College of Engineering and Computer Sciences
Programs
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S.E.
- Computer Science, Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Computer Science, M.S.
- Cybersecurity, Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Cybersecurity, M.S.
- Data Science, Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Data Science, M.S.
- Electrical and Computer Engineering M.S.E.E.
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Engineering Management, B.S.C.E. Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Engineering Management, B.S.E.E. Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Engineering Management, M.S.E.
- Engineering, Ph.D.
- Environmental Safety and Health, Accelerated Graduate Degree
- Environmental Science, Minor
- Environmental, Safety and Health, M.S.
- Mechanical Engineering, M.S.M.E.
- Safety, M.S.
- Safety, Minor
Courses
Civil Engineering
Highway planning and design, including the capacity, horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, roadside design, traffic control, and other related aspects. Types of facilities discussed will include roadways, sidewalks, intersections, and interchanges.
Design of highway pavement systems, subgrades, subbases and bases, soil stabilization, flexible and rigid pavements; cost analysis and pavement selection; traffic data collection; drainage; earthwork; pavement evaluation and maintenance.
Formal study of civil engineering topics of current interest.
Background of AISC 360, emphasizing building applications. Analysis method for second-order effects. Composite member design. Plate girders. Splices and bracing connections. Eccentric connections. Wind and seismic applications.
Background of ACI 318, emphasizing building applications. Precast elements. Moment frames and shear walls. Continuous construction. Foundations and earth-retaining structures. Two-way slab design methods. Strut-and-tie analogies. Column supported slabs.
Behavior and design of prestressed concrete beams, columns, and beam-columns, emphasizing highway bridge applications. Methods of prestressing and loss estimation for precast and cast-in-place elements.
Analysis, design, and rating of bridges according to AASHTO specifications, emphasizing steel superstructures. Detailing of elements and systems based on strength, serviceability, constructability, and fatigue requirements.
Pre-req: CE 616.
Design and application of signs, markings, and signals;timing of isolated and interconnected signals; speed regulation; one-way streets; capacity and analysis of highway facilities.
Concepts of transportation economic analysis, transportation costs and benefits, needs studies, finance and taxation, methods of evaluation of plans and projects, environmental impact assessment.
Techniques used to plan urban transportation systems; data collection, trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, traffic assignment, modeling and evaluation techniques; travel demand modeling.
Traffic safety studies including: crash analysis, control and geometry improvements, hazard and countermeasures identification, before-and-after studies; data collection and computer tools for highway traffic and safety evaluation.
Application of decision analysis, mathematical programming, performance modeling and various heuristics to develop management plans for transportation infrastructure assets, primarily focusing on highway pavements and bridges.
Selected topics of special and current interest to civil engineers.
Computer & Info Security
The course covers technical and analytical skills to implement comprehensive computer security that encompass designing secure systems, information security, protecting information assets, managing computer security, risk mitigation strategies, and incident response.
This course provides an overview of the cybersecurity field, the basic foundations of the current technology and its impacts along with the predominant threat components and remediation.
The course covers risk management, integrating continuous monitoring and real-time security solutions with information systems to improve situational awareness and deployment of countermeasures.
The functions and purposes of the latest developments in cybersecurity are covered. Topics include design, implementation, testing industrial networks and applications to ensure their security and reliability.
Pre-req: CYBR 510 with a minimum grade of D.
Study of various concepts and aspects in choosing, deploying, supporting, troubleshooting, and securing various local and distributed components of cyber operation.
Pre-req: CYBR 530 with a minimum grade of D.
This course focuses on the complete cycle of enterprise security from identifying vulnerabilities, detecting application exploitation and post exploitation mitigations and analysis for an enterprise level cyber infrastructure.
The course covers both offensive and defensive techniques pertaining to cybersecurity from techniques to find vulnerabilities and analyze the likelihood of an attack to developing solutions to secure cyber infrastructure.
