Dec 08, 2024  
2019-2020 Florida Tech Catalog 
    
2019-2020 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.

 

Mechanical Engineering

  
  • MEE 4171 Principles of Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers steady state and transient heat conduction for one- and multidimensional systems; free and forced convection in both internal and external flows for both laminar and turbulent conditions; and boiling and condensation. Introduces radiation properties, blackbody radiation and surface emission.
    Prerequisite: AEE 3161  and MEE 3191  and (MTH 3210  or MTH 3220 )
  
  • MEE 4175 Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers air-vapor mixture properties and psychometrics, solar radiation in heating and air conditioning applications, heating/cooling load calculations, annual energy consumption, heat generation and cooling processes.
    Prerequisite: MEE 4171  
  
  • MEE 4177 Energy Conversion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the basics of energy resources, principles of energy conversion systems and processes. Includes conventional energy conversion technologies (thermal power plants, hydraulic turbines, combined cycles, internal combustion engines, energy storage technologies) and renewable systems (solar photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, geothermal, ocean).
    Prerequisite: MEE 4171  
  
  • MEE 4190 Design Methodologies and Practice

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers engineering ethics and design methodologies with case studies. Presents relevant design projects and case studies by faculty and invited engineers representing local industry. Requires development of a proposal for MEE 4193  
    (Q)
    Must be enrolled in mechanical engineering (7131). Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: COM 2223   Corequisite: COM 2223  
  
  • MEE 4193 Mechanical Engineering Design 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Student teams work on engineering projects proposed in MEE 4190  or by the faculty, as well as projects sponsored by industry. These projects are selected from a broad range of technical areas including mechanical design, thermal and fluid system analyses, instrumentation and control, energy system analysis.
    (Q)
    Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: MEE 4190  
  
  • MEE 4194 Mechanical Engineering Design 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Student teams complete their design projects. Outlines and presents details of engineering analyses, prototype construction and testing results including sensitivity, optimization and cost analyses in a written final report. Requires oral presentation to faculty and engineers from participating industry.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: MEE 4193  
  
  • MEE 4250 Physical Principles of Nuclear Reactors

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamental physical principles of nuclear reactors. Covers the equivalence of matter and energy, nuclear reactions and radiation, neutron diffusion and slowing-down theory, criticality condition, reactor core, composition, configurations and long-term behavior, reactor kinetics and control.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  
  • MEE 4260 Nuclear Reactor Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the fundamental principles of nuclear reactor design and operation as they pertain to various reactor systems.
    Prerequisite: MEE 4250  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  
  • MEE 4300 Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Student/faculty research on topics of mutual interest on an individual basis. Comprises subject matter topical to mechanical engineering at a level commensurate with advanced undergraduate standing. 
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  
  • MEE 4500 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Faculty presents technical course material on topics of special interest to mechanical engineers. The normal format consists of classroom lectures and assigned readings or projects for the students.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval and may qualify as a technical elective, subject to faculty approval
  
  • MEE 4630 Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the methodology for mathematical representation of engineering systems. Includes basic mechanical, electrical, thermal and fluid systems; state variable and input/output representation; transfer function and Laplace transform approach; transient, steady-state and frequency response analyses; and comparison with experimental response.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2082  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 )
  
  • MEE 4820 Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes the thermodynamics of various power cycles, and emerging alternative fuels and power systems for automotive use (biofuels and their blends with gasoline and diesel fuel, direct injection, hybrid electric). Requires independent research project possibly leading to presentation at professional society meeting.
    Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: MEE 3191  
  
  • MEE 5210 Conduction Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers conservation of energy in a deformable continuous medium; solution of time-dependent homogeneous heat conduction problems using separation of variables, Duhamel’s method, Green’s function, analytical approximate methods and finite-difference methods; phase-change problems; inverse problem; bio-heat transfer modeling and solution methods.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of heat transfer
  
