Course Descriptions

May 12, 2016

ANTH 0310 - Human Evolution Course Description: Examination of theory and evidence
on human evolution in the past, present and future. Topics include evolution and adaptation, biocultural adaptation, fossil evidence, behavioral evolution in primates, human genetic variation and
contemporary human biological variation.
APMA0160 Introduction to Scientific Computing Course Description: For student in
any discipline that may involve numerical computations. Includes instruction for programming in
MATLAB. Applications discussed include solution of linear equations (with vectors and matrices)
and nonlinear equations (by bisection, iteration, and Newtons method), interpolation, and curvefitting, difference equations, iterated maps, numerical differentiation and integration, and differential
equations.
APMA0330 Methods of Applied Mathematics I,II Course Description: This course will
cover mathematical techniques involving ordinary differential equations used in the analysis of physical, biological, and economic phenomena. The course emphasizes established methods and their
applications rather than rigorous foundation. Topics include: first and second order differential
equations, an introduction to numerical methods, series solutions, and Laplace transformations.
APMA0340 - Methods of Applied Mathematics I,II Course Description: Mathematical
techniques involving differential equations used in the analysis of physical, biological and economic
phenomena. Emphasis on the use of established methods, rather than rigorous foundations. I: First
and second order differential equations. II: Applications of linear algebra to systems of equations;
numerical methods; nonlinear problems and stability; introduction to partial differential equations;
introduction to statistics.
CHEM0350 Organic Chemistry Course Description: Investigates the constitution and properties of the different classes of organic compounds, with considerable attention to reaction mechanisms. The laboratory work involves an introduction to microscale preparative and analytical
techniques of organic chemistry and the preparation of representative organic compounds.
CHEM1700 Nanoscale Materials: Synthesis and Applications Course Description: Focuses on synthesis, properties, and applications of nanoscale materials. It begins with the introduction to size-dependent properties and to general characterization methods of nanomaterials. It
then outlines the synthesis, surface chemistry and self-assembly of nanomaterials. It further reviews
catalytic, optical and magnetic properties of nanomateirals. Finally, the course highlights the applications of nanomaterials in information storage, energy conversion, and biomedicine.

CLPS0040 Mind and Brain: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the neuroscientific study of cognition. Topics surveyed
in the course include the neural bases of perception, attention, memory, language, executive function,
emotion, social cognition, and decision making. In covering these topics, the course will draw on
evidence from brain imaging (fMRI, EEG, MEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation, electrophysiology, and neuropsychology. The course will also consider how knowledge about the brain constrains
our understanding of the mind.
ENGN0030 Introduction to Engineering Course Description: An introduction to various
engineering disciplines, thought processes, and issues. Topics include computing in engineering, engineering design, optimization, and estimation. Case studies in engineering are used to illustrate
engineering fields and scientific principles, including in-depth studies of statics and optics. Laboratories and design projects are included.
ENGN0040 Dynamics and Vibrations Course Description: Study of the kinematics and
dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. Principles of motion of mechanical systems. Concepts of
inertia, work, kinetic energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, and impact. Applications to
engineering systems, satellite orbits, harmonic vibrations of one and two degree of freedom systems.
Lectures, recitations, and laboratory.
ENGN0410 Materials Science Course Description: Relationship between the structure of
matter and its engineering properties. Topics: primary and secondary bonding; crystal structure;
atomic transport in solids; defects in crystals; mechanical behavior of materials; phase diagrams and
their utilization; heat treatment of metals and alloys; electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of
materials; strengthening mechanisms in solids and relationships between microstructure and properties; corrosion and oxidation. Lectures, recitations, laboratory.
ENGN0510 Electricity and Magnetism Course Description: Fundamental laws of electricity
and magnetism and their role in engineering applications. Concepts of charge, current, potential,
electric field, magnetic field. Resistance, capacitance, and inductance. Electric and magnetic properties of materials. Electromagnetic wave propagation. Lectures, recitation, and laboratory.
ENGN0520 Electrical Circuits and Signals Course Description: An introduction to electrical circuits and signals. Emphasizes the analysis and design of systems described by ordinary
linear differential equations. The frequency domain is introduced, including the effects of sampling
and windowing in computer simulations. Other topics include transient analysis, Fourier series, and
Laplace transform. Laboratories apply concepts to real problems in audio and controls. Lectures,
recitation, and laboratory.
ENGN0720 Thermodynamics Course Description: An introduction to macroscopic thermodynamics and some of its engineering applications. Presents basic concepts related to equilibrium,
and the zeroth, first and second laws for both closed and open systems. Examples include analysis of engines, turbines, and other engineering cycles, phase equilibrium and separation processes,
chemical reactions, surface phenomena, magnetic and dielectric materials. Lectures, recitations, and
laboratory.
ENGN1370 Advanced Engineering Mechanics Course Description: A unified study of
the dynamics of particles, rigid bodies, and deformable continua. Generalized coordinates and La-

