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Graduate Catalog 2016 - 2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Electrical Eng & Computer Science
  

  • EEC 796 - Independent Study in Electrical Engineering

    (1-4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Chair approval. Detailed individual study on a special topic under the guidance of a faculty member. Total credits for this course are limited to eight. Graded S/F.


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  • EEC 802 - Electrical Engineering Internship

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing, completion of at least one full time academic year in MSEE, MSSE or Doctor of Engineering program, and permission of advisor. Provides students with practical experience in electrical, computer or software engineering. Students will write progress reports on a regular basis in addition to writing a project report at the end of the course. May be taken up to two times for credit.


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  • EEC 899 - Doctoral Dissertation

    (1-16 credits)
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of candidacy examination and Dissertation Proposal Approval Form on file with the College of Graduate Studies.


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Engineering Mechanics
  

  • MME 500 - Mathematical Methods In Engineering Mechanics

    (4 credits)
    Partial differential equations, integral equations, complex variables, integral transforms, and variational calculus as applied to the areas of elasticity, plasticity, fracture mechanics, materials science, and structural engineering. Cross-listed with CVE 500.


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  • MME 504 - Continuum Mechanics

    (4 credits)
    General discussion of cartesian tensors. Application to the mechanics of linear and nonlinear continua. Unified analysis of stress and deformations in solids and fluids. Cross-listed with MCE 504.


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  • MME 510 - Structure of Materials

    (4 credits)
    Basic principles which determine the atomic, and crystal structures of materials are studied. Topics include instrumental and structural analysis techniques, evolution of microstructures (phases/phase diagram), processing (diffusive, solidification, and mechanical working) techniques, and the influence of processing on microstructure. Cross-listed with CHE 510.


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  • MME 511 - Matrix Methods Of Structural Analysis

    (3 credits)
    Energy methods approach to matrix structural analysis, including the development of element material stiffness, geometric stiffness, and mass matrices of basic structural elements; emphasis on the displacement method with computer program solutions of truss and frame problems. Cross-listed with CVE 511.


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  • MME 512 - Finite Element Anlys I

    (4 credits)
    Techniques in the formulation and application of the Finite Element method. Calculus of variation, potential energy and Galerkin formulations of element stiffness equations. Uniaxial, biaxial element, Isoparametric element formulations. Applications to plane stress, plane strain, and axisymmetric problems; solutions of engineering problems using computer software.


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  • MME 513 - Advanced Strength of Materials

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: ESC 211. This course fosters an understanding of a number of advanced concepts in the field of engineering mechanics. Topics include three-dimensional stress-strain relationships: failure theories; bending of non-symmetrical members; curved beam theory; beams on elastic foundations torsion of non-circular shafts using the thin membrane analogy, and plate theory. Cross-listed with CVE 513.


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  • MME 524 - Nondestructive Evaluation

    (4 credits)
    Methods of nondestructive evaluation are studied. Topics include ultrasonics, acoustic emissions, penetrants, eddy current, X-ray and neutron radiography, digital radiography, computed tomography, and thermography. Cross-listed with CVE 524.


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  • MME 565 - Advanced Machine Analysis

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: MCE 362 or MME 513. Finite Element analysis of stresses and deflections in complex mechanical systems under static and dynamic loading. Integrating modeling techniques with 2D and 3D CAD systems for inputting geometric data. Comparison of finite element results with theoretical and empirical results.


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  • MME 604 - Elasticity

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: MME 513. Elasticity topics include tensor algebra, fundamentals of stress analysis, fundamentals of deformation theory, thermo-elastic constitutive relationships, uniqueness of solution, Airy’s stress function, and various solution techniques for two-dimensional problems. Cross-listed with CVE 604.


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  • MME 609 - Energy Methods in Structural Mechanics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Development of the principles of virtual work, total potential energy, complementary virtual work, total complementary energy, and Reissner’s principle for solid mechanics problems. Castigliano theorems, Ritz, Galerkin, and finite-element methods. Applications in structural mechanics problems for bars, beams, columns, plates, and shells.


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  • MME 612 - Finite Element Analysis II

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: MME 512 or MCE 580. Advanced techniques in the formulation of the Finite Element with applications. Development of three dimensional elements, tetrahedrals and hexahedrals. Formulation of thin and moderately thick plate bending elements and shell elements. 3D isoparametric beam, plate and shell elements; solutions of engineering problems using computer software.


