2018-2019 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]
Courses
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PSYC 581/5274 - Practicum II in Counseling Psychology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and approval of advisor.
Description
Advanced practicum in which students provide direct counseling services with the support of individual and group supervision. This practical training will help students develop their skills in areas including but not limited to: a. counseling assessment and interventions; b. session and case management skills; c. ethical and legal principles, and d. and documentation such as record keeping and report writing.
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PSYC 550/5281 - Couples Counseling and Human Sexuality (3 cr.)
Description
The course will focus on theories and methods of effective counseling with couples. The course will also cover the influence of socio-cultural factors on couples’ relationships. The human sexuality portion of the course will address issues such as sexual development across life span, sexual attitudes, sexual dysfunction, sexual assault, commercial sex and sex therapy.
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PSYC 596/5283 - Internship in Community Psychology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and approval of advisor.
Description
This course provides students with applied fieldwork experience in community psychology during an academic year-long field internship. Students are placed at NGOs, community agencies, or private or public institutions as interns with an approved external supervisor at the site. In addition, students meet regularly with a psychology faculty member for individual and group supervision.
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PSYC 590/5284 - Internship in Counseling Psychology (3 cr. + 3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Completion of and
Description
This course provides students with clinical training and experience in counseling during an academic year-long field internship. Students are placed at NGOs, community agencies, or private or public institutions as interns with an approved external supervisor at the site. In addition, students meet regularly with a psychology faculty member for individual and group supervision.
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PSYC 599/5299 - Research Guidance and Thesis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Approval of advisor.
Description
Supervision in the preparation and writing of the Masters thesis. May be repeated for credit.
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Public Policy and Administration |
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PPAD 299/2099 - Selected Topics for the Core Curriculum (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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PPAD 308/3198 - Management in Government (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to management and policy-making in government and non-profit organizations, with an emphasis on development programming in Egypt. Exploration of current policy and governance issues of importance to Egypt. Overview of management techniques applied in designing, implementing, and assessing development programs in government and non-profit settings.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 506/5111 - Essentials of Public Policy and Administration (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to public policy and administration for students with limited preparation in political science and social science generally. Exploration of what constitutes policy and how it is made, implemented, and evaluated, including role of different institutions and actors in shaping policy outcomes. Overview of major management issues in nonprofit and government agencies, including setting strategy, developing operational plans, and managing human and financial resources to achieve desired outcomes. May be taken for MPP credit only by students with limited background in management or social sciences (advisor approval required).
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 510/5113 - Organizational Behavior for Government and Nonprofit Management (3 cr.)
Description
Factors that shape how employees and managers interact with each other, with partners, citizens, and clients, and with the institutions themselves in public and nonprofit settings. Theories of motivation, leadership, group dynamics, power, communication, and ethical behavior in organizations. Application of theoretical constructs to the reality of developing country conditions, preparing students to address organizational challenges in professional settings.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 512/5114 - Management of Development Programs (3 cr.)
Description
Theory and practice of management as applied to development projects, programs, and organizations. Managerial aspects of social and economic development, with extensive use of case material to explore how management shapes development outcomes. Implementation of management reforms in public and nonprofit settings, including project design and management.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 505/5121 - Institutions, Democratization, and Public Policy (3 cr.)
Description
Review of theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the state, institutions and public policy; explores dynamic relationships among state, society and economy. Introduction to political theory, institutional theory and public policy theory, from theories of who governs and how to the policy process. Extensive use of case studies to explore how institutions shape political life, policy, reform, and the democratic transition.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 511/5122 - Administrative Environment and Public Policy in Egypt and the Middle East (3 cr.)
Description
In-depth exploration of the interaction of public policy and government institutions in Egypt and the Middle East to achieve public purposes. Consideration of how administrative structures shape outcomes and how performance constraints can be overcome, with application to selected social and productive sectors of public policy concern in Egypt and the region.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 518/5123 - Governance, Accountability, and Stakeholder Negotiations (3 cr.)
Description
Provides students with an understanding of governance and accountability concepts, tools, and applications as applied in governmental and nonprofit settings, including international development organizations, and corporations working in developing countries. Strategies to overcome governance deficiencies including corruption, weak accountability to stakeholders, and nontransparency. Approaches to negotiation, especially between sectors (government-nonprofit-private sector) and with community stakeholders. Communication tools and other approaches for improving stakeholder relations.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 519/5124 - Leadership and Communication for Public Affairs (3 cr.)
Description
Approaches to leading change in government and nonprofit settings at the organizational, local, and national levels. Consideration of how to develop personal leadership skills based on case studies and analysis of successful and unsuccessful leadership models in the public sphere, and how to develop effective change strategies, overcome barriers, and shape group behavior to achieve desired outcomes. Development of better oral and written communication skills, problem-solving approaches, and skill in using management tools to build collaboration within and between organizations.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 523/5125 - Citizen-centered government (3 cr.)
