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Rensselaer Catalog 2009-2010 [Archived Catalog]
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ARCH 4460 - Electronic Media: Critical Visualization
This course is offered as an advanced design course concerned with the integration of computer modeling, animation, and multimedia technologies into the design methods of the architect. It stresses the need to integrate critical thinking about computer technology and focused learning of software tools and methods. Software used will vary per instructor and will require no previous knowledge of these specific tools. Students, however, should have a fundamental knowledge of and be comfortable with computer systems and operating systems. Some background in computing, for example CSCI 1100, is recommended.
When Offered: Spring term annually. Limited enrollment.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 4430 - Electronic Media: Physical Design Processes
This course will examine processes of design prototyping and fabrication via 3-D scanning, CNC milling, and other techniques in a critical design context. Two particular foci will be established: the application of these tools as means for physical design visualization of computer-based design work and the exploration of the systemic biases these tools give to the design conceptualization process. In both cases, creative exploration of design opportunity will be encouraged. Students will be expected to create multiple material experiments during the term and will be responsible for purchasing their own materials.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4750 - Electronic User Interfaces
Application of research on computer usability to the design of Web sites, graphic user interfaces (GUIs), personal digital assistants (PDAs), persuasive computing, and electronic performance support systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: an introductory course in communication or another social science.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 4030 - Elements of Mechanical Design
Introduction to the design of mechanical components and integrated assemblies. Loads, stresses, and strains. Failure phenomena and material selection. Mechanical components including shafts, couplings, bearings, gears, springs, clutches, brakes, screws and fasteners, and bonded joints.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2400, ENGR 2530.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ENGR 2350 - Embedded Control
Engineering laboratory introduction to the microprocessor as an embedded element of engineering systems. Students simultaneously develop the hardware and software of one or more target systems during the semester. Topics include concepts and practices of microcontroller hardware and software for command, sensing, control, and display. Specifically this includes control of dynamic systems and sensor interfaces; analog-digital conversion; parallel input/output; driver circuits, modular programming, and subsystem integration.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: a programming language, preferably C.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 6870 - Empirical Issues in Management Research
The course focuses on the empirical issues of academic research in different business disciplines. It broadly encompasses a number of key research topics emphasizing the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical frontiers. The course will concentrate on the use of statistical approaches relevant for engaging in empirical research. Overall, the course attempts to develop skills such as synthesizing research, developing research designs, building theories, and using appropriate empirical methodology and techniques.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHME 2020 - Energy, Entropy, and Equilibrium
A continuation of CHME 2010. Topics include process flowsheeting, solution thermodynamics, phase equilibria, chemical-reaction equilibria, and applications of thermodynamics to problems in chemical-process design. One credit hour of this course is devoted to Professional Development.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 2010.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6840 - Engineering Acoustics
Introductory materials of engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. Much of the course material is taken from the textbook “Acoustics for Engineers” by Blauert & Xiang. The course includes mechanic and acoustic oscillations, electromechanic and electroacoustic, magnetic- and electric-field transduction, wave equations in fluids, governing equations for horns and ducts, spherical sound sources and arrays, diffraction and scattering, dissipation, reflection, refraction and absorption, isolation of air- and structure-borne sounds, noise propagation and noise control. Differential equations is recommended.
When Offered: Fall term anually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ENGR 2090 - Engineering Dynamics
An integrated development of modeling-and problem-solving techniques for particles and rigid bodies emphasizing the use of free-body diagrams, vector algebra, and computer simulation. Topics covered include the kinematics and kinetics of translational, rotational, and general plane motion, energy and momentum methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 1100 and PHYS 1100. Corequisite: MATH 2400.
