, classroom management, differentiated instruction, metacognition, assessment, and teacher self-reflection.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Examine major theories of human development. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 1; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 1)
    2. Describe the role of teacher bias and expectations. (InTASC 2; CEC 1)
    3. Explain major learning theories. (InTASC 1; CEC 2)
    4. Identify strategies for motivating learners. (InTASC 3; CEC 2)
    5. Define terms related to educational assessment. (InTASC 6; CEC 4)
    6. Synthesize key concepts in educational psychology. (InTASC 1, 2, 3; CEC 1, 2, 4)

    Outline:
    1. Theories of Development
      1. Psychosocial (Erickson)
      2. Cognitive (Piaget)
      3. Social Cognitive (Vygotsky)
      4. Developmental stages
      5. Moral development
    2. Student Differences
      1. Mindsets and teacher bias
      2. Multiple intelligences and learning styles
      3. Gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, culture
      4. Disabilities and giftedness
    3. Learning Theories
      1. Behavioral
      2. Information-processing
      3. Social cognitive
      4. Constructivist
    4. Motivation and Engagement
      1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
      2. Building relationships
      3. Classroom management
      4. Bullying and violence
    5. Assessment
      1. Formative vs. summative assessment
      2. Classroom-based vs. high-stakes testing
      3. Assessment/evaluation vocabulary
      4. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
      5. Technology based
    6. Approaches to Instruction
      1. Inclusion
      2. Grouping
      3. Differentiated instruction
      4. Metacognition and self-regulated learning


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2021
  
  • ESE 252 - Survey of Exceptional Education

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introduction to the field of Exceptional Education. Includes history and current laws, special education processes and procedures, effective communication, techniques for collaboration and consultation with general and special education teachers and parents, and characteristics of students with exceptionalities. Also includes current and relevant trends in special education, technology, and effective instructional strategies and resources that meet the needs of learners with exceptionalities.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Examine laws and policies governing exceptional education. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium ( InTASC) 9; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 6)
    2. Identify characteristics of learners with special needs. (InTASC 1, 2; CEC 1)
    3. Describe the role of collaboration among stakeholders. (InTASC 3, 10; CEC 7)
    4. Identify strategies and resources for exceptional learners. (InTASC 5, 8; CEC 5)
    5. Identify appropriate accommodations and modifications. (InTASC 6, 7; CEC 3)
    6. Synthesize key concepts in exceptional education. (InTASC 1, 2, 3, 7, 9; CEC 6)

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Exceptional Education
      1. History
      2. People-first language
      3. Disabilities
    2. Special Education Laws, Policies, and Procedures (State and Federal)
      1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
      2. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Section 504 plans
      3. Referral process
      4. Individualized Education Plan (IEP) development and implementation
    3. Collaboration with Families
      1. Roles and responsibilities
      2. Impact of disability on families
    4. Collaboration with Colleagues
      1. Co-teaching
      2. Teacher roles and responsibilities
    5. Supporting All Learners - Effective Instructional Strategies for Differing Needs
      1. Differentiated instruction
      2. Universal design for learning
      3. Accommodations and modifications
      4. Response to Intervention (RTI)
    6. Key Characteristics of Exceptionalities
    7. High incidence
      1. Specific Learning Disabilities (i.e. Reading, Writing, Math, Dyslexia)
      2. Speech/Language Disorders
      3. ADHD/ADD
      4. Autism
      5. Developmental Disabilities
    8. Low incidence
      1. Visual Impairments
      2. Deaf and Hard of Hearing
      3. Deaf/Blindness
      4. Physically Impaired
      5. Severe Multiple Impairment
    9. Current and Relevant Social, Cultural, and Academic Trends
      1. Grading
      2. Service delivery models
      3. Biases/perceptions
    10. Technology
      1. Digital tools
      2. Assistive technology
    11. Reflecting on Practice
      1. CEC
      2. InTasc


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2021
  
  • ESE 254 - Foundations of Instruction: Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Framework for understanding and working with students with mild-moderate disabilities. Includes characteristics of students with mild-moderate disabilities and special education procedures and processes. Also includes collaboration and consultation practices; effective educational techniques to support the needs of learners with disabilities; assistive and educational technology; and current social, cultural, and/or academic trends.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Analyze relevant laws, policies, and procedures associated with educating/working with students with mild-moderate disabilities. (Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 5, 6); (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 9)
    2. Use various accommodations and modifications to differentiate and modify curriculum for individuals with mild-moderate disabilities. (CEC 5; InTASC 7)
    3. Use various instructional strategies and resources to create appropriate instruction for individuals with mild-moderate disabilities. (CEC 5; InTASC 8)
    4. Use positive communication and collaboration practices among all members of the learning community to support students with mild-moderate disabilities. (CEC 2, 7; InTASC 3)
    5. Identify and evaluate technological resources to support the learning of students with mild-moderate disabilities. (CEC 5; InTASC 8; International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 5)

    Outline:
    I.       Special Education Policies, Procedures, and Practices

             A.   Referral process

             B.   Individualized Educational Plans (IEPs)

             C.   Transition Plans

    II.       Communication and Collaboration with Parents and Colleagues

    III.      Accommodations and Modifications

    IV.     Instruction and Assessment

             A.   Task analysis

             B.   Pre-assessment

             C.   Self-assessment

             D.   Think-alouds

    V.      Technology

             A.   Assistive

             B.   Educational


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19

  
  • ESE 255 - Classroom Management for Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Effective classroom management components that support student achievement and engagement for students with mild-moderate disabilities in grades K-12. Includes how teacher expectations, effective communication, positive relationships, and restorative practices can impact learner behavior. Also includes organizing the physical environment, establishing effective classroom rules and procedures, Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA), and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP).

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify rules, procedures, and organizational strategies for creating and maintaining a productive,      engaging, and motivating learning environment. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support          Consortium (InTASC) 3; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2; International Society for Technology     in Education (ISTE) 3)
    2. Evaluate how ongoing, positive communication with students, families, and colleagues can foster a     constructive and productive learning environment and build positive relationships. (InTASC 3; Initial     Specialty Curriculum Individual (ISCI) 7)
    3. Analyze effective behavior and motivational strategies and supports used to create and maintain a      positive learning environment for students with mild-moderate disabilities. (InTasc 3; CEC 2.2, 2.3; ISCI    2; Individualized General Curriculum (IGC) 4)

    Outline:
    I.       Productive Learning Environments

             A. Rules

             B. Policies and procedures

             C. Organizational strategies

    II.       Positive Communication and Relationships

             A.   Paraprofessionals

             B.   Parents

             C.   Students

    III.      Behavioral and Motivational Strategies

             A.   Restorative Practices

             B.   Positive Behavior Supports and Interventions (PBIS)

             C.   Functional Behavioral Assessment

             D.   Behavior Intervention Plan


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19

  
  • ESE 270 - Methods of Instruction: Students/Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Application of materials, strategies, methods, and techniques for creating lessons that promote mastery of learning and active participation for teaching students with mild-moderate disabilities. Includes Essential Elements of Instruction (EEI) and Arizona Academic Standards. Also includes the incorporation of differentiated instruction and technology into lesson planning.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Incorporate knowledge of Arizona Academic Standards (AAS) into lesson planning. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 4, 7; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 5)
    2. Identify effective assessment measures to be used in lesson planning. (InTASC 6, 7; CEC 4; Initial Specialty Curriculum Individual (ISCI) 4)
    3. Identify effective technology tools and resources to customize learning materials and experiences for students with mild-moderate disabilities. (InTASC 4; CEC 5; ISCI 5; International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2)
    4. Design lesson plans that incorporate effective instructional strategies, techniques, resources, and materials to create learning experiences that differentiate instruction and promote mastery of learning and active engagement for individuals with mild-moderate disabilities. (InTASC 7; CEC 3; ISCI 5; Individualized General Curriculum (IGC) 5)

    Outline:
    I.       Arizona Academic Standards

    II.       Assessment

    III.      Technology Tools for Teaching

    IV.     Lesson Plan Design

             A.   Differentiation

             B.   Materials

             C.   Essential elements of instruction

                   1.   Objectives

                   2.   Anticipatory set

                   3.   Modeling

                   4.   Guided practice

                   5.   Independent practice

                   6.   Check for understanding

                   7.   Assessment

                   8.   Closure

    V.      Lesson Presentation

    VI.     Reflecting on Practice-CEC Standards


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/2018

  
  • ESE 271 - Mild-Moderate Methods: K-12 Inst. Across the Curriculum

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Instructional strategies for integrating English Language Arts (ELA)/Literacy and Math cross-disciplinary instruction for students with mild-moderate exceptionalities. Includes Arizona Academic Standards (AAS), lesson/unit planning, incorporating digital tools, strategies for critical thinking, differentiated instruction, and assessment.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate content knowledge central to Math Instruction by identifying evidence-based instructional strategies for increasing proficiency in math calculations, applications, critical thinking, and problem solving. (Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 3, 5; Individualized General Curriculum (IGC) 5; Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 4, 5, 7)
    2. Demonstrate content knowledge central to ELA by identifying instructional strategies and resources for increasing proficiency in written and spoken communication. (CEC 3, 5; Initial Specialty Curriculum Individual (ISCI) 5); InTASC 4)
    3. Evaluate writing assessment data to identify gaps in learning and provide appropriate instruction in organizing, composing, and correcting written products. (IGC 5)
    4. Explore assistive and augmentative digital tools and resources which support the communication and learning of students with exceptionalities. (InTASC 3; CEC 5; ISCI 5; IGC 5; International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 1)

    Outline:
    1. Math Content Knowledge
      1. Calculations
      2. Applications
      3. Critical thinking
      4. Problem solving
    2. ELA Content Knowledge
      1. Instructional Strategies and Resources
        1. Writing
        2. Communication
    3. Writing Assessment
    4. Assistive and Augmentative Tools and Resources


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21
  
  • ESE 272 - Developmental Reading, Instruction, Assessment, Remediation

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Comprehensive review of reading instruction for struggling learners. Includes reading development; characteristics of effective readers and those with difficulties; formal and informal assessment of phonics, fluency, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and vocabulary; and methods, materials, and techniques for teaching phonics, fluency, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and vocabulary. Also includes lesson planning, reading technology for home/school connection, and current academic reading trends.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Engage in activities which demonstrate an understanding of phonics, fluency, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and vocabulary through appropriate use of various teaching methods, materials, and techniques to create appropriate instruction for students with mild-moderate disabilities (Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 5; Individualized General Curriculum (IGC) 5; Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 4,7)
    2. Evaluate data from various formal and informal reading assessments to monitor progress, provide feedback, and create appropriate learning opportunities and experiences (CEC 4; Initial Specialty Curriculum Individual (ISCI) 4; IGC 4; InTASC 6)
    3. Identify effective technological materials and resources to use in reading remediation and instruction. (CEC 5; ISCI 5; ISTE 1; InTASC 5, 8)

    Outline:
      1. Characteristics
      2. Data evaluation
      3. Research-based instructional methods and materials
      4. Accommodations
      1. Characteristics
      2. Data evaluation
      3. Research-based instructional methods and materials
      4. Accommodations
      1. Characteristics
      2. Data evaluation
      3. Research-based instructional methods and materials
      4. Accommodations
      1. Characteristics
      2. Data evaluation
      3. Research-based instructional methods and materials
      4. Accommodations

    V.      Vocabulary and Oral Language

    1. Research-based instructional methods and materials
    2. Accommodations

    VI.     Comprehension

    1. Characteristics
    2. Data evaluation
    3. Research-based instructional methods and materials
    4. Accommodations

    VII.    Evaluating Data

    1. Progress monitoring
    2. Feedback
    3. Instructional planning

    VIII.  Technology for Reading Instruction - Home/School Connection


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21

  
  • ESE 273 - Diagnosis and Assessment of Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    A comprehensive review of measurement terminology, principles, ethical practices, and types; testing accommodations and modifications; testing bias; using technology to create forms of feedback; and creating informal assessments. Also includes cognitive processes that influence learning, data analysis, and the use of data to plan instruction.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify implications, recommendations, and accommodations/modifications for instruction and           assessment based on cognitive processes which influence learning for students with mild-moderate    disabilities. (Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 6; Initial Specialty Curriculum Individual (ISCI) 1;       Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 1, 6) M2A1
    2. Utilize effective technology to support assessment practices to communicate feedback to learners on their progress. (CEC 4; InTASC 6; International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2; ISCI 4)
    3. Select and design assessments to address specific learning goals and individual differences. (InTASC 6;        ISCI 4)
    4. Use knowledge of multiple types of assessments and measurement principles and practices to examine          and interpret assessment data; to guide instructional decisions and planning; and support, verify, and document learning. (CEC 4; ISCI 4; IGC 4; InTASC 6, 7)

    Outline:
    1. Assessment Types
    2. Measurement Principles and Practices
    3. Uses for Assessment
      1. Monitoring student progress
      2. Instructional decision making and planning
      3. Document learning
    4. Using Technology to Support Assessment
    5. Design and Administration of Informal Assessments
    6. Accommodations and Modifications
    7. Cognitive Processing


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ESE 280 - Moderate/Severe Disabilities Practicum

    5 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Understanding and working with students with moderate-severe disabilities. Includes effective educational strategies and methods for assessing, planning and teaching individualized instruction; adaptive communication, collaboration and consultation practices with families and school personnel. Also includes measuring, modifying, and managing behavior; and current social, cultural, and/or academic trends.

    Information: Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program approval is required before enrolling in this course. This course requires 45 hours of practicum placement in a PreK-12 special education classroom for students with moderate/severe disabilities.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Analyze the role of the family in an effort to build team capacity and jointly address students’ instructional and behavioral needs. (CEC 7)
    2. Identify appropriate assessment and measurement strategies for educational and behavioral purposes and needs (CEC 4)
    3. Identify appropriate inclusive practices and strategies (CEC 2)
    4. Utilize varied individualized instructional strategies. (CEC 3; 5)
    5. Develop and implement an individualized behavioral support plan. (CEC 6)
    6. Identify effective, safe, and inclusive health care methods, skills, and procedures for students with moderate to severe disabilities (CEC 2)
    7. Incorporate essential elements of effective transition planning procedures (CEC 7)
    8. Synthesize information about students with moderate-severe disabilities to address their needs and further each learner’s development (CEC 1)

    Outline:
    1. Foundational Concepts and Family and Professional Partnerships
      1. Characteristics of Students with Moderate-Severe Disabilities
      2. Advancements, areas of concern, and principles regarding promoting and improving educational access
      3. Parental roles, responsibilities, resources, and system framework
    2. Assessment, Planning, and Student Behavior
      1. IEP Goals and Objectives
      2. Appropriate Assessment/Measurement Tools and Strategies
        1. Educational
        2. Behavioral
    3. Teaching Environment: Inclusive Education
      1. Benefits
      2. Inclusive Academic Practices and Strategies
        1. Teaching Arrangements and Formats
        2. Modifying content
        3. Creating content
      3. Inclusive Social Practices and Strategies
    4. Individualized Instructional Strategies
      1. Systematic Instruction
      2. Task Analysis
      3. Lesson Planning
        1.  Performance-Based Skills
        2. Self-Care Skills
        3. Communication Skills
        4. Home and Community Skills
    5. Designing and Implementing Individualized Positive Behavioral Supports
      1. Positive Behavioral Supports
        1. Components
        2. Phases of Implementation
      2. Functional Behavioral Assessment
        1. Overview of Components
        2. Data Collection
        3. Plan Development
        4. Technology Supports
    6. Understanding Health Care Needs and Mobility Disabilities
      1. Health Care Needs
        1. General Knowledge
        2. Roles and Responsibilities of School Personnel
        3. Essential Methods, Procedures, and Strategies
          1. Education
          2. Peer Acceptance
      2. Motor Disabilities
        1.  Impact on Education and Participation
        2. Meeting Student Needs
    7. Transition Planning
      1. Components
      2. Preparing for Employment
      3. Preparing for Post-Secondary Education
      4. Meaningful Outcomes
      5. Family Collaboration
      6. Inter-Agency Collaboration
    8. Self-Reflection
      1. Synthesis of Key Course Topics
      2. Self-Reflection of Practice, Knowledge and Abilities


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2021
  
  • ESE 290 - Student Teaching: Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    8 Credits, 20 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 18 lab periods

    Student teaching in a mild-moderate special education classroom with an experienced teacher mentor. Includes classroom management, objectives, Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), assessment, lesson planning, differentiation, and collaboration.

    Prerequisite(s): EDC 266   or EDC 267  
    Information: Admission to the Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program and Capstone readiness approval are required before enrolling in this course. This course requires 12 weeks (60 full instructional days) of field experience in a grades K-12 classroom. ESE 290A  and ESE 290B  together constitute ESE 290.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Implement classroom management techniques. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Standard 3; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Standard 2)
    2. Develop learning objectives tied to Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and content standards. (InTASC 4; CEC 3)
    3. Implement formative and summative assessments. (InTASC 6)
    4. Develop and implement lesson plans with varied instructional strategies. (InTASC 5, 7, 8; International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2)

    Outline:
    1. Classroom Management
      1. Organizing the physical space
      2. Establishing and reinforcing procedures
      3. Maintaining a positive classroom culture
    2. Learning Objectives
      1. Choosing relevant content standards
      2. Using content standards and IEPs to write objectives
      3. Determining cognitive complexity using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
    3. Assessment
      1. Implementing formative assessments
      2. Implementing summative assessments
      3. Using data to drive instruction
    4. Lesson Plans
      1. Writing lessons using Essential Elements of Instruction (EEI)
      2. Distinguishing between teacher-centered and learner-centered pedagogy
      3. Using varied instructional strategies
      4. Reinforcing learning objectives during instruction
    5. Differentiation
      1. Differentiating the content
      2. Differentiating the process
      3. Differentiating the product
    6. Collaboration
      1. Collaborating with students
      2. Collaborating with mentors


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 202/21
  
  • ESE 290A - Student Teaching I: Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    4 Credits, 10 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 9 lab periods

    Introduction to the student teaching experience in a grades K-12 Educator Preparation Program (EPP) Internship classroom having students with mild-moderate disabilities. Includes classroom management, learning objectives, assessment, lesson planning, differentiation, and collaboration.

    Prerequisite(s): EDC 266   or EDC 267  
    Information: Admission to the Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program and EPP Internship approval are required before enrolling in this course. ESE 290A and ESE 290B  together constitute ESE 290 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Implement classroom management techniques. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 3; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2)
    2. Develop learning objectives tied to content standards and Individual Education Plans (IEPs). (InTASC 4; CEC 3)
    3. Develop formative and summative assessments. (InTASC 6; CEC 4)
    4. Implement lesson plans with varied instructional strategies. (InTASC 7, 8; ISTE 2; CEC 5)
    5. Implement differentiation strategies for diverse learners. (InTASC 1, 2; CEC 1)
    6. Collaborate with students, parents, colleagues and mentors. (InTASC 10; CEC 7)

    Outline:
    1. Classroom Management
      1. Organizing the physical space
      2. Establishing and reinforcing procedures
      3. Maintaining a positive classroom culture
    2. Learning Objectives
      1. Choosing relevant content standards
      2. Using content standards and learner data to write objectives
      3. Using IEPs to develop learning goals
      4. Determining cognitive complexity using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
    3. Assessment
      1. Implementing formative assessments
      2. Implementing summative assessments
      3. Using student data to drive instruction
    4. Lesson Plans
      1. Writing lessons using Essential Elements of Instruction (EEI)
      2. Using varied instructional strategies
      3. Reinforcing learning objectives during instruction
    5. Differentiation
      1. Differentiating the content
      2. Differentiating the process
      3. Differentiating the product
    6. Collaboration
      1. Collaborating with students
      2. Collaborating with parents
      3. Collaborating with colleagues and mentors


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21
  
  • ESE 290B - Student Teaching II: Mild-Moderate Disabilities

    4 Credits, 10 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 9 lab periods

    Continuation of the student teaching experience in a grades K-12 Educator Preparation Program (EPP) Internship classroom having students with mild-moderate disabilities. Includes classroom management, learning objectives, assessment, lesson planning, differentiation, and collaboration.

    Prerequisite(s): ESE 290A  
    Information: Admission to the Post-Degree Teacher Certification Program and EPP Internship approval are required before enrolling in this course. ESE 290A  and ESE 290B together constitute ESE 290 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Implement proactive classroom management techniques. (Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) 3; Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2)
    2. Develop congruent learning objectives tied to content standards and Individual Education Plans (IEPs). (InTASC 4; CEC 3)
    3. Use data to drive instruction. (InTASC 6; CEC 4)
    4. Implement effective lessons with varied instructional strategies. (InTASC 7, 8; ISTE 2; CEC 5)
    5. Implement appropriate differentiation strategies for diverse learners. (InTASC 1, 2; CEC 1)
    6. Collaborate with students, parents, colleagues, and mentors. (InTASC 10; CEC 7)

    Outline:
    1. Classroom Management
      1. Establishing and reinforcing procedures
      2. Maintaining a positive classroom culture
      3. Responding to challenging behaviors
    2. Learning Objectives
      1. Using content standards and learner data to write objectives
      2. Determining cognitive complexity using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
      3. Using IEPs to develop learning goals
      4. Developing assessments that align with objectives
    3. Assessment
      1. Implementing formative assessments
      2. Implementing summative assessments
      3. Using student data to drive instruction
    4. Lesson Plans
      1. Writing lessons using Essential Elements of Instruction (EEI)
      2. Using varied instructional strategies
      3. Reinforcing learning objectives during instruction
    5. Differentiation
      1. Differentiating the content
      2. Differentiating the process
      3. Differentiating the product
    6. Collaboration
      1. Collaborating with students
      2. Collaborating with parents
      3. Collaborating with colleagues and mentors


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21

Educational Technology Training

  
  • ETT 101 - Introduction to Educational Technology

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    An introduction to educational technology exploring the current and emerging technologies available to teachers. Includes theoretical foundations of educational technology, technology enhanced instruction, digital technologies for the classroom, and an overview of productivity, school and classroom management software.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Discuss and apply theoretical foundations of educational technology to current classroom practices.  (ISTE 2; 3)
    2. Design and plan technology enhanced instruction.  (ISTE 2; 3; 4)
    3. Use technology operations and concepts to support student-centered learning strategies. (ISTE 1; 3)
    4. Demonstrate an understanding and working knowledge of digital technologies in the classroom.  (ISTE 1; 2; 3)
    5. Utilize productivity, school, and classroom management software.  (ISTE 1; 5) 
    6. Utilize a variety of academic software. (ISTE 2; 3; 4) 

    Outline:
    1. Theoretical Foundations of Educational Technology
      1. Educational technology organizations
      2. Learning styles and technology
      3. Learning theory and technology
      4. Bridging learning and technology theory and practice
    2. Technology Enhanced Instruction
      1. The instructional design process
      2. Lesson planning
      3. Components of best practices instruction
      4. Connecting instruction planning, implementation, and technology
    3. Technology and Student-Centered Learning Strategies
      1. Components of computer systems for classroom applications
      2. Input and output devices for classroom application
      3. Understanding storage devices for classroom applications
      4. Relating computer components and functions to teaching and learning
    4. Digital Technologies
      1. Digital input technologies used in teaching and learning
      2. Digital output technologies used in teaching and learning
      3. Issues and concerns related to diverse technologies in the classroom.
      4. Emerging digital technologies
    5. Productivity, School, and Classroom Management Software
      1. Academic and administrative software
      2. Administrative software and professional accountability
      3. Enhancing the learning environment with administrative software
      4. Selecting software for classroom and administrative functions
    6. Academic Software
      1. Major categories and types of academic software
      2. Use of academic software in diverse classrooms
      3. Evaluating and selecting software 


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2012

Electrical Utilities Technology

  
  • EUT 103 - Generation Steam Systems

    3 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 2 lab periods

    Introduction to steam systems, thermodynamics, and boiler operation. Includes steam as an energy generating source, steam system operation, and boilers. Also includes pressure and temperature control.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Explain the basics of steam systems, including temperature measurement, pressure measurement, and thermal expansion.
    2. Explain the science of steam as an energy source.
    3. Describe boiler types and components and their functions.
    4. Demonstrate basic steam system operation, including strainers, air, condensate, pressure and temperature controls.
    5. Describe the operation of a condensate recovery system.
    6. Explain steam system performance.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Steam Systems
      1. Basic operation
      2. Temperature measurement
      3. Pressure measurement
      4. Thermal expansion
    2. Science of Steam Systems
      1. Steam states
      2. Internal energy and enthalpy
      3. Steam tables and diagrams
      4. Steam power
    3. Boilers
      1. Types
      2. Boiler subsystems
      3. Boiler operation
      4. Boiler pressure
      5. Boiler components
        1. Safety devices
        2. Water column
        3. Blowdown
        4. Chemical treatment
    4. Steam Systems
      1. Operation
      2. Outside stem and yoke valves
      3. Strainers
      4. Pressure control
      5. Regulator valve operation
      6. Temperature control
        1. Heat exchangers
        2. Temperature regulation
    5. Air and Condensate Control
      1. Steam trap types
      2. Steam trap testing and maintenance
      3. Air vents
      4. Condensate recovery systems
        1. Condensate pump operation
        2. Condensate pump maintenance
        3. Globe valves
        4. Check valves
    6. Steam System Performance
      1. Performance measurement
      2. Effects of air
      3. Troubleshooting steam systems


    Effective Term:
    Summer 2014
  
  • EUT 104 - Overhead and Underground Systems, Hardware, and Equipment

    4 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 2 lab periods

    Procedures for working in the overhead and underground distribution components. Includes pole hardware, overhead conductors, porcelain and polymer equipment, overhead transformers, underground equipment installation, electrical utility disciplines, and safety.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify pole hardware and installation techniques.
    2. Identify overhead conductors and use proper splicing techniques.
    3. Identify various types of porcelain or polymer equipment and overhead, and underground installation techniques.
    4. Demonstrate the hook up of electrical connections to overhead transformers and test for proper voltage.
    5. Install underground cables, transformers, and switchgear with proper techniques.
    6. Explain utility disciplines as it relates to the specific crafts.
    7. Describe safety as it relates to the electric utility industry.

    Outline:
    1. Pole Hardware
      1. Overhead conductors
      2. Down guys and risers
      3. Various  bolt, nuts, and washers
      4. Installation techniques
    2. Overhead Conductors
      1. Transmission
      2. Distribution
      3. Primary and secondary
      4. Spicing techniques
    3. Porcelain or Polymer Equipment
      1. Insulators
      2. Arrestors
      3. Cutouts
      4. Overhead and underground installation techniques
    4. Overhead Transformers
      1. Single phase connections
      2. Three phase connections
      3. Test for voltage
    5. Underground Equipment Installation
      1. Transformers
      2. Switchgear
      3. Cable
    6. Electrical Utility Disciplines
      1. Lineman/cableman
        1. Climbing equipment
        2. Pole setting
      2. Substation electrician
      3. Journeyman meterman technician
      4. Electronics technician
      5. Relay technician
      6. Journeyman shop electrician
    7. Safety
      1. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
      2. Equipment and personal grounding protection
      3. Tail board briefing
      4. Handline
        1. Makeup
        2. Use
        3. Storage


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2014
  
  • EUT 106 - Measuring Electricity

    3 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 2 lab periods

    Overview of the theories and devices used to measure electricity. Includes electric utility metering terminology, Blondel’s theorem, kilowatt-hour meter operating principles, single-phase and network meters, wiring connections for mounting devices, voltmeter, voltage indicator, and ammeter usage, and Direct Current (DC), and Alternating Current (AC), circuits.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify pole hardware and installation techniques.
    2. Identify transmission conductors and use proper splicing techniques.
    3. Identify various types of porcelain equipment and overhead and underground installation techniques.
    4. Hook up electrical connections to overhead transformers and test for proper voltage.
    5. Install underground cables, transformers, and switchgear with proper techniques.

    Outline:
    1. Pole Hardware
      1. Crossarms and braces
      2. Down guys and risers
      3. Various bolts, nuts, and washers
    2. Overhead Conductors
      1. Transmission
      2. Distribution
      3. Primary and secondary
    3. Porcelain Equipment
      1. Insulators
      2. Arrestors
      3. Cutouts
    4. Overhead Transformers
      1. Single phase connections
      2. Three phase connections
    5. Underground Equipment
      1. Transformers
      2. Switchgear
      3. Cable


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2014

Emergency Medical Technology

  
  • EMT 089 - Skills Reinforcement for EMT 100

    2 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 3 lab periods

    Overview, techniques, and skills for pre-hospital emergency response. Includes equipment operations, communication, documentation, packaging, and patient assessment.

    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in EMT 100 .
    Information: Course supplements lecture time and laboratory experience for EMT 100 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate airway assessment and management techniques.
    2. Demonstrate the proper placement and operations of an Automatic External Defibrillation for adult, child, and infant.
    3. Demonstrate the use of personal protective equipment for Body Substance Isolation.
    4. Demonstrate patient packaging and techniques for vehicular extrication.
    5. Demonstrate proper assessment of medical patient.
    6. Demonstrate proper assessment of trauma patient.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Emergency Care Training
    2. Scene Assessment and Response
      1. Standard precautions
      2. Hazardous materials
    3. Assessment Baseline Vitals
    4. Operations
      1. Ambulance
      2. Equipment
      3. Communication and documentation
      4. Extrication
    5. Airway Assessment, Obstruction, and Respiratory Arrest 
      1. Practical use of airway adjuncts
      2. Practical use of oxygen therapy
    6. Patient Assessment and Evaluation
      1. Triage
      2. Trauma
      3. Medical
    7. Evaluation and Treatment of Injuries 
      1. Bleeding, wounds, and shock
      2. Soft tissue injury care
      3. Musculoskeletal care
    8. Joint Immobilization
    9. Long Bone Immobilization
    10. Traction Splinting
      1. Spinal care
    11. Long Spine board
    12. KED’s
    13. Helmet Removal
    14. Evaluation and Treatment of Medical Emergencies 
      1. Poison
      2. Bites and stings
      3. Cardiac
      4. Respiratory compromise
      5. Altered loc
      6. Diabetes
      7. Acute abdominal problems
      8. Seizures
    15. Emergency Childbirth 
    16. Environmental Emergencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/18
  
  • EMT 090 - National Registry Skills Preparation

    0.5 Credits, 0.5 Contact Hours
    .5 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introduction to the practical portion of the EMT-B National Registry Skills stations. Includes introduction to the six stations required for EMT-B certification. Also includes opportunity to serve as a patient in medical and trauma scenarios, and to practice hands on assessment with other students.

    Recommendation: Designed for students enrolling in EMT 100  the following semester.
    Information: Prepares students to serve as patients for National Registry testing.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Explain the critical criteria for all National Registry testing.
    2. Name the seven (7) testing modules of National Registry.
    3. Identify the proper application of a cervical collar, and long spine board.
    4. Identify proper assessment of medical patient.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to National Registry Testing Process
    2. EMT-B Requirements in Arizona
    3. Scene Safety and Body Substance Isolation (BSI)
    4. Skills Stations
      1. Medical
      2. Trauma
      3. Spine board and cervical collars
      4. AED Automated External Defibrillators
      5. Oxygen administration
      6. Long bone immobilization
    5. Mock Patient Scenarios and Moulage Application
    6. Time in Each Station as Patient During Open Lab Day


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/18
  
  • EMT 091 - Ambulance Operations

    2 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 3 lab periods

    Practical experience and safe operation of emergency vehicles. Includes operating an ambulance on a closed course to become familiar with its handling and operations, and subsequent completion of an obstacle course similar to the Emergency Vehicle Operators Course (EVOC). Also includes proper gurney operation and key safety matters pertaining to the use of lights and sirens.

    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in EMT 100  or EMT 110 .
    Information: Students must possess a valid driver’s license.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Explain when and why lights and sirens are operated.
    2. Demonstrate, with a partner, how to properly load and off load a patient.
    3. Demonstrate safe gurney operation with and without a patient.
    4. Perform CPR in a moving ambulance.
    5. Describe safety requirements for operating an ambulance, with focus on driving with due regard for the safety of others.
    6. Demonstrate how to safely operate an ambulance, and maneuver through an obstacle course.

    Outline:
    1. Ambulance Operations: Code Driving, Lights, and Sirens
      1. Code 2
      2. Code 3
      3. When lights are used
      4. When siren is used
      5. Different tones
      6. Intersections
      7. Following another unit
    2. Tiered Response System
      1. What is it?
      2. Types of calls for Code 2
      3. Types of calls for Code 3
    3. Gurney Operations and Loading/Off Loading Patients
      1. How the gurney works
      2. Gurney color codes: what they mean
      3. Weight limits
      4. IV placement
      5. Storage
      6. Direction of the patient (head first)
      7. Trendelenburg position
      8. Positioning difficult airway patient (short of breath)
      9. CPR in the ambulance
    4. Driver Training and Obstacle Course
      1. Orientation to vehicle
      2. Safety checks
        1. Fuel
        2. Lights
        3. Sirens
        4. Oil
        5. H2O
        6. Belts
        7. Equipment
      3. Starting a diesel engine
      4. Mirror checks
      5. Serpentine
      6. Backing the vehicle
      7. Acting as the patient while someone else drives (experiencing due regard) for safety
      8. Close stop (stop close to cone without assistance)
      9. Close backing (same as stop but in reverse)


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2017
  
  • EMT 092 - Cardiac Monitor (EKG) for the EMT

    1.5 Credits, 1.5 Contact Hours
    1.5 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introduction to the cardiac monitor or electrocardiograph (EKG). Includes an in-depth look at the cardiac monitor, the many different cardiac rhythms students may encounter as an EMT, and discussion of various treatments for abnormal rhythms.

    Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in EMT 100  or EMT 110 .
    Information: Not a substitute for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), but appropriate for entry level EMT students. Ideal exploration course for those considering a career beyond EMT, such as Paramedic or Nursing.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Describe the use of (3) three-lead and (12) twelve-lead cardiac monitors.
    2. Identify the following cardiac rhythms: Asystole, Ventricular Fibrillation, Ventricular, Tachycardia, Pulses Electrical Activity (PEA), Sinus Rhythm, Bradycardia, Tachycardia, Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter.
    3. Discuss the stable patient evaluation and explain the rationale of that decision.
    4. Discuss the unstable patient evaluation and explain the rationale of that decision.
    5. Discuss the various treatments for each of the cardiac rhythms.

