academic offerings for Fall 2009

Number	Title	Description
BME 5937	Biomedical Sys. & Pat Rec	Selected topics in biomedical engineering, including biomedical engineering, biomedical materials, biodynamics of circulation, separation processes in biomedical systems, and artificial organ systems.
BME 6931	Biomedical Sys. & Pat Rec	Selected topics in biomedical engineering, including biomedical engineering, biomedical materials, biodynamics of circulation, separation processes in biomedical systems, and artificial organ systems.
CES 6586	Design Structures for Natural Hazards	Study of natural hazards (wind, earthquakes & ocean waves) and their interaction with structures. Use of exact and approximate methods of analysis, computer modeling, and design provisions for structures to resist the aforementioned loads.
CES 6726	Advanced Concrete Design	Advanced topics in concrete designs. Topics include torsion, two-way floor systems, composite construction, slabs on grade and deep beams.
CGN 6933	Structural Life Prediction	TBA
CGN 6933	Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering	This course improves the student’s knowledge and problem solving skills with respect to the Biological Principles used by Environmental Engineers to design biological processes. Students will learn about microbial physiology and metabolism, and current methods used to understand bioprocesses.
COT 6405	Intro to Theory of Algorithms	Analysis techniques for algorithms. Characterizing algorithms in terms of recurrence relations, solution of recurrence relations, upper and lower bounds. Graph problems, parallel, algorithms, nondeterministic polynomial time completeness and approximation algorithms, with relationship to practical problems.
ECH 5931	Solar Energy Fundamentals & Applications	Nature and availability of solar radiation, thermal collection and storage, conversion to heat for heating, cooling and industrial process heat, conversion to electricity by thermal power and photovoltaics, solar environmental application by photocatalysis. Textbook: Goswami, D.Y., Kreith, F. and Kreider, J., Principles of Solar Engineering, (2nd Ed.) Taylor and Francis Publishers, NY, NY
ECH 6840	Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering	Mathematical modeling of chemical engineering systems. Numerical and analytical solution methods for algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, coupled differential and algebraic equations and partial differential equations.
ECH 6930	Biomedical Sys & Patt Rec	TBA
EEE 3302	Electronics I	A course in the physical principles of electronic devices with emphasis on semi-conductor electronics. Includes the analysis and design of amplifiers and switching circuits.
EEE 5357	Analog CMOS/VLSI Design	TBA
EEL 4421	RF/MW Circuits I	This course covers passive RF/microwave circuit design and distributed transmissions line/interconnect analysis. Additional topics include equivalent circuit modeling, numerical EM simulation using commercial CAD tools, and differential circuit analysis.
EEL 4423L	Wirelss Circuits/Systems Lab	This class will provide introductory tutorial learning, plus hands-on experience in analysis, design and measurement in the field of wireless communications.
EEL 4512	Introduction to Communication Systems	Signals and Fourier transforms in communication systems; measure of information in signals. AM, FM, and PM modulation and demodulation systems. Sampling, quantization and PCM. Data communication; terminals, and modems; repeaters, timing circuits, and interfaces. Local networks.
EEL 4705	Logic Design	Binary number systems; truth functions; Boolean algebra; canonical forms; minimization of combinational logic circuits; synchronous logic circuits in computers.
EEL 4756	Digital Signal Processing	Digital signals and Fourier transforms. Z-transforms, digital filter networks; DFT, DCT, and fast transforms. Design of IIR and FIR filters; quantization effects. Multi-rate processing; interpolation and decimation.
EEL 4906	Engineering Design/Professionalism	An individual or team project involving the design of an electrical component system.
EEL 4935	Mobile and Personal Communications	Characteristics of wireless mobile channels indoor and outdoor ; multipath and shadow fading, frequency reuse; micro and pico cells; base-station and portable units. Cell coverage, blocking, and co- channel interference. TDMA, FDMA, CDMA and hybrid approaches to multiple access. Protocols, hand- over. Voice, data, and multi-media over wireless indoor channels.
