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Rensselaer Catalog 2009-2010 [Archived Catalog]
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COMM 4940 - Communication Studies
Readings and projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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COMM 6940 - Communication Studies
Readings and projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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ECSE 4520 - Communication Systems
An introduction to signals and noise in electrical communication systems. Spectral analysis and filtering, including random signals. Modulation theory and techniques. Transmitter and receiver structures. System performance in the presence of noise.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2410. Corequisite: ECSE 4500.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6510 - Communication Theory
Introduces students to a range of theories from across the humanities and social sciences: theories of meaning, discourse, persuasion, interpersonal communication, and mass communication. Also introduces students to how theories are constructed and how knowledge is generated in communication studies.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6820 - Communications in Organizations
Covers the skills and techniques in effective communications in organizations, including defining the problem and purpose of the communications, the audience, and the intended result. Introductory communications theory is covered; the focus is primarily on written communications, but limited coverage is given to oral techniques, visual representations, and the like. Students prepare and are critiqued on various forms of communications in organizations.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6490 - Competitive Advantage and Operations Strategy
This course includes topics such as manufacturing as a competitive weapon; management of quality; manufacturing technology implementation; strategic impact of advanced manufacturing technologies; and manufacturing’s role in new product development.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 6300 - Complex Analysis
A basic graduate course covering Cauchy’s Theorem, residues, infinite series and products, partial fractions, conformal mapping and the Riemann mapping theorem, analytic continuation, zeros and growth of analytic functions, approximation by rational functions, Phragmen-Lindelof Theorems, inverse-scattering theory, elliptic functions, and Riemann Surfaces.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 4210 and MATH 4300 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 6770 - Complex Organizations and Organization Theory
A macro approach to understanding organizations. Topics include organizational design, contingencies of design, organizational processes, such as culture, environmental interfaces and influences, information processing approaches to design, decision making, and organizational change and development.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 6640 - Complex Variables and Integral Transforms with Applications
Review of basic complex variables theory; power series, analytic functions, singularities, and integration in the complex plane. Integral transforms (Laplace, Fourier, etc.) in the complex plane, with application to solution of PDEs and integral equations. Asymptotic expansions of integrals (Laplace method, methods of steepest descent and stationary phase), with emphasis on extraction of useful information from inversion integrals of transforms. Problems to be drawn from linear models in science and engineering.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 4600 and familiarity with elementary ordinary and partial differential equations.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4050 - Computability and Complexity
This course discusses concepts of languages defined by formal grammars, Turing machines and rewriting systems, computability, Church-Turing thesis, decidable and undecidable problems, computational complexity, polynomial reducibility, NP-completeness, and Cook’s theorem.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2400.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 6050 - Computability and Complexity
This course discusses modern concepts of computability and computational complexity theories. The Church-Turing thesis; variations of Turing Machines; Algorithms; Decidability; The Halting Problem; Reducibility; The Recursion Theorem; The Concept of Information; Time and Space Complexity; Intractability; NP-completeness and Cook’s theorem.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2400 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 4030 - Computability and Logic
A team-based, project-oriented, hands-on introduction to great concepts and discoveries in logic and computability, including Turing Machines, first order logic, the limitations of computing machines, Godel’s incompleteness results and so forth. A hands-on laboratory component is included.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHIL 2140.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Cross Listed: (Cross-listed as PHIL 4420. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and PHIL 4420.)
