Courses

    Same as ASEN 4216 and ECEN 5811. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.

    Teaches students to interpret commonly used financial reports in the construction engineering industry sector. Skills developed in this course will better prepare students to become competent consumers of financial information and influence future results the construction business. Models for financing public and private sector projects will also be explored. Recommended restriction, graduate standing or department consent required. Taught intermittently.

    Same as ASEN 4218. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
    Explores the impact of economic, geographical and social/cultural conditions on development outcomes through standalone course components taught by subject matter experts in region and in residency at ATLAS. Components may include, but are not limited to, development economics, environmental sustainability, public health, climate change, globalization and migration, religion, and gender as these broad themes relate to development. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ATLS 5210 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
    Examines fundamentals of mass transport with particular attention to microscopic balances in complex systems, such as those involving multiple components, chemical reaction, simultaneous heat and mass transport, and/or high mass flux. Department enforced prereq., undergraduate mass transfer and familiarity with vector and tensor calculus. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 5120 (minimum grade D-).
    Recommended prereqs., ASEN 3112 and 4012 or equivalent, or instructor consent required. Same as ASEN 4222. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.

    Same as ECEN 4224.

    Comprehensively studies quality and safety in the construction industry. Statistical techniques for quality assurance and control will be reviewed and applied. The course also extensively focuses on advanced safety management issues such as accident causation theory, economic modeling, safety risk quantification and analysis, design for safety, and emerging technologies. Skills developed in this course will prepare graduate students to be effective quality and safety managers or researchers.

    Provides an introduction to the methods and mathematics of advanced engineering analysis tailored to aerospace engineering applications. Topics include vector and tensor calculus, ordinary differential equations, and an introduction to the calculus of variations. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
    May repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Same as MCEN 4228. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students in College of Engineering and Applied Science or to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) or Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students.
    Studies design, analysis, and implementation of computer graphics techniques. Topics include interactive techniques, 2D and 3D viewing, clipping, segmentation, translation, rotation, and projection. Also involves removal of hidden edges, shading, and color. Knowledge of basic linear algebra is required. Same as CSCI 4229. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree (CSEN) majors only.
    Serves as foundation course for MS-ICTD program. Students will evaluate case studies across a range of technologies and applications. Students will learn how to match available technologies to human and environmental needs and resources, be introduced to the seminal work and leaders in the field, and discuss the future of ICTD as an emerging area of academic focus. Same as ATLS 4230. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Studies how spectrum policy is developed and implemented. A general framework is developed for understanding telecommunications law and regulatory objectives. Course specifically analyzes international and domestic dimensions of spectrum policy. It also considers how economics, administrative processes, and innovative technologies affects management of the spectrum.

    Examines fundamentals of radiative transfer and remote sensing with primary emphasis on the Earth's atmosphere; emission, absorption and scattering by molecules and particles; multiple scattering; polarization; radiometry and photometry; principles of inversion theory; extinction- and emission-based passive remote sensing; principles of active remote sensing; lidar and radar; additional applications such as the greenhouse effect and Earth's radiative energy budget. Recommended prereq., one year of calculus-based physics and math up through differential equations. Same as ATOC 5235. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.
    Studies design, analysis and implementation of advanced computer graphics techniques. Topics include shaders, using the GPU for high performance computing, graphics programming on embedded devices such as mobile phones; advanced graphics techniques such as ray tracing. Same as CSCI 5239. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5229 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prepares students for the semester-long practicum. Students work in teams to design ICTD interventions that address unique socio-economic and environmental development issues. Teams will design a variety of ICTD interventions, including telehealth and distance education programs, communication networks, and pro-development ICTD policies. Topics will be chosen by teams and guided by program faculty and external domain experts. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ATLS 5230 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as LAWS 7241. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or graduate students in the College of Engineering or Leeds School of Business only.
    Examines active techniques of remote sensing, with emphasis on radar fundamentals, radar wave propagation, scattering processes, and radar measurement techniques and design. Examines specific radar systems and applications, such as synthetic aperture radar phased arrays for atmosphere, space, land, and sea applications. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) majors only.

    Provides an overview of our nation's intellectual property laws, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and also discusses other assorted matters related to intellectual property, including licensing, competition policy issues, and remedies. Same as LAWS 6301.

    Applies law in engineering practice; contracts, construction contract documents, construction specification writing, agency, partnership, and property; types of construction contracts; and legal responsibilities and ethical requirements of the professional engineer. Recommended restriction, graduate standing or department consent required. Taught intermittently.

    Introduces methods and models that can be employed in ICTD program development and deployment. Examines the applications of participatory research, value-centric design, program scale, cross-disciplinary work, and appropriate monitoring and evaluation. The goal of this course is to build student confidence around existing evaluation toolkits and methods, while advancing multi-method approaches to designing and analyzing ICTD initiatives. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Features technology law advocacy before administrative and legislative bodies. The mission of TLPC is: 1) to train and produce students equipped to conduct thoughtful analysis, and 2) provide unbiased assistance in the public interest concerning technology issues to regulatory entities, courts, legislatures and standard setting bodies. Recommended prereqs., LAWS 6301, 6318 or 7241. LAWS 7809 and TLEN 5250 are the same course.

    Examines passive and active techniques for remote sensing with emphasis on fundemantal noise and detection issues from radio to optical frequencies. Emphasis is placed on electromagnetic wave detection, statistical signal and noise analysis, remote sensing system architecture, and hardware for remote sensing systems. Systems studied include radiometers, radars (real and synthetic aperture), interferometers, and lidars. Applications to detection and surveillance, Earth remote sensing, astronomy, and imaging systems are covered. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ECEN 3300 and ECEN 3400 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.

    Reviews the properties and causes of hazards posed by the environment, ranging from atmospheric wind shear to tornadic flows. Involves a multidisciplinary approach, combining analytical, numerical, and scale modeling studies with extensive field measurements, wind energy, and biophysical aerodynamics. Recommended restriction, senior standing in aerospace engineering.

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