    Outline:
    1. Using a Cardiac Monitor
      1. Three (3) lead EKG
      2. Twelve (12) lead EKG
    2. Different Rhythms
      1. Sinus rhythm
      2. Bradycardia
      3. Tachycardia
      4. Asystole
      5. Ventricular tachycardia
      6. Ventricular fibrillation
      7. Pulses electrical activity (PEA)
      8. Atrial fibrillation
      9. Atrial flutter
    3. Stable Patient
      1. Pulse
      2. Respirations
      3. Skin color, temperature, and condition
      4. How the patient feels
    4. Unstable Patient
      1. Pulse
      2. Respirations
      3. Skin color, temperature, and condition
      4. How the patient feels (feeling of impending doom)
    5. Introduction to Treatment Algorithm
      1. Specific treatments for each cardiac rhythm, as approved by the American Heart Association
      2. Individuals who follow these algorithms
      3. Medications used
      4. Individuals who can use these medications


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2017
  
  • EMT 100 - Emergency Medical Technology

    9 Credits, 15 Contact Hours
    6 lecture periods 9 lab periods

    Techniques of pre-hospital emergency medical care for the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Includes history of emergency medical care delivery systems, roles and responsibilities of emergency medical services (EMS) providers, ethical and legal issues, and patient assessment. Also includes symptoms of illnesses, injuries, medical emergencies, appropriate medical techniques, triage, and ambulance operations.

    Information: Students must be 18 years of age when class begins. Students must have cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification at the Healthcare Provider or Professional Rescuer Level and receive a minimum score of 69 on the Accuplacer reading assessment. Students must show proof of personal medical insurance and provide immunization records for MMR, TD, TB skin test, and Varicella; flu vaccine is encouraged. Students must show proof of Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZ DPS) Fingerprint Clearance Card or proof of pending AZ DPS application approval (applications provided by the EMT Service Center. Students must meet College admissions’ requirements and create an Arizona Department of Health Services online account. Students must submit to drug screening (form provided by the EMT Service Center), and must meet with EMT staff/ prior to registration.
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    Course Learning Outcomes

    1.      Perform one and two person CPR: Adult, Child, and Infant based on the American Heart Association current standards.

    2.      Appropriately manage scene safety including proper placement and removal of personal protective gear in the workplace.

    3.      Define priorities of care and the components of a tiered response system.

    4.      Define the role, scope of practice. Legal and ethical responsibilities of the Emergency Medical Technician.

    5.      Perform and appropriately manage and stabilize patients of all ages suffering from airway obstructions, respiratory arrests, and cardiac arrest.

    6.      Perform and appropriately manage and stabilize patients of all ages suffering from bleeding, soft tissue injuries, burns, fractures, shock, and nervous system injuries.


    Outline:

    I.        Emergency Medical Technician Preparation

    A.     Emergency medical care – origin and structure

    B.     Well-being of the EMT

    C.     Medical, legal and ethical issues

    D.     The human body

    E.     Baseline vital signs and SAMPLE history

    II.       Airway

    A.     Obstruction

    B.     Use of airway adjuncts

    C.     Oxygen delivery

    III.      Patient Assessment

    A.     Assessment

    B.     Communication

    1.   Communication systems and equipment

    2.   Regulations and protocol for radio communication

    3.   Effective communication with patients from all segments of population

    4.   Psychological aspects of emergency care

    C.     Documentation:  written reports

    IV.      Evaluating Injuries: Bleeding, Wounds, and Shock

    A.     Soft tissue injuries

    B.     Musculo-skeletal care and fractures of the upper extremities

    C.     Fractures of the pelvis, hip and lower extremities

    D.     Injuries to head, neck, face, and spine

    E.     Injuries to chest, abdomen, and genitalia

    F.      Dressing and bandaging

    G.     Spine and fracture immobilization

    H.     Pneumatic counter-pressure devices (MAST)

    I.       Shock: signs, symptoms, and emergency care.

    V.      Medical Emergencies

    A.     General pharmacology

    B.     Respiratory emergencies

    1.   Characteristics

    2.   Significance

    C.     Cardiovascular emergencies

    1.   Symptoms

    2.   Use of automated external defibrillator (AED)

    3.   General patient care

    D.     Neurologic emergencies

    E.     The acute abdomen

    1.   Definition

    2.   Symptoms

    3.   Treatment

    4.   Potential causes

    5.   Referred pain

    F.      Diabetic emergencies

    1.   Two types of emergencies

    2.   Patient assessment

    3.   Treatment

    4.   Blood glucose monitoring procedures

    5.   Indications and contraindications

    6.   Regulatory issues

    G.     Allergic reactions, stings, and bites

    1.   Causes, signs, and symptoms

    2.   Anaphylaxis

    3.   Interventions including the use of epinephrine auto-injectors

    H.     Substance abuse and poisoning

    I.       Environmental emergencies

    1.   Burns

    2.   Hazardous materials

    3.   Drowning

    J.      Behavioral emergencies

    1.   Acute psychological disturbances

    2.   Chronic psychological disturbances

    3.   Techniques for interaction with emotionally disturbed patients

    4.   Critical incidence stress debriefing

    K.     Obstetrics and gynecological emergencies

    1.   Childbirth in the field

    2.   Breech delivery

    3.   Prolapsed umbilical cord

    4.   Spontaneous abortion

    L.      Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS

    VI.      Transporting Patients

    A.     Principles of extrication

    B.     Patient packaging

    C.     Lifting and moving patients

    VII.     Ambulance Operations and Safe Driving

    A.     Regulations

    B.     Forms and reporting

    C.     Maintenance of vehicle and equipment

    D.     Emergency procedures

    E.     Scene control

    F.      Special scene situation

    VIII.    Disaster Management

    A.     Triage

    B.     WMD’s

    IX.      Assisting with Advanced Life Support (ALS)

    A.     Intravenous lines

    1.   Purpose of intravenous lines and the monitoring of intravenous lines by the Emergency Medical Technician

    2.   Types and sizes of intravenous cannulas, tubing, etc.

    3.   Intravenous fluids the Emergency Medical Technician is approved to monitor

    4.   Assessment and monitoring

    5.   Trouble-shooting intravenous lines

    B.     Cardiac monitoring

    C.     Intubation


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2019/20
  
  • EMT 106 - Overview of Emergency Medical Services

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Overview of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Includes health care delivery systems, medical terminology, ethics and professionalism, patient rights and responsibilities; communication; basic patient assessment; workplace and personal safety.



  
  • EMT 109 - Human Anatomy and Physiology for EMT

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Human anatomy and physiology for Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT). Includes basic physiology of the body systems and medical terminology addressed in the NREMT/AZDHS. Also includes patient assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment pathways.

    Recommendation: REA 112  or equivalent score on Reading assessment. If any recommended course is taken, see a financial aid or Veteran’s Affairs advisor to determine funding eligibility as appropriate.
    Information: Intended for students interested in EMT 100 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Describe the basic physiology of the body systems.
    2. Utilize medical terminology within the parameters of NREMT/AZDHS.
    3. Relate the main structures and functions of the body organs and systems to patient assessment, differential diagnosis (field impressions), and treatment pathways.
    4. Describe basic anatomy of the body systems.
    5. Compare normal basic anatomy and physiology to common pathology

    Outline:
    1. Cellular structure and cellular metabolism
    2. Hematology
      1. Red Blood Cells
      2. White blood cells
      3. Plasma Platelets
      4.  Disorders of the blood
      5.  Blood as a transport mechanism
    3. Skeletal system
    4. Muscular System
    5. Lymphatic system
    6. Nervous system
      1. Sympathetic
      2. Parasympathetic
    7. Endocrine system
    8. Integumentary system
    9. Respiratory system
    10. Cardiac/ Vascular system
      1. Electrical conduction system of the heart
    11. GI system
    12. Reproductive system
    13. Metabolism and Homeostasis
    14. Bacteria and Viruses
    15. Lifespan developmental changes
      1. Anatomical changes
      2. Behavioral changes
      3. Common disease processes


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2016
  
  • EMT 110 - Emergency Medical Responder

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Techniques in pre-hospital emergency care appropriate to the Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) Scope of Practice. Includes identifying signs and symptoms associated with illness and traumatic injuries. Also includes intervention used in managing patient and transfer of patient to higher level medical authority.

    Information: This course will prepare those wishing to enroll in EMT 100 . Covers the DOT curriculum for EMR/EMT as well as the National Registry Practical portion of EMR. Course is designed to prepare eligible students for NREMT EMR examination.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Perform one and two person CPR: Adult, Child, and Infant based on the American Heart Association current standards.
    2. Appropriately manage scene safety including proper placement and removal of personal protective gear in the workplace.
    3. Define priorities of care and the components of a tiered response system.
    4. Define the role, scope of practice. Legal and ethical responsibilities of the Emergency Medical Technician.
    5.  Perform and appropriately manage and stabilize patients of all ages suffering from airway obstructions, respiratory arrests, and cardiac arrest.
    6. Perform and appropriately manage and stabilize patients of all ages suffering from bleeding, soft tissue injuries, burns, fractures, shock, and nervous system injuries.
    7. Perform and appropriately manage and stabilize patients of all ages suffering from medical emergencies and childbirth relate complications.

    Outline:
    1. Preparatory
      1. The Emergency Medical Service system and the First Responder
      2. The well-being of the First Responder
      3. Legal and ethical issues for the First Responder
      4. The human body
      5. Body substance isolation
      6. Lifting and moving patients
      7. Patient management strategies
      8. Scene size-up
    2. Airway
      1. Anatomy and physiology of respiration
      2. Airway and breathing management
    3. Patient Assessment
      1. Overview of initial assessment
      2. The physical exam
      3. Ongoing assessment
      4. Patient transfer
    4. Circulation
      1. Anatomy and physiology of circulatory system
      2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
      3. Shock and bleeding control
    5. Illness and Injury
      1. Overview of managing medical patients
      2. Chest pain
      3. Shortness of breath
      4. Altered mental status
      5. Abdominal pain
      6. Poisoning and overdose
      7. Allergic reactions
      8. Environmental emergencies
      9. Behavioral emergencies
      10. Overview to managing trauma patients
      11. Injuries to the head and spine
      12. Muscle and bone injuries
      13. Soft tissue injuries
    6. Childbirth and Children
      1. Childbirth
      2. Infants and Children
      3. Emergency Medical Service Operations
      4. Patient management strategies
      5. Scene size-up and interaction


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2016
  
  • EMT 140 - Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

    1.5 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 1 lab period

    Concepts and techniques for evaluating assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implementation of a field treatment plan for a trauma patient. Includes systemic approach to patient assessment and management, airway and ventilation management, shock, soft tissue and burn injuries, isolated and multi-systems trauma, and various types of trauma patients.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Formulate a field impression for a trauma patient through a systemic approach/patient assessment.
    2. Implement a field treatment plan for a trauma patient to include:
      1. Management of the airway through ventilation.
      2. Management of shock.
      3. Management of tissue and burn.
    3. Recognize multi-systems trauma patients.
    4. Recognize and implement a field treatment plan for mass casualty incidents.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply the principles of kinematics to enhance the patient assessment and predict the likelihood of injuries based on the patient’s mechanism of injury, address special safety criteria, and manage special operations.
    2. Explain and perform the systematic approaches to patient assessment and management.
    3. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for airway management, ventilation and oxygen therapy.
    4. State and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient in shock.
    5. Synthesize and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with soft tissues and burn injuries.
    6. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with isolated and multi-systems trauma.
    7. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving the pediatric patient.
    8. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving the geriatric patient.
    9. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving the obstetric patient.
    10. Name and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving patients under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
    11. Utilize assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for traumatic cardiac arrest.
    12. Identify common communicable diseases and explain blood and body fluid precautions.
    13. Examine common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Definition of trauma and societal impacts
      2. Scene size-up, safety and infection control
      3. Mechanisms of injury and building on the indices of suspicion
    2. Systematic Approach To Patient Assessment And Management
      1. Initial assessment and managing life threatening conditions to airway, breathing, and circulation
      2. Focused physical exam and managing potentially life-threatening injuries
    3. Airway and Ventilation
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Techniques for opening and clearing an airway
      3. Basic airway adjuncts
      4. Advanced airway adjuncts
      5. Invasive procedures for airway and ventilation
      6. Ventilation and oxygen therapy
    4. Shock                
      1. Definition, stages and signs and symptoms of shock.
      2. Shock classifications and assessment and management-specific criteria for the different classifications of shock.
      3. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the shock patient.
    5. Soft Tissues And Burn Injuries
      1. Definition, mechanisms, and classifications
      2. Assessment and management-specific criteria for the different classifications of soft tissue and burn injuries.
      3. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the burn patient.
    6. Isolated And Multi-Systems Trauma
      1. Head and facial injuries
      2. Spinal cord injuries
      3. Thoracic trauma
      4. Abdominal-pelvic injuries
      5. Musculo-skeletal trauma
      6. Multi-systems trauma
      7. Medical insult and trauma
      8. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the burn patient.
    7. Pediatric Trauma
      1. Communications and the historian
      2. Physical, psychological, and social considerations
      3. Anatomical features and assessment considerations
      4. Common injuries and their management
      5. Child safety restraint systems
    8. Geriatric Trauma
      1. Pathophysiology of aging
      2. Assessment and management considerations
      3. Rapid survey and the focused exam
    9. Obstetrical Trauma
      1. Maternal and fetal anatomy and physiology
      2. Compensatory mechanisms for the injured mother and fetus
      3. Assessment and management considerations
      4. Types of injury and their management
    10. Trauma Patients Under The Influence Of Alcohol And Drugs
      1. Physiological and behavioral complications
      2. Assessment and management considerations
    11. Traumatic Cardiopulmonary Arrest
      1. Priority in care and communications
      2. Assessment and management considerations
    12. Infectious Diseases And Prevention Of Transmission
      1. Airborne Diseases
      2. Blood borne diseases
      3. Body substance isolation and infection control
    13. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 141 - Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support Refresher

    1.5 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 1 lab period

    Concepts and scenario-based techniques for evaluating assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implementation of a field treatment plan for a trauma patient. Includes a systemic approach to patient assessment and management, airway and ventilation management, shock, soft tissue and burn injuries, isolated and multi-systems trauma, and various types of trauma patients.

    Information: Includes teaching and evaluation stations as a review and update for those students who have taken EMT 140 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Apply the principles of kinematics to enhance the patient assessment and predict the likelihood of injuries based on the patient’s mechanism of injury, address special safety criteria, and manage special operations.
    2. Explain and perform the systematic approaches to patient assessment and management.
    3. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for airway management, ventilation and oxygen therapy.
    4. State and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient in shock.
    5. Synthesize and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with soft tissues and burn injuries.
    6. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with isolated and multi-systems trauma.
    7. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving the pediatric patient.
    8. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving the geriatric patient.
    9. Identify and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving the obstetric patient.
    10. Name and utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for trauma involving patients under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
    11. Utilize assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for traumatic cardiac arrest.
    12. Identify common communicable diseases and explain blood and body fluid precautions.
    13. Examine common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Pre-Hospital Life Support
      1. Definition of trauma and societal impacts
      2. Scene size-up, safety and infection control
      3. Mechanisms of injury and building on the indices of suspicion
    2. Systematic Approach to Patient Assessment and Management
      1. Initial assessment and managing life threatening conditions to airway, breathing, and circulation
      2. Focused physical exam and managing potentially life-threatening injuries
    3. Airway and Ventilation
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Techniques for opening and clearing an airway
      3. Basic airway adjuncts
      4. Advanced airway adjuncts
      5. Invasive procedures for airway and ventilation
      6. Ventilation and oxygen therapy
    4. Shock                
      1. Definition
      2. Stages and signs and symptoms of shock.
      3. Shock classifications and assessment and management-specific criteria for the different classifications of shock.
      4. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the shock patient.
    5. Soft tissues and Burn Injuries
      1. Definition, mechanisms, and classifications
      2. Assessment and management-specific criteria for the different classifications of soft tissue and burn injuries.
      3. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the burn patient.
    6. Isolated and Multi-Systems Trauma
      1. Head and facial injuries
      2. Spinal cord injuries
      3. Thoracic trauma
      4. Abdominal-pelvic injuries
      5. Musculo-skeletal trauma
      6. Multi-systems trauma
      7. Medical insult and trauma
      8. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the burn patient.
    7. Pediatric Trauma
      1. Communications and the historian
      2. Physical, psychological, and social considerations
      3. Anatomical features and assessment considerations
      4. Common injuries and their management
      5. Child safety restraint systems
    8. Geriatric Trauma
      1. Pathophysiology of aging
      2. Assessment and management considerations
      3. Rapid survey and the focused exam
    9. Obstetrical Trauma
      1. Maternal and fetal anatomy and physiology
      2. Compensatory mechanisms for the injured mother and fetus
      3. Assessment and management considerations
      4. Types of injury and their management
    10. Trauma Patients Under the Influence of Alcohol and Drugs
      1. Physiological and behavioral complications
      2. Assessment and management considerations
    11. Traumatic Cardiopulmonary Arrest
      1. Priority in care and communications
      2. Assessment and management considerations
    12. Infectious Diseases and Prevention of Transmission
      1. Airborne diseases
      2. Blood borne diseases
      3. Body substance isolation and infection control
    13. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2016
  
  • EMT 155 - Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) Provider

    1.5 Credits, 1.5 Contact Hours
    1.5 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Overview, concepts and techniques to study medical emergencies related to adult patients. Includes a pragmatic approach and systematic format regarding patient assessment and management. Includes interactive scenario-based lectures with hands-on physical assessment of patients. Includes a global and initial assessment taking into account the patient’s environmental and scene issues that allows the participant to formulate a general impression, determine the patient’s stability, and explore the possibilities of differential diagnoses. Also includes using a systematic approach to obtain an initial assessment, vital signs, present illness, past medical, focused physical exam; the participant will be driven by the differential diagnoses.

    Information: AMLS is an advanced course that assumes a previous working knowledge of medical emergencies, there are necessary prerequisites: EMT-B, EMT-I, EMT-P, RN, MD, DO, and other advanced level healthcare providers with at least one year of clinical experience. Participant must read the AMLS textbook before class and come to class prepared and complete the pre-test. EMT-B will have a separate pre-test and post-test written evaluation for EMT-Basic providers.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Perform a pragmatic approach and systematic format regarding medical patient assessment.
    2. Implement patient management through formulation of a general impression.
    3. Determine the patient’s stability.
    4. Explore the possibilities of differential diagnoses and treatment plans.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Given an assessment of the medical patient scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential patient problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies. 
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Differentiate treatment and transport criteria for stable and unstable adult patients with medical complaints.
      3. Obtain a comprehensive patient assessment using appropriate interviewing techniques.
      4. Demonstrate the ability to recognize and explain different pathophysiology responses found during the comprehensive assessment of patients with medical complaints.
      5. Describe the rationale for assessment modifications used for the elderly patient.
      6. Describe the rationale for assessment modifications used for the elderly patient.
      7. Demonstrate an efficient, focused physical examination technique for evaluating patients with neurological, respiratory, cardiac, and abdominal complaints.
    2. Given an airway management, ventilation, and oxygen therapy scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Demonstrate the ability to recognize patient presentations that require the need for aggressive airway management.
      3. Identify different clinical situations that determine utilization of a variety of options for airway management devices.
      4. Explain the indications and contra-indications for each airway management technique or device.
      5. Demonstrate with proficiency the appropriate use of airway management techniques that include: oral tracheal intubation, nasal tracheal intubation, rapid sequence intubation, digital intubation, lighted stylet intubation, alternative airway devices ( PtL, Combitube, LMA) and surgical airway alternatives.
    3. Given a hypoperfusion (shock) scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentations in compensated, progressive, irreversible shock.
      3. Use, with proficiency, a comprehensive assessment technique to identify differences in patient presentations and management strategies for hypovolemic, obstructive, distributive, and cardiogenic shock.
      4. Identify and explain different pathophysiological responses found during the comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting hypovolemic, obstructive, distributive, and cardiogenic shock.
      5. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of hypoperfusion to include as needed: airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    4. Given a dyspnea scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit respiratory distress and respiratory failure.
      3. Determine and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during the comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting airway obstruction, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), pneumonia, pleural effusion, tension Pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, pleuritis, ARDS, CHF, AMI, neuromuscular dystrophies, hyperthyroidism, and psychogenic etiologies.
      4. Use a comprehensive assessment technique to identify differences in patient presentations and management strategies for airway obstruction, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), pneumonia, pleural effusion, tension Pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, pleuritis, ARDS, CHF, AMI, neuromuscular dystrophies, hyperthyroidism, and psychogenic etiologies.
      5. Develop management alternative for probable differential diagnoses of dyspnea to include as needed: airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    5. Given a chest pain scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit AMI, unstable angina, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, esophageal disruption, cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, costochondritis, gastrointestional disease, and mitral valve prolaspe.
      3. Determine and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during a comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting AMI, unstable angina, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolisim, esophageal disruption, cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, costochondritis, gastrointestional disease, and mitral valve prolapse.
      4. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of chest pain to include as needed: airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    6. Given an altered mental status scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit a cerebral vascular accident (CVA), transient ischemic attack (TIA), cranial infections, cranial tumors, diabetes mellitus, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, uremic encephalopathy, electrolyte imbalances, acidodsis and alkalosis, thyroid disorders, Wernicke’s encephalopathy, Korsakoff’s psychosis, toxicologic encephalopathy, and environmental etiologies.
      3. Identify and explain with accuracy different pathological responses found during the comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting a cerebral vascular accident (CVA), transient ischemic attack (TIA), cranial infections, cranial tumors, diabetes mellitus, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, uremic encephalopathy, electrolyte imbalances, acidodsis and alkalosis, thyroid disorders, Wernicke’s encephalopathy, Korsakoff’s psychosis, toxicologic encephalopathy, and environmental etiologies.
      4. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of alter mental status to include as needed airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    7. Given a seizures and seizure disorders scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit generalized, simple or partial complex seizures, status epilepticus, metabolic disorders, and infectious diseases.
      3. Identify and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during a comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting generalized simple or partial complex seizures, status epilepticus, metabolic disorders, and infectious diseases.
      4. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of alter mental status to include as needed airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    8. Given an acute abdominal pain and GI bleeding scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit right and left hypochondriac, epigastric, umbilical, hypogastric, aortic aneurysm, gastric-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), and right and left iliac region etiologies.
      3. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit right and left hypochondriac, epigastric, umbilical, hypogastric, aortic aneurysm, gastric-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), and right and left iliac region etiologies.
      4. Identify and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during a comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting right and left hypochondriac, epigastric, umbilical, hypogastric, aortic aneurysm, gastric-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), and right and left iliac region etiologies.
      5. Identify anatomical locations that are at risk for gastrointestinal bleeding.
      6. Determine and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during a comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting presentations and predisposing conditions to gastrointestional bleeding.
      7. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of acute abdominal pain and gastrointestinal bleeding to include as needed: airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    9. Given a syncope scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit vasovagal and vasopressor syncope, orthostatic hypotension, and metabolic and neurologic syncope etiologies.
      3. Identify and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during a comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting vasovagal and vasopressor syncope, orthostatic hypotension, and metabolic and neurologic syncope etiologies.
      4. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of syncope to include as needed: airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.
    10. Given a headache, nausea, and vomiting scenario, the participant will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential problems, differential diagnoses, and management strategies.
      1. Demonstrate with proficiency an appropriate, safe scene size up.
      2. Identify differences in patient presentation and management strategies for patients that exhibit tension headaches, migraine, subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, meningitis, pre-eclampsia, carbon monoxide poisoning, and brain abscess, nausea, and vomiting.
      3. Identify and explain with accuracy different pathophysiological responses found during a comprehensive assessment of patients exhibiting tension headaches, migraine, subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, meningitis, pre-eclampsia, carbon monoxide poisoning, and brain abscess, nausea, and vomiting.
      4. Develop management alternatives for probable differential diagnoses of headache, nausea, and vomiting to include as needed: airway management, respiratory and/or ventilatory support, fluid therapy, pharmacological support, and transportation to an appropriate facility.

    Outline:
    1. Assessment of the Medical Patient
      1. Components of the medical assessment
      2. Dispatch information
      3. Scene size-up
      4. Physiologically stable or unstable criteria
      5. Initial assessment
      6. Focused history and physical exam
      7. Possibilities to probabilities: forming a differential field diagnosis
      8. Detailed exam
      9. Ongoing assessment
    2. Airway Management, Ventilation, and Oxygen Therapy
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Oxygen supplementation
      3. Airway management
    3. Ventilation Equipment and Techniques
      1. Tracheal Intubation
      2. Equipment
    4. Alternative Methods of Intubation
      1. Alternative airway devices
      2. Surgical techniques of airway control
      3. Rapid sequence intubation
      4. Guidelines for airway and ventilation support
    5. Access and Medication Administration
      1. Medication administration
      2. Medication administration methods
      3. Venous access
      4. Intraosseous infusion
      5. Delivering medications by injection
      6. Other methods of medication administration
    6. Hypoperfusion (Shock)
      1. Defining hypoperfusion and shock
      2. Anatomy and physiology of tissue perfusion
      3. Pathophysiology of shock
      4. Differential diagnosis
      5. Assessment priorities
      6. Management priorities
    7. Dyspnea, Respiratory Distress, or Respiratory Failure
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Determining the severity of respiratory distress or failure
      3. Differential diagnosis and management priorities
    8. Chest Discomfort or Pain
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Initial approach to chest discomfort or pain
      3. Differential diagnoses and management priorities     
      4. Altered mental status
      5. The pathophysiology of altered mental status
      6. General assessment and management of altered mental status
      7. Differential diagnosis: intracranial causes of altered mental status
      8. Differential diagnosis: extra-cranial causes of altered mental status
    9. Acute Abdominal Pain
      1. Anatomy and physiology of the abdomen
      2. Pathophysiology of the abdomen
      3. Differential diagnosis
      4. Assessment
      5. Treatment
    10. Gastrointestional Bleeding
      1. Anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology
      2. Characteristics of blood in the GI tract
      3. Assessment
      4. Treatment
    11. Seizures and Seizure Disorders
      1. Anatomy and physiology of the brain
      2. Classification and terminology
      3. Pathophysiology
      4. Differential diagnosis
      5. Assessment and management priorities
    12. Syncope
      1. Pathophysiology
      2. Mechanism of syncope
      3. Patient assessment and differential diagnosis
      4. Prehospital management
    13. Headache, Nausea, and Vomiting
      1. Headache
      2. Nausea and Vomiting
    14. Putting It All Together:  Scenarios
      1. Difficulty breathing
      2. Difficulty breathing
      3. Shock
      4. Shock
      5. Abdominal pain
      6. Altered mental status
      7. Altered mental status
      8. Chest pain
      9.     Sudden onset paraplegia
      10. Unconscious women


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 158 - Transition Training for EMT

    1.5 Credits, 2.5 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 1.5 lab periods

    Review of current techniques in pre-hospital emergency care for the basic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Includes signs and symptoms of illness, injuries, medical emergencies, appropriate medical techniques, and ambulance operations.

    Information: EMT-B State of Arizona current certification is required before enrolling in this course. May be taken six times for a maximum of nine credit hours. If this course is repeated, see a financial aid or Veteran’s Affairs advisor to determine funding eligibility as appropriate.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify current techniques in pre-hospital emergency care for the basic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).
    2. Identify the signs and symptoms of specified medical emergencies.
    3. Demonstrate the appropriate assessment and treatment techniques of an EMT.
    4. Identify safe ambulance operations.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Define the roles and responsibilities of the Emergency Medical Technician.
    2. Identify the anatomy and physiology of major body systems.
    3. Identify diagnostic signs and their normal states.
    4. Demonstrate airway assessment and management techniques.
    5. Demonstrate basic life support.
    6. Describe the purpose and design requirements of various mechanical aids and demonstrate their use.
    7. Explain the meaning of shock; the signs and symptoms of shock, and emergency care for the shock patient.
    8. Demonstrate the proper application of Military Anti-Shock Trousers.
    9. Describe the methods for controlling internal and external bleeding.
    10. Describe the signs and symptoms of fractures, dislocations, and sprains.
    11. Describe the procedures for the continuous maintenance and evaluation of the unconscious patient.
    12. Describe the dangers and demonstrate the techniques for emergency care of foreign bodies, burns, rib fractures, pneumothorax, and tension pneumothorax.
    13. Demonstrate proficiency in dressing and bandaging lacerations, sucking chest wounds, and impaled objects.
    14. Demonstrate proficiency in splinting.
    15. Describe the causes, signs, symptoms, and interventions for poisons, bites, and stings.
    16. Describe the causes, signs, symptoms and interventions for the following medical emergencies: myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accidents, dyspnea, diabetic coma, insulin shock, acute abdomen seizures
    17. Identify and define the special considerations for the pregnant patient.
    18. Describe the emergency procedures for delivery of a child in the field.
    19. Describe the emergency procedures for breech delivery, prolapsed umbilical cord, and spontaneous abortion.
    20. Identify and describe the emergency care procedures for environmental emergencies.
    21. Describe the emergency procedures for the drowning patient.
    22. Identify and demonstrate the principles of lifting and moving patients.
    23. Identify the components of safe emergency vehicle driving.
    24. Identify and demonstrate the principles of Triage.
    25. Demonstrate proficiency in half and full spine immobilization.
    26. Demonstrate proficiency in applying a traction splinting device.
    27. Describe the purpose of intravenous lines by the Emergency Medical Technician - Basic.
    28. Describe intravenous therapy delivery systems.
    29. Discuss the importance of Body Substance Isolation (BSI) and techniques related to intravenous monitoring.
    30. Describe the proper usage of intravenous therapy.
    31. Describe the signs and systems of intravenous therapy.
    32. Describe the intravenous therapy solutions which fall within the scope of practice for the Emergency Medical Technician - Basic.
    33. Describe the purpose of Blood Glucose Monitoring.
    34. Describe and demonstrate methods necessary to prevent cross contamination through the use of equipment by adherence to universal blood and body fluid precautions.
    35. Demonstrate the correct technique for individual strip or instrumentation operation.
    36. Demonstrate proper quality control testing, documentation of results, and corrective actions.
    37. Discuss preventative maintenance of strips or instrumentation.
    38. List and describe the indications and contraindications for blood glucose testing.
    39. Demonstrate the correct technique for Blood Glucose Testing in a simulated situation.
    40. Discuss the role of Medical Control for Blood Glucose Testing.
    41. Demonstrate the appropriate technique for assisting a patient with sublingual nitroglycerin.
    42. Demonstrate the appropriate technique for assisting a patient with pre-metered epinephrine autoinjectors.
    43. Demonstrate the appropriate technique for assisting a patient with pre-metered bronchia dilator administration devices.
    44. Identify the indications for Automatic External Defibrillation usage.
    45. Demonstrate the proper placement and operations of an Automatic External Defibrillation.
    46. Describe the criteria to identify a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome victim.
    47. Define the difference between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and child abuse.
    48. Describe the appropriate comportment for an Emergency Medical Technician interaction with the family of a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome victim.
    49. Describe the pathophysiology of airborne and blood born communicable diseases.
    50. Demonstrate the use of personal protective equipment for Body Substance Isolation.
    51. Identify signs of acute and chronic psychological disturbances.
    52. Identify techniques for interaction with emotionally disturbed patients.
    53. Identify the components of and the need for Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing.
    54. Identify the mechanism of injury that requires vehicular extrication and patient packaging.
    55. Demonstrate patient packaging and techniques for vehicular extrication.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Emergency Care Training
      1. Anatomy, physiology and patient assessment
      2. Airway obstruction and respiratory arrest
      3. Cardiac arrest
      4. Mannequin practice and certification
      5. Practical use of airway adjuncts
      6. Bleeding, wounds, and shock
      7. Patient assessment and evaluation
        1. Airway dare
        2. Pulmonary arrest
        3. Cardiac arrest
        4. Bleeding and shock
      8. Review of Shock; pneumatic counter-pressure devices (Mast)
      9. Soft tissue injuries
      10. Musculoskeletal care and fractures of the upper extremities
      11. Fractures of the pelvis, hip and lower extremities
    2. Practical Lab
      1. Fracture care - upper extremities
      2. Fracture care - lower extremities
      3. Injuries of the head, neck, face and spine
      4. Injuries to the chest, abdomen, and genitalia
    3. Practical Lab
      1. Recognition and treatment of injuries
      2. Examinations
      3. Pneumatic counter pressure devices
      4. Dressing and bandaging
      5. Spine and fracture immobilization
    4. Evaluation of Injuries
      1. Criteria and identification
    5. Medical Emergencies I
      1. Poison
      2. Bites and stings
      3. Heart attack
      4. Stroke
      5. Dyspnea
    6. Medical Emergencies II
      1. Diabetes
      2. Acute abdominal problems
      3. Communicable diseases
      4. Seizures
      5. Pediatric patients
    7. Intravenous Monitoring
      1. Purpose of intravenous lines and the monitoring of intravenous lines by the Emergency Medical Technician-Basic
      2. Types and sizes of intravenous cannulas
      3. Types of intravenous tubing
      4. Approved intravenous fluids the Emergency Medical Technician-Basic May Monitor
      5. Intravenous infiltration
      6. Assessment of the intravenous cannula
      7. Trouble-shooting intravenous lines
      8. Intravenous flow calculations
      9. Overview of analgesic pumps
    8. Blood Glucose Monitoring
      1. Description
      2. Indications
      3. Contraindications
      4. Specific considerations
      5. Regulatory issues
      6. Procedures for blood glucose testing
      7. Quality control procedures
      8. Medical control
    9. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
      1. Overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome findings
      2. Signs appropriate for a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome victim
      3. Overview of the parameters of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
      4. Differences between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, child abuse and neglect
    10. Other Emergencies
      1. Emergency childbirth
      2. Burns and hazardous materials
      3. Environmental emergencies
      4. Psychological aspects of emergency care
    11. Lifting and Moving Patients
      1. Principles of extrication
        1. Practical lab: extrication
    12. Evaluation of the Following:
      1. Medical emergencies
      2. Emergency childbirth
      3. Environmental emergencies
      4. Lifting and moving
    13. Ambulance Operations I
      1. Regulations
      2. Forms and reporting
    14. Ambulance Operations II
      1. Maintenance of vehicle and equipment
      2. Emergency procedures
      3. Scene control
      4. Special scene situation
      5. Disaster planning
      6. Triage
    15. Assessment
      1. Situational review
      2. Final practical skills evaluation
      3. Final written exam


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 159 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Healthcare Provider

    0.5 Credits, 0.75 Contact Hours
    .25 lecture periods .5 lab periods

    Introduction to the techniques required to provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) at the healthcare provider level. Includes introduction to body systems and disease states, which lead to cardiac and respiratory arrest. Also includes the assessment and intervention for the airway, respiration and central circulation.

