ENPM -- Engineering, Professional Master's

ENPM 600 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers (3) Prerequisite: undergraduate introduction to discrete and continuous probability. Axioms of probability; conditional probability and Bayes' rule; random variables, probability distributions and densities; functions of random variables; definition of stochastic process; stationary processes, correlation functions, and power spectral densities; stochastic processes and linear systems; estimation and optimum filtering. Applications in communication and control systems, signal processing, and detection and estimation.

ENPM 601 Analog and Digital Communication Systems (3) Prerequisite: ENPM 600 or equivalent. Analog modulation methods including AM, DSBSC-AM, SSB, and QAM; effects of noise in analog modulation systems. Digital communication methods for the infinite bandwidth additive white Gaussian noise channel: PAM, QAM, PSK, FSK modulation; optimum receivers using the MAP principle; phase- locked loops; error probabilities. Digital communication over bandlimited channels: intersymbol interference and Nyquist's criterion, adaptive equalizers, symbol clock and carrier recovery systems, trellis coding. Spread spectrum systems: direct sequence modulation and frequency hopping.

ENPM 602 Data Networks (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 324 or equivalent. Principles of network design, circuit switching and packet switching, OSI Reference Model; parity and cyclic redundancy check codes; retransmission request protocols; Markov chains and queuing models for delay analysis; multiaccess communication, local area networks, Ethernet and Token Ring standards; routing, flow control, internetworking; higher layer functions and protocols. Software tools for network simulation and performance analysis will be used.

ENPM 603 Theory and Applications of Digital Signal Processing (3) Prerequisite: undergraduate introduction to discrete-time systems. Uniform sampling and the sampling theorem; the Z-transform and discrete-time system analysis; multi-rate systems; discrete-time random processes; methods for designing FIR and IIR digital filters; effects of quantization and finite work-length; the DFT and FFT; power spectrum estimation.

ENPM 604 Wireless Communication Networks (3) Prerequisites: ENEE 420 and ENEE 426. Issues in the design and analysis of wireless communication systems. Aspects of radio propagation, signal strength, multipath propagation, fading, diversity reception, cell shapes. Modulation and coding for the mobile radio channel including FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA. Multiaccess issues including frequency allocation, channel reuse, and power control. System level issues including traffic engineering, blocking, network design and optimization, channel allocation control, handoffs, mobility management, registration and tracking, signaling and user location database management. Examples of existing analog and emerging digital cellular standards.

ENPM 605 Information Theory and Coding (3) Prerequisite: A course in probability and some knowledge of random processes. This course will study communication systems from a mathematical viewpoint and within the framework set up by Claude Shannon in 1948. This is achieved be viewing the information being communicated and also the noise and other disturbances in a communication system as stochastic processes and phenomena. Information theory then shows, through a number of elegant coding theorems, the optimum performance that can be achieved with any communication system. Both problems of data compression and error correction coding will be studied. Part of the course will be devoted to practical coding techniques and a few applications.

ENPM 606 Linear Control Systems (3) Simulation and modeling, linear systems theory, specifications, structures and limitations, feedback system stability in terms of loop gain, classical design, and state feedback.

ENPM 607 Computer System Design and Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ENEE 446 or equivalent. Principles of computer design and cost/performance factors; instruction set design and implementation, RISC vs. CISC instruction sets; control unit and pipeline design; floating-point arithmetic; memory hierarchy designs, caches, memory interleaving, virtual memory; I/O device interconnections to CPUs and main memory. Additional topics include parallel system designs, SIMD, MIMD, SPMD; interconnection networks for processors and memories; optimization of pipeline operations; superscalar architectures, power management techniques.

ENPM 608 Software Design and Implementation (3) Prerequisite: an undergraduate software course, knowledge of C or C++ programming. Covers software design concepts and practices within the field important to both the practitioner and the theorist. Architectural and detailed design are included, for both bath and real-time systems. Design considerations for structured and object-oriented systems are covered. Implementation issues that effect the design, including error handling, performance, and inter-process communication are presented.

ENPM 609 Microprocessor-Based Design (3) Prerequisites: undergraduate logic design, computer architecture, and programming courses. Introduction to microprocessor components, software, and tools. Architectures, instruction sets, and assembly language programming for a commercial microprocessor family. Real-time programming techniques. Peripheral chips such as, parallel ports, counter-timers, DMA controllers, interrupt controllers, and serial communication units. Design projects emphasizing intergrated hardware and software solutions to engineering problems.

ENPM 610 VLSI Design (3) An introduction to the design and performance limits of VLSI circuits. Topics include VLSI digital design issues, testing techniques, fabrication techniques, layout, device physics, performance limits, stray resistance and capacitance, and computer-aided design tools.

ENPM 620 Computer-Aided Engineering Analysis (3) Computer assisted approach to the solution of engineering problems. Review and extension of undergraduate material in applied mathematics including vector analysis and vector calculus, analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary differential, analytical and numerical solutions of linear, partial differential equations, and probability and statistics.