Description
Exploration of institutional reforms to expand citizen engagement and government accountability in the Middle East, including decentralization of government services, community-based services, and creation of mechanisms to engage citizens in governance. Use of technology to improve citizen services and communication, including e-government.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 517/5126 - Non-profit Management (3 cr.)
Description
Application of management concepts, approaches, and tools in a nonprofit setting, including strategic management, human resource management, budgeting and financial management, and project management. Interaction of NGOs with partners including participatory development approaches, relations with donors and governments, coalition-building and fundraising. Both project and advocacy approaches will be covered.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 525/5127 - Reforming Delivery of Social Services (3 cr.)
Description
Exploration of the causes and consequences of ineffective government programming in social service delivery and strategies to improve performance. Comparative analysis of issues in health, education, anti-poverty programming, including the interaction of financial, human resource, and governance failures and ways to address them in a developing country context. Application of intervention strategies to increase responsiveness to citizen needs, including the uses of information, technology, capacity-building, and accountability mechanisms.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 526/5128 - Corporate Social Responsibility and NGO Partnerships (3 cr.)
Description
Overview of corporate social responsibility principles and applications from a developing country perspective. Issues in responsible corporate management, including addressing environmental, social, and accountability challenges. Tools for implementing and assessing corporate social responsibility programming, including mechanisms for developing effective partnerships with nonprofit organizations. Extensive use of cases from developing country experience.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 524/5129 - Globalization and Development (3 cr.)
Description
Integrative approach to the debate on globalization and development in the 21st century. Analyzes globalization through the lens of diverse regions, using cases and analysis to explore global aspects of social change, growth and development, social and economic stability and development finance. Considers emerging issues reshaping global development, including migration of labor and capital, trade, technology, conflict, and global warming. Impact of globalization on sustainable development, including environment, debt, crisis management, global governance, poverty, and inequality.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 507/5131 - Government Finance for Policy Analysis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Completion of economics core or equivalent economics preparation.
Description
Role of government expenditure, taxation, and financing in public policy, with emphasis on socioeconomic development and related policy issues. Application of financial and economic principles to government finance, with emphasis on rigorous theory, empirical evidence, public choice analysis, and policy applications in a market economy. Design, selection, and evaluation of spending programs (emphasizing social programs and social insurance); revenue generation including taxation, non-tax funding mechanisms, government credit; subsidy and income transfer programs.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 516/5132 - Social and Environmental Policy (3 cr.)
Description
Overview of issues and analytic approaches for social and environmental policy, including programmatic and policy responses to development challenges in the environment, health and social services, and anti-poverty programming, with an emphasis on applications and case studies of experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Application of analytic methods to understand the root causes of barriers to providing social services and protecting the environment, and potential solutions to address these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 520/5133 - Global Health Issues and Policies (3 cr.)
Description
Examination of health issues in developing countries from a global perspective, with an emphasis on strategies to address social, economic, and managerial barriers to better health outcomes. Consideration of healthcare delivery in the broader context of development, equity, and government performance. Role of poverty, environmental degradation, and related social factors in health outcomes and development of new approaches to tackle social determinants of health. Introduction to health finance issues and approaches. Exploration of global issues affecting health such as migration, intellectual property rights, and governance failures.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 521/5134 - Government Regulation of Business and Investment (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to government strategies to regulate social and economic sectors to overcome market failures. Comparative analysis of regulatory structures and issues in financial markets, telecommunications, the utility sector (power, water), environment, and social services (education, healthcare). Regulatory tools and analysis of alternative regulatory strategies as applied in developing countries. Privatization and public-private partnerships, including legal frameworks, approaches to community involvement in decision-making, accountability, and dispute resolution.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 522/5135 - Promotion of Local Economic Development (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to government strategies to promote broad-based and employment-creating growth at the national, regional, and local levels. Small and midsize enterprise development, including financing tools. Mobilization of local resources through collaboration with the business sector and community partners. Identification and removal of barriers to investment to create an environment conducive to growth. Tools to attract investors and create local capacity for growth.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 541/5136 - Gender in Public Policy and Administration (3 cr.)
Description
The course approaches the topic of gender in public policy and administration by exploring frameworks for thinking about both gender differences and public affairs; examining policy issues that have gendered outcomes; and looking at the representation of women in leadership positions as agents of social change
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PPAD 536/5141 - Policy for Sustainable Cities (3 cr.)
Description
Explores policy choices facing urban managers, planners, and the communities they serve with regard to putting cities on a path to sustainability. Considers how allocation of, control over, and use of key land and financial resources shapes urban development from political economy, governance and space planning perspectives. Examines participatory planning and other methods to engage urban stakeholders in management of cities as well as tools to promote adoption of green technologies in the urban housing, industrial, transport, power, water, and commercial building sectors.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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PPAD 537/5142 - Greening the Built Environment (3 cr.)
Description
Examines core concepts, analytic tools, and program models needed to develop the urban built environment in ways that are socially and environmentally sustainable. Gives particular attention to retrofitting and sustainability upgrades for the existing urban core, developing new communities on a sustainable model, and providing affordable options for low-income urban residents, including upgrading of informal areas as well as new developments. Explores how the spatial distribution of work and housing choices interacts with transport/transit systems, energy use, and infrastructure to shape urban sustainability outcomes.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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PPAD 538/5143 - Urban Infrastructure Development for Sustainability (3 cr.)