granges equations; variational principles; stability of equilibrium; vibrations of discrete systems and
of elastic continua, and wave propagation.
ENGN1570 Linear System Analysis Course Description: Analysis of discrete and continuous electrical signals and systems in both time and frequency domains. Modulation, sampling,
spectral analysis, analog and digital filtering. Fourier, Laplace and z-transforms, the state-space
approach, stability of linear systems.
ENGN1580 Communication Systems Course Description: We will learn basic communication and information theory, but with examples drawn from a variety of areas not normally
considered communication. Basic knowledge of Laplace/Fourier transforms and frequency domain
is essential (ENGN 0520 or equivalent required). Linear Systems (ENGN 1570), Probability (APMA
1650 or MATH 1610), Linear Algebra (MATH 0520 or 0540) and E&M (ENGN 0510) are helpful but
not required. Analog modulation, digitization, signal space, digital modulation and noise, information theory, selected topics in modern communication/information network theory and applications
to biology and physics as time and interest permit. Depending on preparation, we may also pursue
final projects.
ENGN1590 Introduction to Semiconductors and Semiconductor Electronics Course
Description: An introduction to the physics of fundamental electronic processes that underlie the
operation of semiconductor devices on a microscopic scale. Basic electronic properties of semiconductors and effects at interfaces heterogeneous media, such as pn junctions and hetero-structure
barriers and quantum wells. These junctions, barriers and wells are used as building blocks for
devices, focusing on bipolar and field-effect transistors. Modern trends in micro- and opto-electronic
devices are discussed. A brief fabrication lab will introduce pn junction fabrication technology.
ENGN1620 Analysis and Design of Electronic Circuits Course Description: Elementary device physics and circuit characteristics of semiconductor diodes, bipolar junction transistors
(BJTs), and field effect transistors (FETs). Analysis and design of practical circuits using discrete
semiconductor devices. Constraint on and techniques for linear integrated circuit (IC) design and
the use of linear ICs as circuit building blocks. Laboratory.
ENGN1630 Digital Electronics Systems Design Course Description: Fundamentals of digital logic design including: Boolean algebra, gates, truth tables, logic families, flip-flops, finite state
machines, memory, and timing. More advanced topics include A-D conversion, binary arithmetic,
CPU organization, programmable logic (CPLDs and FPGAs), and VHDL. Extensive laboratory
requirement.
ENGN1680 Design and Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices Course Description: Contemporary practice in the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices. The realization of basic
electronic device functions on the semiconductor platform is a central theme in a coordinated lecture
and laboratory course. Topics include microcircuit photolithography; layout and design scaling rules
for integrated circuits; and techniques in semiconductor and thin film processing as they apply to
ULSI circuit manufacturing.
ENGN1690 Photonics and Applications Course Description: Science and engineering principles of photonics and optoelectronics, that provide foundation to a broad range of technologies
from internet to lighting, from lasers to DVD, from satellite images to computer display, from solar

cells to single molecule detection. Topical content: light as waves in media, on surface, and through
holes; interference and waveguiding; light generation by spontaneous emission or by stimulation;
LED, Laser, Photodetector, Optical amplifier and modulator, etc.
ENGN1971 Independent Study in Engineering Course Description: Design of a confocal
fluorescence microscope for labeled DNA detection
ENGN2610 Physics of Solid State Devices Course Description: Current and proposed
semiconductor devices: bipolar transistors (silicon and heterojunction); field effect transistors (MOSFETs, heterostructure, and submicron FETs); hot-electron and quantum-effect devices; and photonic devices (LEDs, semiconductor lasers, and photodetectors).
ENGN2912Q Coherence of Light in Nanooptics and Plasmonics Course Description:
This class is a special topics graduate course focusing on advanced concepts in optics, including
spatial and temporal coherence of optical fields, higher-order coherence phenomena in space-time
domain, coherence effects at the nano- and micro-scale, optical and plasmonic interferometry using
partially coherent sources. The subject is aimed at graduate and undergraduate students interested
in optical communications, propagation of laser beams in biological or turbulent media, optical
microscopy and imaging, as well as medical diagnostics. The concepts of flipped teaching and
learning by teaching will be explored. Knowledge of advanced electricity and magnetism concepts
is required.
MATH0190 Advanced Placement Calculus Course Description: The main topics are: calculus of vectors and paths in two and three dimensions; differential equations of the first and second
order; and infinite series, including power series and Fourier series. The extra hour is a weekly
problem session.
MATH0200 Intermediate Calculus Course Description: The main topics are: geometry
of three-dimensional space; partial derivatives; Lagrange multipliers; double, surface, and triple
integrals; vector analysis; Stokes theorem and the divergence theorem, with applications to electrostatics and fluid flow.
PHYS1410 Quantum Mechanics A Course Description: A unified treatment of quanta,
photons, electrons, atoms, molecules, matter, nuclei, and particles. Quantum mechanics developed
at the start and used to link and explain both the older and newer experimental phenomena of
modern physics.
SOC1871L - Migration, Displacement and Emerging Community Experiences: Contemporary Turkey Course Description: This course explores Anatolia as a dynamic territory of
transit, through a critical lens. We will study communities that have been formed through internal and international migration, displacement, and Otherness that forces people to organize along
identity lines, resulting in emerging diverse communities within Turkey. We will look briefly at
Anatolias past and focus primarily on contemporary Turkey. We will compare the reality of the
population with the rhetoric and performance of ruling powers pertaining to indigenous status and
belonging. Students will leave this course with a comprehensive understanding of population and
identity formation in contemporary Turkey as they relate to migration and displacement.
TAPS0030 Introduction to Acting and Directing Course Description:

Explores basic

acting/directing concepts from a variety of perspectives including the use of the actors imagination/impulsivity in the creation of truthful, dramatic performance; the body, as a way of knowing and
communicating knowledge; and the voice, as a means of discovering and revealing emotion/thought.
There is a mandatory tech requirement and some evening hours are required.