When Offered: Fall and spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ENGR 4760 - Engineering Economics
The objective is to help engineering students recognize and understand the importance of cost factors that are inherent in all engineering decisions. Development of ability to handle engineering problems that involve economic factors. The course includes economic environment, selections in present economy, value analysis, critical path economy, interest and money-time relationships, depreciation and valuation, capital financing and budgeting, basic methods for undertaking economic studies, risk, uncertainty and sensitivity, selections between alternatives, fixed, increment, and sunk costs, the effects of income taxes in economic studies, replacement studies, minimum cost formulas, economic studies of public projects, economic studies in public utilities. Effects of inflation are considered at each step. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and ENGR 4750.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGR 4750 - Engineering Economics and Project Management
This course deals with cost analysis in engineering decision making and the management and control of complex projects. Engineering economics topics include interest formulas and equivalence calculations, inflation, measures of investment worth, after tax analysis, depreciation accounting and replacement analyses, life-cycle costing and design economics, risk analysis and cost-benefit analysis. Engineering project management topics include methods for planning, evaluation, organization, budgeting, cost estimating, scheduling, expediting, reporting, monitoring, and implementation of projects. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and either ENGR 4760 or DSES 4240.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 4210 - Engineering Ethics
This course explores the ethical issues that engineers encounter in their professional practice. It also examines social values and law and policy issues that shape engineering and technological decision making. Using case studies, professional codes of conduct, and scholarly literature, the course examines the responsibilities of engineers in relation to their employers, clients, co-professionals, and their responsibility for public safety and welfare. Topics include the history of engineering, professionalism vs. the demands of business, engineering vs. management decision making, whistle-blowing, proprietary rights and trade secrecy, and conflicts of interest.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STSH 1110/STSS 1110, STSS 2400, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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ENGR 1200 - Engineering Graphics and CAD
An introduction to the techniques for creating solid models of engineering designs. Topics include three-dimensional modeling of parts and assemblies, visualization, orthographic and isometric free-hand sketching, and computer-generated design documentation.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 3 contact hours
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ECSE 2500 - Engineering Probability
Axioms of probability, joint and conditional probability, random variables, probability density, mass, and distribution functions, functions of one and two random variables, characteristic functions, sequences of independent random variables, central limit theorem, and laws of large numbers. Applications to electrical and computer engineering problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: ECSE 2410.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGR 1300 - Engineering Processes
The use of basic machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, drill presses, band saws, and grinders, including micrometers, vernier calipers, and other devices of use in a machine shop or laboratory. Welding techniques and tool making are also considered.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ENGR 2940 - Engineering Project
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
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DSES 4240 - Engineering Project Management
Planning, controlling, and evaluating engineering projects. Use of network analysis techniques, PERT/CPM, budget control, time/cost tradeoff, time estimation, resource allocation, and resource leveling. Extensions include probabilistic models, multiple resource models, project organization, risk analysis, technical forecasting, and network theory. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and ENGR 4750.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 2200 - Engineering, Design, and Society
What is engineering? How should engineering fit into society? What is engineering design? What role should engineering designers play in society? How do the social and technical aspects of design relate to each other? This course will explore answers to these questions through a variety of perspectives and case studies.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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DSES 6520 - Enterprise Database Systems
Focus on developing competence for database systems analysis, design, and processing. Additional topics such as data and rules modeling, integrity, data languages, DBMS, and distributed databases are also covered. The course presents a high-level look at design and operation issues from the perspective of information systems. Projects are required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: DSES 6500 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4130 - Enterprise IT Integration
This course provides a capstone and professional experience through an in-depth study of major issues in enterprise information architecture. The course emphasizes both management and technical issues. Topics include information architecture evaluation, strategic information technology alignment, information technology valuation techniques, application interfaces, system and data integration, data warehousing, and decision support systems. Course concepts are developed through case studies and projects.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 2300 or equivalent or MGMT 4240 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 6260 - Entrepreneurial Finance
The overall objective of this course is to understand how entrepreneurs and investors create value, noting that their interests do not always coincide. This involves learning about topics which trace out the “venture capital cycle”: opportunity recognition; valuation and evaluation; negotiation; structuring financing contract; managing investment; exit strategy. This course is structured into three modules: valuation, private equity market, and harvesting entrepreneurial value.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 4500 - Environment and Development
This course surveys the actors, processes, and proposed solutions to the problems of environment and development. The theory and practice of three main themes are explored: the background and context of environment in North and South; politics and economic development in the south; and the problems and prospects for sustainable societies in North and South.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STSS 2300 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term, alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 6400 - Environment and Health
This course explores how the health impacts of environmental problems are understood and responded to through medical, legal, and regulatory intervention. Case studies are used to highlight different strategies for dealing with environmental illness, comparing the perspectives of affected people, medical professionals, lawyers, government officials, industry representatives, and media. A core component of the course is devoted to problems related to exposure to toxic chemicals, including readings on popular epidemiology, mass torts, transboundary victimization and medical rehabilitation models.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 4390 - Environment and International Policy
This course explores environmental issues that engage international attention and require new forms of policy and diplomacy. This course also explores the historical, cultural, and political-economic factors that contribute to contemporary concern about the environment. Particular attention is given to changing perceptions about the relationship between technological development, human welfare, and collective responsibility.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: junior or senior status or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 6300 - Environment and Social Theory
This course focuses on contemporary social theory to understand the historical origins, institutional structures, and dominant trajectories of environmental-social change. Three main questions structure our inquiry into the links among science, technology, environment, and social theory: 1) why do modern societies degrade their environments? 2) why do environmental movements arise, or what are the social structural, cultural, and political origins of environmentalism? and 3) can some particular politics curtail environmental degradation?