Credit Hours: 4
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PHIL 4420 - Computability and Logic
A team-based, project-oriented, hands-on introduction to the great concepts and discoveries in logic and computability, including Turing Machines, first-order logic, the limitations of computing machines, Godel’s incompleteness results, and so forth. A hands-on laboratory component is included.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHIL 2140.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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CHEM 6510 - Computational Chemistry
This course is designed to cover the history and application of modern computational chemistry techniques to chemical problems. It will provide familiarity with the various methods and tools presently in use and the assumptions and limitations inherent in each approach. The format involves both lecture and studio modes of instruction and meets in a classroom where each student has a modern workstation.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6720 - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Course focuses on computational approaches to solve the Navier-Stokes equations. Course assumes knowledge of numerical methods and therefore directly attacks the obstacles to applying these methods to the Navier-Stokes equations. Issues concerning implementation of finite difference methods (FDM), finite volume methods (FVM) and finite element methods (FEM) will be discussed. These issues include: the discrete formulation, nonlinear equation iterator (steady)/marcher (time-accurate), linear equation formation, boundary condition prescription and linear equation solution.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 6660 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6790 - Computational Geometry
Literature survey of current research in computational geometry and theoretical computer graphics showing recent efficient algorithms useful in graphics and CAD. Algorithms such as Voronoi networks, geometric searching, convex hulls, divide and conquer in multidimensional space, repeated rotation, preprocessing scenes to draw back to front from any viewpoint, new hidden surface algorithms, haloed line elimination, polyhedron intersection, and algorithms for scenes with thousands of faces are discussed. Major research paper required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 4710 or ECSE 4750, and CSCI 2300 or equivalent.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 4810 - Computational Intelligence
With ever-increasing computer power readily available, new engineering methods based on “soft computing” are emerging at a rapid rate. This course provides students a working knowledge in computational intelligence covering the basics of fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, wavelet analysis, fractal structures, and chaotic time series analysis. Applications in control, optimization, data mining, fractal image compression, and time series analysis are illustrated with engineering case studies.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6800 - Computational Linear Algebra
Gaussian elimination, special linear systems (such as positive definite, banded, or sparse), introduction to parallel computing, iterative methods for linear systems (such as conjugate gradient and preconditioning), QR factorization and least squares problems, and eigenvalue problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 4800 or CSCI 4800 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as MATH 6800. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MATH 6800.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATH 6800 - Computational Linear Algebra
Gaussian elimination, special linear systems (such as positive definite, banded, or sparse), introduction to parallel computing, iterative methods for linear systems (such as conjugate gradient and preconditioning), QR factorization and least squares problems, and eigenvalue problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 4800 or CSCI 4800 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CSCI 6800. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CSCI 6800.
Credit Hours: 4
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DSES 4780 - Computational Optimization
An introduction to nonlinear programming. Models, methods, algorithms, and computer techniques for nonlinear optimization are studied. Students investigate contemporary optimization methods both by implementing these methods and through experimentation with commercial software. Nonmajors wishing to gain practical optimization skills are welcome in this course. A course project allows students to explore optimization methods and practical problems directly related to their interests.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATP 4700 or DSES 4770, and MATH 2010 or ENGR 1100, and CSCI 1100, or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as MATP-4820. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MATP-4820.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATP 4820 - Computational Optimization
An introduction to nonlinear programming. Models, methods, algorithms, and computer techniques for nonlinear optimization are studied. Students investigate contemporary optimization methods both by implementing these methods and through experimentation with commercial software. Nonmajors wishing to gain practical optimization skills are welcomed in this course. A course project will allow students to explore optimization methods and practical problems directly related to their interests.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2010 or ENGR 1100, and CSCI 1100 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as DSES 4780. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and either MATP 6610 or DSES 4780.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATP 6610 - Computational Optimization
An introduction to nonlinear programming. Models, methods, algorithms, and computer techniques for nonlinear optimization are studied. Students investigate contemporary optimization methods both by implementing these methods and through experimentation with commercial software. Nonmajors wishing to gain practical optimization skills are welcomed in this course. A course project will allow students to explore optimization methods and practical problems directly related to their interests. A computer implementation and a research presentation will be required. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and either DSES 4780 or MATP 4820.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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PHYS 4810 - Computational Physics
A survey course in the basic techniques of computational physics, emphasizing studies of physical systems by numerical experimentation. The systems to be studied include examples from plasma physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, high energy physics, and astrophysics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1100, PHYS 1100, and PHYS 1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Consult department about when offered.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 6270 - Computational Vision
