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Pharm" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4010", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This seminar examines human perception from a designer\u2019s perspective. It draws on perspectives from the sciences, arts, and humanities in order to build an understanding of how people perceive and interact with the environments they create. One cannot only read about perception; the seminar will augment reading with a range of direct experiences as source material for discussion.", "name" : "Seminar In Sensory Culture" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4020", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This interdisciplinary seminar consists of students from both the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering department. Presentation of a variety of structural typologies bears direct relation to practical experience and the necessity for constructive interdisciplinary discourse. 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This course highlights the perspective of that dimension of architectural understanding by examining in detail both historically and contemporarily many of the most significant ways that human habitation has engaged the world at the large scale of cities and geographies. This 2-credit course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", "name" : "Cities And Their Territories" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4055", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Urban Data I examines the role of data representation and the use of web-based graphics and in contemporary design. This course teaches the power of combining the thought process and methods of an architect with increasingly sophisticated representational techniques that broaden the function of a traditional drawing. Students use publicly available datasets to interrogate a pressing urban problem. They research, represent, and propose design solutions using data they\u2019ve collected to guide their decision-making process.", "name" : "Urban Data 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4060", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Drawing from areas of their own interest, students create unique data sets and design simple games that address little-known or at-risk urban culture and phenomena. Urban Data II brings together a multitude of skills including research, design, game logic, and web creation. The ability to effectively combine the ideas and techniques taught in this course offers students uniquely relevant skills in an era where architects are constantly adapting to ever-changing technology.", "name" : "Urban Data 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4065", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Design Programming 1 provides an accelerated introduction to computer programming for design professionals including instruction in 2D and 3D graphics, Web applications, and building data. The course provides an accelerated introduction to prevalent programming languages and constructs, graphics libraries and development environments. The course spans from an introduction to the basic concepts of general programming, object oriented programming and 2D graphics through basic web design, 3D graphics on the web building data modeling and web database integration. This class is oriented to students who are interested in going beyond simply using 2D and 3D programs, who want to better understand the technologies behind these tools, and access capabilities beyond those of simple scripting. Students develop a web based design modeling application targeting their domain of design interest over the course of the semester, as well as learning technical skills through weekly exercises.", "name" : "Design Programming 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4070", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Architecture and painting are two of the oldest forms of societal expression and have been historically linked in complex and dynamic ways. In the 20th century, the movements of Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, Purism, Surrealism, and Dadaism consisted of dynamic dialogs between architecture and painting. These exchanges allowed each to have a profound and deep impact upon the other. By contrast, in early 21st century, there seems to be all but a mute relationship between the two. This course intends to help break that silence. This course will begin to bridge the divide by establishing new connections between the current preoccupations with materials, procedures, and affects that are emerging in both contemporary painting and architecture. Twisted Siblings seeks to explore and discover new relationships between the most cutting-edge digital technologies and how painting may influence the expressive capacities of these technologies. As contemporary painting and architecture seek to establish future directions, a new dialog and exchange of ideas should be emerging, to ensure a dynamic and radical future for both. The course will consist of a series of lectures, discussions, and presentations. Students will be expected to research a number of individual architects, painters, and writers who are producing work of related interest. Students will be responsible for completing a research project, which synthesizes the content of the course.", "name" : "Twisted Siblings:relationships Between Contemporary Painting And Digital Architecture" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4075", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course introduces ecological and landscape thinking pertaining to the academic work of architecture, landscape architecture and art research undertaken at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This course will investigate the history and theory of landscape architectural design, public space, and ecology, as a framework for the hybrid design thinking increasingly required of 21st century inhabitants.", "name" : "Geo-actors 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4080", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "This course introduces ecological and landscape thinking pertaining to the academic work of architecture, landscape architecture and art research undertaken at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This course will investigate the history and theory of landscape architectural design, public space, and ecology, as a framework for the hybrid design thinking increasingly required of 21st century inhabitants.", "name" : "Geo-actors 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4090", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Works of architecture embody knowledge, ideas, and imagination that express formally, spatially, and materially the ways of living and values of the civilizations in which they occur. In continuing the inquiry begun in The Ethos of Architecture and employing the skills and values acquired in that course and Architectural Media, the intent of this course is to teach students the means for investigating buildings coherently, rationally, and interpretively to understand the technical and cultural knowledge embedded within works of architecture. A select number of modern and contemporary buildings that represent a high degree of sophistication in the way their architects have approached the breadth of design issues both within and external to the programs of those works will be analyzed critically in order to ascertain the significance and relationships of the multiple systems of order inherent to a work of architecture.", "name" : "Architectural Case Studies" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4100", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non-Western civilizations in order to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, culture, civilization, technology, and thought. 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This course explores the ideal of modernity as both a cultural phenomenon and as a technological enframing of the world, scientific rationality, historical consciousness, etc.", "name" : "Modernity & Architecture" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4130", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Modernity In Culture, Civilization And Architecture 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4140", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. 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Fundamental to this process is to encourage the students\u2019 awareness of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions.", "name" : "Contemporary Design Approaches" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4160", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This class is taken by professional students from the School of Architecture\u2019s Troy campus accepted into the one-semester visiting program at CASE in NYC. The course is structured to integrate visiting students into ongoing research at CASE by forming cohort groups that work directly with in-resident Ph.D. students. Architectural research methods are explored throughout the semester and include; case studies, modeling, simulation, and prototyping of building systems. The course consists of topical lectures, and discussions regarding progress of ongoing research projects.", "name" : "Research Investigations" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4170", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Environmental Parametrics is an intensive introductory course on visual scripting theory and methodology intended to give incoming students a foundational base in computational and parametric design modeling. The techniques presented in this course allow designers to integrate environmental data and simulations fluidly into 3D models and the design process. A new and progressively more complex topic is introduced each week, and each topic is presented with an associated design exercise. This course is taught in a seminar format with some instructor led tutorials and workshop content linked to dedicated breakout time for completing assignments and modeling. A devoted archive folder for downloading and uploading course material and completed exercises will be used for the course. B.Arch. students in Fall semesters can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.Arch. Students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.", "name" : "Environmental Parametrics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4200", "credits" : "1 credit", "description" : "A graphic portfolio of architectural design work is a living document representing the diversity, competence, and growth of", "name" : "Portfolio Development" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4230", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Lighting Design" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4240", "credits" : "6 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. 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It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Architecture Design 5" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4260", "credits" : "6 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Architecture Design 6" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4270", "credits" : "6 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Arch Design 7" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4300", "credits" : "6 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Design Development" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4320", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course provides critical technical knowledge and skills for students to critically address environmental building regulations and the practice of", "name" : "Building Integration 1: Design" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4325", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "This course provides consultation with experts to prepare students with the necessary leadership skills for collaborative practice through lectures and skill building workshops. This course will provide access to professional disciplines typically engaged in the building design process as consultants, including sustainable practice, structural, mechanical, environmental, and high-performance facade design to support the integration of of technical knowledge and to promote innovation in current and future best practices, and stewardship of resources within architecture.", "name" : "Building Integration 2 - Prtc" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4330", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course builds on the material presented in Structures 1, with an emphasis on the analysis and design of structures compressed primarily of steel and site cast and pre-cast concrete, with an overview of load-bearing masonry and advanced systems. The theoretical concepts covered in the introduction course form the conceptual basis for work in Structures 2, with relevant new concepts/techniques covered. Innovative, non-normative structural systems are investigated and discussed. Analysis and design will proceed using primarily computer-aided techniques. The course approach will involve in-class presentations, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies. WebCT will be used to expand the student\u2019s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: The following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: structural robustness, and programmatic flexibility. 