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Rensselaer Catalog 2008-2009 [Archived Catalog]
Courses
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MANE 4260 - Design of Mechanical Systems
This course acquaints students with all the phases of the design process from recognizing the need through a detailed conceptual design. Students work in teams on a semester-long project with the assistance of faculty consultants. The design projects require students to draw upon their engineering background, experience, and other pertinent resources. Oral and written presentations are required. Writing-intensive assignments help develop communication skills.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: senior standing
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4280 - Design Optimization: Theory and Practice
This course introduces the student to the theory and use of numerical design optimization methods, with a major focus on the algorithms and problem formulations relevant to engineering design. The lectures concentrate on the algorithm development while the exercises emphasize correct problem formulation and evaluation of the results. Topics include methods for unconstrained nonlinear problems, constrained linear and nonlinear problems, sensitivity analysis, multiobjective optimization, and mechanism optimization.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 2200 - Design Studio
Design studio introducing students from all disciplines to general design through a series of short projects. The projects stress critical and creative thinking and invention, interdisciplinary collaboration, observation and perception, communication and visualization. Students will begin open-ended investigations using sketching, photography, model making, and computing.
When Offered: Fall and summer terms.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 2210 - Design, Culture, and Society
This course allows students to develop a critical understanding of the relationships between design, culture, and society. We define ‘design’ broadly, touching on product/industrial design, urban design, and so-called alternative design approaches such as ecological and feminist design. We focus on the role of design in contemporary culture with the goal of training students’ emerging appreciation of design as cultural practice on their professional work as engineers, architects, or business managers. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 7050 - Design, Manufacturing, and Marketing I
This course immerses students in the practices and activities that lead to the creation of innovative new products and services. Through a team-based learning experience, students generate an idea for a new product or service and follow the development process from conception through planning for commercialization. Through lectures, cases, and practical exercises, students learn how to overcome hurdles inherent in new product and service development. Students apply this knowledge in all phases of product development, including concept testing, product design, production planning, and market strategy. The project undertaken in this course provides student teams with an opportunity to create a new venture that may then be carried forward utilizing Rensselaer’s technological resources such as the Incubator Program and Rensselaer’s Technology Park.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 7060 - Design, Manufacturing, and Marketing II
This course immerses students in the practices and activities that lead to the creation of innovative new products and services. Through a team-based learning experience, students generate an idea for a new product or service and follow the development process from conception through planning for commercialization. Through lectures, cases, and practical exercises, students learn how to overcome hurdles inherent in new product and service development. Students apply this knowledge in all phases of product development, including concept testing, product design, production planning, and market strategy. The project undertaken in this course provides student teams with an opportunity to create a new venture that may then be carried forward utilizing Rensselaer’s technological resources such as the Incubator Program and Rensselaer’s Technology Park.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4210 - Designing Interactive Characters for Digital Games
This course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching the design of interactive characters for games. Students learn and apply principles from psychology, traditional media, and best practices from the games industry to the crafting of engaging characters. Students develop critical analysis and design skills, as well as team-based project skills. The course includes industry guest speakers, and culminates with the creation of concept prototypes.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PSYC 2520 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall
Credit Hours: 4
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CIVL 6480 - Designing with Geosynthetics
Civil Engineering applications of geosynthetics including geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geopipe and geocomposites. Designing by function, including separation, reinforcement, filtration, drainage, liquid barrier, and combined functions. Applications in the areas of landfills, groundwater drains, geotextile reinforced walls and slopes, roadways, and other civil engineered type structures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6720 - Designing, Developing, and Staffing High Performance Organizations II
This course focuses on the human resources function and activities within a firm such as recruiting, selection, compensation, reward systems, evaluation, careers, labor relations, and job design. It also explores how the strategic implications of human resources function within an organization and how HR contributes to organizational success.
When Offered: Spring and summer terms.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6520 - Detection and Estimation Theory
Classical statistical decision theory, decision criteria, binary and composite hypothesis tests. Statistical models of signals and noise. Detection of known signals in Gaussian noise. Receiver operating characteristics and error probability. Applications to radar and communications. Detection of signals with unknown or random parameters, detection of stochastic signals, nonparametric detection techniques. Statistical estimation theory, performance measures. Cramer-Rao bounds, estimation of unknown signal parameters, optimum demodulation, signal design.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: probability theory and ECSE 6510.