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 2300 - Environment and Society
The course’s main theme is ecological sustainability: what it is, how it might be achieved, how it can be maintained. The theory and practice of sustainability is explored in three parts: through an examination of the concepts, actors, and processes of society-environment interactions; through an analysis of environmental philosophies and models for action; and by addressing the problems and prospects for building sustainable societies. This course prepares students for advanced environmental humanities and social sciences courses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STSH 1110/STSS 1110 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 2360 - Environmental and Ecological Systems
An exploration of the fundamental principles of human physiology, thermal and luminous comfort, and indoor quality. Emphasis is on bioclimatic and psychrometric climate analysis and its relationship to architectural design, understanding the energy exchange between body in space, the natural meaning of enclosures, and nonstructural materials and systems. The focus is on passive heating, cooling, and daylighting systems and their design. Exercises include vital sign analysis of existing spaces (thermal, air, luminous), forming hypotheses of building performance, using scientific instrumentation, tenant survey techniques, and physical modeling and simulation techniques related to daylighting and shading techniques.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: PHYS 1050, ARCH 2220 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ENVE 4320 - Environmental Chemodynamics
The movement of chemicals in air, water, and soil is presented to demonstrate the relation of physiochemical principles in the behavior of chemicals in the environment. Topics include chemical and thermal equilibrium at environmental interfaces, transport fundamentals, and the fate and transport of chemicals in various environmental compartments.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENVE 2110 or CHME 2010. Corequisite: ENGR 2250 or CHME 4010.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4230 - Environmental Economics
Develops a critical understanding of environmental issues and policy from an interdisciplinary economics perspective. Covers the economics of environmental quality including the links between the economy and the environment, the causes of environmental problems, evaluation of environmental projects and policies, and policies to address environmental issues with an emphasis on efficiency, equity, and sustainability, and the international dimensions of environmental issues.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 1200 or permission of instructor, ECON 2010 recommended.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ENVE 4150 - Environmental Engineering Laboratory
A laboratory course on experimental analysis of natural and engineered environmental processes. Emphasis is placed on planning of experiments, data evaluation, and report writing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVE 2110 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ERTH 4180 - Environmental Geology
A consideration of technical and scientific aspects of key geo-societal issues. Case studies and analysis of current and historic data bases will be used to illustrate topics including, but not limited to, climate modification, energy resources, future energy, water resources, water pollution, and health risks posed by lead, mercury, and emerging pollutants.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6310 - Environmental History and Theory
This course has been conceived together with Material Systems and Productions and the Design Research Studio, such that each student will develop a complementary written analysis that critically situates the new material system that the student is developing in design studio within historical, socio-political, and economic flows. The written analysis will directly reference key themes contained within the required readings, lectures, and seminar discussions. Course taught in New York City.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENVE 6160 - Environmental Impact Analysis
Studies related to the evaluation of the impacts of major actions by state and federal agencies on the quality of human environment. Consideration is given to the preparation of impact statements. The impacts of various types of action are discussed; the adverse effects produced and alternatives to proposed action considered, and the tradeoffs between short-term uses and long-term productivity are evaluated. Case studies are presented and analyzed.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENVE 4220 - Environmental Law
This course provides environmental engineers, researchers, managers, public officials, and corporate executives with a firm foundation in the environmental laws and regulations with which and under which they must work. Classroom lectures and discussions generate papers on selected environmental law topics.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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ERTH 4190 - Environmental Measurements
Modern methods used in analysis of environmental samples for monitoring and research purposes. Standard and advanced techniques of air, water, sediment, and soil analysis are covered including spectrometric and chromatographic methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: permission of the instructor required.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed:
Credit Hours: 4
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PHIL 4300 - Environmental Philosophy
While concepts such as quality of life, environment, nature, global ecology, and the like figure heavily in contemporary discussions, they are seldom integrated into an environmental philosophy. The course tries to achieve this integration by understanding some of the religious, mythic-poetic, and scientific dimensions of the man-nature matrix. Some specific environmental problems are examined in order to illustrate the system of values implied by various solutions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Term: offered upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as STSH 4340. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and STSH 4340.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 4340 - Environmental Philosophy
While concepts such as quality of life, environment, nature, global ecology, and the like figure heavily in contemporary discussions, they are seldom integrated into an environmental philosophy. The course tries to achieve this integration by understanding some of the religious, mythic-poetic, and scientific dimensions of the human-nature matrix. Some specific environmental problems are examined to illustrate the system of values implied by various solutions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: Cross listed as PHIL 4300. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and PHIL 4300.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 4370 - Environmental Politics and Policy
A highly interactive introduction to environmental politics and policy in the United States. Major themes include the background and context of environmental politics and policy, the policy-making process, environmental issues selected and reported on by students, the varieties of environmentalism, and environmental ethics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any 2000-level STS course or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ENVE 4180 - Environmental Process Design