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It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Elect Media: Phys Des Proc" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4460", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Electronic Media: Critical Vis" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4510", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course introduces the construction industry as an essential context for realizing architecture. It is a survey of the people, organizations, and professional and industry groups involved in design, construction, finance, insurance, and regulation of building. Current issues influencing design quality are identified by the class and are explored in a series of student-organized in-depth seminars with industry participants. 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An overview of professional obligations, registration and conduct, architects\u2019 roles in project delivery, and office organization and management for delivering professional services. In-depth examination of architects\u2019 responsibilities for health, safety, and welfare in design; building code requirements for fire protection, life safety, and accessibility; economics of building systems and assemblies; design and construction contracts; and design documentation.", "name" : "Professional Practice 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4550", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice. The course will address professional obligations and ethics, contracts, registration, office organization, and management. The course will emphasize effective communication, negotiating, public speaking, and team development.", "name" : "Professional Practice 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4560", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "In a world of rapid technological change, this course aims to equip future architects with the ability to position, understand, and implement new materials and systems in meaningful ways. The working principles of selected advanced materials and systems are explained and issues of material development, applications, and integration into buildings systems are addressed. Emphasis is also placed on understanding the issues involved when combining and installing new materials or systems into buildings. Students are further introduced to detail development. Sustainability: New materials and systems are explored with the objective of formulating meaningful technological response to critical environmental and societal issues such as resource depletion, environmental degradation, and globalization.", "name" : "Materials And Enclosures" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4580", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "The goal of Material Systems and Production is threefold: to develop a fundamental understanding of materials through first principles, classification, production, and impacts, to develop models for material properties and testing, and to develop criteria to make reasoned choices for the implementation of materials in the built environment. Students will engage in directed research projects with the intent of opportunistically identifying intrinsic material properties, exploiting production-forming logics, and developing a prototype detail assembly for testing.", "name" : "Materials Systems & Production" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4590", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course addresses the range of economic issues related to the practice of architecture. 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Crucial to the goals of this course is to encourage students to pursue and develop their own unique vision and voice in architecture throughout their education and practice. Fundamental to this process is making students aware of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions.", "name" : "History, Theory, Criticism I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5110", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non-Western civilizations in order to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, culture, civilization, technology, and thought. 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The principles of strength of materials are studied to understand how particular structural materials and configurations manage to resist these forces without unacceptable distortions, or even failure. Wood structural properties are studied in all their complexity as a means to internalize the more theoretical topics broached. Through in-class presentations, reading, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies, the student will be aided in developing this intuitive (while practical) understanding. It is recognized that intuitions of building technologies are not acquired quickly but result from much study, observation, and practice. Introduction to Structures makes use of the several approaches above to ensure that the beginning student is provided with a broad, solid base for future structural investigations. WebCT will be used to expand the student\u2019s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. 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Students will use digital methodologies through all phases of a project as well as advanced representation and digital fabrication techniques. The use of digital modeling as a sketch and iterative tool will be emphasized. Tools taught in Digital Constructs 1 will support softwares taught in Digital Constructs 2. This course is required of all first-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Graduate Architecture Design 1 will be between the Digital Constructs 1 faculty instructor and the architectural design studio coordinator and faculty.", "name" : "Digital Constructs I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5170", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Building on techniques taught in Digital Constructs 1, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic softwares. This course is required of all second-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Graduate Architecture Design 2 will be between the Digital Constructs 2 faculty instructor and the studio coordinator and faculty.", "name" : "Digital Constructs 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5200", "credits" : "5 credits", "description" : "This studio focuses on the relationship between building and landscape in terms of conceptual, pragmatic, ideological, aesthetic, and functional issues. As such, it endeavors to examine critically the disciplinary boundary between building and landscape. 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The interdependence among building materials, acoustic qualities, enclosure systems, interior, finish, and other systems is investigated, with an emphasis on the broader architectural design endeavor. Complementing performance characteristics, the phenomenology of materials is introduced as a key concept in architectural design. An understanding of assemblies and integration is developed both from a design and engineering perspective as well as in construction application. The course approach will involve in class presentations, design projects and experiments, and the in depth analysis of architectural case studies. The importance of proper detailing, construction, and maintenance to accomplish lasting and efficient enclosures is highlighted.", "name" : "Materials And Construction Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5310", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "An exploration of the fundamental principles of human physiology, thermal and luminous comfort, and indoor quality. Emphasis is on bioclimatic and psychrometric climate analysis and its relationship to architectural design, understanding the energy exchange between body in space, the natural meaning of enclosures, and nonstructural materials and systems. The focus is on passive heating, cooling, and daylighting systems and their design. Exercises include vital sign analysis of existing spaces (thermal, air, luminous), forming hypotheses of building performance, using scientific instrumentation, tenant survey techniques, and physical modeling and simulation techniques related to daylighting and shading techniques. 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Sustainability: new materials and systems are explored with the objective of formulating meaningful technological response to critical environmental and societal issues such as resource depletion, environmental degradation, and globalization. This is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "Materials And Enclosures" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5360", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Design analysis and performance characteristics of building environmental systems, emphasizing heating, cooling, ventilation, and lighting systems. In addition, building electrical systems, acoustics, water, waste, and drainage systems are covered in terms of fundamental theory, designs, and calculations. Case studies, field trips, and system design project work are required. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "Building Systems & Environment" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5380", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice. The course will address professional obligations and ethics, contracts, registration, office organization, and management. The course will emphasize effective communication, negotiating, public speaking, and team development. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "Professional Practice 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5390", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice. The course will address professional obligations and ethics, contracts, registration, office organization, and management. The course will emphasize effective communication, negotiating, public speaking, and team development. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "Professional Practice II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6000", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Architecture Elective" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6001", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Hvcc" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6002", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Suny Alb." }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6003", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Siena" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6004", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Skidmore" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6005", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Union" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6006", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At St. Rose" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6007", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Jca" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6009", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Consortia Course At Alb. Pharm" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6055", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Urban Data I examines the role of data representation and the use of web-based graphics and in contemporary design. This course teaches the power of combining the thought process and methods of an architect with increasingly sophisticated representational techniques that broaden the function of a traditional drawing. Students use publicly available datasets to interrogate a pressing urban problem. They research, represent, and propose design solutions using data they\u2019ve collected to guide their decision-making process.", "name" : "Urban Data 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6060", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "Drawing from areas of their own interest, students create unique data sets and design simple games that address little-known or at-risk urban culture and phenomena. Urban Data II brings together a multitude of skills including research, design, game logic, and web creation. The ability to effectively combine the ideas and techniques taught in this course offers students uniquely relevant skills in an era where architects are constantly adapting to ever-changing technology.", "name" : "Urban Data 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6065", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Design Programming 1 provides an accelerated introduction to computer programming for design professionals including instruction in 2D and 3D graphics, Web applications, and building data. The course provides an accelerated introduction to prevalent programming languages and constructs, graphics libraries and development environments. The course spans from an introduction to the basic concepts of general programming, object oriented programming and 2D graphics through basic web design, 3D graphics on the web building data modeling and web database integration. This class is oriented to students who are interested in going beyond simply using 2D and 3D programs, who want to better understand the technologies behind these tools, and access capabilities beyond those of simple scripting. Students develop a web based design modeling application targeting their domain of design interest over the course of the semester, as well as learning technical skills through weekly exercises.", "name" : "Design Programming 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6075", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course introduces ecological and landscape thinking pertaining to the academic work of architecture, landscape architecture and art research undertaken at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This course will investigate the history and theory of landscape architectural design, public space, and ecology, as a framework for the hybrid design thinking increasingly required of 21st century inhabitants.", "name" : "Geo-actors 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6110", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Design Explorations 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6120", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Design Explorations 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6130", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Design Explorations 3" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6210", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Graduate Studio I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6220", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Graduate Studio II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6310", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course has been conceived together with Material Systems and Productions and the Design Research Studio, such that each student will develop a complementary written analysis that critically situates the new material system that the student is developing in design studio within historical, socio-political, and economic flows. The written analysis will directly reference key themes contained within the required readings, lectures, and seminar discussions. Course taught in New York City.", "name" : "Environmental History & Theory" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6320", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Advanced graduate level course focusing on the collection, analysis, and application of data for the generation of criteria within the design process. Multiple scales will be investigated, from the material and product scale, to the building/architectural scale, and finally to the urban, regional, and global scales. 