Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Florida Tech Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Florida Tech Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural, Hon: course may include honors sections during some semesters. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • ECE 4231 Control Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers mathematical foundations behind control systems; introduction to analysis and design of linear time-invariant feedback systems; modeling of systems with interconnected elements; transfer functions; time and frequency domain response; signal flow graphs; and stability criteria.
    Prerequisite: ECE 3222  
  
  • ECE 4241 System Design 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies engineering design fundamentals to student design projects. Includes the study of the design process and related topics such as optimization techniques, reliability prediction, engineering economics, safety, aesthetics, ethics and social impact. Students carry out a project from conception through design, fabrication, testing and delivery.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: ECE 3240  
  
  • ECE 4242 System Design 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies engineering design fundamentals to student design projects. Includes the study of the design process and related topics such as optimization techniques, reliability prediction, engineering economics, safety, aesthetics, ethics and social impact. Students carry out a project from conception through design, fabrication, testing and delivery.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: ECE 4241  
  
  • ECE 4300 Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Offers topics in selected fields of computer and electrical engineering.
  
  • ECE 4311 Microelectronics Fabrication Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students fabricate silicon p-channel transistors. Includes lectures on transistor processing and fabrication in the clean room.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ECE 4332 Electrooptic Devices and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Discusses the theory of operation of key photonic/fiber-optic devices used in a wide variety of electronic systems. Devices include lasers, light emitting diodes, photodetectors, CCD arrays, liquid crystal displays, optical fibers, etc. Explains the basic operation of various electrooptic systems.
    Prerequisite: ECE 3442  and PHY 2003   Corequisite: ECE 3442  
  
  • ECE 4333 Lightwave Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lectures and introductory experiments in fiber-optics. Emphasizes typical components, and communication and sensor systems.
    Minimum student level - senior
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: PHY 2003  
  
  • ECE 4342 Virtual Instrumentation Lab

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lectures and experiments in programming, data acquisition and analysis of virtual instruments using state-of-the-art and industry standard virtual instrumentation software and hardware tools.
    Must be enrolled in electrical or computer engineering (7041, 7042). Minimum student level - senior
  
  • ECE 4551 Computer Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers instruction set design, processor and control unit design, handling of exceptions, ALU arithmetic and implementation, pipelining, pipeline hazards, memory hierarchy, cache memory types and I/O interface design.
    Prerequisite: CSE 3101 or ECE 3541  or ECE 3551  
  
  • ECE 4561 Computer Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Theory, design and analysis of computer communication systems. Includes TCP/IP, Internet, the World Wide Web, ISO-OSI network architecture, LANs, wireless communications, satellite networks, UNIX network programming, network modeling and simulation.
    Prerequisite: ECE 2551  
  
  • ECE 4800 Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Special projects are undertaken on a cooperative basis between a student and a member of the faculty. May include such work as a literature search in a given area of design and fabrication of equipment as a laboratory project.
  
  • ECE 4991 Electric and Electronic Circuits

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies circuit theory for nonelectrical engineering students; transient and steady-state behavior of passive linear-lumped-parameter electric circuits; and AC circuit theory, network equations, network theorems; transfer functions and equivalent circuits.
    Requirement(s): Noncredit for Electrical and Computer Engineering majors except as Free Elective
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 ) and PHY 2002  
  
  • ECE 5111 Radio Frequency Propagation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Link budgets, free space antenna radiation patterns, multipath, fading, interference, propagation, antenna radiation patterns, multipath, fading, interference, reflection, refraction, rain attenuation, indoor propagation and RF safety. Considers applications to radar and terrestrial as well as satellite communication systems. Real world affects and impairment reduction methods.
  
  • ECE 5113 Wireless Local Area Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the basics of wireless networking and WLAN technologies, the leading WLAN standards, WLAN configurations, WLAN implementation considerations, the benefits and applications of WLANs, WLAN trends and case studies.
  