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  • MME 613 - Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: MME 511 and MME 604. Isoparametric finite element discretization, incremental equations of motion. Total and updated Lagrangian formulations. Nonlinear geometry, nonlinear material problems in two and three dimensions. Computer solution of problems. Cross-listed with CVE 613.


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  • MME 619 - Advanced Plasticity With Applications

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: MME 620. Solution techniques of plasticity problems that are amenable to computer solutions. Numerical treatment includes slab method, upper and lower bound on power, and finite element methods.


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  • MME 620 - Fracture Mechanics and Plasticity Theory

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: MME 604. The stress and deformation field in the region of a crack are derived using linear elastic analysis. Topics include analyzing the change in potential energy due to crack propagation (Griffith’s analysis), understanding the origin of critical fracture toughness parameters, and developing fundamental fracture criteria. In addition the course focuses on time-dependent plastic deformation analysis. Relationships between stress and strain that agree with experimental observations beyond the yield stress are constructed . Application of these inelastic constitutive relationships in predicting plastic deformations in simple components are presented. Drucker’s stability postulates are discussed, and the principles of slip-line theory are given. General theorems of limit analysis and their application in structural analysis are highlighted. The J-integral and fundamentals of elastic-plastic fracture analysis are presented. Cross-listed with CVE 620.


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  • MME 622 - Fatigue Analysis

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: MME 620. The fundamental concepts of crack growth in the presence of cyclic stress are considered. The fracture mechanics approach is adopted. Similitude concepts, common empirical and semi-empirical equations, variable amplitude loading, and rain fall analysis are discussed. Cross-listed with CVE 622.


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  • MME 625 - Viscoelasticity

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: MME 604. Modeling of continua as a viscoelastic material in which stress and strain fields in deformable bodies are time and spatially dependent. Viscoelastic models include Maxwell fluids and Kelvin solids. Creep phenomena, stress relaxation, hereditary integrals, viscoelastic beams, beams on continuous supports, vibration, and wave propagation in viscoelastic materials are studied. Cross-listed with CVE 625.


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  • MME 697 - Master’s Research

    (1-6 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering mechanics. Up to eight credits may be considered toward thesis credit requirements.


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  • MME 698 - Master’s Project In Engineering Mechanics

    (1-3 credits)
    Preparation of a paper involving design and analysis or theoretical investigation of a topic in structural mechanics/materials selected by mutual agreement between student and department. A written report and an oral presentation are required.


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English
  

  • ENG 506 - Composition Theory

    (3 credits)
    Advanced study in expository writing: writing processes, reading and writing, rhetoric, evaluation, and pedagogy. Offered fall semester. Required of beginning teaching assistants, except for those who took ENG 308 Composition Theory as undergraduates.


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  • ENG 507 - Workshop In Teaching

    (1 credits)
    Relation of composition theory to the practice of tutoring and teaching. Required for teaching assistants, except for those who took ENG 309 Writing Center Practicum as undergraduates. Meets once a week during fall and spring semesters. If credits are taken in fall semester, they will be graded T, with the grade assigned at the end of spring semester. Students may, if they wish, begin participating in ENG 507 in fall semester and register for ENG 507 credits in spring semester rather than in fall. May be taken S/F.


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  • ENG 509 - Technical Writing

    (2-3 credits)
    Preparation of reports, scientific papers, and other genres of technical writing, with emphasis on audience, voice, the proper formatting of data, and the integration of text with graphic and visual material. When offered for three credits, the course includes a major writing project as well as shorter assignments.


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  • ENG 510 - Literary Analysis

    (4 credits)
    Essentials of practical criticism with emphasis on close reading of selected masterworks that represent various genres and historical contexts. Core course required of all M.A. candidates. Offered fall semester.


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  • ENG 511 - Critical Approaches To Literature

    (4 credits)
    Critical approaches to literature and the theories that underlie them, including formalist, reader response, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist, and other post-structuralist approaches. Core course required for M.A. candidates in the literature concentration. Offered spring semester.


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  • ENG 514 - Studies In Linguistics

    (3 credits)
    Topics include historical linguistics, history of the English language, grammar, sociolinguistics, or analysis of an uncommonly taught language such as Sanskrit or Armenian. May be repeated with change of topic. Courses count as TESOL endorsement electives. Note: when the topic is Modern English Grammar, ENG 514 counts as an introductory linguistics course in the TESOL endorsement program.