When Offered: Spring term annually. .
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4180 - Development of Economic Thought
A critical examination in which comparisons are made and contrasts emphasized between different schools of economic thinking such as classicism, marginalism, socialism, institutionalism, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism. Special attention is given to historical theories and attitudes of economists toward technological change and its impact on human welfare.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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BIOL 4250 - Developmental Biology
Model systems provide the experimental basis for understanding the conserved principles of developmental biology. This class will cover fundamental topics including axis specification, pattern formation, cell fate and determination, cell differentiation, senescence and apoptosis. Emphasis will be placed on integrating gene function and cell behavior with development. Model systems include vertebrates (e.g. frog and chick) and genetically tractable invertebrates (e.g. fruitflies and roundworms).
Prerequisites/Corequisites: BIOL 2120, BIOL 2500
When Offered: Spring term annually
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 6110 - Diffusion in Solids
The diffusion process in metals and alloys. Solution to Fick’s law. Self-diffusion. Effect of temperature upon diffusion. Grain boundary and surface diffusion. Solution and diffusion of gases in metals. Diffusion in carburizing, the austenite transformation, powder metallurgy, and the scaling of metals and alloys.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6560 - Digital Communications Engineering
The functional characterization of digital signals and transmission facilities, band-limited and duration-limited signals, modulation and demodulation techniques for digital signals, error probability, intersymbol interference and its effects, equalization and optimization of baseband binary and M-ary signaling systems, error control coding techniques, digital filtering current practices in modern design. Introduction to communication networks and switched systems, store-and-forward communication systems, broadband communication techniques, channel protocol, current developments in digital communication systems design and operation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 4520, linear systems theory and transform theory.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 7020 - Digital Control and Estimation
Computer control and estimation algorithms including deterministic and stochastic models. Markov sequence and Bayes decision rules, linear Kalman filtering, predicting and smoothing. Parameter identification, combined state and parameter estimation. Adaptive filters and on-line rapid estimation schemes, extended and nonlinear filters. Optimal digital control of deterministic and stochastic systems. Separation theorems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 6400.
When Offered: Offered biannually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4040 - Digital Electronics
Analysis and design of switching-mode circuits: NMOS, CMOS, RTL, DTL, TTL, and ECL digital-logic families. Topics include: basic logic gates (voltage-transfer characteristics, noise margin, fan out, propagation delay, power dissipation), flip flops, Schmitt triggers, oscillators, timers, memories, A/D and D/A converters, and optional advanced topics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2050 and ECSE 2610.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 5 contact hours
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ECSE 6630 - Digital Image and Video Processing
Theory of multidimensional signal processing and its application to digital image and video processing. The first half will cover signals and systems, Fourier transform, z-transform, discrete Fourier transform, FIR and IIR filters and their design. The emphasis will be on the unexpected and important differences from the one-dimensional case. The second half consists of applications in image and video signal processing, e.g., compression coding, noise reduction, motion estimation, deblurring, and restoration.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 6510, ECSE 6620.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6640 - Digital Picture Processing
Pictures and their computer representation. Image digitization, transform, and prediction methods. Image coding and image data compression. Digital enhancement techniques, histogram equalization, differencing, smoothing, and geometric corrections. Restoration and filtering. Edge detection and picture segmentation. Geometric analysis, connectedness, size, distance, directionality, and shape. Image processing languages and software. Applications from remote sensing, scene analysis, and medical-image analysis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: prior exposure to probability, stochastic processes, and assembler language programming is recommended but not required.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 6270 - Digital Rhetoric
A study of digital rhetoric with emphasis upon the uses of verbal and visual media in digital spaces such as email, discussion lists, webs, blogs, wikis, and community technology centers. An examination of verbal and visual communication for the purposes of persuading, negotiating, contesting, and creating individual and community identities and an exploration of issues such as the relationship between privacy and panopticism, subjectivities and intersubjectivities, local and global communities, and online and offline communities.
