2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    May 17, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


Please note, when searching courses by Code or Number, an asterisk (*) can be used to return mass results. For instance a Code search of 6* can be entered, returning all 600-level courses.

 

Mathematics

  
  • MAT 581 - Numerical Methods with Programming

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Approximation methods for solution of nonlinear equations. Interpolation problems. Numerical integration. Solution of ordinary differential equations. Error analysis and writing computer programs. Primarily for mathematics and engineering students.
    PREREQ: MAT 397 OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 593 - History of Mathematics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Mathematical concepts in their historical perspective. Character and contributions of the great mathematicians and relation of mathematics to other sciences.
    PREREQ: (MAT 397 AND AT LEAST TWO 500-LEVEL MATH COURSES) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 599 - Senior Seminar in Mathematics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Topic Chosen by the instructor. Permission of department.
  
  • MAT 601 - Fundamentals of Analysis I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Real and complex numbers, elementary point set topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation.
    PREREQ: MAT 512  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 602 - Fundamentals of Analysis II

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Riemann-Stieltjes integration, functional sequences and series, functions of several variables.
    PREREQ: (MAT 601  AND MAT 631 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 631 - Introduction to Algebra I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Linear algebra, linear transformations, eigenvectors, diagonalization, inner product spaces, groups, quotient groups, group actions, Sylow theorems, finitely generated Abelian groups, rings, unique factorization domains, finitely generated modules over principal ideal domains, fields, Galois theory.
    PREREQ: (MAT 531  AND MAT 534 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 632 - Introduction to Algebra II

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Continuation of MAT 631 .
    PREREQ: MAT 631  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 645 - Graph Theory

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CIS 645 
    Fundamentals of graph theory and special topics including networks, matching, connectivity, planarity, and automorphism groups.
    PREREQ: MAT 531  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 646 - Enumeration, Designs, and Matroids

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CIS 646 
    Generating functions, Polya enumeration, set systems, design parameters, finite projective planes, matroids.
    PREREQ: MAT 531  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 651 - Probability and Statistics I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Calculus of probabilities, univariate and multivariate random variables and distribution functions, expectations and variance, conditional distributions, transformations of random variables, characteristic functions, basic limit theorems including Borel-Cantelli, Khinchin, Lindeberg- Feller.
    PREREQ: MAT 521  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 652 - Probability and Statistics II

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Point and interval estimation, consistent, efficient, and sufficient statistics, Rao-Blackwellization, hypothesis testing, brief treatment of ranking and selection, decision theory.
    PREREQ: MAT 651  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 653 - Statistical Simulation and Nonstandard Data Analysis

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Simulation and Monte Carlo techniques appropriate where statistical theory does not yet provide a solution. Design and analysis of experiments under nonstandard conditions.
    PREREQ: MAT 651  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 654 - Linear Models

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Point estimation by least squares, regression, curve fitting, testing a linear hypothesis, analysis of variance, simple experimental designs.
    PREREQ: (MAT 525  AND MAT 531 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 661 - Introduction to Point Set Topology

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Topological spaces, continuous mappings and homeomorphisms, space-filling curves, metric spaces, Tietze extension theorem, separation axioms, compact spaces. Arcwise connectedness, connectedness, product and quotient spaces, and the fundamental group.
    PREREQ: MAT 601  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 682 - Numerical Linear Algebra

    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Solution of linear equations. Norms and conditioning. Calculation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Least squares approximation and orthogonal functions. Error analysis and writing computer programs.
    PREREQ: MAT 511  AND MAT 531 
  
  • MAT 683 - Methods of Numerical Analysis I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Numerical methods of interpolation, approximation, integration, and differentiation, solutions of nonlinear equations.
    PREREQ: MAT 512  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 684 - Methods of Numerical Analysis II

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Analysis of numerical methods for approximating solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations.
    PREREQ: MAT 683  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 687 - Introduction to Applied Mathematics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Mathematical model building, dimensional analysis, scaling, and perturbation theory. Models selected from the natural and social sciences according to the interests of instructor and students. Examples are: planetary orbits, fluid flow, isomers in organic chemistry, biological competition, biochemical kinetics, and physiological flow.
  
