2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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Elementary Education

  
  • EED 633 - Teaching Geometry and Measurement, K-6

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: MTD 633 
    Double Numbered with: EED 433
    Geometry and measurement concepts and processes as foundational components of the elementary mathematics curriculum. Development of instructional methods and curriculum. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • EED 636 - Assessing Mathematical Understanding

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MTD 636 , SED 636 
    Background and perspectives on assessment and mathematical understanding. Methods of assessment and issues of implementation. Development of assessment plan.
  
  • EED 640 - Participation in the Professional Development School

    0-1 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: SED 640 
    Individual involvement in research, discussion and decision making with teachers, university faculty, and colleagues who are members of the Professional Development School Cadres and Academies.
    Repeatable 7 time(s), 8 credits maximum
  
  • EED 643 - The Parent/Caregiver-Professional Partnership

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Aproaches to developing strong relationships with parents and caregivers to enhance the young child’s development and strengthen the parent-child bond. Brazelton Touchpoints? Approach and other skills for collaborating with families regarding typical and atypical development.
  
  • EED 654 - Teaching Mathematics, Science and Social Studies in Early Childhood Special Education

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Basic concepts and strategies for teaching mathematics, science, and social studies to preschool and primary age (K-2) children.
  
  • EED 655 - Methods and Materials in Early Childhood Education

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Curriculum and instruction based on knowledge of child growth and development in ages 3 throug 8. Teaching children with and without handicaps. Resources and techniques.

Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises

  
  • EEE 620 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The process of entrepreneurship in start-up and established corporate environments. Approaches entrepreneurship as both attitudinal and behavioral, with applicability in a variety of contexts. Global dimensions of entrepreneurship are investigated as they relate to the independent and corporate entrepreneur. Cannot be repeated for credit. Must be admitted to a graduate program at SU.
  
  • EEE 621 - Corporate Entrepreneurship

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: EEE 420
    Examination of the application of entrepreneurship concepts and behaviors within established organizations, assessment of factors contributing to a company’s entrepreneurial orientation, and identification of ways to foster higher levels of entrepreneurship within firms.
  
  • EEE 625 - Venture Capital

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Financing issues as they relate to entrepreneurial ventures. The financial needs and financing strategies of growth-oriented ventures are highlighted. Stages of entrepreneurial finance are investigated. The roles of valuation, deal structures and negotiation tactics are explored.
  
  • EEE 630 - Entrepreneurship in Engineering and Science

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship, focusing on the commercialization of new technologies into start-up ventures. Types of technologies, technology life cycles, windows of opportunity, the market chasm, and intellectual property as these issues apply to venture creation by those with technical backgrounds.
  
  • EEE 640 - Social Entrepreneurship

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examination of the opportunities and challenges associated with using entrepreneurial solutions to address social problems. Course integrates management, evaluation, and analytical techniques to support the launch, operation, and expansion of social purpose organizations.
  
  • EEE 643 - Emerging Enterprise Consulting

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Students work in consulting teams to assist small local firms and entrepreneurs. Problems are isolated and solutions are then developed and implemented. A team consultant’s report is then prepared.
  
  • EEE 644 - Dilemmas and Debates in Entrepreneurship

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: EEE 444
    Designed around a series of critical dilemmas confronted by entrepreneurs when creating and growing a venture. Entrepreneurs explore with students the issues surrounding these dilemmas in a structured format. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • EEE 652 - International Entrepreneurship

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: INB 652 
    Double Numbered with: EEE 452
    A fusion of two areas of study: global business and entrepreneurship. The theories, concepts, and tools of international business are discussed from the perspective of the entrepreneur. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • EEE 664 - Entrepreneurial Empowerment

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Double Numbered with: EEE 464
    Hands-on course that introduces students to the South African context, township entrepreneurship, the basics of the consulting process, the Supporting Emerging Enterprise consulting model, and approaches to managerial issues in emerging enterprises. Offered in South Africa only.
  