    Information: Course meets American Heart Association guidelines for the healthcare provider level. May be taken six times for a maximum of three credit hours. If this course is repeated, see a financial aid or Veteran’s Affairs advisor to determine funding eligibility as appropriate.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Define the disease states and risk factors, which can lead to cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and stroke.
    2. Demonstrate the assessment and management of a foreign body airway obstruction in the infant, child and adult patient.
    3. Demonstrate the assessment and management of respiratory arrest in the infant, child and adult patient.
    4. Demonstrate the assessment and management of cardiac arrest in the infant, child and adult patient.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Identify the major body systems associated with respiration and central circulation.
    2. Define the disease states and risk factors, which can lead to cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and stroke.
    3. Restate the signs and symptoms of a heart attack.
    4. Explain how to activate the Emergency Medical Services System.
    5. List several ways to “child proof” the home to prevent childhood injury.
    6. Discuss injury prevention for infants and children.
    7. Demonstrate the assessment and management of a foreign body airway obstruction in the infant, child and adult patient.
    8. Demonstrate the assessment and management of respiratory arrest in the infant, child and adult patient.
    9. Demonstrate the assessment and management of cardiac arrest in the infant, child and adult patient.

    Outline:
    1. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Steps
      1. When to start CPR
      2. When to give breaths, including with barrier devices
      3. When to check for a pulse
      4. How to give compressions at the proper depth and rate and with complete chest recoil
      5. When to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
    2. Signs and actions for severe airway obstruction
      1. Responsive victims
      2. Unresponsive victims
    3. Links in the Chain of Survival and Importance
      1. Activating the appropriate emergency response system
      2. Performing CPR
      3. Providing early defibrillation
      4. Ensuring the arrival of early advanced care by activating the appropriate emergency response system
    4. Signs of 4 Common Life-Threatening Emergencies in Adults
      1. Cardiac arrest
      2. Choking
      3. Stroke
      4. Heart attack
    5. Injury Prevention
      1. Infants
      2. Children
    6. Manikin Demonstration of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction
      1. Assessment
      2. Management
    7. Manikin Demonstration of Rescue Breathing
      1. Infants
      2. Children
      3. Adult patient
    8. Manikin Demonstration of CPR
      1. Infants
      2. Children
    9. Manikin Demonstration of the Adult Patient
      1. One CPR
      2. Two rescue CPR


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 170 - Advanced Life Support Operations

    1.5 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    1.25 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Introduction to skills necessary to assess, extricate, and care for victims of crash incidents. Includes exposure to scene management skills to include size-up, disentanglement, victim stabilization for single and multi-victim situations, hazardous materials incidents, integration of local emergency medical services (EMS) for patient assessment and management, and standard operating procedures to selected victim scenarios.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to assess victims of crash incidents.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to extricate victims of crash incidents.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to care for victims of crash incidents.
    4. Utilize the following management skills;
      1. scene size-up
      2. disentanglement
      3. victim stabilization for single and multi-victim situations
      4. hazardous materials incident
      5. integration of local emergency medical services (EMS) for patient assessment and management standard operating procedures to selected victim scenarios.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Identify current local and state standards which influence ambulance design, equipment requirements, and staffing of ambulances.
    2. List the guidelines and standards that help ensure safe and effective ground and air medical transport.
    3. Identify the principles of general incident management techniques in order to function effectively at major incidents.
    4. Describe the role and function of command managing a major medical incident.
    5. Differentiate and list the types of TRIAGE levels.
    6. Define Critical Incident Stress Management.
    7. List the principles of rescue awareness and operations to safely rescue a patient from water, hazardous atmospheres, trenches, highways, and hazardous terrain.
    8. Identify hazardous materials emergencies.
    9. Identify the poisonous gases commonly found in confined spaces.
    10. Describe the human hazard of crime and violence and the safe operation at crime scenes and other emergencies.

    Outline:
    1. Ambulance Operations
      1. Ambulance standards, statutes, and operations
      2. Checking ambulances
      3. Ambulance stationing
      4. Safe ambulance operation
    2. Utilizing Air Medical Transport
      1. Types
      2. Advantages
      3. Disadvantages
      4. Activation
      5. Indications
      6. Patient transfer
    3. Medical Incident Command System (ICS)
      1. Need for ICS
      2. FEMA ICS
      3. ICS elements
        1. Command
        2. Finance
        3. Logistics
        4. Operations
        5. Planning
        6. Role and functions of command
        7. Group or sector functions
      4. Preplanning
      5. Drills and critiques
    4. On-scene Physicians in Multiple Causality Incident (MCI) Management
      1. Triage
        1. Principles
        2. Techniques
      2. Treatment
      3. Medical direction
    5. Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and MCIs
      1. CISM in personnel exposed to major events
      2. CISM debriefing
      3. Access to defusing during the MCI
      4. Role of debriefing for an MCI
      5. Access to debriefing
    6. Role of ALS in Rescue Operations
      1. Definition of rescue
      2. Phases of a rescue operation
    7. Rescuer Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
      1. Rescuer protection
      2. Head, eye, hearing, hand, and foot protection
      3. Flame and flash protection
      4. Personal flotation devices (PFD)
      5. Visibility
      6. Extended, remote or wilderness protection
    8. Surface Water Rescue
      1. Moving water and common hazards
      2. Flat water
      3. Water temperature
      4. Cold protective response
      5. Scenario options for water rescue training
    9. Hazardous Atmospheres
      1. Oxygen deficient environments
      2. Confined spaces
      3. Safe entry
      4. Trenches and cave-ins
    10. Hazardous Terrain
      1. Types of hazardous terrain
      2. Patient access in hazardous terrain
      3. Patient packaging
      4. Patient movement
      5. Use of helicopters in hazardous terrain rescue
    11. Highway Operations
      1. Hazards in highway operations
      2. Auto anatomy
      3. Rescue strategies
      4. Vehicle rescue
        1. Stabilization of vehicles
        2. Gaining access
        3. Package and extricate simulated patients
        4. Hydraulic equipment
      5. Assessment procedures
    12. Role of ALS in Hazardous Materials Response
      1. Toxicologic risk
      2. Decontamination methods and approaches
        1. Purpose
        2. Environmental considerations
        3. Methods
        4. Decision-making
      3. Treatment
      4. Transportation
      5. NFPA levels of response
      6. Monitoring
    13. Hazardous Materials Size-up
      1. Identification
      2. Issues
    14. Contamination and Toxicology Review
      1. Types of contamination
      2. How poisons are absorbed
      3. Cycle of poison actions
      4. Poison actions
      5. Treatment
    15. Medical Monitoring and Rehabilitation
    16. Hazard Awareness Control and Avoidance
      1. Determining the need
      2. Approach to the scene
      3. Specific dangerous scenes
      4. Violent groups and situations
    17. Tactical Considerations for Safety and Patient Care
      1. Tactics for safety
      2. Tactical patient care
    18. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at Crime Scenes
      1. Definition
      2. Evidence
      3. Preserving evidence
      4. Documentation


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 205 - ALS Pharmacology and Medication Administration

    3.5 Credits, 4.5 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 1.5 lab periods

    Elements of pharmacological agents and their administration. Includes basic pharmacological background and actions of drugs, regulations, human body systems, and pharmacokinetics. Also includes medications for patient in an emergency setting, and pharmacological mathematics.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Describe basic pharmacological background.
    2. Describe the actions of drugs, regulations, and human body systems.
    3. Define pharmacokinetics.
    4. Show evidence of understanding how to do drug calculations.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Differentiate among the chemical, generic, and trade names of a drug.
    2. List the four main sources of drug products.
    3. Describe how drugs are classified.
    4. Discuss standardization of drugs.
    5. Discuss special consideration in drug treatment with regard to pregnant, pediatric, and geriatric patients.
    6. Discuss the ALS professional’s responsibilities and scope of management pertinent to the administration of medications.
    7. List and describe general properties of drugs.
    8. List and differentiate routes of drug administration.
    9. List and differentiate the phases of drug activity, including the pharmaceutical, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic phases.
    10. List and describe drugs that the ALS professional may administer according to local protocol.
    11. Identify the mathematical principles used in pharmacology.
    12. Differentiate temperature readings between the Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales.
    13. Describe the indications, equipment needed, technique used, precautions, and general principles of peripheral venous or external jugular cannulation.
    14. Discuss legal aspects affecting medication administration.
    15. Discuss the “six rights” of drug administration and correlate these with the principles of medication administration.
    16. Describe medical asepsis and the differences between clean and sterile techniques.
    17. List the uses of antiseptics and disinfectants.
    18. Describe body substance isolation.
    19. Describe the equipment needed, techniques used, complications, and general principles for the preparation and administration of Parenteral medications.
    20. Describe the purpose, equipment needed, techniques used, complications, and general principles for obtaining a blood sample.
    21. Identify the steps to disposal of contaminated items and sharps.

    Outline:
    1. Historical Trends in Pharmacology
    2. Pharmacology: Names of Drugs
      1. Chemical name
      2. Generic name
      3. Trade name
      4. Official name
    3. Sources of Drugs
      1. Plants
      2. Animals
      3. Minerals
      4. Chemical
    4. United States Legislation Impact: Schedule of Controlled Substances
      1. Schedule I
      2. Schedule II
      3. Schedule III
      4. Schedule IV
      5. Schedule V
    5. Other Drug Areas
      1. Standardization of drugs
      2. Investigational drugs
      3. Special considerations in drug therapy
      4. Pregnancy
      5. Pediatric patients
      6. Geriatric patients
      7. Scope of management
    6. Autonomic Pharmacology
      1. Nervous system
      2. Peripheral nervous system
      3. Autonomic nervous system
      4. Sympathetic influences
      5. Neurochemical transmission
    7. Properties, Forms, Routes, Mechanism, and Pharmacokinetics
      1. General properties of drugs
      2. Drug forms
      3. Liquid
      4. Solid
      5. Gas
      6. Routes of drug administration
        1. Inhalation
        2. Parenteral
        3. Endotracheal
      7. Mechanism of drug action
      8. Pharmacokinetics
        1. Absorption
        2. Distribution
        3. Biotransformation
        4. Excretion
    8. Other Drug Areas
      1. Classifications of drugs
      2. Mathematical equivalents used in pharmacology
        1. Metric system
        2. Fahrenheit scale
        3. Celsius scale
        4. Converting between Fahrenheit and Celsius
      3. Calculating drug dosages
        1. Methods
        2. Dosages
      4. Medical direction
      5. Principles of medication administration
        1. Responsibility
        2. “six rights”
      6. Medical Asepsis
      7. Universal precautions and Body Substance Isolation (BSI) in medication administration
      8. Venous access
        1. Intravenous cannulation
        2. Intraosseous
      9. Medication administration by the inhalation route
      10. Enteral medication administration
      11. Parental administration of medications
      12. Obtaining a blood sample
      13. Disposal of contaminated items and sharps


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2021/2022
  
  • EMT 214 - ALS Advanced Special Considerations

    2 Credits, 2.5 Contact Hours
    1.75 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Advanced life support skills approach to emergency care of the emotionally disturbed. Includes emotional aspects, approach to the patient, and psychiatric emergencies. Also includes techniques of management and demonstration of skills within a simulated hospital environment.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the advanced life support skills approach to emergency care of the emotionally disturbed.
    2. Recognize the emotional aspects in an emergency situation with a special needs patient.
    3. Demonstrate the steps to approach patients with special considerations.
    4. Identify psychiatric emergencies and techniques of management.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Define behavior and distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior.
    2. Discuss the prevalence of behavior and psychiatric disorders.
    3. Discuss the psychopathology of behavioral and psychiatric disorders.
    4. List and describe the categories of abuse.
    5. Describe the characteristics associated with the profile of the typical abuser of a spouse, elder, child, or sexual assault.
    6. Identify community resources that are able to assist victims of abuse and assault.
    7. Differentiate the various etiologies and types of hearing impairments.
    8. Describe mental illnesses.
    9. Describe the various etiologies and types of speech impairments.
    10. List pathologies and complications typical to home care patients.
    11. Discuss the rights of the terminally ill.

    Outline:
    1. Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders
      1. Behavior
      2. Epidemiology
      3. Psychopathology
      4. Assessment
      5. Specific behavioral and psychiatric disorders
        1. Cognitive disorders
        2. Schizophrenia
        3. Anxiety disorders
        4. Mood disorders
        5. Substance related disorders
        6. Somatoform disorders
        7. Factitious disorders
        8. Dissociative disorders
        9. Eating disorders
        10. Impulse control disorders
        11. Personality disorders
      6. Special behavioral problems
        1. The suicidal patient
        2. The violent patient
        3. Behavioral problems in children
    2. Abuse and Assault
      1. Epidemiology
      2. The battered spouse
        1. Battered women
        2. Battered men
        3. Homosexual relationships
        4. Identifying the battered patient
        5. Approaching the battered patient
        6. Legal considerations
        7. Victim-witness assistance programs
      3. The abused elder
      4. The abused child
        1. Overview
        2. Characteristics of abusers
        3. Characteristics of the abused child
        4. Physical examination
      5. Sexual assault
        1. Overview
        2. Legal aspect of sexual assault
        3. Characteristics of sexual assault
        4. Psychosocial aspect of care
        5. The child victim
    3. Patients with Special Challenges
      1. Physical challenges
        1. Hearing impairments
        2. Visual impairments
        3. Speech impairments
        4. Obesity
        5. Paraplegia and quadriplegia
        6. Other physically challenged patients
      2. Mental challenges
        1. Mental illness
        2. Developmental disabilities
        3. Emotional impairments
        4. Emotional and Mental Impairments (EMI)           
      3. Pathological challenges
        1. Arthritis
        2. Cancer (malignant tumor)
        3. Cerebral palsy
        4. Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis)
        5. Multiple sclerosis
        6. Muscular dystrophy
        7. Poliomyelitis
        8. Patients with previous head injuries
        9. Spina bifida
        10. Myasthenia gravis
      4. Culturally diverse patients
        1. Variables
        2. Recognition
        3. Accommodations
      5. Terminally ill patients
        1. Variables
        2. Accommodations
      6. Patients with communicable diseases
        1. Review of etiologies
        2. Accommodations
      7. Financial challenges
    4. Acute Interventions for the Chronic Care Patient
      1. Epidemiology of home care
      2. Types of home care patients
      3. General system pathophysiology
      4. Assessment
      5. Management and treatment plan
      6. Specific acute home health situations
        1. Inadequate respiratory support
        2. Acute cardiovascular and vascular access
        3. Gastrointestinal and genitourinary (gi/gu) crisis
        4. Acute infections
        5. Maternal and child
        6. Hospice and comfort care


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 218 - Paramedic National Registry Preparation

    3 Credits, 6 Contact Hours
    1.5 lecture periods 4.5 lab periods

    Review and preparation in standards of paramedic emergency care at the state and national levels. Includes developing testing skills and questions related to assessment, analysis, intervention or evaluation. Also includes each component of the Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic National Standard Curriculum.

    Information: Acceptance into a Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the cognitive (knowledge) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities.
    2. Demonstrate the psychomotor (skills) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities.
    3. Demonstrate the affective (behavior) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the procedures that National Registry uses to test Paramedics.
    2. List the subject areas included in the National Registry written test.  
    3. Perform an assessment, identify, and treat a trauma victim.
    4. Complete oral board medical patient scenarios.
    5. Initiate and maintain an advanced airway on an adult mannequin.
    6. Identify cardiac rhythms and implement the appropriate treatment during static and dynamic cardiac station.
    7. Initiate an IV on a mannequin and administer a medication bolus.
    8. Obtain and maintain an advanced airway on a pediatric mannequin.
    9. Initiate an Intra Osseous (I.O.) line on a pediatric mannequin.
    10. Package for transport a supine and seated simulated patient having cervical and spinal injuries.
    11. Identify and treat bleeding, wounds, and shock on a simulated patient.

    Outline:
    1. National Registry Overview
      1. Certification requirements
      2. Re-certification
      3. Written exam
      4. Practical exams
      5. Re-testing
    2. Trauma Assessment
      1. Scene safety
      2. Transport decision
      3. Treatment
    3. Oral Board Medical Assessment
      1. Scene safety
      2. Transport decision
      3. Treatment
    4. Ventilatory Management
      1. Endotracheal intubation
      2. Dual lumen intubation
    5. Cardiac Management
      1. Static
      2. Dynamic
    6. IV and Medication Skills
      1. Establishment of patent IV
      2. Administration of appropriate medication
    7. Pediatric Skills
      1. Intra Osseous ( I.O.)
      2. Ventilatory management
    8. Random Skills
      1. Supine spinal immobilization
      2. Seated spinal immobilization
      3. Bleeding, wounds and shock


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2021/2022
  
  • EMT 219 - ALS Foundations

    1 Credits, 1 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 0 lab periods

    Introduction to the Advanced Life Support (ALS) career field. Includes roles and responsibilities, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) components, well being, illness and injury prevention, ethics, medical and legal considerations.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify the roles and responsibilities of an Emergency Medical Technician.
    2. Identify the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) components to include:
      1. Well-being
      2. Illness and injury prevention
      3. Ethics
      4. Medical and legal considerations.
    3. Identify the credentialing and regulatory organizations within the industry.
    4. Identify the components of initial and continuing education requirements.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the role of the ALS professional today as compared to the “ambulance driver” of yesterday.
    2. Describe key historical events that influenced the development of National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems.
    3. List the EMS provider levels.
    4. Identify the benefits of national EMS group involvement.
    5. Explain the components of education, both initial and continuing, for ALS professionals.
    6. Describe the recognized levels of EMS training and education leading to licensure and certification in Arizona.
    7. Describe the attributes of professionalism that are applied to the role of ALS professional.
    8. Identify the responsibilities of the ALS professional.
    9. Describe the role of the EMS physician in providing medical direction.
    10. Identify a system for continually evaluating and improving care.
    11. Analyze the role of continuous quality improvement with respect to continuing medical education and research.
    12. Identify the three components of wellness.
    13. Define Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).
    14. Describe the common needs when dealing with death and dying.
    15. Identify ways to prevent disease transmission.
    16. Identify and define terms used with epidemiology.
    17. Describe the leadership activities of the ALS professional.
    18. Identify the legal issues involved in the decision not to transport a patient.
    19. Synthesize ethical concepts and apply to different environments.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Role of the ALS professional today
      2. Professional activities
      3. Roles and responsibilities
    2. Current EMS System
      1. Network of coordinated services
      2. Work as a unified whole
      3. Standards of an EMS system
      4. EMS system operation
      5. EMS provider levels
    3. National EMS Group Involvement
      1. Development, education, and implementation of EMS
      2. Benefits of involvement
      3. Roles of various EMS standard setting groups
      4. Licensure
      5. Certification
      6. Registration
      7. Education
      8. Professionalism
      9. System Quality: Continuous Improvement
    4. Medical Direction
      1. Services provided
      2. Physician extension
      3. Physician authority
      4. Role of the EMS physician
      5. Benefits of medical direction
      6. Interacting with a physician on scene
    5. EMS Research
      1. Benefits of research
      2. Basic principles
      3. Conducting research
      4. Examples
      5. EMS providers and their role in data collection
      6. Evaluating and interpreting research
    6. Wellness
      1. Components
      2. Implementing lifestyle changes
      3. Enhancing personal wellness
    7. Stress
      1. Phases of stress response
      2. Triggers of stress response
      3. Physiological and psychological effects
      4. Causes of stress in EMS
      5. Reactions to stress
      6. Stress management techniques
      7. Critical incident stress management (CISM)
    8. Dealing with Death, Dying, Grief and Loss
      1. Patient and family needs
      2. ALS Professional needs
      3. Developmental considerations
    9. Preventing Disease Transmission
      1. Terminology
      2. Common sources of exposure
      3. Protection from air/ blood borne pathogens
      4. Periodic risk assessment
      5. Documenting and managing an exposure
    10. Resuscitation Issues
      1. Withholding and stopping resuscitation
      2. Advance directives
      3. Potential organ donation
      4. Death in the field
    11. Documentation
      1. Importance
      2. Patient care report
      3. Patient’s hospital record
      4. Maintaining appropriate records
    12. Ethics Overview
      1. Ethics defined
      2. Answering ethical questions
      3. The need for an out-of-hospital ethical code
      4. Ethical impact on individual practice
      5. Ethical impact on institutional practice
      6. Ethical dilemmas
      7. Ethical tests in healthcare
      8. Ethical issues in contemporary paramedic practice


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 221 - ALS Airway and Ventilation

    2 Credits, 2.50 Contact Hours
    1.75 lecture period .75 lab periods

    Techniques for establishing and/or maintaining a patient’s airway. Also includes anatomy and physiology, age specific techniques and procedures, introduction to respiratory pharmacology and respiratory drug profiling.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify the anatomy of the respiratory system at differing ages.
    2. Identify the respiratory system physiology at different ages.
    3. Demonstrate age specific techniques and procedures in order to establish and/or maintain a patient’s airway.
    4. Properly administer respiratory pharmacology for specific conditions and age’s.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Explain the roles and responsibilities of the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Professional within an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system while establishing and or maintaining a patent airway, ventilation, and providing oxygenation.
    2. Identify and explain the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system as it relates to the other levels of body organization, pathophysiology, patient assessment, management, and age-related considerations.
    3. List and explain the age-specific indications, contraindications, special considerations, the safe and precise techniques and procedures for opening an airway, suctioning, utilizing basic airway adjuncts, utilizing advanced airway adjuncts, invasive airway and ventilation management, oxygen delivery devices and oxygen therapy, auto-transport ventilators.
    4. List and explain the naming of drugs, classifications, sources, regulations, the profiling, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of respiratory drugs.
    5. Describe and perform the techniques to safely and precisely gain access for medication administration via the respiratory system.
    6. Develop a drug profile for common respiratory emergency drugs and patient-prescribed medications.
    7. Formulate a field impression, develop and implement a treatment plan for a patient requiring airway and ventilation management and oxygen therapy.
    8. Discuss common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate your role and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders. 

    Outline:
    1. Roles and Responsibilities for Airway and Ventilation Management and Oxygen Therapy
      1. Priorities in managing airway, breathing, and circulation
      2. Scopes of practice and standards of care for the Intermediate EMT
      3. Medical direction, guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
      4. Medical-legal aspects in performing invasive procedures
      5. Safety precautions
    2. Anatomy and Physiology
      1. Medical terms (prefixes, suffixes, and common root words) as they relate to the respiratory system
      2. Respiratory system
      3. Pathophysiology and impacts of airway and ventilation compromise on the chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, organ-systems, and organism levels of body organization
      4. Homeostasis and the compensatory mechanisms involving all levels of body organization
      5. Pediatric respiratory considerations
    3. Age Specific Techniques and Procedures
      1. Opening an airway
      2. Suctioning
      3. Utilizing basic airway adjuncts
      4. Utilizing advanced airway adjuncts
      5. Invasive airway and ventilation management
      6. Oxygen delivery devices and oxygen therapy
      7. Auto-transport ventilators
      8. Transtracheal jet insufflation
    4. Introduction to Respiratory Pharmacology
      1. Names, classifications, sources, regulations, forms, and the profiling of drugs
      2. Pharmacokinetics
      3. Pharmacodynamics
    5. Routes of Medication Administration via the Respiratory System
      1. The “rights” and routes of medication administration
      2. The anatomy, indications and contraindications, preparation, techniques, safety and implementation for drugs administered by:
        1. Nasally
        2. Orally
        3. Metered-dose inhalers and small volume nebulizer
        4. Endotracheal tube
    6. Respiratory Drug Profiling
      1. Emergency drug profiles
        1. Name(s) and classification(s)
        2. Dosage forms, packaging, and standard supply
        3. Mechanism(s) of action, distribution, metabolism, elimination and common organ-systems effects
        4. Desired and undesired effects
        5. Indications, contraindications, and adverse reactions for field use
        6. Age-dependent doses and routes of administration
        7. Route and health-dependent onset, half-life, peak, and duration of drug action
        8. Medication preparation
        9. Special considerations
      2. Profiles of patient-prescribed medications
      3. Profiles of homeopathic medications
    7. Medication Preparation and Administration
      1. Pharmacology mathematics
      2. Drug administration
    8. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2021/2022
  
  • EMT 222 - ALS Patient Assessment and Assessment Based Management

    2 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    1.5 lecture periods 1.5 lab periods

    Skills to take a proper history and perform an advanced physical assessment on an emergency patient, and communicate the findings to the patient and others. Includes the physical exam, integrative and on-going exams, communications and documentation. Also includes the implementation of a management plan for patients with common complaints and injuries, dispatch scenarios, scene size-up and forming impressions.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Perform an advanced physical assessment on an emergency patient.
    2. Perform integrative and on-going exams after treatment modalities have been administered,
    3. Communicate the findings to the patient and others health care providers
    4. Document the findings and your treatment.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Utilize the appropriate techniques to obtain a medical history from a patient, addressing age-specific considerations.
    2. Explain the significance of physical exam findings commonly found in emergency situations and address age-specific considerations.
    3. Integrate the principles of history taking and techniques of the physical exam to perform a patient assessment on an emergency patient.
    4. Apply a process of clinical decision making to use the assessment findings to help form a field impression.
    5. Identify an accepted format for the dissemination of patient information in verbal form, over the radio and in person.
    6. Document the essential elements of patient assessment, care, and transport, along with special considerations and operations.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to integrate your role and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.
    8. Properly communicate, prepare for, and respond to an emergency based on the dispatch information.
    9. Perform a scene size-up, stage for safety, call for the necessary resources, and gain safe access to the patient(s).
    10. Form a generalized impression and make a transport decision based on the initial patient size-up.
    11. Utilize assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient suffering from an illness and injury.
    12. Communicate and document the assessment and management of a patient suffering from an illness and injury.

    Outline:
    1. Patient Assessment Introduction and the Focused History Assessment
      1. The flow of a patient exam and transport decision making
      2. Human growth and development
      3. Therapeutic communications
      4. The scene survey
      5. Obtaining a focused history involving specific age and developmental considerations, as well as utilizing historians, scene evidence, alert devices, documentation and advanced directives
      6. Forming a general field impression and developing and implementing a treatment plan for a patient based on the historical findings
    2. The Physical Exam
      1. The initial exam (primary and secondary)
      2. Age-specific initial vital signs
      3. The focused physical exam and secondary vital signs
      4. The on-going physical exam
      5. Medical emphasis in performing the physical exam
      6. Performing the physical exam on a trauma patient
      7. The integrative physical patient exam
    3. The Integrative and On-going Exam
      1. Preparatory activities
      2. Integrative history, initial, physical, and on-going exams
      3. Unexpected changes in patient condition
      4. Transport considerations
    4. Clinical Decision Making and Formulating a Field Impression
      1. The dispatch
      2. Special scene hazards and operations
      3. Infectious diseases and body-substance isolation
      4. The mechanism of illness/injury
      5. The focused history and physical findings
      6. The medical emergency
      7. The trauma patient
      8. Integration
    5. Communications
      1. The patient cycle, chain of survival and the importance of communication
      2. Communications equipment/systems
      3. Emergency medical dispatch
      4. Radio communications techniques, terminology and codes
      5. Biotelemetry
      6. The patient report
      7. Special considerations in communications
      8. Medical-legal considerations
    6. Documentation
      1. Purpose
      2. The patient report and format
      3. Attachments, amendments, and transfer
      4. Legal abbreviations, correct spelling, and legibility
      5. Special considerations and scene operations
      6. Medical-legal considerations
    7. Integration
      1. Current trends
      2. Changes
    8. Demonstration of Skills and Knowledge Competencies
      1. Proper communications
      2. Prepare the proper resources
      3. Prepare age-specific criteria involving anticipated patient care
    9. The Scene Size-up
      1. Call for and utilize the proper resources
      2. Approach and safely gain access to the patient with the proper equipment
    10. Forming a Generalized Impression
      1. Determine patient stability
      2. Make a transport decision
    11. Field Impression and Treatment Implementation
      1. Formulate a field impression
      2. Implement a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury
    12. Assessment and Management of Patient Care
      1. Communication
      2. Documentation


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 223 - ALS Trauma Emergencies and Systems

    2.5 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    2.25 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Techniques to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the trauma or shock patient. Includes shock, burn injuries, and isolated and multi-systems trauma.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes

    1.      Formulate a field impression of a trauma patient.

    2.      Implement a field treatment plan for a trauma patient through a systemic approach.

    3.      Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with a burn injury.

    4.      Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with the isolated/ multi-systems trauma.

    5.      Discuss common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.


    Performance Objectives:

    1.      Apply the principles of kinematics to enhance the patient assessment and predict the likelihood of injuries based on the patient’s mechanism of injury.

    2.      Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient in shock.

    3.      Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with a burn injury.

    4.      Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with isolated/multi-systems trauma.

    5.      Discuss common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.


    Outline:

    I.        Introduction and the Kinematics of Trauma

    A.     Definition of trauma and societal impacts

    B.     Mechanisms of injury and building on the indices of suspicion

    C.     Age-specific and cultural considerations

    D.     Mechanisms of illnesses and injuries

    E.     Field impressions, treatment plans, communications and transport decisions

    F.      Guidelines, protocols, standing orders, and the trauma network

    II.       Shock

    A.     Overview

    B.     Pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization

    C.     Stages and signs and symptoms of shock

    D.     Shock classifications and assessment and management-specific criteria for the different classifications of shock

    E.     Age-specific and cultural considerations

    F.      Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the shock patient

    G.     Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders

    III.      Burn Injuries

    A.     Definition, mechanisms, and classifications

    B.     Pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization

    C.     Assessment and management-specific criteria for the different classifications of burn injuries

    D.     Age-specific and cultural considerations

    E.     Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the burn patient

    F.      Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders

    IV.      Isolated and Multi-systems Trauma

    A.     Head and facial injuries

    B.     Spinal cord injuries

    C.     Thoracic trauma

    D.     Abdominal-pelvic injuries

    E.     Musculo-skeletal trauma

    F.      Multi-systems trauma

    G.     Medical insult and trauma

    H.     Age-specific and cultural considerations

    I.       Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the burn patient

    J.      Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders

    V.      Integration

    A.     Current trends and changes

    B.     Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2019/2020
  
  • EMT 224 - ALS Medical Emergencies

    4 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    3.5 lecture periods 1.5 lab periods

    Introduction to the utilization of assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the medical patient. Includes respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, endocrine, allergic, toxic, abdominal and urologic, environmental, behavioral and gynecological emergencies.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Perform a pragmatic approach for a medical patient.
    2. Assessment and manage a medical patient through a formulation of a general impression.
    3. Determine the patient’s stability.
    4. Identify the possibilities of differential diagnoses and treatment plans.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Utilize findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with respiratory emergencies.
    2. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular emergencies.
    3. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with neurological emergencies.
    4. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with endocrine emergencies.
    5. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with an allergic and or anaphylactic reaction.
    6. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with a toxic exposure.
    7. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with abdominal-pelvic emergencies.
    8. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with environmentally induced or exacerbated emergencies.
    9. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with behavioral emergencies.
    10. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with gynecological emergencies.
    11. Discuss common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Respiratory Emergencies
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Respiratory pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different respiratory emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with respiratory difficulties
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    2. Cardiovascular Emergencies       
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Cardiac, hematological, and vascular pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different cardiac, hematological, and vascular emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with cardiovascular emergencies
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    3. Neurological Emergencies
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Neurological pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different neurological emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with neurological emergencies
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    4. Endocrine Emergencies
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Endocrine pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different endocrine emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with endocrine emergencies
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    5. Allergies and Anaphylaxis
      1. Anatomy and physiology of the immune system
      2. Immune system pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for generalized allergies
      4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for anaphylaxis
      5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for sepsis
      6. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      7. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with neurological emergencies
      8. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    6. Toxic Exposures
      1. Toxins, routes of exposures, and societal impacts
      2. Review of anatomy and physiology for immune responses and homeostasis
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for ingested poisons
      4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for inhaled poisons
      5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for injected poisons
      6. Assessment and management-specific criteria for envenomation
      7. Assessment and management-specific criteria for surface-absorbed poisons
      8. Assessment and management-specific criteria for radiation exposures
      9. Classification, identification, safety protocols, and management of hazardous scenes
      10. Assessment and management of patients exposed to hazardous materials
      11. Mass casualty incidents and triage
      12. Weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons
    7. Abdominal and Urologic Emergencies
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different abdominal-pelvic emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with abdominal-pelvic emergencies
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    8. Environmental Emergencies
      1. Homeostasis and thermal regulation
      2. Thermal emergencies
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for specific thermal emergencies
      4. Water-related emergencies
      5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for drowning and aspiration emergencies
      6. Electrocution and lightning strikes
      7. Assessment and management-specific criteria for electrocution and triage
      8. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      9. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for patients suffering from an environmental emergency
      10. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    9. Behavioral Disorders, Crisis Prevention and Intervention
      1. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
      2. Pathophysiology
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different behavioral emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Safety approach, de-escalation, and non-harmful restraint of the acting-out patient
      6. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with behavioral emergencies
      7. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    10. Gynecological Emergencies
      1. Anatomy and physiology
      2. Pathophysiology
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different gynecological emergencies
      4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with gynecological emergencies
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    11. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 225 - ALS Special Medical Considerations

    2.5 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    2.25 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Introduction to special medical consideration concepts. Includes utilizing assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for obstetric, neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, and chronic-care patients.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Utilize assessment findings to formulate a field impression.
    2. Identify the treatment plan for obstetric, neonatal, and pediatric patients.
    3. Identify the treatment plan for geriatric patients.
    4. Identify the treatment plan for chronic-care patients.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the management of a normal and abnormal labor.
    2. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the management of the healthy neonate, premature infant, and the infant in need of resuscitation.
    3. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient.
    4. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the geriatric patient in need of emergent medical or long-term care/assistance.
    5. Discuss common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Obstetrics
      1. Maternal anatomy and physiology
      2. Stages of labor
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for an uncomplicated, natural childbirth
      4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for antepartum emergencies
      5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for postpartum emergencies
      6. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with a normal and abnormal pregnancy
      7. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    2. Neonatal Emergencies
      1. Fetal and neonatal anatomy and physiology
      2. Assessment and management-specific criteria for the healthy neonate
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for neonatal resuscitation
      4. Special considerations involving neonatal resuscitation
      5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the neonate
      6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    3. Pediatric Emergencies
      1. Stages, behavioral and developmental characteristics, and cultural considerations of human growth and development
      2. Assessment and management considerations of the pediatric patient
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different respiratory emergencies
      4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for cardiovascular emergencies
      5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for neurological emergencies
      6. Assessment and management-specific criteria for diabetic emergencies
      7. Assessment and management-specific criteria for sepsis and dehydration
      8. Assessment and management-specific criteria for toxic and environmental exposures
      9. Assessment and management-specific criteria for sudden infant death syndrome
      10. Pediatric shock
      11. Pediatric trauma and soft tissue injuries
      12. Children with special health-care needs
      13. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the pediatric patient
      14. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    4. Geriatrics
      1. Anatomy and physiology of aging
      2. Cultural and legal considerations dealing with lifestyles, death and dying
      3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for common geriatric emergencies
      4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for common injuries involving the elderly
      5. Special considerations and complications involving the assessment and management for the elderly and chronic-care patients
      6. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the geriatric patient
      7. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
    5. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 227LC - ALS Practicum: Clinical Lab-Emergency Room

    1.5 Credits, 4.5 Contact Hours
    0 lecture periods 4.5 lab periods

    Techniques for performing skills and completing documentation in accordance with established guidelines, orders, and protocols for critical care, emergency department, labor and delivery, pediatrics, and other specialty units. Includes applying skills associated to the scope of practice for the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Professional.

