Course Listing For ENGR

ENGR 1020. Surveying. 2 hours. 1 hour lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: SURVEYING.
Prerequisite: MATH 1113.
Surveying methods, instruments, and computations related to field problems in distance measuring, leveling, directions, curves, and land surveying. Topographic mapping techniques will be emphasized. Not for credit toward an engineering major.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 1120. Engineering Graphics. 2 hours. 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGR GRAPHICS.
Prerequisite: MATH 2200 and MATH 2200L.
Standards and techniques for engineering drawings. Orthographic and isometric drawings through descriptive geometry. Computer graphics using AutoCAD software.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 1140. Computational Engineering Methods. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: COMP ENG METH.
Prerequisite: MATH 2210 and MATH 2210L.
Corequisite: MATH 2200.
Computer programming and matrix techniques used in the analysis of engineering problems
Offered every year.

ENGR 1920. Freshman Engineering. 1 hour. 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: FRESHMAN ENGR.
Prerequisite: MATH 2200 and MATH 2200L.
Engineering design will be reviewed and practiced through the use of a term project. The engineering discipline will be introduced through speakers and case studies.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 2110. Engineering Decision Making. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENG DECISION MAKING.
Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
Economics, finance, and computer modelling are applied to engineering decisions
Offered fall and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 2120. Engineering Statics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENGR STATICS.
Prerequisite: PHYS 1211-1211L and MATH 2200 and MATH 2210.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2500 and ENGR 1120 and ENGR 1140.
Two and three dimensional force systems, equilibrium, rigid structures, centroids, friction, and area moments of inertia.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 2130. Dynamics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DYNAMICS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2120.
Particles and rigid bodies that are moving with respect to a reference system. Kinematics deals with motion in terms of displacement, velocity, and acceleration. Kinetics includes the effect of forces on particles and bodies.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 2140. Strength of Materials. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STR OF MATERIALS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2120.
Elements of stress analysis, resistance, and design as applied to engineering materials and structures.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 2150. Fluid Mechanics. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: FLUID MECHANICS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2120.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2700.
Elements and engineering applications of the laws of fluid behavior to evaluate the forces and energies generated by fluids at rest and in motion.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 2170. Electrical Circuits. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: CIRCUITS.
Prerequisite: PHYS 1212-1212L.
Corequisite: MATH 2700.
Circuit element, circuit models, and techniques for circuit analysis. The course emphasizes the application of Kirchhoff's laws in determining the transient and steady state response of circuits.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 2500. Introduction to Biological Engineering. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO BIO ENG.
Prerequisite: BIOL 1108-1108L and PHYS 1212-1212L.
Corequisite: CHEM 2100 and CHEM 2100L and MATH 2700.
Biological and engineering principles are utilized to produce practical products, processes, or systems that serve the needs of society.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 2920. Engineering Design Methodology. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: DESIGN METHODOLOGY.
Prerequisite: PHYS 1211-1211L and MATH 2500 and ENGR 1920.
Corequisite: ENGR 2120.
Design methodology will be taught and practiced through use of term projects. Students will learn QFD for problem definition, conceptual design techniques and analysis procedures for detailed design.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 3050. Soil and Water Resource Conservation. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: S&W RSRC CONSERV.
Prerequisite: [MATH 1113 and PHYS 1111-1111L and CHEM 1212 and CHEM 1212L and (CRSS 3050-3050L or CRSS(FORS) 3060-3060L)] or permission of department.
The science of hydrology and presentation of methods for management of runoff, erosion, and associated water quality issues. Not for credit toward an engineering major.
Offered every year.