  • EEE 670 - Experience Credit

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  
  • EEE 682 - Entrepreneurial Marketing

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The interface between entrepreneurship and marketing, including both the role of entrepreneurial thinking in marketing practice, and the marketing issues in new ventures. Exploration of emerging marketing forms, including guerilla, viral, and buzz marketing.
    PREREQ: MBC 636 
  
  • EEE 900 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
  
  • EEE 930 - Theoretical Foundations of Entrepreneurship

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    History, direction, and substance of developments in the field of entrepreneurship. Advanced topics related to theoretical foundations and the advancement of research within the field. Admission to doctoral program in the School of Management is required.

Engineering

  
  • EGR 670 - Professional Practice

    0 credit(s) Every semester
    Full-time practical engineering work experience with a participating employer, which is related to the student’s field of study, and is of a semester’s duration.
    Repeatable
  
  • EGR 770 - Professional Training

    0 credit(s) Every semester
    Full time practical work experience, with a participating employer, which is related to the student’s field of study and is of a semester’s duration.
    Repeatable

Electrical Engineering

  
  • ELE 512 - Linear Control Systems

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    System representation, time and frequency domain analysis of linear systems, stability. Effects of feedback on system Performance. Controller design using root locus, Nyquist, and Bode methods.
    PREREQ: ELE 351
  
  • ELE 514 - Electric Power Systems

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Equivalent circuits for the components of a power system. Analysis of balanced and unbalanced polyphase systems. Symmetrical components and sequence networks. Fault studies, load-flow analysis, stability considerations.
  
  • ELE 516 - Control of Robots

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CIS 543 
    Kinematics, dynamics, and control of mobile and/or manipulator robots. Path planning, actuators, sensors, human/machine interface. Two hours lecture and two hours laboratory weekly. Design project.
  
  • ELE 524 - Introduction to Applied Optics

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Geometrical optics, two-dimensional Fourier transforms and wave propagation, optical fibers, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, interferometry, imaging and Fourier transforming properties of lenses, image processing, complex filters and holography. Includes laboratory: design and experiment.
    PREREQ: ELE 324
  
  • ELE 525 - Elctromgetc Compatability

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Introduction to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). EMC requirements for electron systems. Nonideal behavior of circuit components. Signal spectra. Maxwell equations. Antenna theory. Control of radiated and conducted emissions.
    PREREQ: ELE 324 AND 351
  
  • ELE 530 - Electric Power Generation and Distribution

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: NUC 530 
    Fundamental principles governing the electro-mechanical power conversion; transformer; generators; introduction to power distribution systems; reliability and safety issues related to power generation and delivery, particularly in nuclear power plants.3
  
  • ELE 541 - Integrated Circuits

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Principles of design and processing of monolithic and hybrid integrated circuits. Current technology and its scientific basis.
  
  • ELE 551 - Communication Systems

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Communications systems. Amplitude modulation techniques. Angle modulation or frequency modulation. Sampling and quantization of analog signals. Basic digital modulation techniques. Introduction to noise. System modeling evaluating performance using industry tools.
    PREREQ: ELE 351
  
  • ELE 553 - Communications Engineering

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Integration of networks and electronic devices into apparatus and systems for communications. Transmitters, receivers, antennas, modulation, noise, propagation.
  
  • ELE 591 - Special Problems in Electrical Engineering

    1-4 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Students work on special projects. Instructors present new or special material.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 599 - Electrical Engineering Laboratory IV

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Comprehensive projects selected from the student’s area of interest. One hour of consultation and six hours of laboratory a week. May be repeat for credit.
    PREREQ: ELE 391
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 601 - Applications of Complex Function Theory

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Theory of functions of a complex variable. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Applications to engineering problems.
  
  • ELE 602 - Boundary Value Problems I

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Partial differential equations in engineering problems. Method of separation of variable. Sturm-Liouville systems and orthogonal functions. Series and integral representations.
  
  • ELE 603 - Functional Methods of Engineering Analysis

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Linear functional systems from the viewpoint of vector spaces. Function spaces, differential and integral operators, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, Jordan forms, functions of a matrix and state-space solutions.
  
  • ELE 606 - Probabilistic Methods in Electrical Engineering

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Set-theoretic basis of probability. Probabilistic modeling of practical problems. Random variables in one and several dimensions. Functions of random variables. Moments, characteristic functions, correlation, sampling. Poisson process. Laws of large numbers and central limit theorem.
  