Description
Considers how the development of critical infrastructure (power generation and transmission, water/wastewater, transport/transit, and waste management) can be directed toward socially and environmentally sound and economically viable models. Provides an understanding of alternative infrastructure financing, regulation, and implementation models from state provision to public-private partnerships. Explores how infrastructure network choices shape city expansion, urban quality of life, and efficiency outcomes in a dynamic urban context.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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PPAD 532/5154 - Contemporary Security Issues in the Middle East (3 cr.)
Description
This course is about comparable and other issues of regional security with special emphasis on the Middle East. It will address categories of issues and then focus on specific case studies of occupation, water, oil, other natural resources, and ethnic and intra-State conflicts. Policies of regional and extra-regional powers and multilateral approaches towards these security cases will be reviewed.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 540/5161 - Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (3 cr.)
Description
The course analyzes both the limits and potential of diplomacy. It examines how thinking about diplomacy has evolved from the classical period through to the beginning of the twenty-first century and how it might develop in the future in response to the interrelated and changing issues and the interdependence between actors in world society.
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PPAD 575/5175 - Independent Study in Public Policy and Administration (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Pre-requisites: Permission of the instructor and unit head
Description
Guided readings, research, and discussions on specific selected topics in Public Policy and Administration
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PPAD 491/5198 - Practicum (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Junior or Senior status.
Description
Students work on an approved individual or team professional assignment with a relevant government, non-profit, or other organization. Class meets alternate weeks during the term to work on practicum assignments and to translate practicum products into polished professional work products, which may become the basis of student theses or master’s projects. Work may be begun prior to the term in which the student enrolls in the class with instructor’s approval. Assessment based on practicum supervisor’s review, and other products prepared, and contribution to peer reviews or team products.
Cross-listed
Same as
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Grading Pass/Fail.
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PPAD 591/5198 - Practicum (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Completion of at least 3 courses or approval of department and instructor.
Description
Students must complete an approved individual or team professional assignment with a relevant government, non-profit, or other organization. Class meets alternate weeks during the term to work on practicum assignments and to translate practicum products into polished professional work products, which may become the basis for student theses or master’s projects. Work may be begun prior to the term in which the student enrolls in the class. Assessment based on practicum supervisor’s review, research paper and other products prepared, and contribution to peer reviews or team products. Students may arrange to complete an individual practicum assignment on an independent study basis under faculty supervision.
Cross-listed
Same as
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Grading Pass/Fail.
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PPAD 570/5199 - Special Topics in Public Policy and Administration (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Consent of the instructor and advisor.
Description
Considers selected topics of relevance to public policy and administration. May be repeated with permission of the supervisor if the topic varies from the previous enrollment.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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PPAD 500/5201 - Research Methods for Public Policy and Administration (3 cr.)
Description
Theoretical and applied aspects of developing a research project, including definition of research questions, literature review, overall research design, and methodology, as well as research implementation planning (use of library sources, field investigation, and scheduling). Each student will develop a research proposal that will generally serve as the basis for the thesis proposal.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 515/5202 - Public Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to analytic tools, methods, and approaches to policy analysis in diverse development issues areas and country situations. Develops skills in selection and application of tools to analyze policy problems, assess alternative solutions, and develop recommendations for action, including cost-benefit and simulation. Approaches to program evaluation ex ante and ex post, including identification of data needs, assessment of implementation issues and outcomes, and definition of strategies to achieve desired outcomes.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 508/5211 - Qualitative Analysis for Policy and Administration (3 cr.)
Description
Use of qualitative data in policy and public administration research and analysis. Fundamental concepts and applications of methods including interviews, case studies, historical research, focus groups, and qualitative surveys. Ethics in qualitative analysis. Design, execution, and interpretation of qualitative results, including issues of validity and replicability.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 509/5212 - Applied Quantitative Analysis (3 cr.)
Description
Application of statistical techniques to policy analysis and policy/program evaluation. Use of the empirical techniques to understand policy issues, analytical modeling and forecasts. Essentials of multivariate regression analysis with policy applications, problems in regression analysis, forecasting, time series/panel data modeling, and simultaneous equations models, with an emphasis on application rather than theory and use of statistical packages (SAS and SPSS) for policy analysis.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 501/5221 - Strategic Management for Government and Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr.)
Description
Concepts of strategic management as applied to government and nonprofit organizations, including development agencies. Methods and practical considerations related to developing organizational strategies to achieve public purposes, translation of strategies into organizations plans in light of theory and practice of organizational behavior, and assessment of performance relative to strategy.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 504/5222 - Fundamentals of Financial Planning and Management for Government and Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr.)