  • ECE 5115 Modern Wireless Design Concepts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Key design criteria, techniques and component technologies of major components or sub-systems for wireless applications are treated, including transmitters and power amplifiers, receivers, modems, synthesizers, mixers, and duplexers.
  
  • ECE 5117 Multimedia Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces multimedia, continuous and discrete media, multimedia data compression, image coding and video coding basics, JPEG and MPEG standards, multimedia networking, multimedia over Internet, multimedia over wireless networks.
  
  • ECE 5118 Wireless Sensor Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Pervasive networks and network embedded systems, power-aware issues in wireless sensor networks, collaborative signal and information processing, routing and MAC protocols in sensor networks, clustering and coordination in sensor networks, sensor networks applications.
  
  • ECE 5119 Wireless Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the basic knowledge in wireless communications. Includes wireless channels, fading models, channel capacity, modulation, equalization, multicarrier systems and multiuser systems/networks.
  
  • ECE 5129 Advanced Topics in Wireless Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers advanced topics in wireless communications. Includes resource allocation and scheduling in multiuser wireless systems, error-correcting coding, multi-input–multi-output technologies, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum management and trends in 5G.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to ECE 4221 Communication Systems 
  
  • ECE 5201 Linear Systems 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies linear spaces, linear operators and matrix calculus; mathematical description of linear dynamic systems, the relation between state variable descriptions and system transfer functions; controllability and observability of systems, realization of rational transfer function matrices and introduces nonlinear analysis.
  
  • ECE 5202 Linear Systems 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues study of linear spaces, linear operators and matrix calculus; mathematical description of linear dynamic systems, the relation between state variable descriptions and system transfer functions; controllability and observability of systems, realization of rational transfer function matrices and the introduction to nonlinear analysis.
    Prerequisite: ECE 5201  
  
  • ECE 5221 Personal Communication Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews the principles of operation, general architectures, access methods, modulation schemes and performance of cellular and personal communications systems. Presents design criteria for modern systems and use of real-world tools to demonstrate design concepts.
  
  • ECE 5223 Digital Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers physical media, digital modulation, detection, intersymbol interference, adaptive equalization, spectrum control, error control and synchronization.
  
  • ECE 5233 Satellite Communications

    Credit Hours: 3
    A comprehensive study of the systems aspects of satellite communications, with emphasis on digital communications. Includes an analysis of AWGN channels, performance degradation caused by band limiting, nonlinearities, phase noise, etc. Presents a survey of existing operational satellite systems.
  
  • ECE 5234 Communications Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers theory of signal spaces; dimensionality and distance; optimum methods of statistical detection and estimation; characteristics of noise; introduction to information theory, including channel capacity, source coding and channel coding; and time-bandwidth limitations and rate-distortion theory.
  
  • ECE 5238 Error Control Coding

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces algebra, linear block codes, Galois fields, cyclic codes, circuits for cyclic codes, BCH codes, spectral techniques for encoding and decoding, and convolutional codes.
  
  • ECE 5245 Digital Signal Processing 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Describes discrete-time signals in the time and frequency domains; z-transform, discrete Fourier transform, FFT algorithms; introduction to classical digital filter design techniques; and filter banks.
  
  • ECE 5248 Advanced Filtering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Bayesian estimation theory; filtering, smoothing and prediction for linear and nonlinear systems, Gaussian and non-Gaussian models, and for known or unknown models; fast algorithms for filter design and implementation; linear, nonlinear and adaptive filters; applications.
  
  • ECE 5251 Radar Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers characteristics of radar, prediction of range and performance, types of radar (pulse-Doppler, MTI, CW, etc.); modern radar technologies, phased-array systems, clutter, jamming; and introduces signal processing methods.
  
  • ECE 5256 Digital Image Processing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates image processing by machine for such purposes as robotics, biomedicine, remote sensing and photogrammetry. Includes image enhancement and analysis, transform techniques including wavelet transform, feature extraction, segmentation, compression and morphology.
  
