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Courses

 

Electrical Engineering
  

  • ELEG 640 - Opto-electronics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    OPTO-ELECTRONICS
    Component: Lecture
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 641 - Antenna Theory and Design (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ANTENNA THEORY AND DESIGN
    Component: Lecture
    The radiation characteristics of antennas, numerical and analytical antenna analysis methods and design techniques for many types of antenna. Topics include wire antennas, antenna arrays, broadband antennas and microstrip antennas.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ELEG320 or ELEG413.
  

  • ELEG 646 - Nanoelectronic Device Principles (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    NANOELECTRONIC DEVICE PRINCIPL
    Component: Lecture
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ELEG 647 - Optical Properties of Solids (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS
    Component: Lecture
    Techniques for the design of optical filters and optoelectronic devices with thin films and the fundamental electromagnetic and solid state physics that determine the optical properties of solids.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Students should have some electromagnetics and solid state physics background.
  

  • ELEG 648 - Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ADV ENGR ELECTROMAGNETICS
    Component: Lecture
    Development and application of Maxwell’s equations as they apply to the analysis of guided wave, radiation, and scattering problems. Topics include wave propagation, reflection and transmission, vector potentials, transmission lines and cavities, and special emphasis on antennas and scattering structures.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 650 - Semiconductor Device Design and Fabrication (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE DES & FAB
    Component: Lecture
    Instruction in design and fabrication of simple bi-polar and MOS integrated circuits. Specific topics include semiconductor device and integrated circuit design, photolithographic mask design and fabrication, photolithography, N-diffusion and P-diffusion, P-MOS, metallization, and device and integrated circuit testing.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 651 - Computer Networks II (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    COMPUTER NETWORKS II
    Component: Lecture
    Foundation principles, architectures, and techniques employed in computer and communication networks. Focuses on mechanisms used in TCP/IP protocol suite. Topics include connection management, end-to-end reliable data transfer, sliding window protocols, quality of service, flow control, congestion control,routing, LANs, framing, error control, analog versus digital transmission, packet versus circuit switching, multiplexing.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CISC 650 . RESTRICTIONS: Knowledge of probability and statistics recommended. Credit cannot be received for CISC 650  and any of the following courses: CIS250, CPEG419, CIS450, ELEG651.
  

  • ELEG 652 - Principles of Parallel Computer Architectures (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PRIN PARALLEL COMP ARCHITECTUR
    Component: Lecture
    Provides an introduction to the principles of parallel computer architecture. Begins at a level that assumes experience in introductory undergraduate courses such as digital system design, computer architecture, and microprocessor based systems.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with CPEG 652 .
    Course Typically Offered: Fall
  

  • ELEG 654 - Mobile Networking and Computing (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MOBILE NETWORKING & COMPUTING
    Component: Lecture
    Contemporary topics in mobile networking and computing are covered. Topics vary and can include ad hoc networking, sensor networking, localization, mobile+cloud computing, multimedia, user behavior, mobile+social applications, energy-aware computing, and mobile application APIs on Android systems. This course is a project-based course and requires students to develop programs for platforms such as Android-based devices.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ELEG 656 - Electric Power II (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ELECTRIC POWER II
    Component: Lecture
    This is the second course in electric power systems which covers the construction materials and design principals of indoor and underground three phase low and high voltage electric power systems, system economics, reliability, load characteristics, load management, and metering.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ELEG 658 - Advanced Mobile Services (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ADVANCED MOBILE SERVICES
    Component: Lecture
    Foundations for the creation of successful advanced mobile services, including the interplay of business and technology evolution, methodologies, architectures and paradigm shifts that accompany the development of converged user centric intelligent telecommunication services from location sensitive and navigation services, to social networking and remote sensing.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 660 - High Technology Entrepreneurship (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    HIGH TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSH
    Component: Lecture
    Focuses on the critical financial, legal, scientific and engineering issues that must be confronted during the initial planning stages of a start-up enterprise. Students work in teams to develop a business plan for a real world/business product offering.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 661 - Materials and Devices Seminar (0cr.)

