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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered yearly. In-depth introduction to current and future intelligent systems, including expert systems, neural networks, hybrid intelligent systems, and other intelligent system technologies and their development, uses and limitations. Prerequisites: Junior standing and ISAT 340 or CS 139.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered yearly. Study of means for the development and maintenance of high quality software products delivered on time and within budget. Topics include requirements analysis and specification, software design, implementation, testing, maintenance, project management, ethics, and the responsibilities of software engineering professionals. Prerequisites: CS 139 or ISAT 340 and sophomore standing.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered yearly. Students are introduced to a variety of tools for viewing multimedia and to the issues in designing effective human-computer interactions. This includes an introduction to the many forms of media that occur in computing systems (text, graphics, images, sound, animation) and to the characteristics of well-produced media. Prerequisite: CS 139, ISAT 340 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall. This course covers the scientific foundations and historical development of biotechnology. Specific topics include living system nanotechnology; cell structure and function; origins of genetic engineering; and recombinant DNA technology. Prerequisite: GISAT 113 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring. This course is a continuation of ISAT 350 and describes applications of biotechnology in agriculture, industry and medical science as well as associated social, ethical and philosophical issues. Topics include study of an emerging infectious disease; energy transduction in living systems; and novel applications of biotechnology. Prerequisite: ISAT 350. Corequisite: ISAT 305.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall. An introduction to telecommunications systems, including principles of electromagnetism and electromagnet waves, transmission media, encoding systems, and information theory; the social impacts of telecommunications systems and an overview of telecommunication policy and regulation; and the telecommunications industry sectors, major corporate players and regulatory agencies. Prerequisite: ISAT 152, PHYS 250 or permission of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit. Offered fall. This course is designed to prepare students to safely and intelligently use laboratory and field instrumentation (with associated software) commonly encountered in the telecommunications field. The student will also be required to plan, design, build and present a semester project involving the use of principles learned in the course. Prerequisite: ISAT 152 or PHYS 250.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall. This is largely a laboratory course in which students build and program their own instruments. Topics include programming techniques for real-time instrumentation programming; buffered analog and digital input and output; timing considerations; passive analog filters and active analog filters; digital-filtering techniques; and real-time programming issues. Prerequisites: ISAT 253 and ISAT 252 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring. Students design and build their own instruments. Topics include representative sensor techniques as applied to physical, chemical and biological systems as well as basic and advanced circuits for signal manipulation: buffers, amplifiers and active and passive filters. An instrument design project is the capstone of the course. Prerequisites: ISAT 253 and ISAT 252 or the permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Not offered 2008-2009. This practical laboratory course provides hands-on experience in the preparation and examination of biological specimens with the transmission electron microscope. Techniques to be mastered include support film preparation for negative staining of bacteria and viruses, fixation, embedding, and thin sectioning of tissues, electron optical alignment and microscope operation. Prerequisite: ISAT 253 or permission of instructor. ISAT 410. Sustainable Energy Development. 3 credits. Offered spring. This course is concerned with science and the applications of solar and other renewable technologies, e.g., solar thermal electric, photovoltaics, wind power, biomass-derived alcohols, solar hydrogen and ocean thermal energy conversion Energy storage systems and materials, combined renewable-conventional systems for peaking and load management and alternative energy sources for transportation will be studied. Prerequisite: ISAT 310 or permission of instructor.
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