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Rensselaer Catalog 2008-2009 [Archived Catalog]
Courses
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COMM 4770 - User-Centered Design
Explore how users get involved in design: as specifiers of requirements, as evaluators, as sounding boards, and as collaborators. We will gather requirements, design to meet those requirements, and evaluate our success.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6770 - User-Centered Design
Explore how users get involved in design: as specifiers of requirements, as evaluators, as sounding boards, and as collaborators. Students will gather requirements, design to meet those requirements, and evaluate their success. Cross listed with COMM-4770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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LITR 2450 - Utopian Literature
An exploration of the use of fiction to propagate ideas about ideal or nightmarish societies. This course examines the artistic techniques employed in this distinct tradition and the unusual interplay between fiction and reality that this popular genre represents. Students work toward the design of their own utopian scheme in short story or other form. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 6400 - Vacuum Techniques
Principles and practice of producing, measuring, and using pressures from atmospheric down to 10-15 atmospheres. Gas kinetics and flow of gases at low pressures. Basic vacuum system calculations. System design and leak detection. Physical and chemisorption of gases. Generation of clean surfaces and study of reactions on them.
When Offered: Spring term.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSH 6020 - Values and Policy
This course examines the ways in which policy decisions are influenced by values and the ways in which values and value issues are affected by policy decisions. Normative concepts and theories including theories of social justice, the role of individual autonomy, democratic process, and paternalism are examined for their implications for social policies. Case studies of particular policy controversies are used.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4540 - Venture Capital Finance
This course covers the theory and practice of venture capital financing of entrepreneurial firms. Topics to be discussed include the structure and governance of venture capital funds, venture capital financial contracting, valuation of entrepreneurial firms, staging, syndication, capital structure, and exits (IPOs, acquisitions, secondary sales, buybacks and liquidations). International differences in venture capital markets will also be studied.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 2320.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 4610 - Vibrations
Free and forced linear vibrations of damped and undamped mechanical and electrical systems of n degrees of freedom. Continuous system vibration. Manual and computer methods of finding natural frequencies. Self-and nonself-adjoint problems. Eigenfunction expansion. Integral transforms. Methods of approximating natural frequencies: Rayleigh, Rayleigh-Ritz, Ritz-Galerkin, Stodola, Holzer, Myklestad, matrix iteration. Perturbation techniques. Stability criteria.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2090 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4460 - Visual Design: Theory and Application
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include topics such as the psychology of visual perception, design theory, creative process, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 2610 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6560. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6560 - Visual Design: Theory and Application
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include such topics as visual perception, design theory, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics software.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4460. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. For graduate students, one additional assignment will be required and their work will be evaluated at a higher level.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4660 - Visual Literacy
This course examines the notion of visual literacy—the ability to create effective visual layouts and analyze visual language for meaning. Through readings, discussions, and praxis exercises, students learn the lexicon of visual communication, how to critically evaluate a visual argument, and how to apply visual literacy theory to practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 2610.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6660. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6660 - Visual Literacy
This course examines the notion of visual literacy—the ability to create effective visual layouts and analyze visual language for meaning. Through readings, discussions, and praxis exercises, students learn the lexicon of visual communication, how to critically evaluate a visual argument, and how to apply visual literacy theory to practice.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4660. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6690 - VLSI Design Automation
Software design aids for specifying IC design. Covers a spectrum of logic entry, simulation, placement, routing, network extraction, verification, PG tape generation, and testing. Use of a tool set for 2 micron CMOS gate array design using an industrial foundry. Designs are actually fabricated.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 4770, ECSE 6700.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6240 - VLSI Fabrication Technology
Fabrication technology for silicon and gallium arsenide integrated circuits with emphasis on sub-micron structures. Topics include epitaxy, diffusion, binary and ternary phase diagrams, grown and deposited oxides and nitrides, polysilicon and silicide technology, single-and multi-metal systems, plasma and chemical etching, ion milling photo, e-beam and X-ray lithography.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 4250 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 2210 - Web and Database Programming
This course introduces the fundamentals for creating dynamic web page content generated using relational databases. This course is structured around Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and modern object-oriented programming languages like C#. Fundamental technologies like ADO.NET database connectivity, ASP.NET active page technology, XML, SOAP, and Web Services are examined. Students will construct actual non-trivial working web sites that employ databases from which dynamic content is generated.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CISH 6510 - Web Application Design and Development