The design of equipment, processes, and systems of interest in environmental engineering through application of scientific, technological and economic principles. Emphasis is placed on problem formulation and conceptual, analytical and decision aspects of open-ended design situations. Students will integrate knowledge and skills gained in previous and concurrent courses, and learn research techniques to find and use resources from the technical literature. Health and safety issues are presented. Professional development topics are presented including professional ethics and registration. This is a writing intensive course. Students will develop communication skills through proposal preparation, report writing, oral presentation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVE 2110 and senior standing.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6270 - Environmental Radiation Safety Controls
Consideration and control of the health hazards peculiar to the atomic industry. Radiological units; exposure control; shielding; fallout; toxic materials; shipping and storage; waste disposal; legal aspects. Introduction to criticality hazards. Nonionizing radiation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 2400 or equivalent.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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IENV 1910 - Environmental Seminar
Topical issues in environmental sciences covered in a seminar and discussion format. Seminar includes guest speakers from academics, industry, non-profits, and government who are experts in an array of environment-related fields. Each class includes weekly reading and short writing assignments.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ECSE 4130 - EPE Laboratory
A laboratory based examination of static and rotating energy conversion equipment. Topics include the experimental study of the physical phenomena and characteristics of magnetic circuits, transformers, electric machines, rectifiers, DC/DC converters and inverters. The interaction between static power converters and electric machines is emphasized.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 4120 or ECSE 4080 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CHEM 2110 - Equilibrium Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis
This course will cover principles of equilibrium chemistry (particularly solubility and acid-base chemistry) and its application to chemical analysis. Applications of equilibrium chemistry in the fields of geology, environmental science, biology, and biochemistry will be included.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 1200.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 6540 - Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Principles of classical and quantum statistical mechanics with applications to thermodynamics, gases, and crystals. Included are topics related to phase and chemical equilibria, chemical kinetics, imperfect crystals, surface layers, and electrolyte solutions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 6530 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSH 4220 - Ethical Issues in Computing
This course examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of increasing use of (and dependence on) computers and the responsibilities of computer professionals with regard to these issues. The course stresses the ways computers challenge traditional ethical and philosophical concepts and raise old issues in a new way. Topics include codes of conduct for computer professionals, property rights in computer software, privacy, cracking, liability, and responsibility in computing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STSH 1110/STSS 1110, STSS 2400, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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PHIL 4240 - Ethics
A critical examination of traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory by considering what these theories have to say about how we should live, what rights and obligations we have, what things are intrinsically valuable. Typically this includes such topics as ethical and cultural relativism, egoism, freedom, and responsibility. Often the focus will be on contemporary issues such as war, abortion, equality, or punishment. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall or spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6410 - Ethnography and Cultural Analysis
This course focuses on theories, perspectives and methods of ethnography, and on their applications to the various disciplines in which graduate students are working. Emphasis is given to foundational activities: defining a problem, research design, proposal writing, field methods, and protection of human subjects. Students will undertake original field research involving interviews, multi-sited fieldwork, participant-observation, situated ethnography, archival work, focus groups and audio/videotaping.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6860 - Evaluation Methods for Decision Making
Evaluation provides structured information for policy-relevant decision making based on a purposeful analysis of the identified measures. Topics include test hypotheses, randomization/control schemes, measures framework, measurement methods, and pertinent analytic techniques. Emphasis is on the application of evaluation methods (including systems engineering and operations research techniques) to issues arising in criminal justice, education, health, housing, transportation, welfare, automated information systems, and military programs.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 4500 or DSES 4750 (MATP 4600) or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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BIOL 4860 - Evolution
Phylongeny and the patterns of evolution in the fossil record, geography of evolution, biodiversity, origin of genetic variation, genetic drift, natural selection and adaptation, genetic theory of natural selection, evolution of phenotypic traits, conflict and cooperation, speciation, fitness, coevolution, genomic evolution, evolution and development, macroevolution, evolutionary science and society. May be used to fulfill the Culminating Experience requirement in Biology. Lectures, student presentations, and peer learning.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: BIOL 2500
When Offered: Fall Term Annually
Credit Hours: 4
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USNA 2150 - Evolution of Warfare
A study of the forms of warfare practiced throughout history with the emphasis on those of the Middle East and Western Europe. Selected battles, strategy, formations, and commanders are studied from the times of the pharaohs to the present. The moral, ethical, and cultural attitudes of the times are brought into the course so that the student may understand how they influenced warfare and in turn were influenced by warfare.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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PHIL 4520 - Existentialism
An examination of the works of such writers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Jaspers. Attention is also given to the thought of Husserl and to the phenomenological movement.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Term: offered upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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IHSS 4800 - Experiential Learning Project
This is an individually tailored reading course in which the student does readings and also completes an internship-type field project for the minor in cross-cultural studies of science and technology. The goal is to provide students with immersion in a multicultural milieu involving science and technology issues. Projects include student exchange programs, co-op placement, public service internships, community service, and other individually tailored projects subject to adviser approval. Students are expected to write up a description of their field project that integrates their field experience with the readings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: completion of other course requirements for the minor.