    Information: Acceptance into an Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify skills appropriate to the scope of practice for the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Professional.
    2. Apply skills to patients under medical supervision in accordance with established protocols.
    3. Utilize techniques for performing and documenting in the following areas: critical care, emergency, labor and delivery.
    4. Utilize techniques for performing and documenting in the pediatrics and specialty unit areas.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate the cognitive (knowledge) learning domain while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
    2. Demonstrate the psychomotor (skills) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
    3. Demonstrate the affective (behavior) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to lead and work as a team in a patient care setting.

    Outline:
    1. Critical Care Unit
      1. Cardiac Catheter Lab
      2. Newborn Intensive Care
      3. Operating Room
      4. Pediatric Intensive Care
      5. Other intensive care units
    2. Emergency Department
      1. Main
      2. Pediatrics
      3. Trauma
      4. Triage
    3. Labor and Delivery
      1. Main
      2. Nursery
    4. Pediatrics
      1. Unit
      2. Department
    5. Specialty Units
      1. Anesthesiology and post anesthesiology
      2. Cardiac telemetry
      3. Emergency Medical Dispatch Center
      4. Psychiatry


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 228LC - ALS Practicum: Vehicular Lab-Team Member

    2 Credits, 6 Contact Hours
    0 lecture periods 6 lab periods

    ALS vehicular lab concepts. Includes techniques for performing and documenting in accordance with established guidelines, orders, and protocols, and acting within the scope of practice of the ALS Professional and under medical supervision during a vehicular lab.

    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify skills appropriate to the ALS Professional scope of practice in the pre-hospital setting.
    2. Apply skills to patients under medical supervision in the pre-hospital setting and in accordance with established protocols.
    3. Complete training with teams of qualified personnel on the ambulance, under the supervision of a qualified preceptor.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate the cognitive (knowledge) learning domain while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (pre-hospital setting) as well as case based scenario labs.
    2. Demonstrate the psychomotor (skills) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (pre-hospital setting) as well as case based scenario labs.
    3. Demonstrate the affective (behavior) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (pre hospital setting) as well as case based scenario labs.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to lead and work as a team in a patient care setting.

    Outline:
    1. Ambulance Services
      1. Municipalities
      2. Private sector
      3. Sole provider
    2. Fire and Rescue
      1. Behavioral health services
      2. Fire department
      3. Search and rescue
      4. Other rescue services


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 230 - Basic ECG Interpretation

    3 Credits, 3.4 Contact Hours
    2.8 lecture periods .6 lab periods

    Introduction to all levels of emergency care providers with basic electrocardiographic (ECG) rhythm analysis. Includes interpretation and related care in a clinical and pre-hospital setting.

    Information: Required content for the identification and treatment of cardiac emergencies. This course is designed for paramedics and paramedic students.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Interpret basic electrocardiographic (ECG) rhythm analysis.
    2. Identify related care in a clinical and pre-hospital setting.
    3. Identify cardiovascular pharmacology.
    4. Identify emergent versus non emergent cardiovascular conditions.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Identify and describe the structures of the cardiovascular system.
    2. State the causes and effects of heart disease.
    3. Identify and describe the heart’s electrical conduction system.
    4. Explain and differentiate each of the ECG waveforms.
    5. Perform basic ECG rhythm analysis, calculating rate, and rhythm.
    6. Correctly apply electrocardiograph leads and monitor.
    7. Identify each of the basic dysrhythmia.
    8. Explain the relationship between ECG waveforms and complexes and the corresponding hemodynamic response.
    9. List the treatment protocols for the patient with the basic dysrhythmia.
    10. Identify the medications used in the treatment of a patient with a cardiac emergency according to the most current America Heart Associations (AHA) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines.
    11. List the indications, contraindications, and modes of electronic pacemakers.

    Outline:
    1. Cardiovascular Anatomy
      1. Physical characteristics and functions of the heart
      2. Cardiac position and movement
      3. Chambers
    2. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology
      1. Systole and diastole
      2. Coronary circulation
      3. Vascular system
    3. Electrophysiology
      1. Properties of cardiac muscle
      2. Nervous control of the heart
      3. Monitor
      4. Lead systems
      5. Surfaces of the heart
      6. Calculations
    4. Rhythm Analysis
      1. Sinus rhythm, arrhythmia, bradycardia, tachycardia, arrest and block
      2. Junctional escape, accelerated and ectopic
      3. Atrial escape, ectopic, tachycardia, flutter and fibrillation
      4. Supraventricular, tachycardia, atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentry
      5. Premature atrial complexes with aberrant ventricular conduction
      6. Ventricular escape, ectopic, tachycardia, flutter and fibrillation
      7. Wide-complex tachycardia of uncertain origin
      8. Pulseless electrical activity
      9. Asystole
      10. Electronic pacemakers
      11. Synchronized, unsynchronized cardioversion and automatic defibrillation
    5. Causes and Hemodynamic Effects
      1. Sinus rhythm, arrhythmia, bradycardia, tachycardia, arrest, and block
      2. Junctional escape, accelerated, and ectopic
      3. Atrial escape, ectopic, tachycardia, flutter, and fibrillation
      4. Supraventricular tachycardia; atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentry
      5. Premature atrial complexes with aberrant ventricular conduction
      6. Ventricular escape, ectopic, tachycardia, flutter, and fibrillation
      7. Wide-complex tachycardia of uncertain origin
      8. Pulse less electrical activity
      9. Asystole
      10. Electronic pacemakers
      11. Synchronized, unsynchronized cardioversion, and send-automatic defibrillation
    6. Patient Interventions
      1. Mechanical
      2. Pharmacological
      3. Electrical


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 233 - Basic Cardiac Life Support Instructor

    0.75 Credits, 0.75 Contact Hours
    .75 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Concepts, techniques, and skills in how to teach the Basic Cardiac Life Support of the Heartsaver First Aid Provider course. Includes basic principles, course management, personnel issues, time and resource management, and remediation.

    Information: Provides the challenge portion of the American Heart Association (AHA) online course in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). AHA certificate is required at the beginning of class.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Define the disease states and risk factors, which can lead to cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and stroke.
    2. Demonstrate the assessment and management of a foreign body airway obstruction in the infant, child and adult patient.
    3. Demonstrate the assessment and management of respiratory arrest in the infant, child and adult patient.
    4. Demonstrate the assessment and management of cardiac arrest in the infant, child and adult patient.
    5. State the philosophy and teaching methods for the American Heart Association.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate proficiency of skills to include Basic Life Support (BLS) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Foreign Body Airway Obstruction (FBAO), and Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) operation.
    2. Demonstrate cognitive knowledge by achieving a minimum score of 90% on the Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Provider test A or B.
    3. Define adult learning.
    4. List a minimum of five factors that contribute to long-term retention.
    5. Explain the concept of lifelong learning for adults.
    6. Discuss the use of learning objectives in (BCLS) courses.
    7. State a minimum of three types of adult learning objectives.
    8. Cite a minimum of five core objectives of BCLS training.
    9. Explain how learning objectives determine learning evaluation.
    10. Differentiate types of motivation for the adult learner and participant.
    11. Indicate a minimum of three major needs of the adult learner and participant.
    12. Evaluate instructor qualities as a Basic Cardiac Life Support Instructor (BCLSI) using the instructor’s self-evaluation checklist.
    13. Discuss how changes in science result in changes in BCLS guidelines.

    Student lead performance objectives that demonstrate case-based teaching, the BCLSIC will be able to:

    1. Describe the educational philosophy behind small group case-based teaching for healthcare professionals.
    2. Tell why case-based teaching has advantages over subject-based teaching.
    3. Indicate the responsibilities and expectations of the BCLSI.
    4. Offer several helpful hints for conducting case-based teaching.
    5. Explain the important role of the BCLS Provider Manual as a tool for instructors.
    6. Practice general format for instructors and follow in small-group case discussions.
    7. Diagram the important prep steps each instructor should review before the course.
    8. Examine the role of video presentations in BCLSP courses.
    9. Relate the key steps in teaching psychomotor skills.
    10. Defend the major evaluation responsibilities of BCLSI.
    11. Perform case-based evaluation.
    12. Use the annotated exam as a teaching tool.
    13. Differentiate between certification and successful completion.
    14. Illustrate the goal of remediation in the BCLS course.

    Outline:
    1. Prove Proficiency in Skills
      1. Each instructor candidate will be tested at beginning of course in all Health Care Program (HCP) BLS skills and evaluated by Regional Faculty (RF) or Training Center Faculty (TCF).
      2. A written Provider Exam either A or B will be given and each BLSIC will pass with a score of 90% or better.
    2. Learning
      1. How to Teach
      2. Learning methods
    3. Observation
      1. Lecture
      2. Skills demonstration
      3. Peer skill observation
    4. Discussing
      1. Small group practice
      2. Interaction during lecture portion
    5. Psychomotor
      1. View video segments
      2. Practicing actual skills in stations
    6. Key Skills the BCLSI will guide Provider Candidates to learn
      1. BLS Skills
        1. Adult; pediatric and infant CPR and other related skills
        2. Basic Airway Management including Oralphyaryngeal Airway OPA;NPA; Pocket Mask; Oxygen; Basic Valve Mask (BVM)
        3. Use of AED
        4. Basic airway management
        5. FBAO management skills
          1. Following the Follow ADCDE approach
          2. How to facilitate family presence at resuscitation attempt
          3. ABCD Objectives
        6. Primary ABCD
          1. A-airway
          2. B-breathing
          3. C-circulation
          4. D-defibrillation
      2. Teaching the BCLS Algorithms
        1. Successful teaching approach
        2. Able to move in and out of different algorithms
        3. Support tools
        4. Should have immediate access to them
      3. Teaching environment
        1. Kinder, gentler BCLS
          1. Should not be intimidating atmosphere
          2. Encourage participation
          3. No embarrassment
    7. How to Direct Courses
      1. Overview of courses
        1. One day Courses
      2. Pre-course preparation
        1. Setting dates
        2. Pre-course letters out
        3. Gaining instructors
        4. AHA student to teacher ratios
      3. Conducting course
        1. Prerequisites
          1. Must be current active healthcare provider
          2. Course director has final say
          3. Current BLS card
        2. Creativity and flexibility
          1. Required video
          2. Share with others
          3. Post course critique
          4. Use course evaluations to improve
        3. Time management
          1. Select major points to cover thoroughly
          2. Don’t cram all material in if cannot do methodically
          3. Be thoughtful, creative, and flexible
        4. Stations
          1. Use skill stations for practice if lack of experience
          2. Find weakness based on job description-assist here
          3. Use small groups of six or less to one instructor
          4. Present scenarios to review teaching points
          5. Allow for ample practice time
          6. If evaluating:
            1. Should be done during practice also
            2. If demonstrates command of knowledge, no further testing is needed
          7. Use remediation station for those needing it
          8. Must be evaluated on each skill
      4. Post course evaluation
        1. Use it to improve
        2. Do not take personally
        3. Give credence to all comments
        4. Use instructors for feedback
    8. Adult Learning
      1. Define adult learning
      2. List a minimum of five factors that contribute to long-term retention
      3. Explain the concept of lifelong learning for adults
      4. Discuss the use of learning objectives in BCLS courses
      5. List a minimum of three types of adult learning objectives
      6. List a minimum of five core objectives of BCLS training
      7. Explain how learning objectives determine learning evaluation
      8. Discuss types of motivation for the adult learner and participant
      9. Discuss the major needs of the adult learner and participant
      10. Evaluate individual qualities as an BCLSI using the instructor’s self-evaluation checklist
      11. Discuss how changes in science result in changes in BCLS guidelines


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015

  
  • EMT 242 - ALS Advanced Foundations

    4 Credits, 4.50 Contact Hours
    3.75 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Continuation os EMT 219 . Foundations of skills and principles in preparing to be a paramedic. Includes medical terminology, the human body structure, and pathophysiology.

    Prerequisite(s): EMT 219  
    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Define medical terminology.
    2. Identify the human body structures.
    3. Identify physiology foundations in Paramedicine.
    4. Identify pathophysiology foundations in Paramedicine.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Discuss cellular adaptation.
    2. Describe cellular injury and cellular death.
    3. Discuss analyzing disease risk.
    4. List types of tissues.
    5. Describe the inflammation process.
    6. Describe the phases of communications necessary to complete a typical Emergency Medical Services (EMS) event.
    7. Identify the general principles regarding the importance of EMS documentation and ways in which documents are used.

    Outline:
    1. General Principles
      1. Pathophysiology
      2. ALS applications
    2. Basic Cellular Review
      1. Classes of cells
      2. Chief cellular functions
      3. Cellular components
      4. Tissue types
    3. Alterations in Cells and Tissues
      1. Cellular adaptation
      2. Cellular injury
      3. Manifestations of cellular injury
      4. Cellular death/ necrosis
    4. The Cellular Environment
      1. Aging and distribution of body fluids
      2. Water movement between Intracellular Fluids (ICF) and Extracellular Fluids (ECF)
      3. Water movement between plasma and interstitial fluid
      4. Alterations in water movement
      5. Water balance and the role of electrolytes
      6. Acid-base balances
    5. Genetics and Familial Diseases
      1. Factors causing disease
      2. Analyzing disease risk
      3. Combined effects and interaction among risk factors
      4. Common familial disease and associated risk factors
    6. Hypo Perfusion
      1. Pathogenesis
      2. Types of Shock
      3. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
      4. Cellular metabolism impairment
    7. Self-Defense Mechanisms
      1. Lines of defense
      2. Characteristics of the immune response
      3. Induction of the immune response
      4. Humoral immune response
      5. Cell-mediated immune response
      6. Cellular interactions
      7. Fetal and neonatal immune function
      8. The immune response in elderly
    8. Inflammation
      1. Acute inflammatory response
      2. Mast cells
      3. Plasma protein systems
      4. Cellular components of inflammation
      5. Cellular products
      6. Systemic responses of acute inflammation
      7. Chronic inflammation responses
      8. Local inflammation responses
      9. Phases of resolution and repair
      10. Aging and self-defense mechanisms
      11. Immunity and Inflammation Variances


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2021/2022
  
  • EMT 244 - ALS Advanced Medical Emergencies

    2.5 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    2.25 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Continuation of EMT 224 . Advanced life support techniques using pre-hospital approaches to the recognition and intervention of medical emergencies related to toxicology, infectious disease, and hematology. Includes poisoning, drug overdose, and transmission of infectious diseases.

    Prerequisite(s): EMT 224  
    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Recognize medical emergencies related to toxicology, hazardous materials, infectious disease, and hematology.
    2. Recognize the effect of poisoning, drug overdose, and transmission of infectious diseases.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to mitigate an medical emergency involving toxic substances.
    4. Demonstrate appropriate personal protection equipment application needs for toxic emergencies.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the incidence, morbidity and mortality of toxic emergencies.
    2. List the most common poisonings by inhalation.
    3. Discuss the management of toxic substances.
    4. Identify the anatomy of the hematopoietic system.
    5. Describe normal red blood cell production, function and destruction.
    6. Identify the characteristics of the inflammatory process.
    7. Apply public heath principles relevant to infectious and communicable disease.
    8. Discuss what constitutes a significant exposure to an infectious agent.
    9. Describe the specific anatomy and physiology pertinent to infectious and communicable diseases.

    Outline:
    1. Toxicology
      1. Types of toxicological emergencies
      2. Use of poison control centers
      3. Routes of absorption
      4. Poisoning by ingestion
      5. Poisoning by inhalation
      6. Poisoning by injection
      7. Poisoning by absorption
      8. Drugs abuse
      9. Alcoholism
      10. Toxic syndromes
      11. Specific toxicology, assessment and management
        1. Cocaine
        2. Marijuana and cannabis compounds
        3. Amphetamines and amphetamine-like drugs
        4. Barbiturates
        5. Sedative-hypnotics
        6. Cyanide
        7. Narcotics and opiates
        8. Cardiac medications
        9. Caustics
        10. Common household poisonings
        11. Drugs abused for sexual purposes/ sexual gratification
        12. Carbon monoxide
        13. Alcohols
        14. Hydrocarbons
        15. Psychiatric medications
        16. Non-prescription pain medications
        17. Theophylline
        18. Metals
        19. Plants and mushrooms
        20. Food poisoning
        21. Bites and stings
    2. Hematology
      1. Epidemiology
      2. Anatomy and physiology review
      3. Pathophysiology
      4. Assessment of the hematopoietic system
      5. Focused history
      6. Detailed physical examination
      7. Management
      8. Specific illnesses and injuries
        1. Anemia
        2. Leukemia
        3. Lymphomas
        4. Polycythemia
        5. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
        6. Hemophilia
        7. Sickle cell disease
        8. Multiple myeloma
        9. Integration
    3. Public Health Principles Relative to Infectious Diseases
      1. Demographic characteristics
      2. Relationships between populations
      3. Infectious disease cluster
    4. Public Health Agencies
      1. Local
      2. State
      3. Private
      4. Federal and national
    5. Exposure
      1. Infection
      2. Infectious Agents
      3. Pathogenicity
    6. Host Defense Mechanisms
      1. Nonspecific and surface defense mechanisms
      2. Overview of the immune system
      3. Immune system defenses
    7. Responsibility Relative to Isolation from Infectious Agent Exposure
      1. Healthcare agency’s exposure plan
      2. Individual responsibilities
      3. ALS Approach: Call with a Suspected Infectious or Communicable Disease
    8. Specific Infectious and Communicable Diseases
      1. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
      2. Hepatitis A
      3. Hepatitis B
      4. Hepatitis C
      5. Hepatitis non-ABC
      6. Tuberculosis
      7. Meningococcal meningitis
      8. Pneumonia
      9. Tetanus
      10. Rabies
      11. Viral diseases of childhood
        1. Chicken Pox
        2. Mumps
        3. Rubella
        4. Measles
        5. Pertussis
      12. Other viral diseases
        1. Influenza
        2. Mononucleosis
        3. Herpes simplex virus type 1
      13. Sexually transmitted diseases
        1. Syphilis
        2. Gonorrhea
        3. Chlamydia
        4. Herpes simplex virus type 2
      14. Scabies and Lice
      15. Lyme disease
      16. Gastroenteritis
    9. Reporting an Exposure to an Infectious and  Communicable Disease
      1. Definition of exposure
      2. Reporting an exposure
      3. Medical evaluation and follow up
      4. Written opinion and confidentiality
      5. Preventing disease transmission
      6. Medical and legal aspects


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 247LC - ALS Advanced Practicum: Clinical Lab-Specialized Care

    2 Credits, 6 Contact Hours
    0 lecture periods 6 lab periods

    Continuation of EMT EMT 227LC . In-hospital clinical procedures for the ALS professional. Includes placement in the clinical (hospital) setting for supervised skills application with real patients.

    Prerequisite(s): EMT 227LC  
    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is is required before enrolling in this course.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify skills appropriate to the ALS professional’s scope of practice.
    2. Apply ALS skills to patients under medical supervision in accordance with established protocols.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate the advanced cognitive (knowledge) learning domain while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
    2. Demonstrate the advanced psychomotor (skills) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
    3. Demonstrate the advanced affective (behavior) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to lead and work as a team in a patient care setting.

    Outline:
    1. Critical Care Unit
      1. Cardiac Catheter Lab
      2. Newborn Intensive Care
      3. Operating Room
      4. Pediatric Intensive Care
      5. Other Intensive Care Units
    2. Emergency Department
      1. Main
      2. Pediatrics
        1. Trauma
        2. Triage
    3. Labor and Delivery
      1. Main
      2. Nursery
    4. Pediatric
      1. Services
    5. Specialty Units
      1. Anesthesiology and post anesthesiology
      2. Cardiac telemetry
      3. Dialysis
      4. Emergency medical dispatch center
      5. Phlebotomy
      6. Psychiatry
      7. Respiratory therapy  


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 248LC - ALS Advanced Practicum: Vehicular Lab-Team Lead

    4 Credits, 12 Contact Hours
    0 lecture periods 12 lab periods

    Continuation of EMT 228LC . Pre-hospital emergency medical procedures for the ALS professional. Includes skills appropriate to the ALS scope of practice in the pre-hospital setting according to established protocols.

    Prerequisite(s): EMT 228LC  
    Information: Acceptance into the Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course. This is the capstone course for degree.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify skills appropriate for the ALS scope of practice in the pre-hospital setting.
    2. Apply ALS skills to patients under medical supervision in the pre-hospital setting in accordance with established protocols.
    3. Complete training with teams of certified ALS Preceptors on the ambulance, under the supervision of Preceptors, as well as nurses and doctors.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate the advanced cognitive (knowledge) learning domain while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (pre-hospital setting) as well as case based scenario labs.
    2. Demonstrate the advanced psychomotor (skills) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (pre-hospital setting) as well as case based scenario labs.
    3. Demonstrate the advanced affective (behavior) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (pre hospital setting) as well as case based scenario labs.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to lead and work as a team in a patient care setting.

    Outline:
    1. Ambulance Services
      1. Municipalities
      2. Private sector
      3. Sole provider
    2. Fire and Rescue
      1. Behavioral health services
      2. Fire department
      3. Search and rescue
      4. Other rescue services


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 250 - Advanced Cardiac Care

    1 Credits, 1.5 Contact Hours
    .75 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Introduction to the integration of pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation. Also includes information on cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular pathologies and management, and adjunctive diagnostics.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify pathophysiological principles of the cardiovascular system.
    2. Describe the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation.
    3. Define cardiovascular anatomy and physiology.
    4. Identify cardiovascular pathologies and management, and adjunctive diagnostics.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Identify and explain the importance for each component of the chain of survival, with special focus involving the first 10 minutes of a witnessed cardiopulmonary arrest.
    2. Describe cardiovascular disease and injury as well as the importance of basic and advanced cardiac monitoring as integrated in patient assessment and management.
    3. Identify and describe the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system throughout the levels of body organization, including mechanical and electrophysiology.
    4. Identify and explain abnormal 3-lead electrocardial tracings as they relate to pathophysiology for rhythms originating from the atria, atrio-ventrical junction, and the ventricles. 
    5. Identify and explain abnormal 12-lead electrocardial tracings and axis deviations as they relate to the anatomy and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system.
    6. Discuss common pathologies and emergency management of cardiovascular diseases and injuries utilizing electrocardial monitoring.
    7. Explain additional diagnostic assessments and tools utilized in confirming cardiovascular emergencies.
    8. Explain the importance of proper electrocardial monitoring as it relates to initial and on-going patient assessment, management, and legal documentation.
    9. Explain the proper systematic approaches in patient assessment, formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanisms of illness and injury for the patient with cardiovascular and pulmonary compromise utilizing basic skills.
    10. Explain the important role and operation of the automated external defibrillator (AED).
    11. Differentiate and explain cardioversion, defibrillation, and cardiac pacing.
    12. Identify and explain the names, classes, mechanisms, dosing, indications, contraindications, preparations, and administration of common drugs used in cardiovascular and pulmonary emergencies.
    13. Explain the proper systematic approaches in patient assessment, formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanisms of illness and injury for the patient with cardiovascular and pulmonary compromise utilizing advanced skills.
    14. Discuss current trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. The chain of survival
      2. Early defibrillation
    2. Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Monitoring
      1. Incidence and types of disease/injury
      2. Importance of cardiac monitoring and interpretation
    3. Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology
      1. The vascular system
      2. Myocardial placement, location, and positioning.
      3. Levels of body organization relating to the myocardium
      4. Myocardial circulation
      5. Electrophysiology of the heart
      6. Autonomic nervous system
    4. Normal and Abnormal 3-lead Electrocardial Tracings as They Relate to Anatomy and Pathophysiology
      1. Systematic approach to 3-lead electrocardial interpretation
      2. Sinoatrial
      3. Atrial
      4. Atrioventricular junction
      5. Ventricular
      6. Excitation rhythms
      7. Heart blocks
      8. Abnormal wave characteristics and changes
    5. 12-lead Placement, Axis Determination, Axis Deviation, and Augmented Lead Placement
      1. Systematic approach to 12-lead electrocardial interpretation
      2. Electrocardial tracings  and axis determination
      3. Electrocardial tracings and axis deviation
      4. Augmented lead placement and electrocardial tracings
    6. Cardiovascular Pathologies and Management
      1. Ischemia, injury, infarction (with normal and abnormal electrocardial tracings)
      2. Electrolyte imbalances
      3. Hypertrophy and cardial myopathies
      4. Pericarditis
      5. Trauma
      6. Thermal
      7. Neurological impacts
      8. Blocks and hemi-blocks
      9. Emboli
      10. Artifact
      11. Age-specific variants
      12. Pharmacology
    7. Adjunctive Diagnostics
      1. Physical signs and symptoms
      2. Patient medical history
      3. Comparative electrocardial analysis
      4. Blood gasses, metabolic pane, cultures, enzyme, drug levels, and clotting factors.
      5. Radiography, echocardiogram, scanning, and catheterization
    8. Special Considerations in Electrocardial Monitoring
      1. Initial 3 and 12 lead electrocardial analysis
      2. Comparative electrocardial analysis from previous tracings
      3. Electrocardial changes before, during, and after patient interventions
      4. Proper patient information and documentation
    9. Systematic Approach to Patient assessment and Management Utilizing Basic Skills
      1. Opening an airway and basic adjuncts.
      2. Rescue breathing, ventilation, and oxygen therapy
      3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
      4. Develop and execute a patient management plan based on field impression
    10. The Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
      1. Definition and importance
      2. Operations
      3. Implementation
    11. Electrical Management Involving Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Arrhythmias
      1. Cardioversion
      2. Defibrillaiton
      3. Cardiac Pacing
    12. Common Drugs Used in the Emergency Management of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Emergencies
      1. Names and classes
      2. Mechanisms
      3. Dosing
      4. Indications and contraindications
      5. Preparations and administration
    13. Systematic Approach to Patient Assessment and Management Utilizing Advanced Skills
      1. Advanced airway management, ventilation and oxygen therapy
      2. Vascular access and medication administration
      3. Chemical and electrical cardioversion
      4. Management of cardiac dysrhythmias and arrhythmias
      5. Automated external defibrillator (AED) and Defibrillation
      6. Transcutaneous external pacing
      7. Develop and execute a patient management plan based on field impression
    14. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of knowledge and skills competencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 251 - Advanced Cardiac Care Refresher

    0.75 Credits, 1 Contact Hours
    .5 lecture periods .5 lab periods

    Review of the integration of pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation. Also includes information on cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular pathologies and management, and adjunctive diagnostics.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify pathophysiological principles of the cardiovascular system.
    2. Describe the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation.
    3. Define cardiovascular anatomy and physiology.
    4. Identify cardiovascular pathologies and management, and adjunctive diagnostics.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Identify and explain the importance for each component to the chain of survival, with special focus involving the first 10 minutes of a witnessed cardiopulmonary arrest.
    2. Describe cardiovascular disease and injury and the importance of basic and advanced cardiac monitoring as integrated in patient assessment and management.
    3. Identify and describe the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system throughout the levels of body organization, including mechanical and electrophysiology.
    4. Identify and explain abnormal 3-lead Electrocardial Graph (ECG) tracings as they relate to pathophysiology for rhythms originating from the atria, atrioventricular junction, and the ventricles. 
    5. Differentiate abnormal 12-lead ECG tracings and axis deviations as they relate to the anatomy and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system.
    6. Discuss common pathologies and emergency management of cardiovascular diseases/injuries utilizing ECG monitoring.
    7. Explain additional diagnostic assessments and tools utilized in confirming cardiovascular emergencies.
    8. State the importance of proper ECG monitoring as it relates to initial and on-going patient assessment, management, and legal documentation.
    9. Explain the proper systematic approaches in patient assessment, formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanisms of illness/injury for the patient with cardiovascular and pulmonary compromise utilizing basic skills.
    10. State the important role of the automated external defibrillator (AED) and AED operations.
    11. Differentiate between cardioversion, defibrillation, and cardiac pacing.
    12. Identify and explain the names, classes, mechanisms, dosing, indications, contraindications, preparations, and administration of common drugs used in cardiovascular and pulmonary emergencies.
    13. Explain the proper systematic approaches in patient assessment, formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanisms of illness and injury for the patient with cardiovascular and pulmonary compromise utilizing advanced skills.
    14. Discuss current trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. The chain of survival
      2. Early defibrillation
    2. Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Monitoring
      1. Incidence and types of disease and injury
      2. Importance of cardiac monitoring and interpretation
    3. Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology
      1. The vascular system
      2. Myocardial placement, location, and positioning.
      3. Levels of body organization relating to the myocardium
      4. Myocardial circulation
      5. Electrophysiology of the heart
      6. Autonomic nervous system
    4. Normal and Abnormal 3-Lead ECG Tracings as They Relate to Anatomy and Pathophysiology
      1. Systematic approach to 3-lead ECG interpretation
      2. Sinoatrial
      3. Atrial
      4. Atrioventricular junction
        1. Ventricular
        2. Excitation rhythms
      5. Heart blocks
      6. Abnormal wave characteristics and changes
    5. 12-Lead Placement, Axis Determination, Axis Deviation, and Augmented Lead Placement
      1. Systematic approach to 12-lead ECG interpretation
      2. ECG tracings and axis determination
      3. ECG tracings and axis deviation
      4. Augmented lead placement and ECG tracings
    6. Cardiovascular Pathologies and Management
      1. Ischemia, injury, infarction (with normal and abnormal ECG tracings)
      2. Electrolyte imbalances
      3. Hypertrophy and cardial myopathies
      4. Pericarditis
      5. Trauma
      6. Thermal
      7. Neurological impacts
      8. Blocks and hemi-blocks
      9. Emboli
      10. Artifact
      11. Age-specific variants
      12. Pharmacology
    7. Adjunctive Diagnostics
      1. Physical signs and symptoms
      2. Patient medical history
      3. Comparative ECG analysis
      4. Blood gasses: metabolic panel, cultures, enzyme and drug levels, clotting factors
      5. Radiography, echocardiogram, scanning, and or catheterization
    8. Special Considerations in ECG Monitoring
      1. Initial 3 and 12 lead ECG analysis
      2. Comparative ECG analysis from previous tracings
      3. ECG changes before, during, and after patient interventions             
      4. Proper patient information and documentation
    9. Systematic Approach to Patient Assessment and Management Utilizing Basic Skills
      1. Opening an airway and basic adjuncts.
      2. Rescue breathing, ventilation, and oxygen therapy
      3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
      4. Develop and execute a patient management plan based on field impression
    10. The Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
      1. Definition and importance
      2. Operations
      3. Implementation
    11. Electrical Management Involving Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Arrhythmias
      1. Cardioversion
      2. Defibrillation
      3. Cardiac Pacing
    12. Common Drugs Used in The Emergency Management of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary    Emergencies
      1. Names and classes
      2. Mechanisms
      3. Dosing
      4. Indications and contraindications
      5. Preparations and administration
    13. Systematic Approach to Patient Assessment and Management Utilizing Advanced Skills
      1. Advanced airway management, ventilation and oxygen therapy
      2. Vascular access and medication administration
      3. Chemical and electrical cardioversion
      4. Management of cardiac dysrhythmias and arrhythmias
      5. AED and Defibrillation
      6. Transcutaneous external pacing
      7. Develop and execute a patient management plan based on field impression
    14. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of knowledge and skills competencies


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 252 - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

    1 Credits, 1.5 Contact Hours
    .75 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Techniques for emergency services for children. Integrates physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout human growth and development. Includes information on pediatric assessment, airway management and respiratory emergencies, cardiovascular emergencies. Also includes information on neonatal emergencies, children with special healthcare needs, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Perform a pediatric assessment.
    2. Identify techniques for airway management in respiratory emergencies, cardiovascular emergencies, and neonatal emergencies.
    3. Identify techniques in managing children with special healthcare needs.
    4. Define Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the emergency medical services for children in association with common illnesses and injuries and prevention strategies.
    2. Explain the physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout human growth and development with assessment and communication strategies for patients of all ages.
    3. State the steps for pre-arrival preparation of a pediatric emergency, the scene size-up, and the assessment flow integrating the patient assessment triangle (PAT).
    4. Apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with airway complications and respiratory difficulties.
    5. Apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with a cardiovascular emergency.
    6. Differentiate and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with common medical emergencies.
    7. Describe and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient experiencing a toxic exposure.
    8. Synthesize and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for common trauma emergencies involving the pediatric patient.
    9. Describe and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the neonate.
    10. Review and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for children with special healthcare needs.
    11. State and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
    12. Explain the Medical-legal considerations in the care for pediatric patients.
    13. Demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Emergency Medical Services for Children
      2. Injury and illness prevention
      3. The pre-hospital professional’s role in prevention
      4. Children in disasters
    2. Human Growth and Development
      1. Responses to illness
      2. Growth and developmental characteristics and age-specific assessment considerations.
    3. Pediatric Assessment
      1. Assessment flow chart
      2. Pre-arrival preparation
      3. Scene size-up
      4. Initial assessment
      5. Additional assessment
    4. Airway Management and Respiratory Emergencies
      1. Respiratory distress and failure
      2. Evaluating the presenting complaint
      3. General noninvasive treatment
      4. Specific treatment
      5. Management of respiratory failure
      6. The transport decision
      7. Additional assessment
    5. Cardiovascular Emergencies
      1. Shock
      2. Hypovolemic shock
      3. Cardiovascular assessment
      4. Distributive shock
      5. Cardiogenic shock
      6. Classifications of shock
      7. Dysrhythmias
      8. Cardiopulmonary arrest
    6. Medical Emergencies
      1. Seizures
      2. Altered levels of consciousness
      3. Hyperglycemia
    7. Toxic Exposures
      1. Age-related differences
      2. Pre-arrival preparation and scene size-up
      3. Assessment flow
      4. Toxicological management
      5. Role of poison control centers
    8. Pediatric Trauma
      1. Fatal injury mechanisms
      2. Unique anatomical features
      3. Mechanisms of injury
      4. Assessment flow
      5. Special airway considerations
      6. Transport decisions
      7. Immobilization and splints
      8. Burns
      9. Multi-casualty incidents
    9. Neonatal Management
      1. Immediate care of the neonate
      2. Depressed neonatal resuscitation
      3. Stabilization for transport
    10. Children with Special Healthcare Needs
      1. Assessment considerations
      2. Transport considerations
      3. Technology assisted children
    11. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Death of a Child
      1. Defining SIDS
      2. Common clinical presentation
      3. Epidemiology and risk factors
      4. Actions in suspected SIDS
      5. Information collection
      6. Potential responses to child and infant death
    12. Medical-Legal Considerations
      1. Rationale for protocols, policies, and procedures
      2. Treatment protocols
      3. Pediatric focus on policies and procedures
    13. Procedures
      1. Communications
      2. Airway management, ventilation, and oxygen therapy (advanced and basic skills)
      3. Vascular access, fluid resuscitation, and medication administration
      4. Cardiopulmonary management and resuscitation (advanced and basic skills)
      5. Immobilization and splints


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 254 - Advanced ECG Interpretation

    2 Credits, 2.5 Contact Hours
    1.75 lecture periods .75 lab periods

    Continuation of EMT 230. Integration of pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/ injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation. Also includes information on cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, electrocardiographic monitoring, and adjunctive diagnostics.

