CIE 524 - Steel Structures

Faculty: Chen

Consideration of the basis and criteria of current design specifications for metal structures; material behavior; failure under stress, strength theories, brittle fracture, fatigue, residual stress. Fundamentals of member performance; bending and extension of beams; uniform and nonuniform torsion; column buckling including the effects of crookedness and rotation, inelasticity, residual stress; plate buckling; design of girders. Analysis of three-dimensional structures by matrix analysis methods; computer applications. Discussion of designs for tall buildings; literature review. More

CIE 579 - Bridge and Highway Infrastructure Management and Public Policy

Faculty: Chen

Issues, approaches, and practices in the management of bridge and transportation infrastructure systems and public policy. Topics include the roles of bridge engineers in managing highway transportation infrastructure, specifications and standards of practice, capital project development and financing mechanisms, research funding processes, environmental issues, project delivery procurement methods and asset management.

CIE 623 - Plastic Behavior of Materials

Faculty: Basaran

Yield conditions and flow laws for rigid-perfectly plastic, rigid-strain hardening elastic perfectly plastic and elastic strain hardening materials. Minimum principles and theorems of limit analysis.

CSE 521 - Operating Systems

Faculty: Ramamurthy

Concepts of operating systems described in terms of function, structure, and implementation; particular emphasis on multiprogramming. Example concepts are: concurrent programming, virtual memory, scheduling policies for CPU and secondary storage, deadlocks, file systems, and protection. Concepts will be illustrated with examples from existing operating systems.

CSE 542 - Software Engineering Concepts

Faculty: Buckley

This course introduces the terminology and concepts of software engineering. Following a discussion of how software engineering evolved in response to early practices of the computer industry, the concepts of well-engineered software, the software process and the management process model are presented. Additional topics include software requirements definition, software design, verification and validation, and software management. Graduate students are required to investigate and report on a topic relevant to the course. (Same as ECE 442).

EE 505 - Electronic Devices

Faculty: Zirnheld

Principles of electromagnetic energy conversion with applications to motors and generators. Topics include magnetic circuits, transformers, hysteresis, field energy, dc and ac motors. Power electronic components and control circuits for various electrical devices are presented. Students will learn the basic fundamentals of electro-mechanical energy conversion.

EE 513 - Communication Electronics

Faculty: Liu

Operation and signaling in communications systems with a strong emphasis on circuits. It covers radio frequency systems (AM, FM, TV), telephone switching systems, microwave/wireless systems, fiber optics, modulation schemes, coding, multiplexing/demultiplexing, protocols, and networking. Both analog and digital/data communication systems are discussed. Students are required to complete a capstone design project.

EE 522 - Nanostructure Materials

Faculty: Shaw

The objective of this course is to explore the basic physical phenomena that determine the electrical properties of semiconductor nanostructure devices

EE 529 - Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility

Faculty: Whalen

EMC deals with interference in electronic systems. The course is intended for senior and first-year graduate students and industrial professionals who have an interest in designing electronic systems that are in compliance with current commercial and military standards on EMC such as the FCC Part 15 and CISPR 22. Both specify limits on radiated and conducted emissions for digital devices which are defined as any electronic device that has digital circuitry and uses a clock signal in excess of 9 kHz. It is believed that all student projects designed in electronic instrumentation classes without consideration of the limits imposed by these standards would fail to meet the current standards and as a result could not marketed in the United States or Europe.

EE 530 - Fund Solid State Devices

Faculty: Bird

The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of semiconductors and semiconductor devices. Prerequisite: material in this course assumes that the student has had an introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Solid-State Physics, and Semiconductor Physics

EE 587 - Electric Power Distribution/Utilization

Faculty: Safiuddin

Based on IEEE Standard 141 [The Red Book], the course covers a thorough analysis of basic electrical power systems for industrial plants and major commercial complexes. Guidance is provided in design, construction, and continuity of an overall system to achieve safety of life and preservation of property; reliability; simplicity of operation; voltage regulation in the utilization of equipment within the tolerance limits under all load conditions; care and maintenance; and flexibility for development and future expansions or contractions. Recommendations regarding system planning; voltage considerations; surge voltage protection; fault calculations; ground; power switching; transformation and motor-control apparatus etc are covered.

EE 606 - Distributed Generation

Faculty: Safiuddin

Historical perspective of electric power industry, fundamentals of distributed generation, economics of distributed resources, mini hydroelectric systems, microturbines, fuel cells, solar and wind power systems.
 
