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AFT 24000 - The Evolution Of USAF Air And Space Power II
Credit Hours: 1.00. Examines the development of air power from the end of World War II to the present. A variety of events and elements in the history of air power are stressed, especially where these provide significant examples of the impact of air power on strategic thought. The use of air power as an instrument of national power in dealing with a number of world crises is explored. Typically offered Spring.
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AFT 24100 - Air Force ROTC Leadership Laboratory IV
Credit Hours: 1.00. Cadets continue with emphasis on field training preparation, developing leadership/management skills. Study of Air Force customs and courtesies, drill and ceremonies, and giving military commands; instructing, correcting, and evaluating the preceding skills, and study the Air Force officer environment. Typically offered Spring.
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AFT 35100 - Air Force Leadership Studies I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on a study of leadership and management fundamentals, leadership ethics, and communicative skills required of Air Force lieutenants. Case studies are used to examine Air Force leadership and management situations to demonstrate and exercise practical application of concepts being studied. Typically offered Fall.
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AFT 35200 - Air Force ROTC Leadership Laboratory V
Credit Hours: 1.00. Intermediate level leadership experience for military training cadets. Cadets lead the planning, coordinating, and directing of military activities for the cadet corps; provide formal training and guidance to increase the understanding, motivation, and performance of other cadets. Typically offered Fall.
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AFT 36100 - Air Force Leadership Studies II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Continuation of AFT 35100 , with emphasis on the management functions of planning, organizing, and controlling. Communication skills are developed through oral briefings and writing assignments. Air Force officer professional knowledge requirements are introduced. Air Force case analyses simulate real-life situations. Typically offered Spring.
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AFT 36200 - Air Force ROTC Leadership Laboratory VI
Credit Hours: 1.00. Advanced leadership experience for field training preparation cadets. Cadets lead the planning, coordinating, and directing of military activities for the cadet corps; provide formal training and guidance to increase the understanding, motivation, and performance of other cadets. Typically offered Spring.
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AFT 47100 - National Security Affairs I
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the factors that play a part in the formulation of American defense policy, with particular emphasis on current issues. This policy uniquely combines aspects of American government, public administration, international relations, management, and economics. Typically offered Fall.
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AFT 47200 - Air Force ROTC Leadership Laboratory VII
Credit Hours: 1.00. Advanced leadership experience for introductory military training cadets. Cadets lead the planning, coordinating, and directing of military activities for the cadet corps; provide formal training and guidance to increase the understanding, motivation, and performance of other cadets. Prepare for active duty. Typically offered Fall.
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AFT 48100 - National Security Affairs II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Continuation of AFT 47100 , with special emphasis on the role of the Air Force officer in the formulation and implementation of defense policy. Preparation for active duty and a review of the military justice system is also covered this semester. Typically offered Spring.
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AFT 48200 - Air Force ROTC Leadership Laboratory VIII
Credit Hours: 1.00. Advanced leadership experience for field training preparation cadets. Cadets lead the planning, coordinating, and directing of military activities for the cadet corps; provide formal training and guidance to increase the understanding, motivation, and performance of other cadets. Prepare for active duty. Typically offered Spring.
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African American Studies |
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AAS 27100 - Introduction To African American Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the philosophical and methodological principles underlying Afro-American studies. Dimensions of the black experience, including history, education, politics, psychology, economics, religion, social organization, and art, will be covered, and the requisite academic tools and sources will be examined. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AAS 27700 - African American Popular Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the production of popular culture through African-based and non African-based traditions among African Americans in the United States. Pop culture forms covered include film, theatre, visual arts, literature, dance, sports, music and religious traditions. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AAS 35900 - Black Women Writers
Credit Hours: 3.00. (ENGL 35900 ) This course introduces students to the rich and varied literary texts produced by black women writers. Literary analysis, along with a consideration of historical, cultural, gender, and racial contexts will be emphasized. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AAS 37000 - Black Women Rising
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the rise of black women and their impact on economic, social, and cultural issues. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AAS 37100 - The African American Experience
Credit Hours: 3.00. Focus on specific topics of the personal experiences of blacks, in Africa and the diaspora, including black identity, black culture, and the relationships between blacks and society. Typically offered Fall.
