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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

  
  • ECET 35901 - Computer Based Data Acquisition Applications


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the study and application of computer based data acquisition (DAQ) systems. Concepts of high resolution and high throughput data acquisition are introduced and applied. Students learn and use programming and scripting languages to discover the interfacing, advantages and limitations of computer based (DAQ) systems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 36000 - CIM In Electronics Manufacturing


    Credit Hours: 4.00. This course covers the manufacture and assembly of electronic printed circuit boards from component selection and board layout to soldering and test. Special emphasis is placed on high volume manufacturing techniques and state-of-the-art processes, such as surface mount technology (SMT). Laboratory projects include CAD circuit board layout, using automatic placement and soldering equipment, investigating thermal characteristics of circuit boards, process design and evaluation using SPC techniques. Effects of manufacturing processes on electrical characteristics are considered. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ECET 36400 - Fundamentals Of Electromagnetics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces the fundamentals of electromagnetics in both theory and application. Wave propagation, transmission lines, port parameters, antenna theory, and antenna design are studied. Other topics include Maxwell’s equations, propagation losses, RF signal measurement, impedance matching, and Smith chart applications. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 36500 - Electrical Measurements


    Credit Hours: 4.00. A study of instrumentation and automatic measurements. Individual instruments include DMM, counters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators. The signals and operation of the general purpose interface bus are examined and applied to a measurement system. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 36800 - Linear Integrated Circuits


    Credit Hours: 4.00. This course is a study of the applications of analog integrated circuits (IC). Topics include linear amplifiers, IC specifications, linear regulators, waveform generation, linear and switched capacitor active filters, and nonlinear circuit applications. Computer aided analysis of many of these circuits is also presented. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 37200 - Process Control


    Credit Hours: 4.00. A study of the basic elements of closed-loop analog and digital systems. Topics include characteristics of heat, servo motion, and process tank components and systems. Also covered are closed-loop tuning, troubleshooting, documentation, diagram standards and performance specifications. Several sensor types and interpretation of their static and dynamic specifications are included. Commercial controllers employed include analog, embedded microprocessor and PLC based systems. Software is used to model components and analyze open and closed-loop systems. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ECET 37300 - Applied Electronic Drives


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers operational principles and application development consideration of all subsystems that make up electric drives: electric machines, power-electric based converters, mechanical system requirements, feedback controller design, and the interaction of drives with the utility grid. State of the art drive development tools are introduced through hands-on activities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 37400 - Digital Telecommunications


    Credit Hours: 4.00. This is an advanced course in digital communications concepts and applications. Digitalization of analog signals, modulation of digital signals, signaling techniques, multiplexing and protocols are investigated. Applications of transport technologies utilizing underlying digital communication protocols are discussed. Transfer of digital information through diverse communication media is emphasized. Practical application of the technologies and protocols are investigated in the laboratory. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 37401 - Digital Communication Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Digital communication systems form the backbone of modern communication systems, such as cell phone, telecommunication, wireless local area network, Ethernet and optical fiber systems. This course explores the core concepts of modern digital communications systems, covering topics in areas including quantization, encoding, compression, modulation and channel modeling. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 38000 - Professional Issues In EET


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course addresses professional ethics, legal issues, professional development, technology transfer, and corporate culture as they relate to EET graduates. Information relating to personal job and career choices, resumes, and interviews are included. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 38001 - Global Professional Issues In Electrical Engineering Technology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course addresses professional ethics, legal issues, professional development, technology transfer, and corporate culture as they relate to EET graduates and our global society. Information relating to personal job and career choices, resumes, and interviews are included. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 38100 - Electrical Distribution Systems


    Credit Hours: 4.00. A study of the design and operation of electric distribution systems including estimated demand, demand calculations, energy conservation, faults on power systems, power quality, power factor improvement, electric rates, voltage drops, protective devices, illumination, and the applicable portions of the National Electric Code (NEC). Both new facilities and additions to existing facilities are included. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 38500 - Introduction To Automotive Electronics