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  • ENG 531 - Studies In Medieval Literature

    (3 credits)
    Topics include Arthurian tradition, women and writing in the Middle Ages, Chaucer, Malory, or courses in medieval genres or themes. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 532 - Studies In Renaissance Literature

    (3 credits)
    Sixteenth- and 17th-century authors, genres, themes, or movements including humanism, the Reformation, metaphysical and cavalier poetry, scientific empiricism, and neo-classicism. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 533 - Studies In 18Th-Century Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, genres, themes, or movements in 18th-century poetry and fiction. Topics include the Enlightenment, satire, rise of the novel, and neo-classical and pre-Romantic poetry. May be repeated up to three times with change of topic.


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  • ENG 534 - Studies In 19Th-Century Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, genres, themes, or movements in 19th-century poetry, fiction, and drama. Possible topics include Romantic-era women writers, the literature of British imperialism, and the fiction of Jane Austen. May be taken up to three times with change of topic.


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  • ENG 535 - Studies In 20Th-Century Literature

    (3 credits)
    Modern and contemporary authors, genres, themes, or movements. May be repeated up to three times with change of topic.


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  • ENG 545 - Studies In American Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, genres, themes, or movements of significance in American literature. May be repeated up to three times with change of topic.


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  • ENG 547 - Studies In African American Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, themes, or movements of significance in African-American literature. Topics include slave narratives, Harlem renaissance, literature of the 1950s, and African-American women authors. May be repeated up to three times with change of topic.


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  • ENG 548 - Studies In Multicultural Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, genres, themes, or movements representing the ethnic diversity of modern American literature. May be repeated up to three times with change of topic.


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  • ENG 553 - Major Genre/Stud in Genre

    (3 credits)
    Literary themes, genres, or works significant in British, American, European, or world literature. Topics in the past have included European Romanticism, the Faust theme, and Literature and Science. May be repeated with change of topic..


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  • ENG 563 - Gender Issues In Literature

    (3 credits)
    Studies in gender theory and gender issues in literature. Topics may include contemporary feminist themes; the intersection of gender, race, and class; the relationship of gender to voice; technique and genre; and how questions of language are linked to these issues. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 580 - Imagination Conference

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor, based on manuscript submission. Intensive five-day summer workshop with visiting writers (fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction); “craft” analyses of creative writing. Students complete a manuscript at the end of the semester as well as an essay about technical or craft elements. In addition to tuition, students are charged a Workshop and Materials Fee. Additional information is available at the Imagination Conference web site at www.csuohio.edu/imagination. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 591 - Fiction Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to creative writing concentration or permission of instructor. Graduate-level workshop in the writing of fiction. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete MA thesis in fiction.


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  • ENG 592 - Non-Fiction Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to the creative writing concentration or permission of the instructor. Graduate-level workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete an MA thesis in nonfiction.


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  • ENG 593 - Playwriting Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to the creative writing concentration or permission of the instructor. Graduate-level workshop in dramatic writing. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete an MA thesis in playwriting.


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  • ENG 594 - Poetry Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to the creative writing concentration or permission of instructor. Graduate-level workshop in the writing of poetry. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete an MA thesis in poetry.


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  • ENG 596 - Independent Study

    (1-3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Prior written approval from Graduate Committee. Study of a topic not offered as a regular course, under the supervision of a graduate faculty member.


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  • ENG 599 - Special Topics in English

    (1-3 credits)
    A Special Topics course in British or American Literature or English-Language Linguistics, to take advantage of special events or faculty expertise in a particular topic not otherwise offered.


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  • ENG 614 - MFA Special Topics Workshop

    (1-3 credits)
    Graduate-level work in genre-specific special topics writing. MA students may enter with permission of instructor. Topics may include recognizable sub-forms such as young adult fiction, detective fiction, memoir, research-based non-fiction, biography, experimental playwriting, dramatic docudrama, site-specific playwriting, puppetry playwriting or poetic forms. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 615 - MFA Craft and Theory

    (3 credits)
    Genres of fiction, non-fiction, playwriting and poetry studied with an emphasis on the craft of the practitioner. Literary texts are used to demonstrate the formal range of the genres studied. Craft exercises are used to explicate the operations and assumptions underlying literary techniques. Core course for NEOMFA students. MA students may enter with permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 616 - MFA Literature

    (1-3 credits)
    Studies in literary themes, genres, or works significant in British, American, European or world literature. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 690 - MFA Internship

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Approval of MFA Advisor, Course Instructor. Eight to ten-hour weekly practicum in literary magazine production and/or editing, arts administration, arts programming/outreach, arts instruction, dramaturgy or theatrical production. Course aims to bring students to an understanding of professional demands and expectations. Instructor will monitor student progress through bi-weekly contact with site manager. Students will be responsible for attending four class sessions throughout the semester and for generating a substantial academic paper.