    Credit(s): 0
    MATERIALS AND DEVICES SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Lectures and discussions by guest speakers, faculty and students on specialized topics in materials and devices.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ELEG 662 - Digital Systems Seminar (0cr.)

    Credit(s): 0
    DIGITAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Lectures and discussions by guest speakers, faculty and students on specialized topics in digital systems.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ELEG 663 - Signal Processing & Communications Seminar (0cr.)

    Credit(s): 0
    SIGNAL PROCESSING & COMMUNICAT
    Component: Lecture
    Lectures and discussions by guest speakers, faculty and students on specialized topics in signal processing and communications.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ELEG 664 - Biomedical Engineering Seminar (0cr.)

    Credit(s): 0
    BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Lectures and discussions by guest speakers, faculty, and students on specialized topics in biomedical engineering.
    Allowed Units: 0 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ELEG 665 - Introduction to Cybersecurity (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRODUCTION TO CYBERSECURITY
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to computer and network security and covers the foundation security policies and methods to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as cryptography, auditing, and user security. Topics are reinforced with hands-on exercises run in a virtual machine environment.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Standard Grading
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CPEG 665 .
  

  • ELEG 666 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 667 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 668 - Detection and Estimation (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DETECTION AND ESTIMATION
    Component: Lecture
    This course covers the fundamentals of detection and estimation theory for statistical signal processing. Topics include hypothesis testing theory, signal detection theory for both deterministic and random signals, signal estimation theory with various optimal estimators for both deterministic and random parameters, and their properties and performance analysis.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Knowlegde of material covered in ELEG305, ELEG306, ELEG310 or equivalent courses.
  

  • ELEG 671 - Mathematical Physiology (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MATHEMATICAL PHYSIOLOGY
    Component: Lecture
    Mathematical methods in Human Physiology, covering cellular, tissue, organ, and integrated systems. Dynamic modeling of homeostasis, endocrine regulatory systems, immune response dynamics, mutation and selection. Mathematical methods covered include linear and nonlinear differential equations, Lyapunov analysis, mass action, Hamming spaces, reaction-diffusion equations, and simulation.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with BMEG 671 .
  

  • ELEG 679 - Introduction to Medical Imaging Systems (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRO. TO MEDICAL IMAGING SYST
    Component: Lecture
    Physics, instrumentation, system design, and image reconstruction algorithms will be covered for the following modalities: radiography, x-ray computed tomography (CT), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and real-time ultrasound.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with BMEG 679 .
  

  • ELEG 681 - Remote Sensing of Environment (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
    Component: Lecture
    Detection and mapping of land and ocean resources with optical, infrared and microwave sensors. Digital analysis of satellite images using multispectral and spatial analysis techniques and correlation with ground/ship data. Application to oceanography, coastal processes, geology, land use, geography, agriculture, climate and pollution studies. Includes hands-on image analysis in GIS laboratory.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MAST 681 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
  

  • ELEG 682 - Optics and Photonics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
    Component: Lecture
    Principles of classical optics and their applications. Topics include wave optics, material dispersion, geometrical optics, ray tracing, ABCD matrices, birefringence and Jones’ formalism, Gaussian optics, coherence, interference, diffraction, pulse propagation and non-linear optics. Specific applications including optical components and instrumentation, imaging techniques, resonators and Fourier optics. Apply fundamental principles of optics and interaction between light and matter (photonics).
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ELEG 684 - Electric Vehicles and the Grid (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ELECTRIC VEHICLES & THE GRID
    Component: Lecture
    This seminar covers design of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, existing and needed policies, consumer perspective on electric vehicles, and the use of electric vehicles for grid services, including leveling variable generation.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MAST 684 .
  

