Industrial and Systems Engineering Program TECHNICAL ELECTIVES

The KFUPM Program of Industrial and Systems Engineering offers 6 credit hours of free technical electives in the area of general engineering.  Summer training students can take one free technical elective, and coop students can take two technical electives.  The descriptions and the engineering areas of the technical electives are as explained below.

ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
ARE 322 Building Mechanical systems (2-3-3)
ARE 413 Construction Management (3-0-3)
ARE 440 Solar Energy in Buildings (3-0-3)
ARE 443 Computer-Aided Building Design (2-3-3)
ARE 444 Knowledge-Based Systems in Buildings (2-3-3)
ARE 459 Contracts and Specifications (3-0-3)
     
CIVIL ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
CE 201 Statics (3-0-3)
CE 213 Computer Graphics (0-6-3)
CE 341 Transportation Engineering (3-0-3)
CE 460 Remote Sensing Technology (3-0-3)
     
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
CHE 201 Introduction to Chemical Engineering (3-0-3)
CHE 320 Introduction to Chemical Processes (3-0-3)
CHE 491 Material Evaluation and Selection (3-0-3)
     
CHEMISTRY    
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
CHEM 212 Physical Chemistry I (3-3-4)
     
COMPUTER ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
COE 243 Distributed Systems (3-0-3)
COE 441 Local Area Networks (3-0-3)
COE 342 Data and Computer Communication (3-0-3)
COE 442 Computer Networks (3-3-4)
COE 443 High Speed Networks (3-0-3)
COE 444 Internet Work Design & Management (3-0-3)
COE 445 Internet Information Services (3-0-3)
COE 464 Testing of Digital Circuits (3-0-3)
COE 484 Introduction to Robotics (3-0-3)
     
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
EE 303 Electronics II (3-3-4)
EE 306 Electromechanical Devices (2-3-3)
EE 340 Electomagnetics (3-3-4)
EE 370 Communications Engineering (3-3-4)
EE 446 Programmable Logic Controllers (2-3-3)
     
GEOPHYSICS    
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
GEOP 202 Introduction to Geophysics (3-0-3)
     
INFORMATION & COMPUTER SCIENCE  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
ICS 201 Introduction to Computer Science (3-3-4)
ICS 251 Foundation of Computer Science (3-0-3)
ICS 481 Neural Networks (3-0-3)
ICS 482 Natural Language Understanding (3-0-3)
ICS 484 Arabization of Computers (3-0-3)
ICS 485 Knowledge-Based Systems (3-0-3)
     
MATHEMATICS    
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
MATH 311 Advanced Calculus (3-0-3)
MATH 425 Graph Theory (3-0-3)
MATH 430 Introduction to Complex Variables (3-0-3)
     
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
ME 201 Dynamics (3-0-3)
ME 203 Thermodynamics I (3-0-3)
ME 306 Manufacturing Processes II (2-3-3)
ME 466 Fundamentals of Heat Treatment (2-3-3)
ME 468 Casting and welding Engineering (2-3-3)
ME 471 Mechanical Metallurgy (3-0-3)
ME 472 Corrosion Engineering I (3-0-3)
ME 478 Iron and Steel Making (3-0-3)
ME 479 Modem Materials (3-0-3)
ME 480 Plastics and Plastic Processing (3-0-3)
     
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING  
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
PETE 201 Introduction to Petroleum Engineering (3-0-3)
PETE 202 Rock and Fluid Properties (3-3-4)
     
PHYSICS    
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
PHYS 211 Optics (2-3-3)
PHYS 212 Modern Physics (3-3-4)
PHYS 215 Introduction to Astronomy (3-0-3)
PHYS 261 Energy (3-0-3)
     
STATISTICS    
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
STAT 325 Nonparametric Statistical Methods (3-0-3)
STAT 355 Demographic Methods (3-0-3)
STAT 375 Categorical Data Analysis (3-0-3)
STAT 415 Stochastic Processes (3-0-3)
STAT 460 Time Series (3-0-3)
     
MANAGEMENT    
COURSE COURSE TITLE CREDIT
MGT 301 Principles of Management (3-0-3)