Courses

    This student/faculty seminar critically examines issues in technology, media and society from the multiple interdisciplinary perspective of the gathered participants. Topics may include: IT and business, security, ethics, globalization, digital divide, IT and education, human computer interaction and others. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Covers research topics of current interest in computer science that do not fall into a standard subarea. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Studies research topics of current interest in telecommunication and networking. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Content varies, but subjects include parallel machine architecture, parallel algorithms, languages for parallel computation, and applications. Takes subject matter from current research. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Includes general vibrations of civil engineering structures and their response to various types of time-dependent loads. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 5111 (minimum grade C-).
    Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are system design, measurement and evaluation, simulation, mathematical modeling, and parallelism. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5573 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
    Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are syntax, semantics, metacompilers, compiler design, and translator writing systems. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Teaches mathematical theories of plate and shell structures and their applications. Involves numerical finite element solutions of plates and shells of various shapes under static and dynamic loadings. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CVEN 5131 or 5161 (minimum grade C-).
    Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are online systems, multiprocessing, microprogramming, architecture, data communications, and computing networks. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Selected topics of current interest in theory of computation. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5454 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
    This course has three parts. The first covers fundamentals through rigorous mathematical formulations of linear and nonlinear elastic fracture mechanics. The second focuses on materials: theoretical strength, metals, granular materials, polymers, and steel. The third covers numerical (finite element) methods in fracture mechanics. Heavy emphasis is placed on project and independent work. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 5161 (minimum grade C-).
    Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are numerical linear algebra, solution of differential equations, nonlinear algebra and optimization, data fitting, linear and nonlinear programming, and solution of large problems. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Provides an overview of the research process and research methods in construction engineering and management. Students will study and evaluate different research methods and designs in an aim to prepare students to conduct and evaluate research. Taught intermittently.

    Topics vary from year to year. Possible topics include search; knowledge representation and natural language understanding; deduction, planning, problem solving, and automatic programming; instruction and cognitive models; vision and speech; and learning, induction, and concept formation. Recommended prereq., CSCI 5582 or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Hydrodynamic stability theory, equations for turbulent flows, free shear flows and boundary layers, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, overview of turbulent combustion, reaction kinetics, energy equation, Favre averaging, Pdfs, premixed and nonpremixed flame modeling, and recent developments. Prerequisites: Restricted to any College of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students or to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate majors only.
    Topics vary from year to year. Possible topics include human and machine vision, signal and speech processing, artificial life, mathematical foundations of connectionism, and computational learning theory. Recommended prereq., CSCI 5622 or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for graduate students pursuing a joint Ph.D in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psycology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students should obtain commitments from two mentors for their project. Recommended prereqs., CSCI 7762 or EDUC 6505 or LING 7762 or PSYC 7765. Same as LING 7415, PSYC 7415, PHIL 7415, and EDUC 6506. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CSCI 6402 or EDUC 6504 or LING 6200 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 6200 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to graduate students only.
    Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint Ph.D in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project. Same as PSYC 7425, LING 7425, PHIL 7425, and EDUC 6516. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of LING 7415 or PSYC 7415 or CSCI 7412 or EDUC 6506 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.

    Nonlinear systems and control. Introduction to nonlinear phenomena: multiple equilibria, limit cycles, bifurcations, complex dynamical behavior. Planar dynamical systems, analysis using phase plane techniques. Input-output analysis and stability. Passivity. Lyapunov stability theory. Feedback linearization. Exploration of examples and applications. Recommended prereq., ECEN 5448.

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