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Course taught in New York City.", "name" : "Built Ecologies 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6340", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "The goal of Material Systems and Production is threefold: to develop a fundamental understanding of materials through first principles, material classification, material production, and material impacts, to develop material models based on material properties and tests, and to develop criteria to make reasoned choices for the implementation of materials in the built environment. Students will engage in directed research projects through the lens of material with the intent of opportunistically identifying intrinsic material properties, exploiting production forming logics, and developing a prototype detail assembly for testing. B.Arch. students can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.Arch. students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.", "name" : "Material Systems & Productions" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6350", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This initial studio segment will explore variable phases of data collection, processing, and synthesis through explorative visualization methods. These methods will bear the complexity of mapping dynamic forces present in nature juxtaposed to cultural and economical factors. Course taught in New York City.", "name" : "Design Research Studio" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6360", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "The studio addresses interdisciplinary exchange within research practice, understanding that buildings operate within complex dynamic systems. Buildings and their material systems are composed of interdependent systemic relationships at multiple scales \u2013 \u2018Built Ecologies\u2019 \u2013 operating as metabolic systems within and upon existent natural and made systems. Design is a method of research, discovering and developing new systems and strategies transferable to many sites. Course taught in New York City.", "name" : "Interdisciplinary Research Studio" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6370", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Environmental Parametrics Workshop" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6380", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Environmental Parametrics is an intensive introductory course on visual scripting theory and methodology intended to give incoming students a foundational base in computational and parametric design modeling in order to supplement fall semester courses for new and incoming students into the Built Ecologies and Geofutures post professional programs without prior experience. The techniques presented in this course allow designers to integrate environmental data and simulations fluidly into 3D models and the design process. A new and progressively more complex topic is introduced each week, and each topic is presented with an associated design exercise. This course is taught in a seminar format with some instructor led tutorials and workshop content linked to dedicated breakout time for completing assignments and modeling. A devoted archive folder for downloading and uploading course material and completed exercises will be used for the course. B.Arch. students can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.Arch. students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.", "name" : "Graduate Environmental Parametrics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6390", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Energy and Systems Simulation provides students with an introduction to advanced simulation tools and procedures necessary for analyzing the performance of complex environmental building systems. The course utilizes parametric software for the simulation and analysis of multi-objective optimization workflow procedures. Areas of building performance assessment include thermal and daylight optimization.", "name" : "Energy & Systems Simulation" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6400", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Criticism I introduces students to both historical and contemporary forms of discourse as it relates to the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. The course serves as an introduction to critical thinking and writing and provides students with the necessary analytical, verbal, and written skill sets to effectively participate in the discursive aspects of the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.", "name" : "Criticism I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6420", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Methods I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6460", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Stagecraft And Theatre Design" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6470", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Stagecraft & Theater Dsgn." }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6510", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "A seminar in research methods. This course will review the major considerations and tasks involved in conducting research in areas appropriate to the architectural sciences. It introduces the essential aspects of designing, supporting, and conducting a research project. Major areas that will be considered include: history and present status of the quantitative and qualitative methods, strengths and weaknesses of each method and approach, location of resources, information and data, sampling or selection of research materials and/or participants, data collection, measurement, data analysis, and research writing and style.", "name" : "Disciplinary Research Methods Seminar" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6520", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "This is a seminar course restricted to students in their second year of doctoral study. It provides a critical forum for the discussion of issues from methods to sources confronting the students on the dissertation. This course will form the core of the interdisciplinary experience of the Doctor of Philosophy in Architectural Sciences. It supports the position that advanced work in architecture frequently builds on knowledge from several disciplines, and as such provides a model for encouraging cross disciplinary work in the Institute. It will involve a combination of senior faculty and visitors and regular presentation of dissertation work in progress.", "name" : "Interdisciplinary Phd Seminar" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6610", "credits" : "5 credits", "description" : "This is a graduate level architecture design and research based studio with a focus on advanced methods in materials, systems, ecology", "name" : "Graduate Architechure Design 3" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6615", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "G", "name" : "Open" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6620", "credits" : "5 credits", "description" : "This is a graduate level architecture design and research based studio with a focus on architectural and urban situations, global citizenship", "name" : "Grad Architecture Design 4" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6630", "credits" : "5 credits", "description" : "This is a graduate level comprehensive design studio focusing on the integration of user and regulatory requirements, site, universal", "name" : "Graduate Architecture Design 5" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6635", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "This course spans between architectural development and professional practice. The course focuses on a core of technical points central to the professional practice and fields of specialist expertise. The course integrates a professional review and development process of students' comprehensive design work combined with technical design workshops, including input from practicing architects, engineers and professional consultants. In addition to workshops, the format of the course will include lectures, site visits, and office visits with a variety of practitioners and specialist consultants engaged in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industries. The course will add depth, increase knowledge and provide critical feedback for the expanded role of the design professional in contemporary culture.", "name" : "Bridge To Practice" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6640", "credits" : "1 credit", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Historic Preservation Law" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6650", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Arch Materials Testing 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6660", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Architectural Materials Testing 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6670", "credits" : "1 credit", "description" : "", "name" : "Structural & Mechan Systems 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6680", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Works of architecture embody knowledge, ideas, and imagination that express formally, spatially, and materially the ways of living and values of the civilizations in which they occur. A select number of modern and contemporary buildings that represent a high degree of sophistication in the way their architects have approached the breadth of design issues both within and external to the programs of those works will be analyzed critically in order to ascertain the significance and relationships of the multiple systems of order inherent to a work of architecture. Reflecting on the knowledge and understandings acquired in all the previous courses in the history, theory, and criticism sequence, this course is a critical inquiry into the principal ideologies and premises of the most substantive architectural practices in the contemporary world. As such, the content of the course must necessarily evolve as the intellectual and cultural parameters of both theory and practice in the contemporary world change. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "History, Theory, Criticism 3" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6690", "credits" : "1 credit", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Drawing Historic Structures" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6700", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Recording Historic Structures" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6710", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Preservation Desgn Studio" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6720", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Preservation Dsg Stud 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6740", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Structural & Mechanical Sys 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6750", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This seminar is the first required course of the two-semester, 3rd-year Final Project course sequence in the M.Arch program and as such serves as a prerequisite to the spring semester Final Project Design Studio (ARCH 6XXX). The Design Research Seminar provides a forum for readings and discussions as well as design and/or material experimentation as it relates to the respective Graduate Final Project instructor\u2019s thematic framework. The seminar also covers fundamentals related to standard methods of research and analysis. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "Final Project Research Seminar" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6760", "credits" : "8 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Lighting Research Workshop" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6780", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Lighting Leadership Sem" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6810", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "The principal objective of this introductory seminar is to provide stude\u00ad\u00ad\u00adnts with the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of research design. Research design includes: (1) identifying and selecting focused research problems/opportunities/ideas; (2) documenting the state of the art in the selected research area; (3) identifying the critical resources and settings to carry out the research; (4) designing the research program including strategies and tactics for carrying out the research. It is hoped that the knowledge gained in the RD Seminar will assist students in the development of their own individual thesis proposals while they contribute to active research. B.Arch. students can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.Arch. students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.", "name" : "Research Design Seminar" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6820", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Research Methods In Acoustics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6830", "credits" : "1 credit", "description" : "The Graduate Thesis Seminar: Acoustics is designed to provide support to graduate students who are engaged in independent thesis research projects. It is a required course for all graduate students in the Architectural Acoustics programs. This seminar provides a formal opportunity for students and faculty from a range of concentrations to meet together and discuss thesis work in progress.", "name" : "Graduate Thesis Seminar:acoustics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6840", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Introductory materials of engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics (at least one level of first-year college). Much of the course material is taken from the textbook \u201cAcoustics for Engineers\u201d by Blauert and Xiang (2nd Ed.). The course includes mechanic and acoustic oscillations, the wave equations in fluids, governing equations for horns and ducts, spherical sound sources and arrays, piston membranes, diffraction and scattering, dissipation, reflection, refraction and absorption, isolation of air- and structure-borne sounds, noise propagation and noise control. B.S. and B.Arch. students can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.S.Arch. Acoustics students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.", "name" : "Engineering Acoustics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6860", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course covers the fundamentals of psychoacoustics with a focus on Architectural Acoustics. Topics include the functional overview of the auditory system, loudness, pitch, timbre perception, masking, binaural hearing, auditory scene analysis, multi-modal integration, and auditory perception in rooms. Required signal processing methods will be covered as well. The graduate-level course requires an extensive individual project and more advanced analysis.", "name" : "Applied Psychoacoustics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6870", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "The Sonics Research Lab is completely research based. The first part (the Fall semester) will be focused on hands-on research tools and techniques. First, students will learn the basics of digital signal processing, develop an understanding of measurement equipment and analysis methods for sound. The course will examine the ISO standards of room-acoustic measurements, develop students\u2019 research goals and a specific set of data to gather for their research. The course will also prepare the students with the fundamental knowledge on CATT Acoustic and/or EASE in geometrical modeling. Then the students and professors will visit a number of performance venues (e.g. EMPAC Concert Hall, and/ or other venues) and perform the room-acoustic measurements. Students will then work on analyzing and interpreting the research results. Practice measurements will be scheduled in the gallery or somewhere on campus before trips to performance halls. MATLAB will play a central role throughout all the classes (SRL I & II) and the thesis research projects. It will be used during the class exercises. Within one week from the semester start, every student is required to INSTALL a functioning MATLAB Software package onto her/his laptop computer.", "name" : "Sonics Research Lab 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6880", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "The second semester of the Sonics Research Lab includes advanced acoustical measurement techniques. Another important part of the semester curriculum concerns noise sources, noise control, and vibration measurements. State-of-the-art, commercial software and school research-based software will be used for simulation/analysis/measurement of room acoustics in order to show the students how such technical tools assist in acoustics research and consulting practice for the design of performance and public spaces. The course will also give students a deeper theoretical understanding of architectural acoustics in order to assist them in room acoustics research. There will also be labs to reflect typical measurement procedures and (if time permits) site visits to acoustics research labs and different types of acoustical spaces. The Sonics Research Lab II emphasizes more training on independent hands-on and problem-solving skills (than the SRL I).", "name" : "Sonics Research Lab 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6890", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "In this course, design processes in architectural acoustics will be studied from a psychoacoustical perspective. Different concepts to create physical and virtual acoustic spaces will be discussed based on perceptual design goals. Topics include ecological psychoacoustics, sound quality, auditory virtual environments, and auditory computational modeling.", "name" : "Aural Architecture" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6900", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Readings and discussion of topical materials that are selected to place graduate projects and theses in a comprehensive context.", "name" : "Graduate Thesis Seminar" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6910", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This seminar introduces a disciplinary-specific approach to the development of research problem definition and research methods. The topics considered will be drawn from and situated within the various fields of study that support doctoral study in architectural sciences, as well as from research activities in related fields in engineering, science, and the humanities. Case studies of prototypical architectural science research will evaluate current practice, identifying state of knowledge with the field and the resources and settings necessary to support the research activity.", "name" : "Doctoral Seminar 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6920", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "This seminar builds upon Doctoral Seminar 1 by cultivating a disciplinary-specific approach to the development of research problem definition and research methods. The topics considered will be drawn from and situated within the various fields of study that support doctoral study in architectural sciences, as well as from research activities in related fields in engineering, science, and the humanities. Case studies of prototypical architectural science research will evaluate current practice, identifying state of knowledge with the field and the resources and settings necessary to support the research activity.", "name" : "Doctoral Seminar 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6940", "credits" : "1-6 credits", "description" : "Individual projects and readings adapted to the needs of individual students at the advanced level.", "name" : "Adv Ind Proj In Arch/env Desgn" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6941", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Adv. Indiv. Proj. In Arch And" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6948", "credits" : "6 credits", "description" : "This design studio is the second required course of the two-semester, 3rd-year Graduate Final Project course sequence in the graduate M.Arch. program. The Graduate Final Project Design Studio provides a forum for the design and development of a comprehensive architectural proposal pertinent to the Final Project course sequence. This course is required of all third-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", "name" : "Graduate Final Project" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6960", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6961", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6962", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. 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They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6967", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6968", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6969", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6970", "credits" : "0-4 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6971", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Course codes between X960 and X979 are for topics courses. They are often recycled and used for new or experimental courses.", "name" : "Topics in ARCH" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-6980", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Active participation in a master\u2019s-level project, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master\u2019s project report. Grades S or U are assigned at the end of the semester. 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We use punk, queer and biological laboratory techniques to creatively produce science, design and art works. Students will be required to complete readings, experiment, and create their own visions of a speculative biofuture. Emphasis will be on the history and contemporary investigations of the microbiome and how to culturally explore these scenarios of how we live amongst multiple diverse communities and species.", "name" : "Biopunk: Arts Lab Practice" }, { "attributes" : [ "CI" ], "code" : "ARTS-4130", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course asks what is really new about New Media, and looks at creative practices, theoretical discourses, and social contexts to find answers. The course concentrates on cutting edge cultural expression using information and communication technologies. 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The course can therefore enhance capstone, thesis, or dissertation work.", "name" : "Media Watch" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4160", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course assumes knowledge and experience in computer music programming, applications, and performance. It is directed to undergraduate students as an upper-level seminar guiding their progress through the composition of a significant musical work or the design and development of a significant research project. 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Students will develop a plan to work with a media arts center, community organization, or school; final teams will produce real-world arts and education projects that ultimately will be realized as significant additions to their professional portfolio. The projects can include a range from traditional arts practice to creative writing, creative IT models, to community art and activism.", "name" : "Arts, Community, And Tech" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4260", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Life Drawing and Anatomy for Artists is an advanced drawing class that will focus on drawing the human figure. Students will work from live models to refine their drawing skills; clay models from anatomical texts will be made to develop a working knowledge of anatomy for artists. Gesture, proportion, and expression of the human figure will be emphasized; general concepts of design and composition will also be presented.", "name" : "Life Drawing And Anatomy For Artists" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4280", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "In 3D Animation, the technical director (or \u201cTD\u201d) covers roles including character rigging, lighting setup, custom tools, and other parts of the pipeline that involve the technical work needed to support artistic creativity. In this course we will focus on rigging, covering basic and intermediate rigging techniques for characters in Maya including bipeds, facial rigs, motion capture and game engine pipelines and basic scripting in MEL and Python. We will emphasize an animator-friendly approach to rig design, utilizing both the technical capabilities of Maya and good UI and UX principles to produce rigs that are both powerful and easy to use.", "name" : "3d Technical Direction" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4380", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "The second in a two-course sequence combining music theory, aural skills, and engaged listening practices applicable to a broad range of musical styles, with an emphasis on creative practice. This course covers chromatic, extended, and contemporary tonal harmony and its interrelationship with form. Musicianship exercises include advanced chord identification, rhythm exercises, dictation, and improvisation. Engaged listening practices include responsive listening, reading, and written exercises as well as in-class discussion. 