  • MAT 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 701 - Real Variables I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Measure and integration, including basic theorems on integration and differentiation of sequences of functions; modes of convergence, product measures.
    PREREQ: MAT 602  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 702 - Functional Analysis I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Norms, seminorms, and inner products on linear spaces. Standard theorems on linear functionals and operations. Dual spaces and weak topologies, classical spaces and their duals. Applications.
    PREREQ: (MAT 631  AND MAT 661  AND MAT 701 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 704 - Differential Equations

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Existence theorems for ordinary differential equations, linear differential equations and systems, Euler variational equations, typical Cauchy and boundary-value problems for partial differential equations.
    PREREQ: (MAT 632  AND MAT 701 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 705 - Calculus on Manifolds

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Differentiable manifolds, differential forms, exterior calculus, integration over manifolds, Stokes’ Theorem, other selected topics.
    PREREQ: (MAT 602  AND MAT 632  AND MAT 661 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 712 - Functions of a Complex Variable I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Cauchy theory, power series, analytic continuation, entire functions, the residue theorem, contour integration, maximum modulus theorem and applications, conformal representation. Dirichlet series, special functions.
    PREREQ: MAT 602  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 721 - Probability I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Measure and integration. Random variables, their distributions and transforms. Modes of convergence. Classical limit laws. Markov chains.
    PREREQ: (MAT 602  AND MAT 701 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 722 - Probability II

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Conditional expectation. Martingales. Brownian motion. Ergodic theorem. Random walks.
    PREREQ: MAT 721  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 731 - Rings and Modules

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Submodules, factor modules, chain conditions, Hilbert basis theorem, division rings, Schur’s lemma, Jacobson density theorem, semi-simple modules, socles, Jacobson radical, semi primitive rings, Artin-Wedderburn theorem, integral extensions, completions, localization.
    PREREQ: (MAT 631  AND MAT 632 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 732 - Homological Algebra

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Projective and injective resolutions, Tor and Ext, flatness, homology, derived categories, spectral sequences.
    PREREQ: MAT 731  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 733 - Commutative Algebra

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Localization, primary decomposition, and dimension theory; Nullstellensatz; Artin-Rees lemma and completion; integral and flat extensions; Koszul complex, Cohen-Macaulay and regular rings.
    PREREQ: MAT 731 
  
  • MAT 737 - Representations of Groups and Algebras

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The course covers representations of finite groups and finite-dimensional algebras. Topics will come from: ordinary and modular representations of finite groups, Auslander-Reiten theory, representations of quivers, Koszul algebras, Hopf algebras and Frobenius algebras.
    PREREQ: MAT 731 
  
  • MAT 738 - Introduction to Algebraic Geometry

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The study of the zeros of polynomials. Classical algebraic varieties in affine and projective space, followed by introduction to modern theory of sheaves, schemes, and cohomology.
    PREREQ: MAT 632  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 750 - Statistical Consulting

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: STT 750 
    Experience in working with real data taken from current projects in the statistical laboratory and from published papers.
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 752 - Statistical Ranking, Selection, and Multiple Comparisons

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Statistical selection of the best category or population. Preference-zone and subset formulations. Multivariate preferences and populations. Applications. Recent developments, including Multiple Comparisons with the Best (MCB) and the Heteroscedastic Method (HM).
    PREREQ: MAT 652  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 753 - Decision Theory

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Minimax theorems, completeness of the class of Bayes procedures. Invariance. Criteria for admissibility.
    PREREQ: MAT 525  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 754 - Sequential Analysis

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    General sequential decision problems, sequential probability ratio test, sequential test among three hypotheses, sequential estimation, optimal stopping, Wald’s identity. Generalized SPRT’s, Cox’s theorem, sequential regression, functional equations, dynamic programming, sequential choice of experiments.
    PREREQ: MAT 525  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 755 - Multivariate Statistical Analysis

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Multivariate normal distribution, conditional densities, partial correlation, multiple correlation, regression coefficients, maximum likelihood estimates, Hotelling’s statistic, Wishart distribution, tests of hypotheses, and linear discriminant functions.
    PREREQ: MAT 525  OR MAT 532  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 761 - Introduction to Algebraic topology

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Fundamental group covering spaces, chain complexes, simplicial or singular homology and cohomology theory, exact sequences, and the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms.
    PREREQ: (MAT 632  AND MAT 661 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 762 - Algebraic Topology

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Homology, cohomology ring, universal coefficient theorem, duality, homotopy, theory, selected topics.
    PREREQ: (MAT 632  AND MAT 761 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 771 - Differential Geometry