When Offered: Fall alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6570 - Digital Signal Compression: Data Compression in Theory and Practice
Principles of efficient digital representation of analog signals and their application to images, audio, and multimedia signals. Topics include rate-distortion theory, scalar and vector quantization, trellis-coded quantization (TCQ), entropy coding, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, bit-plane coding, set partition coding, Ziv-Lempel coding, PCM, DPCM, transform coding, subband/wavelet coding, and tree/trellis coding. Certain standard or oft-used systems, evolving or current, such as JPEG, JPEG2000, JPEG-LS, Wavelet/TCQ, EZW, SPIHT, FBI Fingerprint, and MPEG will be treated.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 6510, ECSE 6530.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6620 - Digital Signal Processing
A comprehensive treatment of the theory, design, and implementation of digital signal processing structures. The sampling, quantization, and reconstruction process. Design of digital filters in both the time and frequency domains. Analysis of finite word length effects. Theory and applications of discrete Fourier transforms and the FFT algorithm. Applications from the communication, control, and radar signal processing areas.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 4500, ECSE 4510.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 6510 - Disciplinary Research Methods Seminar
A seminar in research methods. This course will review the major considerations and tasks involved in conducting research in areas appropriate to the architectural sciences. It introduces the essential aspects of designing, supporting, and conducting a research project. Major areas that will be considered include: history and present status of the quantitative and qualitative methods, strengths and weaknesses of each method and approach, location of resources, information and data, sampling or selection of research materials and/or participants, data collection, measurement, data analysis, and research writing and style.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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DSES 4290 - Discrete Event Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Introduction to discrete-event simulation modeling and analysis techniques including; graphical simulation modeling approaches, animation techniques, modeling large-scale and complex systems, pseudo-random number and random variate generation, stochastic processes, input modeling (data collection, analysis, and fitting distribution), output analysis (initial bias and termination bias, variance reduction techniques), sensitivity analysis, design of experiments, interactive simulation-based decision-support systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: DSES 4140 or equivalent and CSCI 1190 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall
Credit Hours: 3
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CISH 4010 - Discrete Mathematics and Computer Theory
This course covers foundations of discrete mathematics and fundamentals of computer theory. Topics include propositional logic, truth tables, quantifiers, sets, set operations, sequences, complexity of algorithms, divisibility, matrix manipulations, proofs, induction, recursion, counting and the pigeonhole principle, permutations, combinations, repeated trials, expectation, relations (properties, representation, equivalence, Warshall’s algorithm), Boolean algebra, functions, logic gates, minimizing, Finite State Machines, Turning machines, Regular expressions, context free grammars, language recognizers, derivation trees, pushdown automata.
When Offered: H and G, fall term annually; H, spring and summer term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4510 - Discrete Time Systems
Sampling, quantization, reconstruction of signals. Digital filters. Mathematical tools used in the modeling, analysis, and synthesis of discrete-time communication and control systems. These include discrete Fourier transform, z-transform, state-variable, and transfer-function techniques. Applications to sampled-data control and quantized-data communications systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2410.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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DSES 6620 - Discrete-Event Simulation
A thorough development of a simulation language is stressed in order to progress through a series of increasingly sophisticated applications of computer simulation. Projects cover a wide range of topics: production systems, inventory, finance, transportation, and public systems. The course includes model development, statistical analysis of simulation input/output data, validation planning, and managing simulation projects.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: DSES 6110 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
When Offered: Fall and Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: Variable
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ARTS 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: Variable credit, up to 12 hours per semester.
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BCBP 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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BIOL 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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BMED 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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CHEM 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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CHME 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: 1 to 16
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CIVL 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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COMM 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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CSCI 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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DSES 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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ECON 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Up to 30
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ENVE 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: 1 to 12
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EPOW 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
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ERTH 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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ESCI 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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ISCI 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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MANE 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library.
Graded: Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: 1 to 15
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MATH 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library.
Graded: Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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MGMT 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library.
Graded: Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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MTLE 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s thesis. Grades of IP are assigned until the thesis has been approved by the faculty adviser and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library.
Graded: Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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PHYS 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library.
Graded: Grades will then be listed as S.
Credit Hours: Variable
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STSS 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library.
Graded: Grades will then be listed as S
Credit Hours: Up to 30
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ECSE 9990 - Dissertation Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Hartford
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CSCI 6510 - Distributed Algorithms and Systems
This course covers fundamentals of distributed computing algorithms. The algorithms are studied for particular commonly used distributed computing system models such as: shared memory, message passing, and peer-to-peer systems. Some of the distributed computing problems studied are: mutual exclusion; leader election; Byzantine agreement; spanning trees; vertex coloring. This course also studies distributed routing algorithms for store-andforward, optical wireless and sensor networks.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 2300.