When Offered: Offered on demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4690 - Experimental and Simulation Techniques for Computer Networking
This senior-level laboratory course teaches tools and techniques used in the design and analysis of computer networks and protocols such as simulation, animation, visualization, experiment design, trace collection/analysis, protocol development on Linux, and modular router development platforms (eg: Linux-based “Click” and Intel IXA platform). Each tool is developed in a networking protocol context such as TCP reliable transport, TCP congestion control, routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP), network management and 802.11 wireless networks.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: C programming skills. Corequisite: ECSE 4670.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 2120 - Experimental Chemistry I: Analytical Techniques
A laboratory course dealing with wet and instrumental techniques of chemical analysis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: CHEM 2110.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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CHEM 2290 - Experimental Chemistry II: Synthesis and Characterization
Laboratory experiments dealing with the synthesis and characterization of chemical compounds and practical experience in accessing the chemistry literature. Primary emphasis is organic chemistry. Intended for chemistry majors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: CHEM 2260 Organic Chemistry II.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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CHEM 4020 - Experimental Chemistry III: Inorganic and Physical Methods
Laboratory exploration including synthesis and characterization of several types of inorganic compounds, with emphasis on the use of physical methods in inorganic chemistry. Communication of results in written and oral form is an integral part of the course. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisites: CHEM 4010 and CHEM 4410.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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CHEM 4120 - Experimental Chemistry IV: Physical and Instrumental Methods
A laboratory course emphasizing the hands-on use of modern instrumental methods in analytical and physical chemistry applications, and the interpretation and discussion of the results obtained from them. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Experiments depend on the theoretical material in CHEM 4110 and CHEM 4420, which are corequisites.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARTS 4510 - Experimental Game Design
Experimental Game Design is an upper level studio arts course focusing on the creation of innovative workable game prototypes using a variety of interactive multimedia. Games are considered as a new genre and are analyzed as cultural artifacts. The aesthetics of game design including character development, level design, game play experience, and delivery systems are covered. Flow, game theory, and game play gestalt are considered. Alternate gaming paradigms and emerging forms are encouraged.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1020 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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PSYC 2310 - Experimental Methods and Statistics
This course provides an introduction to basic methods of psychological research and the use of statistics to interpret psychological data. Students participate in several experiments and prepare written reports. Topics include experimental design, data collection and analysis, and communication of results. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PSYC 1200.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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PHYS 2350 - Experimental Physics
Experiments in mechanics, optics, electricity and electromagnetics, oscillations and waves, atomic, nuclear, and solid-state physics. Experimental methods, quantitative observations, and interpretation of data. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 9 contact hours
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CIVL 4150 - Experimental Soil Mechanics
Second course in geotechnical engineering, emphasizing experimental aspects of soil behavior. Laboratory experiments to measure the following soil properties: consolidation, compressibility, shear strength, permeability, various moduli, and bearing capacity. Theory, practical applications of theory, and laboratory.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 4640 - Experimental Techniques in Macromolecular Chemistry
Laboratory techniques and experiments in synthesis, characterization, physical and mechanical properties of synthetic and natural macromolecules. Some commercial macromolecules as well as those synthesized in the laboratory are investigated. Techniques for predicting the engineering and physical properties of macromolecules from their molecular structures are introduced. Lectures provide a state-of-the-art description of synthesis and characterization methods. Meets with CHEM 6640; both courses cannot be taken for credit.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: CHEM 4620 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
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CHEM 6640 - Experimental Techniques in Macromolecular Chemistry
Laboratory techniques and experiments in synthesis, characterization, physical and mechanical properties of synthetic and natural macromolecules. Some commercial macromolecules as well as those synthesized in the laboratory are investigated. Techniques for predicting the engineering and physical properties of macromolecules from their molecular structures are introduced. Lectures provide a state-of-the-art description of synthesis and characterization methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 4620 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
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DSES 6140 - Exploratory Data Analysis
Exposition of the philosophy and tools of exploratory data analysis. Tools include graphical techniques, data transformation, robust and resistant summaries, residual analysis, and resampling methods. Applications to the analysis of real data sets, stressing alternative analysis using statistical software.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: DSES 4750 (MATP 4600) and DSES 4760 (MATP 4620) or equivalent; DSES 6100 recommended.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 1260 - External Environment of Business
Introduction to the legal, ethical, social, technological, environmental, political, and economic considerations underlying, defining, and creating modern management responsibilities.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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DSES 4250 - Facilities Design and Industrial Logistics
