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Chemical Engineering (ChE)

440 Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.
4 Hours. Fluid mechanics and transport processes involving non-Newtonian fluids. Purely viscous and viscoelastic behavior. Viscometric functions and rheometry. Heat and mass transfer in non-Newtonian fluids.

450 Air Pollution Engineering.
4 Hours. Same as Mechanical Engineering 450. Environmental aspects of combustion processes, pollutant formation. Control of pollutants and particulates. Air quality control. Fundamentals of combustion.

494 Fundamentals and Design of Microelectronics Processing .
4 Hours. Basic principles, design and practical aspects of the most advanced state of microelectronics materials processing. The emphasis is on basic aspects of thin film deposition, substrate doping and passivation, lithography and etching coupled with thermodynamics, kinetics, reactor design, optimization and other engineering concepts as they appply to fundamental processes that are especially useful in mico- and nano-electric materials.

494 Computational Molecular Modeling (Also listed as ME 494) .
4 Hours. May be repeated for credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Systematic study of selected topics in chemical engineering theory and practice.

512 Microhydrodynamics, Diffusion, and Membrane Transport. .
4 Hours. Theoretical and numerical fluid mechanics of microstructure: potential flow and virtual mass, quasistatic versus transient Stokes flow, integral theorems, multipole expansions, singularity solutions, fluctuations, and current applications.

Computer Science (CS)

475 Object-Oriented Programming.
4 Hours. No credit given if the student has credit in CS 340 or CS 474. OO Paradigm: classes, messages, methods, variables, inheritance, polymorphism; the C++ and Java languages. Extensive computer use required.

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Note: Courses under this rubric were previously listed under Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).

401 Quasi-Static Electric and Magnetic Fields.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 401. Static electric and magnetic fields. Material description, boundary value problems. Field energy, its conversion and scaling laws. Quasi-static fields, field diffusion, eddy currents, energy loses.

422 Wave Propagation and Communication Links.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 422. Antennas and propagation; wave propagation over ground, through ionosphere and troposphere; diversity principles; propagation effects in microwave systems, satellite, space, and radar links.

423 Electromagnetic Compatibility.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 423. EMC requirements for electronic systems. Nonideal behavior of components. Radiated and conducted emissions. Susceptibility. Coupling and shielding. Electrostatic discharge. System design for EMS.

432 Digital Communications.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 432. Source coding, quantization, signal representation, channel noise, optimum signal reception, digital modulation: ASK, PSK, FSK, MSK, M-ary modulation. Probability of error. Inter-symbol interference.

434 Multimedia Communication Networks.
4 Hours. Extensive computer use required. Multimedia systems; compression standards; asynchronous transfer mode; Internet; wireless networks; television; videoconferencing; telephony; applications.

435 Wireless Communication Networks.
4 hours. Previously listed as EECS 435. Radio technology fundamentals; channel and propagation models; channel multiple access technologies; wireless mobile communication fundamentals; generic wireless mobile network; cellular/PCS wireless mobile network standards. Prerequisites: a course in Digital Communications

449 Microdevices and Micromachining Technology.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 449. Laboratory. Microfabrication techniques for microsensors, microstructures, and microdevices. Selected examples of physical/chemical sensors and actuators. Simulation experiments.

465 Digital Systems Design.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 465. Switching algebra, combinational circuits, Mux, ROM, PLA-based designs, minimization techniques, synchronous and asynchronous sequential circuits (minimization, hazards, races, state assignment, retiming), fault analysis, testing.

466 Advanced Computer Architecture.
4 Hours. Previously listed as EECS 466. Credit is not given for ECE 466 if the student has credit in CS 466. Design and analysis of high performance uniprocessors. Topics include arithmetic: multiplication, division, shifting; processor: pipelining, multiple function units. Instructure sets; memory: caches, modules; virtual machines.

520 Electromagnetic Field Theory.
4 hours. Previously listed as EECS 520. Maxwells equations. Potentials. Constitutive relations. Special relativity. Boundary conditions. Green's functions. Polarization. Radiation from antennas and charged particles. Waveguides and resonators. Exterior boundary-value problems.

526 Electromagnetic Scattering.
4 hours. Previously listed as EECS 526. Exact solutions of exterior boundary-value problems. Low-frequency expansions. High-frequency methods, including geometrical and physical theories of diffraction. Hybrid techniques. Radar cross-sections.

535 Advanced Wireless Communication Networks.
4 hours. Previously listed as EECS 535. 2nd generation: IS-95-based wireless mobile network; 2nd generation: GSM-based wireless mobile network; 2.5 generation: wireless mobile data/voice network; 3rd generation: broadband wireless mobile multimedia network. Prerequisites: ECE435

Engineering (Engr)

400 Engineering Law.
4 Hours. Overview of the legal system. Legal principles affecting the engineering profession. Professional ethics in engineering. Intellectual property law. Basic contract and tort principles. Environmental law.

401 Engineering Management.
4 hours. Theory, strategy, and tactics of the use of project management including project planning, matrix management concept, and team meetings

402 Intellectual Property Law.
4 hours. Patent, copyright, trade secret, mask work, and cyber-squatting legal and procedural principles; protection for novel software, biotech inventions, and business methods; and trademark protection for domain names.

403 Reliability Engineering.
4 hours. Probability overview; statistics overview; system reliability modeling and prediction-static methods; system reliability modeling and prediction-dynamic methods; maintainability and availability; reliability optimization; and risk analysis.

410 Wireless Data.
4 hours. Data communications; existing Wireless Data Networks; planning, topology, performance and operation; 3G standard activities; evolution of TDMA based 2G - 3G cellular systems; 3G European and North American systems; CDMA networks; WAP, Bluetooth and WLAN - IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN2; and Wireless Local Loop. Prerequisites: a course in Digital Communications and ECE435

Mechanical Engineering (ME)

450 Air Pollution Engineering.
4 Hours. Same as Chemical Engineering 450. Environmental aspects of combustion processes, pollutant formation. Control of pollutants and particulates. Air quality control. Fundamentals of combustion.

494 Computational Molecular Modeling (Also listed as ChE 494)
4 Hours. May be repeated for credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Systematic study of selected topics in chemical engineering theory and practice.

501 Advanced Thermodynamics.
4 hours. Thermodynamic laws of closed and open systems; exergy destruction; property relations, single phase systems, Gibbs-Duhem relations, multiphase systems, equilibrium; engineering applications.

533 Plasma Engineering
4 hours. Plasma-assisted applications. Kinetic theory of non-equilibrium processes. Plasma dynamics. Elementary processes-collisions. Diffusion and transport. Chemical reactions and surface treatment. Particle and energy balance in plasmas. Prerequisite(s):
ME 433 or consent of the instructor.