ENPM 621 Heat Pump and Refrigeration Systems Design Analysis (3) Prerequisites: ENME 315 and ENME 321. Thermal engineering of heat pump and refrigeration systems and thermal systems modeling. Thermodynamics and heat transfer. Cycle analysis, alternative refrigerants, graphical analysis using property charts. Analysis of applications such as space conditioning, food perservation, manufacturing, heat recovery and cogeneration.

ENPM 622 Modern Power Generation (3) Prerequisite: undergraduate thermodynamics and heat transfer. Thermal engineering of modern power generation systems. Thermodynamics and heat transfer. Cycle analysis of various modern power generation technologies including gas turbine, combined cycle, waste burning, cogeneration, nuclear and hydroelectric technologies. Energy storage and energy transport.

ENPM 623 Control of Combustion Generated Air Pollution (3) Prerequisites: ENME 315 and ENME 321 or equivalent. Analysis of the sources and mechanisms of combustion generated air pollution. Air pollution due to internal combustion engines, power generation and industrial emissions. Techniques to minimize and control emission. Acid rain, ozone, plume analysis, scrubbing, filtering.

ENPM 624 Renewable Energy Applications (3) Prerequisite ENME 232 and ENME 332. Thermodynamics and heat transfer analysis of renewable energy sources for heating, power generation and transportation. Wind energy, solar thermal, photovoltaic, biomass, waste burning and OTEC. Broad overview of the growing use of renewable energy sources in the world economy with detailed analysis of specific applications.

ENPM 625 Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning of Buildings (3) Prerequisite ENME 232 and ENME 332. Thermodynamic, heat transfer and fluid flow analysis of building systems. Psychrometric analysis, cooling and heating load calculation, equipment sizing, diagnosis of system problems. Equipment analysis including VAV, hydronic, cooling towers, radiant heating, humidification, dehumidification.

ENPM 626 Thermal Destructive Technology (3) Prerequisites: ENME 315 and ENME 321. Thermal destruction, incineration and combustion processes. Emphasis on solid wastes and their composition, current and advanced destruction technologies, guidelines on design and operation, and environmental pollution.

ENPM 627 Risk Assessment for Environmental Compliance (3) Fundamentals of environmental protection. Risk identification, characterization, assessment and management in compliance programs related to environmental laws and regulations. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act and Clean Water Act. Technology basis of Clean Air Act and Superfund and options for compliance. Expert systems for environmental applications. Elements of life cycle in analysis risk assessment. Risk reduction through multimedia emission evaluation and voluntary programs.

ENPM 631 Hydrologic and Nonpoint Pollution Models (3) The physical processes controlling the spatial distribution of runoff and constituent transport during rainfall and snowmelt events. Emphasis on the processes and practical models of runoff simulation, stormwater management and environmental impact assessment.

ENPM 632 Free Surface Flow (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 330 or equivalent. Application of fundamentals of fluid mechanics to problems of free surface flow; computation of steady and transient water surface profiles; stratified flows in reservoirs and estuaries; diffusion; transition structures; sediment transport.

ENPM 633 The Chemistry of Natural Waters (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 433 or permission of both department and instructor. Application of principles from chemical thermodynamics and kinetics to the study and interpretation of the chemical characteristics of natural water systems. Explanation of the chemical composition of natural waters from a consideration of metal ion solubility controls, ph, carbonate equilibria, absorption reactions, redox reactions, and the kinetics of oxygenation reactions which occur in natural water environments.

ENPM 634 Indoor Air Quality Engineering (3) Fundamentals of building ventilation; ventilation and indoor environmental measurement; indoor contaminants and mass balance; ASHRAE standards; indoor environmental quality; building design; psychrometrics and HVAC system design.

ENPM 635 Design and Analysis of Thermal Systems (3) The focus of this course deals with the numerical evaluation of the inevitable trade-offs associated with any thermodynamic or heat transfer system. A distinction will be made between workable and optimal systems. For workable systems problems, several laborious manual solutions will be required to ensure that the physics of the system and solution techniques are well understood. A primary analytical tool that will be used for system simulation and evaluation will be an engineering equation solver (EES) program. Although no computer language will be required for simulations, prior experience with windows and spreadsheets will be helpful. Optimal system analysis will include one calculus method and one search method. Applications will include power and refrigeration systems, electronics cooling, distillation columns, dehumidifying coils, and co-generation systems. Student performance will be based largely on manual and computer based take-home problems, some of which will include system performance modeling.

ENPM 636 Unit Operations of Environmental Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCE 315 or permission of department. Properties and quality criteria of drinking water as related to health are interpreted by a chemical and biological approach. Legal aspects of water use and handling are considered. Theory and application of aeration, sedimentation, filtration, centrifugation, desalinization, corrosion and corrosion control are among topics to be considered.

ENPM 637 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. An examination of biological principles directly affecting society and the environment, with particular emphasis on microbiological interactions in environmental engineering related to air, water and land systems; microbiology and biochemistry of aerobic and anaerobic treatment processes for aqueous wastes.