    Prerequisite(s): EMT 230  
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression for the patient with cardiovascular disease.
    2. Identify cardiovascular injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation.
    3. Implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring and interpretation.
    4. Define cardiovascular anatomy and physiology and cardiovascular pathologies.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe cardiovascular disease and injury and the importance of basic and advanced cardiac monitoring as integrated in patient assessment and management.
    2. Identify and describe the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system throughout the levels of body organization, including mechanical and electrophysiology.
    3. Describe medical prefixes, suffixes, common root words, and terminology as they relate to cardiology and electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation.
    4. Explain the phases of cardiac depolarization, 3-lead placement, electrical cardiac conduction, and normal (ECG) tracings of the healthy heart.
    5. State the proper systematic approach for 3-lead ECG interpretation.
    6. Identify and explain abnormal 3-lead ECG tracings as they relate to pathophysiology for rhythms originating from the atria, atrioventricular junction, and the ventricles. 
    7. Synthesize and explain proper 12-lead placement and ECG tracings as they relate to the anatomy and physiology of the healthy heart.
    8. Differentiate options in 12-lead placement and interpret ECG tracings and axis determination as they relate to the anatomy and pathophysiology of the diseased and injured heart.
    9. Explain the proper systematic approach to 12-lead ECG interpretation.
    10. Identify and explain abnormal 12-lead ECG tracings and axis deviations as they relate to the anatomy and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system.
    11. Discuss common pathologies and emergency management of cardiovascular diseases and injuries utilizing ECG monitoring.
    12. Relate additional diagnostic assessments and tools utilized in confirming cardiovascular emergencies.
    13. Explain the importance of proper ECG monitoring as it relates to initial and on-going patient assessment, management, and legal documentation.
    14. Demonstrate the proper systematic approaches in patient assessment, formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanisms of illness and injury for the patient with cardiovascular emergencies utilizing 3-lead and 12-lead interpretation and monitoring.
    15. Examine current trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Cardiac monitoring for traditional and non-traditional patient emergencies
      2. Importance of basic and advanced cardiac monitoring and interpretation
    2. Review of cardiovascular anatomy and physiology
      1. The vascular system
      2. Myocardial placement, location, and positioning.
      3. Levels of body organization relating to the myocardium
      4. Myocardial circulation
      5. Electrophysiology of the heart
      6. Autonomic nervous system
    3. Review of Electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring
      1. Electrophysiology and waveforms
      2. Leads and electrodes
      3. Standardization
      4. Waveform analysis
      5. Lead systems and heart surfaces
    4. Review of Lead Systems and Heart Surfaces
      1. Rate
      2. Systematic approach to 3-lead ECG interpretation
      3. Regularity
      4. Rhythm origin
      5. Atrioventricular characteristics and relationships       
      6. Ectopy
      7. Patient relativity
    5. Abnormal 3-Lead ECG Tracings as They Relate to Anatomy and Pathophysiology
      1. Sinoatrial
      2. Atrial
      3. Atrioventricular junction
      4. Ventricular
      5. Excitation rhythms
      6. Heart blocks
      7. Abnormal wave characteristics and changes
    6. 12-Lead Placement and Normal ECG Tracings
      1. Standard limb leads
      2. Augmented leads
      3. Precordial vector leads
    7. Axis Determination, Axis Deviation, and Augmented Lead Placement
      1. ECG tracings and axis determination
      2. ECG tracings and axis deviation
      3. Augmented lead placement and ECG tracings
    8. Systematic Approach to 12-Lead ECG Interpretation
      1. Rate
      2. Regularity
      3. Rhythm origin
      4. Atrioventricular characteristics and relationships       
      5. Ectopy
      6. Axis determination
      7. Patient relativity
    9. Abnormal 12-Lead ECG Tracings as They Relate to Anatomy and Pathophysiology
      1. Inferior wall (lateral and posterior)
      2. Anterior wall (i.e., septal, lateral and high lateral)
      3. Posterior wall (right ventricular wall)
      4. Right axis deviation
      5. Left axis deviation
      6. Indeterminate axis
    10. Cardiovascular Pathologies and Management
      1. Ischemia, injury, infarction (with normal and abnormal ECG tracings)
      2. Electrolyte imbalances
      3. Hypertrophy and cardial myopathies
      4. Pericarditis
      5. Trauma
      6. Thermal
      7. Neurological impacts
      8. Blocks and hemi-blocks
      9. Emboli
      10. Artifact
      11. Age-specific variants
      12. Pharmacology
    11. Adjunctive Diagnostics
      1. Physical signs and symptoms
      2. Patient medical history
      3. Comparative ECG analysis
      4. Blood gasses:  metabolic panel, cultures, enzyme and drug levels, clotting factors
      5. Radiography, echocardiogram, scanning, and or catheterization
    12. Special Considerations in ECG Monitoring
      1. Initial 3 and 12 lead ECG analysis
      2. Comparative ECG analysis from previous tracings
      3. ECG changes before, during, and after patient interventions             
      4. Proper patient information and documentation
    13. Systematic Approach to Patient Assessment and Management Utilizing ECG Monitoring
      1. The initial examination, focused history, on-going exam and interventions utilizing 3 and 12-lead ECG monitoring.
      2. Apply pathophysiological principles to the assessment of a patient with cardiovascular disease and injury
      3. Formulation of field impression; decisions based on patient assessment and ECG findings
      4. Develop and execute a patient management plan based on field impression
    14. Integration
      1. Current trends and changes
      2. Demonstration of knowledge and skills competencies


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • EMT 255 - Instructional Strategies

    2 Credits, 2.5 Contact Hours
    1.5 lecture periods 1 lab period

    Introduction for organization and preparation of curriculum materials for presentation. Includes instructor roles and responsibilities, legal issues, the adult learner, creating an effective learning environment, and instructional strategies and methods.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Define learning theories and characteristics of adult learners.
    2. Demonstrate an understanding of differing teaching methodologies.
    3. Describe the importance and components of lesson plans.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to use effective, cognitive and psychomotor evaluations.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate the ability to professionally interact with students by applying instructor roles, guidelines for effective team teaching, and attributes of an effective instructor.
    2. Explain harassment, elements of an equal opportunity statement, informal and formal grievance procedures, and the elements of a negligence claim.
    3. Describe the learning theories and characteristics of adult learners.
    4. Specify individual or group attributes that affect learning and describe an adaptive strategy for dealing with those attributes.
    5. State how to effectively enhance learning by creating an ideal learning environment through room setup and classroom management.
    6. Synthesize and explain how to apply the knowledge of the training design and development process to existing curriculum.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to use affective, cognitive, and psychomotor objectives as the basis for content presentation and student evaluation.
    8. Demonstrate the ability to use the rules of development for various test items to develop evaluation instrument(s) that effectively measure student achievement of lesson objectives.
    9. Differentiate the advantages and disadvantages for each teaching method and determine the appropriate teaching method for a given objective.
    10. Select the appropriate media to achieve instructional objectives.
    11. Identify and describe the importance of the seven major components of a lesson plan.
    12. Incorporate the seven major components of a lesson plan when adapting or creating an individual lesson plan.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Lesson objectives
      2. Course schedule
      3. Administrative details
      4. Course objectives
      5. Course expectations
    2. Instructor Roles and Responsibilities
      1. Introduction to various roles
      2. Problem students and challenging situations
      3. Positive, constructive, and corrective feedback
      4. Team teaching guidelines
      5. Instructor attributes
    3. Legal Issues
      1. Harassment
      2. Discrimination
      3. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992 (ADA)
      4. Confidentiality
      5. Negligence
      6. Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA)
    4. The Adult Learner
      1. Learning theory
      2. Characteristics of adult learners
      3. Learning styles
      4. Skills for success
    5. Creating an Effective Learning Environment
      1. Assess your audience
      2. Assess physical environment
      3. Room setup
      4. Classroom management
    6. Objectives
      1. Overview of training design and development
      2. Preparing to teach existing curriculum
      3. Learning objectives
      4. Learning domains
      5. Writing useful objectives
      6. Getting started – determine your lesson objectives
    7. Evaluation
      1. Purposes of evaluation
      2. Evaluation instrument development principles
      3. Cognitive test item development
      4. Affective and psychomotor test item development
      5. Getting started – create your evaluation instrument(s)
    8. Instructional Strategies and Methods
      1. Parts of instruction
      2. Teaching methods
      3. Getting started – decide on your methods
      4. Communication and presentation skills
      5. Questioning techniques
    9. Media
      1. Media selection
      2. Instructional value of media
      3. Principles of design
      4. Teaching aids – prepared and spontaneous
      5. Getting started – create your own teaching aid(s)
    10. Lesson Plan Development
      1. Overview
      2. Components
      3. Examples of lesson plans
      4. Getting started – develop your lesson plan


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 258 - Pediatric Education for Pre-Hospital Professionals

    1.5 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 1 lab period

    Foundations of skills and principles in dealing with pediatric patients in a pre-hospital setting. Includes information on the integration of the physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout human growth and development with assessment and communication strategies for patients of all ages.

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the skills associated with medical and trauma emergencies for the newborn and pediatric patient.
    2. Identify the methods of patient assessment for pediatric medical emergencies.
    3. Identify the methods of patient assessment for pediatric trauma.
    4. Demonstrate management of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN).

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the emergency medical services for children in association with common illnesses and injuries and prevention strategies.
    2. Explain the physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout human growth and development with assessment and communication strategies for patients of all ages.
    3. Synthesize and explain the steps for pre-arrival preparation of a pediatric emergency, the scene size-up, and the assessment flow integrating the patient assessment triangle (PAT).
    4. Apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with airway complications and respiratory difficulties.
    5. State and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with a cardiovascular emergency.
    6. Cite and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with common medical emergencies.
    7. Describe and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient experiencing a toxic exposure.
    8. Explain and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for common trauma emergencies involving the pediatric patient.
    9. Identify and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the neonate.
    10. Synthesize and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for children with special healthcare needs.
    11. Apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
    12. Describe and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for child maltreatment.
    13. Explain the Medical-legal considerations in the care for pediatric patients.
    14. Demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Emergency Medical Services for Children
      2. Injury and illness prevention
      3. The pre-hospital professional’s role in prevention
      4. Children in disasters
    2. Human Growth and Development
      1. Responses to illness
      2. Growth and developmental characteristics and age-specific assessment considerations
    3. Pediatric Assessment
      1. Assessment flow chart
      2. Pre-arrival preparation
      3. Scene size-up
      4. Initial assessment (PAT)
      5. Additional assessment
    4. Airway Management and Respiratory Emergencies
      1. Respiratory distress and failure
      2. Evaluating the presenting complaint
      3. General noninvasive treatment
      4. Specific treatment
      5. Management of respiratory failure
      6. The transport decision
      7. Additional assessment
    5. Cardiovascular Emergencies
      1. Shock
      2. Hypovolemic shock
      3. Cardiovascular assessment
      4. Distributive shock
      5. Cardiogenic shock
      6. Classifications of shock
      7. Dysrhythmias
      8. Cardiopulmonary arrest
    6. Medical Emergencies
      1. Seizures
      2. Altered levels of consciousness
      3. Hyperglycemia
    7. Toxic Exposures
      1. Age-related differences
      2. Pre-arrival preparation and scene size-up
      3. Assessment flow
      4. Toxicological management
      5. Role of poison control centers
    8. Pediatric Trauma
      1. Fatal injury mechanisms
      2. Unique anatomical features
      3. Mechanisms of injury
      4. Assessment flow
      5. Special airway considerations
      6. Transport decisions
      7. Immobilization and splints
      8. Child safety restraints
      9. Burns
      10. Multi-casualty incidents
    9. Emergency Delivery and Neonatal Management
      1. Triage of the patient in labor
      2. Preparation for delivery
      3. Vaginal delivery
      4. Immediate care of the neonate
      5. Depressed neonatal resuscitation
      6. Stabilization for transport
    10. Children with Special Healthcare Needs
      1. Assessment considerations
      2. Transport considerations
      3. Technology assisted children
    11. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Death of a Child
      1. Defining SIDS
      2. Common clinical presentation
      3. Epidemiology and risk factors
      4. Actions in suspected SIDS
      5. Information collection
      6. Potential responses to child and infant death
    12. Child Maltreatment
      1. Background
      2. Defining child maltreatment
      3. Child protective services
      4. Duties of the pre-hospital professional
      5. Communication with the child and caregiver
      6. Medical-legal considerations
    13. Medical-Legal Considerations
      1. Rationale for protocols, policies, and procedures
      2. Treatment protocols
      3. Pediatric focus on policies and procedures
    14. Procedures
      1. Communications
      2. Airway management, ventilation, and oxygen therapy (advanced and basic skills)
      3. Vascular access, fluid resuscitation, and medication administration
      4. Cardiopulmonary management and resuscitation (advanced and basic skills)
      5. Immobilization and splints


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 259 - Pediatric Education for Pre-Hospital Professionals Refresher

    0.75 Credits, 1 Contact Hours
    .5 lecture periods .5 lab periods

    Overview of the foundations of skills and principles in dealing with pediatric patients in a pre-hospital setting. Includes information on the integration of the physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout human growth and development with assessment and communication strategies for patients of all ages.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the skills associated with medical and trauma emergencies for the newborn and pediatric patient.
    2. Identify the methods of patient assessment for pediatric medical emergencies.
    3. Identify the methods of patient assessment for pediatric trauma.
    4. Demonstrate management of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN).

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the emergency medical services for children in association with common illnesses and injuries and prevention strategies.
    2. Explain the physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout human growth and development with assessment and communication strategies for patients of all ages.
    3. Synthesize and explain the steps for pre-arrival preparation of a pediatric emergency, the scene size-up, and the assessment flow integrating the patient assessment triangle (PAT).
    4. Apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with airway complications and respiratory difficulties.
    5. State and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with a cardiovascular emergency.
    6. Cite and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient with common medical emergencies.
    7. Describe and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the pediatric patient experiencing a toxic exposure.
    8. Explain and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for common trauma emergencies involving the pediatric patient.
    9. Identify and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the neonate.
    10. Synthesize and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for children with special healthcare needs.
    11. Apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
    12. Describe and apply the pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for child maltreatment.
    13. Explain the Medical-legal considerations in the care for pediatric patients.
    14. Demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Emergency Medical Services for Children
      2. Injury and illness prevention
      3. The pre-hospital professional’s role in prevention
      4. Children in disasters
    2. Human Growth and Development
      1. Responses to illness
      2. Growth and developmental characteristics and age-specific assessment considerations.
    3. Pediatric Assessment
      1. Assessment flow chart
      2. Pre-arrival preparation
      3. Scene size-up
      4. Initial assessment (PAT)
      5. Additional assessment
    4. Airway Management and Respiratory Emergencies
      1. Respiratory distress and failure
      2. Evaluating the presenting complaint
      3. General noninvasive treatment
      4. Specific treatment
      5. Management of respiratory failure
      6. The transport decision
      7. Additional assessment
    5. Cardiovascular Emergencies
      1. Shock
      2. Hypovolemic shock
      3. Cardiovascular assessment
      4. Distributive shock
      5. Cardiogenic shock
      6. Classifications of shock
      7. Dysrhythmias
      8. Cardiopulmonary arrest
    6. Medical Emergencies
      1. Seizures
      2. Altered levels of consciousness
      3. Hyperglycemia
    7. Toxic Exposures
      1. Age-related differences
      2. Pre-arrival preparation and scene size-up
      3. Assessment flow
      4. Toxicological management
      5. Role of poison control centers
    8. Pediatric Trauma
      1. Fatal injury mechanisms
      2. Unique anatomical features
      3. Mechanisms of injury
      4. Assessment flow
      5. Special airway considerations
      6. Transport decisions
      7. Immobilization and splints
      8. Child safety restraints
      9. Burns
      10. Multi-casualty incidents
    9. Emergency Delivery and Neonatal Management
      1. Triage of the patient in labor
      2. Preparation for delivery
      3. Vaginal delivery
      4. Immediate care of the neonate
      5. Depressed neonatal resuscitation
      6. Stabilization for transport
    10. Children with special healthcare needs
      1. Assessment considerations
      2. Transport considerations
      3. Technology assisted children
    11. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Death of a Child
      1. Defining SIDS
      2. Common clinical presentation
      3. Epidemiology and risk factors
      4. Actions in suspected SIDS
      5. Information collection
      6. Potential responses to child and infant death
    12. Child Maltreatment
      1. Background
      2. Defining child maltreatment
      3. Child protective services
      4. Duties of the pre-hospital professional
      5. Communication with the child and caregiver
      6. Medical-legal considerations
    13. Medical-Legal Considerations
      1. Rationale for protocols, policies, and procedures
      2. Treatment protocols
      3. Pediatric focus on policies and procedures
    14. Procedures
      1. Communications
      2. Airway management, ventilation, and oxygen therapy (advanced and basic skills)
      3. Vascular access, fluid resuscitation, and medication administration
      4. Cardiopulmonary management and resuscitation (advanced and basic skills)
      5. Immobilization and splints


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • EMT 295 - ALS Independent Research

    1 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    0 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Independent research in advanced pre-hospital care. Includes developing and writing an independent, applied research project, utilizing American Psychological Association (APA) style and format. Also includes exploration of current issues in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) or related subject matter through active research.

    Information: Research and writing will be done independently with assistance from the course instructor. Student will select a research topic with approval of course instructor.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Conduct an independent applied research project on a current ALS subject.
    2. Demonstrate a familiarity with a variety of research methodologies and other sources, including library and Internet.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to compose and correctly apply APA style and formatting.
    4. Produce a minimum written output of 3,000 words including an applied research paper and other written works.

    Outline:
    1. Purpose of Research
      1. Discovery
      2. Interpretation of facts
      3. Professionalism
    2. Research Methods
      1. Historical
      2. Descriptive
      3. Evaluative
      4. Experimental
      5. Correlation
    3. Research Sources
      1. Library
      2. Internet
    4. APA Style
      1. Punctuation
      2. Abbreviations
      3. Citation
      4. Format
    5. Development of Research Paper
      1. Abstract
      2. Introduction
      3. Literature review
      4. Discussion
      5. Conclusion
      6. References
    6. Written Works
      1. Research paper
      2. Other written works
      3. A minimum total of 3,000 words


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19

Engineering

  
  • ENG 102IN - Problem-Solving and Engineering Design [SUN# EGR 1102]

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Design, effective team participation, and career preparation in engineering. Includes the different engineering fields and careers, basic skills associated with engineering problem solving and communication, the design process, participation in hands-on design projects, and ethics and professional responsibility.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 189  or higher.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate effective verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.
    2. Demonstrate competence in experimental design, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to apply software tools to solve engineering problems.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to apply science/engineering principles on selection and evaluation of alternative solutions.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Identify the major steps in the engineering approach to problem solving.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to properly identify and formulate problems
    3. Demonstrate the ability to properly formulate functional and design requirements, criteria, and constraints.
    4. Apply software tools to engineering design problems.
    5. Apply engineering design process steps during design projects.
    6. Apply science/engineering principles on selection and evaluation of solution alternatives.
    7. Demonstrate the ability to collect, organize, and analyze statistical data.
    8. Perform an engineering design project from initial specification to final product.
    9. Demonstrate an ability to design, plan, and conduct experiments.
    10. Develop and demonstrate characteristics of an effective team member.
    11. Develop and demonstrate effective communication skills.
    12. Create and deliver a presentation as a team member on engineering design projects.
    13. Create an education and career plan for engineering.
    14. Describe the importance of ethics in the engineering career.
    15. Apply health and safety practices in the workplace and demonstrate awareness of own personal safety and the safety of others.

    Outline:
    1. Engineering as a Profession
    2. Engineering as an Applied Discipline
    3. Engineering as Creative Problem Solving
    4. Software Tools for Problem Solving and Reporting
    5. Engineering Careers
    6. Introduction to Engineering Design
    7. The Art and Science of Creativity
    8. Principles of Mechanics and Aerodynamics
    9. Basic Principles of Electricity and Simple Electrical Circuits
    10. Main Steps of the Design Process
    11. Teamwork
    12. Safety Issues and Training
    13. Design Projects
    14. Tests and Statistical Analysis of Test Results
    15. Design of Experiment
    16. Principles of Effective Communication
    17. Written Technical Reports
    18. Oral Technical Reports
    19. Engineering Ethics


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2016
  
  • ENG 105IN - Introduction to MATLAB I

    1 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    .5 lecture periods 1.5 lab periods

    Fundamental knowledge and practical abilities in MATLAB utilizing technical numerical computations in engineering courses. Includes script files, creating arrays, mathematical operations with 1-D arrays, two dimensional plots, and polynomials.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 220  



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to use MATLAB for interactive computations.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to utilize a methodical approach to identify, formulate, and solve computational problems.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to generate plots and export them for use in reports and presentations.

    Outline:
    1. Demonstrate the ability to use MATLAB for interactive computations.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to utilize a methodical approach to identify, formulate, and solve computational problems.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to generate plots and export them for use in reports and presentations.

     

    Outline: 

    1. Introduction to MATLAB
      1. Starting MATLAB and MATLAB windows
      2. Working in the command window
      3. Arithmetic operations with scalars
      4. Display formats
      5. Elementary math built-in functions
      6. Defining scalar variables
      7. Useful commands for managing variables
    2. Script Files
      1. Notes about script files
      2. Creating and saving a script file
      3. Running a script file
      4. Global variables
      5. Input to a script file (inside the file)
      6. Output commands (disp/print)
      7. Command: save
      8. Commands: who and whose
    3. Creating Arrays
      1. Creating a one-dimensional array (vector)
      2. Array addressing
      3. Adding elements to existing variables
      4. Deleting elements
      5. Combining arrays
    4. Mathematical Operations with 1D-Arrays
      1. Addition and subtraction
      2. Element-by-element operations
      3. Relational and logical operators
      4. Dot product, cross product of vectors
      5. Statistical properties of arrays
        1. Norm
        2. Mean
        3. Standard deviation
        4. Variance
        5. Max
        6. Min
        7. Median
        8. Mode
        9. Covariance
      6. Length, size of vectors
      7. Strings and strings as variables
    5. Script Files (Revisited)
      1. Input to a script files (from the command window)
      2. Output commands
      3. Importing and exporting data
      4. Adding data to the end of the file
      5. Adding data to the beginning of the file
    6. Two-Dimensional Plots
      1. The plot command
      2. The fplot command
      3. Plotting multiple graphs in the same plot
      4. Formatting a plot
      5. Plots with logarithmic axes
      6. Plotting multiple plots on the same page
      7. Plots with special graphics
      8. Histograms
        1. Relative frequency
        2. Absolute frequency
      9. 2-D scatter plots
    7. Polynomials
      1. Forming polynomials
      2. Addition/subtraction/multiplication and division of polynomials
      3. Derivative of polynomials
      4. Polynomials in optimization problems


    Effective Term:
    Academic Year 2017/18

  
  • ENG 110IN - Solid State Chemistry

    4 Credits, 6 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Fundamental principles of the chemistry of condensed states of matter including metals, polymers, molecular solids, and ceramics. Includes quantization, atomic structure, bonding, band and crystalline structure, conductivity, thermodynamics, and phase diagrams. Also includes electrochemistry and electrochemical devices, glass, optical properties and devices, and semiconductor devices.

    Prerequisite(s): CHM 151IN  and MAT 220  or concurrent enrollment.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Discuss how and why compounds react as solutions and gases.
    2. Explain the relationship between molecular structure and the form and properties of a solid.
    3. Identify the differences between silica, silicon, and silicone.
    4. Explain the differences in the conductivity of various solids.
    5. Discuss structures and interactions at the atomic level.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction/Energy
    2. Quantization
    3. Atomic Structure/Periodic Chart
    4. Bonding
      1. Ionic
      2. Covalent
      3. Metallic
      4. Van der Waals Forces
    5. Band Structure
    6. Crystalline Structure
      1. Sites
      2. Compounds
      3. Lattices
      4. Miller Indices
    7. Conductivity
    8. Thermodynamics
    9. Phase Diagrams
    10. Electrochemistry
    11. Electrochemical Devices
    12. Glass
    13. Optical Properties
    14. Optical Devices
    15. Semiconductor Devices
    16. Polymers
      1. Properties
      2. Applications


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2016
  
  • ENG 120IN - Civil Engineering Graphics and Design

    3 Credits, 7 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 6 lab periods

    Introduction to civil engineering graphics and design using sketching and computer-aided design (CAD) Civil 3D software. Includes engineering basic applications, basic math and geometry, basic math and algorithms, corridor development, site grading and earthwork concepts, piping and draining concepts, surveying concepts and procedures, and visualization and construction documents.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 189  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the principles and concepts of graphic communications within the contexts of civil engineering.
    2. Demonstrate basic computer aided design (CAD) skills with engineering applications.
    3. Demonstrate proficiency in graphical communication skills as part of the civil engineering design.
    4. Assemble drawings of engineering-type objects.
    5. Draft and design basic civil engineering construction documents using CAD.
    6. Apply methods of orthographic projection to produce construction details.
    7. Use methods of isometric, oblique, and perspective construction to produce pictorial drawings.
    8. Adapt methods of descriptive geometry to solve 3-D space problems related to civil engineering design analysis.
    9. Produce model drawings for 2-D and 3-D Civil engineering structures using computer-aided drawings.
    10. Demonstrate the ability to create, read, and interpret engineering drawings using standard views, including dimension, tolerances, and correlation to other engineering fields.
    11. Demonstrate drawing procedures and standards relevant to civil engineering projects.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Applied to Civil Engineering
      1. Brief historical introduction
      2. New technologies within civil engineering
      3. Introduction to Civil 3D
      4. Civil 3D philosophies, interfaces, and capabilities
    2. Civil 3D Civil Engineering Basic Applications
      1. Contour maps
      2. Site plans
      3. Road alignments
      4. Profiles and corridors
      5. Grading plans
    3. Civil 3D Basic Math and Geometry
      1. Geometrical shapes in civil engineering
      2. Distance, bearings, and traverse definitions
      3. Surface data and contour definitions
    4. Civil 3D Basic Math and Algorithms
      1. Proposed and existing profiles
      2. Cross sections
      3. Horizontal alignment
      4. Vertical alignment
    5. Civil 3D Corridor Development
      1. Corridor design
      2. Cross section development
      3. Assembly, subassembly, and multiple assembly roads
      4. Super elevation
      5. Multiple baseline roadway
    6. Site Grading and Earthwork Concepts
      1. Grading plans
      2. Earthwork project
      3. Cut and fill
      4. Estimates
    7. Piping and Drainage Concepts
      1. Basic hydrology definitions
      2. Basic hydraulic definitions
      3. Piping calculations
      4. Storm sewer design
    8. Surveying Concepts and Basic Surveying Procedures
      1. Distance
      2. Profiles
      3. Traverse
      4. Topographic surveys
      5. Horizontal and vertical curves
    9. Visualization and Construction Documents
      1. 3-D rendering
      2. Construction document development


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • ENG 122IN - Engineering Graphics and Design with Solid Modeling

    3 Credits, 7 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 6 lab periods

    Introduction to engineering graphics and the concepts of engineering design. Includes sketching, dimensioning practices and tolerances, computer-aided design (CAD), basic part modeling, and three-dimensional (3D) assembly modeling.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 189  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the fundamental concepts and principles of engineering graphics as a language.
    2. Generate hand-drawn multi-view technical sketches.
    3. Apply methods of orthographic projection to produce detail.
    4. Demonstrate the fundamental concepts and principles of the computer-aided design (CAD) system.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to read engineering drawings.
    6. Construct three-dimensional (3D) solid models on a modern CAD system:
      1. Create 3D solid models of complex objects given a multi-view representation
      2. Create solid models of individual parts
      3. Create reference geometry features (planes, axes)
      4. Measure properties of 3D CAD models
    7. Create multi-view, auxiliary and section drawings from 3D solid models:
      1. Use the principal planes of projection and the principal views
      2. Create hidden lines, center lines, etc. based on graphics conventions
      3. Create multi-view drawings from 3D solid models on a CAD system
      4. Represent typical features: e.g. holes, threads, chamfers, and fillets
      5. Create auxiliary views automatically from 3D solid models
      6. Generate appropriate section views
    8. Create dimensioned drawings from 3D solid models:
      1. Understand the basic terminology and geometrical  relationships associated with dimensioning practice
      2. Demonstrate size, location, and coordinate dimensioning
      3. Create dimensioned drawings from 3D solid models
      4. Create complete working drawings including assembly and detailed drawings for a “real-life” object
    9. Apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T):
      1. Understanding and practical proficiency in dimensioning and tolerancing.
      2. Recognize GD&T dimensioning on an engineering drawing
      3. Determine maximum material condition (MMC) and its implications
      4. Calculate bonus tolerance allowances as features deviate from MMC
      5. Recognize and specify GD&T datums
      6. Visualize tolerance zones as specified in GD&T
      7. Create GD&T control features on an engineering drawing

    Outline:
    1. Sketching
      1. General sketching techniques
      2. Orthographic projections
      3. Isometric sketches
      4. Oblique sketches
      5. Perspective sketches
      6. Section views
      7. Auxiliary views
      8. Details views
    2. Dimensioning Practices and Tolerances
      1. Dimensioning systems
        1. Unidirectional
        2. Aligned
        3. Tabular
        4. Arrowless
        5. Chart drawing
      2. Dimensioning fundamentals
        1. Dimension line spacing
        2. Chain dimensioning
        3. Datum dimensioning
      3. Preferred dimensioning practices
        1. Dimensioning angles
        2. Dimensioning a simple hole
        3. Dimensioning chamfers
        4. Dimensioning cylinders and conical shapes
        5. Dimensioning arcs
        6. Representing and dimensioning for external and internal threads
        7. Dimensioning countersink and counterbore holes
      4. Tolerancing
        1. Direct tolerancing methods
        2. Tolerance expressions
        3. Angular tolerances
        4. Standard fits
      5. Geometric tolerancing
        1. Tolerances of form
        2. Tolerances of orientation
        3. Positional tolerances
    3. Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
      1. Introduction to CAD
      2. Basic two-dimensional (2D) drawing skills
      3. Basic commands
      4. File management
      5. Command Manager and Feature Manager
    4. Basic Part Modeling
      1. Parametric feature-based modeling
      2. Basic and complex 2D model design
      3. Three-dimensional (3D) modeling
      4. Basic part modeling
      5. Basic tools extrude, cut, hole, mirror, edit part modeling, etc.
      6. Revolved features
      7. Swept, Loft and additional features
    5. Three-Dimensional (3D) Assembly Modeling
      1. Bottom-up assembly modeling approach
      2. Linear and rotational motion
      3. Assembly-exploded view
      4. Part drawing from 3D models


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • ENG 130IN - Elementary Surveying

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Introduction to the subject of surveying as it pertains to the field of civil engineering. Includes measurement of distances, leveling, profiling and grade calculations, measurement of angles, remote elevations, and traverse closure. Also includes topographic surveys, public land surveying, and land ownership.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 189  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Perform measurements using steel tapes and electronic distance meters and calculate adjustments based on environmental factors.
    2. Determine vertical differences in elevation between points using closed level loops.
    3. Measure and calculate grade lines using field measured information and profile leveling.
    4. Perform the measurement of horizontal and vertical angles.
    5. Determine the heights and elevations of remote objects.
    6. Perform a traverse and calculate the closure based on the compass rule.
    7. Perform a topographic survey and prepare resultant map.
    8. Describe an overview of the survey of public lands.
    9. Define the principles of land ownership, deeds and easements, and boundary surveys.

    Outline:
    1. Measurement of Distances
      1. Measurement of Horizontal Distance
      2. Measurements with Tape
      3. Errors in Measurement and Minimizing Errors
    2. Leveling
      1. Leveling and Field Notes
      2. Trigonometric Leveling
      3. Direct Differential Leveling
      4. Types of Surveying Levels
      5. Techniques of Leveling
      6. Errors and Corrections
    3. Profiling and Grade Calculations
      1. Profile Levels
      2. Plotting the Profile
      3. Grade Lines and Rate of Grades
    4. Measurement of Angles
      1. Measuring Horizontal and Vertical Angles
      2. Electronic Theodolites
      3. Optical Theodolites
      4. Theodolit Setup
      5. Adjustment of the Theodolit
      6. Mistakes in Theodolit Angles and Corrections
    5. Remote Elevations
      1. Meridians
      2. Azimuths
      3. Bearings
      4. Magnetic Compass
    6. Traverse Closure
      1. Open and Closed Traverse
      2. Interior-Angle Traverse
      3. Deflection-Angle Traverse
      4. Traverse Computations
      5. Stadia Measurements
    7. Topographic Surveys
      1. Field Method
      2. Cross-Section Method
      3. Method of Interpolating
      4. Trace Contour Method
      5. Grid Method
      6. Controlling-Point Method
    8. Public Land Surveying
      1. Principle Meridian
      2. Baseline
      3. Standard Parallels
      4. Rural and Urban Surveys
      5. Subdivision of Townships
    9. Land Ownership


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2015
  
  • ENG 175IN - Computer Programming for Engineering Applications I

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Programming in C with emphasis on numerical applications in engineering. Includes structure of C programs; data types, operations, and basics of C; selection, repetition, arrays, functions, and data files.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 189  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to develop and test software projects using the C programming language to solve engineering problems.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to apply the compilation process, tools, and basic debugging techniques.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to design and organize programs into separate functions to maximize code reuse and maintainability.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Define integer, floating point, double precision, character, string, array, and structure data types and describe their storage methods.
    2. List the arithmetic, assignment, relational, logical, and increment/decrement operators and demonstrate their application.
    3. Demonstrate the use of the #define and #include preprocessor commands.
    4. Write statements using the print f() function for formatted output including the use of escape sequences.
    5. Write statements using the scan f() function for data input.
    6. Write comment statements.
    7. Write statements using standard C library mathematical, character, and string processing functions.
    8. Write user defined functions.
    9. Write if-else and switch selection statements.
    10. Write while, for, and do repetition statements.
    11. Explain the scope of variables in a program.
    12. Explain auto, register, and static variable classes.
    13. Write program segments to declare, open, read, write, and close files using standard C file library functions.
    14. Distinguish between text and binary files.
    15. Define the term pointer and demonstrate use of the & address operator and the * indirection operator.
    16. Develop structured programs, applying a top-down approach, to solve practical engineering problems by numerical methods.
    17. Analyze errors inherent in floating point representation of data.
    18. Analyze error propagation in floating point calculations.
    19. Discuss cost effectiveness considerations of program complexity, efficiency, maintainability, and programmer times versus execution time tradeoffs.
    20. Demonstrate use of the conditional operators and their application.
    21. Demonstrate use of the bit shift operators and their application.
    22. Distinguish between random and sequential file access.
    23. Demonstrate the use of macros.
    24. Explain the use of recursively called functions.
    25. Demonstrate the use of linked lists.
    26. Demonstrate the use of binary trees.