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AAS 37300 - Issues In African American Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on a specific topic that relates to selected issues in the life, history, and culture of peoples of African ancestry. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AAS 37500 - The Black Family
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course considers and examines the black family as a social institution, focusing on both recent research as well as more descriptive accounts of issues concerning the black family. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AAS 37600 - The Black Male
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines critically the factors contributing to the deteriorating status of African American males and the positive ways of coping with that experience. Includes an overview of research perspectives defining current knowledge on the subject. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AAS 37700 - African American Sexuality And Society
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the history of ideas, approaches, and paradigms that have shaped and defined our understanding of Black sexuality through engaging stereotypes, symbols, and images that have influenced the sexual attitudes and behavior of African Americans. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AAS 39200 - Caribbean History And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. (HIST 39200 ) This course introduces students to the rich and varied literary texts produced by black women writers. Literary analysis, along with a consideration of historical, cultural, gender, and racial contexts will be emphasized. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AAS 47300 - Blacks In Hollywood Film
Credit Hours: 3.00. A history of the representation of blacks in mainstream film throughout the twentieth century. Typically offered Fall.
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AAS 47400 - Research Methods In African American Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers research techniques used by researchers to observe and to interpret scholarly investigation on race, class and gender from an African-American perspective. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AAS 49000 - Directed Readings In African American Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course allows students to create an independent course of study with an instructor on a topic relevant to the African, African American, or African Diasporic experience. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AAS 49100 - Special Topics In African American Studies
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Special Topics in African American Studies addresses special topics or projects under the direction of the instructor in the field of African American or African Diasporic Studies. The course may vary from 1-4 credit hours. It may be taught as a lecture or as a lecture with a lab. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AAS 57400 - Research Methods In African American Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers techniques used by researchers and to interpret scholarly investigation on race, class and gender from an African American perspective. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AAS 57500 - Theories Of African American Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course addresses the development of an African American intellectual tradition. The course will span disciplines and swathes of time in order to understand how scholars not only created new ideas but developed theories that shaped and changed academic inquiry. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ABE 20100 - Thermodynamics In Biological Systems I
Credit Hours: 4.00. Thermodynamic principles associated with biological systems and processing of biological materials. Emphasis on the first law of thermodynamics. Fundamentals of steady-state mass and energy balances for reacting and non-reacting processes including multiple unit operations emphasizing living systems and bioprocessing. Applications of the first law conservation of energy to biological systems, energy conversion systems, and the environmental impacts of energy production. Development of engineering problem solving skills via MathCad and MatLab software. Laboratory emphasizes combining technical engineering skills with professional skill development through computer and laboratory exercises including two extensive projects that result in a biological product design. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 20200 - Thermodynamics In Biological Systems II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Thermodynamic principles and their applications to biochemical and biological systems with emphasis on the second law of thermodynamics and use of molecular interpretations of energies and entropies. Concept of entropy balances and process efficiency. Free energy and chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium between phases, colligative properties, binding of ligands and formation of biological membrances. Molecular motion and transport properties and their application in biochemical analytical methods. Development of physical chemical problem solving skills using MathCad and MatLab software. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 20500 - Computations For Engineering Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of engineering problem solving and design skills. Use of Excel, Matlab, and MathCad for problem solving, data analysis, numerical modeling, and statistics. Introduction to elementary statics, dynamics, materials, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and energy topics. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 21000 - Thermodynamics Principles Of Engineering And Biological Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of thermodynamic principles to the design and operation of biological and engineering systems. The focus is on mass and energy balances for non-reacting processes and on the second law of thermodynamics. These principles are applied to biological and agricultural engineering systems. Specific topics include refrigeration systems, power cycles, energy conversion systems, and environmental impacts of energy production. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 28100 - Professional Internship
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experience in agricultural and biological engineering. Program conducted under the direction of an engineering faculty member and with the cooperation of an employer. Student submits a summary report. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 29000 - Sophomore Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. Current agricultural and biological engineering issues will be discussed by students, staff, and guest speakers. Career planning, employment opportunities, professionalism, ethics, and improvement of communication skills will be emphasized. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 29199 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op I