  • ECE 5258 Pattern Recognition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes Bayes decision theory; optimal pattern recognition algorithms; feature extraction criteria and algorithms; adaptive pattern recognition; supervised and unsupervised learning; applications to failure detection; and target, image and speech recognition.
  
  • ECE 5259 Medical Imaging

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the interdisciplinary principles of medical imaging techniques such as diagnostic ultrasound, radiography, x-ray computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Includes the physical principles, noise modeling and signal processing for each imaging modality.
  
  • ECE 5268 Theory and Applications of Neural Networks

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes learning in a single neuron, single- and multi-layer perceptrons, recurrent neural networks, structured neural networks, neural networks to perform principal component analysis, principal component regression and partial least squares regression.
  
  • ECE 5270 Special Topics in Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics of current interest in the technical literature on systems.
  
  • ECE 5291 CubeSat Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the principles of CubeSat architecture. Includes typical subsystems (payload, command and data handling, communications, power and navigation), electrical interfaces and communications protocols. Focuses on the electrical systems needed to design a full CubeSat or spacecraft.
  
  • ECE 5301 Semiconductor Device Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews basic semiconductor physics and band theory; development of detailed theory of p-n junctions; Schottky barrier diodes, bipolar transistors and heterojunctions. Introduction of field effect transistor theory include JFETs, MOSFETs and VLSI technologies.
  
  • ECE 5311 Microelectronics Fabrication Lab

    Credit Hours: 3
    Hands-on fabrication and testing of integrated circuits including oxidation, diffusion, photolithography, metallization and etching. Students perform all process steps required, beginning with polished silicon wafers and ending with completed integrated circuits that are tested and characterized.
  
  • ECE 5331 IC Computer-Aided Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamentals of CAD techniques for the IC design verification including the hierarchy of simulation tools. Emphasizes the mathematical and numerical techniques used for circuit level simulation.
  
  • ECE 5350 Optical Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Principles of stimulated emission; electromagnetic field modes in optical resonators; ray tracing techniques in laser resonators and beam delivery systems; Gaussian beam profiles and laser linewidths; noise in lasers and optical amplifiers; excitation methods; mode locking and Q-switching techniques; picosecond and femtosecond laser pulse generation; optical bistable devices.
  
  • ECE 5351 Fiber-Optic Communication Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes optical fiber links, comparison between optical and electronic communication links; data encoding and bit error rates; properties of single, multimode and polarization preserving optical fibers, including attenuation, pulse spreading, bandwidth and maximum bit rate; transmitter and receiver design considerations, link design.
  
  • ECE 5352 Fiber-Optic Sensor Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies fundamental theory and state-of-the-art fiber-optic sensor systems; comparison with conventional sensors for strain, temperature, electric and magnetic fields; specialized fiber-optic components; use of multimode, singlemode, polarization preserving and high birefringence optical fibers, interferometric- and intensity-based sensor architectures.
  
  • ECE 5354 Acoustooptic and Electrooptic Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Theory of operation and system applications, including optical wave propagation through an anisotropic medium, electrooptic and acoustooptic effects; Raman-Nath and Bragg regimes of operation, acoustooptic and electrooptic material properties and selection criteria, operation of laser modulators, deflectors and frequency.
  
  • ECE 5355 Electrooptics Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lectures and experiments in photonics with emphasis on fiber optics, and design, fabrication and testing of communications sensor systems.
  
  • ECE 5356 Optical Waveguides and Devices

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applications of Maxwell’s equations and time-harmonic electromagnetic waves to fiber-optical waveguides; ray trajectories; electromagnetic fields in single- and multimode fibers; attenuation and dispersion mechanisms; inelastic scattering and nonlinear propagation; erbium-doped ultra-broadband optical traveling wave amplifiers.
  
  • ECE 5370 Special Topics in Photonics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics of current interest in the technical literature on photonics.
  