Introduction to the problems and techniques of vision from a computational perspective. Discussion includes computational theories of vision and particular topics such as image formation, image processing, linear systems, Fourier transforms, mathematical morphology, edge and contour detection, shape from shading, stereo, motion, surface reconstruction, robust techniques, three-dimensional representation and reasoning, object recognition, and computational geometry.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 or equivalent and programming experience.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGR 2720 - Computer Aided Machining
This course will introduce students to the basic concepts associated with computer numerical controlled (CNC) machining. Specifically, the student will be introduced to the processes and operations associated with CNC milling, drilling, and turning. All of these processes will be controlled by code written by the students. Students are expected to apply their knowledge of computer-aided engineering as well as manufacturing processes to class exercises, homework assignments, tests, and a final project.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 4020 - Computer Algorithms
Basic algorithm design strategies such as greedy, dynamic programming, backtracking, and branch-and-bound; main approaches, including exact, probabilistic, approximate, and heuristic algorithms; sequential and parallel algorithms; algorithms for networks, string matching, matrix operations, and cryptography; learning algorithms.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECSE 6700 - Computer Architecture Prototyping with FPGA’s
An advanced design and laboratory course. Design methodologies include register transfer modules and firmware microprogrammed design. Advanced microprocessor topics. “Bit-slice” philosophy of design. LSI microprocessors as design elements in larger digital systems such as high-speed channels and special purpose computers. Detailed discussion of the structure of several computers at the chip and board level. Emphasis on high-speed ECL and Schottky circuits. Specification of custom IC digital systems. FPGA based design implementation using VHDL. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and ECSE 4780.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 4770.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 2660 - Computer Architecture, Networks, and Operating Systems
Quantitative basis of modern computer architecture, processor design, memory hierarchy, and input/output methods. Layered operating system structures, process and storage management. Layered network organization, network protocols, switching, local and wide area networks. Examples from Unix and the Internet.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2610.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
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CSCI 4250 - Computer Architectures
Basic principles of computer design, including such topics as instruction sets, memory hierarchy, arithmetic, pipelining, vector processing, interconnection networks, and multiprocessors. The course emphasizes fundamental concepts and presents examples from existing computer systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2500 and CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECSE 4670 - Computer Communication Networks
Introduction to the basic concepts of computer and communication networks, like flow control, congestion control, end-to-end reliability, routing, framing, error-recovery, multiple access and statistical multiplexing. In-depth presentation of the different networking layers, with emphasis on the Internet reference model. Protocols and architectures such as TCP, IP, Ethernet, wireless networks, etc. are described in order to illustrate important networking concepts. Introduction to quantitiative analysis and modeling of networks.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2610 and basic probability such as in MATH 2800, ENGR 2600 or ECSE 4500.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 2610 - Computer Components and Operations
Design-oriented introduction to computer components and operations. Standard codes, number systems, base conversions, and computer arithmetic. Boolean algebra, minimization and synthesis techniques for combinational and sequential logic. Races, hazards, and asynchronous behavior. Registers, arithmetic logic units, memory structure, buses, and control units. Machine language programming, instruction fetch and execution, input-output devices, interrupts, and microprogram sequencers. Software and hardware tools.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 1100. Corequisite: ENGR 2350.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
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ECSE 4750 - Computer Graphics
Introduction to Interactive Computer Graphics, with an emphasis on applications programming. Objects and viewers, and the synthetic camera model. Graphics architectures, the graphics pipeline, clipping, rasterization, and programmable shaders. Input and interaction. Geometric objects, homogeneous coordinates, and transformations. Viewing, hidden surface removal, frame and depth buffers, compositing, and anti-aliasing. Shading, light and materials, texture mapping, ray tracing, and radiosity. Intellectual property concerns. Extensive programming with the OpenGL API and C++.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2610 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4770 - Computer Hardware Design
Digital design methodologies including timing chain and counter based “hardwired” microprogram design, modules, and modular design. The course bridges LSI and MSI design treating microprocessors, and I/O interfacing. Bus protocol standards, interrupts, direct memory access, priority arbitration, asynchronous timing, and overlap or double buffering. Specific examples of design include controllers for disks, cassettes, video systems, and stepping motors. Course includes a laboratory with access to FPGAs and microprocessors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2610; ENGR 2350 desirable.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 5 contact hours
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MGMT 4140 - Computer Information Systems
This course provides the undergraduate management student with an introduction to the concept and components of computer-based “management information systems” (MIS) and their integration into organizational processes to gain competitive advantage. This course will examine approaches for developing and using information systems in support of business processes. Topics include: the impact of computer-based information systems on organizations; the basic technology components of modern information systems; the process by which information systems are created and changed; and selected management and technology issues.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms anually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECSE 6190 - Computer Methods in Electric Power Engineering
Applies the student’s knowledge of power engineering to the solution of large problems by computer methods. Treats matrix techniques, load-flow analysis, network building, short circuit studies, numerical integration, and finite element analysis as it applies to power systems and power apparatus.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 6110 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 2020 - Computer Music
