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Rensselaer Catalog 2008-2009 [Archived Catalog]
Courses
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ECSE 6550 - Stochastic Processes in Communication and Control
Review of measure and integration theory, elements of probability, random variables, conditional probability, and expectations. Stochastic processes, stationarity and ergodicity. Gaussian processes and Brownian motion, the Poisson process. Markov processes, wide-sense stationary processes, spectral representations, linear prediction and filtering. Stochastic integrals and differential equations, white noise and the stochastic calculus, the Fokker-Planck equation, diffusion processes, recursive filtering and estimation, evaluation of likelihood ratios. Applications in communication, information processing, and control.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 6510.
When Offered: Fall term on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6180 - Strategic Information Systems Management
Information technology (IT) is a strategic asset that is being used to mold competitive strategies and change organizational processes. As IT and its uses become more complex, developing strategies and systems to deliver the technology has become more difficult. The net result is a growing need for guidance on the issues, strategies, and tactics for managing the use of information technology. This course is designed to partially fulfill this need and to enable students to integrate concepts and theories learned in previous IT courses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 6140.
When Offered: Spring term.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6920 - Strategic Management Theory Seminar
This is a reading course designed to introduce first-year Ph.D. students in management to the theory families and empirical research in the field of Strategic Management. Strategic Management theories draw from parent disciplines of economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and political science. This puts the field at the nexus of all management studies.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: doctoral student standing, Doctoral Research Methods sequence or permission of doctoral program director.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6210 - Strategic Manifesto: Curatorial Practices
A graduate-level course focusing on the development of curatorial practices, and will include emphasis research including how curators conceive, organize and execute exhibitions. This course is important for practicing artists, not only to allow them to function as programmers and curators themselves — extending their own area of expertise — but to also give students the opportunity to see what curators need to exhibit work. What kind of press materials, timelines, writing materials are necessary for curators to produce exhibitions? In other words, what do artists need to provide to curators to be successful?
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4870 - Strategy and Policy
This is a course that integrates the functional fields of management. The first part of the course focuses on the tools and discipline commonly used in strategy formulation. The second part focuses on the implementation of strategy in a variety of contexts.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 4860; recommended senior standing.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 7030 - Strategy, Technology, & Competition I
This course covers the fundamentals of business and corporate strategy, integrating these concepts into an environment of technological change, competition, and entrepreneurship. The course includes the following areas of emphasis: concepts of strategy, industry environment, resources and capabilities of the firm, organization and systems of the firm, the dynamics of competitive advantage, strategic alternative analysis, and strategies in different contexts. The course uses business cases and a project to enrich the theoretical concepts.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 7040 - Strategy, Technology, & Competition II
This second course in the strategy sequence integrates multiple elements of the MBA program into a major project that provides students a platform to explore their overall understanding of the critical role of strategy in an existing or new business situation. With the cooperation of an actual new venture or not-for profit organizations, student teams write and present operational, business, and strategic plans with near-term and long-range projections. This project is accompanied by a capstone simulation project, “CapSim,” that develops the practical understanding of business and makes the subject relevant, rigorous, and complex.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 7030.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6660 - Strategy, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
This is part two of the two-course sequence that begins with MGMT 6650. This course is about strategy implementation and fundamental concepts in implementing strategy both at the corporate level and the business unit level.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 6650 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6680 - Strategy, Technology, and Global Competitive Advantage
This course emphasizes the linkage between technology, strategy, and achieving global competitive advantage. This course develops the concept and practical tools of strategy, strategic planning, and implementation both at the business unit and at corporate levels. The strategies of technology intensive international companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Netscape, Apple, Rhone-Poulenc, Toshiba, Xerox, MCI, ABB, and MapInfo are investigated and compared. The study of the evolution of General Electric’s strategies from 1970 to 2000 completes the course. Students work in teams to develop a five-year strategic plan for a company or business unit of their choice, with a minimum of three strategic alternatives, and recommend the chosen alternative.
When Offered: Spring term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENVE 6140 - Stream Pollution Control
Principles of limnology applied to the ecological conditions of streams and bodies of fresh water relative to capacity to stabilize organic materials. The economic aspects of water pollution; health aspects of bacterial pollution.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGR 2530 - Strength of Materials
Concept of stress and strain, generalized Hooke’s law, axial load, torsion, pure bending, transverse loading, transformation of stress and strain components in 2-D, design of beams and shafts for strength, deflection of beams, work and energy, columns.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 1100.