When Offered: Spring term annually
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6500 - Distributed Computing Over The Internet
This course studies theoretical foundations –namely Petri nets, process calculi, actors, join calculus, and mobile ambients–and practical issues in the design of concurrent and distributed programming languages. We compare communication and synchronization aspects in actor, process, and object-oriented concurrent programming models. Current research on coordination, mobility, naming, security, fault-tolerance, and scalability within the course contest is reviewed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 4430 and CSCI 4220 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CISH 6120 - Distributed Database Systems
Examines client/server DBMS and considers how a client-server architecture can be used to implement the requirements of a DDBMS. Topics include DDBMS taxonomies, case studies, design considerations, transaction management, and global query optimization. Concludes with an examination of multidatabase systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4380.
Credit Hours: 3
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CSCI 6130 - Distributed Operating Systems
A detailed discussion of issues in distributed operating system design and in computer security. The topics discussed include distributed algorithms, distributed deadlock detection and recovery, distributed concurrency control and synchronization, cryptography, and computer security. If both CSCI 6130 and CSCI 6140 are to be taken, CSCI 6140 should be taken first.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CSCI 4210 or CSCI 6140.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6900 - Doctoral Research Methods I
The objectives of this beginning doctoral course are to introduce students to social science theory development, expose students to a broad array of research techniques, and help students design research programs and write about them. We review the underpinnings of scientific theory and a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Drawing on their own interests, students write one research proposal and two research papers illustrating the application of two different research methodologies.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 6910 - Doctoral Research Methods II
This course develops empirical tools and their applications to key areas of business analysis, including finance, human resource analysis, marketing, organizational behavior, and production appropriate theories. Empirical techniques emphasized include advanced regression and structural equations methods. Specialized statistical tools will be used.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 6900.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 6910 - Doctoral Seminar
This seminar cultivates a multi-disciplinary approach to the development of problem definition and research method. The topics being considered will be drawn from and situated between the various fields of study that support doctoral study in architectural sciences, as well as activities in related fields in engineering, science, and the humanities. Case studies of prototypical architectural science research will evaluate current practice, identifying state of knowledge with the field and the resources and settings necessary to support the research activity.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: student must have passed the qualifying exam or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COGS 9990 - Doctoral Thesis
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the Library. Grades will then be listed as S.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: Variable
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CHME 6470 - Downstream Processing in Biochemical Engineering
The course focuses on the concentration, recovery, and isolation of biological molecules relevant in biotechnology. The characteristics of biological molecules such as proteins and biological fluids such as blood, fermentation, and cell culture broth, are discussed. The principles, advantages, and limitations of centrifugation, membranes, cell-disruption, two-phase extraction, precipitation crystallization, and electrical processes are discussed. Integrated bioseparation schemes are presented and many specific applications are discussed in detail.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: a course in biochemical engineering or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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USNA 0010 - Drill/Laboratory
Consists of one period each week lasting approximately two hours. The periods are spent conducting various activities, including military drill, athletics, lectures, and discussions on various topics of naval interest. Operating within a battalion organizational structure, students are given additional opportunities for leadership training and hands-on experience.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: An eight-semester (fall and spring) sequence, beginning each fall.
When Offered: 0 credit hours
Credit Hours: 0
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USNA 0080 - Drill/Laboratory
Consists of one period each week lasting approximately two hours. The periods are spent conducting various activities, including military drill, athletics, lectures, and discussions on various topics of naval interest. Operating within a battalion organizational structure, students are given additional opportunities for leadership training and hands-on experience.
When Offered: An eight-semester (fall and spring) sequence, beginning each fall.