Description
Essentials of financial management in nonprofit and governmental settings, providing an overview of budget planning, management, monitoring, and controls at the program, agency, and government-wide level. Review of government financial management principles and applications, including managing tax and expenditure programs, sources and uses of funds for government organizations, control of corruption, fundamentals of performance measurement, budgetary decision-making concepts and processes, and citizen participation in budgeting. Financial management of non-profits, including introduction to fundraising and revenue generation strategies, sustainability, financial monitoring and reporting, and controls.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 513/5223 - International Models of Public Management (3 cr.)
Description
Explores international approaches to structuring and managing the public sector to meet national objectives. Examines alternative models and their implications for government performance and effectiveness, with an emphasis on MENA region and developing countries, but also considering European, North American, and Asian models. Application of analytic tools and models of government behavior to compare approaches to reforming government management in diverse contexts.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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PPAD 514/5224 - Human Resource Management for Government and Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr.)
Description
Study of key concepts, tools, and methods for human resource management in government and nonprofit organizations. Implementation of management tools to improve human resource productivity and performance through strategic application of HR tools including structural reform, recruitment, capacity-building, motivation, promotion, evaluation, benefits, and conditions of work.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 000/5225 - Regionalism and Regional Integration (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Admission in the Master in Global Affairs (MGA) program. having taken PPAD 5251 is advisable but not a per-requisite.
Description
The course is about regionalism and regional integration. Regionalism is understood as policies and projects whereby groups states and non-state actors cooperate and coordinate strategy, whether within a given geographical region or not, with the aim of pursuing and promoting common goals in one or more issue areas. Under “New Regionalism”, regionalist schemes cover issues of economic, social, cultural and, in some cases, security nature. As they display great diversity, the course will review the different expressions contemporary regionalism has taken up, which reflect diverse conditions, values and ideological approaches. The review will be carried out against the background of the global system since it is considered that regionalism is a response to globalization and a reaction to the diverse aspects of global processes. The course is also about regional integration, which indicates processes in given regions extending from close intergovernmental cooperation between “sovereign” states to integration as such, involving the creation of new organizational or supranational entity. After a conceptual introduction, regionalism in Europe, the Arab Middle East and Africa, as well as in Latin America and Asia will be examined.
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PPAD 502/5231 - Economics for Public Policy Analysis (3 cr.)
Description
Overview of concepts and methods for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis as applied to public policy and public sector/nonprofit management. Tools and concepts of microeconomic analysis, including factors shaping demand and supply, theory of the firm, market distortions, externalities, and public goods, and application of economic tools to policy assessment. Introduction to macroeconomic concepts including national income, monetary and fiscal policy, debt and financial markets, growth and employment, savings and investment, and international trade, foreign exchange, and the balance of payments.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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PPAD 503/5232 - Role of Government in a Market-Oriented Economy (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or equivalent economic preparation.
Description
Overview of the interaction of markets with the economic and social development of developing countries and consideration of the role of governments in promoting, regulating, and supplementing the action of markets to achieve public purposes. Consideration of alternative government strategies in key social and productive sectors, including prevention of and responses to market failures, promotion of equity and the rule of law, provision of social services, and maintenance of stable growth. Application of economic analytic tools to assess and select government strategies in a market-oriented system.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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PPAD 539/5258 - Role of Force: Strategy and Statecraft (3 cr.)
Description
This course focuses on force as an instrument of policy in modern statecraft. Major concepts include the functions of force and the formation of national security policy; classical military strategy and the influences of material resources, technology and structural factors on its evolution; legal and moral limits on force; and the extension of military power into the realm of peace-keeping, humanitarian relief and military occupation. The course also considers contemporary strategy challenges such as insurgency, terrorism, non-violent resistance and civil military relations.
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PPAD 000/5293 - Capstone Project (0 cr.)
Prerequisites
Permission of adviser and instructor
Description
Students enrolling in this course will work towards the completion of their capstone project per departmental requirements. This project should present a thorough analysis of an issue with relevance to their course of study in Public Administration, Public Policy or Global Affairs. Final products for the course include a written report and an oral presentation that will be evaluated by and faculty supervisor and a client representative.
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PPAD 598/5298 - Research Seminar (0 cr.)
Prerequisites
Supervisor approval of a thesis or master’s project proposal or permission of the supervisor and instructor.
Description
Support to students in research phase of the thesis or master’s project. Weekly meetings and assignments to support ongoing analysis, research, and writing, guided discussions, peer-to-peer assessment, and critique of thesis or master’s project components. Ungraded; required for all students.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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PPAD 599/5299 - Research Guidance (0 cr.)
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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RHET 101/1000 - Approaches to Critical Writing (3 cr.)
Description
Develops proficiency in critical expository writing, critical reading and greater fluency in expression. Focuses on the writing process with an emphasis on developing the student’s voice, organizing and developing ideas independently within the context of academic writing. Introduces library research and use of sources.
When Offered
Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Notes
For students beginning fall 2013 and later, RHET 1000 and RHET 1100 have been replaced with one course .
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RHET 110/1010 - Freshman Writing (3 cr.)