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It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Music Theory II" }, { "attributes" : [ "CI" ], "code" : "ARTS-4410", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Deep Listening" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4420", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Experimental Telepresence" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4430", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Topics In Deep Listening" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4440", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "This course examines how music and sound is heard, experienced, and circulated on screens across diverse media formats in contemporary society. This interdisciplinary course introduces students to a variety of analytical, historical, and theoretical approaches to the understanding of music, sound and interactive and non-interactive narrative screen media, including film, television, music video, video games, apps and mobile media, Internet audiovisual & social media, VR/AR, and other screen formats of sound production, distribution, and consumption. This course is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors only.", "name" : "Music, Sound & Screen Media" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4460", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Animation Production is designed to give an animation industry experience by completing the entire process of creating an animated short. Learning long-term time management and finding the key time cost/benefits will be essential to success. The course schedule is setup to replicate the industry model of frequent updates and feedback \u2013 dailies.", "name" : "Animation Production" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4470", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "This course examines how music and sound is heard, experienced, and circulated on screens across diverse media formats in contemporary society. This interdisciplinary course introduces students to a variety of analytical, historical, and theoretical approaches to the understanding of music, sound and interactive and non-interactive narrative screen media, including film, television, music video, video games, apps and mobile media, Internet audiovisual & social media, VR/AR, and other screen formats of sound production, distribution, and consumption. This course is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors only.", "name" : "Music, Sound & Screen Media" }, { "attributes" : [ "CI" ], "code" : "ARTS-4500", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course illuminates specific musical works and performances in depth, drawn from a range of periods, cultures, and genres by analyzing them in their historical, cultural, technological, and critical context. The emphasis is on music since 1900 and sample topics might include Remix in Digital Culture, Music in Protest and Social Justice, Gender and Sexuality in Music, Music and the Moving Image, and Sounding Identity, among others", "name" : "Topics Hist & Analys Of Music" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4510", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Experimental Game Design is an upper level studio arts course focusing on the creation of innovative, workable game prototypes using a variety of interactive multimedia. Games are considered as a new genre and are analyzed as cultural artifacts. The aesthetics of game design including character development, level design, game play experience, and delivery systems are covered. Flow, game theory, and game play gestalt are considered. Alternate gaming paradigms and emerging forms are encouraged.", "name" : "Experimental Game Design" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4520", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Game Development I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4540", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Game Development II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4550", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Cyber Arts" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4560", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course explores the history, methods, and goals of hackers with special attention paid to their role in social movements. It broadly interprets the term \u201chacktivism\u201d to include computer hacking, media hacking and \u201creality hacking\u201d in the service of social change. Students will gain an understanding of how and why hackers have emerged as a major social force.", "name" : "Hactivism" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4600", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "A technology-based performance ensemble, as well as a practice-based studio course, focused on the composition, design, and programming of new musical works and instruments. Students create and perform electronic music using laptops, microprocessors, digital networks and a range of new interfaces for musical expression. ARTS 4600/6600 combines studio and ensemble. The ensemble only section (ARTS 2600) may be taken multiple times as a 1-credit performance ensemble in partial satisfaction of the Music major or minor ensemble requirements, or once as a 4-credit seminar at either the 4000 or 6000 level.", "name" : "Ensemble Non-linear" }, { "attributes" : [ "CI" ], "code" : "ARTS-4620", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "The exploration of movement often reveals sensitivities concerning the body, identity, gesture, culture, sensory awareness, perception, space, orientation, kinesthesia, time, relationships to people and objects, as well as cultural notions of embodiment and the senses. This course employs practice-based work, creative experimentation, and traditional forms of research (reading, viewing media, writing, discussions) as the primary methods to illuminate the issues concerning enactive (movement) knowledge. This is a Deep Listening-related course.", "name" : "Exploring Movement & Sound" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4630", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "The course introduces students to the art of writing and directing short studio productions, with an emphasis on generating ideas, and realizing them in a well-developed final project. Major theories and principles are studied through a comparative analysis of scripts, videos and studio exercises. Students learn to work with actors, write their own scripts, and direct videos. Two final projects \u2013 a script and a video \u2013 will integrate all of the elements covered in class.", "name" : "Advanced Video - Media Studio" }, { "attributes" : [ "CI" ], "code" : "ARTS-4640", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Science Fictions is an advanced narrative video production and theory course. The class looks at thematic areas of science fiction, utopia and dystopia, paranormal, and speculative fiction. 'Speculative fiction' is a genre that looks at the real world and extends what is known about it, building on the 'real.' The class has two threads: to study narrative structure and create a series of sci-fi videos; to discuss and analyze mainstream and avant-garde science fiction films and themes from the early 1900s to the present.", "name" : "Science Fictions" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4650", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Television & Culture" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4660", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Animation Production" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4700", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course approaches the modern digital studio as a compositional environment for the development of the student\u2019s original creative projects. Engineering techniques will be explored through musical examples and hands-on projects.", "name" : "Sound Recording & Prod II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4820", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "Advanced Studio is for visual arts students working towards an EARTS Major and their culminating experience in Creative Seminar. The studio provides the space and opportunity to pursue independent research in parallel with established coursework. Students gain a greater understanding of the quality of research and skills necessary for effective project management required by the Creative Seminar and the professional gallery exhibition experience.", "name" : "Advanced Studio" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4840", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is for senior EMAC and EART majors and is the core creative forum for the development and presentation of the senior thesis. The course is the first part of a two-semester study provided in two seminar courses. The focus of the course is to develop a proposal for for a written thesis and a creative project that students will execute in the second seminar and exhibit in an exhibition.", "name" : "Creative Seminar I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4850", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is for senior EMAC and EART majors. The goal of the Creative Seminar II is to develop and formulate ideas from Creative Seminar I into a unique project for the artists/communicator that will demonstrate his/her independent ideas, research, writing, and design skills. Students will develop a written thesis, creative project (e.g., art, graphic design, interaction design, music, performance), prepare and present their project in a public exhibition, and design the publicity for the show.", "name" : "Creative Seminar II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4860", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This upper level studio and seminar explores individual visual arts projects contributing to thesis or dissertation development. Topics in creative personal expression in imaging, installation, digital/traditional mixed media and emerging genres will be studied drawing from issues raised in class projects. Advanced studies may include high resolution digital photography, montage, archival printing, gesture drawing, painting, assemblage, processing, stencil art, projection, and evolving genres which lead to an independent final project and web portfolio.", "name" : "Advanced Digital Imaging" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARTS-4880", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This is a course introducing music majors to advanced research topics of the Rensselaer music faculty. Each semester a member of the music faculty will focus the seminar on a research topic or paradigm related to their own body of artistic and technological research. Sample topics might include Spatial music and sound, New Instrument Design, Network Music, Music Information Retrieval, Ethnomusicology, Sonification Art and Science, Music and Logic, Spectralism and Beyond, Music Herstory (feminist music composition), Experimental music and sound history. 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Application of relays to protect generators, busses, transformers, and transmission lines.", "name" : "Protective Relaying" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6140", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Economics of the operation of power systems. Control of hydro and thermal generating units. Aspects of interconnected operation. Transmission losses and techniques for optimum economic generation. Hydrothermal coordination problems. Modern power markets. State estimation.", "name" : "Power Generation Operation And Control" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6141", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Generation of electric power from renewable sources and its integration into the power grid. Topics include fundamentals of photovoltaic and wind energy; power converters and their control for renewable energy conversion and grid integration; solar power plants, solar inverters, and their control; wind turbines based on synchronous generators, wind turbines based on doubly-fed induction generators (DFIG), wind power plants, and offshore wind; operation and control of power systems with renewables.", "name" : "Renewable Power Generation" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6150", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Review of electromagnetic theory required to undertake analysis and design of power equipment. Experimental, analog, and digital field estimation techniques. Case studies in electric and magnetic fields such as cable and bushing design, problems of gas bus systems, electrostatic precipitation, magnetic flux penetration, eddy currents, losses, shielding, generation of torque.", "name" : "Elec&magn Fields In Epe" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6160", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Analysis and computation of electrical transients in lumpy and distributed power circuits; switching surges, lightning surges, traveling waves. Impact of surges on terminal equipment. Insulation coordination; system protection; design of electric power apparatus and systems to operate reliably and economically in a transient environment.", "name" : "Surge Phenomena In Epe" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6170", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Modeling and simulation of cyber-physical systems through object-oriented equation-based computer languages and software tools.