  • ELE 612 - Modern Control Systems

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    State space representation. State variable feedback design. Controllability, observability, and identifiability. Optimum design and the matrix Ricatti equation.
  
  • ELE 617 - Power Electronics

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: ELE 417
    Semiconductor devices, switching power poles, switching analysis, topology selection and design, single phase and three phase rectifiers, inverters, and converters, feedback controllers and power supply. Additional work required of graduate students. First offered in Summer 2015
  
  • ELE 618 - Sensors & Measurements

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: ELE 418
    Sensor signal domains, sensor classifications and architecture, sensor types, data acquisition methods, signal conversion methods, standards, introduction to metrology, measurement result processing, synchrophasor technology and applications. Additional work required of graduate students. First offered in Summer 2015
  
  • ELE 621 - Electromagnetic Fields

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Development of electromagnetic theory from the basic postulates leading to Maxwell’s equations in differential and integral forms. Solution to static, quasi-static, and wave-propagation problems.
  
  • ELE 623 - Microwave Measurements

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Experimental illustration of fundamentals of microwave measurement: reflection and transmission measurements; characteristics of common microwave components. Manual and automatic network analyzers and their use. Spectrum analysis techniques.
  
  • ELE 625 - High Frequency Transmission Systems

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Transmission line parameters, transients on lossless lines, time-harmonic excitation of lines, Smith chart, impedance matching techniques, matrix representation of multiport devices, coupled transmission systems, even and odd mode theory, circuit theory of rectangular waveguides.
  
  • ELE 633 - Discrete and Integrated Analog Electronic Circuits

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Linear and non-linear circuit models of electronic devices as derived from structural and empirical parameters. Anatomy and applications of integrated operational amplifiers; active filters, multipliers, comparators, voltage-controlled oscillators, wave-form generators, phase-locked loops.
  
  • ELE 635 - Digital Electronic Circuits

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Digital device and circuit technology and trends. Nanoscale semiconductor devices and memories as well as magnetic and optical memories. Semiconductor industry road map. Device fabrication techniques. DA and AD conversion circuits.
  
  • ELE 642 - Introduction to Solid-State Physics

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: PHY 576 
    Elementary aspects of physics of solids; crystal lattices and diffraction, phonons and thermal properties in crystals, elementary band theory, and semi-conductor physics.
    PREREQ: PHY 567 
  
  • ELE 643 - Theory of Semiconductor Devices

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Fundamental theory of semiconductor devices and their linear and nonlinear mathematical and circuit models. Frequency response and switching characteristics of discrete and integrated structures comprising both bipolar and field effect devices.
  
  • ELE 651 - Digital Communications

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Baseband data transmission. Advanced digital modulation techniques. Optimum receivers. Topics in information theory and coding.
    PREREQ: ELE 551 
  
  • ELE 658 - Data Networks: Design and Performance

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CSE 658 
    Data network design principles. Performance, modeling, and analysis of networks. Delay models. Multi-access communications. Routing and flow control algorithms. Familiarity with basics of data networks.
    PREREQ: CIS 321 OR MAT 521 
    COREQ: ELE 606 
  
  • ELE 659 - Digital Signal Processing I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Discrete time signals. Z-transform. Discrete Fourier transform. Fast Fourier transform. Finite impulse response filters. Infinite impulse response filters. Effects of finite word length.
  
  • ELE 664 - VLSI Design Methods

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CSE 664 
    MOS VLSI technologies. MOS and CMOS digital circuits. CMOS layout, design rules and simulation. Examples of combinational and sequential circuits. Dynamic logic. Regular structures: memories, PLAs. Individual design project required.
  
  • ELE 681 - Introduction to Photonic Engineering

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include: geometrical theory; optical diffraction theory; angular spectral propagation theory; Fresnel and Frauhofer integral solutions; gaussian beam theory; reflection and refraction; mathematics of polarization; lenses and lenslike media; and photons and atoms.
  