Students will learn approaches to the design, development, and maintenance of Web sites. Students will study software and information architectures for the Web, design techniques for distributed Web-based applications, and methods and tools for the creation and maintenance of Web sites. Study will encompass the major components of a Web site, including browsers and client applications, Internet protocols that link the client to the server, and server applications. Issues of performance, security, and usability will be examined.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CISH 4020 or CSCI 2300, prior experience with HTML and Java, ECSE 4670 and CSCI 4380 recommended.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ITEC 2110 - Web Systems Development
This course involves a study of the methods used to extract and deliver dynamic information on the World Wide Web. The course uses a hands-on approach in which students actively develop Web-based software systems. Additional topics include installation, configuration, and management of Web servers. Students are required to have access to a PC on which they can install software such as a Web server and various programming environments.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1200 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 4410 - Welding Processes and Metallurgy
Fundamental principles, primary variables, and metallurgical changes associated with both fusion and nonfusion welding processes. Energy sources, rates and modes of energy transfer to the work, and distribution of energy in the work as these affect plastic softening or melting, plastic flow or solidification, post-solidification transformations, heat-affected zone microstructures, residual stresses and distortion, defect formation, and resultant properties; attention to the effects of weldment material, joint design, process, and procedural variables. Physical metallurgy is emphasized throughout. Practical examples highlight theory. Hands-on laboratory exercises complement lectures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 1600.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 6610 - Western Science and Technology Since the Industrial Revolution
A graduate, seminar-style review of the extant interpretations of the history of science and technology in Western Civilization since the mid-1700s. Emphasis on historiographic mastery. Preparation of a bibliographic essay tailored to the student’s concentration.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: graduate standing in STS or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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LITR 2770 - Women Writers
A study of works of literature written by women, featuring such writers as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, and including the work of selected contemporary writers. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 4760 - Workshop
This course seeks to cultivate a more explicit understanding of –“what is material?”– through hands-on experiences with several standard building materials: concrete, steel, wood, etc. The basic characteristics of each material and a few basic techniques for working with each will be presented in discussion and demonstration. Students will work in groups with the given materials on several projects. The ambition of the course is for each student to attain an intuitive understanding of materials through direct experiences with them.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2520 - World Music
From “raves” to symphony hall, Indian film music to Tibetan chant, monster truck rallies to a mother’s lullaby, musical soundscapes surround us through all aspects of our daily lives. This course focuses on the study of music in or as culture. The exploration of music in human life will be comparative, using case studies from diverse world traditions and examining topics such as: ritual, media and technology, ethnicity/identity, music and dance, and musical transmission.
When Offered: Offered once annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 2530 - World War II
A topical survey of the origins, course of events, and results of World War II (1935-1945). The course covers the international economic crisis of the 1930s; the rise of totalitarianism in Europe; the wars in Ethiopia, China, and Spain; German military expansion; the war on the Eastern front and in the Pacific; the Mediterranean campaigns; naval operations; the Grand Alliance of the Allied powers; and the spread of communism in Europe and Asia.
When Offered: Annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4630 - Writing and Directing for Video
The course introduces students to the art of writing and directing short videos, with an emphasis on generating ideas, and realizing them in a well developed final project. Major theories and principles are studied through a comparative analysis of scripts and films. Students learn to work with actors, write their own scripts, and direct videos. Two final projects – a script and a video – will integrate all of the elements covered in class. Lecture/Practicum.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: one 2000-level video and one 2000-level writing course, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 6110 - Writing and Editing
An advanced writing course designed to introduce students to writing and editing. Students complete four major writing projects covering a range of document types. Practices introduced include repurposing an existing document, analyzing communicative needs, doing a genre analysis, and producing a document for a client. Students also learn to review the work of others and use these reviews for revision.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: undergraduate technical writing or advanced composition course.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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WRIT 1110 - Writing for Classroom and Career
This course emphasizes written, visual, and oral communication strategies that will help students succeed in both academic and professional contexts. Principal assignments are based on types of writing required in school and on the job: reporting, evaluating, taking a position, and making a proposal (orally and in writing). Written assignments will include visual elements such as headings, charts/graphs, and page or screen design. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 2510 - Writing to the World Wide Web
This course provides an introduction to Web site design with emphasis on the design of text and hypertext for personal and organizational purposes. The course offers an introduction to basic principles of writing, visual design, and usability analysis in addition to Web technologies such as HTML, coding and image production and editing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing recommended.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 2520 - Writing: Print and Digital
This course emphasizes the repurposing of print text for use in interactive Web sites or CD-ROMs. The course links traditional writing skills (organization, style, audience, etc.) with new media skills such as information architecture.
When Offered: Annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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