2000/2001 Calendar Changes: Engineering Science

This document describes ENSC calendar changes for the 2001/2002 calendar as approved by the ENSC UCC on 9 November 2000. They have not yet been ratified by an ENSC faculty meeting.

1. Changes to Engineering Physics course order
2. Change to ENSC 406 prerequisite.

1. Changes to Engineering Physics Course order

Courses in the seventh and eighth semesters of the Engineering Physics option are exchanged as follows.

Semester	Current	Proposed
Semester Seven (Spring)	Ensc I-4 first Engineering Science elective2 ENSC 406-2 Social Responsibility and Professional Practice* PHYS 344-3 Thermal Physics PHYS 365-3 Semiconductor Device Physics PHYS 384-3 Methods of Theoretical Physics PHYS 385-3 Quantum Physics 18 credit hours	Ensc I-4 first Engineering Science elective2 Ensc II-4 second Engineering Science elective2 ENSC 406-2 Social Responsibility and Professional Practice* PHYS 344-3 Thermal Physics PHYS 365-3 Semiconductor Device Physics PHYS 385-3 Quantum Physics 19 credit hours
Semester Eight (Fall)	Ensc II-4 second Engineering Science elective2 Ensc III-4 third Engineering Science elective2 PHYS 332-3 Intermediate Laboratory PHYS 445-3 Statistical Physics PHYS 355-3 Optics 17 credit hours	Ensc III-4 third Engineering Science elective2 PHYS 332-3 Intermediate Laboratory PHYS 384-3 Methods of Theoretical Physics PHYS 445-3 Statistical Physics PHYS 355-3 Optics 16 credit hours

Rationale

PHYS 384-3 is offered in the fall, not the spring, so we swapped it with an Engineering Science elective. In consequence, the load in Semester Seven goes up by one credit hour and Semester Eight goes down by one. The UCC, which includes voting student representation, does not feel this is significant.

2. Change to prerequisite for ENSC 406-2 Social Responsibility and Professional Practice

The prerequisite for ENSC 406-2 is changed as follows.

Current	Proposed
Prerequisite: 120 credit hours or permission of instructor.	Prerequisite: 100 credit hours or permission of instructor.

Rationale

ENSC 406 is positioned in Semester Seven, when students normally have only 110 credit hours. Moving it later in the program is difficult, because thesis timing causes the group to fall into an irregular pattern. Moving it much earlier is unwise, because a course that includes ethics, law and professional practice and is meant partly as a survival kit for the workplace should come as close to the end of the program as possible. Solution: keep it where it is, but make the prerequisite reflect reality.