EEL 4935	Electric Mach & Drives	Principles of electromechanical energy conversion; modeling, analysis & aspects of classic DC and AC machines. Intro to power electronic converters used to control electric machines; converter/ motor system performance; characterization and evaluations to include stepper, variable inductance & brushless DC motors.
EEL 4935	VHDL	To familiarize the student with an operable set of the language theoretic aspects of VHDL. To show how VHDL can be a formal mechanism to converse with design automation tools. To ensure that the student is well grounded for future study of an HDL specifically VHDL, that is rapidly becoming an international interoperability standard for design automation.
EEL 4935	Relay Protection System	TBA
EEL 4936	Mems I/Chem Bio Sensors	TBA
EEL 4937	Wireless Sensor Network Design
EEL 4937	Biomedical Sys & Patt Rec	TBA
EEL 5250	Power Systems Analysis	Analysis techniques for AC power systems including principles of utility electric power systems, basic analysis techniques for three phase systems, transmission line modeling, power flow analysis, introduction to fault analysis.
EEL 5462	Antenna Theory	Antenna theory beginning with fundamental parameter definitions and continuing with mathematical concepts, elemental antennas and arrays.
EEL 5935	Relay Protection System	TBA
EEL 6426	RF/Microwave I	Provides an introduction to passive RF/microwave/wireless circuit design. Topics to be covered include distributed distributed transmission line theory, lumped circuit and network analysis, impedance matching, and the design of various microwave components.
EEL 6486	Electromagnetic Field Theory	Time harmonic electromagnetic fields emphasizing problems in transmission lines and electric power transmission.
EEL 6502	Digital Signal Processing I	Digital signals and Fourier transforms. Z-transforms, digital filter networks; DFT, DCT, and fast transforms. Design of IIR and FIR filters; quantization effects. Multi-rate processing; interpolation and decimation.
EEL 6534	Digital Communications	Digital communication & information theory. Random processes & Markov chains. Communication channels including optical and microwave. Digital modulation and demodulation. Detection theory; matched filter, sequence detection.
EEL 6545	Random Processes in Electrical Engineering	LECTURE WEB ONLY. Review of probability theory, functions of random variables; examples in electrical engineering. Sequences of random variables. Concepts in random processes, correlation functions, power spectrum, random inputs to linear systems. Spectral analysis. Applications to Engineering systems.
EEL 6593	Mobile and Personal Communication	Characteristics of wireless mobile channels indoor and outdoor ; multipath and shadow fading, frequency reuse; micro and pico cells; base-station and portable units. Cell coverage, blocking, and co- channel interference. TDMA, FDMA, CDMA and hybrid approaches to multiple access. Protocols, hand- over. Voice, data, and multi-media over wireless indoor channels.
EEL 6764	Principles of Computer Architecture	Arithmetic algorithms, CPU speedup techniques, memory hierarchies, virtual memory, input-output. Study of the number systems and the algorithms used for digital arithmetic computation with emphasis on their implementation, speed and reliability considerations.
EEL 6935	Mems I/Chem Bio Sensors	TBA
EEL 6935	VHDL	To familiarize the student with an operable set of the language theoretic aspects of VHDL. To show how VHDL can be a formal mechanism to converse with design automation tools. To ensure that the student is well grounded for future study of an HDL specifically VHDL, that is rapidly becoming an international interoperability standard for design automation.
EEL 6935	Industrial Power Distribution	This comprehensive course is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students planning to work in industrial facilities, as well as for practicing engineers who deal with power distribution within industrail facilities.
EEL 6935	Software Defined & Cognitive Radio	Fundamentals of SDR theory will be established in practice via hands-on laboratory projects. The GNU Radio and Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) exemplify the radio platforms for immersion, but students may work in simulated environments such as Matlab and Java, or on personal digital assistants, depending their personal inclinations and skills. In addition, students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of cutting edge wireless devices from Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Philips, Ericsson, Nokia, Harris Corporation, and other industry leaders. The cognitive radio half of the semester will develop the user- and self-aware cognitive radio as peers in the eight layer of the protocol stack, drawing on recent advances in machine vision and natural language processing for computational intelligence to enhance radio functionality via dynamic spectrum access networks that enhance quality of information (QoI), the fundamental metric for cognitive radio.