    Credit Hours: 4.00. This course is a study of automotive electronics components and systems. Main topics are sensors, actuators, engine fuel systems and ignition systems. Also covered are braking, emissions, General Motors Class II bus, and OBD (On Board Diagnostic) systems and emerging technologies. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 38600 - Building Electrical Codes And Standard Practices


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course in the design of building wiring, machine wiring and electrical control systems using relevant codes and standards to layout commercial and industrial facilities and manufacturing processes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 38800 - Analog IC Applications


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is a study of the applications of analog integrated circuits. Topics include linear amplifiers, IC specifications, linear regulators, waveform generation, linear and switched-capacitor active filters, and nonlinear circuit applications. Computer aided analysis of these circuits is also presented. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 39600 - Project Development and Management


    Credit Hours: 4.00. This is a structured course in electronic projects, with an emphasis on planning and design alternatives to meet cost, performance, and user-interface goals. A software tool is utilized for project management. Students work in teams to solve problem assignments using guided design techniques. Creativity is stressed, and the different approaches taken by different teams are compared and discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 41400 - Wireless Communications


    Credit Hours: 4.00. Practical and theoretical aspects of wireless communication system design are studied; particular emphasis is on mobile communications. Frequency reuse, hand-off, cell splitting, indoor/outdoor propagation, cochannel interference, frequency management, channel assignment techniques, cell-site antennas, handset antenna/human body interaction, switching and traffic, AMPS, GSM, TDMA, and CDMA are studied. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 42301 - Electrical Vehicle Integration And Fabrication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course requires students to develop a detailed design, develop a time/action plan, perform research on existing electronic vehicle systems, develop a procurement plan for electronic vehicle components, design and fabricate custom electric vehicle components, and construct an electric vehicle. The completed electric vehicle is extensively tested for safety, performance, and energy efficiency. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 42400 - Wireless Systems: Design And Measurement


    Credit Hours: 4.00. In this course wireless RF signals and microwave circuit designs are studied. Topics covered in the course include RF passive systems, power dividers, couplers, RF amplifiers, RF filters, impedance matching, planar antennas, resonators, VCO’s, RF simulation and high frequency PCB layout. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ECET 42800 - Audio Electronics-Selected Topics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Define, implement, and evaluate the performance of the electronic elements in a professional audio system such as preamplifiers, signal encoding and transmission, data storage, signal reception and decoding, mixers, post processors, and power amplifiers. Both analog and digital signal processing may be implemented in each of the electronic elements. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 43000 - Electrical And Electronic Product And Program Management


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course deals with the planning of electrical and electronic products and projects. Research methods are studied to support new product development including customer needs and the development of engineering requirements. Formal techniques such as functional decomposition, top-down and bottom-up design techniques are studied. Planning and design alternatives to meet cost, performance, and user-interface foals are emphasized. Technical topics are revisited with emphasis on new applications. The various types and levels of new product system tests are studied. New product planning, scheduling, and management techniques are studied, along with the usage of software tools for project scheduling and management. Creativity is stressed, and the different approaches taken by the designers are compared and discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 43100 - International Capstone Project Planning And Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course deals with the planning and execution of an industry sponsored senior capstone project carried out jointly with students from a foreign academic institution. Project management and systems engineering methods are studied to support the development of solutions to open-ended problems proposed by industry. Formal techniques such as functional decomposition, top-down and bottom-up, requirement matrix, analysis of alternatives are studied and applied to the projects. Project planning techniques including work breakdown structures, Gantt charts and resource planning are studied and applied to meet cost, performance and project goals. The various types and levels of new system tests are studied and applied. Electronic and internet communication tools shall be used to maintain team and project progress. Foreign travel shall be required for at least one face to face team meeting during the execution of the project. Permission of Instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 43600 - Electrical Power Transmissions, Distribution, And Smart Control


