Courses

Examines the fundamental physical and chemical transformations affecting the fate and transport of organic contaminants in natural and treated waters. Emphasizes solubility, vapor pressure, air-water exchange, sorption, abiotic and biotic reactions, and photodegradation.

Same as ASEN 4426 and ECEN 4821/5821. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.

Explores software product management activities from product concept to launch while ensuring both marketvisibility and customer satisfaction. Includes market research and opportunity analysis, software requirements, pricing and profitability, alpha-beta program feedback, operational readiness, sales channels and partner strategies. Recommended prereq., some software development experience. Non-EMP students require instructor permission. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students in Engineering Management Program (EMEN) only.

Provides a detailed technical study of Internet and Internet-related protocols following a top-down approach through the protocol stack. Bit-level analysis of a large number of Internet and Internet-related protocols, including the study of classic protocol suite principles. Covers real time and near real-time data streaming, IP mobility, IPV6, and an introduction to Internet security. Prereq., TLEN 5330 or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or gaduate students in the College of Engineering or Leeds School of Business only.

Team-based design of facilities or processes for water or wastewater or solid waste treatment or remediation under multiple real-world constraints. Prereq., instructor consent. Recommended prereq., CVEN 5524, 5534, or 5474.

Prereq., graduate standing. Same as ASEN 4436, ECEN 4831/5831. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.

Provides a comprehensive treatment of the mathematical modeling of robot mechanisms and the analysis methods used to design control laws for these mechanisms. Prereqs., ECEN 4138 and PHYS 1110.

Covers the co-evolution of traditional multimedia services (such as telephony and television) and traditional data services onto a common network infrastructure: representation and compression for speech, audio, images, and video; media transportusing Real time Transport Protocol (RTP); quality of service. Prereq., TLEN 5330. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or gaduate students in the College of Engineering or Leeds School of Business only.

Reviews regular expressions and finite automata. Studies Turing machines and equivalent models of computation, the Chomsky hierarchy, context-free grammars, push-down automata, and computability. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.

Same as CSCI 4446 and ECEN 5423. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.

Same as CSCI 4448. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.

Offers a state space approach to analysis and synthesis of linear systems, state transition matrix, controllability and observability, system transformation, minimal realization, and analysis and synthesis of multi-input and multi-output systems. Prereq., ECEN 3300 and 4138. Prerequisites: Restriced to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.

Same as CHEN 4450.

Techniques for algorithm design, analysis of correctness and efficiency; divide and conquer, dynamic programming, etc. Advanced data structures,algorithms in graph theory, geometry, Vlsi, linear algebra, etc. Lower bounds, Np-completeness, intractability. Prereqs., CSCI 2270 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.

Introduces the use of digital simulation in the analysis of water resources and environmental systems. Develops computer programs for the simulation of reservoir operations, watershed runoff, stream quality, and lake quality, and uses existing software to analyze more complex problems. Prereq., instructor consent.

Provides an analysis and synthesis of discrete-time systems. Studies sampling theorem and sampling process characterization, z-transform theory and z-transferfunction, and stability theory. Involves data converters (A/D and D/A), dead-beat design, and digital controller design. Prereqs., ECEN 3300 and 4138. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as CHEN 4460.

Provides direct experience with telecommunications functions and equipment through experiments and demonstrations. Student teams learn the fundamental techniques of signal transmission and impairment measurement, voice and data switching,and systems administration, and the fundamental functions of data networking and services. Each experiment is designed to focus on some particular aspect of system management, development, or maintenance for either enterprise telecommunications customers or telecommunication service providers. Procedures require the use of actual commercial equipment, services, observation, reporting of behavior, and performance, compared to specified requirements. Student teams and laboratory periods for the semester are established during the first class lecture meeting. Prereqs., TLEN 5310 and 5330. Credit not granted for this course and CSCI 4123. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or gaduate students in the College of Engineering or Leeds School of Business only.

Presents advanced networking techniques through experiments with network measurement equipment, switches, routers, and management interfaces. Each experiment focuses on some particular aspect of system management, development, or maintenance. Procedures require the use of actual commercial equipment, services, observation, reporting of behavior, and performance, compared to specified requirements. Prereq., TLEN 5460. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Signaling in this context is the exchange of information associated with the establishment and control of a connection. Students will gain an understanding of modern signaling protocols and differences among these protocols. Students will gain an appreciation of actually implementing signaling protocols in the Internet Protocol environment. Prereqs., TLEN 5330 and C/C++. Recommended prereq., Java programming.

Examines design and implementation of contemporary operating systems. Significant laboratory component applies practice with OS use, analysis, and internal design. Topics include OS organization and structure, process and thread management, memory management, file management, device management, network and distributed systems, and modern runtime systems. Prereq., two years programming and instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.

Same as CVEN 4474. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides the student with a description of optical fibers, lasers, and detectors at a level that allows them to analyze and design optical fiber communication systems. Prereq., TLEN 5310. Same as ECEN 4116. Prerequisites: Restricted to Leeds School of Business or College of Engineering graduate students only.

Same as CVEN 4484.

2-credit hour senior level lab. Experiments cover analog and digital information transmission on free space and guided wave optical carriers. Automated data acquisition and computer analysis of data are used to investigate transmission efficacy. Same as ECEN 4696.