When Offered: Fall, spring and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 4150 - Stresses in Machine Elements
Application of the principles of strength of materials to the analysis and design of machine parts. Curved bars, multisupport shafts, torsion, cylinders under pressure, thermal stresses, creep, and relaxation, rotating disks and other machine elements are considered.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 6450 - Structural Dynamics
Analysis of elastic and inelastic single and multiple degree-of-freedom structural systems under time-dependent loads including harmonic, impulse, earthquake, and other general dynamic loads. Development of equations of motion. Analytical and numerical evaluation of free and forced vibration response. Identification of dynamic system properties. Modal analysis. Vibration isolation and force transmissibility. Dynamic measurement sensors. Shock loading spectrum. Frequency-domain analysis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2670.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ERTH 2120 - Structural Geology
Introduction to stress and strain; observation, measurement, recording, and interpretation of rock structures including joints, faults, folds, and fabrics. Interpretation of structures from geologic maps. Structures and regional tectonics. Laboratory and field trips required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ERTH 2210 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CIVL 6210 - Structural Stability
Concepts of stability pertaining to structural and mechanical systems. Static and dynamic theories of stability. Configurations include bars, plates, shells, and structural complexes.
When Offered: Annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as MANE 6210. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6210.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6210 - Structural Stability
Indicial and invariant notation, elements of variational calculus and nonlinear elasticity. Variational derivation of the linear stability equations for plates, rods, open thin-walled sections and cylindrical shells. Solutions of stability problems in each of these systems and development of approximation procedures.
When Offered: Annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CIVL 6210. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CIVL 6210.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4140 - Structure of American Industry
Acquaints students with the structural characteristics and philosophical foundations of American enterprise. Several important industries are considered from the viewpoint of market structure, conduct, and performance. Such concepts as the corporation, technological competition, and private property, together with criteria for appropriate public policy toward business are examined to orient the student to contemporary American industrial activity.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 2100 - Structure of Engineering Materials
The first course in Materials Science and Engineering. Structures of metals, ceramics, and polymers and experimental techniques for their determination are discussed. Laboratory experience is included.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 1600 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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CISH 4030 - Structured Computer Architecture
Introduction to computer architecture; the structure and function of a computer system consisting of processors, memory, I/O modules, and its internal interconnections. Primary focus on the attributes of a system visible to an assembly level programmer. Topics include: digital logic, VLSI components, instruction sets, addressing schemes, memory hierarchy, cache and virtual memories, integer and floating point arithmetic, control structures, buses, RISC vs. CISC, multiprocessor and vector processing (pipelining) organizations. Examples are drawn from contemporary (e.g., Intel Pentium, PowerPC) microcomputers.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 2330 - Structures 1
Introduction to Structures introduces the student of Architecture to the principles of structural mechanics and their application to basic architectural structures comprised primarily of wood. The fundamentals of statics are presented in order to gain an understanding of the way in which external forces produce internal stresses in individual members and, in essence, flow through the building system to be resolved at the foundation level. The principles of strength of materials are studied to understand how particular structural materials and configurations manage to resist these forces without unacceptable distortions, or even failure. Wood structural properties are studied in all their complexity as a means to internalize the more theoretical topics broached. Through in-class presentations, reading, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies the student will be aided in developing this intuitive (while practical) understanding. It is recognized that intuitions of building technologies are not acquired quickly but result from much study, observation, and practice. Introduction to Structures makes use of the several approaches above to ensure that the beginning student is provided with a broad, solid base for future structural investigations. WebCT will be used to expand the student’s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: The following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: durability and service life, and life cycle cost.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARCH 2510 except M.Arch students.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 4330 - Structures 2
This course builds on the material presented in Structures 1, with an emphasis on the analysis and design of structures compressed primarily of steel and site cast and pre-cast concrete, with an overview of load-bearing masonry and advanced systems. The theoretical concepts covered in the introduction course form the conceptual basis for work in Structures 2, with relevant new concepts/techniques covered. Innovative, non-normative structural systems are investigated and discussed. Analysis and design will proceed using primarily computer-aided techniques. The course approach will involve in-class presentations, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies. WebCT will be used to expand the student’s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: The following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: structural robustness, and programmatic flexibility. (Design optimization approaches are introduced and explored as avenues to accomplish more optimum design conditions under increasingly strict design constraints.)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARCH 2510 except M.Arch students, ARCH 2350, ARCH 2330.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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NSST 4420 - Student Teaching in the Secondary School
As part of their academic requirements, students work full time as student teachers in a local secondary school classroom gradually taking on full-time teaching responsibilities in the content areas where teaching certification will be granted. Students are supervised by a local Mentor Teacher and by a Rensselaer faculty member or adjunct.