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 29299 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op II
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 30100 - Modeling And Computational Tools In Biological Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to principles of analysis, setup, and modeling of biological systems using fundamental principles of engineering. Development of algebraic and differential models of steady state and transient processes involving material and energy balances, elementary thermodynamic, transport, and kinetic reaction principles, and economics in biological engineering systems. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ABE 30300 - Applications Of Physical Chemistry To Biological Processes
Credit Hours: 3.00. Physical chemical principles associated with transport of mass, momentum and energy in bioprocesses. Principles for measuring physical chemical properties, a description of predictive equations for their evaluation and the role of these principles in the design and optimization of bioprocesses. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 30400 - Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Laboratory course focused on bioprocessing topics such as fluid flow, mixing, rheology, hydrolysis, and fermentation of biomaterials. Students will participate in design of experiments, system set up, data collection, statistical data analysis, and presentation of results. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 30500 - Physical Properties Of Biological Materials
Credit Hours: 3.00. Physical properties of agricultural crops and food products and their relationship to harvesting, storage, and processing. Physical properties covered include: density, shape, moisture content, water potential, water activity, friction and flow or particulate solids, terminal velocity, thermal properties, interaction with electromagnetic radiation, and viscoelastic behavior of solids. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 30700 - Momentum Transfer In Food And Biological Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fluid statics, Newton’s law of viscosity, shell momentum balances, equations of continuity and motion, one dimensional flow problems, flow through porous media, velocity distributions with more than one independent variable, two dimensional flow through a channel, stream function, velocity potential, dimensional analysis, boundary layer, turbulent flow, Reynolds stress, form and skin friction, application of macroscopic momentum and mechanical energy balances to engineering problems. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 30800 - Heat And Mass Transfer In Food And Biological Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of transport of energy and mass. Mechanisms of heat transfer, heat conduction, heat convection and heat radiation. Development of applications using macroscopic and microscopic balances of energy. Application of thermal energy balances and Fourier’s Law to describe steady state and transient conduction applications including heat generation. Effect of the geometry on these processes. Basic principles of design of heat transfer equipment and its operation. Application of species mass balances and Fick’s Law to steady state and transient diffusion problems. Effect of geometry on these processes. Analogies between transport of momentum, heat and mass applications to the solution of practical problems in the Food Process and Biological Engineering fields. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 31000 - Thermodynamics Of Food And Biological Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic concepts of thermodynamic energy and entropy functions applied to food and biological systems. Equations of state, phase rule, non-ideality, fugacity, activity models, vapor-liquid equilibria, colligative properties, osmotic pressure, ionic solutions, active transport, ATP cycle, characterization of macromolecules, chemical reaction equilibria. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 31400 - Design Of Electronic Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental aspects of circuits, microprocessors, transducers, sensors, instrumentation, and data acquisition are presented, with particular emphasis on electronic systems used in agricultural, biological, and food applications. Laboratory exercises used to apply the course material to constructing and testing circuits, microprocessor controlled systems, and the data collection and monitoring of systems. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 32000 - Solid Modeling, Simulation, And Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to parametric, feature-based solid modeling; dimensioned 2D and 3D engineering drawings; tolerancing; mechanical dynamic simulation; kinematic models, analysis and simulation of simple linkages and complex systems; mechanism design and evaluation; visualization and animation of results; interfacing of computer aided engineering software. Projects involving industrial parts and assemblies will be discussed and assigned. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 32500 - Soil And Water Resource Engineering
Credit Hours: 4.00. Interrelationships of the plant-water-air-soil system; hydrologic processes; protection of surface and ground water quality; GIS targeting of soil and water protection measures; and design of subsurface and overland drainage systems, irrigation systems, and soil erosion control practices. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 33000 - Design Of Machine Components
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to design; stress analysis; deformation and stiffness considerations; static and fatigue strength design; design of components of the food processing, farm and off-highway machines, and mechanical systems. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 33600 - All Terrain Vehicle Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. A structured approach to the design process, including innovation, analysis, evaluation, documentation, and presentation. Design areas typically focus on machinery and vehicles related to agricultural applications. During the first two weeks, the students will define their design problem, statement of work, approach, and timeline. Their final report will summarize the design process and the steps used to solve the proposed problem. All students will give a brief presentation of their design during the last weekly lab meeting. Typically offered Spring Summer.