  • MEE 5220 Convection Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews the principle of energy conservation, heat conducting fluid; boundary-layer approximations for large Reynold’s number; exact and approximate treatment of laminar internal and external forced convection; turbulent forced convection; and buoyancy-induced convection.
    Prerequisite: MEE 5210  
  
  • MEE 5230 Radiation Heat Transfer

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers development of radiative properties from electromagnetic theory; theory and analysis of shape factors; and enclosure radiative transfer and diffuse-gray and nongray surfaces. Introduces radiative transfer within participating media and semitransparent solids.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of heat transfer
  
  • MEE 5240 Solar Energy Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies solar radiation principles, data estimation and prediction. Reviews heat transfer principles, and radiation and optical properties of surfaces. Includes flat plate solar collector analysis and analysis of concentrating collectors, solar energy storage, and solar heating/air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of heat transfer
  
  • MEE 5250 Physical Principles of Nuclear Reactors

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamental physical principles of nuclear reactors. Covers the equivalence of matter and energy, nuclear reactions and radiation, neutron diffusion and slowing-down theory, criticality condition, reactor core, composition, configurations and long-term behavior, reactor kinetics and control.
  
  • MEE 5260 Nuclear Reactor Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the fundamental principles of nuclear reactor design and operation as they pertain to various reactor systems.
    Prerequisite: MEE 5250  
  
  • MEE 5290 Selected Topics in Heat Transfer and Energy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced topics reflecting the current research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • MEE 5310 Combustion Fundamentals

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes equilibrium chemical thermodynamics and thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, transport phenomena and conservation equations; Rankine-Hugoniot theory, Chapman-Jouguet waves and detonation and deflagration; diffusion flames and premixed flames; flammability, ignition and quenching.
  
  • MEE 5316 Mechatronics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies microprocessor-based control of electromechanical systems, sensors and actuators, assembly programming, microprocessor architecture, serial/parallel input/output, programmable peripherals, interrupts, signal interfacing, standard interface protocols, analog to digital conversion, real-time control, and design of microprocessor-based systems.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of controls
  
  • MEE 5318 Instrumentation and Measurement Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the fundamentals of sensors and measurements for engineering applications, and software/hardware tools for development of computer-based instrumentation systems. Includes analog signals, signal conditioning, programming virtual instruments, communication standards, data acquisition and process control.
  
  • MEE 5320 Internal Combustion Engines

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates the applications of thermodynamic, fluid dynamic and combustion principles to spark- and compression-ignition engines, and direct-injection stratified charge engines; ideal and actual cycle analyses; exhaust emissions, air pollution and control; engine heat transfer; and engine modeling.
  
  • MEE 5330 Principles of Fuel Cells

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the fundamentals of fuel cell technology including basic operating principles, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, charge and mass transport and modeling. Emphasizes hydrogen fuel cells. Discusses types of fuel cells, fuel cell stacks, thermal management, fuel delivery and power management.
    Recommended: Background knowledge in Ohm’s law and basic circuitry, first and second laws of thermodynamics and thermodynamic properties, and ordinary differential equations
  
  • MEE 5350 Gas Turbines

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces characteristics, performance analyses and design methodologies for stationary aircraft gas turbines. Topics include gas turbine cycle analyses, component design of combustors, compressors, turbines and nozzles, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, gas turbine fuels and emissions.
  
  • MEE 5410 Elasticity

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes stress and strain in two and three dimensions, equilibrium, compatibility and constitutive equations, energy methods, flexure, stretching, torsion and contact stress formulations, axially symmetric problems.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • MEE 5420 Advanced Mechanical Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers essential aspects of elasticity-plasticity, kinematics, dynamics, tribology and materials science.
  
  • MEE 5460 Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue of Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers static and dynamic design and maintenance to prevent structural failure; presence of cracks; stress intensity factor; linear elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, fracture tests, and fatigue crack initiation and propagation; environmental and corrosion effects; fatigue life prediction.
  