Music composition taught in the context of modern computerized production methods. Technical topics include basic principles of computer sound generation, digital sound sampling, and the use of small computers for musical control of electronic instruments. Musical topics include a study of important musical works and compositional techniques of the 20th century. Student projects involve hands-on work on a variety of computer instruments and software. This course is a prerequisite for further creative work with Rensselaer’s computer music facilities.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CISH 6210 - Computer Network Analysis and Design
Theoretical and empirical analysis of algorithms; tools for on–line monitoring of the algorithm’s performance. Advanced algorithms for polynomial problems; randomized heuristic and approximate algorithms. Problems include computation in discrete mathematics, number theory, linear algebra, graph theory, numerical and symbolic computing. It is suggested that students take CSCI 6050 before taking this course.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6140 - Computer Operating Systems
Topics include analysis of multiprogramming systems, virtual memory, computer system performance, and queuing theory. The course also discusses tools for synchronization of parallel programs and algorithms for mutual exclusion.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4210 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 2500 - Computer Organization
Introduction to computer organization, assembler language, and operating systems. Computer systems organization: processors, memory, I/O. Digital logic: gates, Boolean algebra, digital logic circuits, memory, buses. Microprogramming. Machine level: instruction formats, addressing modes, instruction types, flow of control. Operating systems: virtual memory, virtual I/O instructions, processes, interprocess communication. Numeric representation. Assembler language: the assembly process, macros, linking, loading. Advanced architectures: RISC architectures, parallel architectures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 1200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 1100 - Computer Science I
An introduction to computer programming algorithm design and analysis. Additional topics include basic computer organization; internal representation of scalar and array data; use of top-down design and subprograms to tackle complex problems; abstract data types. Enrichment material as time allows. Interdisciplinary case studies, numerical and nonnumerical applications. Students who have passed CSCI 1200 cannot register for this course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CISH 6900 - Computer Science Seminar
For students near the end of their program, a two semester course that meets once per month from September through March and one Saturday in April when students give their presentations. Registration is accepted during fall registration only. Students are required to attend all eight meetings in order to fulfill the Seminar requirement.
Credit Hours: 1
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CISH 6902 - Computer Science Seminar
For students following the Applied path, who were admitted after summer 2004. Registrations is allowed only after acceptance of an approved project plan by a faculty adviser. Students are required to attend guest speaker sessions and give a formal presentation of their own research results.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6900 - Computer Science Seminar
Presentation of current developments in computer science. Reports by students.
Credit Hours: 1
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ECSE 6650 - Computer Vision
Image formation and visual perception. Images, line structures, and line drawings. Preprocessing, boundary detection, texture, and region growing. Image representation in terms of boundaries, regions, and shape. Three-dimensional structures and their projections. Analysis, manipulation, and classification of image data. Knowledge-based approaches to image understanding. Applications from fields of robot vision, biomedical-image analysis, and satellite and aerial image interpretation.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6730 - Computer-Mediated Communication
This seminar examines the social uses and impacts of computer-mediated communication in contexts such as education, industry, and informal social interaction. Students may examine traditionally important variables such as self-disclosure, rules, status, power, message sequencing, etc., as well as processes such as reality construction, learning, decision making, and group development. The course introduces analytic procedures that are as useful for spoken or written discourse as for computer-mediated discourse.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 6010 - Concepts/Research Seminar in Science and Technology Studies
A two-semester graduate seminar designed primarily for matriculants in the department’s M.S. program in Science and Technology Studies. Introduces students to the literature and the current issues in the constituent disciplines of Science and Technology Studies. Considers applications of this scholarship to current practical problems involving the human dimensions of science and technology. The first semester culminates in a bibliographic essay. In the second semester, students conduct research under the supervision of individual faculty members on topics of mutual interest.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate status or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 6020 - Concepts/Research Seminar in Science and Technology Studies
A two-semester graduate seminar designed primarily for matriculants in the department’s M.S. program in Science and Technology Studies. Introduces students to the literature and the current issues in the constituent disciplines of Science and Technology Studies. Considers applications of this scholarship to current practical problems involving the human dimensions of science and technology. The first semester culminates in a bibliographic essay. In the second semester, students conduct research under the supervision of individual faculty members on topics of mutual interest.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate status or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 4080 - Concrete Design
Analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures using ultimate strength methods. Design of beams, columns, slabs, and footings. Development and anchorage of reinforcing bars.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2670.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6630 - Conduction Heat Transfer
An introduction to the mathematics of conduction heat transfer. Applications of results illustrated by examples from furnace design, cooling of electric components, building design, heat exchanger design.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 4270 - Construction Management
Application of engineering principles to planning construction operations. Network scheduling (CPM, PERT), resource allocation. Cost engineering and control.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: senior standing.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 2350 - Construction Systems
