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Graduate Catalog 2014 - 2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

CASAL
  

  • ADM 677 - Legal and Policy Issues in Education

    (4 credits)
    Discussion and analysis of major legal and policy issues in education. Emphasis on judicial interpretations of relevant statutes and regulations in order to better understand the risks in education management and possible strategies to reduce those risks.


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  • ADM 680 - Supervision Practicum

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 20 semester hours; applications must be submitted and approved before registration. Each student plans and implements a field project or series of projects in the work environment.


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  • ADM 681 - Elementary School Administration: Theory & Practicum II

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 24 semester hours including ADM 614 and approved application. Students review administrative practices and procedures in elementary schools, and plan and implement a practical project or projects in their work environment.


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  • ADM 682 - Middle School Administration: Theory & Practicum II

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 24 semester hours including ADM 614 and approved application. Students review administrative practices and procedures in middle schools, and plan and implement a practical project or projects in their work environment.


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  • ADM 683 - Secondary School Administration: Theory & Practicum II

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 24 semester hours including ADM 614 and approved application. Students review administrative practices and procedures in secondary schools, and plan and implement a practical project or projects in their work environment.


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  • ADM 686 - Transformational Teacher Leadership and Professional Development

    (3 credits)
    Pre-requisite: Must be admitted into the Teacher Leader program. This course lays the foundation needed for teachers to become teacher leaders that advocate for school improvement both within and beyond the school community. Teacher leaders guide other adults from a knowledge base in learning and teaching. In order to develop an understanding of his or her own as well as others’ leadership styles candidates will read, apply, and reflect on the principals and major theories of effective leadership. They will read, discuss and reflect on the topic of teacher development. Using that information combined with assessed teacher and student need, candidates will design prospective teacher development opportunities based on best practice.


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  • ADM 742 - Collective Bargaining and Contract Management

    (2 credits)
    Familiarizes prospective administrators with Ohio?s Public Employee Collective Bargaining Law and the collective bargaining process. Students learn to develop collective bargaining provisions in light of current law, to research and do contract comparisons, and to use collective bargaining to achieve school and community goals.


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  • ADM 743 - School Finance and Economics

    (4 credits)
    Overview of sources of public school funding with focus on state taxing and allocation issues. Analysis of federal and state legal issues pertaining to providing funds for public education.


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  • ADM 752 - School Business Management & School Facilities

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: ADM 643/743. A comprehensive overview of school business management and techniques and problems in planning and renovating educational facilities. Includes all aspects of the delivery of business-support services to all segments of the school system. Study of trends in school plant design and the examination of all school facilities, including the involvement of architects, engineers, and superintendents.


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  • ADM 811 - The School Superintendency

    (4 credits)
    A focus on the current problems facing superintendents in their relationship with the board of education, district staff, the community, and state and federal agencies. Field experiences at the district level are an important aspect of the course.


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  • ADM 831 - Implementing Public Policy in Schools & Universities

    (4 credits)
    Analyzes court decisions that deal with the implementation of laws and regulations at the local level. Attention is directed to the role of courts in shaping policy and how that role interacts with the goal of schools and universities to deliver educational services.


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  • ADM 832 - Managing Change in Schools and Universities

    (4 credits)
    This course covers the principles of managing change and individual leadership as they apply to colleges and universities. It covers such fundamentals as obstacles to change, culture, empowerment, leadership challenges in bringing about change, the role of technology in transforming schools, future trends for education, adapting the workplace, and a systems approach to making change happen. Other topics include changing systems, shared decision-making, and the development of new programs.


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  • ADM 880 - Internship

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Provides an opportunity for participants to engage in planned field experiences at the district level. Field activities are supervised by University staff in cooperation with district personnel.


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  • ADM 889 - Advanced Seminar in Administration

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Open only to students in the administration track of the Ph.D. program in Urban Education who have completed a minimum of 12 hours in the doctoral specialty or who have successfully completed the core and specialty comprehensive examinations. Discussion of major areas in school and non-school administration. Participant investigation and presentation of theory and research in administration based on assessment of prior learning. Practical exploration of leadership approaches and models.


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Center Educational Leadership
  
  

  • CEL 603 - Visionary Leadership

    (2 credits)
    Participants will look to the future and conduct an environmental scan to generate their school visions, taking into account the current environment of thier school as well as future forces.


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  • CEL 606 - Making Global Connections Through Technology

    (2 credits)
    Participants will discuss ways to implement instructional technology in their First Ring Schools.


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  • CEL 615 - Raising Student Achievement

    (2 credits)
    Participants will prepare themselves to take the role of educational leader by creating and delivering an opening day convocation to their staff.