Description
RHET 1010 is designed to help first year students improve their analytical and argumentative skills. This involves reading texts analytically and critically within various disciplines, considering the rhetorical situations in which they are working, organizing and supporting ideas to make a convincing argument while maintaining their voice as writers. This course also provides training in the use and integration of sources, library and online research and fosters a more discriminating attitude to academically acceptable sources. Ultimately, the course provides opportunities for students to develop effective and coherent communication skills.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring. Summer only for students repeating the course.
Notes
RHET 1010 replaces and for students beginning in the Freshman Program in fall 2013 and later.
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RHET 199/1099 - Selected Topics (3 cr.)
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all first year students irrespective of major.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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RHET 102/1100 - Effective Argument (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Develops the skills to produce effective argument with a focus on organization, content, analysis of readings, critical thinking. Provides training in the use and integration of sources, library and online research.
When Offered
Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Notes
For students beginning fall 2013 and later, RHET 1000 and RHET 1100 have been replaced with one course:
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RHET 201/2010 - Research Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or its equivalent.
Description
Develops the skills to produce extended forms of academic essays and research papers with a focus on the methods of research, process of research paper writing, integration and evaluation of sources and critical analysis.
When Offered
Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Notes
For students beginning fall 2013 and later, RHET 2010 has been replaced by
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RHET 299/2099 - Selected Topics (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students irrespective of major.
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RHET 399/3099 - Selected Topics (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Course addresses broad intellectual concerns, and is accessible to all students irrespective of major.
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RHET 345/3110 - The Writer’s Workshop (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course offers students a unique opportunity to learn the fundamentals of nonfiction writing, and to grow as critics, both on the page and in the classroom. Students engage life questions in a number of personal contexts, reflecting upon their places as individuals within the larger contexts of family, country, and/or region. They also practice writing formal critiques of peers’ narratives and participate in class workshop discussions.
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RHET 340/3120 - Life Narratives (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This reading-intensive course will familiarize students with writing in the genres of ‘life writing’. Students learn to write critical reviews of classic and contemporary memoirs, confessions, letters, diaries, and visual portraits as well as autobiographies and biographies, through key themes of self, identity, secrets, truth, inheritance and ethics. The course will consider how critical examinations of new paradigms that consider the self are expressed through writing. The course invites discussion about the social and cultural uses of life writing, from legal testimony to medical case history, and the pervasive ethical dilemmas that arise. In addition, using a variety of texts, the course explores the tensions between local identities rooted in culture, history and language, and global, trans-national identities, driven by the pressures of the modern inter-connected world.
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RHET 341/3130 - Travel Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
In this course, students will become familiar with the genre of travel writing, the history, politics and economics of place, and how these influence culture. Through various reading, writing, and travel experiences, students will gain an understanding of themselves vis a vis the Other and develop an appreciation of how travel can transform the self. They will learn how to respond critically to travel narratives, identify credible sources to inform their writing, make original observations, and modify perspective to compose alternative texts.
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RHET 342/3140 - Writing Children’s Literature (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Students in this course will assess and write works of fiction and nonfiction addressing children through different media (picture books, plays, short stories, novellas). Students will explore who writes and illustrates for children and why, and the language used to address children during different stages. They will engage in projects to entertain children, while providing indirect instruction, and produce written works for organizations that serve the needs of children.
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RHET 380/3150 - Poetry Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This workshop-based course encourages students to explore their ideas through the language and imagery of poetry. Students will experiment with rhythm, rhyme, modes of discourse and poetic form. Throughout the course, they will examine the work of poets from diverse traditions, and the impact of their own expression. In a final portfolio, students will show careful analytical thinking about their work and consideration for how their poems are situated in the larger literary and cultural context.
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RHET 390/3160 - Fiction writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course focuses on the craft and discipline of fiction writing. Students study writers in the Arab and Western literary tradition, and from that study, they learn the fundamentals of rhetorical and literary strategies in fiction, understand how to transform small ideas from daily life into fiction, consider how their cultural background affects how they tell stories, and develop a broadened familiarity with cultures different from their own. Students will also learn how to critique other students’ stories in workshops, and how to revise and develop their own work.
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RHET 320/3210 - Business Communication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Today’s globalized and highly competitive world requires businesses, organizations, and individuals to excel in effective communication. This course focuses on helping students to master methods of persuasion that business professionals and administrators of organizations need. Students learn about and analyze various types of correspondences and documents to produce effective and appropriate business documents for professional and public audiences. They conduct research on real life topics and present findings in the form of proposals, formal reports, and presentations.
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RHET 225/3220 - Public Speaking (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course is designed to train students in the craft and practice of public address, focusing on the composition of well-researched speeches and their delivery. Students learn techniques of presentation and speech writing to address a specific rhetorical situation. Through a variety of instructional strategies - discussion, class workshops, readings, written analyses, and presentations - students learn the processes by which effective and coherent speeches are conceived, prepared, and delivered. Students prepare an informative speech on a critically-analysed topic, a well-reasoned persuasive speech on a complex social issue, a special-occasion speech that integrates diverse fields of knowledge, and multiple other exercises that hone their public speech construction and delivery. Students also practice methods of analytic and constructive peer evaluation, as well as self-evaluation of their video-taped speeches.