Credit Hours: 0
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CHEM 4330 - Drug Discovery
This course will examine how bioinformatics, functional genomics and other modern biotechnologies are used to speed the discovery of new drugs, especially those small organic molecules to treat human diseases with large unmet therapeutic need. Special emphasis will be placed on molecular target identification and validation as well as high-throughput screening to identify a lead. Topics to be discussed will include transgenic mice, RNA interference, DNA and protein microarrays, homogenous time-resolved fluorescence bioassays, phage-display, combinatorial chemistry and parallel synthesis. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and CHEM 6330.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 2220 or CHEM 2260 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 6330 - Drug Discovery
This course will examine how bioinformatics, functional genomics and other modern biotechnologies are used to speed the discovery of new drugs, especially those small organic molecules to treat human diseases with large unmet therapeutic need. Special emphasis will be placed on molecular target identification and validation as well as high-throughput screening to identify a lead. Topics to be discussed will include transgenic mice, RNA interference, DNA and protein microarrays, homogenous time-resolved fluorescence bioassays, phage-display, combinatorial chemistry and parallel synthesis. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and CHEM 4330.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: A knowledge of organic chemistry is required.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHEM 4340 - Drug Discovery Laboratory
In this laboratory associated with CHEM-4330, students will reduce to practice the chemical and biological aspects of high-throughput screening used to discover lead molecules. Colorimetric and fluorescence plate readers will be used in 96-well plate format to generate enzyme inhibition data for small libraries of organic molecules. Students will use these inhibition data and published X-ray structural data to develop a pharmacophore model and rationalize a structure-activity relationship.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 4330 or concurrent with CHEM 4330.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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STSH 4430 - Drugs in History
This course teaches basic historical, anthropological, and sociological concepts that can be used to make sense of a wide variety of contemporary phenomena students encounter in everyday life. We focus on analyzing how licit and illicit drugs serve as “technologies” within specific social contexts or subcultures; what drug policy tells us about social, political, and economic organization; and the impacts of biomedical knowledge and practice on specific population groups. We focus on the representation of drug use and drug users in popular culture, science and medicine, and history and the social sciences. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: 1000-level course (or higher) in STS.
When Offered: Spring term, alternative years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as STSS 4430. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and STSS 4430.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 4430 - Drugs in History
This course teaches basic historical, anthropological, and sociological concepts that can be used to make sense of a wide variety of contemporary phenomena students encounter in everyday life. We focus on analyzing how licit and illicit drugs serve as “technologies” within specific social contexts or subcultures; what drug policy tells us about social, political, and economic organization; and the impacts of biomedical knowledge and practice on specific population groups. We focus on the representation of drug use and drug users in popular culture, science and medicine, and history and the social sciences. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: 1000-level course (or higher) in STS.
When Offered: Spring term, alternate years.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed as STSH 4430. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and STSH 4430.
Credit Hours: 4
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PSYC 4500 - Drugs, Society, and Behavior
This course is an exploration of the social and psychological effects of extensive use of pharmacological agents that are salient to daily behavior. There is an emphasis on the effects of addictive drugs such as alcohol, heroin, and cocaine.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PSYC 1200.
When Offered: Annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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NSST 6320 - Dynamical Mathematics
Students will be introduced to some fundamental concepts from discrete dynamics, including, among others, chaos theory, and will be urged to suggest and discuss applications of mathematics to several fields, such as epidemiology.
When Offered: Summer term.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4270 - Dynamics and Control of Multibody Systems
Dynamic analysis and control of multibody mechanical systems. Review of dynamic analysis using Newton-Euler and Lagrange formulations of equations of motion. Introduction to dynamic analysis using Kane’s Method. Comparison of the methods for formulating equations of motion. Computer-aided control system analysis and design using root-locus, frequency-response, and statespace analysis and design methods. Introduction to linear quadratic control and robust/H control.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 4050, MANE 4170.
When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6130 - Dynamics of Rotating Machinery
Analytical basis of design for rotating machinery mounted on various types of bearing supports, as exemplified by turboshaft engines, centrifugal or axial flow compressors, vehicle drivetrains, etc. Description of analytical and numerical tools for evaluation of dynamic stability, critical speeds, and unbalance response of rotor-bearing systems. Special problems encountered in modern applications operating through and above the critical speeds, and means of their solution, including rigid and flexible rotor balancing and support damper design. Several informal laboratory sessions are included to enhance visualization of rotordynamic phenomena.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4170.
