This course provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of managing engineering and technical projects. Covered topics align with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK?) developed by the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI) and include the five (5) major project management process groups: initiation, project planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. A particular focus of this course will be equipping the student with the important nontechnical skills (i.e. soft skills) needed in leading projects and project teams.

Students will learn fundamental principles of molecular biology and fluid dynamics as they relate to human physiology and disease, with a focus on the cardiovascular, lymphatic and pulmonary systems. The relationship between the forces applied by the blood to blood vessels and heart, lymph to lymphatic vessels and air to the pulmonary airways are explored via formal lectures and journal article discussions. The course will also cover various experimental systems used to quantify cell response to forces. Students will be introduced to concepts of scientific writing.

This course will cover statistical methods now widely used in data analysis, learning and prediction such as regression and classification techniques, feature selection, decision trees, and unsupervised learning methods such as clustering and principal components analysis. The emphasis will be on applying the statistical methods to data sets and understanding the optimization theory that drives these methods.

Innovation in materials, IT, manufacturing and intelligent techniques is propelling the revolution of manufacturing industry. The integration of the innovative materials and artificial intelligent (AI) and sensing techniques in manufacturing processes, called Industry 4.0, is bringing lower cost and higher quality products to our life and changing our life.

Students will learn fundamental principles of molecular biology and fluid dynamics as they relate to human physiology and disease, with a focus on the cardiovascular, lymphatic and pulmonary systems. The relationship between the forces applied by the blood to blood vessels and heart, lymph to lymphatic vessels and air to the pulmonary airways are explored via formal lectures and journal article discussions. The course will also cover various experimental systems used to quantify cell response to forces. Students will be introduced to concepts of scientific writing.

Kinetics and Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Newton's laws, work-energy and impulse-momentum principles, laws of linear and angular momentum, conservation of momentum, planar motion of rigid bodies, and introduction to vibration of single-degree-of-freedom systems.

Stochastic models including discrete time Markov chains, continuous time Markov processes, Markov decision processes, queuing theory, dynamic programming and their application to manufacturing and service sector engineering processes.

A professionally oriented seminar with faculty, university administration, and alumni speakers. Topics include: starting career options; career development; safety; switching companies and careers; working for oneself; graduate school.

The goal of this seminar is to introduce the graduate students to different cutting edge research projects that are ongoing in the Department and at other Institutions and to promote interdisciplinary research collaboration by encouraging the students to attend the Departmental Seminars and PhD/MS defenses.

In this course, we will read and discuss papers on a range of topics applicable to offshore wind energy.