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ABE 37000 - Biological/Microbial Kinetics And Reaction Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the rates of chemical/biochemical reaction and catalysis in agricultural, food, and biological systems with applications to engineering process design. Applications include microbial growth, enzyme catalysis, fermentation and reactor design. Introductory enzymatic and microbial reaction concepts will be taught and incorporated into reactor design. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 38199 - Professional Practice Coop I
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Permission of department required. Professional Practice students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 38299 - Professional Practice Co-Op II
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 38399 - Professional Practice Co-Op III
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 39399 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op III
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 39499 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op IV
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 39599 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op V
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 39699 - Professional Practice Internship
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 43500 - Hydraulic Control Systems For Mobile Equipment
Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of basic fluid power components and systems. Includes power steering, hydrostatic and hydromechanical transmission, electrohydraulic servovalves, servomechanism, and manually controlled systems. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 44000 - Cell And Molecular Design Principles
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the design principles underlying the organizations and dynamics of biological networks with an emphasis on genetic/molecular circuits. Topics include the structure and tuning of network motifs and relationship to performance parameters such as robustness to internal noise, temporal response, noise filtering, bi-stability, pattern generation and temporal programs. Examples are presented from the study of natural systems and the design of new synthetic systems. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 45000 - Finite Element Method In Design And Optimization
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of the finite element method as it is used in modeling, analysis, and design of thermal/fluid and mechanical systems; one- and two-dimensional elements; boundary value problems, heat transfer and fluid flow problems; structural and solid mechanics problems involving beam, truss, plate and shell elements; computer-aided design and optimization of machine components, structural elements and thermal/fluid system. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 45700 - Transport Operations In Food And Biological Engineering I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of momentum and heat transfer to biological and food process engineering. Viscosity, non-Newtonian fluids, experimental methods of rheological characterization of food and biological systems; viscoelasticity; design equations for pipe flow, pumps, mixing, emulsification, extrusion, sheeting, heat exchanges, aseptic processing, sterilization, freezing, and evaporation. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 46000 - Sensors And Process Control
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental aspects of transducers, biosensors, instrumentation, and computer control are presented, with particular emphasis on sensors and controls used in agricultural, biological, and food applications. Laboratory and pilot plant scale computer controlled equipment is used to examine response of process variables, sensor calibration, control system modeling, and controller selection and tuning. Prereq: differential equations and a course in either heat transfer or fluid mechanics. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 48400 - Project Planning And Management
Credit Hours: 1.00. Review of topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property rights, contracts and timelines. Students will select a Capstone project and assemble a project proposal within a team environment. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 48500 - Agricultural Engineering Project Management And Design
Credit Hours: 4.00. Review of information relative to project planning and execution in industry, including budgeting, intellectual property rights, contract and timelines. Machine or system environmental design projects, team or individual, related to contemporary or potential problems in agricultural engineering. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 48600 - Agricultural Engineering Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property rights, contracts and timelines. Students will select a Capstone project and assemble a project proposal within a team environment. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 49000 - Professional Practice In Agricultural And Biological Engineering
Credit Hours: 1.00. Career areas in agricultural engineering; job opportunities and graduate study; professional attitudes and ethics; contracts and specifications; patents. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 49500 - Select Topics In Agricultural And Biologicl Engineering
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Credit and hours to be arranged. Special topics and projects of contemporary importance or of special interest that are outside the scope of the standard agricultural and biological engineering curriculum. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s record. A written report and oral presentation of final results are required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 49800 - Undergraduate Research In Agricultural And Biological Engineering