An in-depth study of the major design issues in location and physical configuration of production and service facilities. The course emphasizes the use of mathematical models, computer modeling, and quantitative analysis as aids to the design process. Topics include plant layout and location, material handling, material flow analysis, and distribution systems. Major course concepts are developed through case studies and projects.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: DSES 2210 or equivalent, DSES 4140 or equivalent, and an introductory operations research course.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6730 - Fault-Tolerant Digital Systems
Theory and techniques for the diagnosis of hardware faults in digital systems and the design of fault-tolerant systems. Fault detection and diagnosis in logic networks. Static and dynamic redundancy to achieve error detection and error correction.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2610.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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ERTH 2210 - Field Methods
Principles and methods of geologic mapping. Use of instruments. Selected field problems. Several field trips (usually on weekends) required. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ERTH 1100 or ERTH 1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 2100 - Fields and Waves I
Development and application of Maxwell’s equations in free space and within materials. Introduction to vector calculus and computer-aided analysis and design methods in electromagnetics. Applications include calculation of lumped circuit elements from field theory, plane wave propagation in various materials, and reflection from boundaries. Transmission line concepts, Smith charts, and other design tools for distributed circuits.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2010.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
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ECSE 4160 - Fields and Waves II
A continuation of ECSE 2100. Topics include solution of boundary value problems in electromagnetics using both analytic and numerical techniques. Conducting and dielectric guiding structures for waves. Radiation from simple antennas. Low frequency applications.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2100, ECSE 2050, MATH 4600.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6120 - Fieldwork as Art
This course is an introduction to fieldwork and ethnographic methods in support of artistic creation. The class will guide students through interviews, participant-observation and documentation at various field sites to produce diverse creative projects ranging from ethnographic essays to video to installations. Students will be encouraged to work on topical materials of their choice, focused on issues such as technological change, artistic subcultures, or environmentalism. Enrollment is restricted to students with graduate standing or by permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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LITR 4410 - Film Theory
The purpose of this course is to study significant theories of representation that analyze the visual codifications generically called “film.” We will examine theories of visual rhetoric and of narrativity; look at the way economic and technological factors have affected the construction of cinematic codes, styles, and trends; examine influential psychoanalytic theories and feminist theories; and consider the ways in which popular films participate in the cultural narratives specific to their moment of production. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any film course or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 6400 - Financial Econometrics Modeling
This course addresses financial modeling as an empirical activity. Several key issues and assumptions of finance are addressed through empirical modeling. Topics may include asset pricing, event studies, exchange rate movements, term structure of interest rates, and international linkages among financial markets. Computers are used extensively both in and out of class.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: students must have doctoral standing and should have taken at least two finance courses and MGMT 6100.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6020 - Financial Management I
The purpose of this course is to develop a working understanding of the major investment and financial decisions of the firm. Emphasis will be placed upon identifying and solving the problems commonly faced by financial managers. The course presents the needed theory and develops financial problem solving skills through individualized problem solving, structured case analysis, and industry and company analysis using Internet sources.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 7740.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6030 - Financial Management II
This course, built on the Economic & Financial Analysis I, provides a conceptual framework whereby accounting, corporate finance and investment decisions can be viewed and understood in a unified context of risk and return as it is applicable to all types of businesses and organizations. The course prepares students for future specialized courses in advanced accounting, corporate finance, financial institutions and markets, investment theory, and entrepreneurial finance. The contemporary issues covered in this course include risk and diversification; asset pricing models; capital structure and financing alternatives; dividend and stock repurchases; corporate governance; mergers, acquisitions and takeovers; financial distress and reorganization; and different international financial topics.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4350 - Financial Markets and Institutions
This course investigates the roles financial markets and financial intermediaries play in the flow of funds in the world economy. The course provides a conceptual framework for why markets exist and the important functions of intermediaries in the global markets. Major topics include interest rates; roles of Central Bank; debt, equity and derivatives; commercial banking; and the increasing importance of non-bank financial intermediaries such as pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 2320. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and MGMT 6340.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 6340 - Financial Markets and Institutions
Focus on financial markets, new instruments and techniques for financing, risk management and its application to financial institutions. Overview of U.S. financial system, the Federal Reserve system, and monetary policy. Emphasis on impact of technology on securities markets and banks. Discussion of current issues in securities markets and banking, such as securitization, financial derivatives, junk bonds, bank failures, mergers and acquisitions, and international banking.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 6020.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 6740 - Financial Mathematics and Simulation
This course is the second mathematical and computational finance course in a new one-year sequence for mathematics, DSES and engineering majors, and graduate students. It will cover the basics of stochastic processes, and current methods in the simulation of stochastic problems such as Monte Carlo algorithms and variance reduction tools. It will also focus on teaching the application of these stochastic simulation methods to finance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 4740.