ENGR 3070. Turf and Landscape Irrigation System. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: LANDSCAPE IRRIG.
Prerequisite: (BIOL 1107-1107L or BTNY 1210-1210L) and MATH 1113.
Engineering technology involved in component selection, installation, and operation of turfgrass and landscape irrigation systems. Not for credit toward an engineering major.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 3120. Engineering Measurements. 3 hours. 1 hour lecture and 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGR MEASUREMENTS.
Prerequisite: MATH 1113.
Methods, instrumentation, and computations related to leveling, distance measuring, direction determination, curve layouts, and land surveying, with additional emphasis on Global Positioning and Geographic Information Systems.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 3140. Thermodynamics. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: THERMODYNAMICS.
Prerequisite: MATH 2210 and PHYS 1211-1211L.
The science of energy analysis from an engineering perspective. Focus on forms of energy, transformations of energy, and energy flows. Study applications in biological and traditional engineering systems.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 3150. Heat Transfer. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HEAT TRANSFER.
Prerequisite: MATH 2700.
Theory of heat transmission by conduction, convection, and radiation. The solution of steady and unsteady state engineering problems involving heat transfer.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3210. Electrical Machines and Power Distribution. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ELEC MACH & POWER.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2170.
DC and AC motors and generators. The design and analysis of electrical power distribution systems.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 3270. Electronics I. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ELECTRONICS I.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2170.
Diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3300. Mechanism Design I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MECHANISM DESIGN I.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2130 and ENGR 2140.
Basic mechanical parts, kinematic analysis of mechanisms, application of static and fatigue failure theories, dimensioning and tolerancing, material selection, basic manufacturing processes.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3410. Introduction to Natural Resource Engineering. 3 hours. 3 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: NAT RESOURCE ENGR.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2150 or permission of department.
Engineering hydrology, soil erosion, channel design, flow measurement techniques, engineered containment structures, water distribution and non-point water quality.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3420. Introduction to Soil Mechanics. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: SOIL MECHANICS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2120.
Topics including soil shear strength, shallow foundations, slope stability, lateral earth pressure and soil compaction, design of shallow foundations for agricultural structure, retaining walls, and engineered slopes will be discussed.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 3440. Water Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: WATER MANAGEMENT.
Prerequisite: ENGR 3410.
Science and design methods associated with managing water on a field scale. Topics will include the management of excess and deficient surface and ground water conditions that may impact activities such as agricultural production, construction, bioremediation, and environmental restoration.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 3520. Mass Transport and Rate Phenomena. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MASS/RATE.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2150 and ENGR 2500 and MATH 2700.
Mass transport and rate phenomena in the analysis of engineering problems in biological systems.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3540. Physical Unit Operations. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: PHYS UNIT OPS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2150 and ENGR 3150.
Physical unit operations for processing plants. Systems for handling liquids or gases include pump or fan driven systems. Physical separation of solids in liquid or gas medium. Psychometrics for process environment control. Water or solvent transport from materials.
Offered every year.

ENGR 3610. Structural Design. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRUCTURAL DES.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2140.
Deals with the relationships between loads and deflections which occur in structures as well as designing with wood and concrete.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3720. Engineering Physiology. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENGR PHYSIOLOGY.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2120 and ENGR 3520 and VPHY 3100.
Topics will be discussed which identify physical features and engineering principles governing the behavior of organisms.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 3900. Cooperative Work Experience. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit.
Oasis Title: COOP WORK EXPERIENC.
Coordinated and planned work experience with cooperating industries or agencies.
Non-traditional format: Student will be away from campus in a cooperative work experience with an approved employer.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 4210/6210. Linear Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: LINEAR SYSTEMS.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 2170.
Undergraduate corequisite: MIBO 3500 and BCMB(BIOL)(CHEM) 3100.
Time and frequency domain analysis of linear systems, convolution, fourier series, and fourier transforms with applications.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4220/6220. Feedback Control Systems. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: FEEDBACK CONTROL.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 2170.
The analysis and design of continuous and discrete time, and linear feedback control systems.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4230/6230. Sensors and Transducers. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: SENS AND TRANSD.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 2170.
Fundamentals of the sensing process, transducers and their environments and the measurement problem. Transducer types and modeling. Displacement, motion, pressure, fluid-flow, temperature measurements.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4240. Introduction to Microcontrollers. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: INTRO TO MICROCONTR.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2170 and ENGR 4230/6230.
Microcontrollers in engineering monitoring and control applications. The MC68HCII is used to demonstrate 1) the use of the MC as an integral part of modern electronic and electromechanical systems 2) design techniques for interfacing MC's to digital input/output devices and analog transducers 3) development tools 4) real-time control.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4250/6250. Advanced Microcontrollers. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ADV MICROCONTROL.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3270 and ENGR 4240.
Using the MC68HCII to solve practical engineering monitoring and control problems. A project-oriented course.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4270. Electronics II. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ELECTRONICS II.
Prerequisite: ENGR 3270.
Linear large-scale integrated circuits, power components, active filters and communication circuits.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4280/6280. Measurement Automation and Control. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: MEAS AUTO & CONT.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 1140 and ENGR 2170.
The analysis, design, and programming of systems used for automatic data acquisition, measurement, and control.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4300. Mechanism Design II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MECHANISM DESIGN II.
Prerequisite: ENGR 3300.
Design and selection of machine elements and components.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4330. Plastics and Composites. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PLASTICS AND COMP.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2140.
Material properties of plastic and composite materials and the design of these type members for structural and mechanical uses.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.