  • MEE 5490 Selected Topics in Solid Mechanics, Structures and Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses selected topics reflecting the current research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
  
  • MEE 5491 Computational Materials Science and Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers characterization of materials, calculations of properties and materials, and fundamental methods for length-scale linking. Covers a variety of simulation techniques and their applications in materials science. Includes molecular dynamic simulations, Monte-Carlo multiparticle diffusion simulations and phase-field simulations.
    Prerequisite: CHE 3260  and CSE 1502  
  
  • MEE 5551 Advanced Design Theory and Methods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides in-depth study of systematic design processes, methods and tools, applied to novel design and reverse engineering. Covers contemporary research-based design theories. Includes research methods for studying design as a scientific discourse (user studies, protocol studies and case studies). Requires engineering design term projects.
    Recommended: Background equivalent to MEE 3090 Design of Machine Elements , MEE 3091 Theory of Machines  and MEE 4194 Mechanical Engineering Design 2  
  
  • MEE 5552 Design for Manufacturing and Assembly

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents concepts of product and process design for manufacturing and assembly. Includes topics on product design for manufacturing, inspection and assembly considering both manual and automated approaches. Also presents the relationship between part design and ease of manufacture through the introduction of DFM and DFA methods in design.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MEE 3090 Design of Machine Elements  and MEE 4171 Principles of Heat Transfer  
  
  
  • MEE 5610 Advanced Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes Newtonian and analytical mechanics; rigid-body dynamics, Euler’s equations and Hamiltonian mechanics, and canonical transformations and Hamilton-Jacobi theory; dissipative, gyroscopic and circulatory systems; applications of numerical methods to complex dynamics problems.
  
  • MEE 5630 Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies theoretical, experimental and computer methods for characterizing dynamic behavior of various physical systems, including generalized approaches to modeling complex interactions between mechanical, electrical, fluid and thermal systems.
  
  • MEE 5640 Advanced Kinematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a uniform presentation of the mathematical foundations for studying spatial motion. Specific topics include general rigid body motion invariants, instantaneous kinematics, finite position theory, bivectors and multivectors, screw theory, theory of Clifford Algebras, quaternions and dual quaternions and exponential coordinates.
  
  • MEE 5650 Robotics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the study of robotic manipulators. Includes spatial rigid body displacement, Euler angles, Denavit-Hartenberg coordinate convection for kinematic analysis, forward and inverse kinematic analyses of serial and parallel chain manipulators, manipulator Jacobians and trajectory generation.
  
  • MEE 5660 Robot Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the control of robotic manipulators. Includes Lyapunov control theory, independent joint control, set point and trajectory tracking control, inverse dynamics control, impedance control, force control, hybrid position/force control and robust control.
  
  • MEE 5670 Spatial Mechanism Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes advanced topics in spherical and spatial mechanisms. Covers approximate motion synthesis and quasi-position synthesis methodologies. Also includes analysis techniques with respect to force transmission, order, singularity avoidance and solution branching. Uses computer-aided design and visualization software.
  
  • MEE 5680 Advanced Manufacturing Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers micromachining, nanomachining, electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining, electrochemical discharge machining, chemical mechanical polishing, laser machining and emerging processes.
  
  • MEE 5690 Selected Topics in Systems and Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses selected topics reflecting the current research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • MEE 5810 Road Vehicle Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers dynamics of road vehicles and how physical laws, human factors and design choices affect ride, handling, braking, acceleration and vehicle safety. Includes analysis of dynamic systems, acceleration and braking, suspension and steering, tires and ride, handling and rollover, and total vehicle behavior.
  
  • MEE 5820 Automotive Powertrains

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the performance of motor vehicles and the design of automotive power transmission systems. Includes loads on the vehicle, evaluation of engine and vehicle drive ratios on acceleration performance and fuel economy, and manual and automatic transmission design.
    Recommended: Background knowledge of internal combustion engines
  
  • MEE 5850 Automotive Manufacturing Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers fundamentals of manufacturing processes and their applications to automotive products and systems made from metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Introduces the quantitative and qualitative components of manufacturing, material selection, identification of processes used to manufacture, and methods for quality control. 
    Recommended: Background knowledge in heat transfer
  
  • MEE 5890 Selected Topics in Automotive Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses selected topics reflecting the current state of knowledge and advances made in automotive engineering. Includes research interests of the faculty and visiting scholars.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • MEE 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Accepted petition to graduate and approval by Office of Graduate Programs
  
  • MEE 5900 Mechanical Engineering Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Presents current research by university faculty, visiting speakers and graduate students. Required of all full-time mechanical engineering graduate students.
  