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course on the simple modeling and simulation of the power grid systems, power flow analysis, and advanced meter infrastructure (AMI). The fundamentals learned in this course will be useful in the study of the effects of distributed energy resources and storage in Smart Grid environment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 43900 - Advanced Digital Signal Processing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course builds on the basic principles and applications of Digital Signal Processing with a view to implementing advanced DSP techniques. These techniques are chosen to form some of the building blocks that are used in specialization areas such as the biomedical, communications and energy management fields. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 44400 - Wireless Systems: Design And Measurement


    Credit Hours: 3.00. In this course wireless RF signals and microwave circuit designs are studied. Topics include signal analysis, RF signal measurement, microstrip design and analysis, Smith chart applications, RF circuit design, s-parameters, power dividers and couplers, filter design, and advanced RF PCB layout. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 46000 - Project Design And Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An extensive individual or small group design project is carried out with guidance from a faculty advisor. This course includes determining customer requirements, considering design alternatives, prototyping, project integration, and testing. The project is completed as a robust prototype. The course concludes with a formal written report and a presentation of the project to faculty and invited industrial guests. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 46100 - International Capstone Project Execution


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course completes the development and execution of an international industry sponsored senior capstone project carried out jointly with students from a foreign academic institution. Project management and systems engineering methods are applied in the development of solutions to open-ended problems proposed by industry. Design tools including failure mode and effects analysis and configuration management are studied and applied. A manufacturing plan supported by both in process and validation test plans are developed and applied to demonstrate compliance to project requirements. The project is completed with the generation of a proof of concept demonstration that satisfies project requirements. The course concludes with a formal written report and presentation. Electronic and internet communication tools shall be used to maintain team and project progress. Foreign travel shall be required for at least one face to face team meeting during the execution of the project. Permission of Instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 47400 - Digital Communications


    Credit Hours: 4.00. This is an advanced course in digital communications concepts and applications. Topics include analog message digitization, signal space representation of digital signals, binary and M-ary signaling methods, the detection of binary and M-ary signals, modulation of digital signals, signaling techniques, digital multiplexing and protocols. Applications of transport technologies using underlying communication protocols are discussed. Transfer of digital information through diverse communication media is emphasized. There is an introductory treatment of probability theory, including distribution and random variables; with the applications of normal and exponential distributions to traffic analysis. Practical application of the technologies and protocols are investigated in the laboratory. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 48300 - Network Fundamentals With Microcontrollers


    Credit Hours: 4.00. The principles of local-area network communications are studied. Emphasis is on hardware, signals, the hardware/software interface, and protocols commonly associated with embedded systems. Methods, tradeoffs, and performance of various addressing, error detection and correction, and collision detection are studied. Relationships with the 7-layer OSI model are examined. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ECET 48400 - Digital Wireless Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course investigates the theory and implementation of digital wireless systems for current and next generation communication systems. Cognitive radio systems and technologies will be studied and implemented. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 48800 - Automatic Test Instrumentation


    Credit Hours: 4.00. An introduction to automated test equipment (ATE). Emphasis is placed on understanding the philosophy of testing in maintaining product conformance and control. The operation of the GPIB, VXI bus, or other integrated automatic test sets with a high level computer language control interface with data logging and analysis is presented. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 49500 - Inten Project Design/Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Credit will not be granted for both ECET 495 and ECET 49700 . This course is an intensive conclusion to the senior design process begun in ECET 49600 . The course concludes with a formal demonstration and oral presentation on the finished product and a written report on the final design. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 49600 - Project Design and Development, Phase I


    Credit Hours: 1.00. An extensive individual or small-group design project is carried out with guidance from a faculty advisor. Phase I includes determining customer requirements, considering design alternatives, and issuing a formal project proposal. Software scheduling tools are used extensively. The course concludes with a report and demonstration of functionality of individual hardware and software design blocks. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 49700 - Project Design And Development, Phase II


    Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. This conclusion of the design project begun in ECET 49600  emphasizes system integration and testing. The course concludes with a formal demonstration of and oral presentation on the finished product and a written report on the final design. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 49900 - Electrical Engineering Technology