When Offered: Fall term annually. This course is offered on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Credit Hours: 0 to 9
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NSST 4440 - Student Teaching Seminar
Student teachers meet in a seminar once a week at Rensselaer to discuss their classroom teaching experiences and to reflect upon the relationship between their present student teaching experience and the previous year’s work.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: NSST 4420.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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BMED 2940 - Studies in Biomedical Engineering
When Offered: Each term.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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BMED 4940 - Studies in Biomedical Engineering
When Offered: Each term.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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BMED 6940 - Studies in Biomedical Engineering
When Offered: Each term.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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ARTS 6940 - Studies in Electronic Arts
Individual and collaborative projects and readings adapted to the needs of individual students at the advanced level.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4 to 8
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ENVE 4940 - Studies in Environmental Engineering
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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ENVE 6940 - Studies in Environmental Engineering
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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MGMT 2940 - Studies in Management
Student plans a course of selected topics in management theory or practice not listed in this catalog. The instructor who will supervise and grade the student must approve the plan. Lectures, discussions, conferences, or seminars may be used in conjunction with the independent study.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4 per course, not to exceed 12 for this course number
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MGMT 4940 - Studies in Management
Credit Hours: 1 to 8
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ARTS 2940 - Studies in the Arts
Projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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ARTS 4940 - Studies in the Arts
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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COMM 4180 - Studio Design in Human-Computer Interaction
In this course, students work on collaborative projects to design human-computer interactions (HCIs) aimed at transforming people’s everyday practices. Students work with activity analysis, object-oriented modeling, and UI prototyping. Cross-listed with COMM-6810; students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Additional assignments required for students at the 6000 level.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4170, COMM 4420, COMM 4770, or COMM 4710.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6810 - Studio Design in Human-Computer Interaction
In this course, students work on collaborative projects to design human-computer interactions (HCIs) aimed at transforming people’s everyday practices. Students work with activity analysis, object-oriented modeling, and UI prototyping. The course serves as the capstone in the HCI MS Certificate.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 6420, COMM 6750, COMM 6760 or COMM 6770.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4180; students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Additional assignments required for students at the 6000 level.
Credit Hours: 3
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LITR 2470 - Study of African-American Literature
This course provides an introduction to black authors and their literary contributions and an analysis of their relationship to black thought and culture. Various forms of literature, such as folk tales, poetry, short story, prose, and essay, will be presented with emphasis on literary style and content as influenced by the social environment of the periods of America’s historical development from 1619 to the present. Students will write about these works in class, including a 30-page (typed) critical research paper outside of class. Workshops, lectures, oral reports, and group discussions will be the methodology for each class session.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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NSST 6130 - Studying Teaching and Learning
Participants will study teaching and learning beginning with reflection on their own pedagogical practices and leading to an examination of perspectives on learning offered by developmental psychology, cognitive science, and interactional sociology. Students will refine their skills in analyzing social situations and diagnosing their student’s understanding and misunderstanding. A course project will involve students in comparing teaching and learning across a range of interactions, teaching contexts including their own classes, and interactive multimedia learning environments.
When Offered: Summer term.
Credit Hours: 3
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NSST 6960 - Studying Teaching and Learning
Participants will study teaching and learning beginning with reflection on their own pedagogical practices and leading to an examination of perspectives on learning offered by developmental psychology, cognitive science and interactional sociology. Students will refine their skills in analyzing social situations and diagnosing their students’ understanding and misunderstanding. A course project will involve students in comparing teaching and learning across a range of interactional teaching contexts including their own classes and interactive multimedia learning environments.