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Differential manifolds, tensor fields and mappings, differential forms and Stokes’s theorem, affine connections, exponential mapping, covariant differentiation, torsion and curvature tensors, Riemannian connections, complete Riemannian manifolds, other modern topics.
    PREREQ: (MAT 602  AND MAT 632  AND MAT 661 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 781 - Advanced Numerical Methods I

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Numerical methods of linear algebra. Numerical treatment of large linear systems. Matrix inversions and eigenvalue analysis. Boundary and eigenvalue problems for ordinary and partial differential equations. Laboratory.
    PREREQ: (MAT 632  AND MAT 684  AND MAT 704 ) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 782 - Advanced Numerical Methods II

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Continuation of MAT 781 .
    PREREQ: MAT 781  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 800 - Topics In Analysis

    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.
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 802 - Real Variables II

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Topics in real variables and measure theory, such as differentiation theory in euclidean and abstract spaces, generalized derivatives and integrals, ergodic theory, martingales, surface area.
    PREREQ: MAT 701  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 804 - Functional Analysis II

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Abstract integration, Radon-Nikodym theorem. Representation of set functions by integrals. Ergodic theorems. Duality. Weak topologies, convex sets, and extreme points. Elements of spectral theory.
    PREREQ: MAT 702  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 805 - Partial Differential Equations

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    First-order linear equations. Hamilton, Jacobi, and Lie transformations. Classifications of second-order linear equations. Boundary- and initial-value problems. Sturm-Liouville problems and connections with integral equations. Nonlinear equations.
  
  • MAT 807 - Integral Equations

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Classification and examples of regular integral equations. Fredholm’s theorems, Hilbert-Schmidt theory. Applications to differential equations. Nonlinear integral equations. Connections with general functional analysis.
    PREREQ: MAT 804  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 812 - Functions of a Complex Variable

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Continuation of MAT 712 
    PREREQ: MAT 602  OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  
  • MAT 820 - Topics in Probability

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 830 - Topics in Modern Algebra

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 850 - Topics in Statistics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Contents vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit with permission.
  
  • MAT 860 - Topics in Topology

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 880 - Topics in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 890 - Advanced Seminar

    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    For advanced graduate students and staff members; credit determined by extent of participation in the seminar.
    Repeatable
  
  • MAT 999 - Dissertation

    0-15 credit(s) Every semester
    Research work on a doctoral dissertation, under supervision of some member of the graduate staff. Credit depends on amount of time devoted to the work; course may be repeated up to a maximum of 30 credits.
    Repeatable 14 time(s), 30 credits maximum

Master of Business Core

  
  • MBC 600 - 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.
    Repeatable
  
  • MBC 601 - Economic Foundations of Business

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Business applications of selected economic tools such as supply and demand, production, costs, and the basic models of market structure. The use of these tools for managerial decision making.
  
  • MBC 602 - Economics for International Business

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The global business and economic environment and its implications for managerial decision making. Global markets, industrial structure in the global economy, multinationals, foreign direct investment, and international trade. Global risks and management.
    PREREQ: MBC 601 
  
  • MBC 603 - Creating Customer Value

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    How marketing managers develop an organization-wide customer orientation and create customer value through strategic planning, systematic analysis of the market environment, effective customer segmentation, target market selection, and product positioning.
  
  • MBC 604 - Managing the Marketing Mix

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Concepts and skills needed for developing and implementing the product, pricing, distribution, and communication strategies for goods and services. Focus on building sound, actionable, integrated marketing plans based upon target market and positioning strategies.
    PREREQ: MBC 603 
  
  • MBC 606 - Information Technology for Decision Support

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Information technology tools for decision support using spreadsheets and databases. Spreadsheet fundamentals, data extraction from databases, what-if analysis, scenario evaluation, and finding optimal solutions to problems.
  
  • MBC 607 - Understanding Financial Statements

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Financial statement information and related disclosures. Interpretation of financial information to assess and evaluate firm performance.
  
  • MBC 608 - Creating Financial Statements

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Financial accounting concepts and procedures to record business activities. Presentation of business activities in financial statements.
    PREREQ: MBC 607 
  
  • MBC 609 - Accounting for Managerial Decisions

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An understanding of the usefulness of the accounting information in helping managers with their decision making and decision influencing tasks.
    PREREQ: MBC 608 
  
  • MBC 610 - Opportunity Recognition and Ideation

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Focuses on four critical skill areas for contemporary M.B.A. students, including opportunity recognition: recognition, opportunity assessment, creative problem solving, and translation of creativity into bold business ideas.
  