This course introduces fundamentals of cryptography, including classical ciphers, Shannon's perfect secrecy, DES, AES, public-key crypto (RSA), as well as advanced cryptographic schemes.
This course covers various research methods and current significant findings in the field of cybersecurity.
Pre-req: CYBR 510 with a minimum grade of D.
Investigate a research problem of theoretical interest and practical value under mentorship of a cybersecurity faculty.
Pre-req: CYBR 680 with a minimum grade of D.
Faculty supervised, individualized course of study.
Supervised work experience in Cybersecurity.
Computer Science
Design and analyze structure of major hardware components of computers including: ALU, instruction sets, memory hierarchy and caching, parallelism through multicore and many core, GPGPUs, storage systems and interfaces.
Learn how to develop highly optimized applications for multi-core processors and clusters using software tools, parallel algorithms, performance profilers, and programming constructs in MPI, OpenMP, MapReduce, CUDA, and OpenCL.
Study of computational algorithms and programming techniques for various bioinformatics tasks including parsing DNA files, sequence alignments, tree construction, clustering, species identification, principal component analysis, correlations, and gene expression arrays.
This course introduces advanced topics in database systems including distributed systems, distributed databases, Big Data, cloud service, semantic web, web services, information security & privacy, and electronic commerce.
The course covers advanced topics in Python programming including the use of parallel computation and GPU acceleration and investigate how to exploit frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.
The design of systems containing embedded computers. Micro-controller technology, assembly language and C programming, input/output interfacing, data acquisition hardware, interrupts, and timing. Real-time operating systems and application programming. Application examples.
Covers (1) the process of knowledge discovery, (2) algorithms (association rules, classification, and clustering), and (3) real-world applications. Focuses on efficient data mining algorithms and scaling up data mining methods.
Study of mathematical techniques and algorithms for image sampling, quantization, intensity transformations, spatial filtering, Fourier transforms, frequency domain filtering, restoration and reconstruction, color imaging, wavelets, morphological image processing, and segmentation.
Study of theory and algorithms for modeling and retrieving text. Text representation, IR models, query operations, retrieval evaluation, information extraction, text classification and clustering, enterprise and Web search, recommender systems.
Fundamental algorithms and computational models for core tasks in natural language processing: word and sentence tokenization, parsing, information and meaning extraction, spelling correction, text summarization, question answering, and sentiment analysis.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
This course introduces modern web technologies and covers the concepts, practices, and technologies to design, develop, and manage scalable, reliable and secure web applications using client side and server side programming, mobile technology, web services, rest services, and cloud services that are accessible to a large number of users.
This course covers the Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies. The course includes advanced topics in wireless networking technologies, mobile networks, software and hardware design for IoT applications and systems. In addition, this course offers advanced topics in cybersecurity.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Cloud Computing including theory and application development in cloud and understand the ways of increasing quality of services for hosted applications.
Study of software specification and verification technologies that facilitate: semantic reasoning; and verification of development artifacts including functional models, architecture, and source-code implementations.
Study of approaches to software design that meet availability, manageability, maintainability, performance, reliability, scalability, and securability goals. Emphasis is on object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns and metrics.
Study of methods and tools to design high quality tests during all phases of software development. Topics include test design, test automation, test coverage criteria, and how to test software.
Study of clustering, graph-theoretic, genetic, probabilistic and randomized algorithms and their application to machine learning, data streams, data mining, computer vision, natural language processing, information retrieval, and bioinformatics.
Study of machine learning and statistical pattern recognition algorithms and their application to data mining, bioinformatics, speech recognition, natural language processing, robotic control, autonomous navigation, text and web data processing.
Study of machine learning and statistical pattern recognition algorithms and their application to data mining, bioinformatics, speech recognition, natural language processing, robotic control, autonomous navigation, text and web processing.
Study of advanced algorithms, data structures, and architectures required for solving complex problems in Bioinformatics. Focus is on analysis of patterns in sequences and 3D-structures. Team taught seminar course.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Study of emerging and advanced topics in Computer Science. Topics vary with instructor and change from one semester to another.