EEL 6935	Engineering Applications of Vector Analysis	LECTURE WEB ONLY. Vector methods in electromagnetism and fluid mechanics. Vector operators, line and flux integrals, potential and transport theorems, applications.
EEL 6936	Wireless Seminar	Weekly seminars cover basic principles as well as contemporary topics in such rapidly evolving application areas as communications, micro-electronics, radar and remote sensing. Emphasis is placed on applications involving frequencies in the 100 MHz to 1000 GHz range, which includes the Radio Frequency and Microwave spectra. Topics are presented by local and on-campus guest speakers.
EEL 6936	Biomedical Sys & Patt Rec	TBA
EEL 6936	Electric Machines and Drives	Principles of electromechanical energy conversion; modeling, analysis & aspects of classic DC and AC machines. Intro to power electronic converters used to control electric machines; converter/ motor system performance; characterization and evaluations to include stepper, variable inductance & brushless DC motors.
EEL 6936	Analog CMOS/VSLI Design	TBA
EGN 3373	Introduction to Electrical Systems I	A course in linear passive circuits. Physical principles and modes. Transient and steady-state analysis.
EGN 3375	Electromechanical	Continuation of EGN 3373
EGN 3443	Prob & Stats for Engr	An introduction to the basic concepts of statistical analysis with special emphasis on engineering applications.
EGN 3615	Engineering Economy with Social & Global Implications	LECTURE WEB ONLY. Presents basic economic models used to evaluate engineering activities and an understanding of the social and ethical implications of financial decisions in a multicultural environment through lectures, case studies and current readings.
EGN 3835	Globalization & Technology	Exploration of the fundamental processes underlying globalization with particular emphasis on the role of technological development in both historical and contemporary context. This course is part of the University of South Florida’s Foundations of Knowledge and Learning Core Curriculum.
EGN 5421	Engineering Applications of Vector Analysis	LECTURE WEB ONLY. Vector methods in electromagnetism and fluid mechanics. Vector operators, line and flux integrals, potential and transport theorems, applications.
EGN 5424	Engineering Application of Complex Analysis	LECTURE WEB ONLY. Analytic functions, conformal mapping, residue theory, Laurent series, transforms. Applications to various problems in engineering and physics.
EIN 4312	Work Analysis	Operation analysis and workspace design, work measurement, standard data, ergonomics, and labor costing.
EIN 4352	Engineering Cost Analysis	This is a non-repeatable course restricted to Industrial Engineering majors. It provides students with the principles and techniques for the cost analysis, estimatiion and evaluation of engineering design in service and manufacturing organizations.
EIN 4364	Facilities Design I	Design and modification of industrial production and material handling facilites. Basic analysis techniques, use of computer programs, automated warehousing.
EIN 4621	Manufacturing Processes	On-campus Lab Required. The study of basic manufacturing processes and precision assembly. CAD/CAM including NC programming. ON CAMPUS LAB REQUIRED. Please see OASIS for time.
EIN 4933	Principles of Engineering Management	Introduction to the fundamentals of planning, organizing and leadership as needed by engineers, scientists, and other professionals considering managerial positions.
EIN 4933	TQM Concepts	Presents and discusses the foundations of Total Quality Management (TQM) including the historical development, the philosophy and principles of TQM, the tools and techniques used and the issues associated with implementation.
EIN 4933	Construction Safety	Basic introduction to OSHA safety requirements for the construction industry. Students will receive an OSHA certificate upon satisfactory completion of the course.
EIN 5174	TQM Concepts	Presents and discusses the foundations of Total Quality Management (TQM) including the historical development, the philosophy and principles of TQM, the tools and techniques used and the issues associated with implementation.
EIN 5182	Principles of EM	Introduction to the fundamentals of planning, organizing and leadership as needed by engineers, scientists, and other professionals considering managerial positions.