\u00a0Describes formalisms for continuous, discrete, timed-clocked\u00a0synchronous systems and finite state machines; and applies\u00a0simulation methods through numerical solution of differential-and-algebraic higher-and-varying index systems of equations with time\u00a0and state event\u00a0event\u00a0handling. Composing reusable model\u00a0architectures, templates, interfaces and data management for\u00a0model variants. Applies model deployment in heterogeneous\u00a0environments using model exchange, co-simulation and real-time\u00a0simulation techniques.", "name" : "Mod & Sim For Cyber-phys Sys" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6180", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Modeling of power system components including HVDC systems, flexible AC transmission systems, and wind turbines. Analysis and control techniques such as reactive power control, coherency, and model reduction. Synchrophasor technology \u2013 measurement, communication, and control.", "name" : "Adv Power Sys Modeling & Ctrl" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6190", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Applies the student\u2019s knowledge of power engineering to the solution of large problems by computer methods. Treats matrix techniques, load-flow analysis, network building, short circuit studies, numerical integration, and finite element analysis as it applies to power systems and power apparatus.", "name" : "Computer Methods In Epe" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6200", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This graduate-level course is designed to give students a hands-on experience in the characterization of basic semiconductor devices (diffused resistors, pn junction diodes, Schottky diodes, MOS capacitors, bipolar junction transistors, MOSFETs) in wafer and/or packaged forms. The final project involves the students in a detailed characterization of devices in a specific application (e.g. high-voltage power electronics, submicron ULSI, microwave and wireless).", "name" : "Semiconductor Devise Characterization" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6210", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "An introduction to emerging electronic and optoelectronics technology. Topics cover cutting edge technologies and novel device concepts, such as quantum devices, silicon-on-insulators (SOI), compound semiconductor devices and technologies, thin film transistors (TFTs), wide band gap semiconductor devices and technologies, Si-Ge devices, solar cells, photodetectors, semiconductor lasers, opto-electronic ICs, optical interconnects, and display technologies.", "name" : "Advanced Device Concepts" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6220", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Physical foundations underlying the operation of modern electronic and photonic solid-state devices. Quantum mechanical foundations are emphasized, including the postulates of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, uncertainty relation, the Kronig-Penney model, and perturbation theory. 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The interrelationship between device parameters and circuit performance is also discussed.", "name" : "Semiconductor Devices And Models I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6240", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Fabrication technology for silicon and gallium arsenide integrated circuits with emphasis on sub-micron structures. Topics include epitaxy, diffusion, binary and ternary phase diagrams, grown and deposited oxides and nitrides, polysilicon and silicide technology, single-and multi-metal systems, plasma and chemical etching, ion milling photo, e-beam and X-ray lithography.", "name" : "Vlsi Fabrication Tech" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6250", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Solid State Microwave Devices" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6260", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Special problems of semiconductor devices operating at high voltage and high current levels. Devices include p-i-n and Schottky diodes, bipolar junction transistors, power MOSFETs and thyristors. Topics include space charge limited current flow, micro plasmas, avalanche breakdown, junction termination, high-level injection, emitter crowding, double injection, second breakdown, triggering mechanisms, plasma propagation, switching and recovery characteristics. Introduction to the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor.", "name" : "Semicond Power Devices" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6270", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A brief review of interaction of light with matter. Operating principles, basic designs, and applications of optoelectronic devices such as Light Emitting Diodes, Laser Diodes, Photodetectors, and Solar Cells. Electro-optic, Acousto-optic and Non-linear optic based optical components such as Modulators, Switches, Couplers, Multiplexers, and Amplifiers. Optical Waveguides and Fibers. Optoelectronic Applications such as Fiber Optic and Free Space Optical Communication, Photovoltaics, Thermophotovoltaics, and Solid-State Lighting.", "name" : "Optoelectronics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6280", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course offers a comprehensive explanation of the technology and physics of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) such as infrared, visible-spectrum, ultraviolet, and white LEDs made from III\u2013V semiconductors. The elementary properties of LEDs and material on device structure, packaging, reflectors, phosphor materials, light extraction, and junction temperature are discussed. Applications of the LED focus on illumination, fiber, and free-space communication.", "name" : "Light Emitting Diodes" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6290", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A continuation of ECSE 6230. Physical operation and modeling of charge-coupled devices, junction field-effect transistors, bipolar junction transistors and heterojunction devices. Studies of heterojunction devices emphasize the exploitation of particular quantum-mechanical phenomena to achieve unique device behavior.", "name" : "Semiconductor Devices And Models II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6300", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Theory and practice of IC fabrication in a research laboratory environment. Test chips are fabricated and the resulting devices and circuits evaluated. Processes and fabrication equipment studied and used include oxidation/diffusion, CVD reactors, photolithography, plasma etching, vacuum evaporator, ion implantation, etc. Instruments used in process monitoring and final testing include thin film profilometer, ellipsometer, resistivity probe, scanning electron microscope, capacitance-voltage system, etc. The fundamentals of hazardous material handling and clean room procedures are studied.", "name" : "Ic Fabrication Lab" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6310", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Study of transmission lines, impedance matching, passive and active microwave systems. Work with S-parameters and experiment with the use of Smith chart. Introduction to microwave CAD tools for 2D electromagnetic (EM) simulations and microwave testing. Emphasis on physical understanding, quantitative performance evaluation using both hand calculations and EM simulations.", "name" : "Fdmtls Of Rf/microwave Engr" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6320", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Key design principles and techniques of modern computer hardware, including instruction-level, data-level, and thread-level parallelism in CPU and GPU, cache and memory hierarchy, DRAM and non-volatile memory technologies and solid-state drive, and heterogeneous and disaggregated computing architecture. Advanced infrastructure software design techniques and algorithms, including indexing data structure, transaction, storage model, and consistency and consensus. Course projects to gain advanced programming skills and deepen the understanding of modern computer hardware and software.", "name" : "Advanced Computer Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6340", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Plasma Diagnostics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6400", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Methods of analysis for continuous and discrete-time linear systems. Convolution, classical solution of dynamic equations, transforms, and matrices are reviewed. Emphasis is on the concept of state space. Linear spaces, concept of state, modes, controllability, observability, state transition matrix. State variable feedback, compensation, decoupling.", "name" : "Systems Analysis Techniques" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6410", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Robotics & Automation System" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6420", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Phenomena peculiar to nonlinear systems. Linearization, iteration, and perturbation procedures. Describing function stability analysis. Phase plane methods. Relaxation oscillations and limit cycles. Stability analysis by Lyapunov\u2019s method. Popov\u2019s theorem. Adaptive control systems. Sensitivity analysis.", "name" : "Nonlinear Control Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6430", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Linear programming, nonlinear programming, iterative methods, and dynamic programming are presented, especially as they relate to optimal control problems. Discrete and continuous optimal regulators are derived from dynamic programming approach, which also leads to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation and the Minimum Principle. Linear quadratic regulators, linear tracking problems, and output regulators are treated. Linear observer and the separation theorem are developed for feedback controller implementation.", "name" : "Optimization Methods" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6440", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "The concepts, techniques, and tools related to optimal control for dynamical systems. Major topics include calculus of variation, minimum principle, dynamic programming, optimal estimation, and differential games. Both discrete time systems and continuous times are addressed. Particular consideration is given to linear time invariant systems in terms of linear quadratic regulator and Kalman filter.", "name" : "Optimal Control Theory" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6460", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Tools and methods for the analysis and design of linear multivariable feedback systems. Topics include the connection between frequency domain and state space models and methods, model identification, model reduction, model uncertainty and closed loop performance, convex analysis and design methods, optimal controller synthesis using H2, H-infinity, and structured singular value criteria.", "name" : "Multivariable Control Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6470", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A survey of the fundamental issues necessary for the design,\u00a0analysis, control, and implementation of robotic systems. The\u00a0mathematical description of robot manipulators in terms of\u00a0kinematics and dynamics. Hardware components of a typical robot\u00a0arm. Path following, control, and sensing. Examples of several\u00a0currently available manipulators.", "name" : "Robotics I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6480", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course contains the fundamental theory required to design adaptive systems. Topics include parameter identification, ARMA modeling, model reference systems, self-tuning systems, adaptive filtering, and reinforcement learning. Applications to engineered systems are introduced.", "name" : "Adaptv Sys & Reinforcmt Lrng" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6490", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course introduces methods that leverage the basic analysis techniques learned in Robotics I to develop numerical and algorithmic techniques needed to endow robots with the \u201cintelligence\u201d to devise strategies to solve problems they will encounter. Once these abilities are sufficiently well developed, robots will become safe and autonomous, thus paving the way for pervasive personal robots. Topics include: configuration space representation, cell decomposition, roadmap methods, rapidly-exploring random trees, simultaneous localization and mapping, contact modeling, grasping, and dexterous manipulation.", "name" : "Robotics II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6500", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Recent developments in systems, sensors, communications, and networking technologies enable the development of large-scale distributed systems incorporating many individual nodes. This course takes an algorithmic approach to distributed systems for sensor fusion, localization and tracking, distributed robotics and sensor-based control. It also presents the basic principles of sensor node architectures and wireless sensor networks. Applications include environmental monitoring, biomedical systems, and security-related tracking problems.", "name" : "Distributed Systems And Sensors Networks" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6510", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Deterministic signal representations and analysis, introduction to random processes and spectral analysis, correlation function and power spectral density of stationary processes, noise mechanisms, the Gaussian and Poisson processes. Markov processes, the analysis of linear and nonlinear systems with random inputs, stochastic signal representations, orthogonal expansions, the Karhunen-Loeve series, channel characterization, introduction to signal detection, linear mean-square filtering, the orthogonality principle, optimum Wiener and Kalman filtering, modulation theory, and systems