  • ELE 682 - Fiber Optic Communication

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include: 1) network structures; 2) links; 3) full nets; 4) measures of networks; 5) conductivity; 6) transfer rates; 7) present network constraints; 8) new demands on networks; 9) architectures and interconnections; 10) instrumentation for analysis; and 11) control, regulation, and standardization.
  
  • ELE 683 - Infrared Engineering

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include: 1) review of optical diffraction theory; 2) radiometry; 3) blackbody radiation theory; 4) IR sources; 5) atmospheric IR transmissions; 6) IR optics; 7) IR detectors and noise; 8) IR lasers; 9) passive systems; and 10) active, heterodyne IR radar systems.
  
  • ELE 685 - Photonic Devices

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include: 1) electro optic detectors; 2) photo diodes; 3) avalanche photo-diodes; 4) multi-quantum well detectors; 5) photo-multipliers; 6) micro-channel plates; 7) multi-quantum well modulators; 8) Mach-Zhender modulators and switches; 9) couplers; 10) wavelength division couplers; and 11) grating devices.
  
  • ELE 691 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

    1-4 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics vary and represent current interests in electrical engineering.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 702 - Boundary Value Problems II

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Continuation of ELE 602. Green’s functions, integral equations, transform methods, and approximation techniques.
    PREREQ: ELE 601 , ELE 602 
  
  • ELE 703 - Special Topics in Engineering Mathematics

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Advanced techniques in the analytical solution of engineering problems. Topics may include linear vector spaces, advanced applications of the theory of functions of complex variables, transform methods, variational and perturbation techniques.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 704 - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Neural networks and fuzzy logic to develop algorithms and computer programs for engineering and other applications, such as financial, medical, and sociological. Use non-parametric statistics to measure performance.
    PREREQ: ELE 603 
  
  • ELE 712 - Optimal Control Systems

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Performance criteria and static optimization. The Maximum Principle. Optimum regulator problem. Dynamic programming. Gradient methods for dynamic optimization.
    PREREQ: ELE 612 
  
  • ELE 715 - Robot Manipulators I

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MEE 715 
    Robot manipulators and their defining equations. Transformations, kinematics, dynamics, and motion trajectories. Control considerations, compliance and organization of programming. Includes a hardware and software laboratory.
    PREREQ: ELE 612 
  
  • ELE 721 - Antennas and Antenna Systems

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Characteristics of electromagnetic radiators. Equivalent circuits of antenna elements: dipoles, loops, helices, horns, and other radiators. Phased arrays. Pattern synthesis. Numerical methods. Broadband antennas. Measurement techniques.
    PREREQ: ELE 621 
  
  • ELE 722 - Microwave Filters

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    General filter structures at microwave frequencies. Prototype filters obtained by network synthesis method. Image parameters. Richards’ transformation. Kuroda Identities. Coupled-line equivalent circuits. Design, simulate, build, and test a microwave filter.
    PREREQ: ELE 623 
  
  • ELE 723 - Microwave Transistor Amplifiers

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Two-port network representations, matching networks, power gain equations, stability conditions, simultaneous conjugate match, constant gain, VSWR and noise figure circles, balanced and feedback amplifiers. Design, simulate, build, and test a microwave amplifier.
    PREREQ: ELE 623 
  
  • ELE 724 - Microwave Oscillators

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Matching networks, S-parameters. Oscillation conditions, One-port and two-port Negative-resistance Oscillators, oscillator design using large-signal measurements, DROs, YIG Oscillators, VCOs, and Phase noise. Design, simulate, build, and test a microwave oscillator.
    PREREQ: ELE 623 
  
  • ELE 725 - Electromagnetic Engineering I

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Time varying electromagnetic fields. Field theorems, propagation and reflection of waves, wave guides, resonators, radiation, and diffraction. Applications to antenna theory.
    PREREQ: ELE 621 
  
  • ELE 726 - Computational Methods of Field Theory

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Functional analysis, method of moments, and variational methods. Applications to electrostatics, magnetostatics, two-dimensional electromagnetic fields, antennas, scatterers, and apertures.
    PREREQ: ELE 621 
  
  • ELE 728 - Planar Microwave Antennas

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Review of the fundamentals of antennas. Theory of microstrip antennas, dual and circularly polarized antennas, feeding techniques, mutual coupling, arrays of patches, effect of substrate and the ground plane. Design, simulate, build, and test a planar microwave antenna.
  