    Outline:
    1. Structure of C Programs
      1. Functions and program modularity
      2. Main() function
      3. Print f() function
      4. Scan f() function
      5. Top-down program development
    2. Data Types, Operations, and Basics of C
      1. Integer
      2. Floating point and double precision
      3. Character
      4. Escape sequences and conversion control sequences
      5. Arithmetic operations
      6. Operator precedence and associativity
      7. Variables and declaration statements
      8. Assignment statements
      9.     Formatted output
      10. Mathematical library functions
      11. Type conversion rules
      12. Symbolic constants
    3. Selection
      1. Relational expressions and logical operators
      2. If-else statements
      3. Nested if statements and if-else chains
      4. Switch statements
    4. Repetition
      1. Increment/decrement operators
      2. While statements
      3. Break, continue, and null statements
      4. For statements
      5. Do statements
      6. Nested loops
    5. Arrays
      1. One dimensional arrays
      2. Input, output, and initialization of array values
      3. Multidimensional arrays
    6. Functions
      1. Definition, declaration, and calling of functions
      2. Standard library functions
      3. Arrays as arguments
      4. Variable scope
      5. Variable storage classes
    7. Data Files
      1. Opening, reading, writing, and closing files
      2. Standard device files
      3. Random access files (optional)
      4. Text and binary files (optional)


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/18
  
  • ENG 201 - Introduction to Mining Engineering

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Basic introduction to the fundamental operations involved in mining engineering. Includes the fundamental processes for sustainable resource development, mine planning, and design based on data and operating parameters. Also includes science, engineering, and policies to locate an ore deposit, plan surface, underground mines, operating mines and processing facilities, reclaim mine sites, and work with communities.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 102IN  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the capability to determine the magnitude of costs and investment in large and small-scale mining projects.
    2. Complete a design project including elements that emphasize project management, supervision, and effective communication.
    3. Incorporate in the final project design a plan for mine closure and land reclamation procedures according to current environmental regulations.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to prepare technical reports (including team based) in written form including graphs and tables, and oral reports in prepared presentations.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Conduct engineering design and analysis studies using engineering calculations, Excel spreadsheets, and mine modeling software.
    2. Describe the basic types of geological formation; locate ore deposits.
    3. Develop a mine plan based on data and operating parameters; present the process of mine reclamation at the end of the mine’s life.
    4. Design a mine.
    5. Operate a hypothetical mine.
    6. Investigate geology, mineralogy, and chemical composition fundamentals.
    7. Understand mineral processing and extractive metallurgy; identify the types of minerals and their proportions.
    8. Analyze commodities and their relevance in the mining activities.
    9. Relate the variation of market prices of metal and non-metal commodities on the operational decisions of mines.
    10. Summarize commodities applicable in industry.
    11. Utilize recently updated cost models for construction and the mining industry.
    12. Compare capital expenditures according to the magnitude of excavation, labor, and equipment for different tonnage and mining methods.
    13. Collaborate in groups on projects and presentations.
    14. Develop collaborative efforts for preparing a Group Project and a Final Oral Presentation.
    15. Effectively communicate with peers, front-line workforce, and management.
    16. Understand permitting process in the mining industry.
    17. Understand the paths of social license to operate (SLO) for mining projects.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Mining Industry
    2. Stages of the Mine Life Cycle
    3. Technical Mining Terms and Definitions
    4. Geology of Mineral Deposits
    5. Understanding Mining
    6. Open Pit Mine; Open Pit-Mining Methods
    7. Optimization of Surface Mining Operations
    8. The Mining Planning Cycle
    9. Equipment for Open Pit
    10. Road Design
    11. Dumping in Mining
    12. Achieving High Productivity Mining
    13. Truck/Shovel Selection
    14. Estimating Earthwork
    15. Open Pit Mining: Earth Moving Equipment and Methods
    16. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
    17. Mining Reclamation Process


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 205IN - Introduction to MATLAB II

    1 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    .5 lecture periods 1.5 lab periods

    Fundamental knowledge for problem solving and programming using MATLAB. Includes creating arrays, mathematical operations with 2-D arrays, curve fitting and interpolation, programing in MATLAB, functions and function files, three-dimensional plots, and solving a system of linear equations.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 105IN  or concurrent enrollment.
    Information: IN is the integrated version of the course with the lecture and lab taught simultaneously.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to create two-dimensional arrays and provide mathematical operations with 2D-arrays. 
    2. Demonstrate the ability to apply programming skills and techniques to solve engineering problems.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to generate 3-dimensional plots.

    Outline:
    1. Creating Arrays
      1. Creating a two-dimensional array (matrix)
      2. Notes about variables in MATLAB
      3. The transpose operator
      4. Array addressing
      5. Using a colon (;) in addressing arrays
      6. Built-in functions for handling arrays
      7. Working with specific columns
      8. Working with specific rows
    2. Mathematical Operations with 2-D Arrays
      1. Adding/removing columns and/rows to/from a matrix
      2. Array multiplication
      3. Using arrays in MATLAB built-in math functions
      4. Built-in functions for analyzing arrays
      5. Generation of random numbers
      6. Inverse, determinant, adjoint, norm, eigenvalue, eigenvector
    3. Curve Fitting and Interpolation
      1. The basic fitting interface  
      2. Interpolation
    4. Programming in MATLAB
      1. Relational and logical operators (revisited)
      2. Conditional statements
      3. The switch-case statement
      4. Nested loops and nested conditional statements
      5. The break and continue commands
      6. Debugging MATLAB program, debug menu, using breakpoints
    5. Functions and Function Files
      1. Creating a function file
      2. Structure of a function file
      3. Local and global variables
      4. Saving a function file
      5. Inline functions
      6. Using a function file
      7. Examples of simple function files
      8. Comparison between script files and function files
      9.        The feval command
    6. Three-Dimensional Plots
      1. Mesh and surface plots
      2. Plots with special graphics
      3. The view command
    7. Solving a System  of Linear Equations


    Effective Term:
    Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 210 - Engineering Mechanics: Statics

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Engineering analysis of static mechanical systems. Includes statics of particles, rigid bodies and equilibrium, distributed forces, analysis of structure, forces in beams and cables, friction, and moments of inertia.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 231  and PHY 210IN .



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate mastery to construct free-body diagrams for particles which are acted on by concurrent force systems.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to construct free-body diagrams of rigid boy and identify reactions for different types  of supports.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to compute the forces in the members of statically determinate trusses using the method of joints and the method of sections.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to compute the forces and moments acting on the members of statically determinate frames and machines.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to compute the shear forces and bending moments in a beam and draw shear force and bending moment diagrams.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to compute the moment of inertia or second moment of area for complex cross sections.

    Performance Objectives:
    1.         Apply the appropriate units of measurement to statics problems and check the dimensional integrity of their solutions.

    2.         Define force and moment vectors and obtain components and resultants.

    3.         Apply scalar and vector algebra to the principles of statics.

    4.         Construct free-body diagrams for bodies which are acted on by concurrent force systems.

    5.         Specify equilibrium equations and conditions in two and three dimensions.

    6.         Compute unknown forces, resultants, weights, angles, etc. for bodies which are acted on by concurrent force systems (2D or 3D) using ∑Fx=0, ∑Fy=0, and ∑Fz=0.

    7.         Compute the moment produced by a system of forces about a specified point for 2D problems.

    8.         Compute the moment produced by a system of forces about a specified point for 3D problems.

    9.         Compute the reaction forces and moments at supports and connections for statically determinate bodies using ∑Fx=0, ∑Fy=0 and ∑M=0.

    10.      Apply the principle of transmissibility to the conditions of equilibrium of a rigid body.

    11.      Compute the moment of force about given axis, which pass through the origin of chosen rectangular coordinates.

    12.      Compute the moment of force about given axis, which doesn’t pass through the origin of chosen rectangular coordinates.

    13.      Calculate the angle formed by two given vectors.

    14.      Apply properties of couples to solve the problems in statics.

    15.      Replace a force with an equivalent force-couple system at a specified point.

    16.      Replace a force with a force-couple system with a single equivalent force.

    17.      Move a force-couple system from point A to point B.

    18.      Reduce a given force system to a single force.

    19.      Reduce a given force system to a wrench.

    20.      Construct free-body diagrams of rigid body; identify reactions for different type of supports.

    21.      Construct free-body diagrams for two-force body and three-force rigid bodies.

    22.      Compute the location of the centroid for complex areas using tabulated solutions for the centroids of simple areas (rectangles, semicircles, triangles, etc.); calculate the first moment of area.

    23.      Compute the location of the centroid of an area bounded by analytical curves.

    24.      Compute the resultant and line of action for a distributed force applied to a beam.

    25.      Compute the resultant of the pressure forces on submerged surfaces.

    26.      Compute the forces in the members of statically determinate trusses using the method of joints and the method of sections.

    27.      Compute the forces and moments acting on the members of statically determinate frames and machines.

    28.      Compute the shear forces and bending moments in a beam.

    29.      Draw shear force and bending moment diagrams.

    30.      Compute the friction forces; apply laws of dry friction.

    31.      Construct free-body diagrams for systems with friction forces.

    32.      Compute the moment of inertia or second moment of area (I) for complex cross sections using tabulated solutions for simple areas (rectangles, semicircles, triangles, etc.).


    Outline:
    1. Statics of Particles
      1. Force on a particle/resultant of two forces
      2. Vectors
      3. Addition of vectors
      4. Resultant of several concurrent forces
      5. Resolution of a force into components
      6. Rectangular components of force unit vectors
      7. Addition of forces by summing X and Y components
      8. Equilibrium of a particle
      9. Free body diagrams
      10. Rectangular components of a force in space
      11. Addition of concurrent forces in space
      12. Equilibrium of a particle in space
    1. Rigid Bodies: Equivalent Systems of Forces
      1. External and internal forces
      2. Principle of transmissibility
      3. Vector product of two vectors
      4. Vector products expressed in terms of rectangular components
      5. Moment of a force about a point
      6. Varignon’s theorem
      7. Rectangular components of the moment of a rorce
      8. Scalar product of two vectors
      9. Mixed triple product of three vectors
      10. Moment of a force about a given axis
      11. Moment of a couple
      12. Equivalent couples
      13. Addition of couples
      14. Reduction of a system of forces to one force and one couple
      15. Equivalent system of forces
      16. Further reduction of a system of forces
      17. Reduction of a system of forces to a wrench
    2. Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies
      1. Reactions at supports and connections for two dimensional structure
      2. Equilibrium of a rigid body in two dimensions
      3. Statically indeterminate reactions
      4. Equilibrium of a two-force body
      5. Equilibrium of a three-force body
      6. Equilibrium of a rigid body in three dimensions
      7. Reactions at supports and connections for three dimensional structure
    3. Distributed Forces: Centroids and Centers of Gravity
      1. Center of gravity of a two dimensional body
      2. Centroids of areas and lines
      3. First moments of areas and lines
      4. Centroids of composite plates and wires
      5. Centroids of areas bounded by analytical curves
      6. Theorems of Pappus-Guldinus
      7. Distributed loads on beams
      8. Forces on submerged surfaces
    4. Analysis of Structure
      1. Simple trusses
      2. Analysis of trusses by method of joints
      3. Analysis of trusses by method of sections
      4. Analysis of frames
      5. Analysis of frames with multiforce members
      6. Analysis of frames which cease to be rigid when detached from their supports
      7. Analysis of machines
    5. Forces in Beams and Cables
      1. Internal forces in members
      2. Beams: various types of loading and support
      3. Shear and bending moment in a beam
      4. Shear and bending moment diagrams
    6. Friction
      1. Dry friction/coefficients of friction
      2. Angles of friction
      3. Friction forces in wedges
    7. Moments of Inertia
      1. Moment of inertia of an area
      2. Moment of inertia of an area bounded by analytical curves
      3. Polar moment of inertia
      4. Radius of gyration of an area
      5. Parallel-axis theorem


    Effective Term:
    Fall 2016

  
  • ENG 211IN - Computer Aided Engineering Design and Manufacturing

    3.00 Credits,
    3 lecture periods 6 lab periods

    Introduction to engineering graphics, concepts of engineering design and manufacturing processes. Includes sketching, manual drafting, dimensioning practices and tolerances, drafting standards, computer-aided design three-dimensional (3D) parts and assembly modeling, CAD/CAM in manufacturing processes, introduction to additive manufacturing.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 189  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate ability to read and interpret engineering and manufacturing drawings.
    2. Generate components and assembly drawings using 3D parametric modeling software.
    3. Demonstrate correct usage of ANSI and ASME drafting standards in engineering/manufacturing drawings, including geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
    4. Demonstrate knowledge of the computer numerical control machining.
    5. Demonstrate ability in applying CAD/CAM software to product design and program manufacturing processes.
    6. Exhibit knowledge to generate code for a different numerical control machines.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate the fundamental concepts and principles of engineering graphics as a language.
    2. Generate hand-drawn multi-view technical sketches.
    3. Apply methods of orthographic projection to produce detail.
    4. Demonstrate the fundamental concepts and principles of the computer-aided design (CAD) system.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to read engineering drawings.
    6. Construct three-dimensional (3D) solid models on a modern CAD system:
      1. Create 3D solid models of complex objects given a multi-view representation
      2. Create solid models of individual parts
      3. Create reference geometry features (planes, axes)
      4. Measure properties of 3D CAD models
    7. Create multi-view, auxiliary and section drawings from 3D solid models:
      1. Use the principal planes of projection and the principal views
      2. Create hidden lines, center lines, etc. based on graphics conventions
      3. Create multi-view drawings from 3D solid models on a CAD system
      4. Represent typical features: e.g. holes, threads, chamfers, and fillets
      5. Create auxiliary views automatically from 3D solid models
      6. Generate appropriate section views
    8. Create dimensioned drawings from 3D solid models:
      1. Understand the basic terminology and geometrical  relationships associated with dimensioning practice
      2. Demonstrate size, location, and coordinate dimensioning
      3. Create dimensioned drawings from 3D solid models
      4. Create complete working drawings including assembly and detailed drawings for a “real-life” object
    9. Apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T):
      1. Understanding and practical proficiency in dimensioning and tolerancing.
      2. Recognize GD&T dimensioning on an engineering drawing
      3. Determine maximum material condition (MMC) and its implications
      4. Calculate bonus tolerance allowances as features deviate from MMC
      5. Recognize and specify GD&T datums
      6. Visualize tolerance zones as specified in GD&T
      7. Create GD&T control features on an engineering drawing
    10. Apply CAD/CAM software to product design and program manufacturing processes
    1.    Describe numerical control (NC) and computer numerical control (CNC) machine systems
    2.    Identify NC/CNC components and control systems
    3.    Demonstrate the correct CNC programming sequences
    4.    Develop a program flowchart and process planning
    5.    Demonstrate knowledge of absolute and incremental positioning
    1. Understand CAM environment
    1.    Identify CAM icons
    2.    Identify different screen areas within CAM environment
    3.    Identify menu bars and program’s essential functions
    1. Create geometry using CAD/CAM software
      1. Identify geometry features : arc, lines, radius
      2. Identify geometry functions : moving, copying, mirroring
      3. Demonstrate the ability to create geometry using proper techniques appropriate for multi-axis tool pathing
      4. Demonstrate knowledge to select the best geometry creation technique for the part features to be machined
    2. Demonstrate knowledge to use ‘operating manager’ with toolpaths
      1. Determine proper tool path for material removal
      2. Demonstrate the ability to select proper tooling from tool library
      3. Demonstrate the ability to select proper speeds and feeds for tool motion based on machine limits and set up
    3. Exhibit knowledge to generate code for a different numerical control machines
      1. Understand coding for a different machining centers
      2. Understand coding a process model
    4. Understand principles of Additive Manufacturing
      1. Demonstrate knowledge of production methods and production materials
      2. Demonstrate the ability to apply design principles
      3. Analyze advantages and disadvantages of additive and subtractive manufacturing

    Outline:
    1. Sketching and manual drafting; Reading and interpreting drawings
    1. Free-hand sketching techniques
    2. Manual drafting techniques
    3. Manual drafting tools
    4. Orthographic projections
    5. Isometric sketches
    6. Oblique sketches
    7. Perspective sketches
    8. Section views
    9. Auxiliary views
    10. Details views
    11. Reading and interpreting engineering drawings
    1. Dimensioning practices and Tolerances; Drafting standards
      1. Dimensioning systems
        1. Unidirectional
        2. Aligned
        3. Tabular
        4. Arrowless
        5. Chart drawing
      2. Dimensioning fundamentals
        1. Dimension line spacing
        2. Chain dimensioning
        3. Datum dimensioning
      3. Preferred dimensioning practices
        1. Dimensioning angles
        2. Dimensioning a simple hole
        3. Dimensioning chamfers
        4. Dimensioning cylinders and conical shapes
        5. Dimensioning arcs
        6. Representing and dimensioning for external and internal threads
        7. Dimensioning countersink and counterbore holes
      4. Tolerancing conventions; Geometric and position tolerancing
    1. Direct tolerancing methods
    2. Tolerance expressions
    3. Angular tolerances
    4. Standard fits
    5. Tolerances of form
    6. Tolerances of orientation
    7. Positional tolerances
    8. ANSI and ASME drafting standards
    1. Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
      1. Introduction to parametric modeling
      2. Introduction to CAD systems (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor)
      3. Basic two-dimensional (2D) drawing skills
      4. Basic commands
      5. File management
      6. Command Manager and Feature Manager
    2. Parts and Assembly Modeling 
      1. Basic parts modeling
    1. Basic and complex 2D model design
    2. Three-dimensional (3D) modeling
    3. Basic part modeling
    4. Basic tools extrude, cut, hole, mirror, edit part modeling, etc.
    5. Revolved features
    6. Swept, Loft and additional features
      1. Three-Dimensional (3D) Assembly Modeling
    1. Bottom-up assembly modeling approach
    2. Linear and rotational motion
    3. Assembly-exploded view
    4. Part drawing from 3D models
    5. Configuration in SolidWorks
    6. Overview of SolidWorks modules (sheet designer, weldments, pipes, etc.)
    1. CAD data management in a corporate environment
      1. Product data management system
      2. Data vault principles
      3. Data version control
    2. Basics of Numerical Control (NC) and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machining Systems
      1. Description of NC/CNC machinery
      2. Objectives and application of NC/CNC
      3. Components and control systems
      4. Tool changers, tool storage, and special tooling/fixturing

     

    1. Positioning and Coordinate Systems used in NC/CNC Programming
      1. Absolute and incremental positioning
      2. The order of operations and documentation needed for programming
      3. Developing a program flowchart and process planning
      4. Importance of program documentation
      5. Fundamentals of G-code programming
    2. Introduction to a CAM Environment
      1. Main menu
      2. Overview of CAM icons
      3. Explanation of different screen areas within a CAM environment
      4. Explanation of menu bars and their uses
    3. Creating Geometry
      1. Arc, lines, radius
      2. Transforming geometry
      3. Moving
      4. Copying
      5. Rotating
      6. Mirroring
    4. Operating Manager
      1. Drilling, contour, pocketing, islands, and surfaces
      2. Get tool from library
      3. Selecting tool parameters
      4. Viewing tool path
    5. Code Generation for CNC
      1. Coding a process model
      2. Coding for different machining centers
    6. Introduction to additive manufacturing
      1. Additive manufacturing methods
    1. Production methods
    2. Production materials
    3. Design principles
      1. Alternative prototyping methods
    1. Injection mold prototyping
    2. Custom made machined parts
    3. Cost versus time saving
      1. Additive vs subtractive manufacturing (pros and cons)


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21
  
  • ENG 218 - Fluid Mechanics

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introduction and fundamental concepts of fluid dynamics and fluid statics. Includes basic equations for a control volume, fluids in motion, inviscid flow, dimensional analysis, flow in pipes and ducts, and boundary layers.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 210  and MAT 241 .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Explain the fundamental concepts and terminology in fluid mechanics such as: continuum assumption, velocity and stress fields, viscosity, and Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to correctly describe a fluid flow situation using timelines, pathlines, streamlines, and streaklines and classify flow fields as inviscid/viscous, laminar/turbulent, internal/external, and incompressible/compressible.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to correctly apply the basic equations of fluid mechanics to the special case of static situations and/or rigid body motion.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to correctly apply the integral forms of the continuity and momentum equations of fluid mechanics for engineering problems involving open flow situations using control volume analysis.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to correctly apply the differential form of the basic equations of fluid mechanics to engineering fluid flow situations using a differential approach which includes applying Bernoulli and Euler’s equations for an incompressible inviscid flow field.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to correctly apply the techniques of non-dimensionalization to define important dimensionless numbers such the Reynolds number and the Froude number.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Describe the fundamental concepts and definitions of fluid mechanics: continuum, velocity and stress fields, viscosity, Newtonian, and Non-Newtonian fluids.
    2. Provide flows representation using timelines, pathlines, streamlines, and streaklines.
    3. Classify flows (inviscid/viscous, laminar/turbulent, internal/external, incompressible/compressible).
    4. Apply basic equation of fluid statics.
    5. Apply Archimedes’ principle of buoyancy.
    6. Explain the relationship between gage and absolute pressures and pressure measurement with manometers and barometers.
    7. Analyze hydrostatic force on submerged surfaces.
    8. Discuss the Reynolds Transport Theorem for relating system formations to control volume formations.
    9. Analyze continuity and momentum equations in integral form.
    10. Analyze continuity and momentum equations in differential form.
    11. Apply the equations of continuity and momentum for solving flow problems in practice.
    12. Determine the total, local, and convective accelerations of a fluid particle from the velocity field.
    13. Determine stream function for two-dimensional incompressible flow.
    14. Illustrate translation, rotation, and deformation (linear and angular) of fluid particle.
    15. Apply Euler’s equations for incompressible inviscid flow.
    16. Apply Bernoulli equation for incompressible inviscid flow.
    17. Define static, stagnation, and dynamic pressures and their measurements.
    18. Apply dimensional analysis for a steady incompressible flow.
    19. Define important dimensionless numbers: Re, Eu, Fr, and M and describe their physical significances.
    20. Analyze laminar flow between parallel plates and in pipes and obtain analytical velocity distributions.
    21. Compute the flow rate, the wall shear stress, and distribution.
    22. Analyze turbulent flow in pipes and ducts using semi-empirical theories and experimental data.
    23. Analyze and compute head losses in pipes and ducts.
    24. Measure flow with various devices: restriction devices, linear flow meters, etc.
    25. Compare the boundary-layer concept and boundary-layer thicknesses: displacement thickness, disturbance thickness, and momentum thickness.
    26. Compute boundary-layer thickness using the momentum integral equation and analyze the effects of pressure gradients on boundary-layer flow.
    27. Estimate lift and drag for common body shapes from published data.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. The concept of a fluid
      2. Scope of fluid mechanics
      3. Methods of analysis
      4. Dimensions and units
    2. Fundamental Concepts
      1. Fluid as a continuum
      2. Velocity and stress fields
      3. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids
      4. Viscous and inviscid flows
      5. Laminar and turbulent flows
      6. Compressible and incompressible flows
      7. Internal and external flows
    3. Fluid Statics
      1. Basic equation of fluid statics
      2. Pressure variation in a static fluid
      3. Pressure measurements
      4. Hydrostatic forces on submerged surfaces
      5. Buoyancy and stability
    4. Basic Equations for a Control Volume
      1. Basic laws for a system
      2. Reynolds transport theorem
      3. Continuity equation in integral form
      4. Momentum equation in integral form
      5. Momentum equation with acceleration
      6. The first law of thermodynamics
      7. The second law of thermodynamics
    5. Fluids in Motion
      1. Velocity and flow visualization
      2. Conservation of mass
      3. Fluid translation, rotation, and deformation
      4. Motion of a fluid particle
      5. Momentum equation
    6. Incompressible Inviscid Flow
      1. The momentum equation for frictionless flow: Euler’s equation
      2. Bernoulli equation
      3. Bernoulli equation interpreted as an energy equation
      4. Energy grade line and hydraulic grade line
    7. Dimensional Analysis
      1. Nondimensionalizing the basic equations
      2. Buckingham pi theorem
      3. Significant dimensionless groups in fluid mechanics
      4. Flow similarity
    8. Flow in Pipes and Ducts
      1. Laminar flow between parallel plates
      2. Laminar flow in pipes
      3. Head losses in pipe flow
      4. Solution of pipe flow problems
      5. Methods of flow measurement
    9. Boundary Layers
      1. Boundary layer concept
      2. Boundary layer thicknesses
      3. Momentum integral equation for boundary layer flow
      4. Pressure gradients in boundary layer flow


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 220 - Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Study of the motion of bodies under the action of forces. Includes introduction to dynamics, kinematics of particles and rigid body, and kinetics of particles and rigid body.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 210  and MAT 241  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate mastery to determine the kinematic relationships between positions, velocity, and acceleration for two-dimensional motion of systems of particles and rigid body.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze linear and curvilinear motion of particles.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to analyze the two-dimensional motion of particles using: mass-force-acceleration method, work energy methods, and impulse-momentum method.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to apply method of relative velocity and relative acceleration to provide motion analysis of rigid body.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to apply force-mass-acceleration method for kinetic analysis of rigid bodies in plane motion.
    6. Demonstrate the ability to apply equations of motion for rigid bodies undergoing translation, rotation about a fixed axis, and general plane motion.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Determine the kinematic relationships between positions, velocity, and acceleration for two-dimensional motion of systems of particles and rigid body.
    2. Identify and analyze special cases of rectilinear motion (uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion).
    3. Compute position, velocity, and acceleration of particles in relative motion and dependent relative motion.
    4. Analyze curvilinear motion in Cartesian (rectangular) coordinate system.
    5. Analyze problems of projectile motion.
    6. Analyze curvilinear motion in normal-tangential coordinate system.
    7. Analyze curvilinear motion in polar coordinate system.
    8. Analyze the two-dimensional motion of particles using: mass-force-acceleration method, work energy method and impulse-momentum method.
    9. Classify dynamics problems by the best method of solutions.
    10. Apply Newton’s law to obtain equations of two-dimensional motion for dynamic systems.
    11. Draw free body and kinetics diagrams for particles.
    12. Analyze forces in Cartesian (rectangular), normal-tangential, and polar coordinate systems.
    13. Compute linear and angular momentum of a particle.
    14. Apply the principle of impulse and momentum to problems of direct and oblique central impact.
    15. Analyze rotation of the rigid body about a fixed axis.
    16. Analyze the planar rigid body motion by using both absolute and translating frame of reference.
    17. Apply vector analysis to solve kinematics problems.
    18. Apply method of relative velocity and relative acceleration to provide motion analysis of rigid body.
    19. Apply graphical method of instantaneous centers to provide motion analysis of rigid body.
    20. Apply relative motion analysis using rotating coordinate systems.
    21. Determine the Coriolis acceleration in plane motion.
    22. Determine the mass moment of inertia of a body.
    23. Draw free body and kinetics diagrams for rigid bodies.
    24. Compute angular momentum of a rigid body.
    25. Apply force-mass-acceleration method for kinetic analysis of rigid bodies in plane motion.
    26. Formulate the equations of motion for rigid bodies undergoing translation, and rotation about a fixed axis, and general plane motion.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Dynamics
      1. Application of dynamics
      2. Basic concepts
      3. Newton’s laws
      4. Solving problems in dynamics
      5. Appropriate units of measurement for dynamics problems
    2. Kinematics of Particles
      1. Introduction
      2. Rectilinear motion
      3. Displacement, velocity, and acceleration
      4. Graphical interpretations
      5. Curvilinear motion
      6. Rectangular coordinates
      7. Projectile motion
      8. Normal and tangential coordinates
      9. Circular motion
      10. Polar coordinates
    3. Kinetics of Particles
      1. Introduction
      2. Unconstrained and constrained motion
      3. Free-body diagram
      4. Mass force acceleration method
      5. Work energy method
      6. Kinetic energy
      7. Potential energy
      8. Conservation of energy
      9. Impulse-momentum method
      10. Linear momentum of a particle
      11. Conservation of linear momentum
      12. Impact
      13. Angular momentum of a particle
      14. Conservation of angular momentum
    4. Kinematics of Rigid Body
      1. Introduction
      2. Unconstrained and constrained motion
      3. Rectilinear translation
      4. Curvilinear translation
      5. Rotation about a fixed axis
      6. Angular-motion relations
      7. Absolute motion
      8. Principles of relative motion
      9. Method of relative velocity
      10. Graphical method of instantaneous centers
      11. Method of relative acceleration
      12. Motion relative to rotating axes; coriolis acceleration
    5. Kinetics of Rigid Body
      1. Introduction
      2. General equations of motion
      3. Unconstrained and constrained motion
      4. Translation
      5. Fixed-axis rotation
      6. General plane motion


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 220RC - Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics Recitation

    1 Credits, 1 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 0 lab periods

    Taken concurrently with ENG 220  in order to provide supplemental instruction. Facilitated discussions, discrete study groups, and collaborative problem solving provide more exposure to and more thorough discourse on engineering mechanics concepts and theory. Emphasizes applying mathematics, science, and engineering concepts to solve kinematic and kinetics problems; while providing opportunity to apply problem solving techniques and critical thinking. Study of the motion of bodies under the action of forces. Includes introduction to dynamics, kinematics of particles and rigid body, and kinetics of particles and rigid body.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 210  and MAT 241 .
    Corequisite(s): ENG 220  
    Information: Pass-Fail only. Students receiving a grade of C in ENG 210  or MAT 241  will be required to register for the ENG 220RC course concurrently; for students receiving a B grade or higher in ENG 210  and MAT 241 , the ENG 220RC course is optional, but highly recommended. Please be aware that if this course is not applicable toward your program of study, it is not eligible for the calculation of Federal Student Aid.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering concepts to solve kinematic and kinetics problems.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Determine the kinematic relationships between positions, velocity, and acceleration for two-dimensional motion of systems of particles and rigid body.
    2. Identify and analyze special cases of rectilinear motion (uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion).
    3. Compute position, velocity, and acceleration of particles in relative motion and dependent relative motion.
    4. Analyze curvilinear motion in Cartesian (rectangular) coordinate system.
    5. Analyze problems of projectile motion.
    6. Analyze curvilinear motion in normal-tangential coordinate system.
    7. Analyze curvilinear motion in polar coordinate system.
    8. Analyze the two-dimensional motion of particles using: mass-force-acceleration method, work energy method and impulse-momentum method.
    9. Classify dynamics problems by the best method of solutions.
    10. Apply Newton’s law to obtain equations of two-dimensional motion for dynamic systems.
    11. Draw free body and kinetics diagrams for particles.
    12. Analyze forces in Cartesian (rectangular), normal-tangential, and polar coordinate systems.
    13. Compute linear and angular momentum of a particle.
    14. Apply the principle of impulse and momentum to problems of direct and oblique central impact.
    15. Analyze rotation of the rigid body about a fixed axis.
    16. Analyze the planar rigid body motion by using both absolute and translating frame of reference.
    17. Apply vector analysis to solve kinematics problems.
    18. Apply method of relative velocity and relative acceleration to provide motion analysis of rigid body.
    19. Apply graphical method of instantaneous centers to provide motion analysis of rigid body.
    20. Apply relative motion analysis using rotating coordinate systems.
    21. Determine the Coriolis acceleration in plane motion.
    22. Determine the mass moment of inertia of a body.
    23. Draw free body and kinetics diagrams for rigid bodies.
    24. Compute angular momentum of a rigid body.
    25. Apply force-mass-acceleration method for kinetic analysis of rigid bodies in plane motion.
    26. Formulate the equations of motion for rigid bodies undergoing translation, and rotation about a fixed axis, and general plane motion.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Dynamics
      1. Application of dynamics
      2. Basic concepts
      3. Newton’s laws
      4. Solving problems in dynamics
      5. Appropriate units of measurement for dynamics problems
    2. Kinematics of Particles
      1. Introduction
      2. Rectilinear motion
      3. Displacement, velocity, and acceleration
      4. Graphical interpretations
      5. Curvilinear motion
      6. Rectangular coordinates
      7. Projectile motion
      8. Normal and tangential coordinates
      9. Circular motion
      10. Polar coordinates
    3. Kinetics of Particles
      1. Introduction
      2. Unconstrained and constrained motion
      3. Free-body diagram
      4. Mass force acceleration method
      5. Work energy method
      6. Kinetic energy
      7. Potential energy
      8. Conservation of energy
      9. Impulse-momentum method
      10. Linear momentum of a particle
      11. Conservation of linear momentum
      12. Impact
      13. Angular momentum of a particle
      14. Conservation of angular momentum
    4. Kinematics of Rigid Body
      1. Introduction
      2. Unconstrained and constrained motion
      3. Rectilinear translation
      4. Curvilinear translation
      5. Rotation about a fixed axis
      6. Angular-motion relations
      7. Absolute motion
      8. Principles of relative motion
      9. Method of relative velocity
      10. Graphical method of instantaneous centers
      11. Method of relative acceleration
      12. Motion relative to rotating axes; coriolis acceleration
    5. Kinetics of Rigid Body
      1. Introduction
      2. General equations of motion
      3. Unconstrained and constrained motion
      4. Translation
      5. Fixed-axis rotation
      6. General plane motion


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 221 - Introduction to Aerospace Engineering

    3.00 Credits, 3..00 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introduction to the fundamental concepts, and approaches of aerospace engineering. Includes history of aeronautics and astronautics, overview of modern design and analysis practices for aircraft and spacecraft industry. Elements of aerodynamics, airfoils and wings. Airplane performance, stability, and control. Aircraft and rocket propulsion. Fundamentals of orbital motion. Basic aircraft performance and aspects of vehicle conceptual design.