EIN 5510	Manufacturing Systems Analysis	The study of systems of manufacturing entities, such as machine tools, robots and materials handlers. Emphasis is on mathematical description of integrated systems and system optimization.
EIN 6106	Technology and Law	Selected topics related to the relationships between and among technology, law and social policy, including governmental regulation, products liability, professional liability, contract negotiation and formation, and developments and trends affecting engineering professionals.
EIN 6108	Human Relations	LECTURE WEB ONLY. Human relations, understanding oneself, understanding other people, influencing and motivation performance, improving moral and discipline, and self appraisal and analysis for the technical manager. Web only."PDQ"
EIN 6183	Engineering Management Policies & Strategies	Strategic planning and policy formulation in technical and scientific organizations. General managers in the middle. Translation of strategic plans into action plans and implementation of the strategic change process. This is a capstone course in the EM program to be taken during the last semester of the student's program.
EIN 6217	Construction Safety	Basic introduction to OSHA safety requirements for the construction industry. Students will receive an OSHA certificate upon satisfactory completion of the course.
EIN 6386	Management of Technological Change	A study of problems encountered by managers in the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of resources in technology-based organizations.
EIN 6430	Overview of Regulated Industry Compliance	Provides students with basic information on regulated industries (bioscience, pharmaceutical and medical devices), with particular emphasis on challenges experienced in medical device development, manufacture and commercialization with regard to regulatory requirements.
EIN 6433	Human Factors Engineering for Medical Devices	This course provides students with the information for the ergonomic design & operability of medical devices. These systemic designs are critical in improving the safety of medical devices by reducing the probability of user error.
EIN 6935	Strategic Marketing Assessment	This course is designed to enable the student to gain an in-depth understanding of the techniques used to analyze the market opportunities for new inventions and intellectual properties. It is further designed to examine strategic opportunities for commercialization of new inventions. Both market assessments for new inventions, as well as competitive technology tools, will be developed using in-depth field studies and classroom discussions. The course is designed to develop advanced market problem solving skills, critical decision-making processes for intellectual properties and new technologies, and technology planning skills beneficial in multiple disciplines.
ENV 6002	Chemical and Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering	Investigates how chemical properties, physical processes, and environmental characteristics all influence the fate and transport of chemicals in natural and engineered systems. Includes theory, practical examples, and laboratory experiments
ESI 4244	Design of Experiments	Activity forecasting models and control. Design and use of inventory control models, both designs applicable to engineering analyses. Analysis of variance and regression. Web only.
ESI 4312	Deterministic Operations Research	An introduction to operations research techniques with particular emphasis on deterministic models. Linear programming, dynamic programming, goal programming, integer programming, and PERT/CPM networks are considered. Web Only.
ESI 4523	Industrial Systems Simulation	A study of the developent and analysis of computer simulation models: Monte Carlo, time-slice, and next-event. Introduction to special purpose simulation languages. Web Only. There is no separate lab section. ON CAMPUS LAB REQUIRED. Please see OASIS for time.
ESI 5236	Reliability Engineering	Fundamental concepts of reliability. Estimation of reliability of systems and components. Measures of availability, maintainability and reliability.
ESI 5522	Computer Simulation	A study of the developent and analysis of computer simulation models: Monte Carlo, time-slice, and next-event. Web Only. There is no separate lab section. ON CAMPUS LAB REQUIRED. Please see OASIS for time.
ESI 6247	Statistical Design Models	Design of experimental mathematical models. Application of advanced analysis of variance techniques as applied to industrial problems.
TTE 5205	Traffic Systems Engineering	Traffics models, intersection anaysis, capacity analysis, data methods collection, parking studies, volume and speed studies, freeway management, and advanced technologies.
TTE 5501	Transportation Planning & Economics	Fundamentals of urban transportation planning: trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, traffic assignment. Introduction to environmental impact analysis, evaluation an choice of transportation alternatives.
TTE 6270	Intelligent Transportation Systems	ITS architecture design and evaluation, simulation and modeling, advanced traffics management systems, traveler information systems, vehicle control systems, commercial vehicle operations, public transportation systems, and telecommunications.