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  • CEL 618 - Communicating Effectively

    (2 credits)
    Participants will examine the variety of ways in which people communicate and practice giving presentations and negotiations.


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  • CEL 621 - Education Policy and Practice

    (2 credits)
    Participants in this course will examine and understand school district, state-wide, and national policies impacting educational practices. Careful analysis of the realities, benefits, and challenges that public policy presents to school leaders, teachers, and learners will be thoroughly analyzed for the purpose of seeing future possibilities and enacting change for better schools.


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  • CEL 624 - Leadership and Community Engagement

    (2 credits)
    Participants will examine the way their school communicates with the community and they will devise continued self development strategies for themselves.


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  • CEL 630 - Capstone Conference

    (2 credits)
    Participants will demonstrate their transformation as leaders by presenting a final product that demonstrates their learning to an authentic audience at a conference that they will coordinate.


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  • CEL 633 - Organizational Leadership Survey

    (1 credits)
    This course is required at the beginning of the Organizational Leadership Program where students will be oriented to the Masters of Education with a Specialization in Organizational Leadership. They will learn how the program is organized, meet their professors, and learn how to use the online learning system. They will also have the opportunity to get to know their fellow cohort members.


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  • CEL 636 - Organizational Leadership Capstone

    (1 credits)
    This course is required at the end of the Organizational Leadership Program where students will present their portfolios to an authentic audience of their superintendents, colleagues and peers at a conference they will organize in the Capstone Conference. Portfolios will contain evidence of their work in their schools and in community organizations.


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Chemical Engineering
  

  • CHE 502 - Advanced Thermodynamics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Principles of chemical engineering thermodynamics applied to advanced problems, first and second law, property relations, equilibrium and stability, mixtures, phase and chemical equilibria, systems under stress, and surface phases. Offered every year.


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  • CHE 504 - Advanced Reactor Design

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Flow patterns in ideal and real reactors. Residence time distribution as a reactor design tool. Reactor design for multiple reactions, yield and selectivity concepts. Parametric sensitivity. Reactor dynamics and stability. Introduction to high-temperature non-catalytic reactions.


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  • CHE 506 - Advanced Transport Phenomena

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. The fundamental theories governing momentum transport, energy, and mass transport are studied with an aim at investigating the analogies that exist among them.


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  • CHE 508 - Advanced Separation Processes

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Traditional and developmental advanced separation techniques. Multicomponent distillation, multicomponent absorption/stripping, membrane separations, adsorptive separations, and hybrid systems.


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  • CHE 510 - Structure of Materials

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical or civil engineering, or permission of instructor. Basic principles determining the atomic and crystal structures of materials. Topics include instrumental and structural analysis techniques, evolution of microstructures (phases/phase diagrams), processing (diffusive, solidification, mechanical working) techniques and their influence on microstructures. Cross-listed with MME 510.


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  • CHE 551 - Agile Manufacturing

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. An interdisciplinary course in agile manufacturing. Emphasis is placed on re-configurable self-directed work teams, flexible structures, adoption of advanced technology, and quality improvements.


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  • CHE 561 - Principles of Air Pollution Control

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. The application of engineering principles to the analysis and control of air pollution includes techniques of air sampling and analysis, atmospheric chemistry and transport, air quality standards, and methods of air pollution abatement.


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  • CHE 566 - Biochemical Engineering

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or biology, or permission of instructor. Introduction to the fundamental concepts in biochemical engineering. Topics include enzyme kinetics, immobilized enzymes, genetic engineering, cell growth kinetics, and batch and continuous reactor design.


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  • CHE 574 - Multiphase Reactors

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Isothermal and non-isothermal analysis of kinetic data for gas-solid catalytic and non-catalytic reacting systems. Design of packed bed, fluidized bed, and moving bed reactors.


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  • CHE 578 - Introduction to Molecular Simulation

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Chemical Engineering or Permission of Instructor. Connection between mechanics and thermodynamics, statistical mechanics. Intermolecular forces. Basic principles, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation. Corresponding states and phase equilibrium from molecular simulation. Optional special topics. Examples of computer codes. Students who have passed CHE 478 may not register for CHE 578.


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  • CHE 582 - Introduction To Combustion Phenomena

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Develops a foundation in combustion phenomena, including transport and other mechanisms in homogeneous and heterogeneous combustion. Environmental implications of combustion. Elementary modeling and preliminary design calculations in industrial and modern applications of combustion, such as hazardous waste incineration, gas turbines, catalytic converters, and coal combustion systems. Regulatory concerns, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, incinerators, and air pollution control.