    Prerequisite(s): PHY 210IN  , MAT 241   and MAT 262   (MAT 262   may be taken concurrently)



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Describe the historical development and summarize progress made to date in the aerospace field.
    2. Explain the basic concepts of aerodynamics, propulsion, flight mechanics, aircraft materials and structure, aircraft support systems.
    3. Identify vehicle types, historical references, and modern design practices.
    4. Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts of aerodynamics
    5. Demonstrate knowledge of aerodynamic shapes
    6. Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental principles of aircraft performance

    Outline:
    1. Aviation history and first aeronautical engineers

     

    1. Historical perspective of aerospace engineering
    2. Beginning of the theory of flight
    3. Aviation pioneers

                                                                                                        

    1. Fundamental Concepts

     

    1. Fundamental physical quantities
    2. Units of measurement
    3. The source of all aerodynamic forces
    4. Anatomy of airplane
    5. Anatomy of a space vehicle

     

    1. Standard Atmosphere

     

    1. Altitude; relation between geopotential and geometric altitudes

    2. Hydrostatics equations

    3. U.S. and International Standard Atmosphere

    4. Pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity of the Earth’s atmosphere

    IV. Basic equations in integral form of a control volume

     

    1. Basic law for a system
    2. Conservation of mass
    3. The angular – momentum principle
    4. The first and second laws of thermodynamics
    5. Relation of system derivatives for control volume formulation
    6. Conservation of mass: special cases
    7. Momentum equation for inertial control volume
    8. Differential control volume analysis
    9. Control volume moving with constant velocity

     

    1. Differential analysis of fluid motion

     

    1. Conservation of mass
    2. Rectangular and cylindrical coordinate systems
    3. Motion of a fluid of particle
    4. Fluid translation: acceleration of a fluid particle in a velocity field
    5. Fluid rotation
    6. Fluid deformation
    7. Momentum equation
    8. Forces acting on a fluid of a particle
    9. Differential momentum equation
    10. Newtonian Fluid: Navier-Stokes equations

     

    1. Basics Aerodynamics

     

    1. Incompressible and compressible flow
    2. Basic concepts of thermodynamics
    3. Isentropic flow
    4. Energy equation
    5. Speed of sound
    6. Measurement of airspeed
    7. Supersonic wind tunnels and rockets engines
    8. Introduction to viscous flow
    9. Results for laminar boundary layer
    10. Results for turbulent boundary layer
    11. Compressibility effects on skin friction
    12. Transitional flow
    13. Flow separation
    14. Viscous effects on drag

     

    1. Aerodynamics Shapes

     

    1. Airfoil nomenclature and data
    2. Lift, drag and moments coefficients
    3. Pressure coefficient
    4. Critical Mach number and critical pressure coefficient
    5. Drag-divergence Mach number
    6. Calculation of induced drag

     

    1. Aircraft Performance

     

    1. Performance parameters
    2. Equations of motion
    3. Drag polar: drag and lift coefficients
    4. Required and available thrust
    5. Required and available power
    6. Rate of climb
    7. Gliding flight
    8. Thrust-velocity curves
    9. Range and endurance
    10. Takeoff and landing performance
    11. V-n diagrams
    12. Aerodynamics efficiency


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21

  
  • ENG 232 - Thermodynamics

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Basic laws and examples of engineering applications of macroscopic thermodynamics. Includes an introduction to concepts and definitions, energy and the first law of thermodynamics, evaluating properties, control volume energy analysis, the second law of thermodynamics, using entropy, vapor power systems, gas power systems, and refrigeration and heat pump systems.

    Prerequisite(s): With a grade of B or higher: MAT 241  and PHY 210IN . Students receiving a grade of C in MAT 241  or PHY 210IN  will be required to register for the ENG 232RC  course concurrently; for students receiving a grade of B or higher in MAT 241  and PHY 210IN , the ENG 232RC  course is optional.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate mastery of unit conversions, temperature scale conversions, and fundamental definitions involving systems, pressure, and temperature.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to correctly apply the first law of thermodynamics in various physical processes including power and refrigeration cycles.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to use thermodynamic tables when analyzing closed systems undergoing processes involving phase changes in containers having moving boundaries with both insulated and diathermic walls.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to apply control-volume analysis for open systems involving various mechanical devices which include being able to apply the conservation of mass and the related-rate form of the first law of thermodynamics in the context of engineering steady-state flow problems.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to correctly apply various forms of the second law of thermodynamics in physical situations including determining maximum efficiency of power and refrigeration cycles.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply SI and English units for mass, length, time, force, and temperature.
    2. Explain absolute pressure and gage pressure, as well as methods and instruments used for its measurement.
    3. Convert temperature readings in Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, or Rankine scales to any other scale.
    4. Identify an appropriate system, its boundary, and its surroundings.
    5. Describe the difference between an isothermal process and an adiabatic process.
    6. Evaluate kinetic and potential energy, work and power in various engineering systems including mechanical, electrical, and thermodynamic.
    7. Identify and quantify heat transfer by various modes including conduction, radiation, and convection.
    8. Apply closed system energy balances.
    9. Conduct energy analyses for systems undergoing thermodynamic cycles.
    10. Analyze saturation temperature, saturation pressure, state principle, quality, enthalpy, specific heat, and ideal gas model.
    11. Retrieve property data of various fluids and gases from the appropriate tables, using the state principle of fix states and linear interpolation when required.
    12. Sketch T-v, p-v, and p-T diagrams, and locate principal states on these diagrams.
    13. Determine specific volume, enthalpy, and internal energy of a simple compressible system in the midst of a liquid–vapor phase change using quality and the appropriate tables.
    14. Apply the incompressible substance model and use the generalized compressibility chart to relate p-v-T data of gases.
    15. Apply the ideal gas model for thermodynamic analysis.
    16. Explain the concepts of mass flow rate, mass rate balance, volumetric flow rate, steady state, flow work.
    17. Identify devices such as muzzle, diffuser, turbine, compressor, pump and heat exchanger.
    18. Apply control volumes and the principles of conservation of mass and energy rate balance to model steady state flow through various mechanical devices.
    19. Apply mass and energy balances for the analysis of transient flow, using control volumes, appropriate assumptions, and property data.
    20. Define the concepts of reversible process, irreversible process, internal and external irreversibilities internally reversible process, Carnot corollaries, and Carnot efficiency.
    21. Describe the Clausisus and the Kelvin-Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics.
    22. Evaluate the performance of power cycles and refrigeration and heat pump cycles accounting for irreversibilities.
    23. Apply entropy balances for closed systems and for control systems.
    24. Use entropy data appropriately to include: retrieving data from appropriate tables, using quality to evaluate the specific entropy of two-phase liquid-vapor mixtures, sketching T-s and h-s diagrams and locating states on such diagrams, determining Ds of ideal gases with constant or variable specific heats, evaluating isentropic efficiencies for turbines, nozzles, compressors, and pumps with ideal gases.
    25. Compute heat transfer for close systems.
    26. Sketch schematic diagrams and accompanying T-s diagrams of Rankine, superheat, and reheat vapor power cycles.
    27. Apply conservation of mass and energy, the second law, and property data to determine power cycle performance.
    28. Identify the effects on Rankine cycle performance of varying steam generator pressure, condenser pressure, and turbine inlet temperature.
    29. Sketch p-v and T-s diagrams of the Otto, Diesel, and dual cycles, applying the closed system energy balance and the second law of thermodynamics.
    30. Sketch the T-s diagrams of vapor-compression refrigeration and heat pump cycles.
    31. List the advantages and disadvantages of various refrigerants commonly in use.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction: Concepts and Definitions
      1. Using thermodynamics
      2. Defining systems and describing their behavior
      3. Measuring mass, length, time, and force
      4. Specific volume and specific pressure
      5. Measuring temperature
    2. Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics
      1. Reviewing mechanical concepts of energy
      2. Evaluating energy transfer by work
      3. Energy of a system
      4. Energy transfer by heat
      5. Energy balance for closed systems
      6. Energy analysis of cycles
    3. Evaluating Properties
      1. p-v-T relation
      2. Retrieving thermodynamic properties
      3. Generalized compressibility chart
      4. Ideal gas model
      5. Internal energy, enthalpy, and specific heats of idea gases
      6. Evaluating Du and Dh of ideal gases
      7. Polytropic process of an ideal gas
    4. Control Volume Energy Analysis
      1. Conservation of mass for a control volume
      2. Conservation of energy for a control volume
      3. Analysis of control volumes at steady state
      4. Transient analysis
    5. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
      1. Using the second law and statements of the second law
      2. Reversible and irreversible processes
      3. Applying the second law to thermodynamic cycles
      4. Kelvin temperature scale
      5. Maximum performance measures for cycles operating between two reservoirs
      6. Carnot cycle
    6. Using Entropy
      1. Defining entropy change
      2. Retrieving entropy data
      3. Entropy change in internally reversible processes
      4. Entropy rate balance for control volumes
      5. Isentropic processes
      6. Isentropic efficiencies of turbines, nozzles, compressors, and pumps
      7. Heat transfer and work in internally reversible, steady-state flow processes
    7. Vapor Power Systems
      1. Modeling vapor power systems
      2. Analyzing vapor power systems: Rankine cycle
      3. Improving performance: superheat and reheat
    8. Gas Power Systems
      1. Engine terminology
      2. Air-Standard otto cycle
      3. Air-Standard diesel cycle
      4. Air-Standard dual cycle
      5. Brayton cycle
      6. Regeneration, reheat and compression with intercooling
    9. Refrigeration and Heat Pump Systems
      1. Vapor refrigeration systems
      2. Analyzing vapor-compression refrigeration systems
      3. Heat pump systems


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 232RC - Thermodynamics Recitation

    1 Credits, 1 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 0 lab periods

    Taken concurrently with ENG 232  in order to provide supplemental instruction. Facilitated discussions, discrete study groups, and collaborative problem solving provide more exposure to and more thorough discourse on engineering concepts and theory. Emphasizes applying mathematics, science, and engineering concepts to solve thermodynamics problems; while providing opportunity to apply problem solving techniques and critical thinking. Basic laws and examples of engineering applications of macroscopic thermodynamics. Includes an introduction to concepts and definitions, energy and the first law of thermodynamics, evaluating properties, control volume energy analysis, the second law of thermodynamics, using entropy, vapor power systems, gas power systems, and refrigeration and heat pump systems.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 241  and PHY 210IN .
    Corequisite(s): ENG 232  
    Information: Pass-fail only. Students receiving a grade of C in MAT 241  or PHY 210IN  will be required to register for the ENG 232RC course concurrently; for students receiving a B grade or higher in MAT 241  and PHY 210IN , the ENG 232RC course is optional, but highly recommended. Please be aware that if this course is not applicable toward your program of study, it is not eligible for the calculation of Federal Student Aid.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of science, mathematics, and engineering concepts to solve thermodynamic problems.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply SI and English units for mass, length, time, force, and temperature.
    2. Explain absolute pressure and gage pressure, as well as methods and instruments used for its measurement.
    3. Convert temperature readings in Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, or Rankine scales to any other scale.
    4. Identify an appropriate system, its boundary, and its surroundings.
    5. Describe the difference between an isothermal process and an adiabatic process.
    6. Evaluate kinetic and potential energy, work and power in various engineering systems including mechanical, electrical, and thermodynamic.
    7. Identify and quantify heat transfer by various modes including conduction, radiation, and convection.
    8. Apply closed system energy balances.
    9. Conduct energy analyses for systems undergoing thermodynamic cycles.
    10. Analyze saturation temperature, saturation pressure, state principle, quality, enthalpy, specific heat, and ideal gas model.
    11. Retrieve property data of various fluids and gases from the appropriate tables, using the state principle of fix states and linear interpolation when required.
    12. Sketch T-v, p-v, and p-T diagrams, and locate principal states on these diagrams.
    13. Determine specific volume, enthalpy, and internal energy of a simple compressible system in the midst of a liquid–vapor phase change using quality and the appropriate tables.
    14. Apply the incompressible substance model and use the generalized compressibility chart to relate p-v-T data of gases.
    15. Apply the ideal gas model for thermodynamic analysis.
    16. Explain the concepts of mass flow rate, mass rate balance, volumetric flow rate, steady state, flow work.
    17. Identify devices such as muzzle, diffuser, turbine, compressor, pump and heat exchanger.
    18. Apply control volumes and the principles of conservation of mass and energy rate balance to model steady state flow through various mechanical devices.
    19. Apply mass and energy balances for the analysis of transient flow, using control volumes, appropriate assumptions, and property data.
    20. Define the concepts of reversible process, irreversible process, internal and external irreversibilities internally reversible process, Carnot corollaries, and Carnot efficiency.
    21. Describe the Clausisus and the Kelvin-Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics.
    22. Evaluate the performance of power cycles and refrigeration and heat pump cycles accounting for irreversibilities.
    23. Apply entropy balances for closed systems and for control systems.
    24. Use entropy data appropriately to include: retrieving data from appropriate tables, using quality to evaluate the specific entropy of two-phase liquid-vapor mixtures, sketching T-s and h-s diagrams and locating states on such diagrams, determining Ds of ideal gases with constant or variable specific heats, evaluating isentropic efficiencies for turbines, nozzles, compressors, and pumps with ideal gases.
    25. Compute heat transfer for close systems.
    26. Sketch schematic diagrams and accompanying T-s diagrams of Rankine, superheat, and reheat vapor power cycles.
    27. Apply conservation of mass and energy, the second law, and property data to determine power cycle performance.
    28. Identify the effects on Rankine cycle performance of varying steam generator pressure, condenser pressure, and turbine inlet temperature.
    29. Sketch p-v and T-s diagrams of the Otto, Diesel, and dual cycles, applying the closed system energy balance and the second law of thermodynamics.
    30. Sketch the T-s diagrams of vapor-compression refrigeration and heat pump cycles.
    31. List the advantages and disadvantages of various refrigerants commonly in use.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction: Concepts and Definitions
      1. Using thermodynamics
      2. Defining systems and describing their behavior
      3. Measuring mass, length, time, and force
      4. Specific volume and specific pressure
      5. Measuring temperature
    2. Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics
      1. Reviewing mechanical concepts of energy
      2. Evaluating energy transfer by work
      3. Energy of a system
      4. Energy transfer by heat
      5. Energy balance for closed systems
      6. Energy analysis of cycles
    3. Evaluating Properties
      1. p-v-T relation
      2. Retrieving thermodynamic properties
      3. Generalized compressibility chart
      4. Ideal gas model
      5. Internal energy, enthalpy, and specific heats of idea gases
      6. Evaluating Du and Dh of ideal gases
      7. Polytropic process of an ideal gas
    4. Control Volume Energy Analysis
      1. Conservation of mass for a control volume
      2. Conservation of energy for a control volume
      3. Analysis of control volumes at steady state
      4. Transient analysis
    5. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
      1. Using the second law and statements of the second law
      2. Reversible and irreversible processes
      3. Applying the second law to thermodynamic cycles
      4. Kelvin temperature scale
      5. Maximum performance measures for cycles operating between two reservoirs
      6. Carnot cycle
    6. Using Entropy
      1. Defining entropy change
      2. Retrieving entropy data
      3. Entropy change in internally reversible processes
      4. Entropy rate balance for control volumes
      5. Isentropic processes
      6. Isentropic efficiencies of turbines, nozzles, compressors, and pumps
      7. Heat transfer and work in internally reversible, steady-state flow processes
    7. Vapor Power Systems
      1. Modeling vapor power systems
      2. Analyzing vapor power systems: Rankine cycle
      3. Improving performance: superheat and reheat
    8. Gas Power Systems
      1. Engine terminology
      2. Air-Standard otto cycle
      3. Air-Standard diesel cycle
      4. Air-Standard dual cycle
      5. Brayton cycle
      6. Regeneration, reheat and compression with intercooling
    9. Refrigeration and Heat Pump Systems
      1. Vapor refrigeration systems
      2. Analyzing vapor-compression refrigeration systems
      3. Heat pump systems


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19
  
  • ENG 260 - Electrical Engineering

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introductory survey of the electrical engineering discipline with emphasis on electrical power applications. Includes resistive circuits, inductance and capacitance, transients, steady-state sinusoidal analysis, and logic circuits. Also includes operational amplifiers, microcomputers, and diode electronics.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 231  and PHY 216IN .


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to apply Node Voltage Analysis and Mesh Current Analysis equations for circuits containing dependent and independent sources and resistors.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to reduce complex circuits to Thevenin (or Norton) equivalent circuits.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to use transient analysis to find the value of any current or voltage in resistor-inductor (RL), resistor-capacitor (RC), and resistor-inductor-capacitor (RCL) circuits.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to apply phasors to solve mesh and node problems in alternating current (AC) circuits.
    5. For a given combination of load impedance, applied voltage and through-current, demonstrate the ability to determine any of the following quantities: average and reactive power, power factor, complex power, and rms voltage and current values.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply the passive sign convention to calculate power in an ideal circuit element and state whether the power is being absorbed or delivered.
    2. Apply Kirchoff’s voltage law and current law (KVL/KCL) to simple circuits.
    3. Apply parallel and series relationships to find the equivalent resistance of complex resistor networks and the equivalent source when sources are corrected in series and parallel.
    4. Apply KVL/KCL to solve single node/mesh (loop) circuit problems, such as finding an unknown voltage, current or power.
    5. Write and solve Node Voltage Analysis and Mesh Current Analysis equations for circuits containing dependent and independent sources and resistors.
    6. Describe opportunities for applying source transformations and explain why source transformations are useful in circuit analysis.
    7. Reduce complex circuits to Thevenin (or Norton) equivalent circuits, and explain the physical significance of the internal resistance and voltage (or current) quantities.
    8. Apply v-i formulae for inductors and capacitors to find voltage when current is specified, and vice-versa; and find the equivalent component value when multiple capacitors and inductors are connected in series/parallel.
    9. Explain in both qualitative and quantitative terms why the state variable in an inductor or capacitor resists abrupt change.
    10. Use the formula sheet to find the value of any current or voltage in resistor inductor (RL) and resistance capacitor (RC) circuits.
    11. Given a parallel or series resonant circuit (RLC) circuit, the circuit’s initial conditions, and a step excitation, find the node voltage (parallel RLC) or loop current (series RLC).
    12. Write any given sinusoid as a phasor, and vice-versa and draw phasor diagrams for circuits with resistor (R), inductor (L), and capacitor (C) components.
    13. Apply phasors to find Thevenin/Norton equivalents and solve mesh and node problems in alternating current (ac) circuits.
    14. Given a combination of load impedance, applied voltage and through-current, find any of these quantities: average and reactive power, power factor, complex power, and rms voltage and current values.
    15. Analyze three-phase circuits in Y-Y connection.
    16. List the essential terminal characteristics of an ideal op-amp, and apply these to calculate voltage and current quantities in op-amp circuits with and without feedback resistance connected.
    17. Describe a design problem in digital logic form and use a truth table to verify a Boolean expression.
    18. Using a truth table, write a Boolean expression in sums of products (SOP) and product of sums (POS) form and construct a digital circuit using AND and OR gates.
    19. Explain about computer architecture and essential computer subsystems.
    20. List the type of microprocessors and memory types used in various electronic devices.
    21. Explain the role of microcomputers in control systems.
    22. Describe methods to program microprocessors for various operations.
    23. Identify the basics of diode in electronic instrumentations.
    24. Explain the characteristic of various diode.
    25. Analyze a rectifier circuit.
    26. Discuss small signal analysis of diode and its applications

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Overview of electrical engineering
      2. Circuits, currents, and voltages
      3. Power and energy
      4. Kirchhoff’s current law
      5. Kirchhoff’s voltage law
      6. Introduction to circuit elements
      7. Introduction to circuits
    2. Resistive Circuits
      1. Resistances in series and parallel
      2. Network analysis by using series and parallel equivalents
      3. Voltage-divider and current-divider circuits
      4. Node-voltage analysis
      5. Mesh-current analysis
      6. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits
      7. Superposition principle
    3. Inductance and Capacitance
      1. Capacitances in series and parallel
      2. Physical characteristics of capacitors
      3. Inductance
      4. Inductances in series and parallel
      5. Practical inductors
      6. Mutual inductance
    4. Transients
      1. Direct current (DC) steady state
      2. RL circuits
      3. RC and RL circuits with general sources
      4. RLC second-order circuits
    5. Steady-State Sinusoidal Analysis
      1. Phasors
      2. Complex impedances
      3. Circuit analysis with phasors and complex impedances
      4. Power in alternating current (AC) circuits
      5. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits
      6. Balanced three-phase circuits
    6. Logic Circuits
      1. Basic logic circuit concepts
      2. Representation of numerical data in binary form
      3. Combinatorial logic circuits
      4. Synthesis of logic circuits
    7. Operational Amplifiers
      1. Ideal operational amplifiers
      2. Summing-point constraint
      3. Inverting amplifiers
      4. Noninverting amplifiers
      5. Design of simple amplifiers
    8. Microcomputers
      1. Microcomputer organization
      2. Microprocessor types
      3. Memory types
      4. Digital process control
      5. Machine code and assembly languages
    9. Diode Electronics
      1. Diode concepts and operations
      2. Diode types and load line characteristics
      3. Ideal and piecewise-linear diode model
      4. Rectifier circuits


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/18
  
  • ENG 274IN - Digital Logic

    4 Credits, 6 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Introduction to the theory and design of digital logic circuits. Includes combinational logic design, sequential logic design, combinational and sequential component design, register-transfer level design, optimizations and tradeoffs, and physical implementation.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 175IN  and MAT 231 .
    Information: IN is the integrated version of the course with the lecture and lab taught simultaneously.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to use combinational logic design principles to analyze and design logic circuits to perform specified functions.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to use sequential logic design principles to analyze and design logic circuits to perform specified functions.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to use register-transfer level (RTF) design principles to analyze and design logic circuits to perform specified functions.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to design basic systems components such as multiplexers, adders, multipliers, flip-flops, registers, and counters.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to use a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog to program a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply fundamental design theory to the design and optimization of digital systems.
    2. Use basic competence in design using transistor transistor logic (TTL) integrated circuits and medium scale integration (MSI) parts.
    3. Use Boolean functions and their representations, including the concepts of canonicity and efficiency, the concept of optimal implementation, and delays in circuits.
    4. Explain the basics of sequential functions.
    5. Design an optimal synchronous finite state machine from an informal description.
    6. Design basic systems components such as multiplexers, adders, multipliers, flip-flops, registers, and counters.
    7. Describe the importance of temporal behavior of digital circuits.
    8. Explain and use the Verilog design language and program a Zilinx board.
    9. Apply the theories as a prerequisite background for subsequent courses in computer architecture, microprocessor programming and design, and computer aided very large scale integrations (VLSI) design.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction
      1. Converting between number systems
        1. Decimal
        2. Binary
        3. Hexadecimal
        4. Binary coded decimal (BCD)
      2. Implementing digital systems
    2. Combinational Logic Design
      1. Switches
      2. The complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor
      3. Boolean logic gates
      4. Boolean algebra
      5. Combinational design process
      6. Decoders and muxes
    3. Sequential Logic Design – Controllers
      1. Storing one bit – flip-flops
      2. Finite-state machines (FSMs) and controllers
      3. Controller design
    4. Combinational and Sequential Component Design
      1. Registers
      2. Adders
      3. Shifters
      4. Comparators
      5. Counters
      6. Multiplier – array style
      7. Subtractors
      8. Arithmetic-logic units – ALUs
      9.       Register files
    5. Register-Transfer Level (RTL) Design
      1. RTL design method
      2. RTL design examples and issues
      3. Determining clock frequency
      4. Memory components
      5. Queues (first-in first-out, FIFO)
    6. Optimizations and Tradeoffs
      1. Combinational logic optimization and tradeoffs
      2. Sequential logic optimizations and tradeoff
      3. Data path component tradeoffs
    7. Physical Implementation / Manufactured IC Technologies Including Field Programmable Arrays (FPGAs)


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2018
  
  • ENG 276IN - Computer Programming for Engineering Applications II

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Continuation of ENG 175IN . Advanced programming in C for engineering applications. Includes review of C programming, memory concepts, algorithms and analysis, and an introduction to C++

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 175IN  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to develop, debug, and test large software projects in both the C and C++ programming languages to solve engineering problems.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze, compare, and select appropriate data structures and associated algorithms for engineering applications.
    3. Demonstrate software engineering best practices and object-oriented design and programming.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Preprocess, compile and/or link programs.
    2. Use project management tools (e.g. IDEs(Integrated Development Environment), Cmake, etc).
    3. Use libraries and code re-use across executables.
    4. Debug compiled programs.
    5. Understand and use applications with pointers and memory addresses.
    6. Pass by value and pass by reference.
    7. Allocate and manage memory.
    8. Distinguish between stack and heap in software programs.
    9. Utilize trees, queues, stacks, heaps, and graphs.
    10. Use appropriate algorithms for sorting, searching, hashing, traversals, and shortest path.
    11. Design, analyze and implement algorithms.
    12. Asymptotic analysis of algorithms.
    13. Construct/delete objects in C++.
    14. Use basic C++ operations and commands.
    15. Use Standard Template Library (STL) Classes.

    Outline:
    1. Review of C Programming
      1. Create source code
      2. Link and/or compile main with other functions
      3. Execute programs
      4. Debugging errors in program execution
    2. Memory Concepts
      1. Allocating memory using malloc  and/or calloc, realloc, and free
      2. Determining memory requirements from sizing of data
      3. Using the stack and heap
    3. Algorithms and Analysis
      1. Construction /use of binary trees, stacks, heaps, graphs
      2. Algorithms/methods of data for sorting, searching, traversing, hashing, shortest path analysis
      3. Design and implementation of applied algorithms
    4. C++ Introduction
      1. Objects and classes
      2. Commands unique to C++ ie, cin, cout, others.
      3. STL classes


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/18
  
  • ENG 282IN - Basic Electric Circuits

    5 Credits, 7 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Introduction to the fundamentals of alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) circuits. Includes circuit variables, circuit elements, simple resistive circuits, techniques of circuit analysis, the operational amplifier; inductance, capacitance, and mutual inductance; response of first-order resistor-inductor (RL) and resistor-capacitor (RC) circuits, natural and step responses of RLC circuits, and sinusoidal steady-state analysis.

    Prerequisite(s): MAT 231  and PHY 216IN .
    Corequisite(s): MAT 262  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate competence to apply Kirchhoff’s voltage law/Kirchhoff’s current law (KVL/KCL) to solve single node/loop circuit problems, such a finding an unknown voltage, current of power.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to apply v-i formulae for inductors and capacitors to find voltage when current is specified, and vice-versa.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to apply phasors to find Thevenin/Norton equivalents and solve mesh and mode problems in ac circuits.
    4. Demonstrate the ability to analyze all circuit responses using PSpice 16 and compare calculated values with laboratory measures values and explain the differences.
    5. Demonstrate the ability to analyze and test dimmer circuits, buffer circuits, current sources, RL, RC, and RLC circuits with transistors and operational amplifiers (OpAmps).
    6. Demonstrate the ability to organize and prepare written prelab papers and laboratory reports.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply the passive sign convention to calculate power in an ideal circuit element and state whether the power is being absorbed or delivered.
    2. Apply parallel, series, and delta-wye relationships to find the equivalent resistance of complex resistor networks, and the equivalent source when sources are corrected in series and parallel.
    3. Use the principles of current and voltage division to design D’Arsonval voltmeters and ammeters, given the desired full-scale readings and any two of the meter movement parameters.
    4. Apply Kirchhoff’s voltage law/Kirchhoff’s current law (KVL/KCL) to solve single node/loop circuit problems, such as finding an unknown voltage, current or power.
    5. Write and solve Node Voltage Analysis and Mesh Current Analysis equations for circuits containing dependent and independent sources and resistors.
    6. Discuss opportunities for applying source transformations and explain why source transformations are useful in circuit analysis.
    7. Reduce complex circuits to Thevenin (or Norton) equivalent circuits, and explain the physical significance of the internal resistance and voltage (or current) quantities.
    8. List the essential terminal characteristics of an ideal op-amp, and apply these to calculate voltage and current quantities in op-amp circuits with and without feedback resistance connected.
    9. Apply v-i formulae for inductors and capacitors to find voltage when current is specified, and vice-versa; and find the equivalent component value when multiple capacitors and inductors are connected in series/parallel.
    10. Explain in both qualitative and quantitative terms why the state variable in an inductor or capacitor resists abrupt change.
    11. Apply the “FIFE” formula to find the value of any current or voltage in RL and RC circuits with switching events.
    12. Find the node voltage (parallel RLC) or loop current (series RLC) given a parallel or series resistor/inductor/capacitor (RLC) circuit, the circuit’s initial conditions, and a step excitation.
    13. Write any given sinusoid as a phasor, and vice-versa; and draw phasor diagrams for circuits with R, L and C components.
    14. Apply phasors to find Thevenin/Norton equivalents and solve mesh and node problems in ac circuits.
    15. Write the KCL equations for a mutually coupled transformer circuit with source and load.
    16. Find the unknown currents, voltages, and powers in a given circuit for an ideal transformer circuit with a given turns ratio.
    17. Calculate the load impedance for an ideal transformer circuit with a given turns ratio to achieve maximum power transfer and explain the concept of transformer use for impedance matching.
    18. Build simple breadboard circuits consisting of resistors, capacitors, inductors, op-amps, and power supplies. Use digital multimeters and oscilloscopes to measure dc and ac currents and voltages, frequency of a periodic waveform, and phase shift between ac waveforms.
    19. Perform design exercises to satisfy simple specifications (such as a prescribed voltage, current or gain factor), taking into account component tolerances and reasonable measurement accuracy.
    20. Write programs in PSpice 16 (for Windows) to the level of DC and AC sweeps, parameter sweeps, transient analysis, and switching with initial conditions.
    21. Organize and prepare written laboratory reports.
    22. Construct and test, on breadboard, circuits that contain resistors, potentiometers,  capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, operational amplifiers, D’Arsonval meters, light emitting diodes (LEDs), photodiodes, ac and dc power supplies, volt-amp meters, oscilloscopes, frequency generators, and microphones.
    23. Analyze all circuit responses using PSpice 16 and compare calculated values with laboratory measured values and explain differences.
    24. Breadboard, analyze and test dimmer circuits, buffer circuits, current sources, RL, RC, and RLC circuits with transistors and operational amplifiers (OpAmps).
    25. Measure the gain and phase response of simple audio filters and specific discrete frequencies.
    26. Design and verify an LC crossover network for use with tweeter and woofer loudspeakers.
    27. Organize and prepare written prelab papers and laboratory reports.

    Outline:
    1. Circuit Variables
      1. Electrical engineering: an overview
      2. The international system of units
      3. Circuit analysis: an overview
      4. Voltage and current
      5. The ideal basic circuit element
      6. Power and energy
    2. Circuit Elements
      1. Voltage and current sources
      2. Electrical resistance (Ohm’s law)
      3. Construction of a circuit model
      4. Kirchhoff’s laws
      5. Analysis of a circuit containing dependent sources
    3. Simple Resistive Circuits
      1. Resistors in series
      2. Resistors in parallel
      3. The voltage-divider circuit
      4. The current-divider circuit
      5. Measuring voltage and current
      6. The Wheatstone bridge
      7. Delta-to wye (pi-to tee) equivalent circuits
    4. Techniques of Circuit Analysis
      1. Terminology
      2. Introduction to the mode-voltage method
      3. The node-voltage method and dependent sources
      4. The node-voltage method: some special cases
      5. Introduction to the mesh-current method
      6. The mesh-current method and dependent sources
      7. The mesh-current method: some special cases
      8. The mode-voltage method verses the mesh-current method
      9. Source transformations
      10. Thevenin and Norton equivalents
      11. More on deriving a Thevenin equivalent
      12. Maximum power transfer
      13. Superposition
    5. The Operational Amplifier
      1. Operational amplifier terminals
      2. Terminal voltages and currents
      3. The inverting-amplifier circuit
      4. The summing-amplifier circuit
      5. The noninverting-amplifier circuit
      6. The difference-amplifier circuit
      7. A more realistic model for the operational amplifier
    6. Inductance, Capacitance, and Mutual Inductance
      1. The inductor
      2. The capacitor
      3. Series-parallel combinations of inductance and capacitance
      4. Mutual inductance
      5. A closer look at mutual inductance
    7. Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits
      1. The natural response of an RL circuit
      2. The natural response of an RC circuit
      3. The step response of RL and RC circuits
      4. A general solution for step and natural responses
      5. Sequential switching
      6. Unbounded response
      7. The Integrating amplifier
    8. Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits
      1. Introduction to the natural response of a parallel RLC circuit
      2. The forms of the natural response of a parallel RLC circuit
      3. The step response of a parallel RLC circuit
      4. The natural and step response of a series RLC circuit
      5. A circuit with two integrating amplifiers
    9. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis
      1. The sinusoidal source
      2. The sinusoidal response
      3. The phasor
      4. The passive circuit elements in the frequency domain
      5. Kirchhoff’s laws in the frequency domain
      6. Series, parallel, and delta-to-wye simplifications
      7. Source transformations and Thevenin-Norton equivalent circuits
      8. The node-voltage method
      9. The mesh-current method
      10. The transformer
      11. The ideal transformer
      12. Phasor diagrams


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2017/18
  
  • ENG 297 - Mineral Resources Engineering Topics Seminar

    1 Credits, 1 Contact Hours
    1 lecture period 0 lab periods

    Proseminar provides a first opportunity for students to research and exchange information on topics of interest in mineral resource engineering. Includes basic mining concepts and systems, mining technologies throughout the mine life, safety and environmental issues, current challenges, and technology innovations in the broad area of mining resources. Further develop skills in technical writing, project design, and apply knowledge from general education courses to challenges in the global development of resources.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 102IN  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate effective verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to organize, plan, and schedule projects to effectively manage resources and reach deadlines.
    3. Apply knowledge of the main aspects of mineral resources and construction sectors.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Apply knowledge of the main aspects of mineral resources and construction sectors including:
      1. Basic mining principles
      2. Mining’s contribution to society and civilization
      3. Mining technologies throughout of mine life
      4. Prospecting
      5. Exploration
      6. Mine development
      7. Mine operations
      8. Mine closure
      9. Mine regulations
      10. Consequences of mining or not mining
    2. Investigate current industry practices
      1. Evaluate current mining engineering technology
      2. Apply safety and environmental requirements in mine design
      3. Evaluate human and social impact on cost, productivity, and safety of the mining operations
      4. Demonstrate effective communication skills with peers, front-line workers, and management
      5. Organize project
      6. Consequences of mining or not mining
    3. Analyze information on mining engineering
      1. Prepare technical papers
      2. Identify the need of information
      3. Locate the information
      4. Access the quality of information
      5. Use the information effectively
    4. Demonstrate knowledge of career options in mineral resource and construction sectors
    5. Plan the career as a mining engineer; develop career plan
    6. Understand issues in sustainable resource development
    7. Organize, plan, and schedule projects to effectively manage resources and reach deadlines

    Outline:
    1. Mining’s Contributions to Society and Civilization
    2. Managing Information in Mining Engineering
      1. Identify the need of information
      2. Locate the information
      3. Access the quality of information
      4. Use the information effectively
    3. Information Analysis in Mining Engineering
    4. Current Mining Industry Practices
    5. Basic Mining Principles
    6. Mining’s Contributions to Society and Civilization
    7. Mining Technologies Throughout Mine Life
    8. Prospecting
    9. Exploration
    10. Mine Development
    11. Mine Operations
    12. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
    13. Mine Closure
    14. Mine Regulations
    15. Sustainable Resource Development
    16. Consequences of Mining or Not Mining
    17. Career Options and Career Plan
    18. Effective Communication Skills


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2018/19

English as a Second Language

  
  • ESL 060CM - Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English I

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    High beginning-level communication for situations and tasks relevant to daily and academic life. Includes conversation about social and academic topics with communicative appropriateness and clarity. Also includes listening and speaking strategies and practice, basic vocabulary, study strategies, technology, and exploration of college resources.