  • ELE 742 - Electronic Materials

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Electronic properties of dielectric, magnetic, and superconducting materials. Application to devices.
    PREREQ: ELE 621 
  
  • ELE 751 - Wireless Communications

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Cellular communication systems. Mobile radio propagation. Modulation techniques. Equalization, diversity, and channel coding. Link budget analysis. Speech coding. Multiple access techniques. Spread spectrum systems and CDMA. Wireless systems and networking.
    PREREQ: ELE 606  AND ELE 651 
  
  • ELE 752 - Coding Theory and Its Applications

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Algebra or error correcting codes, finite fields, cyclic codes, BCH codes, Convolutional codes, Viterbi and stack algorithms. Applications to communications and data storage systems.
    PREREQ: ELE 606  AND ELE 651 
  
  • ELE 753 - Radar Engineering

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Radar system requirements and principles of radar detection and parameter estimation. Factors affecting radar range, signal detection in noise, decision criteria. Target identification techniques. Radar antenna characteristics. Time-space-frequency-phase interrelationships.
    PREREQ: ELE 651 
  
  • ELE 755 - Digital Image Processing

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Two-dimensional signals and systems. Image formation and perception. Representation, coding, filtering, restoration, and enhancement. Feature extraction and scene analysis. Introduction to computer vision.
    PREREQ: ELE 601 , ELE 659 
  
  • ELE 756 - Random Processes

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Stationary and nonstationary random processes. Gaussian process. Narrow-band representation. Response of linear filters and nonlinear detectors to random processes. Applications to communication problems.
    PREREQ: ELE 606 
    COREQ: ELE 651 
  
  • ELE 757 - Information Theory

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Basic information measures. Source coding. Capacity of discrete channels. Coding theorem for noisy channel. Concepts of error correction codes. Extensions to continuous and wave form channels.
    PREREQ: ELE 606 
    COREQ: ELE 651 
  
  • ELE 758 - Selected Topics in Data Networks

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics vary each term. Typical topics: Gigabit networks, network security, ATM networks, and personal communication networks.
    PREREQ: ELE 658 
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 759 - Digital Signal Process II

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Spectral analysis with Fast Fourier transform. Advanced filtering algorithms. Multichannel signal processing. Selected topics on DSP applications.
    PREREQ: ELE 659 
  
  • ELE 781 - Dielectric Waveguides and Fibers

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include: 1) propagating and radiating modes in dielectric waveguides; 2) circular waveguides-fibers; 3) modes in fibers; 4) single mode fibers; 5) Raleigh and Raman effects and losses in fibers; and 6) practical experiments in laboratory.
    PREREQ: ELE 621  OR ELE 681 
  
  • ELE 784 - Optical Information Processng

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Fourier transforming and imaging properties of lenses. 2-D linear systems. Frequency analysis. 2-D information processing, synthetic aperture radar, planar and volume holography and applications. Bragg diffraction, optical memory and photonics in computing systems.
    PREREQ: ELE 681 
  
  • ELE 786 - Laser Propagation and Modulation

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include: 1) wave propagation in anisotropic media, 2) index modulation tensors, 3) bifringent toptical systems, 4) periodic media, 5) acousto-optics, 6) electro-optic effects, 7) second harmonic generation, 8) phase conjugation, and 9) nonlinear optics.
    PREREQ: ELE 681 
  
  • ELE 787 - Lasers

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Review of quantum mechanics, review of light propagation theory. Interaction of light and atoms and electrons. Rate equations. Mode locking and Q. switching, gas, solid-state and semiconductor lasers, laboratory experiments/demonstrations.
    PREREQ: ELE 681 
  
  • ELE 791 - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering

    1-4 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics vary and represent current interests in electrical engineering. Each offering has a graduate-level prerequisite.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 821 - Special Topics in Electromagnetic Theory