  • ELEG 692 - Radar Systems and Technology (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    RADAR SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction of basic RADAR concepts and operational scenarios. The RADAR range is developed as are concepts related to RADAR cross-section, waveform design, antennas, transmitter and receivers.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ELEG 693 - Electric Motors and Generators (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ELECTRIC MOTORS AND GENERATORS
    Component: Lecture
    This is a basic course in motor and generator performance and application. Students will learn about electric power and energy, mechanical power and energy, and the torque, speed, efficiency, and economics of the various motor and generator designs.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 694 - System Hardening and Protection (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SYSTEM HARDENING & PROTECTION
    Component: Lecture
    Practical treatment of the defensive techniques used to harden computer systems to make them less vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Defect management, configuration/hardening, account control, logs/auditing, and risk assessment are covered and reinforced with hands-on exercises run in a virtual machine environment.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CPEG 694 .
  

  • ELEG 695 - Digital Forensics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DIGITAL FORENSICS
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to digital forensics as used to analyze criminal evidence in computer systems and digital media. Forensic tools and techniques for storage and memory analysis of windows/linux, network traffic, documentation are covered and reinforced with hands-on exercises run in a virtual machine environment.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CPEG 695 .
  

  • ELEG 696 - Topics in Cybersecurity (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    TOPICS IN CYBERSECURITY
    Component: Lecture
    Examine varied topics in cybersecurity to coincide with the interests of students and current faculty. Potential topics include: (1) applications, web or cloud security, (2) risk management and incident response, (3) malware and reverse engineering, or (4) wireless, smartphone, or SCADA security.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CPEG 696 .
  

  • ELEG 697 - Computational System Biology (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM BIOLOGY
    Component: Lecture
    Computational/mathematical techniques for modeling & analysis of biological systems. Includes properties of gene-regulatory and signaling networks; network reconstruction from data; stochastic modeling to study cellular variation & physiological modeling.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with BINF 695 .
  

  • ELEG 806 - Systems Biology of Cells in Engineered Environments (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SYS BIOL OF CELL IN ENGNRD ENV
    Component: Lecture
    Provides a technical review of systems biology approaches including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics as well as applications in tissue engineering, stem cell differentiation, and drug delivery. Intended for PhD students in interdisciplinary life science and engineering programs.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with BINF 816 .
  

  • ELEG 809 - Electrodynamics I (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ELECTRODYNAMICS I
    Component: Lecture
    Mathematical preliminaries. Maxwell equations. Symmetries, potentials and conservation laws for general electromagnetic field. Electrostatics and multipole expansion. Conducting and dielectric matter. Laplace and Poisson equations. Magnetostatics and multipole expansion. Magnetic force and energy. Magnetic matter. Dynamic and quasistatic fields.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with PHYS 809 .
  

  • ELEG 811 - Channel Coding Theory and Practice (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CHANNEL CODING THRY & PRACTICE
    Component: Lecture
    Standard and modern developments in channel coding. Reviews information theory topics, then introduces convolutional codes and trellis-coded modulation, iterative decoding, including turbo codes and low-density parity check codes.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 812 - Wireless Digital Communications (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    WIRELESS DIGITAL COMM
    Component: Lecture
    Fundamentals and current techniques in wireless digital communications, including propagation, modem design, fading countermeasures, and multiple access techniques, such as FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 813 - Quantum Statistical Mechanics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    QUANTUM STATISICAL MECHANICS
    Component: Lecture
    Basic concepts of quantum statistical mechanics, density matrix, and quantum partition function. Ideal Bose and Fermi gases; Bose-Einstein condensation. Mean field and Landau theories of phase transitions; critical phenomena; introduction to renormalization group methods. Linear response theory and Boltzman equation. Interacting quantum many-particle systems.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with PHYS 813 .
  

  • ELEG 815 - Analytics I: Statistical Learning (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ANALYTICS I:STATISICAL LEARNIN
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to the mathematics of data analysis. Bayes estimation, linear regression and classification methods. The singular value decomposition and the pseudo-inverse. Statistical models for inference and prediction in finance, marketing, and engineering applications. Regularization methods and principles of sparsity priors are applied. Streaming solutions. High dimensional problems. Concepts reinforced in R programming experiments.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with FSAN 815 .
  