Learn high performance computing architectures and methods for developing and querying databases for Big Data.
Study of approaches, algorithms, and tools for Big Data exploration, analysis, and interpretation to enable novel discoveries and innovation. Integrating analytic capabilities of computers and domain knowledge of human analysts.
Investigate a research problem of theoretical interest and practical value under mentorship of a computer science faculty.
Pursue faculty supervised, individualized course of study of a topic which is not currently a part of the Computer Science graduate curriculum.
Pursue faculty supervised, individualized course of study of a topic which is not currently a part of the Computer Science graduate curriculum.
Pursue faculty supervised, individualized course of study of a topic which is not currently a part of the Computer Science graduate curriculum.
Pursue faculty supervised, individualized course of study of a topic which is not currently a part of the Computer Science graduate curriculum.
Develop expertise in an emerging area of computer science through guided study under faculty mentorship.
Supervised work experience in computer science or related fields.
Electrical Engineering
This course provides fundamental understanding of Digital circuits. Students learn the essentials of digital circuit operation, design and simulate digital circuits using the techniques of practicing electrical and computer engineers.
The course provides a rigorous introduction to the analysis and control of linear dynamical systems in the time domain. The course introduces the fundamentals of linear spaces and linear operator theory.
This course provides an introduction to modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems. Several models of continuous-time systems and discrete-time systems are introduced.
This course covers the power system faults and application of relays for power system protection. Symmetrical components as applied fault currents. Introduction to digital filtering, microprocessor, computer simulation for relays.
This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of random variables, random signals, and simulation of random phenomena.
This course covers Laplace transform for boundary-value problem, applications to control theory, frequency response of ordinary differential equations, linear algebra techniques; eigenvalue analysis of linear systems and in multivariate optimization.
This course covers complex functions, complex integration, vectors, matrices, functions of matrices, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, state-space modeling, optimization techniques, least squares technique, total least squares, and numerical techniques.
Overview of research methods in engineering. Research theory, design, ethics, and practice. Research plan and proposal. Experimental, numerical, and analytical research. Reviewing literatures, collect and analyze data quantitatively and qualitatively.
This course covers the CMOS circuits. Design approaches with emphasis placed on structured full custom design, MOS device, critical interconnect and gate characteristics. CMOS logic design from transistor to fabrication.
This course covers the Designing real-time embedded systems from a hardware and software perspective. Communications and signal processing systems. Applications to seismic monitoring, process control, and biomedical systems.
This course introduces the underlying concepts behind networking using the internet and its protocols as examples.
This course introduces fundamental technologies for wireless communication.
Linear systems, norms for signals and systems, stability and performance, uncertainty and robustness, parameterization of stabilizing controllers, algebraic Riccati equations, H2 control, and H infinity control.
The course introduces the theory of Optimal Control. It covers evaluation methods for control signals that satisfy some physical constraints and minimize or maximize some performace measures.
This course covers modern power systems, operational, control problems, solution techniques. State estimation, contingency analysis, load-frequency control and automatic generation control, load flow analysis and external equivalents for steady-state operations.
The course provides a rigorous introduction to the analysis and control of nonlinear dynamical systems in time domain.
This course covers the fundamentals of energy and sustainability; power efficiency; hydro, wind, solar, fuel systems; Converters and controllers for integration of renewable energy sources; Smart grid, hybrid generation systems.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Surface and subsurface geology, geotechnical properties of soil and rock. Geotechnical engineering design aspects of landfills, groundwater barriers, tunneling. Mechnics of ground movements, sediment and erosion control. (PR: Engineering or Geology degree)
Independent study in which a student meets regularly with a faculty member to discuss assignments.
Independent study in which a student meets regularly with a faculty member to discuss assignments.
Independent study in which a student meets regularly with a faculty member to discuss assignments.
Independent study in which a student meets regularly with a faculty member to discuss assignments.