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  • ENG 695 - Graduate Seminar

    (4 credits)
    Study of an important topic in literary or cultural history, criticism, or rhetoric, with special emphasis on methods of analysis and research. May be repeated with change of topic.


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Executive MBA
  

  • EBA 600 - Opening 6-Day Residency: The Manager’s Workshop

    (5 credits)
    The opening 6-day residency incudes an orientation to the EMBA program’s curriculum and academic/administrative policies and introduces key management decision making concepts, skills, and techniques; presents models and frameworks for ethical analysis in decision making’ and assesses technical skills in areas where students are weak and introduces them to concepts in management, accounting, finance, business communications, and team dynamics. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 604 - Economic Perspectives in Management

    (2 credits)
    Introduces principles of microeconomics. The course takes a managerial perspective as it applies various economic concepts to real-world problems encountered in the management of the firm. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 605 - Ethical Perspectives in Business

    (2 credits)
    Discusses and investigates the ethical environment of business and the impact of business decisions and activities on society and its various stakeholders. Ethical issues, introduced during the Opening Residency (EBA 600), will be explored in more depth in EBA 605. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 606 - Accounting for Managers

    (4 credits)
    Introduces financial and management accounting theories and practices including coverage of accounting measurement of income and financial position, the analysis of business events, and their effects on the financial position and income of a business. Emphasis on the basics of managerial accounting, using managerial accounting for planning, controlling, and decision making purposes; and the behavioral implications of using managerial accounting methods in decision making. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 607 - Leading Organizational Change

    (2 credits)
    Discusses issues involving leadership and its role in bringing about organizational change; tools to be effective leaders in dynamic organizational settings; building understanding about how organizational change is achieved; anchoring organizational changes into the organization’s culture, and enhancing personal capabilities and abilities to navigate change in managerial careers. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 608 - Strategic Human Resources and Labor Relation

    (2 credits)
    Reviews significant issues pertaining to strategic human resources management and labor relations. Topics include employment relationship, strategic planning and staffing, reward systems, employee development, and conflict resolution and negotiation. Parallels and contrasts between union and non-union firms are key to this course. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 609 - Marketing Strategy

    (4 credits)
    Advanced theories, concepts, and techniques for formulating strategic marketing plans and making marketing decisions for business and non-business organizations in U.S. and global environments. Topics include environmental analysis, market opportunity analysis, segmentation and positioning, marketing-mix decisions, and formulating strategic plans. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 610 - Finance for Managers

    (4 credits)
    Introduces basic and advanced concepts of corporate financial management to EMBA students with significant educational background and employment history. Topics include ratio analysis, risk concepts, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and long range financial planning. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 611 - Management Information Systems

    (4 credits)
    Provides and overall view of the issues central to an enterprise’s information system (IS) including but not limited to decision support, enterprise resource planning systems, business process re-engineering and systems design, change management and knowledge management as well as managing out sourcing and off shore IS projects. It does not require any technical experitse and will not teach any specific computer programming. On the completion of this course students will not only become familar with the key forces shaping the firm’s IS environment but also issues pertaining to the management of the firm’s IS portfolio, strategic uses of IS, as well as how to realize the value of their IS within the organization. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 612 - Supply Chain Management

    (4 credits)
    Provides a comprehensive survey of supply chain concepts, strategies, and models in a format that is suitable to executives. Topics include such fundamentals as supply management, push-pull supply chain systems, centralized versus decentralized control, e-business issues, third party logistics companis, distribution systems, purchasing, and the decision support tools for supply chain. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 613 - International Business Strategy

    (3 credits)
    Explores the impact of global environmental forces on management strategies for entering and operating in international markets. Surveys theories and concepts in international marketing, finance, operations, and strategic planning. Considers managerial implications of global trends in politics, trade, culture, and regulatory practices, and the role of international institutions. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 614 - International Study Tour

    (1 credits)
    Extends the material form EBA 613 International Business Strategy by providing an international business experience beyond classroom instruction and learning. EBA 614 widens the global perspective of participants; provides “on location” experience, and interaction with foreign business, government and nonprofit sector excutives; and affords opportunities to analyze corporate strategies in selected industrial sectors and foreign markets. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 615 - Business Strategy