When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 6540 - Dynamics of Soil and Soil-Foundation Systems
Basics of dynamic response of soil and soil-foundation systems, including applications to earthquake engineering and machine foundations. Systems studies include shallow and deep foundations, buried structures, earth structures, slopes, and earthquake site response.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6450.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ASTR 2120 - Earth and Sky
An introduction to astronomy from an observational perspective. Students will learn the basics of observing the night-time sky, both with the unaided eye and through telescopic observation. Observations of Earth from orbiting satellites will also be discussed. The course is suitable for nonphysics and nonscience majors as well as those committed to specialization in Astronomy. Includes evening laboratory sessions.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ERTH 2330 - Earth Materials
Overview of the chemical and physical properties of the material constituents of the Earth and terrestrial planets, including minerals, rocks, lavas, and supercritical water. Topics include mineral structure and composition, bonding, optical properties, phase transformations, and surface properties. The role of minerals in the man-made environment is also discussed.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CIVL 6490 - Earthquake Engineering
Seismology concepts including plate tectonics, fault mechanisms, quantification of earthquake size, and wave propagation. Dynamic sensors for earthquake ground motion measurement. Estimation of ground motion parameters using attenuation relationships. Linear and nonlinear dynamic analyses for evaluation of the seismic response of structures. Code-based approach to the seismic analysis and design of structural systems. Seismic design considerations for various construction materials. Base isolation and energy dissipation systems for seismic protection of structures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6450.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4250 - Ecological Economics
Ecological economics is concerned with the relationship between economic systems and the biological and physical world. It recognizes that practical solutions to pressing social and environmental problems require new interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the links between economic, social, and ecological systems. This course draws on contemporary economic thought as well as evolutionary biology, ecology, and nonequilibrium systems theory. Current problems of economic growth and the prospects for continued development in a finite world are examined in the light of new findings in these fields.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECON 1200, and either ECON 4230 or ECON 4240, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECON 6650 - Ecological Economics Values and Policy Professional Projects
This seminar focuses on the development of practical proposals for responding to environmental problems and opportunities. Research projects will include both primary data collection and the formulation of policy recommendations. Course readings will focus on case studies that involve disputes over environmental and economic issues, providing the basis for class discussion about how such disputes can be documented, analyzed, and resolved through various scientific, legal, managerial, and policy initiatives.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: EEVP Professional Master’s students or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4570 - Econometrics
A basic course in the theory and methods of quantitative economics; specification of mathematical models; single and simultaneous equations; least squares and other estimation methods; testing of hypotheses; identification, aggregation, time series analysis, lagged variables, etc. Application to economic problems in such areas as demand, costs, production function, technological change, innovations, etc.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2010 or equivalent, ECON 2010 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ECON 4110 - Economic Analysis of Technological Change
An examination of the economic considerations that influence the creation and assimilation of new products and processes, and of the impact of technological change on the structures and evolution of the American economy and environment. Topics include productivity growth, the organization and management of industrial research and development, the interaction between technological change and industrial structure, diffusion of innovations, and technological unemployment. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON-1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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MGMT 7730 - Economics and Institutions
Main course objective is to introduce students to basic economics principles and establish economics as a managerial decision-making framework. The course will draw on economic analysis of such concepts as cost, demand, profit, competition, pricing strategy, and market protection and tie them to operational business decisions.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 4150 - Economics of Government Regulation
Can government intervention improve the performance of private markets and if so, when and how? How is regulatory policy actually made, and what effects has it had? We apply these questions to the experience in the U.S. and elsewhere with telecommunications, electricity, transportation, financial services, job safety, and environmental regulation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 2010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECON 6150 - Economics of Regulation and Deregulation
Can government intervention improve the performance of private markets and if so, when and how? How is regulatory policy actually made, and what effects has it had? We apply these questions to the experience in the U.S. and elsewhere with telecommunications, electricity, transportation, financial services, job safety, health, and environmental regulation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 2010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 4900 - ECSE Design
A capstone design course.† Provides all ECSE majors senior design experience by engaging them in clientsponsored projects. The students work in multidisciplinary teams, jointly responsible to the faculty, the client liaison, and to each other for project management, execution and reporting. Contemporary design tools and practices are emphasized. Senior standing required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisites: ECSE 4010 and senior standing.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 2900 - ECSE Honors Seminar
Introduction to research as a professional activity in electrical, computer, and systems engineering for participants in the ECSE Honors Program. Admission to the program is by application or invitation only, made during the fall term of the sophomore year. This seminar can be taken more than once.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 1
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 2 contact hours
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EPOW 6850 - Electric and Magnetic Fields in Electric Power Engineering