Credit Hours: 3
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BMED 4800 - Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
An introduction to the basics of subsurface sensing and imaging; properties of probes such as optical beams, x-rays, ultrasonic waves and electromagnetic waves. Physical interaction of probes with various media-transmission, reflection, attenuation, scattering, diffusion, fluorescence. Contrast agents and molecular sensing/imaging systems. Biomedical and security applications. Extracting information from subsurface signals using multi-view tomography (MVT), localized probing and mosaicing (LPM), and multi-spectral discrimination (MSD).
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2410 and ECSE 2100.
When Offered: Spring
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4800 - Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
An introduction to the basics of subsurface sensing and imaging: Properties of probes such as optical beams, X-rays, ultrasonic waves, and electromagnetic waves. Physical interaction of probes with various media-transmission, reflection, attenuation, scattering, diffusion, fluorescence. Contrast agents and molecular sensing/imaging systems. Biomedical and security applications. Extracting information from subsurface signals using multi-view tomography (MVT), localized probing and mosaicing (LPM), and multi-spectral discrimination (MSD).
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2410 and ECSE 2100. ECSE 2800 or BMED 2800 or permission of instructor also required.
When Offered: Spring term annually
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as BMED 4800. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and BMED 4800.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 7080 - Succeeding in Knowledge Intensive Organizations
This course focuses on those behavioral skills needed for working and succeeding among the stresses and pressures endemic to high technology organizations. Through simulations and case studies, students learn how to handle the unique challenges of dealing with conflict management, negotiation, workplace diversity, and motivation and rewards in a knowledge-intensive organization.
Credit Hours: 1
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MGMT 6690 - Supply Chain Management
This course examines how the Internet and emerging e-business models are transforming the flow of products, information, and revenues across supply chains. It focuses on how inter-enterprise integration and value chain constellations can be deployed to effectively detect and fulfill custom needs in a cost-effective manner by eliminating traditional constraints in supply chain design, dislodging obsolete intermediaries, and creating new forms of value added intermediation. The role of exchanges and hubs in the procurement of industrial goods and services will also be examined in depth. Concepts will be discussed for different types of products such as physical goods, informational goods, and services. Students will develop the ability to conceptualize design and implement supply chains for e-business organizations.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Background in marketing or operations management and a background in information technology are required to enroll in this course. The background could have been obtained either through appropriate course work or through work experience.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 4060 - Surface as Structures as Form
The seminar will analyze twentieth century pioneers of reinforced concrete as well as their contemporaries in art and sculpture. The analysis will consist of a general survey of the work of a particular architect, engineer, or artist, followed by an in depth formal analysis of one of their projects. A new project will then be developed in order to speculate on the contemporary implications of these principles in conjunction with new instruments of computation.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 6420 - Surface Phenomena
The thermodynamics and reactivity of surfaces. Classical thermodynamics of surfaces. Atomistic models of the crystal surfaces. Electron diffraction from surface layers. Surface diffusion. Physical and chemisorption of gases, chemical reactions at surfaces. Nucleation of surface and bulk phases.
When Offered: Spring term.
Credit Hours: 3
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EPOW 6860 - Surge Phenomena in Electric Power Engineering
Analysis and computation of electrical transients in lumpy and distributed power circuits; switching surges, lightning surges, traveling waves. Impact of surges on terminal equipment. Insulation coordination; system protection; design of electric power apparatus and systems to operate reliably and economically in a transient environment.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 2130 - Surveying
The organization, planning, instrumentation, and execution of surveys for engineering projects including precise control systems for both horizontal and vertical control, astronomic observations for the establishment of precise directions, terrestrial and photogrammetric mapping, statewide plane coordinate systems, and the legal aspects of boundary surveys.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 6630 - Synthesis of High Polymers I
This course deals with the synthesis of high molecular weight polymers that proceed by condensation polymerization mechanisms. Detailed descriptions of characteristics and mechanisms of condensation polymerizations leading to various classes of polymeric materials will be provided. Discussion will center on the factors that are important for the control and commercial application of these polymerization techniques.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 6650 - Synthesis of High Polymers II
This course deals with the synthesis of high molecular weight polymers that proceed by addition polymerization mechanisms. Detailed descriptions of characteristics of free radical, cationic, anionic and coordination-catalyzed polymerizations will be provided. Discussion will center on the factors that are important for the control and commercial application of these polymerization techniques.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4240 - Systems Analysis and Design