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RHET 321/3230 - Technical Communication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020
; at least 60 credits; SSE major or instructor approval
Description
This course develops the knowledge and skills to produce documents that meet professional and ethical standards required by technical fields such as Engineering and the Sciences. Throughout the course, students will analyze and discuss the context, audience and conventions specific to technical communication. They learn how to produce documents in diverse genres, including proposals and formal reports.
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RHET 332/3240 - Principles of Mediation and Negotiation (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
In today’s world, conflict resolution and negotiation skills can be invaluable for the success of individuals and organizations. This course equips students with the interpersonal skills needed to create solutions for common mediation and negotiation situations. A student will learn active listening, problem solving, relational maintenance, and problem-solution presentation skills. Students will also learn the interpersonal skills necessary for third-party facilitation and mediation in contexts of business and community dispute.
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RHET 334/3250 - Digital Rhetoric (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This is a course in the rhetorical analysis of the increasingly important genres that comprise the practices of E-Writing, including: blogging, wiki-development, networked writing, hypertext, and social networking. The course offers students an opportunity to work within various online contexts, with attention to their evolving conventions, textual features, the relationship between discourse and social practice, and the importance of medium in terms of opportunities and constraints offered. Students analyze and write about the social and cultural implications of developments in electronic literacy. Assignments involve the critique and construction of texts using new media tools and the exploration of how communication practices, notions of audience, elements of argument, narrative and meaning-making are enriched and complicated by the new possibilities of a global, digital environment.
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RHET 310/3310 - Discourse and Power (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course reveals the power of words and what lies behind them. How can language be used to empower or disempower? Who controls the conversation? Students explore how discourse is constructed and how it maintains complex relations of power. As they develop strategies to become more articulate, confident and persuasive writers, students critically analyze various discourse resources - textual, aural and visual - for their intellectual, social and political power dimensions. The course guides students through key readings in rhetorical theory to provide a foundational knowledge of major questions, concepts and debates in the field.
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RHET 322/3320 - Writing in the Social Sciences (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course is designed for students who want to develop the writing and critical thinking skills acquired in the 1000-level courses to produce more advanced discipline-specific academic and public writing in the social sciences. The course may be theme-based, with each student approaching the theme from a perspective appropriate to his/her discipline, and abiding by the style and conventions of the particular discipline. Course readings and discussions allow students to explore social phenomena, adding valuable research to the existing body of knowledge, and stimulating public interest and action.
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RHET 323/3330 - Words that Change the World (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Which words have had the greatest impact on people? What theories inform the works of authors, artists, and filmmakers? Do the arts have an intrinsic value, or are they related to and serve a purpose in the wider world? Words that Change the World examines those questions by engaging students in contemporary discourse in the liberal arts. Students employ critical reading strategies for the analysis and discussion of key texts that have had an impact on the practice and conceptual understanding of the humanities and fine arts. Through art, photography, cinema, history, dance, architecture, and other modes of expression from countries and cultures around the globe, students critically explore these thematic connections and engage in contextualized arguments.
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RHET 325/3340 - Making Your Case: The Art of Persuasion (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course immerses students in the study of argumentation in the humanities and social sciences (philosophy, law, rhetoric, journalism and politics). It offers an overview and comparison of its theory, structure, mechanisms and practice. By approaching argument in a systematic fashion, students will be introduced to instruments for identifying differences of opinion, analyzing and evaluating argument, researching theory, and presenting coherent arguments in oral and written discourse.
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RHET 330/3350 - Writing and Cognition: The Mind and the Machine (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course explores the invention and reinvention of writing over time. Students look at the social and personal uses of writing, consider what writing makes possible, and the ways we take it for granted in daily life. By exploring different forms of writing, students experiment with writing, and research the different methods adopted by scientists and authors from different cultures, to gain new perspectives. By looking at the relationship between thought and language, the course surveys the ways written expression has been used as a tool for reconstructing perception, memory, and self in society. It also employs writing to explore and analyze complex issues in today’s rapidly-changing world.
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RHET 460/4060 - Independent Study (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed; instructor approval, and if taken for CORE credit, then Core Director approval is also required
Description
In exceptional circumstances, students, in consultation with a faculty member and with approval of the Chair/Associate Chair (and approval of the CORE Director, if taken for CORE credit), may design or take a course that is not regularly offered. In such a case, the student, in consultation with the instructor, will propose a course of study, and work will culminate in one of the following: a scholarly research paper on some aspect of the history, theory, or application of rhetoric and composition; a practical application of writing, such as a grant or report submitted to an outside agency; a body of work that is normally expected in a listed course not being offered during the current term.