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 9.00. Hours and subject matter to be arranged by staff. Cannot be used to replace EET 48000, 49600, or 49700. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ECET 52400 - Applied Electromagnetics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an advanced treatment of electromagnetics and applications at the graduate level for engineering technology students. Electric and magnetic field theory is presented, including Maxwell’s equations. Topics include vector analysis, electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic wave radiation, and propagation. A semester-long project based on applied electromagnetics is required for each student. Knowledge of RF measurement equipment, such as spectrum analyzers and vector network analyzers is required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 52500 - Applications In Forensic Engineering Technology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An interdisciplinary consideration of the applications of forensics in the American jurisprudence system. Topics include: failure analysis of electrical and mechanical systems, accident reconstruction, product liability, codes and standards, ethics, and expert witness testimony. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ECET 53500 - Energy Management


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of energy auditing, energy saving opportunities of commercial and industrial systems, utility rate structures, economic evaluation of investments, potential energy saving retrofits, maintenance considerations, and cogeneration opportunities. Data analysis and report writing are practiced using data from a real world energy audit. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ECET 53600 - Embedded Systems Security


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the implementation and application of cryptographic algorithms and protocols in embedded systems. An overview of the security problem and the science of cryptography and cryptanalysis is presented. The notion of the security perimeter in terms of physical access to assets in embedded hardware subsystems is studied. Students implement and apply various ciphers on 8-bit to 32-bit embedded platforms, comparing and contrasting computational and data throughout performance. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 58100 - Workshop In Electrical And Computer Engineering Technology


    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Advanced study of technical and professional topics. Emphasis is on new developments relating to technical, operational, and training aspects of industry and technology education. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 59000 - Special Problems In Electrical And Computer Engineering Technology


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Independent study of a special problem under the guidance of a member of the staff. Does not substitute for either M.S. thesis or M.S. project credit. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 59800 - Directed MS Project


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A formal investigation of a particular problem under the guidance of the advisory committee. Not applicable to a thesis option plan of study. Enrollment during at least two consecutive terms for a total of three credits is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 63800 - Selected Topics In Sensor Networks


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines general sensor network concepts, with a focus on a particular area of research and development. Current applications are studied, culminating with the analysis, characterization and/or examination of a sensor network. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ECET 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

Engineering Education

  
  • ENE 49800 - Undergraduate Research In Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individual research projects for students with the approval of their academic advisors. Requires prior approval of, and arrangement with, a faculty research advisor in the Department of Engineering Education. Written and oral final reports are required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 50100 - Professional Development In Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course provides beginning engineering education graduate students opportunities to define themselves with the engineering education department and within the field of engineering education. Students, faculty, and outside speakers present research topics, academic opportunities, and other information that will enhance students’ graduate experiences. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENE 50200 - History And Philosophy Of Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the history and philosophy of engineering education by: (1) exploring the history of engineering education through archival research and historical documents (critical moments, tensions, issues); (2) investigating philosophies of education and the philosophies that have guided engineering as a profession; and (3) critiquing the evolution of engineering education, identifying alternative scenarios, and imagining a future role in engineering education. This course introduces students to the field of engineering education while broadening their views of the roles of interrelationships between teaching and research. Open to students in Engineering Education. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENE 50300 - Engineering Education Inquiry


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is conceived as a bridge between beginning graduate students’ knowledge of technical research and modes of inquiry appropriate to the new field of engineering education. It is designed as the entryway to required research method courses taken as part of the students’ plan of study. By the end of this survey course, students will be able to critique research in terms of the quality of the authors’ argument based on their chain of reasoning, and will recognize that the articulation of a research question, the significance of the question, the choice of methods in regards to the research goals, and the transparency of the explanation of the methodology are all the parts of the chain of reasoning. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENE 50600 - Content, Assessment And Pedagogy: An Integrated Engineering Design Approach