Construction Systems centers on the development of a technical knowledge of, sensibility to, and intuition for the process by which an architectural design is realized in built form. The interdependence among building materials, acoustic qualities, enclosure systems, interior, finish, and other systems is investigated, with an emphasis on the broader architectural design endeavor. Drawing as a means of understanding forms the basis for a semester-long project to be done in small groups. Case studies will center on concepts and systems that have not yet found their way into mainstream practice. The course approach will involve in-class presentations, project work, 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 notion that design intentions can be nullified through incorrect construction is stressed. The importance of proper detailing, construction, and maintenance to accomplish lasting and efficient enclosures is highlighted. Skills to diagnose and treat incorrect construction are developed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARCH 2510 except M.Arch students.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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MGMT 4460 - Consumer Behavior and Product Design
This course introduces the motivations and related factors that shape consumers’ purchasing decisions. Also considered is the consumer perceptual process and how it affects purchasing behavior and consumer reaction to product designs. The relationship between perception and product design is extended to topics such as design for understanding, universal product design, aesthetics, and industrial design.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 4430 or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 2130 - Contemporary Design Approaches
Contemporary practices in architecture are examined and used as foils in order to better understand one’s own individual approach to design. The point is to help uncover some of the self-evidently “true” presuppositions that we all make when we design. By knowing what we take for granted and knowing also that others work with presuppositions which may be substantively different from our own, we begin to realize both our ability to exercise choices and our responsibility to think through the consequences of those choices. Each of the approaches is explored as to its ontological, epistemological, value, and methodological presuppositions. Two very direct questions help in this reflection: What relation does the given approach have to the formative conditions of the contemporary city? and, How does each of the design approaches relate to the American experiences in thought and action?
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 2120.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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LITR 2150 - Contemporary Literature
A study of significant works of world literature of the 20th century. Each work provides the student with a concrete experience of some overriding problem of our time—for example, the difficulty of becoming one’s self in the modern age.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATH 1620 - Contemporary Mathematical Ideas in Society
An application-oriented course introducing contemporary mathematical concepts that pertain to areas of Architecture and Humanities and Social Sciences. The course will cover growth and form, symmetry, patterns, tilings, linear programming, information coding, voting systems, game theory, logic, probability and statistics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: major in Architecture or Humanities and Social Sciences and MATH 1010 or MATH 1500 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 4360 - Contemporary Political Thought
This seminar focuses upon contemporary theoretical approaches to issues in political society. Writings in liberalism, conservatism, postmodernism, anarchism, and green politics are compared with special attention to their policy proposals.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any 2000-level STS course.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 6250 - Continuum Mechanics
General curvilinear coordinates, determinants, diagonalization of symmetric matrices, polar decomposition theorem. Description of finite deformation and motion, convected coordinates. Conservation equations, Cauchy and Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors and equations of motion. Boundary conditions. Thermodynamics of continua, invariance principles, objective tensors. Constitutive equations, nonlinear elasticity, thermoelasticity, heat conducting fluids. Linearizations. Variational derivation of the equations of nonlinear elasticity.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 4330 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4440 - Control Systems Engineering
Application of linear feedback theory to the design of large-scale, integrated control systems. Derivation of complex mathematical models of physical systems. Synthesis of appropriate control laws to provide stability. Simulation of complex control systems on digital computers.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2410.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHME 6540 - Convective Heat Transfer
A review of basic concepts of mass, momentum, and energy conservation as related to convective heat transfer. The analysis of laminar and turbulent forces and free convection problems in both internal and external flows. Also a study of the current state of the art in boiling and condensation heat transfer.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6650 - Convective Heat Transfer
Fundamental study of convection heat transfer in laminar and turbulent internal and external flows. Unsteady flows, combined heat and mass transfer, conjugated unsteady heat transfer, and buoyancy induced convection. Selected applications from aeronautics and heat exchanger design.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4800 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6700 - Corporate Entrepreneurship
Organizations that increase their capacity for entrepreneurship build a foundation for long term competitiveness. This course examines how organizations can build management systems to enable entrepreneurial activities while simultaneously addressing current operational concerns. This tension differentiates the corporate entrepreneurial challenge from the start-up venture. The course focuses on both the organizational and project levels, studying how organizations can build an entrepreneurial capacity, and how project champions can ensure their projects are effectively evaluated, supported, and managed.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MTLE 4310 - Corrosion
Mechanisms, characteristics, and types of corrosion. Methods for testing, combating, and evaluating corrosion resistance. Suitability of metals, ceramics, and organic materials in corrosive environments. Oxidation and other high-temperature gas-metal reactions.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4210 - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Addresses the identification and measurement of the economic gains and losses to different sectors of the economy resulting from public projects and policies. Among the projects studied are those in the area of transportation, energy, environment, and urban development. Also considered is the evaluation of the effects of government on business, as for example, consumer product and workplace safety regulation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 2010.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 696X - Craig Professional Development Seminar
This course assists students in developing those skills and techniques needed to be an effective manager. Topics include business writing and communication, presentation skills, agenda setting and meeting skills, stress management, and time management.