Arrange Hours and Credit. Credit and hours to be arranged. Individual research projects for students with the approval of their advisors. Requires prior approval of, and arrangement with, a faculty research advisor. A written report and public oral presentation of final results are required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 49900 - Thesis Research
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Credit and hours to be arranged. Individualized research on agricultural and biological engineering problems. Arrange with program coordinator before registering. A written report and public oral presentation of final results are required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 50100 - Welding Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of weldments and modeling of heat transfer and residual stresses of the welding processes. Finite element theory of nonlinear properties for the many processes including laser, submerged arc, manual, Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), plasma, and electron beam. Metallurgy topics include continuous cooling transformation curves in optimizing engineered joint strength, including cutting and welding. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 52200 - Ecohydrology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Ecohydrology links hydrological and ecological processes at various spatiotemporal scales and is considered to be one of the most exciting frontiers of the future. Hydrological processes in individual ecosystems and the role of water in linking the myriad components of the landscape will be explored in this three-credit course. Interactions between hydrological and biological processes and factors that regulate and shape these interactions will be covered. The ecohydrology principles covered will include integration of water and biota at the catchment scale, nutrient transport and cycling, modeling ecohydrologic processes, and quantification of ecosystem services. Recommended: a prior course in hydrology. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 52500 - Irrigation Management And Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Irrigation management and design, including water resources planning, soil moisture movement and utilization, irrigation scheduling, system selection and operation, pumping plant characteristics and efficiency, hydraulic network analysis, system evaluation, and environmental efficiency. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 52700 - Computer Models In Environmental And Natural Resources Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Offers students in environmental and natural resources engineering programs an understanding of the hydrological processes and related design skills. Principles of soil erosion by water; drainage of agricultural lands; surface runoff; flood and reservoir routing; hydrodynamic and water quality in pipe network; nonpoint source pollution; and transport phenomenon are studied. Current computer models utilized in industry for decision support are applied using case studies to further enhance the understanding of the hydrological processes. Limitations and advantages of the models are discussed. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 52900 - Nonpoint Source Pollution Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Engineering principles involved in assessment and management of nonpoint source (NPS) pollution. Effect of NPS pollution on ecosystem integrity. Use of GIS/mathematical models to quantify extent of pollution. Design/implementation of best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution and improve water quality. Discussion of total maximum daily load (TMDL) principles and processes. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 53100 - Instrumentation And Data Acquisition
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course educates students in the use, selection, and design of instrumentation and data acquisition for agricultural, food, environmental, and biological systems. Emphasis is on measurement of position (GPS), force, pressure, power, torque, flow, and temperature along with environmental sensors. Labs focus on building and using measurement systems and programming PC computers for data acquisition and analysis. Prior knowledge of electrical circuitry is desirable. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 54500 - Design Of Off-Highway Vehicles
Credit Hours: 3.00. Problems associated with the design of off-highway vehicles, with special emphasis on farm and industrial tractors and self-propelled machines; engines; power trains; traction; vehicle control systems; human factors; testing and evaluation of performance. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 55500 - Biological And Food Processing Unit Operations
Credit Hours: 4.00. Analysis and design of operations, such as sterilization, freezing, dehydration, fermentation, and separation processes. Integration of pilot plant results into the design and scale-up process systems. Emphasis on how the properties of biological materials influence the quality of the processed product. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 55600 - Biological And Food Process Design