  • MEE 5997 Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Individual study under the direction of a member of the MAE graduate faculty.
  
  • MEE 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-6
    Individual work under the direction of a member of the mechanical engineering graduate faculty on a selected topic.
  
  • MEE 6810 Life-Critical Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Requires students to develop and evaluate a synthesis of life-critical systems (LCS) illustrated by space systems, aeronautics, nuclear energy systems and various emergency systems. Improves knowledge and skills of the differences between technology-centered and human-centered design of LCS.
  
  • MEE 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0-2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Accepted candidacy and approval by Office of Graduate Programs
  
  • MEE 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.

Meteorology

  
  • MET 0002 Final Program Examination

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

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

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MET 0003   Corequisite: MET 0003  
  
  • MET 1999 Weather Briefing

    Credit Hours: 1
    Stimulates discussion about recent, current and future weather using various data sources, including satellites, surface observations, radar, model and upper air data. Underscores the importance of the human element in weather forecasting. Students must attend the weekly weather briefing and participate in a national weather forecasting contest.
    May be repeated for a maximum of three credits; content varies
  
  • MET 3401 Synoptic Meteorology 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Standard meteorological observational practice; data presentation; data analysis and display; data product transmission by facsimile and computer; and Internet connectivity; weather map discussions.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 3402 Synoptic Meteorology 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Basic analysis techniques, scalar and vector fields, thermodynamic diagrams, synoptic calculations, 4-dimensional atmospheric structure, weather map discussions.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: MET 3401  
  
  • MET 3403 Data Analysis in Meteorology and Geosciences

    Credit Hours: 4
    Covers different types of multidimensional large datasets (i.e., big data) from a variety of sources used to describe physical and dynamical processes of the weather and climate system. Emphasizes understanding and interpreting the data through basic programming, plotting and analysis. Lab requires use of various data and formats.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: CSE 1100  or CSE 1502  or CSE 1503  
  
  • MET 4010 Tropical Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the tropics. Emphasizes the structure of the tropical atmosphere/ocean, zonally averaged circulations, and a variety of phenomena that are unique to the tropics including the monsoon and intraseasonal variability.
    Instructor approval
    Corequisite: MET 4305  
  
  • MET 4233 Remote Sensing for Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies geostationary (GOES) and low-Earth polar orbiting (NOAA) weather satellites and the sensors system. Presents operational atmospheric data and applications to numerical weather prediction. Also covers ground-based meteorological radar systems and applications.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  
  • MET 4305 Atmospheric Dynamics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies coordinate systems, balance of forces, equations of motion, continuity and energy, barotropic and baroclinic disturbances, geostrophy, atmospheric transport of energy.
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  and OCN 3430  
  
  • MET 4306 Atmospheric Dynamics 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies circulation and vorticity, scale analysis, friction and turbulence, sound, gravity and Rossby waves, instability, numerical weather prediction.
    Prerequisite: MET 4305  
  
  • MET 4310 Climatology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the distribution of weather elements globally, continental positioning, rain shields, hydrological cycle, meteorological databases, El Nino impacts on humans, global warming and the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: MTH 2401  and OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 4407 Marine Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the marine atmosphere and upper ocean. Emphasizes the marine climatology, general circulation of the atmosphere, air-sea interactions and coastal meteorology.
    Instructor approval
  
  • MET 4410 Mesoscale Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys conceptual models and analyzes techniques for mesoscale phenomena. Includes mesoscale convective complexes, severe storms, atmospheric instability, mesoscale gravity waves, squall lines, drylines, topographic effects, mesoscale clouds and precipitation processes, coastal showers, the sea breeze and other local phenomena.
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 5001 Principles of Atmospheric Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the atmosphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, extratropical disturbances, cloud physics, storms, radiative transfer, global energy balance, atmospheric dynamics, the general circulation.
  