analysis.", "name" : "Intro Stoch Sign & Sys" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6520", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Classical statistical decision theory, decision criteria, binary and composite hypothesis tests. Statistical models of signals and noise. Detection of known signals in Gaussian noise. Receiver operating characteristics and error probability. Applications to radar and communications. Detection of signals with unknown or random parameters, detection of stochastic signals, nonparametric detection techniques. Statistical estimation theory, performance measures. Cramer-Rao bounds, estimation of unknown signal parameters, optimum demodulation, signal design.", "name" : "Detection & Est Theory" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6530", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Information measures, characterization of information sources, coding for discrete sources, the noiseless coding theorems, construction of Huffman codes. Discrete channel characterization, channel capacity, noisy-channel coding theorems, reliability exponents. Various error-control coding and decoding techniques, including block and convolutional codes. Introduction to waveform channels and rate distortion theory.", "name" : "Inform Theory & Coding" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6550", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Review of measure and integration theory, elements of probability, random variables, conditional probability, and expectations. Stochastic processes, stationarity, and ergodicity. Gaussian processes and Brownian motion, the Poisson process. Markov processes, wide-sense stationary processes, spectral representations, linear prediction and filtering. Stochastic integrals and differential equations, white noise and the stochastic calculus, the Fokker-Planck equation, diffusion processes, recursive filtering and estimation, evaluation of likelihood ratios. Applications in communication, information processing, and control.", "name" : "Stochastic Processes Comm/ctrl" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6560", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A broad introduction to modern communication systems, with applications to emerging wireless communication technologies. Fundamental principles of wireless channel modeling; performance limits of communication systems; analog and digital modulation techniques; source and channel coding; multi-antenna communication systems; multi-carrier modulation; multi-user communication systems. Emerging wireless technologies such as MIMO and OFDM, with applications to cellular and wireless LAN communication standards. Complemented with computational exercises.", "name" : "Modern Communication Sys" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6570", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Digital Signal Compression" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6580", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Theory Digital Communic" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6590", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Principles Of Wireless Communications" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6600", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course will cover concepts and protocols which enable heterogeneous computer networks to work with each other, including transport (TCP, UDP), network (IP, IPng), routing (RIP, OSPF), network management (SNMP, SNMPv2, RMON), and other important protocols like ARP, ICMP, DNS, BOOTP, DHCP, and HTTP. Advanced topics like Mobile IP, Real-time and reservation protocols (RTP, RSVP), IP multicast (IGMP, MBONE) and network security will also be examined. Emphasis will be on breadth of coverage, as well as hands-on programming experiences.", "name" : "Internet Protocols" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6610", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Structure of pattern classification problems. Mathematics of statistical decision theory: random vectors, multivariate probability functions, discriminants, parametric and nonparametric techniques, Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation, feature selection, dimensionality reduction, whitening transformations. Adaptive methods and clustering. Five programming assignments and a term paper.", "name" : "Pattern Recognition" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6620", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course describes the computer vision problems that underlie modern visual effects in movies, in which original video footage is transformed or augmented to create fantastic, yet plausible environments. The course provides a critical overview of the important literature for several problem categories, describing \u201cunder-the-hood\u201d concepts and algorithms in mathematical detail. In many cases, the relevant academic research is only a few years old and has only recently been applied to movies, TV shows, and commercials.", "name" : "Comp Vision For Visual Effects" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6630", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Digital Image & Video Process" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6640", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Digital Picture Proc" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6650", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Image formation and visual perception. Images, line structures, and line drawings. Preprocessing, boundary detection, texture, and region growing. Image representation in terms of boundaries, regions, and shape. Three-dimensional structures and their projections. Analysis, manipulation, and classification of image data. Knowledge-based approaches to image understanding. Applications from fields of robot vision, biomedical-image analysis, and satellite and aerial image interpretation.", "name" : "Computer Vision" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6660", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "In-depth hands-on study of the technologies and protocols involved in building the Internet-of-Things (IoT), with specific focus on networking at the edge of the Internet. Topics include wireless communication and link layer technologies, multi-access and scheduling mechanisms, mobility models, routing in disconnected networks, energy-efficient edge networking, loss tolerant transport protocols, IoT security, data aggregation, and their applications to emerging areas such as vehicular networks, RFID systems and smart buildings. Co-listed: ECSE 4660 and ECSE 6660. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and the co-listed course.", "name" : "Internetworking Of Things" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6670", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Review of fundamental concepts and protocols of broadband and optical networking. Convergence of telephone, Internet, and cable networks lead to new architectural and protocol concepts. Concepts and architectures covered in this course include: high-speed switching and router-design, traffic engineering, fiber optical communications, optical networking concepts, protection/restoration/survivability, optical link layers, quality of service, and broadband last-mile technologies.", "name" : "Broadband & Optical Netwrkg" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6680", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Introduction to VLSI architecture design approaches and methodologies for digital signal processing systems, digital memory circuits and architectures, and computer VLSI arithmetic. Topics include: pipelining, parallel processing, timing and clocking, systolic architectures, digital filter architectures, Viterbi decoder architectures, SRAM, DRAM, flash memory, high-speed adder and multiplier architectures. Laboratory experiments involve the use of commercial EDA tools with hardware description language (HDL).", "name" : "Advanced Vlsi Design" }, { "attributes" : [ "WI" ], "code" : "ECSE-6690", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Vlsi Design Automation" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6700", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "An advanced design and laboratory course. Design methodologies include register transfer modules and firmware microprogrammed design. Advanced microprocessor topics. \u201cBit-slice\u201d philosophy of design. LSI microprocessors as design elements in larger digital systems such as high-speed channels and special purpose computers. Detailed discussion of the structure of several computers at the chip and board level. Emphasis on high-speed ECL and Schottky circuits. Specification of custom IC digital systems. FPGA based design implementation using VHDL.", "name" : "Computer Architecture Prototyping With Fpga's" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6710", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Fuzzy Sets & Expert Sys" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6730", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Theory and techniques for the diagnosis of hardware faults in digital systems and the design of fault-tolerant systems. Fault detection and diagnosis in logic networks. Static and dynamic redundancy to achieve error detection and error correction.", "name" : "Fault Tolerant Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6740", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Parallel Computation" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6750", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Topics vary from year to year and may include methods of representation for finite-state machines, state assignments, machine decomposition theory. Experiments on finite-state machines, finite-memory machines, information-lossless machines. Linear machines, probabilistic machines, cellular arrays.", "name" : "Finite State Machine Theory" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6770", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Software Engineering I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6780", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Software Engineering II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6800", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course will cover 3D graphical application programmer interfaces (APIs) and advanced rendering techniques, visulation pipelines, creating simulations, and visualization packages. Also covered will be algorithms for extracting visual information from data sets, such as determining iso-surfaces, contours, and cut planes. A programming emphasis will be on object-oriented design and systems. Term project required.", "name" : "Adv 3d Graphics & Visual" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6810", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course covers topics related to learning and inference with different types of Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs). It also demonstrates the application of PGMs to different fields. The course covers both directed and undirected graphical models, both parameter and structure learning, and both exact and approximated inference methods.", "name" : "Introduction To Probabilistic Graphical Models" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6820", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A course on fundamentals of stochastic processes and queuing theory emphasizing applications. Poisson processes, renewal processes, Markov chains, general methods in the study of Markovian and non-Markovian systems, tandem queues, networks of queues, priority and bulk queues, computational methods, and simulation. Focus of the course is the application of these tools in the performance evaluation and design of computer systems, communication networks, manufacturing systems, and service systems.", "name" : "Queueing Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6830", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Large Scale Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6840", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Applications of operations research and systems analysis techniques to mathematical modeling of complex systems, especially large-scale public systems. Discussion of model-building approaches, emphasizing the role of creativity, rationality, and mathematics. Introduction of important quantitative techniques (e.g., geometrical probability, optimization theory, and stochastic processes) and their application to modeling emergency service systems, spatial distribution of public service facilities, congestion, land-use patterns, transportation systems, demographics, and energy.", "name" : "Model Lrg-scale Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6850", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Deep learning fundamentals and applications in artificial intelligence. Topics include machine learning foundation, linear regression and classification, deep neural networks, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, generative adversary neural networks, Bayesian neural networks, deep Boltzmann machine, deep Bayesian networks, and deep reinforcement learning.", "name" : "Intro To Deep Learning" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ECSE-6860", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Evaluation provides structured information for policy-relevant decision making based on a purposeful analysis of the identified measures. Topics include test hypotheses, randomization/control schemes, measures framework, measurement methods, and pertinent analytic techniques. 