Covers thermodynamics of interfaces and surface tension measurement; adsorption at liquid-gas, liquid-liquid, and solid-gas interfaces; monolayers; conservation equations for a fluid interface; rheology of interfaces; surface tension driven flows; contact angle and wettability; and double layer phenomena. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 3200 (minimum grade D-).
Examines the fundamental physical and chemical processes that impact the fate and transport of organic contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Emphasizes both equilibrium and kinetic aspects, including solubility, vapor pressure, air-water exchange, sorption, abiotic redox reactions, and photodegradation.
Same as ASEN 4426 and ECEN 4821/5821. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) 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. Requisites: 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. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of TLEN 5330 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or graduate 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. Recommended prereq., CVEN 5524, 5534, or 5474. Department consent required.
Same as ASEN 4436, ECEN 4831/5831. Requisites: Restricted to College of Engineering (ENGR) graduate students or Aerospace Engineering Concurrent Degree (C-ASEN) 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. Required undergrad prereqs of PHYS 1110 and ECEN 4138 (minimum grade C-). Requisites: Restricted to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.
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. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of TLEN 5330 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or graduate 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. Requisites: Restricted to Computer Science (CSEN) graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.
Explores chaotic dynamics theoretically and through computer simulations. Covers the standard computational and analytical tools used in nonlinear dynamics and concludes with an overview of leading-edge chaos research. Topics include time and phase-space dynamics, surfaces of section, bifurcation diagrams, fractal dimension, and Lyapunov exponents. Same as CSCI 4446 and ECEN 5423. Requisites: Restricted to Computer Science (CSEN) graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.
An applied analysis and design class addressing the use of object-oriented techniques. Topics include domain modeling, use cases, architectural design, and modeling notations. Students apply the techniques in analysis and design projects. Same as CSCI 4448. Requisites: Restricted to Computer Science (CSEN) 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. Recommended prereq., ECEN 3300 and ECEN 4138. Requisites: Restricted to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.
Techniques for algorithm design, analysis of correctness and efficiency; divide and conquer, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, advanced data structures, graph algorithms, etc. Lower bounds, NP-completeness, intractability. Recommended prereq., CSCI 2270 or equivalent. Requisites: Restricted to Computer Science (CSEN) graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.
Applies traditional and modern probability and statistical methods to environmental, hydrological, climatological and engineering data analysis. Topics include: basic probability, data visualization, fitting univariate and multivariate distributions, Monte Carlo simulations, extreme value distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, nonparametric density estimators, linear regression, and Bayesian analysis. The data analysis tool, R, is used throughout the course.
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. Recommended prereqs., ECEN 3300 and ECEN 4138. Requisites: Restricted to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.
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. Department consent required. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of TLEN 5310 and TLEN 5330 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or graduate 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. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of TLEN 5460 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Develops and utilizes analytic solutions for environmental process models that can be used in a) reactor design for processes used in the treatment of water, wastewater and hazardous waste and b) process analysis of natural systems, such as streams and groundwater flow. Models facilitate the tracking of contaminants in engineered and natural systems. Same as EVEN 4464. Requisites: 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. Recommended prereq., Java programming and C/C++. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of TLEN 5330 (minimum grade D-).