Credit Hours: 4.00. The course will focus on the synthesis, creation, evaluation and optimization of a preliminary process design to convert basic biological materials into a finished product. Concepts of materials and energy balances, thermodynamics, kinetics, transport phenomena of biological systems will be used to design processes to minimize energy and environmental impacts, and evaluate economic factors while maintaining product quality. Group projects, written and oral reports. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 55700 - Transport Operations In Food And Biological Systems II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Course includes analysis and design of operations, such as dehydration, fermentation, and separation processes. Development of experimental designs, integration of pilot plant results into the design , operation and scale-up process systems. Emphasis on how the properties of biological materials influence the quality of the processed product. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 55800 - Process Design For Food And Biological Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will focus on the design, synthesis, creation, evaluation, and optimization of processes to convert basic biological materials into a finished product. Concepts of materials and energy balances, thermodynamics, kinetics, transport phenomena of biological systems will be used to design processes to minimize energy and environmental impacts, and evaluate economic factors while maintaining product quality. Course will include group projects, oral and written reports. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 56000 - Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications
Credit Hours: 3.00. (BME 52100 ) An introduction to the field of biosensors and an in-depth and quantitative view of device design and performance analysis. An overview of the current state of the art to enable continuation into advanced biosensor work and design. Topics emphasize biomedical, bioprocessing, environmental, food safety, and biosecurity applications. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 58000 - Process Engineering Of Renewal Resources
Credit Hours: 3.00. Physical and chemical structure of biomass. Reaction kinetics of hydrolysis of hemicellulose and cellulose to fermentable sugars. Fundamentals of ethanol production by fermentation. Separation of fermentation products into pure components. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 59000 - Special Problems
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Assignment by consent of the instructor in the selected field of study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural and biological engineering not covered in regular coursework. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 59100 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 4.00. Primarily designed for students (two or more) desiring credit from subject areas for which no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan is offered. Area of study will deal with topics that have enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a specialized topic. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 62700 - Colloidal Phenomena In Bioprocessing
Credit Hours: 3.00. The structure, stability, and rheology of biological dispersions, emulsions, and foams are explained in terms of the principles of electrostatics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Additional topics include colloidal phenomena in downstream bioprocessing, as well as colloidal aspects of some food systems. Prerequisite: Thermodynamics and physical chemistry. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 65100 - Environmental Informatics
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will educate students in the use, manipulation and analysis of environmental data by introducing them to scripting languages. (e.g. c-shell, python), data types
(e.g. ASCII, binary, NetCDF), databases (e.g. XML, DBF) and data visualization software (e.g. GMT, ArcMap) as well as techniques for checking data quality, working with missing data, and handling large diverse sources of time series and spatial data. Students will manipulate, check and insert data from a variety of sources, use that data as input to distributed hydrologic model, analyze model output and learn methods for properly documenting their data use (creation of metadata) and long-term archival storage of those data. Skills learned should be applicable to most computer operating systems, but the majority of work for this class will be done within the Unix/Linux environment. Students taking this course should have experience with one or more programming languages, including but not limited to C, Fortran, Perl, Python, java, Basic, or two writing scripts or macros within programs such as MatLab, S-Plus, R, SAS. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 68000 - Bioseparations And Bioprocess Engineering:Principles, Practice And Economics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Engineering fundamentals of separations and purification of biological molecules. Case studies and examples illustrate principles and practice of centrifugation, precipitation, crystallization, filtration, membrane separations, chromatography, and affinity separation of recombinant proteins and other biomolecules. Process scale-up and economics of biotechnology products and processes are mentioned in the context of their impact on purification development. Prerequisites: ABE 58000 . Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 69100 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Primarily designed for advanced specialized topic areas in agricultural and biological engineering for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 69400 - Graduate Research Training
Credit Hours: 0.00. Strategies for success in graduate study are taught. Students will learn how to write a graduate research proposal, effectively plan for degree milestones, and learn about benefits of participating in professional societies. Students will also complete required training for graduate student researchers, including responsible conduct of research, laboratory safety, and an equal access/equal opportunity briefing. Typically offered Fall.