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course is explicitly identified in the ENE -PhD requirements as a “foundation course” required for all students. This course is intended to be taken early in a graduate student’s curriculum and therefore is designed to be a bridge between the student’s previous experience with engineering (education, work, and teaching) and new engineering education research-based approaches. It is intended as an entryway to help students apply an engineering design approach to the design of instruction. To meet this aim, the course involves an iterative project-based approach in a context (design site) that is chosen by the student for its relevance, interest and potential application. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENE 55300 - Introduction To Globalization And Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00. History and dynamics of globalization, and its impact on engineering practice and the lives and education of engineers. Topics include: global migration of highly-skilled people, free flow of capital and the globalization of R&D investment, world trade of commodities and high-tech products, global value chains and the process of innovation, role of multinational and metanational corporations, role of intellectual property and the global spread of technology, global outsourcing and off-shoring of engineering jobs and services, global convergence of engineering education and life-long learning. The course includes lectures by the instructor or by guest speakers representing industry and academia from all over the world. This course is designed assuming a maturity level congruent with students having work experience or planning to enter fulltime employment within a year. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENE 55400 - Globalization And Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The focus is on the multifaceted dynamics of globalization, and its impact on engineering practice and the lives and education of engineers. The course emphasizes engineering and globalization from the perspectives of the emerging Asian economies and Europe, as well as the United States. This course is designed for practicing engineers and engineering educators. It is taught within a learner-centric, highly interactive, collaborative learning environment in which students are expected to learn from the experiences and thinking of each other, as well as from the instructor, and other course resources. The course places emphasis on reading, writing, web-based research, and discussion. Students are recommended (but not required) to have a minimum of two years work experience as a practicing engineer and strong communication skills (self-assessed). Permission of instructor is required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENE 59000 - Special Problems In Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Project or special topics of contemporary importance or of special interest that are outside the scope of the standard graduate curriculum. Interested students should seek a faculty advisor by meeting individual faculty members who work in their area of special interest and prepare a brief description of the work to be undertaken and expected outcomes and deliverables. An individual project must be approved by the faculty member supervising the project and the student’s advisor before registering for the course. An approved written report is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 59500 - Special Topics In Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00. Primarily designed for specialized topic areas 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 Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 62000 - Design, Cognition And Learning


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design is central to engineering: it is an integral part of the engineering profession and how we educate future professionals. Design cognition and learning is an area of engineering education research that seeks to understand what designers know and how they learn, and what tools best support design activity (e.g., collaboration, innovation, etc.). This research draws from many perspectives including cognitive psychology and the learning sciences, organizational learning, engineering and product design, architecture, human-centered interaction, and creativity and innovation. Themes in the course include (1) design knowledge, (2) what theories help understand design knowing and learning, (3) what are ways to study designers and design activity, and (4) how may design research inform design education and practice? Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENE 63000 - Cognitive Devices In Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics Learning Environments


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the nature of technologies we use to assist in thinking, learning and teaching. Specifical focus is on cognitive tools associated with engineering activities and how to blend these tools with science and mathematical knowledge. These will range from representational tools, computational tools and cognitive tools for supporting individual and group thinking and learning. Participants in this course will be able to evaluate various learning technologies relative to specific learning goals and outcomes and will design a technological tool to support thinking, learning and/or teaching about concepts in science, engineering, mathematics and technology. Participants will also be able to identify assessment methods that indicate cognitive change in learners as a measure of the effectiveness of a device/tool in context of an activity. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENE 68500 - Educational Methods In Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (CHE 68500 ) Students will learn how to teach in an engineering environment where both classroom and laboratory instruction is intertwined. Classroom techniques, such as lectures, cooperative groups, mastery and PSI, TV and video, and guided design will be studied, in addition to class preparation issues, such as ABET accreditation and design content. Students will study motivation, learning theories and cycles, and personality types. Includes teaching practice and group projects. Student must be admitted into a Ph.D. program in Engineering or other technical discipline (Finished with MS or MS-bypass). Not open to students who have taken PSY 69500/EDPS 63400 . Permission of Instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 69000 - Seminar In Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 0.00. Seminar course covering a broad range of current discovery, learning, and engagement topics in Engineering Education. Seminar presentations by representatives from academia, industry, other external institutions, and members of the Purdue University community. This is a required course for the graduate program in the Department of Engineering Education. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 69500 - Advanced Topics In Engineering Education