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It will begin with some basic theoretical issues before discussing contemporary issues such as the relations between nation and religion, violence and religion, climate change and religion, and \u201cmagical thinking\u201d in technology and science.", "name" : "Religion In A Global World" }, { "attributes" : [ "CI", "HInq" ], "code" : "INQR-1700", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "A course designed for students to develop their own voice as a songwriter. The course surveys the methods of successful songwriters, highlighting aspects of melody, lyrics, harmonic progression, story-telling, audience, and social context. 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This includes pressure and velocity measurement techniques, hot wire anemometry, demonstrations of Particle Imaging Velocimetry, flow visualizations, tunnel characterization, laboratory instrumentation, errors and noise in measurements, digital sampling, and comparison of measured data with theoretical and computational predictions.", "name" : "Fluid Dynamics Lab" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-4920", "credits" : "2 credits", "description" : "Laboratory experiments with emphasis on the static and dynamic response of light-weight and flexible structures, that are used in aircraft, spacecraft, and rotorcraft. 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Emphasis on reliable computing is made throughout.", "name" : "Advanced Engr Mathematics I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-5020", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Combustion Engines" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-5040", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "Gas Turbine Performance Analys" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-5060", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "One-dimensional isentropic compressible flow. Normal stationary and moving shock waves. Design on inlet and ducted diffusers, steady flow wind tunnels and shock tubes. 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Trim and performance analysis of different multirotor archetypes.", "name" : "Multirotor Aerial Vehicles" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6080", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Theory and Application of VTOL vehicle dynamics, simulation, and control system design. Coordinate systems, nonlinear dynamics, inflow dynamics, eigenanalysis and linear control design. Control system design using model following and dynamic inversion.", "name" : "Vtol Aircraft Flight Mechanics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6090", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "Analysis of coupled rotor blade elastic deformations, support elastic deformations, rotor loads and vibrations, and aeroelastic and aeromechanical stability of VTOL aircraft. Methods to mitigate dynamic loads and aeroelastic/aeromechanical instability.", "name" : "Vtol Aircraft Dynamics & Aero" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6110", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Analytical and geometrical theories of function, path, and motion generation of four bar linkages. Consists of 3, 4, and 5 accuracy points. Review of recent developments and use of computer graphic methods.", "name" : "Kinematic Synthesis" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6120", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A survey of the fundamental issues necessary for the design, analysis, control, and implementation of robotic systems. The mathematical description of robot manipulators in terms of kinematics and dynamics. Hardware components of a typical robot arm. Path following, control, and sensing. 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Applications include: incompressible and compressible flows, laminar and turbulence flows, with introduction to computational fluid dynamics turbulence modeling, followed by boundary layer, and parabolized flow simplifications.", "name" : "Intro Computat Fluid Dynamics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6150", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "Introductory materials of engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics (at least one level of first-year college). Much of the course material is taken from the textbook \"Acoustics for Engineers\" by Blauert and Xiang (2nd Ed.). The course includes mechanic and acoustic oscillations, the wave equations in fluids, governing equations for horns and ducts, spherical sound sources and arrays, piston membranes, diffraction and scattering, dissipation, reflection, refraction and absorption, isolation of air- and structure-borne sounds, noise propagation and noise control. 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Design concepts by which rotor weight and stress are minimized and vehicle control is provided. Weight and engine power trends for configuration definition. Center of gravity and aerodynamic lift and moment for equilibrium and desired aircraft attitude. Methods for determining size weight, and cost for a given payload, useful volume, and specified performance. This is a communication-intensive course.", "name" : "Vtol Aircraft Design" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6230", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Systems (AMP) is a project-based lecture/laboratory course that teaches graduate engineering students how to develop new manufacturing processes and systems.", "name" : "Adv. Manufacturing Proc & Sys" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6240", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Neural networks are program and memory at once, useful where traditional techniques fail, i.e., for artificial speech and image recognition. Emphasis on existing and emerging engineering applications. Parallel distributed processing, Hebb\u2019s rule, Hopfield net, back-propagation algorithm, perceptrons, unsupervised learning, Kohenen self-organizing map, genetic algorithms, neocognitron, adaline. Illustrated with computer programs and lectures.", "name" : "Intro. To Neural Networks" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6250", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "General curvilinear coordinates, determinants, diagonalization of symmetric matrices, polar decomposition theorem. Description of finite deformation and motion, convected coordinates. Conservation equations, Cauchy and Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors and equations of motion. Boundary conditions. Thermodynamics of continua, invariance principles, objective tensors. Constitutive equations, nonlinear elasticity, thermoelasticity, heat conducting fluids. Linearizations. Variational derivation of the equations of nonlinear elasticity.", "name" : "Continuum Mechanics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6260", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "An introductory course on the generation, distribution, and interaction of ionizing radiation. Radiation sources such as radioisotopes, accelerators, focused ion beams, and cosmic rays are studied. Applications to semiconductor electronic devices, chemical polymerization, food preservation, sterilization, material modification, industrial and medical radiography, and radiation damage are presented.", "name" : "Radiation Technology And Applications" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6270", "credits" : "4 credits", "description" : "This course is not in the most recent catalog. It may have been discontinued, had its course code changed, or just not be in the catalog for some other reason.", "name" : "Envir Rad Safety Controls" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6280", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Reactor kinetics, stability, and control. Perturbation methods, reactivity coefficients; feedback mechanisms, long-term reactivity changes. Fission product effects on reactor startup and spatial stability. Fuel depletion. Theory of control and burnable poisons.", "name" : "Nucl Reactor Analysis II" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6290", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This course will present the foundations of numerical (deterministic) and Monte Carlo methods that are widely used in the modeling and analysis of nuclear reactor design, radiation dosimetry, and radiation shielding. 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Topics include: continuum hypothesis; perfect gas and departures from perfect gas; vectors and tensors; conservation laws for a continuum: mass momentum and energy; constitutive theory for fluids; viscosity and molecular transport; compressible Navier-Stokes equations; kinematics of the flow field: vorticity, streamlines; incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and their applications: Poiseuille flow, low Reynolds number flows, flows at large Reynolds number, boundary layers, external flows: flow stability and introduction to the theory of turbulence.", "name" : "Fluid Mechanics" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6530", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Navier-Stokes equations, linear stability, vorticity and its origin, transition in wall-bounded and free-shear flows, statistics and Reynolds averaging, homogeneous turbulence, coherent structures, laboratory methods for study of turbulence, including turbulence measurements and turbulence modeling.", "name" : "Turbulence" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6540", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "General principles and applications of equilibrium thermodynamics. 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Wave topics include linear dispersive and nondispersive waves, weakly nonlinear waves, and viscous effects, with special attention to surface tension phenomena. Flow instabilities include gravitational, capillary, thermal, centrifugal, and viscous instabilities. Topics in vortex dynamics include vortex laws and flow invariants, generation and decay of vorticity, and vortex-boundary interaction.", "name" : "Incompressible Flow" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6570", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "This is a graduate level course. It aims to provide students with the familiarity of traditional and modern flow control techniques. It also introduces the students to the subject of laminar-to-turbulent transition and flow separation using hydrodynamic stability analysis, which is a crucial component in design and implementation of intelligent flow control strategies.", "name" : "Aerodynamic Flow Control" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6600", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Methods of analysis for continuous and discrete-time linear systems. Convolution, classical solution of dynamic equations, transforms and matrices are reviewed. Emphasis is on the concept of state space. Linear spaces, concept of state, modes, controllability, observability, state transition matrix. State variable feedback, compensation, decoupling.", "name" : "Systems Analysis Techniques" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6610", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Phenomena peculiar to nonlinear systems. Linearization, iteration, and perturbation procedures. Describing function stability analysis. 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The goal is to algorithmically develop these methods, and in the process teach the underlying simulation techniques. Applications to realistic problems will highlight the strengths of these approaches, while stressing the challenges that still need to be surmounted.", "name" : "Multiscale Computational Modeling" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6780", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "State of the art in computational modeling of failure processes in materials. Topics include numerical modeling of discrete defects, distributed damage and multiscale computational techniques including multiple scale perturbation techniques, boundary layer techniques, and various global-local approaches.", "name" : "Numerical Model Failure Proc M" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MANE-6790", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "Comprehensive treatment of conduction and convection heat transfer. 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Students will learn how to manipulate data and apply machine learning models to business context.\u201d They will also learn how to obtain data and draw business inferences from data by asking the right questions and using the appropriate tools.", "name" : "Introduction To Machine Learning Applications" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MGMT-6561", "credits" : "? credits", "description" : "", "name" : "New Product Management" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MGMT-6570", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "The primary objective of this course is to introduce the multifaceted role of data as a resource of the organization, in three ways. First, it examines the role of data at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels of the organization. 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Through interaction with faculty and guest speakers, students increase their understanding of the creative process and some of the tools that can be implemented to stimulate and/or manage individual and collective creativity. In addition, through application of these techniques in course activities, students explore and attempt to enhance their own creativity.", "name" : "Invention, Innov & Entre" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "MGMT-6650", "credits" : "3 credits", "description" : "A capstone sequence in policy and strategy aimed at developing students\u2019 understanding of the relationship between business strategy and technology. 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