This course presents conceptual material on the analysis and design of business information systems. The focus is on understanding business information processing requirements and developing information systems solutions to meet these requirements. Key stages of the systems development life cycle including planning, analysis, and design are the focus of this course. Models and procedures for understanding and modeling an organization’s existing and planned information systems are presented. Computer-aided software engineering tools are used to provide hands-on experience in designing information systems.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECSE 6400 - Systems Analysis Techniques
Methods of analysis for continuous and discrete-time linear systems. Convolution, classical solution of dynamic equations, transforms and matrices are reviewed. Emphasis is on the concept of state space. Linear spaces, concept of state, modes, controllability, observability, state transition matrix. State variable feedback, compensation, decoupling.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2410 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 6610 - Systems Modeling in Decision Sciences
Survey of decision science methodologies in the context of technical and economic decision problems. The course seeks to develop a conceptual understanding of these methods and basic implementation skills. Students will learn how to apply decision science methods from problem recognition and data development through problem formulation and computer solution.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: DSES 6110 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4760 - Task-Oriented Communication
Teaches the practices of developing instructions for people performing mental and physical tasks. This course covers evaluating task performance, choosing instructional media, developing instructional objectives, and producing procedural information. Attention is given to graphic media and to nonverbal tasks and skills.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: an introductory course in communication or another social science.
When Offered: Spring term, alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATH 6950 - Teaching Seminar for Teaching Assistants
A seminar required for first-year TAs in mathematics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: first-year math TA.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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NSST 4120 - Teaching with Technology
This course will continue the work of the preceding course, Introduction to Instructional Technologies, into the use of computer networks such as the World Wide Web, and a further exploration of the computer in laboratory science. Discussions will center on the best ways to apply instructional technologies to enhance the educational environment. Students will develop a philosophy of technology integration to guide them in the appropriate application of technology in the classroom.
When Offered: Summer term.
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 4120 - Technical and Professional Communication
Principles and practice of technical communication as applied to reports, technical papers, oral presentations, business communications, press releases, and popular articles. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4710 - Technical Production and Documentation
This course teaches the skills needed to produce and document professional electronic arts events, including live concerts, installations, and multimedia presentations. It is an intensive, hands-on course designed to give students direct experience with sound, video, and lighting equipment in live performance environments. Students will learn technical and creative skills essential for artistic practice in the field of electronic arts.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: limited to upper class B.S. EARTS, EMAC, IT ARTS students, MFA students, or by permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6340 - Techniques for Verbal Analysis
This course introduces students to techniques for seeing the underlying patterns in verbal data, including conversations, texts, interviews, and protocols. Topics include: conversation analysis; content analysis; activity analysis; narrative analysis; protocol analysis; theme analysis; and discourse analysis. Students will have a chance to read a range of studies, discuss issues relevant to research in the field, practice analytic techniques, and conduct preliminary field research.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6730 - Technological Change and International Competitiveness
Analysis of the differences among technical systems and interactions with industrial growth is undertaken with regard to nation states, industrial sectors, and companies. To develop tools of analysis regarding technological change, industrial policy, and corporate performance. The impact of technological change on industrial growth and competitiveness is viewed from three perspectives: the general manager, the technical professional, and the public official.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6650 - Technology and Competitive Advantage
A capstone sequence in policy and strategy aimed at developing students’ understanding of the relationship between business strategy and technology. The process of converting technological opportunity into competitive advantage is viewed from the perspective of both large, established companies and new ventures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: course is taken towards the end of the program.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6740 - Technology and Organization
This course explores the current understanding of the relationship between technological and organizational change. It draws on current research in management, engineering, science, and the humanities and social sciences to examine the diverse ways in which technology affects the character of organizational life and structure.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 6040 - Technology Studies
The seminar examines interactions between technology and society from the vantage point of the various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that have contributed to technology studies. The texts, theories, and arguments that were important for the historical development of the field are covered, as well as contemporary issues. The seminar provides the resources and develops the skill needed for understanding, criticizing, constructing, and developing research in the field.