Review of electromagnetic theory required to undertake analysis and design of power equipment. Experimental, analog, and digital field estimation techniques. Case studies in electric and magnetic fields such as cable and bushing design, problems of gas bus systems, electrostatic precipitation, magnetic flux penetration, eddy currents, losses, shielding, generation of torque.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2100, EPOW 4010, and EPOW 4020 or their equivalents.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 2010 - Electric Circuits
Techniques for the analysis and simulation of linear electric circuits, and measurements of their properties. Topics include resistive and energy-storage elements, controlled sources and operational amplifiers, systematic analysis methods, AC steady state, power and three-phase systems, magnetic coupling and transformers, transients, s-plane representation and analysis, frequency response, and Laplace transform and computer-aided methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2400 and PHYS 1200.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
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EPOW 4850 - Electric Power Engineering Design
A capstone design course.† Structured and integrated design experience in which a plurality of analytical tools is invoked to meet a design specification for a selected item of hardware. This will involve electrical, thermal, mechanical, environmental, and economic considerations, as appropriate, and may require laboratory and/or computer work in the design or evaluation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: EPOW 4010 and EPOW 4020 or permission of instructor. Corequisites: ENGR 4010 and senior standing.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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EPOW 4940 - Electric Power Engineering Project
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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EPOW 6940 - Electric Power Engineering Project
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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PHYS 6410 - Electrodynamics
Electrostatics and magnetostatics. Relativistic kinematics. Relativistic dynamics. Relativistic theory of classical fields. Electromagnetic waves. Linear and nonlinear materials. EM waves in linear, dispersive media. EM waves in nonlinear materials. Diffraction. Radiation by relativistic particles.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Mathematical Methods in Physics or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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PHYS 4210 - Electromagnetic Theory
Field theory of electricity and magnetism with emphasis on solving boundary value problems. Dielectric and magnetic materials. Maxwell’s equations and wave propagation with applications to optics. Relativistic electrodynamics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 2400 and PHYS 1200.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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EPOW 4020 - Electromechanics
This course studies electromechanical interactions in lumped-parameter systems. These interactions describe the operation of electric machines, electromechanical actuators and transducers. The fundamental laws of Faraday, Ampere and Gauss are considered to develop physical models of magnetic circuits, including those which use permanent magnets. These models are then expanded to include equations of motion and the thermodynamics of electromechanical coupling. Applications include transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines, DC machines, and reluctance machines.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 2010, ENGR 4300 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MTLE 6080 - Electron Microscopy of Materials
Introduction to electron optics, electron diffraction contrast mechanisms, specimen preparation, and microanalysis. Theory and operating fundamentals of the SEM, TEM, STEM, and the electron microprobe. Analysis of images from crystalline materials using kinematical and dynamical theories of electron diffraction.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MTLE 2100 or MTLE 6040.
When Offered: Fall term.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6080 - Electronic Arts Practice
Development and completion of individual creative projects in electronic arts with discussions and critiques of student work in a seminar format. Projects may use any of the studios and combinations of media available in the iEAR Studios. All projects will be presented or performed in public concerts, exhibitions, and installations.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: limited to MFA students in electronic arts.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3 per semester, with a maximum of 9
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ARTS 4100 - Electronic Arts Theory Seminar
This course will be devoted to the investigation of diverse topics of electronic arts history, theory, and practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: 2000-level Arts course or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4170 - Electronic Coaching Systems
This course is based on theoretical work in cognition and motor behavior and on applied research in computing, sports, and arts. This course analyzes how designers think about human performance systems. Support systems analyzed include online tutorials, wizards, agents, and Web-based systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4750 or another LL&C 4000-level graphics or document design course, or graduate standing.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6760 - Electronic Coaching Systems
This course is based on theoretical work in cognition and motor behavior and on applied research in computing, sports, and arts. This course analyzes how designers think about human performance systems. Support systems analyzed include online tutorials, wizards, agents, and Web-based systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4750 or another LL&C 4000-level graphics or document design course, or graduate standing.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGR 4300 - Electronic Instrumentation
A survey, application-oriented course for engineering and science majors. Transducers and measurement devices. DC and AC analog circuits including impedance, power, frequency response, and resonance. Diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers. Signal conditional, noise, and shielding. Digital electronics, A/D and D/A conversion. Power supplies, rectifiers, and electromagnetic devices. Credit not allowed for ECSE majors or for students taking ECSE 2010.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 2400 and PHYS 1200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4810 - Electronic Media and Society
Electronic media such as the Internet, cable television, movies, and pop music are both producers of information and large organizational structures. The course analyzes the interplay between media organizations and society at large.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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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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