Shapes speak to us. Prose shapes us. From the picture book to the chapter book, we will explore the ways in which literature for children invents the child reading that literature. And we will attempt to break through our natural nostalgia for works we know to rediscover their innovative and experimental nature. In so doing, we will see these works work their magic on themes that will become familiar throughout the semester: identity, nostalgia, interiors and exteriors, authority, independence and dependence and, of course, the nature of wild things.

Lectures, with occasional discussion, on the English novel from Conrad to the present day. The historical contexts and the formal devices (management of narrative and plot, stylistic and structural innovations, characterization, literary allusiveness) of works by such writers as Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, F.M. Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Shirley Hazzard, V.S. Naipaul.

A reading of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and significant poem, invoking the world of barbarian Europe after the fall of Rome.

This two-semester course leverages students? previous coursework to address an engineering design problem. Students work on a design project sponsored by an individual member of the engineering faculty. Regular design meetings, progress reports, interim and final reports, and presentations are required. Prerequisites: EGR220, 270, 290 and at least one 300-level engineering course, plus a clear demonstration of intent and a faculty sponsor. Co-requisite: EGR410D.

The goal of this seminar is to introduce students to several approaches used to model, understand, simulate and forecast engineering processes. One approach to be covered is the use of artificial neural networks?a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) with connections to the brain. Other approaches to be covered are based upon probability and statistics and will include auto-regressive moving average(ARIMA) processes.

Building on the fundamentals of solid mechanics and materials science introduced in EGR 375, this seminar provides students with an advanced development of techniques in failure analysis, including static failure theories, fatigue life prediction, and linear elastic fracture mechanics. These techniques are used in many aspects of mechanical design and the evaluation of structural integrity. Prerequisites: EGR 375 or equivalent. Enrollment limit of 12.

This seminar focuses on the measurement and modeling of hydrologic processes and their interplay with ecosystems. Material includes the statistical and mathematical representation of infiltration, evapotranspiration, plant uptake, and runoff over a range of scales (plot to watershed). The course will address characterization of the temporal and spatial variability of environmental parameters and representation of the processes.

Modern civilization relies profoundly on efficient production,management, and consumption of energy. Thermodynamics is the science of energy transformations involving work, heat, and the properties of matter. Engineers rely on thermodynamics to assess the feasibility of their designs in a wide variety of fields including chemical processing, pollution control and abatement, power generation, materials science, engine design, construction, refrigeration, and microchip processing.

Analog and digital circuits are the building blocks of computers, medical technologies, and all things electrical. This course introduces both the fundamental principles necessary to understand how circuits work and mathematical tools that have widespread applications in areas throughout engineering and science. Topics include: Kirchhoff's laws, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, superposition, responses of first-order and second-order networks, time-domain and frequency-domain analyses, frequency-selective networks.

Principles and techniques used in development of language with deaf children. Consideration is given to traditional and modern approaches to language development as it applies to reading and writing as well as spoken language. Strategies for developing reading and written language skills, the use of expository text to develop language skills, as well as formal and informal assessment, and using information from evaluations to develop an Individual Education Program will be discussed.