The course introduces the principles of product design: specifications, evaluation of design alternatives, technical reports and oral presentations. Intellectual property, industry standards and conventions, engineering economics, reliability, safety, engineering ethics.
This represents the course designation for a Master's Degree Research Thesis. Successful completion of a thesis fulfills the research requirement for the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering.
Engineering Management
Formal study of engineering management topics of current interest.
Principles leading to better management and development of technical human resources and organizations. Included are concepts technical managers need to positively change themselves and to lead others toward desired bahavior.
Study of special topics of an advanced nature. (PR: Consent)
Provides the student with a practical knowledge of how to integrate effectively the functional efforts of many in the execution of programs and projects.
Covers the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Designed to prepare project managers to pass the Project Management Professional exam, and to improve their skills as a project manager.
Techniques and methods for effective management of engineering firms, departments, and personnel. (PR: EM 601)
Examination of the quantitative and conceptual tools for generating goods and services in manufacturing and non-manufacturing organizations.
Provides the student an opportunity to examine issues in engineering management and to evaluate their consequences in organizations, in the profession, and in society. (PR: Consent)
The concepts and methods for the financial calculations involving time, value of money and uncertainty. Capital and departmental budgeting processes and engineering inputs to cost accounting. (PR: Consent)
The American legal system, contracts and specifications, liability of professional engineers, product liability, agency relationships, patent and proprietary rights, and special problems in contracts are studied.
Engineering & Science
Theory and applications of the finite element method to problems in the area of static and dynamic structural analysis, heat transfer, fluids, and analogous solution.
Practical application of statistical techniques to decision-making, forecasting, optimization, experimental design. Interpretation of data using central tendency and dispersion, t-test, F-test, variance analysis, correlation, and linear regression.
Introduction to current software technology to solve problems of interest to technical professionals. Covers the use of tables, databases, modeling, curve fitting, and solution of equations.
Formal study of engineering topics of current interest. (PR: Consent)
Formal study of engineering topics of current interest. (PR: Consent)
Formal study of engineering topics of current interest. (PR: Consent)
Formal study of engineering topics of current interest. (PR: Consent)
Three-dimensional stress and strain, failuer criteria, advanced topics in structural mechanics, energy methods, introduction to the theory of elasticity, fundamentals of fracture mechanics.
Completion of research under the supervision of a faculty member. Six semester hours of credit in research are applied toward the Thesis Option in the engineering MS degrees.
An approved study of special interest concerning engineering under the supervision of a faculty member. (PR: Consent)
An approved study of special interest concerning engineering under the supervision of a faculty member. (PR: Consent)
An approved study of special interest concerning engineering under the supervision of a faculty member. (PR: Consent)
An approved study of special interest concerning engineering under the supervision of a faculty members. (PR: Consent)
Supervised on-the-job experience. The student will work in a technology or engineering company or department with an organization. (PR: Permission)
Completion of comprehensive project under the supervision of a faculty member. Includes final written submittal and public oral presentation. Fulfills engineering MS requirement for Project Option.
An overview of research methodology, including basic concepts employed in quantitative and qualitative research, defining research problems, collecting, analyzing, recording, and interpreting data to prepare a proposal.
This course is to develop a dissertation with substantial research to contribute to the field of study under the supervision of a dissertation advisor and dissertation committee.
Pre-req: ENGR 701 with a minimum grade of C.
Environmental Engineering
Formal study of environmental engineering topics of current interest.
Fundamental principles governing the various aspects of chemistry relevant to the environment will be addressed. The chemistry of waste treatment, cycle processes and other applications will be evaluated. (PR: Consent)
Fundamental principles and applied practices of water quality and water treatment facilities. Includes analysis of source waters, and design of physical and chemical system components. (PR: ENVE 615)
Solid waste management and minimization: options, methods, laws and regulations. Landfill design, testing, operation, monitoring, and closure. Use of composting in landfills. Incinerator design and operation. Separation and recycling approaches.