  • MET 5010 Tropical Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the tropics. Emphasizes the structure of the tropical atmosphere/ocean, zonally averaged circulations, and a variety of phenomena that are unique to the tropics including the monsoon and intraseasonal variability.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: MET 5305   Corequisite: MET 5305  
  
  • MET 5233 Atmospheric Remote Sensing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Nature of radiation, blackbody radiation laws, Maxwell’s equations, radar equation, radiative transfer equation, inversion techniques. Applications from surface, aircraft and spacecraft observations using Doppler, Lidar, visible, infrared and microwave systems to infer synoptic atmospheric properties.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  
  • MET 5305 Dynamic Meteorology 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Dynamics of atmosphere including coordinate systems, balance of forces, derivation of the equations of motion, continuity and energy; barotropic and baroclinic disturbances; geostrophy; and atmospheric transport of energy.
    Prerequisite: (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) and OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 5306 Dynamic Meteorology 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Dynamics of the atmosphere including theorems on circulation and vorticity; scale analysis; friction and turbulence; sound, gravity and Rossby waves; instability; numerical weather prediction.
    Prerequisite: MET 5305  
  
  • MET 5309 Climate Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes of the earth’s climate system. Emphasizes the global energy balance, hydrological cycle, atmospheric/ocean general circulation, and climate sensitivity and feedback mechanisms.
    Requirement(s): Instructor aproval
  
  • MET 5310 Numerical Weather Prediction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and mathematical basis of numerical weather prediction; numerical methods and computational stabilities; modern operational and research forecast models. Includes a virtual laboratory with applications of simple-to-complex dynamical models and a team project.
    Prerequisite: MET 3402  and MET 4305  
  
  • MET 5320 Global Climate Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews the present state of climate change science. Addresses proxy reconstruction, uncertainty (feedbacks) and sensitivity, climate modeling, changing sea level and radiative forcing (natural and anthropogenic). Combines background material with relevant peer-reviewed literature. Includes research in an area of interest to the student.
  
  • MET 5407 Marine Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and dynamical processes associated with the weather and climate of the marine atmosphere and upper ocean. Emphasizes the marine climatology, general circulation of the atmosphere, air-sea interactions and coastal meteorology.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval

Management

  
  • MGT 4011 Management Theory and Thought

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews contemporary management philosophies and theories. Focuses on managing enterprises in today’s rapidly changing global economy. Covers developing strategies, vision, planning, organization and controlling.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4017 Program Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses responsibility and authority of a program manager and the integration of program fluctuations in complex organizational structures. Discusses interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution within matrix organizations.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4070 Special Topic in Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    In-depth study in a specialized area of management in the public, private or government sector. Topic of study to be approved by the instructor.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4084 Materiel Acquisition Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the life cycle process involving the acquisition of materiel and material systems. Need requirements analysis, cost and schedule considerations, and procurement policies and procedures are studied.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4206 Contract Changes, Terminations and Disputes

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers identification and use of appropriate performance metrics when evaluating contractor performance. Involves assessment strategies and performance remedies to make price contract changes after award and handling of disputes.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4207 Materiel Acquisition Management

    Credit Hours: 1
    Develops professional skills for making business decisions and advising other acquisition team members to successfully meet customers’ needs.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4208 Procurement and Contract Management

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers use of the FAR and DFAR to develop effective market research and alternative acquisition strategies.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4209 Contract and Subcontract Formulation