ENPM 641 Systems Engineering Principles (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Introduction to systems analysis. Mathematical models, objective functions, constraints. Optimization tools. Decision analysis and utility theory. Basic economic modeling and analysis. Application of computer-aided systems engineering (CASE) tools.

ENPM 642 System Modeling and Analysis (3) Prerequisites: ENPM 641 and permission of department. Basic system types are defined and fundamental concepts, such as system state, inputs, outputs and disturbances are discussed. Modeling methods and computer-aided systems engineering (CASE) formal structures and computer-aided systems engineering (CASE) tools for solving practical systems related problems. Quantitative techniques are presented and applied, including Petri nets, basic probabilistic and stochastic tools, Markov processes, queueing theory, simulation, and the fundamentals of decision and risk analysis.

ENPM 643 Systems Engineering Design Project (3) Prerequisites: ENPM 642 and permission of department. Formal system development methods are surveyed along with project management issues. Integrated computer-aided systems engineering (ICASE) environments for the support of systems development and management are used. Case studies in aeronautical, electrical, nuclear, mechanical, chemical and information systems are provided. Students complete a group project in which they apply their systems engineering knowledge to a real problem.

ENPM 644 Human Factors in Systems Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Human perception of visual information, light signals, digital and analog presentation, pattern recognition. Sound information, alarms, sounds and speech identification. Practical consequences for design of information and operation panel layout for Systems-Human interaction. Sources of information distortion, human tolerance to errors. Human information processing, limitations in speed, information volume, accuracy in interpretation and error repairs by association and diagnosis.

ENPM 645 Systems Financial and Contract Management (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Financial accounting; basic concepts, balance sheet, income statement; accounting records and systems; revenue and monetary assets; cost of goods sold and inventories; fixed assets and depreciation; other expenses and net income; liability and owners equity; cash flow statement; financial statement analysis. Cost principles; allocatability, direct versus indirect costs and cost accounting standards.

ENPM 646 Systems Life Cycle Cost Estimation (3) Prerequisites: ENPM 645 and permission of department. Systems cost break-up into design and development, acquisition, operation and maintenance, life cycle and depletion costs. Cash flow in investment profiles. Variables affecting costs. Estimation of costs. Cost sensitivity to variables and parameters. Practices and procedures for the acquisition and project management of large scale government systems.

ENPM 647 Quality Management in Systems (3) Prerequisites: ENPM 645 and permission of department. Introduction to the roles of management, marketing, accounting, finance and engineering, and the synergy which must be present among these functions of an organization, to provide products and services which satisfy customer demands for quality. Introduction to the important statistical tools which are the foundation of any successful quality effort.

ENPM 650 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics (3) Studies in the dynamics and control of flight vehicles. Fundamentals of the dynamics of rigid and non-rigid bodies and their motion under the influence of aerodynamic and gravitational forces.

ENPM 653 Atmospheric Flight Control (3) A practical fusion of modern linear control techniques with the available instrumentation, actuation, and avionic technologies of modern flight vehicles. Translation of performance and handling quality specifications into controller designs.

ENPM 657 Helicopter Aerodynamics I (3) Introduction to hovering theory, hovering and vertical-flight performance analyses, autorotation and vertical descent. Physical concepts of blade motion and rotor control. Aerodynamics of forward flight and performance calculations. Prediction and effect of rotor blade stall.

ENPM 660 Composite Structures (3) Stiffness of unidirectional composites, stress and strain transformation, inplane and bending stiffness of symmetric laminates, properties of general laminates, strength of composite structures, environmental effects.

ENPM 661 Introduction to the Structure of Materials (3) The basic concepts of crystalline and amorphous materials are introduced. Crystal structure analysis is reviewed. Other topics include: x-ray diffraction, electron energy bands, metallic structure, elastic waves, semiconductors and superconductivity.

ENPM 662 Introductory Thermodynamics of Materials (3) The basic thermodynamic laws are applied to materials science. Phase transformations in materials and thermodynamic properties of polycrystalline and polyphase materials are introduced. Concepts related to phase diagrams are applied to real material systems.

ENPM 663 Introduction to Kinetics of Reactions in Materials (3) Prerequisite: ENMA 461. The thermodynamics of solid solutions, free energy and phase diagrams, thermodynamics of interfaces, concepts of kinetics are introduced. Diffusion in solids, nucleation kinetics and kinetics of composition invariant solid-solid interface migration are reviewed. The growth of phases and cellular segregation are also introduced.

ENPM 670 Helicopter Aerodynamics II (3) Prerequisite: ENPM 657. Basic inviscid incompressible aerodynamic theory with application to the calculation of the flow field and loads for rotary wings.

ENPM 671 Helicopter Dynamics (3) Flap dynamics, mathematical methods to solve rotor dynamics problems. Flap-lag-torsion dynamics and structural and inertial coupling terms. Overview of rotary wing unsteady aerodynamics. Basic theory of blade aeroelasticity stability and ground resonance problems.

ENPM 808: Special Topics. A list of specific courses may be obtained from the department.