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ABE 69600 - Graduate Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. Best practices for effectively presenting scientific research are taught and practiced. Students will also present a twenty-minute seminar of original research results, as well as provide and receive constructive criticism on presentation form and content for improved future presentations. Typically offered Spring.
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ABE 69700 - Doctoral Professional Development
Credit Hours: 1.00. Discussion of research problems, methods, procedure, and reports. Discussion and practice to improve written and oral communication. Professional development activites. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ABE 69800 - Research MS Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ABE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGEC 20200 - Spreadsheet Use In Agricultural Business
Credit Hours: 1.00. Use of computer spreadsheets in business and financial analysis. Students gain capability to use financial, statistical, and logical spreadsheet functions and a wide variety of other spreadsheet capabilities. Accounting, finance, and management principles are put into practice in a spreadsheet environment. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGEC 20300 - Introductory Microeconomics For Food And Agribusiness
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces the application of microeconomics as used by farms and agribusiness firms. The behavior of individual firms is evaluated as price and output are determined in various market structures (pure competition, pure monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly). Other topics include pricing and employment of resources, market failure and the social control of industry (government, economics policy, and regulation), cost and production theory. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGEC 20400 - Introduction To Resource Economics And Environmental Policy
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course provides an overview of microeconomic theory and its application to issues related to evaluating resource economic issues and environmental policy. Topics discussed include efficiency, sustainability, valuation, externalities, governmental policies, and benefit cost analysis. Typically offered Spring.
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AGEC 21700 - Economics
Credit Hours: 3.00. National economic problems such as unemployment, recessions, inflation, taxation, bank interest rates, the growth of government, monetary systems, and a rising national debt are discussed along with the principles, policies, and institutions for solving these macroeconomic problems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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AGEC 22000 - Economics Of Agricultural Markets
Credit Hours: 3.00. This class provides an overview of U.S. and international agricultural markets, and develops a framework for analyzing those markets. Concepts include determination of agricultural prices, spatial dimensions of agricultural markets, and trade; temporal dimensions of agricultural markets, and futures and options markets; and public policy in agricultural markets. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGEC 25000 - Economic Geography Of World Food And Resources
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the important issues and economic decisions about worldwide resource use for food and fiber production as influenced by geography, climate, history, social institutions, national self-interest, and the environment. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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AGEC 26000 - Mentoring Leadership
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is designed to teach upperclassmen how to mentor freshman to thrive and survive as entering freshmen in Agricultural Economics. The main focus is on the transition to college life, as well as practical information on time management, taking and rewriting classroom notes, preparing for examinations and quizzes, dealing with stress and interpersonal relationships, and health. Additional topics include opportunities for student involvement in campus life and organizations, career paths for the various programs of study in Agricultural Economics, and how to successfully work in groups. Mentors are restricted to AGBS, AGEC, AGFN, AGMG, FARM, FIMM, QAEC, and SLMK students. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
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AGEC 27500 - Honors Course - Lower Division
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit, and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to first and second-year students. Courses offered must be approved by departmental or program faculty and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Enrollment in an honors program. Permission of department required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AGEC 28900 - Foundational Internship
Credit Hours: 1.00. Foundational internship that is preplanned and conducted under the direction of a faculty or staff member working in cooperation with an employer representative. A learning plan must be developed and approved by the student, faculty or staff coordinator, and employer representative prior to beginning the internship. A comprehensive report describing the management strategies used by the company or organization when he/she spent their internship is required. Permission of department required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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AGEC 29600 - Selected Topics In Agricultural Economics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Special topics in agricultural economics aimed at sophomore-level students. May be repeated for credit under a different topic title. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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