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  • CHE 586 - Fundamentals Of Polymers

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Emphasis on polymer molecular structure and its relation to physical properties, such as molecular weight distributions, gel point, glass transition, heat capacity, and viscosity. Other topics include polymerization kinetics; condensation esterification; emulsion polymerization; and methods of analysis, such as X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, and other important basic engineering properties of polymers.


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  • CHE 594 - Selected Topics in Chemical Engineering

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admittance to Accelerated Program, or permission from the Program. Advanced selected topics in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Cross-listed with BME 594.


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  • CHE 598 - Master’s Project

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Admittance to Accelerated Program, or permission from the Program. Student will be involved in an engineering research or development project under the personal supervision of a faculty member. The specific responsibilities of the student will be arranged by mutual consent of the student, the student’s research advisor, and the department’s graduate advisor. May be repeated for credit.


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  • CHE 604 - Mutiphase Reactor Design

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 504 or equivalent. Advanced reaction engineering principles applied to the design and operation of multiphase reactors. Multiple reactions and heat effects in gas-solid, gas-liquid, and gas-solid-liquid reacting systems. Optimization of chemical reactors.


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  • CHE 605 - Advanced Kinetics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 504 or equivalent. Consideration of the fundamentals of homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems. Discussion of kinetic mechanisms, non-isothermal kinetics, enzyme kinetics, and solid phase reactions.


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  • CHE 607 - Advanced Heat Transfer

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 506 or equivalent. Investigation of theory and methods of heat transfer of interest to chemical engineers. Topics include transient conduction, thermal boundary layer, forced convection, free convection, and radiative heat transfer.


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  • CHE 612 - Combustion Systems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: CHE 504, CHE 506, and CHE 582, or equivalents. Examination of systems that utilize combustion for generation of mechanical and thermal energy for specific applications. Representative systems, such as turbines and fluid bed units, are examined in detail.


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  • CHE 616 - Advanced Numerical Methods

    (3 credits)
    Modern numerical procedures in approximation theory, matrix eigenvalues, initial and boundary value problems, and partial differential equations. Skill in selecting appropriate procedures for particular problems is developed. Required projects consist of programming solutions to engineering problems.


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  • CHE 617 - Process Optimization Methods

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 616 or equivalent. An introduction to optimization theory and methods. Examination of the application to process design. Study of the formulation of the engineering optimization problem. A design optimization project is required.


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  • CHE 618 - Catalysis

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: CHE 502 and CHE 504. In-depth study of solid catalysts and catalytic process analysis and design. Kinetics of elementary steps and overall reactions. Kinetics of two-step reactions on non-uniform surfaces. Structure-sensitive and structure-insensitive reactions. Parasitic phenomena.


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  • CHE 651 - Biomechanical Engineering

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Understanding the terms and concepts of biomechanical engineering as it relates to medical needs and patients, including topics in artificial joints, mechanics and modeling of soft tissue, properties of blood, cardiac valves, heart function and heart assist replacement, biomechanical issues in rehabilitation equipment and prosthetics, renal function, and oxygen transport. Cross-listed with BME 651.


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  • CHE 653 - Cell and Tissue Biology for Engineers

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Essential concepts and technologies in cellular and molecular biology, as relevant to the design, application, and evaluation of biological constructs in tissue engineering, with preliminary understanding of commercial applications. Cross-listed with BME 653.


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  • CHE 655 - Biomaterials

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. An introduction to materials in medicine designed to develop an understanding of the terms and concepts that relate basic and applied biomaterials engineering research to medical devices. Cross-listed with BME 655.


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  • CHE 658 - Medical Device Design

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. A practical approach to learning the process and principles for medical device design. Students will learn the basic concepts of designing medical devices and through a hands-on approach. Teams of students will work together on a design project including concepts such as needs identification, FDA regulation, record-keeping, reverse engineeing, human factors, prototyping, and validation. Cross-listed with BME 658.


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  • CHE 659 - Medical Imaging

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or approval by instructors. Introduction to the principles of X-Rays, Ultrasound, Radio nuclide Imaging, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Description of data acquisition and image reconstruction techniques; Introduction to image processing techniques; Clinical applications and industrial procedures and regulations. Cross-listed with BME 659.


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  • CHE 670 - Biomedical Signal Processing

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering or approval by instructor. Signals and biomedical signal processing; the Fourier transform; image filtering, enhancement, and restoration; edge detection and image segmentation; wavelet transform; clustering and classification; processing of biomedical signals; processing of biomedical images. Cross-listed with BME 670.


