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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
Independent study for advanced undergraduates or for graduate students, to be supervised by a faculty member. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Credit to be arranged.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an opportunity for advanced undergraduates to synthesize many of the diverse subdisciplines of Earth and Planetary Sciences while focusing on a research topic. Subject changes each offering. Each subject is unique and timely, but broad enough to encompass wide-ranging interests among students. Students conduct original research, make written reports of the results, and make oral presentations of their projects in class. Prerequisite: senior standing or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Independent work for undergraduate Honors, to be supervised by a faculty member. Prerequisites: senior standing, eligibility for Honors, and permission of instructor.
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0.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 Credits
MATLAB and Simulink are important tools in quickly analyzing different designs in many engineering disciplines and are also perhaps the most used software in many engineering schools. Gain skills in the basics of the array-based language MATLAB to write programs, including scripts and functions, to calculate and display variables and images. Learn the basics of Simulink to build and simulate models from standard blocks. Discover both MATLAB and Simulink in an environment with supervised practice and hands-on experience. Practice problems are chosen from different engineering fields as well as from a few socio-economic fields so that students can see the software being exploited in real life applications. This is a pass/fail course. Prerequisite: Freshman standing.
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1.00 Credits
A hands-on introduction to electrical engineering to put the FUN into the electrical engineering FUNdamentals. Experiments are designed to be easy to conduct and understand. We examine some of the technologies used in a variety of applications including the iPod, ultrasound imaging, radar, and credit card readers. We also hear presentations from the EE faculty about their research.
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1.00 Credits
What do you really know about the coming energy crunch? What should you know about the coming energy crunch? For that matter, what does the instructor know about the coming energy crunch? Probably, in all three cases, not nearly as much as befits a well-informed citizen of our democracy, which is facing one. A fundamental prerequisite for continued existence of our technically rich civilization is sustainable energy, energy that will be available even when our dowry of fossil fuels and fissionable elements is only a memory. The purpose of this course is to attain understanding of the daunting problems that have to be worked through to achieve that sustainability. Topics include: Ragone charts; nuclear transformations and gravity as primary energy sources; sunshine, tides, and geothermal heat as secondary energy sources; fossil fuels, biomass, elevated bodies of water, wind, etc. as tertiary energy sources; the electric power grid; load leveling using quaternary energy sources; the slowly approaching mineral resource crunch. The group meets an average of one and a half hours a week for provocative discussion of the texts and other reading matter. A short essay (fewer than 750 words) is required at the end of the course. Prerequisites: high school biology, chemistry, and physics.
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1.00 Credits
A hands-on introduction to robotics. Project-oriented course in which students build and program a robot guided by upper-division students. Friendly competition at the end of semester. Students gain electrical lab experience, programming experience, and a guided introduction into the field of robotics. Recommended to freshmen and sophomores.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed for engineering freshmen. Students learn to control a robot via a personal computer in the systems engineering laboratory. Specifically, they learn the basics of programming, the interface between the computer and the robot, the use of the special software for controlling the interface and ultimately the real-time control of the robot. The course emphasizes team projects in which a group of students develop computer programs for controlling a robot.
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4.00 Credits
Electron and ion motion, electrical current and voltage. Electrical energy, current, voltage, and circuit elements. Resistors, Ohm's Law, power and energy, magnetic fields and DC motors. Circuit analysis and Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws. Thevenin and Norton transformations and the superposition theorem. Measuring current, voltage, and power using ammeters and voltmeters. Energy and maximum electrical power transfer. Computer simulations of circuits. Reactive circuits, inductors, capacitors, mutual inductance, electrical transformers, energy storage, and energy conservation. RL, RC, and RLC circuit transient responses, biological cell action potentials due to Na and K ions. AC circuits, complex impedance, RMS current and voltage. Electrical signal amplifiers and basic operational amplifier circuits. Inverting, noninverting, and difference amplifiers. Voltage gain, current gain, input impedance, and output impedance. Weekly laboratory exercises related to the lectures are an essential part of the course. Prerequisites: Physics 118A. Corequisite: Math 217.
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