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RHET 450/4160 - Imagining the Book (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed or instructor approval
Description
Students in this course will propose and then initiate the writing of a book-length manuscript. Each student will design and generate a different project. Manuscripts, therefore, may span across genres (i.e., a group of personal narratives or short stories, a novel, a book of poetry, a collection of critical and/or academic essays, etc.) offering students the opportunity to respond to a variety of texts as they develop. Class workshops and various forms of analysis will allow for building as well as refining projects. Students in a number of writing contexts and disciplines, as well as those in the Writing Minor, are encouraged to take this capstone course.
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RHET 410/4260 - Writing for Project Funding (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Grant writing skills may be used for fundraising, applying for scholarships and fellowships, starting new businesses, securing research and conference grants, and acquiring funding for the cultural, non-profit and non-governmental sectors. This course develops the skills of effective fund-seeking and proposal writing through a step by step service-learning activity, where students learn how to access donor funds to meet the needs of local non-profit organizations.
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RHET 480/4270 - Research and Writing Internship (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020
Description
This capstone course provides students with an applied, real-world writing experience that helps them transition smoothly from academic writing to work-place writing, and prepares them for the job market. The students may produce a variety of writing and editing work - manuals and tutorials, research papers, news articles, grant applications, reports, letters, policy documents, promotional brochures, creative works, book reviews or other materials as required by the internship. At the end of the semester, the students are issued a letter acknowledging their participation in an unpaid, credit-bearing internship.
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RHET 490/4280 - Advanced Scientific and Technical Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed; SSE major or instructor approval
Description
This course strengthens and refines advanced scientific and technical communication skills for both academic and professional non-academic environments. Students develop capstone level proficiency in organizing, refining and formatting scientific reports, senior theses, articles for publication in scientific journals, and technical reports for the workplace. In addition, students build on basic oral and visual presentation skills acquired at the 300 level, in order to improve their performance in the oral defense of their theses in their science and engineering majors, and acquire greater competitiveness in the job market.
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RHET 400/4360 - Writing for Publication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed or instructor approval
Description
This course develops the skills to produce effective articles and presentations with a focus on journal submission requirements, journal review, and publication processes. It provides training in the integration of information technology for presentations, and in primary and secondary research methods.
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RCSS 501/5201 - Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics and Control (3 cr.)
Description
Robot mechanisms, End-effector mechanisms, Actuators and drives, Sensors. Robot forward and inverse kinematics. Differential motion and Jacobian (Velocities and forces). Simulation software and analysis. Acceleration and Inertia, Robot dynamics. Trajectory generation and control of robot manipulators. Robot planning and control. Task oriented control, Force compliance control. Robot programming, Robot work cell design and work cycle analysis. Robot vision, Teleoperation and Interactive haptics. Closed-Loop Kinematic chains, Parallel-link robot kinematics. Non-holonomic systems, Legged robots.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 502/5202 - Embedded Real Time Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Fundamentals of embedded control system design, embedded processor architecture and operation. General overview of existing families of micro-controllers, DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs. Selected embedded 8/16/32 processor architectures, and programming. Real-time, resources and management, I/O, Virtual memory and memory management. Concurrency, resource sharing and deadlocks. Scheduling theory. Real-time programming and embedded software. Real-time kernels and operating systems. Bus structure and Interfacing. Programming pervasive and ubiquitous embedded system. Designing embedded system. Discretization and implementation of continuous-time control systems. Networked embedded systems and integrated control.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 503/5203 - Modern Control Design (3 cr.)
Description
Basic linear system response: Analysis in time domain, stability analysis, Routh-Horwitz stability criteria of LTI. Feedback analysis and design continuous-time systems on the basis of root locus: analysis, design, lead/lag compensators, and Control synthesis in frequency domain: (Bode response, Nyquist stability criteria, sensitivity and design). Control design concepts for linear multivariable systems using state variable techniques. State space representation and transition matrices. Control system design in state space: controllability, pole method and pole placement design, observer/observability and compensators design. Optimal observer based feedback. Lyapunov Stability. The solutions to LQR problem, Kalman filtering problem. LQG and LTR based design methods. Discrete-time systems and computer control.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 504/5204 - Applied Estimation (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to Probability, Probability theory, Bayes theorem, Bayesian Inference. Introduction to estimation. Linear Optimal Filters, Predictors, Smoothers, Nonlinear Filters. Kalman and Information filter, Continuous and Discrete Time Kalman Filter. Extended Kalman filter and implementation, Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). Distributed Kalman filter over network. Particle filter, Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter (RBPF). Particle filter Fast SLAM. Case Studies.
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RCSS 521/5221 - Intelligent and Autonomous Robotic Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Autonomous and Mobile robots, Locomotion concepts and mechanisms, Degrees of mobility and steering. Non holonomic concept and constraint. Wheeled mobile robots: Kinematic and dynamic models. Trajectory generation and Control methods. Sensors, sensor models and perception. Mapping and knowledge representations. Control architectures and Navigation: Planning, Subsumption, Potential field, Motor Schemas, Probabilistic, Learning from observations and Reinforcement learning. Relative and absolute localization. Navigation and localization techniques. SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). Multi robotic system: navigation, cooperation and autonomy.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 522/5222 - Mechatronics Innovations and Experimental Robotics (3 cr.)