    (4 credits)
    Explores the integrative and cross-functional nature of corporate strategy and decision making. Applies principles, concepts, and theories from business and marketing strategy, corporate finance, human resource management, managerial accounting, and operations management to management decision and the formulation of strategic business plans. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 616 - Integrative Business Practicum

    (4 credits)
    Application and integration of business strategy, decision making, and solutions. Applies principles, concepts, and theories from business and marketing strategy, corporate finance, human resources management, managerial accounting, and operations management to a field experience in business, analyzing and solving practical, real-world business problems. Restricted to EMBA students.


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Education U Teach
  

  • EUT 515 - Project-Based Instruction in Mathematics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: EDB 502 and EDB 505. Co-requisite:EST 583 Practicum. Project-based instruction engages learners in exploring authentic, important, and meaningful questions of real concern to students. Through a dynamic process of investigation and collaboration and using the same processes and technologies that real scientists, applies mathematicians and engineers use, candidates work in teams to formulate questions, make predictions, design investigations, collect and analyze data, make products and share ideas while learning fundamental science and mathematical concepts and principles that can be applied to their daily lives. Applying project-based instruction in 7-12 classrooms helps students regardless of culture, race, or gender engage in meaningful learning. This course also provides opportunities for candidates to gain experience in assessing, preparing and teaching problem-based lessons. Physical materials and strategies for teaching mathematics at the intermediate and secondary level are considered, as are student characteristics, teaching and learning styles, issues of equity and diversity, and constructivist theories of learning.


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  • EUT 517 - Project-Based Instruction in Science

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: EDB 502 and EDB 505. Co-requisite: EST 585 (Practicum). Project-based instruction engages learners in exploring authentic, important, and meaningful questions of real concern to students. Through a dynamic process of investigation and collaboration and using the same processes and technologies that real scientists, applies mathematicians and engineers use, candidates work in teams to formulate questions, make predictions, design investigations, collect and analyze data, make products and share ideas while learning fundamental science and mathematical concepts and principles that can be applied to their daily lives. Applying project-based instruction in 7-12 classrooms helps students regardless of culture, race, or gender engage in meaningful learning. This course also provides opportunities for candidates to gain experience in assessing, preparing and teaching problem-based lessons. Physical materials and strategies for teaching Science at the intermediate and secondary level are considered, as are student characteristics, teaching and learning styles, issues of equity and diversity, and constructivist theories of learning.


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Engineering Science
  

  • ESC 512 - Probability and Stochastic Processes

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. General concepts of probability and random variables, including random experiments, inequalities, joint distributions, functions of random variables, expectations, and the law of large numbers. Basic concepts of random processes and their properties are introduced. Markov process, linear systems with stochastic inputs, and power spectra are presented.


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  • ESC 601 - Graduate Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Students will learn skills for effective public speaking and technical presentations on technical subjects, attend presentations by experts from industry and academia on subjects of interest in engineering, and research and document an engineering topic approved by the instructor for the purpose of public presentation. Registration for this course may be repeated but these credit hours do not fulfill degree requirements. Graded on an S/U basis.


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  • ESC 694 - Selected Topics in Engineering Science

    (1-4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in Engineering Science. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Upon prior approval by the Graduate Affairs Commitee, this course could be counted towards the fulfillment of doctoral core courses.


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  • ESC 702 - Advanced Optimization

    (4 credits)
    Methods of optimization for engineering systems; classical optimization, Taylor’s theorem, Lagrange Multipliers, and Kuhn-Tucker theorem; direct methods, Newton and quasi-Newton methods, penalty and Barrier methods, linear and nonlinear programming.


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  • ESC 704 - Stochastic Systems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Engineering Statistics. Optimization in engineering economics; application of renewal theory; inventory and Markov decision models; Bayesian decision analysis.


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  • ESC 706 - Advanced Partial Differential Equations

    (4 credits)
    Engineering applications and solution techniques for partial differential equations; variational derivation of differential equations and boundary conditions; Hamilton’s principle and Lagrange’s equation; numerical methods and computer solutions for differential equations.


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  • ESC 720 - Research Communications

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Doctoral Program in the College of Engineering or permission of the instructor. This course will enhance the ability of students to write technical papers and proposals, and to give effective oral presentations.


