Engineering (continued)
Graduate Courses
801 Engineering Management (3)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. History and evolution of engineering, engineering ethics and professionalism, business aspects of engineering contracts and specifications, litigation and arbitration, planning and scheduling, quality control, personnel management.
802 Computer Aided Design and Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 308. Principles of computer graphics. Fundamentals of finite element method-engineering applications. Microcomputer based CAD systems, utilization and interaction.
803 Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers (3)
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor. Concepts and theorems of probability; distributions commonly encountered in engineering; joint probability distribution. Statistical inferencing; use of standard software. Introduction to stochastic processes; time series analysis. Reliability engineering. Case studies.
832 Advanced Construction Materials (3)
Prerequisites: ENGR 309 and 430, or consent of instructor. Study of materials used in construction; soil, rock, timber, steel, cement, concrete, asphalt, and bituminous concrete; properties, uses, special problems associated with specific applications.
833 Principles of Earthquake Engineering (3)
Prerequisites: ENGR 323, 425, and 426, or consent of instructor. Earthquake ground motions; development of response spectra and effects of local site conditions on spectra. Dynamic response of single and multi-degree of freedom systems to earthquakes. Survey of seismic damage to buildings. Introduction to earthquake resistive design.
834 Engineering Aspects of Environmental Pollution (3)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Air and water pollution, soil contamination. Air pollution inventory. Generation, measurement, and control of air pollutants. Air quality standards. Concepts of ground water flow. Contaminant transport. Disposal and regulatory aspects of environmental pollution.
836 Structural Design for Earthquakes (3)
Prerequisite: graduate standing with prior courses in steel and concrete design. Determination of level and distribution of earthquake forces on a structure; earthquake resisting systems in buildings and bridges; design criteria for concrete and steel lateral load resisting systems; design and detailing of joints; evaluation of seismic resistance of existing structures; seismic upgrade and retrofit; post-elastic behavior of steel and concrete structures; computer application in structural modeling and analysis for seismic forces.
837 Soil Properties and Advanced Foundation Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 431. The evaluation of soil properties such as strength, permeability, stiffness, and sensitivity. Advanced analysis and design techniques for both shallow and deep foundations. Advanced topics in earthquake engineering.
839 Water Pollution Control Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 434. Design of treatment systems for domestic and industrial waste water and ground water. Characteristics of sewage, industrial waste, and waste sludge. Covers biological and physical/chemical treatment methods.
840 Power Systems Simulations and Control (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 448. Review of methods for system analysis, power matrices, modeling of transmission and distribution systems, control of unbalanced fault and load conditions, network reduction and stochastic power flow.
841 Power Systems Transients and Stability (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 448. Power system stability, synchronous machines under transient conditions. Power system transients and harmonics with computer solutions. Power system planning.
842 Design with Analog Integrated Circuits (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 442 or consent of instructor. Systems design with analog ICs for audio, instrumentation, and control applications: smoothing and antialiasing filters, S/H amplifiers, V/F and F/V converters, phase-locked loops, voltage references and regulators, D/A and A/D converters, logarithmic amplifiers, switched-capacitor circuits, low-noise amplifier design. Computer-aided design and simulation of analog circuits.
843 Analog MOS Circuit Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 445. MOS physics, fabrication, characterization, and modeling. Analog MOS building blocks, including differential and cascade stages. Design of MOS operational amplifiers, voltage comparators, and switched capacitor circuits. Frequency response characteristics of MOS op amps. Computer-aided design of CMOS analog circuits.
850 Parallel Processing (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 456. Introduction to parallel processing performance issues. Hierarchical memory structures. Pipelining and vector processing. Array processors. Multiprocessor structures.
851 Advanced Microprocessor Architectures (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 456. Microprocessor architecture and register organization. Multiprogramming, process scheduling and synchronization, and multitasking. Memory management and privileged machine states. Examples of 32-bit machines. Reduced architectures: RISC approach, MIPS.
852 Advanced Digital Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 356 or equivalent. Analysis and design of fundamental and pulse mode circuits, design with programmable logic devices, computer simulation of digital circuits, reliable digital system design techniques, testing and design for testability.
860 Advanced Engineering Design—The Human Interface (3)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Strategies for enhancing problem solving. Capabilities and limitations of human performance. Application of heuristic and ergonomic principles to the design of appropriate technology for solving human scale problems.
861 Advanced Controls (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 447. Introduction to a variety of advanced control concepts. Linearization and analysis of nonlinear systems. Identification schemes. Stochastic methods and adaptive control. Linear and time optimal control. Logic control and applications in process control.
862 Deformation and Fracture of Materials (3)
Prerequisites: ENGR 200, 309, and consent of instructor. Mechanical behavior of materials with an emphasis on the effects of micro-structure on material response. Mechanical as well as metallurgical factors affecting deformation and fracture. Yielding, ductile fracture, brittle and fatigue.
865 Mechanism Synthesis and Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: ENGR 201. Familiarity with FORTRAN 77 or equivalent and with microcomputers. Displacement, velocity, and acceleration analysis or linkages. Kinetostatic analysis by complex numbers and matrices. Synthesis of planar linkage systems. CAM synthesis.
866 Combustion and Air Pollution (3)
Prerequisites: ENGR 303, 304. Thermodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion mechanisms of energy conversion and pollutant generation. Flames and turbulence. Mathematical modelling and computational solutions to combustion and pollution problems. Post flame treatment of pollutants. Review of practical combustion systems.
890 Graduate Seminar (3)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Topic to be specified in Class Schedule. Presentation of a selected subject area in engineering not covered in the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
897 Research (3)
Prerequisites: completion of nine units of graduate work, with at least six from ENGR 801, 802, or 803. Independent investigation or significant design project under supervision of an Engineering faculty member. Intended as the research investigation leading to the master's thesis.
898 Master's Thesis (3)
Prerequisite: advancement to candidacy for the Master of Science in Engineering. Intended as the discussion and compilation of research conducted in ENGR 897. Graduate Approved Program and Proposal for Culminating Experience Requirement Forms must be approved by the Graduate Division prior to registration.
899 Special Study (1-3)
Prerequisites: approval of department and consent of instructor. Special study of a particular problem or subject under the direction of a member of the department. Open only to graduate students in Engineering. Students must present a detailed written report of the work accomplished to the department faculty.