Credit Hours: 0
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MGMT 6040 - Creating and Managing an Enterprise I
This course is designed to help students understand the critical challenges and tasks associated with developing, growing, and managing a successful business. Students learn how to lead and manage an enterprise as well as gain a fundamental understanding of each functional department required to operate a business and how each fits into the greater scope of the business organization.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6050 - Creating and Managing an Enterprise II
This course builds upon the principles learned in Creating and Managing the Enterprise I within the context of start-ups, internal new ventures, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and other organizational forms. Success in creating and managing any business is contingent upon careful analysis and management of five key segments– people, product, market, finances, and competition. Students have an opportunity to put into practice the latest management theory while balancing the resources and constraints of these five segments.
Credit Hours: 3
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WRIT 2310 - Creative Writing
A workshop course in the practice of writing in one or more literary forms: poetry, drama, essay, fiction. Students work at their own pace and have opportunities to present their work for criticism by other students. The literary form featured during a given semester depends on the instructor. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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CIVL 6220 - Critical Issues in Transportation
To provide the students with a broad understanding of cutting edge methodologies in transportation modeling and economics not thoroughly covered in other courses, and emerging issues pertaining to transportation research and practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4440 - Critical Reactor Laboratory
Theory and operation of a low-power critical reactor facility: reactor layout, instrumentation, shielding, controls, hazards, problems of start-up and shutdown, and operating parameters. Approach to criticality, operating procedures, kinetics. Measurements are made of neutron flux, fuel rod worth, radiation, and various reactivity effects.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4480.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 3
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PHIL 2100 - Critical Thinking
This course provides tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of the various patterns of reasoning as they occur in the real world. Patterns of reasoning include deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, scientific reasoning, statistical reasoning, and causal reasoning. The course also covers some basic psychology and sociology of reasoning and belief, and concludes with a critical discussion of science and the scientific method.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as PSYC 2100. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and PSYC 2100.
Credit Hours: 4
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PSYC 2100 - Critical Thinking
This course provides tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of the various patterns of reasoning as they occur in the real world. Patterns of reasoning include deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, scientific reasoning, statistical reasoning, and causal reasoning. The course also covers some basic psychology and sociology of reasoning and belief, and concludes with a critical discussion of science and the scientific method.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as PHIL 2100. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and PHIL 2100.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4400 - Cross-Cultural Graphics
This course examines the role of user research in visual communication. Discussions analyze how culture affects the interpretation of visual language. Students use a research-oriented approach to design a term-long project. Systematically, they derive a visual communication problem, determine user-requirements, and create aesthetics based upon audience input.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4570.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6400. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6400 - Cross-Cultural Graphics
This course examines the role of user research in visual communication. Readings in cross-cultural communication theory generate discussions on how culture affects the interpretation of visual language–that includes text and graphics. Students analyze the important role of graphics in cross-cultural communication and develop heuristics for the creation and use of effective cross-cultural graphics.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4400. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 1510 - Cultural Anthropology
An introduction to human societies and cultures in comparative perspective, from tribal societies to complex societies such as the United States. Emphasis on ethnographic descriptions of other cultures such as on the interpretation of cultural symbolism and on topical issues such as medical anthropology.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 7710 - Cultural Environment of International Business
The emerging role of the international manager, cultural impact of international management, managing culture shock, organizational responsibilities, and cultural differences. Foreign deployment, cultural specifics for managerial effectiveness, cultural themes and patterns, American macro- and micro-cultures, working with the global market environment.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 6390.
