GES131 Probability and Engineering Statistics       3 lecture hours per week, (3 +6) = 9 units

Descriptive statistics with graphical summaries. Basic concepts of probability and its engineering applications. Commonly used distributions for discrete and continuous random variables. Confidence intervals. Hypothesis testing. Correlation and simple linear regression.


GES141 Engineering Drawing       3 lecture hours per week, (3+3) = 6 units

Use and care of drawing instruments and equipment. Freehand sketching. Orthographic projections, sectioning and dimensioning of single machine elements. Isometric drawing and dimensioning. Thread dimensioning, standard M/C elements assembly, Steel structure drawing

GES151 Engineering Physics   4 lecture hours per week, (4 +8) = 12 units

Units, Dynamics involving Newton's Law of Gravitation and to problems involving both stationary and moving ideal fluids. linear momentum, in one or two dimensions. Rotational dynamics of rigid bodies and the angular momentum. Simple harmonic oscillators such as the simple pendulum, a mass connected to a spring, a mass connected to two or more springs, the physical pendulum. Vectors 2 and 3 dimensions, including the 3 dimensional properties of vectors such as torque and angular momentum. Potential and kinetic energy and work done.

Electric field; Electric charge; Electric fields; Dipoles; Continuous charge distributions. Coordinate systems; Gradients; Line and surface integrals. Electric potential, E from V. Electric potential, equipotentials. Continuous charge distributions. Gauss's law. Conductors and capacitors. Current, Resistance, Ohm's Law. Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Biot-Savart; Ampere's law. Faraday's law; Maxwell's equations.


GES121 Arabic Language          2 lecture hours per week, (2 +4) 6 units

Gramer: Verbal sentence, nominal sentence and numbers. Literature and poetry: studing several examples from Quran and pomes from different eras. Writing and dictation.


GES111 English I         3 lecture hours per week, (3 +6) = 9 units

This course is designed for the first year students of Engineering during the first semester of their academic year. It consists of two parts: a) a short refresher course in ordinary English to help bridge the gap between school and university standards; aural/oral approaches and techniques are used; and, b) a lengthy intensive course in scientific English to enable the students to understand their lectures and textbooks on engineering toplos.


 GES101 Math I   4 lecture hours per week, (4 +8) = 12 units

Sets. Real and complex number systems. Functions and their graphs. Vectors in the plane and space. Deter­minants, solutions of a system of linear equations. Limits and continuity of functions. Derivatives, derivatives of elementary functions, Roll's and Mean Value theorems, maxima, minima and graph sketching, applications of 1'Hopital rule.


GES161 Engineering Physics Lab  3 lecture hours per week, (3 +0) = 3 units

Laboratory work includes experiments on the acceleration of gravity g, Hook's Law, Young's modulus, surface tension, thermal conductivity and specific heat, frequency measurements. and the velocity of sound. Charge and electric field, Magnetic field.