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ELP304 English for Public Relations and Marketing
Credits: 4 (4, 0, 0) Prerequisites: ELP201 and ELAN335
The course focuses on selected topics on public relations: roles, processes, applications, strategies
and tactics. Students gain insight on the nature of public relations, its evolution, psychology,
ethics, and professionalism. The course also goes over research, program planning, public opinion
theory and the connection of PR to marketing, fund-raising, advertising, journalism and law.

ELP405 English for Global Media and Communication Technologies
Credits: 4 (4, 0, 0) Prerequisites: ELP201, ELP202 and ELAN335
This course introduces students to the typical linguistic and extra-linguistic features of English
media texts. Its aim is to promote a greater awareness of the central concerns in writing and
editing English texts for the media and explores intertextual and multimedia communication in
everyday life.

ELP407 English Scientific, Technical and Web-based Writing
Credits: 3 (3, 0, 0) Prerequisites: ELAN335
This course helps students understand different types of technical writing, desktop publishing
web page design conventions. The emphasis is on style and format to achieve clarity, correctness,
conciseness, and online presence in technical writing. Students enjoy liberty to choose their own
topics to develop their linguistic and graphical skills and other transferable skills.

ELP408 English for Political Communication
Credits: 3 (3, 0, 0) Prerequisites: ELAN335
This course looks at political communication close up. Following a brief sketch of the historical
aspects of communication and public relations in politics, the course looks at fundamental themes
and types of political communication, such as agenda setting, negotiation, bargaining,
campaigning and branding. ELP 492 Cooperative Learning

EM203 Statics
Credits: 3 (3,1,0) Prerequisites: MATH113, PHY105 and CEE101
This course introduces the analysis and solution of engineering design problems related to
particles and rigid bodies in equilibrium. Primary concepts include the concepts of force systems;
vector analysis, moments and couples in 2D and 3D; equilibrium of force systems; analysis of
structures; plan trusses and frames; distributed force system; centroids and composite bodies;
area moments of inertia; analysis of beams; and friction.

EM204 Strength of Materials
Credits: 3 (2,0,3) Prerequisites: EM203 and MATH113
This course tackles the fundamentals of properties of structural materials; analysis of stress and
deformation in axially loaded members, circular shafts, and beams, and in statically indeterminate
systems containing these components. Specifically, the course will come across the following
topics: Definitions of stress and strain; Stress, strain, and deformation of axially loaded bars and
torsionally loaded shafts; Distributed loads; Statically indeterminate problems; Stress and strain
components and transformations and Mohr’s circle; Pressure vessels; Linear elastic constitutive
equations; Shear and moment diagrams; Bending and transverse shear stress; Combined loading;
Beam deflection; and Column buckling. Laboratory experiments are associated with the lectures.

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