Civil & Environmental Engineering
MW, 12:10-2
Professor Young -4 Units
Prerequisite: Engineering 105, Chemistry 2B or the equivalent, course 140; Chemistry 2C or 107A recommended.
Lecture: 4 hours. Chemistry of natural and polluted waters. Topics include chemical, kinetic and equilibrium principles, redox reactions, gas solution and solid-solution equilibria, thermodynamics, carbonate systems, coordination chemistry, interfacial phenomena.
TR, 6:10-7:30pm
Professor Karl N. Levitt
Units – 4
Prerequisite: ECS 150; ECS 153 recommended
Lecture: 3 hour. Concepts of intrusion detection, anomaly detection based on machine learning, signature-based detection using pattern matching, automated response to attacks using artificial intelligence planning, tracing intruders based on principal component analysis, security policy languages.
TR, 10:30-11:50
Professor S. Felix Wu
Units – 4
Prerequisite: ECS 150
Lecture: 3 hour. Models, design, implementation, performance evaluation in operating systems. Algorithms, internal architectures for single processor OS and distributed systems. Concurrency control, recovery, security. OS kernel-level programming. Special topics embedded systems, real-time system, device driver, NPU (Network Processor Unit).
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
MW, 12:10-2
Professor LaSaponara
Units: 4
Prerequisite: Engineering 104 or equivalent
Lecture: 4 hours. Modeling and analysis methodology for composite structures including response and failure. Laminated plate bending theory. Introduction to failure processes. Includes discussion of aerospace structural analysis.
TR, 4:40-6:00
Professor Davidson
Units – 4
Prerequisite: ECS 170
Lecture: 3 hour. Project: 1 hour. Artificial intelligence techniques for knowledge acquisition by computers. Fundamental problems in machine learning and discovery. Systems that learn from examples, analogies, and solved problems. Systems that discover numerical laws and qualitative relationships. Projects centering on implementation and evaluation.
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
MW, 2:10-4
Professor Shaw
Units: 4
Prerequisite: Engineering 103 & 105 & EME 106
Lecture: 3 hours. Discussion: 1 hours. Restricted to graduate students. Review of chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. Discussion of reacting flows, their governing equations and transport phenomena; detonations; laminar flame structure and turbulent combustion.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
T-Th, 10:30-11:50
Professor Owens
Units: 4
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
Lecture: 3 hours. Special topics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
MW, 10-11:50
Professor Loge
Units – 4
Prerequisite: ECI 243A
Lecture: 4 hour. Continuation of course 243A. Aeration, thickening, biological processes, design of biological treatment systems.
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
MTWR 9-9:50
Professor Susan Gentry
Units: 4
Prerequisite: EMS 174
Lecture: 4 hours. Comprehensive study of mechanical properties of materials, with special attention to dislocations and deformation and fracture control mechanisms. Mechanical properties of conventional engineering materials as well as advanced materials such as nanocrystalline solids and thin films are considered.
MW, 6:10-7:30pm
Professor Ma
Units – 4
Prerequisite: ECS 163 (Information Interfaces) or ECS 175 (Computer Graphics)
Lecture: 3 hour. Advanced topics in information visualization: perceptually effective display methods, color design and selection, interaction models and techniques, focus-context techniques, distortion methods, large graph visualization techniques, visual data mining methods, and evaluation methods.