  • ECE 5371 Special Topics in Microelectronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics of current interest in the technical literature on microelectronics.
  
  • ECE 5410 Electrodynamics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Electrostatics and boundary value problems; solutions of Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations in Cartesian, spherical and cylindrical coordinates; electrostatic multipole fields; fields in dielectrics; magnetostatics; Maxwell’s equations; plane electromagnetic waves; guided waves and resonant cavities; antennas and vector diffraction.
  
  • ECE 5418 Field Theory of Guided Waves 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Maxwell’s equations; time-harmonic electromagnetic waves; vector and scalar wave equations, analysis of electromagnetic field modes in rectangular and circular cylindrical waveguides using vector potential methods; phase and group velocity; transverse wave impedance; propagating waves and evanescent fields; resonant cavities.
  
  • ECE 5419 Field Theory of Guided Waves 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Hybrid field modes, longitudinal section electric (LSE) and magnetic (LSM) modes in partially filled waveguides; inhomogeneous boundary conditions and transcendental eigenvalue equations; dielectric waveguides and resonators; stripline and microstrip lines; ridged waveguides; spherical transmission lines and cavities.
  
  • ECE 5425 Antennas 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews basic electromagnetic principles; radiation from infinitesimal electric and magnetic dipoles; antenna directivity and gain; the one-way and radar range equations; array theory and phased arrays; and wire antennas and broadband antennas.
  
  • ECE 5426 Antennas 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Equivalence principles; vector diffraction and its application to horn and reflector antennas; antenna pattern synthesis.
  
  • ECE 5431 Computational Electromagnetics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Finite difference solutions of differential equations; moment method solutions of integral equations; FDTD, FEM and GTD in electrodynamics.
  
  • ECE 5470 Special Topics in Electromagnetics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics of current interest in the technical literature on electromagnetics.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ECE 5495 Special Project in Electrical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Special graduate projects are undertaken on a cooperative basis between the student and a member of the graduate faculty.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ECE 5520 Computer Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the evolution of computer architecture and the factors influencing the design of hardware and software elements of computer systems. Introduces several methods to build general-purpose processors and computer systems and analyze CPU performance to identify bottlenecks.
  
  • ECE 5525 Speech Processing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Fundamentals of digital speech processing, digital models for speech signals, acoustic theory of speech production, speech perception, speech analysis, homomorphic speech processing, coding of speech signals, linear predictive coding, methods for speech recognition and digital speech processing for man-machine communication by voice.
  
  • ECE 5526 Speech Recognition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Basic approaches in speech recognition, dynamic time warping, hidden Markov models and neural networks.
  
  • ECE 5527 Search and Decoding in Speech Recognition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Issues with searching for best answers from recognition hypotheses generated by the recognizer, including lattice networks, dictionaries, language modeling and its use in speech recognition, network search algorithms, word networks and standard lattice format, finite state grammars, Bi-grams, N-grams and other language modeling techniques.
  
  • ECE 5534 Computer Networks 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Theory, design and analysis of computer communications systems. Topics include TCP/IP, Internet, the World Wide Web, ISO-OSI network architecture, LANs (Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring, Token Bus, etc.), ATM, SONET, wireless communications, satellite networks, network modeling and simulation.
  
  • ECE 5535 Computer Networks 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes computer and network design and analysis topics covering mathematical modeling, simulation techniques for performance evaluation, applied probability, stochastic processes, elementary queuing theory, discrete-event simulation, and simulation of data analysis.
  
  • ECE 5540 Cloud Computing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the fundamental principles, technology and current developments in cloud computing. Includes basic principles of emerging cloud computing paradigms, the history of cloud computing and how to implement algorithms in the cloud.
  
  • ECE 5550 High-Performance Computing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces fundamentals of parallel scientific computing. Includes CPU and GPU architectures, interconnects and forms of parallel memory. Addresses load balancing, communication and synchronization overhead, and studies established practices.
  