  • MBC 616 - Operations Management

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Management of the operations function of an organization and its relationship to other functional areas and a firm’s strategy.
  
  • MBC 617 - Supply Chain Management

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The management of flows of resources both within and between organizations with the aim of achieving strategic advantages in terms of quality, price, choice, speed, and flexibility.
  
  • MBC 618 - Competitive Strategy

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Techniques and tools to analyze how competitive advantage is created and sustained, focusing on business-level strategy. Topics include industry and competitor analysis, firm resources and capabilities, competitive strategies, and competitive dynamics.
    PREREQ: MBC 607 
  
  • MBC 619 - Corporate Strategy

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Corporate-level strategy and analysis of the scope of a firm’s activities. Topics include vertical integration, alliances, global strategy, diversification, and managing the multibusiness firm.
    PREREQ: MBC 608  AND MBC 618 
  
  • MBC 627 - Financial Markets and Institutions

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The nature of the firm’s financial environment and the implications for financial management. Characteristics and functions of major financial institutions and markets. Debt markets, equity markets, interest rates, initial public offerings, private equity, and valuation of financial assets.
    PREREQ: MBC 601 , MBC 602  MBC 607 , MBC 608 , AND MBC 638 
  
  • MBC 628 - Fundamentals of Financial Management

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Major decisions facing financial managers. Emphasis on the firm’s investments decision and the tools used in its analysis. Market efficiency, risk-return analysis, valuation of real assets, and investing in risky assets.
    PREREQ: MBC 627 
  
  • MBC 629 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Management

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An analysis of the legal and ethical environments of business and how they influence managerial decision making and advance business objectives. The course uses cases and discussion to probe selected legal, public policy, and ethical issues affecting business.
  
  • MBC 630 - Behavior in Organizations

    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The course will cover the topics of motivation, leadership, individual differences, perception, job design, stress, and cultural diversity in the global economy. This course will address both the prescriptive and descriptive perspectives.
  
  • MBC 631 - Financial Accounting

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Impact of accounting information and accounting method choice on corporate decision making, reported results and financial evaluation through application of analysis techniques to published financial statements.
  
  • MBC 632 - Managerial Accounting

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Theory, design elements and application of cost management accounting to manage economic organizations. Focus on how accounting measures can be used to promote efficient resource allocation/consumption within the organization.
    PREREQ: MBC 631 
  
  • MBC 633 - Managerial Finance

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Language and tools of finance. Modern theory and practice of corporate finance. Enhances ability to evaluate firm’s financing, investment and dividend decisions as they relate to firm’s objectives.
    PREREQ: MBC 631 
  
  • MBC 634 - Introduction to Information Technology and E-commerce

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    How traditional and e-commerce enterprises use various information technologies. The focus is on why these ITs work and on the business, managerial, organizational, and technological issues surrounding their use.
  
  • MBC 635 - Operations and Supply Chain Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Management of the resources used to create and distribute goods and services with the aim of achieving strategic advantages in terms of quality, price, choice, speed, and flexibility.
  
  • MBC 636 - Marketing Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Developing an organization-wide marketing orientation and developing skills needed to make strategic and tactical decisions in marketing.
  
  • MBC 638 - Data Analysis and Decision Making

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Concepts, principles and methods to support scientific approach to managerial problem solving and process improvement. Basic statistical techniques, their appropriateness to situations and assumptions underlying their use.
  
  • MBC 639 - Leadership in Organizations

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Examines leadership on both a knowledge and skill basis. Leadership from a business perspective on three levels: individual, team, and organization.
  
  • MBC 642 - Strategic Human Resource Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Managing human capital to create competitive advantage. Topics include strategic reward systems, performance management, attracting and developing human assets, human resource architecture design, managing workforce heterogeneity, managing organizational conflict, and legal environment of employment.
  
  • MBC 643 - The Legal and Ethical Environments of Business

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Analysis of the legal and ethical environments of business and how they influence managerial decision making and further the objectives of the business. Discussion of cases that raise issues of law, public policy, and ethics.
  
  • MBC 645 - Strategic Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Strategy and its integrative role in management. Concepts, models, and skills for developing strategies to create and sustain competitive advantage in a dynamic and global environment. Topics include environmental analysis, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation.
  