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  • ESC 794 - Selected Topics in Engineering Science

    (1-4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in Engineering Science. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Upon prior approval by the Graduate Affairs Commitee, this course could be counted towards the fulfillment of doctoral core courses.


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  • ESC 850 - Doctor of Engineering Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: ESC 720. Students and experts from industry and academia present and discuss current issues and trends in engineering research and practice. May be repeated for credit.


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Environmental Engr
  

  • EVE 533 - Pollution Prevention and Sustainability

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical, civil, environmental, or mechanical engineering, or permission of instructor. Application of engineering principles to chemical, manufacturing, and other industries. Life cycle analyses used to identify sustainable technologies and development alternatives.


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  • EVE 534 - Environmental Transport Phenomena

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Working knowledge of partial differential equations and applied numerical analysis, and graduate standing in civil, environmental, mechanical, or chemical engineering, or permission of instructor. Modeling fate and transport of pollutants in the subsurface environment. Multicomponent, multiphase transport in porous media. Analysis of fate determining mechanisms.


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  • EVE 540 - Soil Stabilization and Decontamination

    (4 credits)
    Engineering classification of soils, clay mineralogy, properties of different types of soils, such as strength, permeability, volume-density characteristics; soil contaminant interaction, methods of soil stabilization, methods of soil decontamination, process selection, and site remediation. Soil decontamination design project.


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  • EVE 570 - Environmental Chemistry

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Civil, Chemical, Environmental, or Mechanical Engineering; or the instructor’s permission. Fundamental concepts from inorganic, organic, physical and equilibrium chemistry applied to atmospheric, subsurface and aquatic environments.


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  • EVE 571 - Environmental Management Systems and Compliance

    (3 credits)
    The study of environmental legislation and the resultant regulations as they apply to the environmental engineering profession. Addresses federal, state, and local regulations as applied to soil, water, air, and multimedia engineering activities.


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  • EVE 572 - Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Application of the principles of biochemistry and microbiology, including microbial metabolic cycles, enzyme systems, inhibitors, and electron transport mechanisms important to the water and wastewater treatment processes.


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  • EVE 574 - Industrial Wastewater Treatment

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: CVE 570. Study of sources of industrial wastewater and their treatability by physical, chemical, and biological processes; problems and solutions involved in combining municiple and industrial waste treatment and treatment of wastewater from selected industries.


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  • EVE 575 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Generation, storage, collection, transfer, treatment, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Addresses engineering and management issues, including waste minimization and recycling.


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  • EVE 576 - Environmental and Occupational Health Engineering

    (3 credits)
    The application of engineering principles to the analysis and control of problems in occupational and environmental health. Emphasis on problems in small water and wastewater treatment systems, industrial hygiene, air pollution, noise, hazardous materials control, public health, and physical and chemical hazards in the workplace, including ventilation design, noise control, radiation controls and ergonomics.


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  • EVE 577 - Environmental Chemodynamics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering; or instructor’s permission. Mechanisms and rates of movement of chemicals across the air-soil, soil-water, and water-air interfaces; with the main focus on how natural processes work to mobilize chemicals near and across interfaces.


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  • EVE 578 - Water Treatment Plant Design

    (4 credits)
    Design of water treatment and distribution systems; engineering principles in design, selection of alternative process schemes, and cost estimates.


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  • EVE 579 - Wastewater Treatment Plant Design

    (4 credits)
    Design of wastewater treatment and collection systems; engineering principles in design, selection of alternative process schemes, advanced treatment processes, and cost estimates.


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  • EVE 581 - Air Pollution & Abatement

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: CVE 570. Types of air pollutants; their sources, characteristics, environmental effects, control, and environemental fate. Dispersion modeling. Design of air pollution control systems for mobile and stationary sources of pollutants.


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  • EVE 585 - Hazardous Site Remediation

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical, civil, environmental, or mechanical engineering or permission of instructor. Traditional and developmental methods for removal or destruction of hazardous wastes at contaminated sites. Soil/groundwater remediation.


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  • EVE 593 - Special Topics in Environmental Engineering

    (1-4 credits)
    Topics of current interest to the environmental engineering profession. Offered on sufficient demand.


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  • EVE 595 - Environmental Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Provides students with experience and instruction on presentation methods and oral communication of scientific information on interdisciplinary environmental issues. The course includes guest speakers from various environmental fields, and focuses on career opportunities as well as the skills and tools needed to succeed as an environmental professional. Students present their research plans during this course.


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