Options and methods of managing hazardous waste. Landfill design, testing, operation, monitoring, and closure. Incinerator design, testing, operation, and monitoring. Design and operation of treatment facilities. Waste reduction practices.
Occasional special offerings in Environmental Engineering. (PR: Consent)
The goal of this course is to develop an understanding of watershed processes, including precipitation, generation of runoff, infiltration, stream flow, soil erosion, sediment transport and deposition, and fluvial geomorgphology.
Analysis and design of water conveyance channels and hydraulic structures, such as siphons, chutes, weirs, flumes, dams, spillways, gates, locks, storm surge barriers, and outlet works.
Setup, execution, and calibration of numerical watershed models. Includes the rational method, TR-55, HEC-1, and HEC-HMS. Emphasis on watershed analysis for decision making and drainage design.
The design and analysis of industrial ventilation systems, including properties of air contaminants; hood, duct, and fan design; system performance; mine ventilation; air cleaning devices; testing; diagnosis; troubleshooting, cost analysis. (PR: Consent)
Principles of engineering design of water and wastewater treatment systems and processes, including physical, chemical and biological treatment and handling of treatment residuals. Includes coverage of relevant water quality concepts.
Decontamination or removal of pollutants from soil. Aeration of excavated soil on site. Use of solvants and surfactants as removal aids. Removal of soil for treatment at an off-site facility. (PR: ES 651)
Environmental Science
Introduction to major federal environmental legislation and related state programs, judicial review, and practical effects, and to processes for formulation and development of environmental policy.
This course reviews key components of watershed structure and functions before investigating and applying concepts for managing and restoring aquatic ecosystems.
The principles of chemistry, geology and mathematics used in pollution control. Topographic maps, environmental regulations, field testing and compliance. Econonmics of use of pollution control devices.
An overview of the diversity of the local natural environment, including the plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, other wildlife, and the impact of human activities on the local environment.
The influence of environmental laws, common law, contract law, tort law, and regulatory interpretations, as well as the impact of citizens' groups, professional societies, and trade associations on current practice. (PR: Consent)
Major air pollution sourcs; meteorological concepts; physical and chemical characterization; effects on plant and animal life; and development of air pollution laws, with emphasis on West Virginia regulations. (PR: Consent)
Identifying and measuring contaminants in air, water, soil, and sludge. Methods of analysis including gas chromatography nuclear magnetic resonance, colorimetry, infrared absorption untraviolet absorption, atomic absorption, and mass spectroscopy. (PR: Chemistry and ES 600, or equivalent experience)
Selected topics of interest to teachers of biology. (PR: Consent)
Current practice in environmental testing and monitoring. Traditional wastewater tests, bioassay analysis, aquatic toxicity. Current procedures in gas chromatographic analysis, mass spectrometry. Sample preservation, quality control, and quiality assurance. (PR: analytical chemistry and instrumental methods, or ES 605)
EMS principles and elements; environmental, health and safety regulatory issues; ISO 14000 EMS specifications and guidelines; environmental auditing; environmental performance evaluation; life cycle assessment and environmental labeling.
Introduction to topographic, soil, and geologic maps and aerial and satellite photography as sources of environmental information. Application of various data sources to specific types of environmental problems.
Site inspection and investigation, emphasizing the "due diligence" clause of Saction 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Act of 1980, site remediation, and data analysis and reporting.
Introduction to groundwater hydrogeology; including porosity hydraulic conductivity, aquifers, groundwater flow, well hydraulics, groundwater geology, and water chemistry. (PR: A background in environmental science or geology is recommended)
The fundamentals of hydrogeology are utilized to implement a case study investigation of a contaminated groundwater site from the planning stage through a final report. (PR: ES 640 or equivalent experience)
Species interaction; population, community and ecosystem ecology; productivity; nutrient cycling; physiological ecology, population dynamics; pollution and conservation; and aquatic, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. (PR: Consent)
Introduction to the subject of ethics, environmental ethical theory, moral reasoning, free market regulation, right to know, proprietary information, product liability cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, waste disposal, and resource depletion. (PR: Consent)
A practical course designed to provide students with the ability to prepare and evaluate impact statements. The course is based on the concepts of the environment as a single interrelated system.