Description
Mechatronics innovations: Concepts and innovative ideas, design and hands-on experimentation. Sensors and intelligent sensor systems. Interfacing techniques. Controllers. Electrical motors: selection and control, encoders, and drivers. Power systems and control: pneumatic, electro-pneumatic, hydraulic and electro-hydraulic. Technologies and techniques associated with industrial and mobile robots. Joint space and operational space control. Velocity saturation, trajectory generation and tracking. Project work supporting design, simulation and experimentation.
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RCSS 523/5223 - Bioinspired Robotics and Multi Robotic Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Traditional and Biomimetic robots. Bioinspired robot design: actuators, sensors, and material. Bioinspired algorithms for robot control. Social Networks. Multi robotic systems (MRS): concept, homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures. MRS control architecture: MRS planning, Motor schema based MRS, Behavior based MRS. MRS and machine learning. Inter-robot communication and coordination. Auction-based task negotiation for MRS. Autonomy and cooperation. Task definition, decomposition and knowledge representation. Resource management and deadlocks. Collaborative Observation and Localization. Multi-Robot Navigation. Human-Robot Interaction. Biological inspired solutions: Ant colony and social insect behavior, Swarm intelligence and self organization.
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RCSS 524/5224 - Robotics and Intelligent Automated Manufacturing (3 cr.)
Description
Manufacturing systems: organization, facility layout, performance indicators. Robotics in Manufacturing. AGVs in Manufacturing. Robot work cells. Sensors in Manufacturing. Communication protocols. Agile manufacturing. Models and Metrics. Automation, NC/CNC. Design for Manufacturability. Manufacturing systems design: single cell, assembly line, group technology, cellular and flexible systems. Material transport and storage systems. Analysis of flow lines, assembly systems and line balancing. Quality measurement and reliability. Manufacturing support systems: CAD/CAM/CIM tools and product cycle, process and production planning, shop floor control, inventory control. Modern manufacturing systems: Push/pull systems, pull systems (KANBAN and CONWIP), Just-In-Time, TQM.
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RCSS 531/5231 - Teleoperation, Haptic Systems and Collaborative Control (3 cr.)
Description
Technical specifications: teleoperation and haptics systems. Haptics: Human, Machine, and Computer haptics, and their interrelation. Haptic systems: sensors, actuators and interfaces. Haptic device modeling and control. Event-based haptics. Rendering of stiff walls and friction, rigid-body and deformable body interaction. Haptic teleoperation. Bilateral teleoperation. Teleoperation and haptic systems architecture control approaches. Force control, impedance control, stiffness control Feed-forward control, Adaptive motion/force control. Performance specifications and stability issues, Stability and Transparency, stability against passive human and environment impedances. Design for time-delayed teleoperation. Robustness issues. Collaborative control and collaborated virtual environment.
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RCSS 532/5232 - Robust and Optimal Control (3 cr.)
Description
Linear system theory and robust control. System analysis: stability and performance, sensitivity function, integral quadratic constraints, small-gain argument, H2 and H∞ space and performance. NORMs. Robustness and Uncertainty. Robust stability, quadratic stability, and stability margin. Robust performance, controller parameterization, design constraints. Balanced Model Reduction, Modeling uncertainty. Linear fractional transform (LFT). Structured singular values, μ -Analysis, LMI analysis. μ synthesis. H2 optimal control, H∞ control and controller order reduction, H∞ loop shaping. Optimal control theory: optimization of static functions, calculus of variations, optimal linear regulators, dynamic programming.
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RCSS 533/5233 - Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
Description
Introduction to the analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. Linearization of nonlinear systems. Phase-plane analysis, Lyapunov stability analysis. Design of stabilizing controllers. Properties of adaptive systems, Adaptive control and real-time parameter estimation, Deterministic self-tuning regulators, model reference control, Adaptive observers, model reference adaptive control, gain scheduling controller modeling. Stability of adaptive control systems.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 534/5234 - Networked Control Systems: Design and Applications (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
Introduction to Networked Control Systems, real-time systems, network architecture, wired and wireless network protocols, international standards, NCS in industrial control, NCS in terrestrial transportation systems, Study of different software packages and simulation tools for NCS.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 541/5241 - Smart Systems and Computational Intelligence (3 cr.)
Description
Intelligent systems and evolutionary algorithms. Computational methods, intelligent behaviors and algorithms observed in nature and humans. Neural networks: Supervised and unsupervised Neural Networks (NNs), Single and Multi layer feed-forward NNs, Feedback NNs, Hopfield NNs, Associative memories (Kohonen networks), Learning vector quantizer (LVQ) Radial base function (RBF) NNs. Evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms. Fuzzy logic: memberships. reasoning, Fuzzy controllers, Neuro-Fuzzy networks, Fuzzy ARMAP. Swarm Intelligence and Colony optimization. Feature selection. Computational intelligence: imprecise and uncertain knowledge, learning, adaptive behavior and real time problems. Case studies.
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