  • ELEG 817 - Large Scale Machine Learning (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    LARGE SCALE MACHINE LEARNING
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to the analysis and processing of massive high-dimensional data. Massive data sets generally involve growth not only in the number of individuals represented but also in the number of descriptive parameters of the individuals, leading to exponential growth in the number of hypothesis considered. New approaches to address these problems exploit sparsity prior concepts from optimization theory, signal processing, statistics, and machine learning.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with FSAN 817 .
  

  • ELEG 834 - Adv. Topics in Signal Processing (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ADV. TOPICS SIGNAL PROCESSNG
    Component: Lecture
    Course focuses on emerging areas of signal processing and communications, or in more established but specialized areas, such as array signal processing, compressed sensing, computational imaging, MIMO communications.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: RECTRICTIONS: May be repeated two times for credit.
  

  • ELEG 841 - Advanced Computational Electromagnetics II (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ADV COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRMAG II
    Component: Lecture
    Introduces the major modern computational methods for the analysis of frequency domain electromagnetics problems. The finite element method and the method of moments are covered. Students will apply these techniques to radiation and scattering problems involving metal and dielectrics.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ELEG 648  
  

  • ELEG 842 - Radio Frequency and Microwave Technology (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    RF & MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGY
    Component: Lecture
    Modern telecommunications and datacom systems operate at frequencies in the radio frequency (RF) and microwave range. The basic concepts and technologies required to design RF and microwave devices and circuits are explained. Examples of applications to wireless and lightwave systems are discussed.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Undergraduates require permission from the instructor.
  

  • ELEG 843 - Fourier Optics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    FOURIER OPTICS
    Component: Lecture
    Provides an understanding of the basic principles underlying the field of optical information processing. Emphasis are on coherent optical image processing based on Fourier optics, holography, and acousto-optics.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ELEG 640  and ELEG 648  or permission of instructor
  

  • ELEG 845 - Modern Machine Learning (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MODERN MACHINE LEARNING
    Component: Lecture
    Modern machine learning methodologies are covered & conceptsare reinforced through implementations focusing on array ofcontemporary classification problems. Topics include linear andlogistic regression, neural networks, support vector machines,clustering, dimensionality reduction & deep learning.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 846 - Microwave and RF Photonics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MICROWAVE AND RF PHOTONICS
    Component: Lecture
    This class discusses RF photonic components, transmission systems, and signal generation/processing/detection techniques. In depth description of the fundamental physics of operation as well as the underlying limitations will be presented. Topics including RF efficiency, nonlinear distortion, noise figure, spurfree dynamic range, phase locked loops, electro-absorption, non-linear materials, electro-optic polymers, lithium niobate modulators, slot-waveguide structures and their design, and RF integration techniques.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ELEG 648 , or equivalent ELEG 682 , or equivalent.
  

  • ELEG 852 - Advanced Topics in Computing Systems (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ADVANCED TOPICS IN HIGH-END CO
    Component: Lecture
    Focuse on the challenges and opportunities in parallel computing systems and on the design and implementation of future high-end computer systems from multiple peta-scale up to exa-scale computers. Challenges are centered on the definition and specification of parallel program execution models that are sound, scalable and programmable for the intended applications.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with CPEG 852 . RESTRICTIONS: RECTRICTIONS: May be repeated two times for credit.
  