  • ECE 5560 Computer Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents advanced treatment of the enduring concepts underlying all computer (hardware/software) systems. Covers the fundamental concepts in hardware/software required to create systems that operate correctly across a wide range of operating conditions and run-time parameters. Emphasizes performance analysis.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to ECE 4551 Computer Architecture 
  
  • ECE 5565 Embedded and Real-Time Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces embedded and real-time systems including resource-constrained systems, real-time scheduling including multiprocessor scheduling, real-time operating systems (kernels), real-time communication, real-time programming languages, performance analysis, reliability and fault-tolerance, and real-time system requirements and design methods.
  
  • ECE 5570 Special Topics in Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    State-of-the-art topics in the current literature in computer engineering.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ECE 5575 Programmable Gate Arrays

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers digital design techniques using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that incorporate both hardware and software components. Covers FPGA architecture, digital design flow and other technologies associated with FPGAs. Includes laboratories for hands-on experience in designing digital systems on FPGA platforms.
  
  • ECE 5590 Android Embedded Application Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the fundamental principles of programming for Android. Discusses current technology and development practices for programming applications in the Android operating system.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to ECE 3551 Microcomputer Systems 1 
  
  • ECE 5595 Special Projects in Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Special graduate projects undertaken on a cooperative basis between the student and a member of the graduate faculty.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ECE 5683 Power Systems Operation and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    An in-depth analysis of computer methods for power systems. Topics include system matrices, power-flow studies, optimal dispatch, fault studies and stability analysis with programming considerations for each topic.
  
  • ECE 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  
  • ECE 5961 Internship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides an opportunity to gain practical experience in industries related to electrical or computer engineering. Students are placed in an industrial environment under the supervision of a practicing engineer.
  
  • ECE 5999 Thesis in Electrical or Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual work under the direction of a member or members of the graduate faculty on a selected topic.
  
  • ECE 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  
  • ECE 6999 Research and Dissertation in Electrical or Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Taken by appointment with members of the electrical engineering graduate faculty.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval

Engineering Cooperative Education

  
  • EPE 1000 Protrack Cooperative Education Preparation

    Credit Hours: 0
    Prepares Protrack students for cooperative education experiences and develops career planning and job search skills and techniques. Teaches the fundamentals of career exploration, resume development, interviewing skills and special job search techniques. Also covers workplace etiquette and ethics to help make a smooth transition to the workplace.
    Requirement(s): Enrollment in Protrack program and 3.0 cumulative GPA
  
  • EPE 1100 Protrack Cooperative Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares students for professional careers by integrating alternate periods of academic study and career-related work experience. Includes work in private industry, business and public agencies.
    Requirement(s): Approval of co-op coordinator, enrollment in Protrack program, 3.0 cumulative GPA and classifies student as full-time when registered for three credits.
    Prerequisite: EPE 1000  
  
  • EPE 2100 Protrack Cooperative Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares students for professional careers by integrating alternate periods of academic study and career-related work experience. Includes work in private industry, business and public agencies.
    Requirement(s): Approval of co-op coordinator, enrollment in Protrack program, 3.0 cumulative GPA and classifies student as full-time when registered for three credits. Can be applied as free elective credit.
    Prerequisite: EPE 1100  
  
  • EPE 3100 Engineering Protrack Cooperative Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prepares students for professional careers. Students work on engineering projects including one or more of the following realistic constraints: economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health, safety, security and manufacturing.
    Requirement(s): Approval of co-op coordinator, enrollment in Protrack program, 3.0 cumulative GPA and classifies student as full-time when registered for three credits. Can be used for a maximum of three credits of technical elective.
    Prerequisite: EPE 2100  

Engineering Management

  
  • ENM 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  
  • ENM 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: ENM 0002   Corequisite: ENM 0002  
  
  • ENM 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: ENM 0003   Corequisite: ENM 0003  
  
  • ENM 4100 Quality Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides principles and techniques for establishing quality goals, identification of customer needs and requirements, measurement of quality objectives and product/process engineering to improve system performance.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: MTH 2201  or MTH 3200  
  
  • ENM 4200 Project Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides principles of project management to design and develop products and services within budget, on time and to specification. Includes work planning, organization design, requirements analysis, project control and PERT/CPM.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: MTH 2201  or MTH 3200  
  
  • ENM 5100 Quality Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Principles and techniques for establishing quality goals, identification of customer needs and requirements, measurement of quality objectives and product/process engineering to improve system performance.
  
