This course is designed to help students meet the demand for effective writing and speaking skills in the professional workplace. Topics include rhetorical considerations involving audience and purpose, writing style and tone, organizational strategies, research skills, evidence-based writing, and page design, along with assignments in professional correspondence, report writing, and public speaking and visual aids. This course satisfies the University's junior year writing requirement.

Advanced course in undergraduate classical mechanics covering Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Topics include: conservation laws, oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance, central force problems and planetary orbits, rigid body mechanics, an introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action, generalized coordinates, with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics.

Thesis written with a faculty member.

In this course we examine the important problems in Usability, Human Computer Interaction, User Interfaces, and Human Centered Computing. We will examine elements of HCI history, human information processing capabilities, HCI design, user interface prototyping methods and new applications and directions in human computer interaction.

An introduction to selected impairments of speech and language in children and adults. Content varies according to the instructor.

Analysis and design of precast prestressed concrete buildings. Topics include introduction to prestressed concrete, design of precast prestressed elements for moment, shear, torsion, and moment and axial force. The course will focus on design of elements in typical precast buildings including prestressed double tee beams, precast columns, precast spandrel beams, inverted tee beams, precast walls.