When Offered: Spring term.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 4260 - Financial Statement Analysis
This course is designed to strengthen students’ ability to correctly analyze, interpret, and evaluate financial statements and their accompanying disclosures. The course is aimed at anyone whose career might involve working with accounting data, and should be especially useful for those interested in consulting and financial analysis. Throughout the semester we will discuss how to use financial accounting information for evaluating past performance and predicting future performance of a company or division. The course revolves around a number of topics of recent interest to the business community including accounting and financial analysis, performance forecasting, the quality of earnings, mergers and acquisitions, purchased R&D, post-employment benefits, executive compensation, and intangible assets. This course assumes that you have a basic knowledge of accounting, finance, economics, and business strategy. The focus is on integrating key concepts from each of these areas and applying them to financial decision-making. Half of the course time will be devoted to case analysis. Students are responsible for reading each case thoroughly, and familiarizing themselves with the relevant accounting issues, before the class.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6430 - Financial Statement Analysis
This course is designed to strengthen students’ ability to correctly analyze, interpret, and evaluate financial statements and their accompanying disclosures. The course is aimed at anyone whose career might involve working with accounting data, and should be especially useful for those interested in consulting and financial analysis. Throughout the semester we will discuss how to use financial accounting information for evaluating past performance and predicting future performance of a company or division. We will also discuss the key disclosure rules in the United States, the communication methods available to managers, managers’ incentives and ability to exert discretion over reported earnings, and the interplay between a company’s corporate strategy and its financial reporting policies and practices. The course revolves around a number of topics of recent interest to the business community including accounting and financial analysis, performance forecasting, the quality of earnings, mergers and acquisitions, purchased R&D, post-employment benefits, executive compensation, and intangible assets. This course assumes that students have a basic knowledge of accounting, finance, economics, and business strategy. The focus is on integrating key concepts from each of these areas and applying them to financial decision-making. Half of the course time will be devoted to case analysis. Students are responsible for reading each case thoroughly, and familiarizing themselves with the relevant accounting issues, before the class.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6420 - Financial Theory
This is an introductory course of theoretical research in corporate finance. The course will examine the fundamentals of corporate finance theory (e.g., capital structure choice, dividend policy, etc.), as well as various tool areas (e. g, moral hazard and agency problems, and adverse selection and signaling). Knowledge of corporate finance at the MBA level, or its equivalent, is required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6250 - Financial Theory and Its Links to Behavioral Sciences
This course addresses the behavioral sciences background of modern finance theory; the inclusion of risk and future uncertainty in general economic equilibrium; efficient markets; investor utility, objectives, and behavior; rational expectations and prospect theory; asset pricing in the context of general economic equilibrium; transaction costs, markets and institutions; information asymmetry and agency theory; capital structure and corporate finance. Other topics will be selected from corporate governance; futures and options; international exchange and risk management. The topics dealt with in depth will vary as the content responds to important issues in the field.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: doctoral student standing or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4310 - Financial Trading and Investing
This course introduces interactive trading in financial instruments. Students learn the principles of asset price discovery through real-time trading in a variety of markets, including equities, bonds, options, derivatives. Topics addressed include asset valuation, portfolio management, and risk management in the context of real-time trading of financial instruments. The course uses the facilities of the Lally School’s Virtual Trading Room.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 2320 and two upper-level finance courses or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 6240 - Financial Trading and Investing
This course introduces interactive trading in financial instruments. Students learn the principles of asset price discovery through real-time trading in a variety of markets, including equities, bonds, options, derivatives. Topics addressed include asset valuation, portfolio management and risk management in the context of real-time trading of financial instruments. The course uses the facilities of the Lally School’s Virtual Trading Room. Students will work in teams of two in many trading assignments.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MGMT 6020 and MGMT 6030; or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6820 - Finite Deformation Plasticity: Theory and Applications Kinematics of finite deformation
Elastic-plastic and elasto-viscoplastic constitutive behavior for isotropic and strain-induced anisotropic materials. Integration algorithms and finite element formulations for solving practical problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 6170 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6860 - Finite Element Analysis
Galerkin’s method and extremal principles, finite element approximations (Lagrange, hierarchical and 3-D approximations, interpolation errors), mesh generation and assembly, adaptivity (h-, p-, hp-refinement). Error analysis and convergence rates. Perturbations resulting from boundary approximation, numerical integration, etc. Time dependent problems including parabolic and hyperbolic PDEs. Applications will be selected from several areas including heat conduction, wave propagation, potential theory, and solid and fluid mechanics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 4800 or CSCI 4800 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: (Cross-listed as MATH 6860. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MATH 6860.)