    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00. Primarily designed for specialized topic areas 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 Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

Engineering Projects in Community Service

  
  • EPCS 10100 - First Year Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Together, Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) courses create a vertical project track under which students work in multidisciplinary teams on long-term engineering-based design projects. Projects of at least one-year in duration are intended to solve real problems that are defined in consultation with “customers” from not-for-profit community and education organizations. EPCS courses are open to students from all disciplines; each student contributes expertise in his/her academic discipline. Each team consists of a mix of first year, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Students are encouraged to participate in an EPICS project team for two or more semesters. First year students participating in EPCS 10100 gain insight into the specific project, and more generally, into the design and development process. They attend planning and reporting meetings with the customer and are expected attend all team meetings. Under the mentorship of the team’s sophomores, juniors and seniors they perform and report upon tasks consistent with their level of discipline expertise. May be repeated for credit. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 10200 - First Year Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). Participants in EPCS 10200 gain insight into the specific project, and more generally, into the design and development process. They attend planning and reporting meetings with the customer and are expected to attend all team meetings. Working with team’s sophomores, juniors and seniors they perform and report upon tasks consistent with their level of discipline expertise. EPCS 10200 is offered for two credits and is intended for students who have exhibited significant achievement in EPCS 10100  and desire the level of responsibility that is appropriate for two credits. May be repeated for credit. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 11100 - First Year Participation In EPICS I


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Together, Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) courses create a vertical project track under which students work in multidisciplinary teams on long-term engineering-based design projects. Projects of at least one-year in duration are intended to solve real problems that are defined in consultation with “customers” from not-for-profit community and education organizations. EPCS courses are open to students from all disciplines; each student contributes expertise in his/her academic discipline. Each team consists of a mix of first-year, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Students are encouraged to participate in an EPICS project team for two or more semesters. First-year students participating in EPCS gain insight into the specific project, and more generally, into the design and development process. They attend planning and reporting meetings with the customer and are expected to attend all team meetings. Under mentorship from upper level students and instructors, they perform and report upon design tasks consistent with their level of discipline expertise. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 12100 - First Year Participation In EPICS II