When Offered: Annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4160 - Telecommunications for Business
Rapid advancements in telecommunications technology and the convergence of computing and telecommunications have created unique opportunities for organizations to derive competitive advantage. Telecommunications technology has become an essential feature of the business environment and is embodied in both operations and products/ services of organizations. This course aims to analyze how telecommunications can be employed to enhance the benefits and reduce the costs through the value web. A wide variety of telecommunications technologies ranging from narrowband to broadband and from wired to wireless will be examined in detail. The primary emphasis will be on issues related to their application in different business contexts.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2560 - The American Musical
This course surveys the American Musical, introducing students to its basic components and concepts. Since the musical integrates different media, it is studied through the contribution of major artists as well as in historical, social, and cultural contexts. The course also analyzes music and musical theater genres, which influenced the musical, including European opera and operetta; American blues, ragtime, and jazz; and Latin-American rhythms.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 2110 - The Building and Thinking of Architecture 1
This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non-Western civilizations to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, geography, culture, technology, and thought.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 2120 - The Building and Thinking of Architecture 2
This course expands upon notions introduced in ARCH 2110 that architecture is a practice embedded in human cultures characterized by particular ways of thinking in action. In addition, notions that its domain of interests, physically and intellectually, extends beyond the limits of individual buildings are elaborated through specific examples. This is done against the background of the major shift in intellectual developments beginning in the 17th century that provide stimulus for the scientific, cultural, technological, and social revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Unlike ARCH 2110, this course for the most part, does not proceed in a chronological fashion.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites ARCH 2110.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 2140 - The Building and Thinking of Architecture 3
This course builds on the content and ideas of ARCH 2110 and 2120 to examine the history of architecture in medieval and Renaissance periods of Western civilization. In doing so it will examine the implications of these developments for the architecture of later eras as well as the chronology of specific important events in the time period from the 9th to the 17th centuries.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 2120.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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LITR 4160 - The Human Mind in Fiction
Works of literature reflect theories about the human mind. Just as people have vigorously debated theories about the movement of planets in the material world, they have proposed radically different theories of the human mind. Such theories offer explanations of emotion, reason, dreams, the body, and memory. Drawing on material from Homeric Greece to 20th-century neuroscience, this course pairs a theory of mind with a corresponding literary work. Theories of the mind will be drawn from writings in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and neuroscience. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: A 2000- or 4000-level course in cognitive science, psychology, literature, STS, or by permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4600 - The Human-Computer Interface
An exploration of the languages, techniques, and mechanisms used to define and enhance communication between people and computer applications, both for input and output, in the general case and for a variety of important special domains. Use of graphics in the interface; multimedia environments; alternative I/O devices; issues in interface design. Interactive in-class exercises and activities. Substantial programming projects are assigned in a number of languages and for a variety of platforms. Students also prepare oral presentations based on material from the current scientific literature.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2540 - The Multimedia Century
This course will survey the history and theory of the diverse artistic practices of the twentieth century in relation to the development of the mass media and new technologies. Topics will include the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Postmodernism and will span a spectrum of media from the more traditional, such as painting and photography, to electronic and new media, such as video and digital arts. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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LITR 2360 - The Novel
Study of about seven representative novels. Each book is reviewed as a unique work of art, as an outgrowth of certain traditions, as a mirror of its time, and as an expression of one author’s personal vision of human nature and the human condition.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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IHSS 4850 - The Phelan Seminar on Technology and Society
An undergraduate honors-style seminar examining interactions between technology and modern society. Particular attention will be given to the historical origins and contemporary contexts of technological change in America, especially the Hudson/ Mohawk region of New York. The specific topic of the seminar will change each year, coordinated with visiting lecturers and other scholarly events, publicized during the fall term. This course cannot be used towards the H&SS depth requirement.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any 2000-level STS course and permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 4850 - The Phelan Seminar on Technology and Society
An undergraduate honors-style seminar examining interactions between technology and modern society. Particular attention will be given to the historical origins and contemporary contexts of technological change in America, especially the Hudson/ Mohawk region of New York. The specific topic of the seminar will change each year, coordinated with visiting lecturers and other scholarly events, publicized during the fall term.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any 2000-level STS course and permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 4850 - The Phelan Seminar on Technology and Society