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers the techniques and benefits of early industry involvement in shaping acquisition requirements. Involves basic procedures for acquisition of both commercial and noncommercial requirements.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 5000 Financial Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies accounting concepts, the accounting model, measurement processes, financial statements, financial analysis, the accounting cycle, monetary and fixed assets, inventory, current and long-term liabilities, and equity structures of partnerships, proprietorships and corporations.
    Requirement(s): Noncredit for MBA majors
  
  • MGT 5001 Managerial Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on internal reporting to managers for use in planning and control, making nonroutine decisions and formulating major plans and policies. Includes cost-volume-profit relationships, flexible budgets and standards, job order and process cost, and cost allocation and accumulation.
    Recommended: Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5002 Corporate Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts and tools of corporate financial management including corporate financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, quantitative techniques and practices. Considers the importance of ethics and the international aspects in financial decision-making.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5003 Public Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts and methods of financial management in federal, state and local governments including the analysis of the theory and practice of public finance through taxation, debt instruments, intergovernmental funds and other revenue sources. Reviews financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and financial management practices.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5004 Commercial Enterprise in Space Capstone

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts, tools and techniques for evaluating research proposals and studies. Involves designing, conducting, evaluating and presenting oral and written research. Builds on quantitative and qualitative research methods through assignments. Serves as the capstone course for the program.
    Requirement(s): Recommended for the graduating semester
  
  • MGT 5005 National Security Issues in Space

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines U.S. national security issues of telecommunications, imaging and physical devices/satellites in space related to the commercialization of space. Considers the role of governments to provide security, and protect and safeguard national assets in space. Discusses the historical roles of the U.S. military and NASA in space vehicle launches.
  
  • MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies methods of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for managerial decision making. Includes data presentation, measures of central tendency, dispersion and skewness; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling methods and sampling distributions; and confidence interval estimation of parameters and tests of hypotheses.
    Requirement(s): Noncredit for MBA majors
  
  • MGT 5007 Intermediate Managerial Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies statistical theory to managerial problems, particularly methods of statistical inference for management decision-making. Includes F- and Chi-square distributions, nonparametric tests, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5008 Finance Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Discusses advanced topics in finance including current activity, and financial tools and strategy. Blends financial theory with current practices in finance.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  
  
  • MGT 5009 International Law and Treaties in Space

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines known and anticipated international laws and treaties governing access to and ownership of outer space. Explores international and cross-national issues relating to launch and maintenance of orbiting vehicles/stations and surface bases in space. Also explores issues relating to legal liabilities from accidents or incidents in outer space.
  
  • MGT 5010 Seminar in Research Methodology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews research methods in managerial disciplines. Includes nature and sources of secondary data, primary data collection techniques, design of research projects, sample selection, model building, etc. Requires a research proposal and presentation of a fully documented research report on the results of the study.
  
  • MGT 5011 Management Theory and Thought

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews classical and contemporary management philosophies and theories. Focuses on managing enterprises in a rapidly changing global economy. Includes developing strategic vision, planning, organizing, directing and controlling, social responsibility and international management.
  
  • MGT 5013 Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the contributions to management theory made by the behavioral sciences. Gives a better understanding of the human being and why he acts as he does. Studies individual and group behavior. Extensively uses current periodicals and case materials.
  
  • MGT 5014 Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies information systems design associated with business organizations. Includes development life cycles, requirements analysis, systems design and performance considerations. Views information systems as strategic tools to provide competitive advantage.
  
  • MGT 5015 Organizational Planning and Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the concepts, theory, research and operational problems of modern organizations. Includes classical and modern organizational theory, emphasizing the latter. Covers recent research findings and the theory of human relations in industry. Involves students in case studies.
  
  • MGT 5016 Employee Relations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes, synthesizes and evaluates the major federal and state laws that impinge on the modern work environment. Draws on new insights in the human resources management discipline to abstract, summarize and evaluate the impact of legislation and laws regulating the employee/employer relationship.
  
  • MGT 5017 Program Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses responsibility and authority of a program manager and the integration of program functions in complex organizational structures. Discusses interpersonal relationships within matrix organizations, as well as program conflict resolution and organizational priorities.
 

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