  • ELEG 853 - Integrated Optics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTEGRATED OPTICS
    Component: Lecture
    Explains basic goals, principles and techniques of integrated optics. Topics include optical wave guides, scattering and absorption, couplers, electro-optic modulators, acousto-optic modulators, semiconductor lasers, photonic crystals and optical detectors. Includes applications of optical integrated circuits. Emphasis on physical explanations of how devices and systems work rather than on elaborate mathematical models.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 855 - Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MICROWAVE/MILLIMETER-WAVE TECH
    Component: Lecture
    Principles of device operation and circuit characteristics for microwave/millimeter-wave FET, IMPATT, TRAPPATT, Gunn diode, varactor diode, p-i-n diode, tunnel diode. Sub-millimeter-wave and terahertz-frequency devices also described. Covers both waveguide circuits and microwave integrated circuits. Emphasis on physical explanations of how devices and systems work rather than on elaborate mathematical models.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 860 - Epitaxial Growth and Band Engineering (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    EPITAXIAL GROWTH & BAND ENGR
    Component: Lecture
    Fundamentals and recent developments in the growth of epitaxial films of electronic/optical materials and devices. Topics include vacuum technology, growth thermodynamics, heterojunction physics, materials characterization, and practical considerations. Focus on molecular beam epitaxy, but discuss complementary techniques.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MSEG 860 .
  

  • ELEG 866 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 867 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 868 - Research (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    RESEARCH
    Component: Research
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 869 - Master’s Thesis (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    MASTER’S THESIS
    Component: Independent Study
    Laboratory study conducted for the purpose of contributing new data and theory in some fields of electrical engineering in which information is lacking. Although supervised, the work will be independent in character to encourage the development of initiative.
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ELEG 964 - Pre-Candidacy Study (3 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-12
    PRE-CANDIDACY STUDY
    Component: Independent Study
    Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 12 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.
  

  • ELEG 969 - Doctoral Dissertation (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass

Energy and Environmental Policy
  

  • ENEP 613 - Wildlife Policy and Administration (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    WILDLIFE POLICY AND ADMIN
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to policy issues that relate to wildlife management and natural resources. Students will gain an understanding of current laws, federal agencies, policy formation, and debate the policies of current hot topics.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with ENWC 613 . RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only or by permission of instructor.
  

  • ENEP 624 - Water Resource Management (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    Component: Lecture
    Introduces and analyses various aspects of water resources management and bioresources management. Topics include rainfall, runoff, water supply, groundwater, reservoirs, wastewater treatment and resue water quality agricultural water managememt, drought management, water conservation, agricultural production systems for food and energy and the impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students and seniors.
  

  • ENEP 625 - Energy Policy and Administration (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ENERGY POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
    Component: Lecture
    Analyzes energy use and energy policy with respect to politics, society, economics, political economy, technology, resources, and environment. Focuses on interrelationships among energy, environment, economy and equity (E4). It considers the energy policy options needed to achieve a more sustainable world.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with MAST 620 , UAPP 625 .
    Course Typically Offered: Fall
  

  • ENEP 626 - Climate Change:Science, Policies & Political Economy (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CLIMATE CHANGE:SCIENCE,POLICIE
    Component: Lecture
    Examines existing policy responses to climate change, alongside opportunities for a redirected political economy to achieve energy and environmental conditions with meaningful CO2 reductions. Specific attention given to possibilities and limits of scientific knowledge and technology in galvanizing social change.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ENEP 660 - Eng. Econ Analysis for Sust. Energy (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ENG ECON ANALYSIS FR SUST ENRY
    Component: Lecture
    Explores the economic evaluation approaches, metrics, and level of detail required for making sound economic decisions in sustainable energy project development.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENEP 661 - Sustainable Energy Financing (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FINANCING
    Component: Lecture
    Analysis the practical and cutting edge innovations in financing of sustainable energy projects and enterprises. Topics include sources and instruments of sustainable energy financing, identification and management of investment risks, and financial modeling. Explore key financial policies in federal and local governments and private sector roles in catalyzing transitions to a sustainable energy regime.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENEP 666 - Special Problem (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 667 - Seminar (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 12 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENEP 802 - Electricity Policy and Planning (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ELECTRICITY POLICY & PLANNING
    Component: Lecture
    Analyzes the technological and regulatory policy evolution of the electricity industry. Considers how technology innovations and policy/regulatory actions have guided the planning of the industry from its early days.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with UAPP 802 .
    Course Typically Offered: Fall
  