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Advanced and current topics in electromagnetic theory. Topics vary each term. May include: array theory, electromagnetic compatibility, numerical methods, propagation and radiation in ionized media, moving media, and random media.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 827 - Electromagnetic Engineering II

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Modern methods for solving electromagnetic field problems. Equivalence theorems, Green’s function techniques, integral equations, variational solutions and transform solutions.
    PREREQ: ELE 725 
  
  • ELE 847 - Semiconductor Optoelectronics

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Optical and optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. Applications to lasers, lamps, photodetectors, and solar cells.
    PREREQ: ELE 643 
  
  • ELE 849 - Special Topics in Solid State

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Modern methods for analyzing the quantum normal modes of materials in the solid state and their technological applications. May be repeated for credit with instructor’s consent.
  
  • ELE 851 - Detection and Estimation Theory

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Hypothesis testing and parameter estimation. Series representation of random processes. Detection and estimation of known signals in white and nonwhite Gaussian noise. Detection of signals with unwanted parameters.
    PREREQ: ELE 756 
  
  • ELE 852 - Kalman Filters

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Models for linear systems and stochastic processes, estimation techniques, Kalman filter derivation using innovations and Bayesian approaches, Kalman filter for Gauss-Markov model, Kalman filter design methodology, extended Kalman filters.
    PREREQ: ELE 603 , ELE 756 
  
  • ELE 853 - Advanced Topics in Communication Theory

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Typical topics: spread-spectrum techniques, synchronous communications, signal theory, spectral estimation, radar and sonar applications of detection and estimation theory.
    PREREQ: ELE 756 
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 890 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by permission of supervising instructor or instructor and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 995 - Engineer Degree Project

    0-6 credit(s)
    Independent investigation or original research on an engineering problem under supervision of member of the faculty. Credit to be arranged.
    Repeatable, 6 credits maximum
  
  • ELE 996 - Master’s Project

    0 credit(s) Every semester
    An engineering investigation or the analysis and evaluation of a journal paper. A written report is required in accordance with current departmental guidelines. Required of all students electing the nonthesis option for the master’s degree.
    Repeatable
  
  • ELE 997 - Masters Thesis

    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Independent investigation on a topic of interest under supervision of a member of the Graduate School faculty. Credits to be arranged.
    Repeatable, 6 credits maximum
  
  • ELE 999 - Dissertation for the PhD

    1-15 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Research work on a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of a member of the Graduate School faculty. Credits to be arranged.
    Repeatable, 30 credits maximum

English Language Learners

  
  • ELL 615 - Linguistics for Teachers of English Language Learners

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Classroom-oriented applications of linguistic concepts for effective teaching of English language learners, including: Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and cognitive-science principles included pertaining to teaching and learning of second languages.
  
  • ELL 625 - Methods of Teaching Literacy to English Language Learners

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Planning and executing activities for standards-based classroom instruction and assessment that integrates English language skills, developing classroom resources and standards-based assessment measures for students learning English as another language, includes 25-hour field experience.
  
  • ELL 635 - Methods of Literacy Across the Curriculum for English Language Learners

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Developing strategies, techniques and materials for teaching speaking, reading, writing, and communication skills in English to speakers of other languages through content areas, planning for, managing and implementing standards-based content instruction for English language learners’ understanding of content area, includes 25-hour field experience.
  
  • ELL 645 - Issues in Educating English Language Learners

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Integration and synthesis of the concepts, principles, trends in research methods and issues in language and literacy education for English language learners; to include research, practice, and policy concerns.
  
  • ELL 655 - Teaching English Language Learners Practicum and Capstone Seminar

    6 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Supervised field placement in two separate settings, Pre K-6 and Grades 7-12 classrooms, during which students provide instruction to English language learners and assume other roles of an ESL teacher. This course can be taken only after successful completion of all other courses in the program.

Environmental Arts

  
  • ENA 627 - Field Study in Clothing and Textiles: Design, Construction, and Distribution

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Study in selected countries of specialized areas in design, construction, and distribution of clothing and textiles. Aspects of applicable cultural history. Lectures by authorities in each area visited.
  
  • ENA 628 - Principles of Clothing Design: Draping and Flat Pattern

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Special problems in draping and flat patterns.
 

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