An undergraduate honors-style seminar examining interactions between technology and modern society. Particular attention will be given to the historical origins and contemporary contexts of technological change in America, especially the Hudson/ Mohawk region of New York. The specific topic of the seminar will change each year, coordinated with visiting lecturers and other scholarly events, publicized during the fall term.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any 2000-level STS course and permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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LGHT 6830 - The Physics of Light
A comprehensive overview of the physics of light and its applications for lighting. The course uses a variety of instructional methodologies, including lectures, laboratory sessions, hands-on experimentation, and individual student projects and presentations to cover various areas of lighting study. Topics include geometric optics, physical optics, lighting calculations and measures, spectroradiometry, measurement techniques for advanced light sources, radiometry, and photometry.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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LITR 2500 - The Short Story
A study of outstanding short stories from 19th-and 20th-century Europe and America, usually including works by such writers as Boccaccio, Flaubert, Chekhov, Borges, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Chopin, Joyce, Kafka, O’Connor, and Welty.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 4590 - The Social Relations of Science
All forms of knowledge and belief are products and reflections of social life. This course introduces and develops this idea for the case of science. The study of science as social relations serves as a vehicle for exploring the social nature of thinking and believing in general. Topics include laboratory culture, science and religion, gender and science, and science and democracy.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STSH 1110/STSS 1110 or STSS 1210 or STSS 1510.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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EPOW 6880 - The Utility as a Business
The business aspects of electric utilities are highlighted, including source of funds, components of cost for generation, transmission, and distribution, the rate setting process, planning for future loads, least-cost system planning, and operation and economics of conservation. The course features the changing structure of electric utilities in the new regulatory environment and competition in this energy sector, especially for generation.
When Offered: Spring or summer term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 4620 - Theatre Performance
This course gives students a practical background in the field of theatre, introducing them to all aspects of a theatre production. Students rehearse a play in the classroom and then give performances on the RPI campus. Students also participate in directing, stage managing, writing press releases, and designing set, costumes, lighting, and sound for the show. Auditions take place on the first day of class.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CHEM 4470 - Theoretical Chemistry
Introduction to quantum mechanics and applications in chemical systems. Atomic and molecular spectra and structure. Statistical thermodynamics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 4410.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6480 - Theory and Research in Technical Communication and Human-Computer Interaction
This seminar course examines theories that have shaped, and continue to drive, the fields of technical communication and human-computer interaction with an emphasis upon the ways each field makes new knowledge. Connections between theoretical findings, research results, and the evolution of both fields as they are practiced in industry, government, and academia are important themes. Course work includes lectures, discussions, student presentations, and written projects.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 1510 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6480 - Theory of Compiler Design
The use of language theory and automata theory in the design of compilers. Syntax-directed compilers. Lexical analysis and computer implementation of finite state machines. Syntax analysis, parsing versus restructuring. Top-down and bottom-up parsing algorithms. TD(k) and LR(k) grammars. The Younges algorithm. Syntax-directed transducers.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 6050 or equivalent and knowledge of PASCAL, C, or LISP.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6550 - Theory of Compressible Flow
General equations of compressible flow. Specialization to inviscid flows in two space dimensions. Linearized solutions in subsonic and supersonic flow. Characteristic equations for supersonic flow with applications in external and internal flow. One-dimensional nonsteady compressible flow. Introduction to transonic flow.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4070 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6580 - Theory of Digital Communications
Review of the discrete Gaussian noise channel and development of coding theorems. Waveform channels, orthonormal expansions of signals and Gaussian noise, the vector model of waveform channels, time-bandwidth and dimensionality, optimum receiver principles, channel capacity and reliability functions, signal design and selection. Coding for the Gaussian noise channel, theoretical performance bounds, implementation of error control coding, techniques for overall system evaluation, investigation of fundamental rate versus reliability tradeoffs.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 6510.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 6210 - Theory of Production Scheduling
Problems of scheduling several tasks over time. Topics include measures of performance, single machine sequencing, flowshop scheduling, the job shop problem, and priority dispatching. Integer programming, dynamic programming, and heuristic approaches to various problems are also presented.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: DSES 4770 (MATP 4700), or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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PHYS 6710 - Theory of Solids I
An introduction to the theory of solids. Theory of the free-electron metal, band theory, and phonons. Application to the electrical, optical, and thermal properties of solids. Qualitative discussion of cohesion.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6520.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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PHYS 6720 - Theory of Solids II
More detailed application of solid-state theory to electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of matter. Consideration of particular materials; semiconductors, ferrites, ferroelectrics, and superconductors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6710.