  • ENEP 810 - Political Economy of the Environment (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMN
    Component: Lecture
    Reviews major theories developed over the last half century to explain naturesociety relations. Policy case studies on environmental justice, trade and environment, global climate change, and sustainable development used to evaluate current range of political-economic explanations of nature-society relations. International, national and local responses to these problems are analyzed.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with MAST 814 , POSC 814 , UAPP 810 .
    Course Typically Offered: Fall
  

  • ENEP 820 - International Perspectives on Energy and Environment (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INT’L PERSPECTVS ON ENERGY/ENV
    Component: Lecture
    Policy analysis and political economy at international energy and environmental issues and problems. Encompasses international and multi-national government and private sector organizations, as well as non-governmental, non-profit organizations.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with UAPP 820 .
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ENEP 821 - Proseminar: Technology, Environment and Society (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PROSEMINAR:TECH ENVRNMNT & SOC
    Component: Lecture
    Over the last two centuries, forces of industrialization and urbanization have transformed economic, social and political life and the natural environment. Examines theories that explain and assess these transformations, with the goal of fostering critical analysis of social and environmental transformation in international, national and local contexts.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with UAPP 821 .
    Course Typically Offered: Fall
  

  • ENEP 824 - Sustainable Energy Policy and Planning (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SUSTAINABLE ENERGY POLICY
    Component: Lecture
    Analyzes sustainable energy strategies in terms of their technology, economics, impacts on the environment and governance attributes. Also analyzes policy options to facilitate a sustainable energy future.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with UAPP 824 . RESTRICTIONS: Graduate students with a background in policy, economics and/or technology. Senior-level undergraduate students only with permission of the instructor.
    Course Typically Offered: Spring
  

  • ENEP 862 - Teaching Practicum (1 to 3cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-3
    TEACHING PRACTICUM
    Component: Independent Study
    In consultation with ENEP faculty members and based on the student’s long-term goals and professional background, the student participates in the development (or revision) and teaching of a course. This activity exposes PhD students who anticipate teaching careers to the pedagogical issues involved, and introduces them to the planning and implementation of course instruction.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of academic advisor and faculty member sponsoring practicum. One semester of Ph.D. graduate study.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 863 - Doctoral Dissertation Proposal (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PROPOSAL
    Component: Independent Study
    Requirement for doctoral program. A “defensible dissertation proposal” must be developed for successful degree completion.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to ENEP PhD students.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 864 - Internship Fieldwork (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTERNSHIP FIELDWORK
    Component: Independent Study
    Three-month (or equivalent) compensated fieldwork, followed by submission of a reflective paper. Requires prior approval of the CEEP director, completion of work plan, and a professional performance evaluation by site supervisor.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 866 - Special problem (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 867 - Seminar (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENEP 868 - Research (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    RESEARCH
    Component: Research
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 869 - Master’s Thesis (6cr.)

    Credit(s): 6
    MASTER’S THESIS
    Component: Independent Study
    Independent Research by the student and submission of a paper on the chosen topic of research within Energy and Environmental Policy and defense of the thesis in front of a committee of 3 faculty members.
    Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to Master’s in Energy and Environmental Policy students.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 870 - Readings (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    READINGS
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 872 - Analytical Paper (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ANALYTICAL PAPER
    Component: Independent Study
    Demonstrate ability to analyze particular Energy and Environmental policy or problem and develop appropriate response.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to Master’s in Energy and Environmental Policy students.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 964 - Pre-Candidacy Study (3 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-12
    PRE-CANDIDACY STUDY
    Component: Independent Study
    Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 12 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to ENEP PhD students. Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
  

  • ENEP 969 - Doctoral Dissertation (9cr.)

