Provides graduate students with a broad sampling of new and cutting-edge research related to environmental conservation to help foster critical thinking and provide a more expansive view of natural resources research. Seminars will be given by departmental faculty and faculty from other departments, both on campus and from other institutions. The seminars will be designed for both students who plan a research career and those who plan a more applied path.

Intermediate statistics illustrated using examples from ecology. Topics include ANOVA, linear regression (simple and multiple), correlation, logistic regression, continency tables and noparametric methods. Techniques discussed in lectures and applied in laboratories.

Provides graduate students with an opportunity to deepen their studies in Building Information Modeling (BIM), a concept that is at the heart of contemporary digital building planning and execution. This course also provides a thorough introduction into Autodesk Revit and covers applied topics in Trimble SketchUp, both industry-standard software in the AEC field.

With the advent of low-cost embedded systems, ubiquitous computing will soon be a reality. These and other digital systems often require both hardware and software components and their co-design. This course focuses on rapid prototyping of embedded digital systems using novel System-on-Chip (SOC) FPGAs, softcore and hardcore microprocessors, memory elements, as well as sophisticated development tools for both software and hardware design.

Introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms for computer engineers. Approaches to specifying, validating, and carrying out performance analysis of, algorithms within a mathematical framework.

This course provides an introduction to fundamental concepts in computer
networks, including their design and implementation. Topics covered include the Web and multimedia applications, transport protocols (providing reliability and congestion control), routing, and link access. Special attention is also paid to wireless networks, multimedia content delivery, and security. Homework assignments involve distributed systems, and written tasks. Lab assignments include socket programming and examining Internet traffic data captured through Wireshark.

This course provides an overview of the core design principles used in the holistic design of low power embedded computing systems. The topics for the course will include wireless and ambient energy harvesting, alternative energy storage technologies, low power radio design, efficient sensor data processing, and low power AI accelerators. The course will include a survey of papers from recent top-tier conferences and journals. Students will have the opportunity to design a low power embedded system for IoT, mobile health, or other HCI application and empirically evaluate its performance.

MITRE's eCTF (embedded capture-the-flag) is an embedded security competition that puts participants through the experience of trying to create a secure system and then learning from their mistakes. The main target is a real physical embedded device, which opens the scope of the challenge to include physical/proximal access attacks. The eCTF is a two-phase competition with attack and defense components. In the first phase, competitors design and implement a secure system based on a set of challenge requirements.

Continuation of E&C-ENG 333 with emphasis on time-varying fields, propagation of plane waves in unbounded media. Wave reflection and transmission at boundary between two media, wave polarization, geometrical optics concepts, images. Guided wave propagation in rectangular waveguides. Electromagnetic radiation, antennas, applications to communications and radar systems. Prerequisite: E&C-ENG 333.

Theory and applications of modern optoelectronic components such as waveguides and optical fibers, photodetectors, light emitting diodes, and semiconductor lasers. Emphasis on the physics and operating characteristics of optoelectronic semiconductor devices. Prerequisite: E&C-ENG 344.