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STSH 6040 - Cultures of Inquiry
An historical overview of the contrast between universal and local theories of knowledge. Readings begin with classic philosophy (Descartes, Hume, Kant, etc.), and the break from these universalist frameworks through modernist theories for cross-cultural comparison of knowledge systems (indigenous, national, folk, etc.). These in turn are critiqued through postmodern cultural theory, including popular culture studies, cyberculture, and postcolonial studies.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 6140 - Current Problems of American Industry
An advanced analysis of current problems confronting major American industries, regulated and unregulated. Recent changes in growth patterns, market structures, and pricing policies are examined. Considerable emphasis is placed on emerging trends in technology and public policy, which are likely to affect significantly the future of these industries.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECON 2010 and ECON 4140 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ERTH 2620 - Current Topics in Earth Science
This course provides the student with a formal participation in the weekly colloquium series of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. These colloquia involve lectures on a wide variety of topics in the geologic and environmental sciences primarily by outside investigators who are currently active in those fields. (Students may take this course a maximum of two times for credit.)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: geology or environmental science majors only or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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CSCI 1200 - Data Structures
Programming concepts: functions, parameter passing, pointers, arrays, strings, structs, classes, templates. Mathematical tools: sets, functions, and relations, order notation, complexity of algorithms, proof by induction. Data structures and their representations: data abstraction and internal representation, sequences, trees, binary search trees, associative structures. Algorithms: searching and sorting, generic algorithms, iterative and recursive algorithms. Methods of testing correctness and measuring performance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 1100 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 4390 - Database Mining
This course will provide an introductory survey of the main topics in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), including: classification, clustering, association rules, sequence mining, similarity search, deviation detection, and so on. Emphasis will be on the algorithmic and system issues in KDD, as well as on applications such as Web mining, multimedia mining, bioinformatics, geographical information systems, etc.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and MATH 2800.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 6390 - Database Mining
This course will provide an introductory survey of the main topics in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), including: classification, clustering, association rules, sequence mining, similarity search, deviation detection, and so on. Emphasis will be on the algorithmic and system issues in KDD, as well as on applications such as Web mining, multimedia mining, bioinformatics, geographical information systems, etc.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 and MATH 2800.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CISH 4380 - Database Systems
Discussion of the state of practice in modern database systems with an emphasis on relational systems. Topics include database design, database system architecture, SQL, normalization techniques, storage structures, query processing, concurrency control, recovery, security, and new direction such as object oriented and distributed database systems. Students gain hands-on experience with commercial database systems and interface building tools. Programming projects are required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CISH 4020 or equivalent.
When Offered: H, spring, summer annually; G, on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 4380 - Database Systems
Discussion of the state of practice in modern database systems, with an emphasis on relational systems. Topics include database design, database system architecture, SQL, normalization techniques, storage structures, query processing, concurrency control, recovery, security, and new directions such as object-oriented and distributed database systems. Students gain hands-on experience with commercial database systems and interface building tools. Programming projects are required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 6470 - Database Systems for Engineering Applications
A survey of traditional database systems is followed by an examination of differences between applications of those systems and engineering applications. Database systems for engineering applications are described including the concepts of long transactions, version control, object-oriented support, and concurrent engineering.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4380 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 4280 - Decision Focused Systems Engineering
The objective of this course is to introduce students to systems engineering, especially from a decision-focused perspective. System concepts, methodologies, models and analysis are covered in relation to a system’s design, development, test, evaluation, and operation. Decisions concerning a system’s reliability, maintainability, usability, disposability, and affordability are systematically considered. A range of systems, including service systems, is also considered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Pre-or corequisite: ENGR 2600.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 6530 - Decision Support and Expert Systems
Concepts and types of managerial decision support systems. Topics include models for decision making, applied database, and applications of artificial intelligence. Knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, and the development of expert systems are taught through cases and a project. Use of commercially available software packages.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: DSES 4530 or DSES 6500 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 4410 - Deep Listening
Deep Listening is a practice created by the instructor to enhance and expand listening abilities and to encourage creative work. The class will explore different forms of listening including field recording. Each class time will involve experiential exercises, sound pieces, readings, and discussion. Musical training is not prerequisite.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 6010 - Defects in Solids
Point defects, nonstoichiometry, diffusion and defects, electronic defects, elastic properties of dislocations, dislocation-point defect interactions, dislocation arrays, grain boundaries, stacking faults, phase stability, twin boundaries, epitaxial interfaces.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MTLE 2100 or equivalent. Fall term.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MTLE 6610 - Deformation Processing
Mechanical metallurgy and mechanics of the classical metal-working operations. Analytical techniques. Friction and lubrication. Workability. Effects on as-worked properties. Technological discussions of forging, rolling, extrusion, drawing, and other unit operations.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 1600 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4380 - Derivatives Markets
This course introduces the institutional structure of the financial markets for derivatives. It also covers hedging and basis risk, interest rate, and stock-index derivatives with financial management applications. Other topics covered include an introduction to options, rational option pricing restrictions, binomial option pricing model, and put and call option strategies.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 2320 and MGMT 4320 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term biannually.