    Credit(s): 9
    DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
    Component: Independent Study
    Independent dissertation research after completion of applicable course work and examinations.
    Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to ENEP PhD students.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

Engineering Graphics & General
  

  • EGGG 567 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • EGGG 666 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • EGGG 667 - SEMINAR (0 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 0-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • EGGG 867 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option

English
  

  • ENGL 567 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENGL 600 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in English (1 to 3cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-3
    INTRO/GRAD STUDIES IN ENGLISH
    Component: Lecture
    Negotiate the modes of reading and modes of authority encountered in academic work. Introduction to the library and other resources for graduate study in English. Acquire a better understanding of the genres of our profession, especially the academic article and monograph.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Standard Grading
  

  • ENGL 606 - Issues in American Material Culture (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ISSUES IN AMER MATERIAL CULT
    Component: Lecture
    Studies major themes in American material culture of the 17th, 18th or 19th centuries. Topics vary.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with HIST 606 , MSST 606 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 610 - Introduction to Theories of Material Culture Studies (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRO THEORIES MAT CULT STDS
    Component: Lecture
    Introduces graduate students to the theories and practices of material culture studies. Explores the principles and theories that inform our investigation; they include (but are not limited to) material concepts; social life of things; modes of object analysis; methodologies and their application; objects as word and image; gendered objects; technology and manufactured things; lived and built environments.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with ARTH 610 , EAMC 610 , and MCST 610 .
  

  • ENGL 621 - Medieval Literature and Culture (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MEDIEVAL LITERATURE & CULTURE
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of medieval culture and ideas as expressed in literature (e.g., Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Divine Comedy) and/or in history, philosophy, etc. (e.g., Boethius, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas), and topics (e.g., orality and literacy, epic and romance, genres).
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENGL 625 - Early Modern Literature (3 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-6
    EARLY MODERN LITERATURE
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of a wide selection of authors (e.g., More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, the Cavalier poets, Marvell, Milton); some of Shakespeare’s works may also be included.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 631 - Eighteenth Century Literature (3 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-6
    18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
    Component: Lecture
    Topics may include (but are not restricted to) general survey (i.e., selected poetry, drama, fiction), genre survey, gender studies (e.g., women writers), or thematic issues (e g., literature and politics).
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 634 - Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STDS:19TH CENTURY LITERATURE
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of Romantic and/or Victorian Literature.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 636 - Twentieth Century Literature (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
    Component: Lecture
    Broadly focused to include multiple genres and/or movements (e.g., turn-of-the-century realism, war poets, modernism, postmodern drama) from before and after World War II. May include American, European and post-colonial, in addition to British literature.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENGL 639 - Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STDS:MODRN/CONTEMPORY LITERAT
    Component: Lecture
    Study of selected poetry, prose, and drama of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the major texts of English and American literature during the period. Some attention given to other literary traditions and writings.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 641 - Studies in American Literature (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
    Component: Lecture
    Study of particular themes, movements, or authors in American Literature.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 651 - Irish Literature: Period Studies (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIES IN IRISH LITERATURE
    Component: Lecture
    Study of particular themes, movements, or authors in Irish literature.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 654 - Studies in Anglophone World Literature (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIES ANGLOPHONE WORLD LIT
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of representative examples of poetry, prose, and drama from world literature written in English. May be organized around genres, national or regional traditions, or broad thematic categories.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENGL 666 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENGL 667 - SEMINAR (1 to 12cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-12
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  

  • ENGL 671 - Studies in Fiction (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIES IN PROSE
    Component: Lecture
    Special topics in the novel, short story, or non-fiction prose works.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 672 - Studies in Drama (3 to 9cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-9
    STDS:DRAMA
    Component: Lecture
    Study of an author or authors, a type or types of drama, a period or theme.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  

  • ENGL 673 - Studies in Poetry (3 to 9cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-9
    STUDIES IN POETRY
    Component: Lecture
    Special topics on a poet or poets, a type or movement, a period or theme.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
 

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