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  • CHE 674 - Biomedical Design Project I

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: CHE 658 Medical Device Design and graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor. This is a two-semester course and students must take both courses in sequence to receive a grade. Students will work in teams over the two semesters to identify a medical device need, perform a market analysis, and develop a working prototype for the product.


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  • CHE 675 - Biomedical Design Project II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: CHE 658 Medical Device Design and graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor. This is a two-semester course and students must take both courses in sequence to receive a grade. Students will work in teams over the two semesters to identify a medical device need, perform a market analysis, and develop a working prototype for the product.


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  • CHE 692 - Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Internship

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing, completion of at least one full-time academic year in the Masters in Chemical Engineering/Doctor of Engineering Program, and permission of advisor. This course is intended to provide students with practical experience in chemical or biomedical engineering. Students will be required to submit periodic progress reports, in addition to submitting a Final Project Report at the end of the term. May be taken up to two times for credit. Graded on a pass/fail (S/U) basis. Cross-listed with BME 692.


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  • CHE 694 - Selected Topics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in chemical engineering. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Cross-listed with BME 694.


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  • CHE 698 - Master’s Project

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Analysis of a specific problem in an area of mutual interest to the student and instructor. A formal written report is required.


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  • CHE 699 - Master’S Thesis

    (12 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. The Thesis/Dissertation proposal approval form must be on file in the College of Graduate Studies prior to enrollment. Research under the guidance of a faculty member, culminating in the writing of a thesis.


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  • CHE 705 - Advanced Kinetics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 504 or equivalent. Consideration of the fundamentals of homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems. Discussion of kinetic mechanisms, non-isothermal kinetics, enzyme kinetics, and solid phase reactions.


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  • CHE 707 - Advanced Heat Transfer

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 506 or equivalent. Investigation of theory and methods of heat transfer of interest to chemical engineers. Topics include transient conduction, thermal boundary layer, forced convection, free convection, and radiation heat transfer.


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  • CHE 710 - Phase Diagrams & Applications

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 510 or equivalent. Gibbs phase rule binary diagrams and their correlation with Gibbs free energy; influence of pressure on binary diagrams. Ternary equilibrium diagrams for condensed systems. Methods of presentation of equilibrium diagrams of four and more components.


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  • CHE 712 - Combustion Systems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: CHE 504, CHE 506, and CHE 582, or equivalents. Examination of systems that utilize combustion for generation of mechanical and thermal energy for specific applications. Representative systems, such as turbines and fluid bed units, are examined in detail.


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  • CHE 717 - Process Optimization Methods

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHE 716 or equivalent. An introduction to optimization theory and methods. Examination of the application to process design. Study of the formulation of the engineering optimization problem. A design optimization project is required.


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  • CHE 718 - Catalysis

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: CHE 502 and CHE 504. In-depth study of solid catalysts and catalytic process analysis and design. Kinetics of elementary steps and overall reactions. Kinetics of two-step reactions on non-uniform surfaces. Structure-sensitive and structure-insensitive reactions. Parasitic phenomena.


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  • CHE 751 - Biomechanical Engineering

    (3 credits)
    Understanding the terms and concepts of biomechanical engineering as they relate to medical needs and patients, including topics in artificial joints, mechanics and modeling of soft tissue, properties of blood, cardiac valves, heart function and heart assist replacement, biomechanical issues in rehabilitation equipment and prosthetics, renal function, and oxygen transport. Cross-listed with BME 751.


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  • CHE 753 - Cell and Tissue Biology for Engineers

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Standing in Engineering Doctoral program. Essential concepts and technologies in cellular and molecular biology, as relevant to the design, application, and evaluation of biological constructs in tissue engineering with preliminary understanding of commercial applications. Cross-listed with BME 753.


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  • CHE 758 - Medical Devices

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of instructor. The process and principles of medical device design, including concepts such as needs identification, FDA regulation, intellectual property, record-keeping, reverse engineering, human factors, prototyping, and validation. Cross-listed with BME 758.


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  • CHE 770 - Biomedical Signal Processing

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of the instructor. Signals and biomedical signal processing; the Fourier transform; image filtering, enhancement, and restoration; edge detection and image segmentation; wavelet transform; clustering and classification; processing of biomedical signals; processing of biomedical images. Cross-listed with BME 770.


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  • CHE 794 - Selected Topics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Standing in Engineering Doctoral program or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in chemical engineering. Offered on sufficient demand. Cross-listed with BME 794.