Text: Renewable and Efficient Power Systems; Gilbert M. Masters; IEEE-Wiley Interscience; 2004

EAS 521 - Principles of Engineering Management I

Faculty: Chang

This course covers the basic service management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, as applied to project, team, knowledge, group/department and global settings. Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of engineers as managers, and the engineering management challenges in the global economy will also be featured. Emphasis is placed on the integration of engineering technologies and management. Students will master the basic functions in engineering management, the roles and perspectives of engineering managers, and selected skills required to become effective engineering managers in the new millennium. More

EAS 522 - Principles of Engineering Management II

Faculty: Chang

This course covers the basics in engineering economics, managerial accounting, financial management, and marketing management in order to ready future engineering managers for interacting effectively with these corporate functions complimentary to engineering/technology. Serving to further broaden students' perspectives are discussions on e-commerce applications and globalization and the impact of these emerging market forces on engineering enterprises and managerial functions in the new Millennium. More

EAS 580 - Technical Communications for Engineers

Faculty: Bernard

This job-oriented course aims to give you the skills to produce successful written and oral communications. It focuses on reports, memos, letters, and proposals -- the documents engineers write most at work. You will learn how to:
Select and organize relevant information
Write efficiently
Use easy-to-understand language and formats
Interact effectively with peers, managers, and customers

EAS 590 - Case Studies in Engineering Management

Faculty: Barnes

This capstone course should be taken in the last year of the student’s program. A case-oriented course which examines in detail the role of the engineering manager as strategic planner and policymaker. Five or six case studies will be presented for discussion, analysis and report. The use and efficacy of engineering management methods will be evaluated for each case.

IE 504 - Facilities Design

Faculty: Batta

Facilities Design teaches the analytical tools necessary to effectively tackle the problem of designing the layout of a productive facility. Both non-quantitative and quantitative, computer-based approaches are detailed. The course also discusses location problems, i.e., analytical methods to determine optimal locations of machines/workcenters in a manufacturing facility. Also, the course discusses warehouse storage policies, i.e., analytical methods for effective management of warehouse storage space. Finally, there is discussion of automated guided vehicles and their utility in a modern flexible manufacturing system

IE 508 - Quality Assurance

Faculty: Kelly

Familiarizes students with the application of statistical quality problem-solving methodologies used to characterize, leverage, and reduce process variability. This course emphasizes the application of sampling methodologies, sample size determination, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, correlation, regression, measurement systems analysis, design and analysis of saturated experimental designs, design and analysis response surface experimental designs, and statistical process control.

IE 551 - Simulation Stochastic Models

Faculty: Lin

Introduction to computer simulation. Topics include Monte Carlo simulation, event-oriented simulation, process-oriented simulation, continuous simulation, generating random numbers and variates, selecting input probability distributions, statistical analysis of simulation results, variance reduction techniques, design of simulation experiments, and some advanced topics in simulation modeling such as simulation metamodels, object-oriented simulation, and parallel discrete-event simulation. Prerequisites: basic statistics, some computer programming experience

IE 573 - Discrete Optimization

Faculty: Karwan

Presentation of specific mathematical techniques used frequently in Operations Research. Topics include integer programming modeling, branch and bound, polyhedral description, graph theory, networks, and computational complexity.

MAE 534 - Combustion I

Faculty: DesJardin

Examines the fundamentals of combustion. Topics will include thermophysical calculations, chemical kinetics, premixed and diffusion combustion phenomena. Specific subject matter will range from homogeneous gas phase combustion to heterogeneous droplet and particle combustion. The fluid mechanics of chemically reacting flows will be discussed with an emphasis on turbulent combustion. A variety of current applications will be presented

MAE 542 - Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Faculty: DesJardin

This course is intended for seniors and beginning graduate students interested in computer based analysis of engineering problems in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Application of computer analysis to engineering design of fluid/thermal systems will be emphasized. Students need not have a graduate level background in fluid mechanics or heat transfer, however, an undergraduate level is necessary. The general governing equations and methods to solve them, including; finite-difference, finite-volume, panel methods, and finite element methods, will be surveyed. Introduction to the use of state-of-the-art computer tools for analysis and graphical representation of results will give the student a broad view of computational fluid mechanics for engineerin applications in the fluid/thermal sciences. This course is particularly suited for Masters of Engineering students.

MAE 551 - Advanced Design Theory

Faculty: Lewis

In this course, a number of advanced theories, methods, and approaches to the design of systems and products are covered and researched. These topics include but are not limited to Systematic Design, Total Design, Theory of Technical Systems, Design Failure Paradigms, Decision-Based Design, Game Theory, Axiomatic Design, Multiobjective Optimization and Product Family Design. The topics are discussed and researched in groups using case studies from both modern and historical design examples.

MAE 589 - Diffraction, Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques

Faculty: Chopra

This course introduces students to the theory and use of the most important experimental techniques in materials research. The techniques include X-ray and electron diffraction, optical and electron microscopy, X-ray and electron spectroscopy, Raman and infrared spectroscopy, ion scattering and mass spectroscopy.