Credit Hours: 4
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MATH 6860 - Finite Element Analysis
Galerkin’s method and extremal principles, finite element approximations (Lagrange, hierarchical and 3-D approximations, interpolation errors), mesh generation and assembly, adaptivity (h-, p-, hp-refinement). Error analysis and convergence rates. Perturbations resulting from boundary approximation, numerical integration, etc. Time dependent problems including parabolic and hyperbolic PDEs. Applications will be selected from several areas including heat conduction, wave propagation, potential theory, and solid and fluid mechanics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 4800 or CSCI 4800 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CSCI 6860. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CSCI 6860.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 6760 - Finite Element Methods for Fluid Dynamics
Analysis of finite element methods for basic classes of problems in fluid mechanics. Starting with scalar transport equations and building to compressible and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Emphasis on developing and analyzing formulations that are stable and higher-order accurate such as Galerkin/least-squares methods and SUPG methods. Unsteady formulations are proposed using space-time methods and semi-discrete methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 6660.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 6700 - Finite Element Methods in Structural Dynamics
Solutions to the free vibration and transient dynamic responses of two-and three-dimensional structures by the finite element method are considered. The governing finite element matrix equations are derived and numerical aspects of solving these time-dependent equations considered. Topics include the formulation of the eigenvalue problem, algorithms for eigenvalue extraction, time integration methods including stability and accuracy analysis, and finite elements in time. Modal analysis and direct time integration techniques are compared for a variety of two-and three-dimensional problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6660 or MANE 6660.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as MANE 6700. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6700.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6700 - Finite Element Methods in Structural Dynamics
Solutions to the free vibration and transient dynamic responses of two-and three-dimensional structures by the finite element method are considered. The governing finite element matrix equations are derived and numerical aspects of solving these time-dependent equations considered. Topics include the formulation of the eigenvalue problem, algorithms for eigenvalue extraction, time integration methods including stability and accuracy analysis, and finite elements in time. Modal analysis and direct time integration techniques are compared for a variety of two-and three-dimensional problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6660 or MANE 6660.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CIVL 6700. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CIVL 6700.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 6680 - Finite Element Programming
Examines the implementation of finite element methods. Consideration is first given to the techniques used in classic finite element programs. Attention then focuses on development of a general geometry-based code which effectively supports higher order adaptive technique. Technical areas covered include: effective construction of element matrices for p-version finite elements, ordering of unknowns, automatic mesh generation, adaptive mesh improvement, program and database structures. Implementation of automated adaptive techniques on parallel computers is also covered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 6660, MANE 6660, CSCI 6860 or MATH 6860.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as MANE 6680. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6680.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6680 - Finite Element Programming
Examines the implementation of finite element methods. Consideration is first given to the techniques used in classic finite element programs. Attention then focuses on development of a general geometry-based code which effectively supports higher order adaptive technique. Technical areas covered include: effective construction of element matrices for p-version finite elements, ordering of unknowns, automatic mesh generation, adaptive mesh improvement, program and database structures. Implementation of automated adaptive techniques on parallel computers is also covered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6660, MANE 6660, CSCI 6860 or MATH 6860.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CIVL 6680. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CIVL 6680.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6750 - Finite-State Machine Theory
Topics vary from year to year and may include methods of representation for finite-state machines, state assignments, machine decomposition theory. Experiments on finite-state machines, finite-memory machines, information-lossless machines. Linear machines, probabilistic machines, cellular arrays.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2610 or consent of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4090 - Flight Mechanics
Performance, stability, and control of airplanes. General equations of motion for rigid aircraft, aerodynamic forces and moments, quasi-steady and nonsteady flight paths. Generalized performance methods, flight envelope. Small disturbance theory, stability derivatives, longitudinal and lateral static stability. Basic airplane motion, response to control actions and to atmospheric disturbances. Automatic flight control. Simulation of aircraft performance and dynamics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4070 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Corequisite: MANE 4050. Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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BMED 6350 - Fluid Dynamics and Transport in the Vascular Circulation
The principles of convective diffusion in liquids are discussed as applied to the vascular circulation. Topics include: convective and diffusion boundary layers in internal flows with reacting and/or permeable walls, Taylor dispersion, microhydrodynamics of macromolecules and particles, Brownian motion, mass transport to arterial walls and across cell membranes. This course is intended for first year graduate students in Biomedical Engineering and undergraduate seniors with permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term, even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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PSYC 4750 - Forensic Psychology
A practical introduction to the field of forensic psychology, a domain within psychology concerned with the production and application of psychological knowledge to the civil and criminal justice systems. In this course, we explore the many ways in which psychological principles play an increasingly important role in influencing various processes and outcomes associated with the field of law.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PSYC 4740.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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CIVL 4010 - Foundation Engineering
Subsurface investigation. The application of the principles of soil mechanics to the design of footings, retaining walls, pile foundations, bulkheads, cofferdams, bridge piers and abutments, and underpinnings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 2530 and CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATH 4090 - Foundation of Analysis
The course provides an opportunity for the development of theorem-proving skills in the field of mathematical analysis. Expansion of a knowledge base comes as a by-product of energy expended in theorem proving and subsequent exposition. Analysis topics included are: sets, functions, the real numbers, cardinality, induction, decimal representations of real numbers, Euclidean spaces, abstract vector spaces and metric spaces. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Mathematics major, Corequisite: MATH-2010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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