  • ENM 5200 Project Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Principles of project management to design and develop products and services within budget, on time and to specification. Includes work planning, organization design, requirements analysis, project control and PERT/CPM.
  
  • ENM 5201 Space Technology and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the concepts and technologies of modern space technology and systems that combine science and engineering. Focuses on the scientific and engineering fundamentals of launch vehicle and spacecraft systems and subsystems, and their interactions. 
  
  • ENM 5330 Topics in Engineering Operations and Logistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics such as forecasting, plant location, facility layout, inventory systems, maintenance, process engineering, supply chains, scheduling, manufacturing and materials handling.
  
  • ENM 5350 Topics in Engineering Modeling and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics such as simulation, visualization, animation, graphics, CAD, deterministic and probabilistic models, and data analysis.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ENM 5360 Topics in Product Development and Technology Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics such as technology transfer, product strategy formulation, visioning, technology road maps and innovation.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ENM 5420 Technology Commercialization Strategies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Systematically covers state-of-the-art technical, marketing and business aspects of technology commercialization in 18 steps through three phases and the investigation, feasibility, development, introduction, growth and maturity stages.
  
  • ENM 5430 Strategic Situation Analysis Using Game Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents a study of situations encountered on a regular basis by managers and engineers. Introduces and uses principles of game theory to analyze those situations in order to develop sound bases for drawing appropriate conclusions and achieving optimal results. Also provides insight into why certain situations function the way they do.
  
  • ENM 5495 Special Projects in Engineering Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Special graduate projects undertaken on a cooperative basis between the student and a member of the graduate faculty. May include a literature search in a selected area or research and development in one of the engineering management specialty areas.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ENM 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  
  • ENM 5900 Engineering Management Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Industry-based internship experience undertaken under the supervision of a member of the graduate faculty. Provides industrial experience to students without prior experience in a practical engineering setting. Requires industrial presentations.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • ENM 5999 Thesis Research

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual research work under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty on a selected topic.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval

English as a Second Language

  
  • ESL 0341 Intensive Grammar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Enables students to communicate in oral and written forms of English, using complex sentences. Focuses on formal academic structure, which is required for technical reading and writing.
    Requirement(s): Credit cannot be applied toward any Florida Tech degree
  
  • ESL 0342 Intensive Oral Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Gives the more advanced student of English practice in oral communication within an academic setting. Also offers the student controlled practice with vowels, consonants, word stress and intonation patterns.
    Requirement(s): Credit cannot be applied toward any Florida Tech degree
  
  • ESL 0343 Intensive Listening Comprehension

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students the opportunity to hear authentic English spoken with different speech patterns in a variety of academic lectures, to develop note-taking skills and to synthesize the facts contained in the listening selections.
    Requirement(s): Credit cannot be applied toward any Florida Tech degree
  
  • ESL 0344 Intensive Reading

    Credit Hours: 3
    Offers guided practice in reading scientifically and academically oriented materials in English, emphasizing strategies necessary to improve reading speed and quality of comprehension. Provides an opportunity for students to acquire vocabulary and a grasp of basic scientific concepts.
    Requirement(s): Credit cannot be applied toward any Florida Tech degree
  
  • ESL 0345 Intensive Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Enables the student of English to apply techniques needed in planning, organizing and developing a good paragraph. Emphasizes extended in-class written work, with individualized corrections and rewriting.
    Requirement(s): Credit cannot be applied toward any Florida Tech degree
 

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