Introduction to major federal environmental legislation and related state programs, including policy issues, judicial review, and practical effects. Includes CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, NEPA, ESA and SDWA.
Practical applications and concentrated study of regulations under all major federal environmental programs, including permitting, reporting, and other compliance issues. Includes discussion of procedures used in development of regulations.
Course covers three general topic areas: environmental assessment and biodiversity assessment (NEPA and ESA), risk management and the regulation of toxic substances (TSCA, FIFRA, and SDWA), and international environmental law.
Pre-req: ES 660.
Course surveys the processes that govern the earth's hydrologic cycle and the human activities which effect that cycle. It seeks to provide an integrated science/managment/policy approach to water resource issues.
The course focuses on the technological and cost fundamentals of what is generally considered sustainable energy technologies, including solar, wind, biomass and other energy sources.
An introduction to techniques of epidemiological health research. The primary focus will be health problems in the industrial setting.
Environmental management and development of abandoned, idoled or underused industrial or commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.
Students completing ES 680 must defend their thesis in an oral examination.
Mechanical Engineering
Deals with ground vehicle stability and control. Contribution of tire lateral force, stiffness, and aligning torque to stability. Effects of suspension geometry, chassis stiffness, and roll stiffness.
This course covers governing equations, ordinary differential equations (ODEs), numerical integration; finite difference and finite volume methods for parabolic, ellipitic, hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs), numerical linear algebra; turbulence modeling.
Basic principles and technical details of various renewable energy technologies for the sustainable future. Process design, energy analysis, engineering economics and environmental assessment of renewable energy systems.
Covers fundamentals of nanomaterial and nanotechnology. Unique properties of nanomaterials. Synthesis methods of various nanomaterials. Nano and microfabrication techniques. Applications of nanomaterials in various technologies, environmental science, biotechnology and biomedicine.
This course provides an overview of the principles of automation and concept of system control, including instrumentation, control, human interface, and communication subsystems.
The core of this course is to learn advance analytical and computational methods to solve multi-dimensional conduction, convection-advection, mechanical vibration, and elasticity equations.
This is the second course in a two-course sequence to learn advanced analytical and computational methods to solve multi-dimensional diffusion, heat, biharmonic, and elasticity equations.
Research methods in engineering conducting critical reviews of research literature, preparing pre-proposal, and initiating background research on a thesis topic. Student is expected to submit a thesis pre-proposal.
Additive manufacturing (AM), rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, joining processes, direct digital manufacturing to form 3D parts with applications ranging from prototyping to production in aerospace, defense, and biomedical industries.
Fundamentals and applications of fuel cell and hydrogen technology. It includes thermodynamics, electrochemical kinetics, fuel cell electrode catalysts, fuel cell systems, fuel reforming, hydrogen production, storage, safety.
Covers the causes and mechanisms of aqueous corrosion, electrochemistry and thermodynamicsof corrosion. Materials selection, design for minimization of corrosion, and corrosion protection. Case studies are discussed.
Design and operation of wind farms. Topics include wind energy principles, wind site assessment, components, power generation machinery, control systems, connection to the electric grid and transmission, and energy storage.
Detailed coverage of the mechanisms of friction, material wear, and major lubrication techniques - liquids, solids, and gases - with traditional and modern applications. Coverage of micro/nanotribology, MEMS, and magnetic surface storage applications.
Covers the knowledge needed to select and design biomaterials used in medical devices with emphasis on metallic, ceramic, polymeric, and composite biomaterials. Explains the difference between materials science and materials engineering.
This course covers tool design and metal cutting theory, CAD/CAM, CIM, CNC m/c, CNC programming, fixture design, metal forming, gear manufacturing, non-tradtional machining, PLC, flexible manufacturing, robotics, rapid prototyping/tooling.