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Together, Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) courses create a vertical project track under which students work in multidisciplinary teams on long-term engineering-based design projects. Projects of at least one year in duration are intended to solve real problems that are defined in consultation with “customers” from not-for-profit community and educational organizations. EPCS courses are open to students from all disciplines; each student contributes expertise in his/her academic discipline. Each team consists of a mix of first-year, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Students are encouraged to participate in an EPICS project for two or more semesters. First-year students participating in EPICS gain insight into the specific project, and more generally, into the design and development process. Under mentorship from upper-level students and instructors, they perform and report upon design tasks consistent with their level of discipline expertise. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 20100 - Sophomore Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). Sophomores participating in EPCS 20100 gain insight into the specific project, and, more generally, into the design and development process. They attend planning and reporting meetings with the customer and are expected attend all team meetings. Under the mentorship of the team’s juniors and seniors they perform and report upon tasks consistent with their level of discipline expertise. EPCS 20100 is offered for 1 credit. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 20200 - Sophomore Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). Sophomores participating in EPCS 20100  gain insight into the specific project, and, more generally, into the design and development process. They attend planning and reporting meetings with the customer and are expected attend all team meetings. Under the mentorship of the team’s juniors and seniors they perform and report upon tasks consistent with their level of discipline expertise. EPCS 20200 is offered for 2 credits. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 30100 - Junior Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). The responsibilities of juniors include working with the seniors in the planning and organization of the project, contributing to the design process, problem solving by contributing expertise from their discipline, meeting with the customer, and the mentorship of sophomores and freshmen. EPCS 30100 is offered for 1 credit. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 30100 and EPCS 30200  students. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 30200 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 30200 - Junior Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). The responsibilities of juniors include working with the seniors in the planning and organization of the project, contributing to the design process, problem solving by contributing expertise from their discipline, meeting with the customer, and the mentorship of sophomores and freshmen. EPCS 30200 is offered for 2 credits. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 30100  and EPCS 30200 students. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 30100 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 40100 - Senior Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). Seniors are responsible for the management tasks of planning and organizing their team project activity. They are expected to contribute expertise from their discipline to the design of the team’s projects throughout most of the design process phases of problem identification, specification development, design, production, and deployment. Seniors will also meet with the customer and mentor the freshman, sophomores and juniors. Seniors using EPCS 40100/EPCS 40200  to fulfill capstone or design requirements where approved for their major may be required to satisfy additional course requirements specified by their degree program. EPCS 40100 is offered for 1 credit. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 40100 and EPCS 40200  students. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 40200 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 40200 - Senior Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 10100 ). Seniors are responsible for the management tasks of planning and organizing their team project activity. They are expected to contribute expertise from their discipline to the design of the team’s projects throughout most of the design process phases of problem identification, specification development, design, production, and deployment. Seniors will also meet with the customer and mentor the freshman, sophomores and juniors. Seniors using EPCS 40100 /40200 to fulfill capstone or design requirements where approved for their major may be required to satisfy additional course requirements specified by their degree program. EPCS 40200 is offered for 2 credits. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 40100  and EPCS 40200 students. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 40100 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EPCS 41100 - Senior Design Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of EPICS courses. Seniors using EPCS 41100 to fulfill capstone or design requirements where approved for their major may be required to satisfy additional course requirements specified by their degree program. EPCS 41100 is offered for 1 credit. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 41100 and EPCS 41200  students. Seniors are responsible for the management tasks of planning and organizing their team project activity. They are expected to contribute expertise from their discipline to the design of the team’s projects throughout most of the design process phases of problem identification, specification development, design, production, and deployment. Seniors will also meet with the customer and mentor the first year, sophomores and juniors. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 41200 . Typically offered Fall, Spring.
  
  • EPCS 41200 - Senior Design Participation In EPICS


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of EPICS courses. Seniors using EPCS 41200 to fulfill capstone or design requirements where approved for their major may be required to satisfy additional course requirements specified by their degree program. EPCS 41200 is offered for 2 credit. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 41100  and EPCS 41200 students. Seniors are responsible for the management tasks of planning and organizing their team project activity. They are expected to contribute expertise from their discipline to the design of the team’s projects throughout most of the design process phases of problem identification, specification development, design, production, and deployment. Seniors will also meet with the customer and mentor the first year, sophomores and juniors. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 41100 . Typically offered Fall, Spring.
  
  • EPCS 49000 - EPICS Special Topics Course


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Projects of special interest outside the scope and structure of the standard EPICS courses. Interested students seek a faculty advisor in their area of special interest and together prepare a brief description of the work to be undertaken. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

English

  
  • ENGL 10100 - English Composition I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The first half of the basic composition sequence. Extensive practice in writing clear and effective prose. Instruction in logic, structure, and style. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 10200 - English Composition II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The second half of the basic composition sequence. Extensive practice in writing clear and effective prose. Instruction in logic, structure, and style. Students who receive an “A” in ENGL 10100  may, with their school’s approval, substitute an elective course in English for ENGL 10200. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 10300 - Comprehensive First Year Composition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An accelerated composition course that substitutes for ENGL 10100  for students showing superior writing ability. Students who pass ENGL 103 are excused from ENGL 10200 ; those who fail ENGL 103 must take ENGL 10100 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 10500 - English Composition II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The secon half of the basic composition sequence. Extensive practice in writing clear and effective prose. Instruction in logic, structure, and style. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition


    Credit Hours: 4.00. Extensive practice in writing clear and effective prose. Instruction in organization, audience, style, and research-based writing. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. NOTE: Concurrent registration is not permitted for ENGL 10600 and COM 11400 .
  
  • ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An accelerated composition course that substitutes for ENGL 10600  for students showing superior writing ability. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 20300 - Introduction To Research For Professional Writers


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to research sources and methods useful for professional writers, including electronic resources. Focus on collecting print and online information, interviewing, surveying, and conducting observations; and on evaluating, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting research. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 20400 - Special Topics In Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course in writing, with the special topic selected by the instructor. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 20500 - Introduction To Creative Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Practice in writing short prose narratives and poetry for students who have finished composition and wish to develop their skills further. Workshop criticism. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CTL:IEL 1230 Introduction To Creative Writing
  
  • ENGL 22700 - Elements Of Linguistics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A summary of what is known about human language, its structure, its universality, and its diversity; language in its social setting; language in relation to other aspects of human inquiry and knowledge. Credit will not be awarded for both ENGL 22700 and LC 26100 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. CTL:IEL 1260 Introduction To Linguistics
  
  • ENGL 23000 - Great Narrative Works


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of great narratives from Homer’s Odyssey to the present, considering works from a variety of cultures and time periods in order to develop an understanding of their ideas, structures, styles, and cultural values. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 23100 - Introduction To Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of great works of various types to develop an understanding of their ideas, structures, and styles. Includes poetry, drama, biography, essay, and prose fiction. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. CTL:IEL 1270 Appreciation Of Literature
  
  • ENGL 23200 - Thematic Studies In Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of a particular theme, such as the hero, death, or the city, and the techniques by which it is treated in various literary works, usually in more than one genre. Current offerings available from counselors. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 23400 - Ecological Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Literary study of nature writing; writing from the natural sciences; and canonical poetry, fiction, and essays through an ecological lens. Introduces students to ecocritical thought and environmental literary history. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 23500 - Introduction To Drama


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of plays of various styles from significant periods of dramatic literature aimed at enhancing the understanding and appreciation of the form and content of all drama. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 23700 - Introduction To Poetry


    Credit Hours: 3.00. How to read poetry intelligently; function of diction, metrics, figures of speech, and theme; place of a poem in history, uses of poetry. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CTL:IEL 1271 Introduction To Poetry
  
  • ENGL 23800 - Introduction To Fiction


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of short stories and seven novels to promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the range, values, techniques, and meanings of modern fiction. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 23900 - Introduction To Biography


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of modern biographies and influential earlier texts. Special attention given to the history of biographical writing and to the study of biography as a recognizable form of writing and a means of understanding and ordering human experience. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 24000 - Survey Of The British Literature: From The Beginnings Through The Neoclassical Period


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys authors, periods, and themes of British literature from the beginnings through the eighteenth century. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 24100 - Survey Of The British Literature: From The Rise Of Romanticism To The Modern Period


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys authors, periods, and themes of British literature from the later eighteenth century through the modern period. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 25000 - Great American Books


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected works, such as The Scarlett Letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Walden, Huckleberry Finn, Absalom, Absalom!, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and Beloved, closely read and discussed as to their literary qualities and their cultural significance. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 25700 - Literature Of Black America


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of literature written by black American authors. Close attention is paid to the history of black literature and to the historical context in which it was written, as well as to the texts of major works by black writers. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 25800 - Nobel Prize Winners In Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of global issues, especially ethics, economics, education, media and environment, through a close reading of Nobel Prize winners in literature. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 26200 - Greek And Roman Classics In Translation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of important works of Greek and Roman literature, their intrinsic literary values, and their influence on later European and American writing and thinking. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 26400 - The Bible As Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of selections from the Old and New Testaments as examples of Hebrew and early Christian literature. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 26600 - World Literature: From The Beginnings To 1700 A.D.


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (CMPL 26600 ) World literature in translation. A comparative and chronological survey of the masterpieces of Eastern and Western literature. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CCN: IEL 1250 World Literature 1
  
  • ENGL 26700 - World Literature: From 1700 A.D. To The Present


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (CMPL 26700 ) World literature in translation. A comparative and chronological survey of the masterpieces of Eastern and Western literature. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. CCN: IEL 1251 World Literature 2
 

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