    Prerequisite(s): Required score on ESL assessment test.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisite may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate comprehension of oral passages at the high-beginning level.
    2. Demonstrate appropriate speaking skills at the high-beginning level.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Use listening/speaking skills to respond to questions, discuss short oral passages, and converse about topics relevant to daily and academic life with communicative appropriateness.
    2. Use basic vocabulary appropriate to a given situation.
    3. Integrate a variety of study strategies into English learning.
    4. Use technology for assignments and communication.
    5. Employ college resources.

    Outline:
    1. Listening and Speaking
    1. Listening comprehension
      1. Use context and background knowledge to aid comprehension
      2. Interpret basic questions and classroom instructions
      3. Identify speakers, setting, and purpose
      4. Identify individual sounds, words, and phrases in a short oral passage
      5. Distinguish gist, general ideas, and specific information
    2. Speaking and communication
    1. Classroom functions
    2. Conversation/discussion/language functions
    3. Fluency and intelligibility within communicative contexts
    1. Communicative appropriateness
      1. Levels of formality and informality
      2. Non-verbal communication
    2. Critical thinking
    1. Prediction
    2. Identification of context
    1. Social, Classroom, and Academic Vocabulary
    1. Recognize new words and expressions in oral tasks
    2. Use new words and expressions in oral tasks
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Introduction of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Interpretation of teacher feedback
    4. Use of various study techniques
    1. Introduction to Technology for Academic Purposes
    2. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2017
  
  • ESL 060RV - Reading & Vocabulary for Non-Native Speakers of English I

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    High beginning-level reading and vocabulary skills for non-native speakers of English. Includes comprehension of narrative and informational texts, vocabulary, written tasks, information literacy, study strategies, college resources, and a community of readers.

    Prerequisite(s): Required score on ESL assessment test.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisite may be waived with permission of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate literal comprehension of high-beginning written material.
    2. Demonstrate interpretive comprehension of high-beginning written material.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Use high beginning-level reading strategies and critical thinking skills to demonstrate comprehension of high beginning-level written materials.
    2. Use basic strategies to synthesize new vocabulary.
    3. Demonstrate development of literal and interpretive comprehension through written tasks.
    4. Demonstrate an awareness of basic information literacy skills.
    5. Integrate a variety of study strategies into English learning.
    6. Employ college resources.
    7. Participate in a community of readers.

    Outline:
    1. Comprehension of  High-Beginning Narrative and Informational Texts
    1. Reading strategies
    1. Use strategies before reading/studying
    2. Use strategies during reading/studying
    3. Use strategies after reading/studying
    4. Reading fluency
    1. Comprehension of texts at different levels
      1. Comprehension texts at a literal level
    1.   Identify main ideas
    2.   Identify time sequence
    3.   Make comparisons
    4.   Identify speakers, setting
    5.   Recognize examples
    6.   Determine pronoun referents  
      1. Comprehension texts at an interpretive level
      2. Identify purpose
      3. Relate to personal experience
      4. Make connections within text
      5. Interpret illustrations
    1. Vocabulary
    1. Identify and use key vocabulary
    2. Parts of speech
    3. Collocations
    4. Use of picture dictionary
    1. Written Tasks
    1. Short answer
    2. Summary
    1. Information Literacy
    1. Interactive library orientation
    2. Value of resources as information
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Introduction of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Interpretation of teacher feedback
    4. Use of study strategies
    5. Test taking skills
    6. Identify and use parts of a textbook
    1. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center
    1. Community of Readers
    1. Reading as a catalyst for exchange of ideas
    2. Acknowledging diverse points of view
    3. Discussing diverse cultural values as they relate to readings


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2017
  
  • ESL 060WG - Writing and Grammar for Non-Native Speakers of English I

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    High beginning-level writing and grammar skills for non-native speakers of English. Includes rhetorical forms, writing processes and conventions, sentence structure, grammar, study strategies, technology, and college resources.

    Prerequisite(s): Required score on ESL assessment test.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisite may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Use high-beginning level grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics in written tasks.
    2. Use high-beginning level content and organization in written tasks.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Organize and write complete sentences and basic paragraphs at the high beginning level.
    2. Use high beginning-level writing process with standard writing conventions.
    3. Use high beginning-level sentence structure in written tasks.
    4. Identify and correctly use high beginning-level English grammatical structures in written tasks.
    5. Integrate a variety of study strategies into academic learning.
    6. Use technology for assignments and communication.
    7. Employ college resources.

    Outline:
    1. Rhetorical Forms
      1. Narrative
      2. Descriptive
    2. Writing Processes and Conventions
    1. Handwriting
    2. Standard sentence level conventions
      1. Basic punctuation
      2. Capitalization
    3. Standard paragraph structure
      1. Title
      2. Paragraph form
      3. Related ideas
    4. Editing
    1. High beginning-level grammar
    2. High beginning-level mechanics
    3. High beginning-level sentence structure
    1. Sentence Structure
    1. Simple
    2. Compound with and, but, so, or
    3. Complex with because and when
    4. Parts of a sentence (subject, predicate, direct object)
    1. Grammar
    1. Verb tense and mood (affirmative, negative, questions, short answers, contractions)
    1. Simple present
    2. Present progressive
    3. Simple past
    4. Modals
    1. Can/could
    2. Should (advice)
    1. Verb and infinitive complements
      1. Like to
      2. Want to
    1. Parts of speech
      1. Nouns
    1. Singular and plural
    2. Basic article usage
    3. Possessive forms
      1. Pronouns
    1. Subject and object
    2. Possessive
    3. Demonstrative
    4. Pronoun referents

    3.   Adjectives

    a.   Simple

    b.   Comparatives

    4.   Adverbs

    a.   Manner

    b.   Frequency

    5.   Prepositions

    1. Location
    2. Time
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Introduction to syllabus
    2. Requests for clarification
    3. Organization of course materials
    4. Interpretation of teacher feedback
    5. Use of various study techniques
    6.          Test-taking skills
    1. Read, comprehend, and ask for clarification of directions
    2. Complete all questions even if unsure
    1. Technology
    1. Introduction to MyPima
    2. Use of Pima email account
    3. Basic Internet use
    1. College Resources
      1. Faculty office hours
      2. Learning/tutoring center
      3. Advising and counseling center


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2017
  
  • ESL 070CM - Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English II

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Intermediate-level communication skills for increased fluency and comprehension. Includes conversation about social and academic topics with increased proficiency and clarity; listening and speaking strategies and practice; vocabulary building skills; study strategies; technology; and increased awareness of college resources.

    Prerequisite(s): Required score on ESL assessment test OR completion of ESL 060CM  with a grade of C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate comprehension of oral passages at the intermediate level.
    2. Demonstrate appropriate speaking skills at the intermediate level.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Use low intermediate-level listening/speaking skills to discuss written and spoken materials and to participate appropriately in the classroom with increased proficiency.
    2. Use new vocabulary appropriately, including language functions and idiomatic expressions, in oral communication. 
    3. Integrate a variety of study strategies into English learning.
    4. Use technology for assignments and communication.
    5. Employ college resources.

    Outline:
    1. Listening and Speaking
    1. Listening comprehension
    1. Use context and background knowledge to aid comprehension
    2. Identify speakers, setting, and purpose
    3. Distinguish gist, general ideas, and specific information
    4. Use grammatical clues to aid comprehension
    1. Speaking and communication
    1. Classroom functions
    2. Conversation, discussion, and language functions
    3. Fluency and intelligibility within communicative contexts
    1. Communicative appropriateness
      1. Levels of formality and informality
      2. Non-verbal communication
    2. Critical thinking
    1. Make predictions
    2. Draw inferences and conclusions
    3. Differentiate between facts and opinions
    1. Social and Vocabulary
    1. Recognize and use new words and idiomatic expressions in oral tasks
    2. Recognize and use context clues

    III.   Study Strategies

    1. Use of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Interpretation of teacher feedback
    4. Use of various study techniques
    1. Use of Technology for Academic Purposes
    2. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2017
  
  • ESL 070PR - Pronunciation II

    2 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Pronunciation for non-native English speakers at the intermediate level. Includes word stress, sentence stress and rhythm, and intonation patterns.

    Prerequisite(s): ESL 060CM  with a C or better, or required score on ESL assessment test.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ESL Oral Communication course (CM).
    Information: Prerequisite(s) may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Use appropriate intermediate-level stress in words.
    2. Utilize appropriate intermediate-level rhythm.
    3. Apply appropriate intermediate-level intonation patterns.

    Outline:
    1. Word Stress
    1. Syllables
    2. Syllabic stress
    3. Schwa vowel and unstressed syllables
    4. Parts of speech
    1. Sentence Stress and Rhythm
    1. Content words and function words
    2. Linking – contractions, elisions, sound changes
    1. Intonation Patterns
    1. Statements, imperatives
    2. WH questions (who, when, what, where, why)
    3. Yes/no questions
    4. Lists (slightly rising/falling)


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2016
  
  • ESL 070RV - Reading and Vocabulary for Non-Native Speakers of English II

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Intermediate-level reading and vocabulary skills for non-native speakers of English. Includes comprehension of narrative and informational texts, vocabulary, written tasks, information literacy, study strategies, college resources, and a community of readers.

    Prerequisite(s): Required score on ESL assessment test OR completion of ESL 060RV  with a grade of C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate literal comprehension of intermediate written material.
    2. Demonstrate interpretive comprehension of intermediate written material.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Use low intermediate-level reading strategies and critical thinking skills to demonstrate comprehension of low intermediate-level academic texts.
    2. Use low intermediate-level vocabulary strategies to synthesize new vocabulary.
    3. Demonstrate development of literal and interpretive comprehension through written tasks.
    4. Demonstrate an awareness of basic information literacy skills.
    5. Develop and integrate a variety of study strategies into English learning.
    6. Employ college resources.
    7. Participate in a community of readers.

    Outline:
    1. Comprehension of Low Intermediate Narrative and Informational Texts
    1. Reading strategies
    1. Use strategies before reading/studying
    2. Use strategies during reading/studying
    3. Use strategies after reading/studying
    4. Reading fluency
    1. Comprehension of texts at different levels
    1. Comprehend at a literal level
    1. Identify main ideas
    2. Identify details
    3. Identify time sequences with transition words
    4. Recognize examples
    5. Identify speakers and setting
    1. Comprehend at an interpretive level
    1. Draw inferences and conclusions
    2. Differentiate between facts and opinions
    3. Use syntactic/context clues to interpret sentence meaning 
    1. Identify purpose
    2. Become aware of connotations
    3. Express opinions
    1. Vocabulary
    1. Use of context clues
    2. Understanding of prefixes, suffixes, roots
    3. Synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
    4. Word families
    5. Collocations
    6.          Vocabulary resources
      1. Printed and online
      2. Dictionaries
    7. Spelling rules
    8. Recognition of idiomatic expressions
    1. Written Tasks
    1. Short answer
    2. Summary
    1. Information Literacy
    1. Interactive library orientation
    2. Value of resources as information
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Use of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Interpretation of teacher feedback
    4. Use of various study strategies
    5. Test-taking skills
    6.          Time management and organizational skills
    7. Location of structural features of textbooks
    1. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center
    1. Community of Readers
    1. Reading as a catalyst for exchange of ideas
    2. Acknowledging diverse points of view
    3. Discuss diverse cultural values as they relate to readings


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2017
  
  • ESL 070WG - Writing and Grammar for Non-Native Speakers of English II

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Intermediate-level academic writing and grammar skills. Includes rhetorical forms, writing process and conventions, sentence structure, grammar, study strategies, technology, and college resources.

    Prerequisite(s): Required score on ESL assessment test OR completion of ESL 060WG  with a grade of C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Use intermediate level grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics in written tasks.
    2. Use Intermediate level content and organization in written tasks.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Organize and write sentences and paragraphs at the low intermediate level.
    2. Use low intermediate-level writing process with standard writing conventions.
    3. Use low intermediate-level sentence structure in written tasks.
    4. Identify and correctly use low intermediate-level grammatical structures in written tasks.
    5. Integrate a variety of study strategies into academic learning.
    6. Use technology for assignments and communication.
    7. Employ college resources.

    Outline:
    1. Rhetorical Forms
    1. Descriptive
    2. Narrative 
    3. Opinion
    1. Writing Process and Conventions
    1. Choose and narrow topics
    2. Organize ideas
    3. Standard paragraph structure
    1. Title
    2. Paragraph form
    3. Organize related ideas
    4. Topic sentence with controlling ideas
    5. Supporting sentences
    6. Concluding sentence
    1. Revision/editing
      1. Revise for content and coherence
      2. Edit for low intermediate-level grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics
    1. Sentence Structure
    1. Simple
    2. Compound
    3. Complex - adverb clauses (when, after, before, while, if, because)
    4. Parts of a sentence
    1. Subject
    2. Predicate
    3. Direct object 
    1. Phrases
    1. Prepositional
    2. Noun
    3. Adverb
    4. Adjective
    1. Grammar
    1. Verb Tense and mood (affirmative, negative, questions, short answers, and contractions)
    1. Review of simple present
    2. Review of present progressive
      1.          Progressive/dynamic verbs
      2.          Non-progressive/stative verbs
    3. Review of simple past
    4. Future (will and be going to)
    5. Past progressive
    6. Recognize present perfect
    7. Modals (may, might, can/could, should, must, have to)
    1. Parts of speech
      1. Nouns
        1.          Review definite articles
        2.          Review indefinite articles
      2. Pronouns
      3.          Review of subject, direct object, possessive, and demonstrative
      4.          Pronoun referents
    2. Adjectives
      1.          Comparative
      2.          Superlative
    3. Adverbs
      1.          Review manner
      2.          Review frequency
    4. Other structures
    1. Introduction to gerunds and infinitives
    2. Introduction to quoted speech (direct quotations)
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Use of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Interpretation of teacher feedback
    4. Use of various study techniques
    5. Test-taking skills
    1. Technology
    1. Use technology for assignments
    2. Use technology for communication
    1. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2017
  
  • ESL 080CM - Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English III

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    High intermediate-level communication skills for increased fluency and comprehension. Includes listening comprehension and retention, speaking and academic presentations, and communicative appropriateness.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 080CM; or completion of ESL 070CM  and ESL 060RV  and ESL 060WG  with a C or better; or placement into ESL 70 level and completion of ESL 070CM  with a C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate comprehension of oral passages at the high-intermediate level.
    2. Demonstrate appropriate speaking skills at the high-intermediate level.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Demonstrate comprehension and retention of oral passages through high intermediate oral and written tasks, including basic note-taking. 
    2. Plan, organize, and present informal and basic academic presentations. 
    3. Use appropriate register, functions, and non-verbal communication in presentations and discussions. 
    4. Use context to learn and use new academic vocabulary appropriately. 

    Outline:
    1. Listening Comprehension and Retention
    1. Introduction to note taking
    2. Pre-listening tasks
    1. Identify purpose
    2. Make predictions
    1. Listen for main ideas and details
    2. Use critical thinking skills
    1. Draw inferences and conclusions
    2. Recognize and differentiate between facts and opinions
    3. Identify speakers, setting, register, and tone
    4. Identify positive and negative connotations
    1. Use context and grammatical clues to aid comprehension
    2. Summarize/retell
    1. Speaking and Academic Presentations
    1. Discussion functions
    2. Presentations
    1. Short, informal presentations
    2. Introduction to academic presentations
    3. Fluency and intelligibility
    1. Communicative Appropriateness
    1. Register
    2. Non-verbal communication


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2019/2020
  
  • ESL 080PR - Pronunciation III

    2 Credits, 2 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Pronunciation for non-native English speakers at the advanced level. Includes word stress and vowel reduction, sentence stress and rhythm, and intonation and phrasing.

    Prerequisite(s): ESL 070CM  with a C or better, or required score on ESL assessment test.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ESL Oral Communication course (CM).
    Information: Prerequisite(s) may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Use appropriate advanced-level stress and vowel reduction in words and phrases.  
    2. Utilize appropriate advanced-level sentence stress and rhythm.
    3. Apply appropriate advanced-level intonation and phrasing.  

    Outline:
    1. Word Stress and Vowel Reduction
    1. Multisyllabic words and suffixes  
    2. Parts of speech and word forms  
    3. Compound nouns  
    4. Phrasal verbs  
    1. Sentence Stress and Rhythm
    1. Content words and function words
    2. Normal focus
    3. Contrastive stress and special focus
    1. Intonation and Phrasing
    1. Review of basic intonation patterns
    2. Emotions, attitudes, focus, emphasis, and/or intent
    3. Conclusion and endings
    4. Elisions and sound changes in linking
    5. Thought groups and phrasing


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2016
  
  • ESL 080RV - Reading & Vocabulary for Non-Native Speakers of English III

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    High intermediate-level reading and vocabulary skills for non-native speakers of English. Includes comprehension of narrative and informational texts, vocabulary, written tasks, information literacy, study strategies, college resources, and a community of readers.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 080RV; or completion of ESL 070RV  and ESL 060CM  and ESL 060WG  with a C or better; or placement into ESL 70 level and completion of ESL 070RV  with a C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate literal comprehension of high-intermediate written material.
    2. Demonstrate interpretive comprehension of high-intermediate written material.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Use high intermediate level reading strategies and critical thinking skills to demonstrate comprehension of high intermediate-level academic texts.
    2. Develop high-intermediate-level strategic approaches for the comprehension of academic vocabulary.
    3. Demonstrate development of literal and interpretive comprehension through written tasks.
    4. Apply basic information literacy skills.
    5. Develop and integrate a variety of study strategies into academic learning.
    6. Employ college resources.
    7. Participate in a community of readers.

    Outline:
    1. Comprehension of High-Intermediate Narrative and Informational Texts
    1. Reading Strategies
    1. Use strategies before reading/studying
    2. Use strategies during reading/studying
    3. Use strategies after reading/studying
    4. Reading fluency
    1. Comprehension of text at different levels
    1. Comprehend at a literal level
      1.          Identify main ideas
      2.          Identify details
      3.          Recognize the inter-relationship of words, phrases, and clauses
      4.          Retelling
      5.          Identify speakers and setting
      6.          Identify time sequences with transition words
    2. Comprehend at an interpretive level
      1.          Draw inferences and conclusions
      2.          Differentiate between facts and opinions
      3.          Use syntactic/context clues to interpret textual meanings
      4.          Identify purpose and tone
      5.          Interpret illustrations
    1. Comprehend at a critical level
      1. Explore diverse points of view and perspectives from different sources
      2. Express and support opinions based on readings
      3. Evaluate credibility of information sources
    1. Vocabulary  at the High Intermediate Level
    1. Context, structural, and syntactic clues
    2. Prefixes, suffixes, roots
    3. Academic word list
    4. Synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
    5. Word families
    6.    Collocations
    7. Vocabulary resources
      1. Printed and online
      2. Dictionaries
    8. Spelling rules
    9. Idiomatic expressions
    1. Written Tasks
    1. Journal
    2. Summary and Response
    3. Short Answer (30 or more words)
    4. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Use of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Use of teacher feedback
    4. Use of various study techniques
    5. Test taking skills
    6. Location of structural features of textbooks
    1. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center
    4. Orientation to Library
    1. Community of Readers
    1. Reading as a catalyst for exchange of ideas
    2. Acknowledging diverse points of view
    3. Discuss diverse cultural values as they relate to readings


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21
  
  • ESL 080WG - Writing and Grammar for Non-Native Speakers of English III

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    High intermediate-level academic writing and grammar skills. Includes rhetorical forms, writing process and conventions, sentence structure, grammar, study strategies, technology, and college resources.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 080WG; or completion of ESL 070WG  and ESL 060RV  and ESL 060CM  with a C or better; or placement into ESL 70 level and completion of ESL 070WG  with a C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Use high-intermediate level grammar, sentence structures, and mechanics in written tasks.
    2. Use high-intermediate level content and organization in written tasks.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Write and edit multi-paragraph academic compositions at the high intermediate level.
    2. Use high intermediate writing process and standard writing conventions.
    3. Use high intermediate sentence structure in written tasks.
    4. Identify and correctly use high intermediate grammatical structures in written tasks.
    5. Integrate a variety of study strategies into academic learning.
    6. Use technology for assignments and communication.
    7. Employ college resources.

    Outline:
    1. Multi-paragraph Academic Compositions
      1. Summary and Response
      2. Cause and Effect
      3. Persuasive
    2. Writing Process and Conventions
      1. Choose and narrow topics
      2. Organize ideas
      3. Apply standard paragraph structure
        1. Topic sentence
        2. Supporting ideas
        3. Expansion/examples
        4. Coherence within and between paragraphs
      4. Develop standard essay structure
        1. Introduction with hook and thesis statement
        2. Supporting ideas
        3. Expansion/examples
        4. Conclusion
      5. Revision/editing
        1. Revise content
        2. Edit
    3. Sentence Structure
      1. Simple
      2. Compound
      3. Complex
        1. Production of adverb and adjective clauses
        2. Recognition of noun clauses
      4. Prepositional Phrases
    4. Grammar
      1. Verb tense and mood
        1. Present perfect vs. simple past and present
        2. Recognize past perfect
        3. Passive voice in present tense
        4. Past modals
        5. Real conditionals
      2. Parts of speech
        1. Adjectives
          1. Review of comparative and superlative
          2. Equative
        2. Adverbs
          1. Review of time, manner, frequency
          2. Review of comparative and superlative
          3. Equative
      3. Other structures
        1. Gerunds and infinitives
        2. Reported and quoted speech
    5. Study Strategies
      1. Use of syllabus
      2. Organization of course materials
      3. Interpretation of teacher feedback
      4. Use of various study techniques
      5. Test taking skills
    6. Technology
      1. Use technology for assignments
      2. Use technology for communication
    7. College Resources
      1. Faculty office hours
      2. Learning/tutoring center
      3. Advising and counseling center


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21
  
  • ESL 088CM - Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English IV

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Advanced-level academic communication skills for increased fluency and comprehension. Includes listening comprehension and retention, speaking and oral presentations, communicative appropriateness, and critical thinking skills.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 088CM; or completion  ESL 080CM  or ESL 085CM with a C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate comprehension of oral passages at the advanced-level.
    2. Demonstrate appropriate speaking skills at the advanced-level.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Take notes from academic lectures using advanced listening and note-taking skills.    
    2. Use critical thinking skills to discuss and analyze oral academic materials.    
    3. Plan, organize, and present comprehensible academic presentations.    
    4. Deduce word meanings from context, structural and grammatical clue, and integrate academic vocabulary and collocations into discussion and presentations.

    Outline:
    1. Listening Comprehension and Retention
    1. Note taking strategies
    2. Pre-listening tasks
    3. Identify and demonstrate comprehension of gist, general ideas, and specific information in academic passages
    4. Use context and grammatical clues to aid comprehension
    5. Summarize/retell
    1. Speaking and Oral Presentations
    1. Academic presentation functions
    1. Oral citations
    2. Audio visual aids
    3. Non-verbal communication
    4. Response to questions
    1. Fluency and intelligibility within communicative contexts
    1. Communicative Appropriateness
    1. Register
    2. Non-verbal communication
    1. Critical Thinking Skills
    1. Make predictions
    2. Understand and draw inferences and conclusions
    3. Differentiate between facts and opinions


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/2021
  
  • ESL 088RV - Reading and Vocabulary for Non-Native Speakers for English IV

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Advanced-level reading and vocabulary skills for non-native speakers of English.  Includes comprehension of narrative, informational, and college textbooks; vocabulary at an advanced level, written tasks, information literacy, study strategies, college resources, and a community of readers.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 088RV; or completion of ESL 080RV  or ESL085RV with a C or better. 

     
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate literal comprehension of advanced written material.
    2. Demonstrate interpretive comprehension of advanced written material.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Use advanced-level reading strategies and critical thinking skills to demonstrate comprehension of academic materials.
    2. Apply a strategic approach to the development of academic vocabulary.
    3. Demonstrate development of analytical and evaluative comprehension through written tasks.
    4. Locate, access, and use needed information.
    5. Develop and integrate a variety of study strategies into academic learning.
    6. Employ college resources.
    7. Participate in a community of readers.

    Outline:
    1. Comprehension of Narrative, Informational, and College Textbooks
    1. Reading strategies
    1. Use strategies before reading/studying
    2. Use strategies during reading/studying
    3. Use strategies after reading/studying
    4. Reading fluency
    1. Comprehension of text at different levels
    1. Comprehend at a literal level
      1.          Identify main ideas
      2.          Identify details
      3.          Interpret graphs and statistics
      4.          Analyze the inter-relationship of words, phrases, and clauses
      5.          Identify rhetorical styles
    2. Comprehend at an interpretive level
      1.          Differentiate between facts and opinions
      2.          Analyze cause and effect
      3.          Draw inferences and conclusions
      4.           Recognize tone and purpose
      5.          Interpret hedging language
    3. Comprehend at a critical level
      1.          Analyze evidence for and against an argument
      2.          Analyze diverse perspectives and points of view from difference sources
      3.          Evaluate credibility, accuracy, and reliability of sources of information
    1. Vocabulary at  an Advanced Level
    1. Analogies  
    2. Context, structural, and syntactic clues
    3. Roots, prefixes, suffixes 
    4. Academic word list
    5.          Synonyms and antonyms
    6. Use of word families (noun, verb, adjective, adverb forms)
    7. Collocations
    8.          Vocabulary resources
      1. Printed and online
      2. Dictionaries and thesauruses
    9.          Spelling rules   
    1. Written Tasks
    1. Journal 
    2. Paraphrasing
    3. Summary and analysis
    4. Description of graphic information
    5. Short answer (50-75 words)
    6. Understanding and avoiding plagiarism
    1. Information Literacy
    1. Library research procedures
    2. Basic database usage
    3. Evaluative criteria
    1. Study Strategies
    1. Use of syllabus
    2. Organization of course materials
    3. Use of teacher feedback
    4. Use of study techniques
    5. Testing taking skills
    1. College Resources
    1. Faculty office hours
    2. Learning/tutoring center
    3. Advising and counseling center
    1. Community of Readers
    1. Reading as a catalyst for exchange of ideas
    2. Acknowledge diverse points of view
    3. Discuss diverse cultural values as they relate to readings


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21

  
  • ESL 088WG - Writing and Grammar for Non-Native Speakers of English IV

    4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
    4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Advanced-level academic writing and grammar for non-native speakers of English. Includes rhetorical forms, writing process and conventions, sentence structure, grammar, study strategies, technology, and college resources.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 088WG; or completion of ESL 080WG or 085WG with a C or better.
    Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
    Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Use advanced-level grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics in written tasks.
    2. Use advanced-level content and organization in written tasks.

    Performance Objectives:
    1. Organize, write, and edit academic essays and a research paper.
    2. Use Advanced-level writing process and standard writing conventions.
    3. Use Advanced-level sentence structure in written tasks.
    4. Use, identify, and analyze high advanced-level grammar in written English.
    5. Integrate a variety of study strategies into academic English learning.
    6. Use technology for assignments and communication.
    7. Employ college resources.

    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/21

Fashion Design and Clothing

  
  • FDC 110 - Apparel Design and Construction I

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    An introduction to basic clothing construction techniques designed for inexperienced sewers.  Includes terminology, tools and equipment, garment pattern components, fabric components, interfacing, construction sample and pressing techniques, and introduction to trend analysis and design planning.   

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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate the ability to operate a sewing machine and identify machine components, pressing equipment, and tools.   
    2. Construct an apparel project.   

    Outline:
    1. Terminology   
      1. Fabric
      2. Garment construction  
    2. Tools and Equipment
      1. Sewing machine
      2. Pressing equipment
      3. Tools
    3. Garment Pattern Components
      1. Measurement
      2. Selection/sizing
      3. Basic fit and alteration
      4. Pattern markings
      5. Directions
    4. Fabric Components
      1. Selection
      2. Preparation  
      3. Layout, cutting, and marking
    5. Interfacing
      1. Selection
      2. Application
    6. Construction Sample and Pressing Techniques
      1. Seams and seam finishes
      2. Darts
      3. Facing
      4. Gatherings
      5. Hems
      6. Buttons
      7. Buttonholes
      8. Zippers
      9. Trims
      10. Evaluation
    7. Introduction to Trend Analysis and Design Planning


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/2021
  
  • FDC 111 - Apparel Design and Construction II

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Continuation of FDC 110  .  Intermediate principles of apparel construction.  Includes planning the garment, preparation of garment pieces, assembly, industry techniques and practices, unit production, evaluation, and trend analysis and design planning. 

    Prerequisite(s): FDC 110  with a B or better.
    Information: Prerequisite may be waived with consent of instructor.
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    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Design and construct fitted apparel projects.
    2. Evaluate commercially produced clothing to determine type of stitching used and overall complexity of the garment.
    3. Apply industry techniques to apparel construction including preparing a basic spec sheet commonly used in the industry.

    Outline:
    1. Planning the Garment
      1. Measurement and basic fitting procedures
      2. Fabric, pattern, and notion selection
      3. Fabric grainline orientation and pattern placement
    2. Preparation of Garment Pieces
      1. Cutting accurately
      2. Marking methods
      3. Fitting pieces together smoothly
    3. Assembly
      1. The unit method
      2. Seams
      3. Seam finishing and commercial stitches
      4. Trimming, clipping, notching, grading
    4. Industry Techniques and Practices
    5. Unit Production
      1. Shaping devices – ease, darts, gathers
      2. Sleeves
      3. Neckline, facing, collar
      4. Zipper types and application
      5. Buttonholes
      6. Buttons and fasteners
      7. Hems
      8. Pressing
      9. Finishing touches
      10. Spec sheets and their purpose
    6. Evaluation – Skill Building Review
    7. Trend Analysis and Design Planning


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/2021
  
  • FDC 121 - Flat Pattern Making

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Introduction to the flat pattern method of pattern making for apparel production. Includes principles of pattern manipulation, practical applications, and evaluating the applications to a selected design project with emphasis on trend inspiration, design analysis, and planning.

    Prerequisite(s): FDC 111   


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Utilize the essential construction principles and procedures of flat pattern making.
    2. Apply principles of pattern manipulation to create a flat pattern for the basic block set.
    3. Analyze trends and designs and product flat patterns for designs.
    4. Apply appropriate pattern making methods for selected designs.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Flat Pattern Making
    2. Principles of Pattern Manipulation
      1. Use of half-scale slopers
      2. Design lines
      3. Construction concerns
    3. Practical Applications
      1. Dart manipulations
      2. Dart equivalents
      3. Garment closures
      4. Facings
      5. Necklines
      6. Collars
      7. Sleeves
      8. Skirts
      9. Dresses
    4. Evaluating the Application of Flat Pattern Techniques to a Selected Design Project
      1. Analyze trends
      2. Design analysis
      3. Planning the design


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/2021
  
  • FDC 122 - History of Clothing

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Introduction to clothing and personal decoration as a reflection of the wearer’s culture, time and place. Includes definition of essential characteristics in the western world, evolution of clothing, geographical and chronological grouping, and areas of analysis through research and projects.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify major silhouettes, garments, accessories, fads and fashions of each century

    2. Describe social, political, economic, and aesthetic trends and occurrences.

    3. Relate trends and occurrences in clothing, textiles, and accessories

    4. Relate the ritual of dress to the present and future.

    5. Predict for fashion or retail future trends based on area and work conditions.


    Outline:
    Definition of Essential Characteristics of Forms Taken by Costume in the Western World​

    Swathed or draped

    Fitted and sewn

    Layered

    Evolution of Clothing

    Conditions in which forms evolved

    Historical conditions and change

    Lines along which changes spread

    Geographical and Chronological Grouping

    Ancient periods

    Middle Ages through Sixteenth Century

    Seventeenth Century through Twenty-First Century

    The History of Clothing Notebook: Areas of Analysis

    Time and place

    Societal forces

    The wearer and body ideals

    Garment forms

    Textiles and decorative arts

    Accessories

    Cosmetics, hair styles, body art

    Jewelry


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2012

  
  • FDC 123 - Computer Patternmaking I

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Introduction to patternmaking for apparel production using computer software.  Includes measurements, digitizing blocks, and produce a finished design.

    Prerequisite(s): FDC 111   and FDC 121  


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Exhibit efficient use of the Computer Aided Design (CAD) system software program.
    2. Explain and maintain industry standards throughout the production process.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to draft patterns from measurements.
    4. Discuss the concepts of digitizing block patterns.
    5. Produce a finished design utilizing CAD skills.

    Outline:
    1. Introduction to Computer Patternmaking
      1. Icons in the Computer Aided Design (CAD) software program
      2. Skill-building methods for efficient pattern drafting
      3. Applications of industry standards and basic pattern concepts
    2. Measurements
      1. Draft patterns from measurements
      2. Measurements and how they affect the drafting process
    3. Digitizing Blocks   
    4. Produce a Finished Design


    Effective Term:
    Full Academic Year 2020/2021
  
  • FDC 126 - Textiles

    3 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
    2 lecture periods 3 lab periods

    Study of textile fibers, yarns, fabrication, characteristics, methods of coloration, printing, finishes, and influence on product performance. Includes fiber content, fabric construction, fabric swatches, finishes and techniques, and textile trends.



    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify fibers:  natural, manufactured, and synthetic fibers.
    2. Relate yarn structure and fabric construction to characteristics and performance.
    3. Identify and mount fabric swatches.
    4. Evaluate fabric finishes and techniques.
    5. Describe the history of the Industrial Revolution, textile trends, and global sustainability initiatives.

    Outline:
    1. Fiber Content
      1. Natural fibers
      2. Man-made fibers
      3. Performance
      4. Environmental issues
    2. Fabric Construction
      1. Weaves
      2. Knits
      3. Other – poured, molded, etc.

    III.  Identify and Mount Fabric Swatches

    1. Analyze fabric swatches
    2. Mount swatches in binder

    IV.  Fabric Finishes and Techniques

    1. Dyeing and printing
    2. Fabric finishes
    3. Digital textile printing

    V.  Textile Trends

    1. The Industrial Revolution
    2. Technical textiles

    C.   Global sustainability initiatives


    Effective Term:
    Spring 2016

 

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