This two-semester course leverages students? previous coursework to address an engineering design problem. Students collaborate in teams on real-world projects sponsored by industry and government. Regular team design meetings, weekly progress reports, interim and final reports, and multiple presentations are required. Prerequisites: EGR220, 270, 290 and at least one 300-level engineering course, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite: EGR410D. (E)

The concepts of linear system theory (e.g., Signals and Systems) are fundamental to all areas of engineering, including the transmission of radio signals, signal processing techniques (e.g., medical imaging, speech recognition, etc.), and the design of feedback systems (e.g., in automobiles, power plants, etc.). This course will introduce the basic concepts of linear system theory, including convolution, continuous and discrete time Fourier analysis, Laplace and Z transforms, sampling, stability, feedback, control, and modulation.

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.

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.

This project-based course examines the geochemical reactions between water and the natural system. Water and soil samples collected from a weekend field trip will serve as the basis for understanding principles of pH, alkalinity, equilibrium thermodynamics, mineral solubility, soil chemistry, redox reactions, acid rain and acid mine drainage. The laboratory will emphasize wet-chemistry analytical techniques. Participants will prepare regular reports based on laboratory analyses, building to a final analysis of the project study area. One weekend field trip.

A journey through the 4.6 billion year history of global change focuses on the extraordinary events that shaped the evolution of the Earth and life. Some of these events include the origin of life, the buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere, mass extinctions of dinosaurs and other organisms, continental glaciations, profound changes in climate, and the evolution of humans. Discussion topics also include the changes that humans are been making to our environment, and possible consequences and predictions for the future of our planet.

To act, to perform is to speculate with your body. Theatre is a transformative experience that takes performer and audience on an extensive journey in the playground of the imagination beyond the mundane world. Theatre asks us to be other than ourselves. We can for a time inhabit someone else's skin, be shaped by another gender or ethnicity, become part of a past epoch or an alternative time and space similar to our own time but that has yet to come. As we enter this 'imagined' world we investigate the normative principles of our current world.

Topics course. Filmmaking is storytelling. This story can be told by the actors or by its visuals. Every film employs a production designer who, with the director and cinematographer, is in charge of the visual design of the film. In this class we will learn how a production designer breaks down a script to determine which scenes should be shot on location and which should be built as sets. Each student will then make design choices for the entire script.

Topics course. An intensive exploration of specific approaches to improvisation(authentic movement, contact improvisation, Johnstone, Boal, transformational exercises and theatre games) that enhance the agility, resourcefulness and creativity of the performer. Prerequisites: one semester of acting or one semester of dance. Enrollment limited to 12.

A study of the major liberal and radical political theories of the 19th century, with emphasis on the writings of Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Mill and Nietsche. Not open to first-year students.