When Offered: On availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGR 2250 - Thermal and Fluids Engineering I
Application of control volume balances of mass, momentum, energy and entropy in systems of practical importance to all engineers. Identification of control volumes, properties of pure materials, mass and energy conservation for closed and open systems, second law of thermodynamics, Bernoulli equation, fluid statics, forces and heat transfer in external and internal flows, conduction and radiative heat transfer.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 1100 and PHYS 1100. Corequisite: MATH 2400.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 4010 - Thermal and Fluids Engineering II
Application of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid flow principles to practical engineering systems, including power generation, HVAC, automotive design, materials processing, etc. Extends and complements concepts introduced in ENGR-2250. Utility of the 2nd Law will be demonstrated and emphasized.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2250.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 4020 - Thermal and Fluids Engineering Laboratory
Laboratory experience to complement MANE 4010. Demonstration of principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics for mechanical engineering applications through a number of structured experiments.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: MANE 4010.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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MANE 6220 - Thermal Stresses
The coupled linear thermoelastic and generalized heat equations, as derived from irreversible thermodynamics. Solutions in terms of Boussinesq-Papkovitch potentials. Reduction of thermoelastic problems to isothermal elastic problems. Steady state and transient elastic, anelastic, and viscoelastic thermal-stress analysis.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6370 - Thermal-Hydraulic Design of Nuclear Reactors
An introduction to the principles underlying the thermal-hydraulic design of nuclear power reactors. Topics include plant thermal limits, sub-channel analysis, thermal-hydraulic stability analysis, and reactor system response during both normal and postulated accident conditions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 6840 or equivalent.
When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty.
Credit Hours: 3
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PHYS 4420 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
The principles and physical applications of classical thermodynamics are developed. Basic concepts in classical and quantum statistical mechanics are introduced and their relations to thermodynamics are developed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: PHYS 1200 (or PHYS 2510) and MATH 2400.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 4100 - Thermodynamics of Materials
Rigorous development of classical thermodynamics as applied to prediction of materials properties. Nonideal gases, solutions, phase equilibria, chemical equilibria, defects.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 2250, CHEM 1100, ENGR 1600 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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PHYS 2990 - Thesis
An independent investigation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3 or 4
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DSES 6100 - Time Series Analysis
Study of time series data for both description and prediction. Main emphasis on the classical Box-Jenkins approach to model identification, estimation, and diagnosis. Includes an introduction to spectral analysis. Applications to real data series, including forecasting problems and empirical comparison of alternative approaches. Use of computer packages for time series analysis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: DSES 4760 (MATP 4620) or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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BMED 4240 - Tissue-Biomaterial Interactions
Relationships between structure and properties of synthetic implant materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. The emphasis is on mechanical, corrosion, and surface properties of materials. Detailed review of blood-material interactions. An introduction to biocompatibility with special emphasis on the interaction of biomaterials with cells and tissues in the context of implant surface design and tissue engineering.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: BMED 2100 may be taken concurrently.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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BMED 6240 - Tissue-Implant Interfaces
An examination of biomaterial and biomechanical factors affecting events at tissue-implant interfaces, with emphasis on biomaterial surface properties as well as cell and molecular interactions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: BIOL 4290 and BMED 4500 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 6190 - Topics from Pure Mathematics
The course is intended to provide a mathematical perspective on one or more topics chosen from algebra, geometry, and/or topology. Topics may include combinatorial matrix theory, classification of surfaces, Lie groups, Galois theory, geometric analysis, computational geometry, homology, and/or fixed point theorems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: vary with topic.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECON 6580 - Topics in Applied Econometrics
Applications of advanced econometric techniques such as two-and three-stage least squares, maximum likelihood, seemingly unrelated regression, full information likelihood, distributed lags, and autocorrelation correction to a variety of business and economic problems, including the capital asset pricing model, learning curve, economies of scale, hedonic price indexes, investment, production, and limited dependent variable models.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 6570 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 6790 - Topics in Applied Mathematics
Advanced methods and/or applications of mathematics. Possible topics include: nonlinear continuum mechanics, nonlinear waves, inverse problems, nonlinear optics, combustion, acoustic wave propagation, similarity methods for differential equations, quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, stability of fluid flows, biomathematics, and finance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: vary with topic.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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