Modeling of vibratory motion of advanced mechanical and structural systems, including continuous systems, nonlinear systems and systems with random excitations.
Overview of system modeling and simulation of complex systems with mechanical, hydraulic, thermal and/or electrical elements. Frequency response analysis, stability, and numerical analysis of system modeling.
Nonlinear dynamical systems, including concepts of chaos, fractal and classic dynamics equations, one dimension systems, two dimension systems, phase plane, limit cycle, bifurcation, Lorenz equation, and fractals.
Sustainable energy management, provides an overview of mechanical and control systems within buildings with sub-systems which possess a visible energy signature in terms of energy usage, inefficiency, and impact.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest.
This course covers the communication problems encountered in researching and writing a thesis: the scientific writing of a research paper, the speaking and presenting skills, and the organization skills.
Safety Technology
An introductory course that explores the relationship between engineering and fire prevention. Topics include: water supplies, sprinkler systems, behavior of fire and materials, fire protection, fire extinguishers, and other systems.
The course covers the impact of globalization on worldwide safety and health programs, and a wide variety of safety and health programs for various countries and multi-national organizations.
Environmental protection as related to industrial settings. Air/water quality, noise and chemical pollution and hazardous material control.
The course covers the various aspects of safety and health in professional health care services.
Introductory principles of workers' compensation and how it relates to the safety professional.
An introductory course in accident investigation designed to give insight into the recognition and collection of evidence, collection and recording data and reconstructing the accident based on the facts.
A study of the latest industrial safety information which will assist the student in designing a program to reduce or eliminate all incidents which downgrade the system.
Safety functions in industry. Principles of organization and application of safety programs. Prevention, correction, and control methods are outlined and evaluated.
A study of safety programs at the state and local levels including the administrative, instructional, and protective aspects of a comprehensive safety program in schools, occupations, home and public.
Concerned with safe, efficient movement of people and goods. Involves highway, air, water, pipeline, and rails.
An analysis of the educational philosophies and the application of these philosophies to occupational safety. A study of the effect of occupational safety on modern living.
An analysis and study of selected works of national and international authors concerning significant works in Occupational Safety.
The design and engineering of facilities and equipment to meet the physical needs of the human as well as enhancing production.
Concerned with environmental health and safety hazards that arise out of or occur during work of employees.
A laboratory course designed to complement Industrial Hygiene.
This course will cover the techniques of development, design maintenance, and troubleshooting of industrial ventilation systems. Also the types of ventilation systems used for different types of toxic materials.
Pre-req: SFT 647 or SED 647.
A study of how humans interact with the work environment, focusing on human capabilities and limitations, repetitive motion disorders, the human/machine interface and workspace design.
Pre-req: SFT 660 or SED 660.
An examination of the aspects of the work environment that can affect health: time pressure, machine pacing, control etc. The recognition, measurement and control of these factors will be discussed.
Technology and Engineering
Orientation course covering skills such as technical communication, quantitative reasoning, research methods, ethics and professionalism, team work, and discipline-specific information.
Occasional offerings of current topics in technology and engineering, providing important supplementary material for participating students.
Occasional offerings of current topics in technology and engineering, providing important supplementary material for participating students.
Occasional offerings of current topics in technology and engineering, providing important supplementary material for participating students.
Occasional offerings of current topics in technology and engineering, providing important supplementary material for participating students.
An approved study of special interest, that is appropriate for the student's program of study, concerning technology and engineering. Carried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
An approved study of special interest, that is appropriate for the student's program of study, concerning technology and engineering. Carried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
An approved study of special interest, that is appropriate for the student's program of study, concerning technology and engineering. Carried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
An approved study of special interest, that is appropriate for the student's program of study, concerning technology and engineering. Carried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
Completion of comprehensive project under the supervision of a faculty member. Includes final written submittal and public oral presentation. (PR: TE 698) S/U Grading.