  • MBC 647 - Global Entrepreneurial Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The utilization and integration of functional area knowledge to successfully plan and launch new ventures and concepts in start-up, corporate, and nonprofit contexts.
  
  • MBC 691 - Experiential Perspectives and Applications

    1.5-3 credit(s) Every semester
    A set of structured managerial experiences involving the application of managerial concepts, frameworks or theories; substantive engagement with professionals within for-profit and/or non-profit organizations; and specific deliverables at the completion of each experience.
    Repeatable 5 time(s), 9 credits maximum

Mechanical Engineering

  
  • MEE 524 - Microprocessors in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Introduction to the microprocessor and its various configurations used in controlling machine operations, data acquisition, etc. Project-oriented work involving program development in machine, assembly, and basic languages. Micro-computers used for off-line program development. Not open to electrical and computer engineering students.
  
  • MEE 571 - Computer Aided Design

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Use CAD software and hardware in the solution of mechanical engineering problems. Computer graphics, computer aided geometry (space curves, splines, patches) design, solid modeling, optimization and an introduction to finite element method.
    PREREQ: MAE 184 AND MAT 331
  
  • MEE 584 - Noise from Industrial Flow Systems

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Basic fluid mechanics and acoustics. Noise generation by fluid flows and their interaction with solid bodies. Types of noise sources. Analysis and control of such flow noise sources in manufacturing, transportation, propulsion, power generation, and industrial control systems.
    PREREQ: MAE 341
  
  • MEE 585 - Fuel & Energy Utilization

    3 credit(s)
  
  • MEE 637 - Mechanics of Heterogeneous Solids

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Effective elastic moduli of composite materials. Bounds on effective moduli. Classical analysis of laminated plates. Higher order laminated plate theory. Wave propagation. Inelastic and nonlinear effects.
  
  • MEE 685 - Principles of Turbomachines

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: AEE 685 , MAE 585 
    Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of turbomachines. Performance characteristics and analysis of axial and radial turbomachines. Cascade theory. Radial equilibrium equation. Meridional flow analysis. Three dimensional flow characteristics of turbomachines.
  
  • MEE 715 - Robot Manipulators I

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ELE 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.
  
  • MEE 725 - Advanced Engineering Dynamics

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Newton’s laws of motion. Motion of a particle; a rigid body. Work and energy. Theorem of virtual displacements. D’Alembert’s principle. Generalized coordinates. Lagrange’s equations. Hamilton’s principle. Small vibrations. Ballistics. Balancing. Gyroscopes.
  
  • MEE 757 - Heat Exchange Systems

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Heat exchange equipment and systems. Counterflow, parallel flow, and cross flow heat exchangers. Heat pipes and liquid coupled exchange systems. Periodic flow and rotary regenerators. Systems for heat recovery in buildings.
    PREREQ: MAE 655 
  
  • MEE 775 - Dynamics of Controls

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Continuation of MEE 725 . Analysis of mechanical and hydraulic control systems of linear and nonlinear characteristics. Stability criteria in systems subject to self-induced vibrations. Operational calculus and Laplace transforms for linear systems of one and two degrees of freedom. Multiple controller servomechanisms.
    PREREQ: MEE 725 
  
  • MEE 825 - Theory of Plasticity

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Basic behavior of materials and formulation of laws governing plastic flows. Different inelastic behaviors of metals. Yielding and the yielding loci. Strain hardening laws. Complete stress-strain relations. Total strain theory and incremental strain theory. Plastic potential. Boundary value problems. Variational principles. Plastic anistropy.
    PREREQ: MAE 721 
  
  • MEE 829 - Advanced Topics in Dynamics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics dealing with dynamics of rigid bodies, vibration and stability of linear systems.
    PREREQ: MEE 727
  
  • MEE 856 - Advanced Topics in Heat Transfer

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in heat transfer. Boiling, condensation, melting, ablation, rarified gas flow, liquid metals, cooling of electronic components.
    PREREQ: MAE 655 
  
  • MEE 859 - Advanced Topics in Thermodynamics

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in classical and statistical thermodynamics of interest to mechanical and aeronautical engineers.
    PREREQ: MAE 651 
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  
  • MEE 885 - Advanced Topics in Thermal Engineering

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in theory and design of equipment and plants for power generation, air conditioning, refrigeration, water purification, and other thermal engineering application.
    PREREQ: MAE 655 
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
 

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