This course offers an opportunity to visit local and regional sustainability initiatives. This includes public services, non-governmental organizations, and family businesses spanning multiple dimensions of sustainability. Each field trip has been chosen with the objective of cultivating a deeper understanding of one component of a larger system. Students should have graduate level standing and be enrolled in the MS Sustainability Science program to enroll in this course. This class is entirely field based.

This course introduces concepts related to the management of urbanized landscapes, focusing on what comprises the urban forest, its function as a natural system and the value of urban forests as an environmental and social catalyst. Examination of what makes up the urban forest, how these components function and the importance of sustainable urban natural landscapes will be undertaken.

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Simulation techniques. Random number generators. Basic statistics for analysis of simulation results. Techniques for speeding up simulation. Simulation of processors, cache memory, and computer networks. Elementary queueing theory and Markov chains. Prerequisites: E&C-Eng 314 or equivalent; undergraduate course on computer architecture.

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This course will give students a deep exposure to cloud computing enabling technologies, its main building blocks, the design strategies behind scalable and fault tolerant cloud architectures, and an in-depth understanding through homeworks projects and exams. We learn about data center networks and their topologies, cloud transport layer, file systems, handling big data, enabling consistent data store, virtualization, and the softwarization trends in cloud computing.

Phased arrays are a key component in radars, wireless and satellite communications, remote sensing and imaging systems, and in scientific instruments such as radio telescopes. This course will provide a working knowledge of the key parameters of modern phased array antenna systems. Students will learn to critically evaluate the performance of phased array antenna systems and their main building blocks, with emphasis on factors that are important for high-performance radar and communication systems. Concepts, theory models and design principles will be developed.

Introduction to fundamentals of radar systems. Radar range equation, critical radar components, and system performance. Detection, modulation, noise, and propagation effects. Prerequisite: E&C-ENG 584 or equivalent.