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  • CHE 850 - Applied Biomedical Engineering Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of the instructor. A seminar series presenting current research in biomedical engineering. Topics may include kinesiology, tissue biomechanics, cardiovascular devices, tissue engineering, modeling metabolism, medical imaging, bioMEMS, biosensors, cellular therapy, neural control, advanced biomaterials, automated recording keeping, etc. Cross-listed with BME 850.


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  • CHE 895 - Doctoral Research

    (12 credits)
    Prerequisite: Standing in Engineering Doctoral program or permission of instructor. Analysis of a specific problem in an area of mutual interest to the student and instructor. A formal written report is required. Up to 10 credits may be used toward the dissertation credit requirement.


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  • CHE 899 - Dissertation

    (12 credits)
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of candidacy examination. The dissertation proposal approval form must be on file in the College of Graduate Studies prior to enrollment. Research under the guidance of a faculty member, culminating in the writing of a dissertation.


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Chemistry
  

  • CHM 501 - Chemical Information

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 332 or equivalent. Use of the chemical literature, automated chemical filing systems, and computerized library searches.


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  • CHM 502 - Biochemistry I

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 332, Organic Chemistry II. Chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins and hormones, with major emphasis on biochemical processes in human cells and organs, enzyme kinetics.


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  • CHM 503 - Biochemistry II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 502, Biochemistry I. Metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins and hormones, with major emphasis on metabolism within human cells.


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  • CHM 504 - Environmental Chemistry

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 331 or equivalent. Chemical aspects of environmental problems: energy, air, and water pollution; solid waste; toxic substances; and related topics.


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  • CHM 506 - Environmental Chemsitry Laboratory

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 316 or equivalent. Emphasis on standard methods of analysis of air and water samples.


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  • CHM 507 - Environmental Toxicology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: One year of natural sciences or permission of instructor. Various topics on the impact of environmental pollutants on humans.


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  • CHM 511 - Advanced Instrumental Analysis

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite: CHM 516 . Prerequisite: CHM 311 or equivalent; co-requisite: CHM 516. Advanced theory and techniques of modern instrumental analysis with emphasis on optical spectroscopies, potentiometry, amperometry, and coulometry.


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  • CHM 516 - Advanced Instrumental Analysis Laboratory

    (4 credits)
    Co-requisite: CHM 511 . Prerequisite: CHM 300 or equivalent; co-requisite: CHM 511. Laboratory course designed to accompany CHM 511. Offered day and evening.


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  • CHM 517 - Forensic Chemistry

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 411 or CHM 511. A general overview of the prevalent chemical principles, methods, and instrumentation involved in the analysis of physical evidence.


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  • CHM 531 - Advanced Organic Chemistry

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 332 or equivalent. Applications of spectroscopic techniques in the study of organic reactions and compounds.


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  • CHM 541 - Pharmacology I

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite : CHM 402 is strongly recommended. Prerequisites: CHM 332 and 337 or their equivalent. Corequisite : CHM 402 is strongly recommended. First of a two-course sequence in pharmacology. General aspects of pharmacology, drug effects on the nervous system and neuroeffectors, psychopharmacology, depressants and stimulants of the central nervous system, anesthetics, drugs used in cardiovascular diseases, drug effects on the respiratory tract, drugs that influence metabolic and endocrine functons, chemotherapy, principles of toxicology, etc.


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  • CHM 542 - Pharmacology II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 541. Second of a two-course introduction to pharmacology. Study of human disease processes and the specific rational pharmacotherapeutics relating to the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, hematologic, and dermatologic systems as well as eyes, ears, nose, and throat. Specific drug’s indications, contraindications,mechanism of action, side effects, dosages, and methods of administration will be presented.


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  • CHM 551 - Medicinal Chemistry I

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite: CHM 402 is strongly recommended. Prerequisites: CHM 332 and 337 or their equivalent. Corequisite: CHM 402 is strongly recommended. First of a two-course sequence in medicinal chemistry. Structure-activity relationships, molecular features of drugs, mechanisms of drug action, design and development of drugs, drug names and nomenclature, and therapeutic applications of drugs.


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  • CHM 552 - Medicinal Chemistry II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: CHM 551. Second of a two-course sequence in medicinal chemistry. Continuation of the topics from CHM 551.


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  • CHM 596 - Forensics Internship

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: All other courses required for forensic chemistry certificate. Practical experience at a relevant, off-campus forensics lab.


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  • CHM 597 - Topics In Chemistry

    (6 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Discussion of selected topics in chemistry as determined by faculty and student interest. Offered occasionally.


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