Cross Listed: (Cross-listed with MGMT 6370).
Credit Hours: 4
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CSCI 6210 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Theoretical and empirical analysis of algorithms; tools for on-line monitoring of the algorithm’s performance. Advanced algorithms for polynomial problems; randomized heuristic and approximate algorithms. Problems include computation in discrete mathematics, number theory, linear algebra, graph theory, numerical and symbolic computing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4020 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4720 - Design and Analysis of Energy Systems
This course applies basic concepts of fluid mechanics and heat transfer to a wide variety of energy system components such as heat exchangers, pumps, fans, and bearings. Design and analysis techniques including modeling and simulation methods are developed for energy systems such as piping networks and refrigeration units.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4010.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 4210 - Design and Analysis of Supply Chains
An overview of the principles involved in the design and operation of supply chains with applications to manufacturing and service industries. Topics include dynamics of manufacturing systems and supply chains, lean manufacturing, lead time reduction in manufacturing and office operations, advanced pull systems, concurrent design of products and supply chains, rapid new product introduction, remanufacturing and reverse supply chains, and integration of information technology in supply chain operations. The goal of the course is to enable students to synthesize models and tools and to understand how these could be applied to address emerging challenges in manufacturing and service systems and their supply chains.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: DSES 2210 or ENGR 4700, and ENGR 2600 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 4200 - Design and Analysis of Work Systems
Analysis and design of work and workplace. Topics covered include human-machine systems, ergonomics, work measurement systems, methods and standards, process design, direct time study, standard time data, predetermined time systems, work sampling, work load balancing, and workplace layout. Computer-based analysis of problems in work systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2600 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6710 - Design and Simulation of Experiments in Heat and Mass Transfer
This graduate course provides interactive, hands-on learning of experimental techniques, finite element modeling, and fundamentals of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Topics include analogy between heat, mass, and momentum transfer. Dimensional analysis. Steady state and transient techniques for property measurements. Errors. Heat transfer coefficients in forced and free convection. Shear stress and friction coefficients on the flat plate. Enclosures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 6630 and MANE 6650, or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 4300 - Design Development
A technology-based design studio emphasizing the materialization and making of architectural design projects. The integration of building code requirements for fire protection, life safety, accessibility, building environmental systems, structure, construction, and materiality is central to effectively achieving design intent. Students become aware of how these affect and inform design decisions. They learn to integrate technology, systems, and materials in the comprehensive resolution of building design and gain exposure to construction documents and design documentation. Construction and site visits are an integral part of the studio as is an integrated electronic media seminar on CAD applications. Students must coregister for ARCH 4540, a concurrent two-credit course that introduces codes, the regulatory process, agreements, contract documents, building design cost control, and administration. This course maybe taken any time after ARCH 4250.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARCH 4250, ARCH 4330. ARCH 4740 may be taken as a prerequisite or corequisite. It is recommended that ARCH 4740 be deferred one semester for students studying abroad only (ex: China) and take ARCH 2360 as a corequisite.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 6
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ARCH 2410 - Design Drawing
Drawing as the architect’s chief design tool and most potent medium of communication. Major ideas about communication, its cultural roots, and its implications for architecture. Demonstrations of and studio practice in graphical techniques used in all phases of the design process, from initial conceptual patterning to final presentation. Drawing exercises in abstracting, symbolizing, behavioral mapping, depicting processes and typologies, expressing spatial character.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: at least one year of design studio courses recommended.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6110 - Design Explorations 1
Case studies – investigations into architectural knowledge. Selective architectural works will be deconstructed in order to uncover the knowledge invested in them. Case studies will be subjected to modes of inquiry that will reveal their deep content from conception to realization, including the mental frameworks of the designers, the methods of representation, the technological knowledge employed, the methods of production, and the ingrained cultural values, to develop methods of inquiry that will enable them to pursue similar investigations of any architectural work.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6120 - Design Explorations 2
Architectural and urban environments are analyzed and explored so as to reveal significant but not obvious content. The precise topics vary but always address important issues. Currently they address the environmental performance of buildings and the role that spatial order/organization of urban environments plays in the construction of social practices, human subjectivities, and technologies of power. Topics alternate every other year.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 6110.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6130 - Design Explorations 3
Taught with ARCH 6120 with the same topics alternating every year, so that students cumulatively are taught an architectural topic and an urban one over a two-year period.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 6120.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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