ENGR 4340. Machine Hydraulics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MACHINE HYDRAULICS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2150.
Fundamental understanding of power hydraulic components and hydraulic system design.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4350/6350. Introduction to Finite Element Analysis. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: FINITE ELEMENT ANAL.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 2140 and MATH 2700.
Fundamental finite element theory for the solution of engineering problems. Geometrical modelling techniques, element selection, and tests for accuracy. Emphasis on problems in structural mechanics and elasticity.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4360/6360. Advanced Topics in CAD/CAM. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV TOPICS CAD/CAM.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3300.
The use of computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing. Computer modeling of solid objects, advanced mechanism modelling, rapid prototyping and virtual reality.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.

ENGR 4370/6370. Material Science and Experimental Stress Analysis. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: MAT SCI/EXP STRESS.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3300.
Properties and selection of engineering materials. Structure of solids and the effects of solidification, forming and heat treating operations on material properties. Measurement of stresses in materials using strain gage and photoelastic technology.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.

ENGR 4420/6420. Industrial Ventilation Design and Control. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: IND VENT DES CONTR.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 2150 and ENGR 3150.
Engineering design of industrial ventilation systems including selection of fans, ductwork, diffusers, hoods, air cleaners, and humidifiers.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4440/6440. Environmental Engineering I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENV ENGINEERING I.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3410 and ENGR 3440.
Engineering science and design related to treatment of drinking water and wastewater as well as the treatment and ultimate disposal of the sludges created during water treatment.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4450/6450. Environmental Engineering II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENV ENGINEERING II.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3520 and ENGR 4440/6440 and ENGR 4480/6480.
Engineering science and design related to environmental modeling, solid waste management, and hazardous waste management. Concepts of risk assessment will also be introduced.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4480/6480. Instrumentation for Environmental Quality. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: INSTRM FOR ENV QUAL.
Undergraduate prerequisite: MATH 2700 and PHYS 1212-1212L.
Operation of instrumentation used to measure physical variables which determine environmental quality. The engineering design and application of measuring systems for airborne particulates, gaseous atmospheric contaminants, solar and environmental radiation, and noise will be emphasized.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4510/6510. Engineering and Design of Biological Process I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENG DES BIO PROC I.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3520 and BCMB 4010/6010 and MIBO 3500.
Design and analysis of enzymatic and microbial biological reaction systems.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4520/6520. Engineering and Design of Biological Processes II. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENG DSN BIO PROC II.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 4510/6510.
Unit operations used for biological processing including filtration, centrifugation, cell disruption, isolation, purification, and polishing.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4530/6530. Monitoring and Control of Biological Processes. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: MON CONTR BIOL PROC.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 4510/6510.
Concepts of biological process controls; modern control techniques and optimization of batch, fed-batch and continuous bioreactors, and other biological systems.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4540/6540. Applied Machine Vision. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: APPLIED MACH VISION.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
Automated vision systems to identification, measurement and quality control. Electromagnetic spectrum, illumination design, imaging sensor election, vision system calibration. Implementation of image processing algorithms for object recognition and classification.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.

ENGR 4550/6550. Processing Plant Design. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: PROC PLANT DESIGN.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3540.
Design of systems for processing, primarily based upon unit operations processes. Process simulation or modelling for optimization purposes will be applied to processing systems. Plant layout required for processing will be included.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4610. Design of Light Steel Structures. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DES OF STEEL STR.
Prerequisite: ENGR 3610.
Design of light frame steel structures. Theory and behavior of these type members under load and their connections.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4620. Management of Structural Environments. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MAN STRUCT ENVIRON.
Prerequisite: ENGR 3150.
Environmental factors affecting animal and plant production; heat and vapor flow in buildings; design of ventilation systems.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4630. Engineering Design of Residential Structures. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENG DES RES STRUCT.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2110 and ENGR 2140 and ENGR 2150 and ENGR 2170 and ENGR 3150.
Design of foundations, structural members; heating and cooling systems; water supply and distribution; waste removal; electrical systems; and lighting. Selection of thermal insulation, vapor barriers, windows and doors, and HVAC equipment determined by engineering principles.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 4740/6740. Biomaterials. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BIOMATERIALS.
Undergraduate prerequisite: BIOL 1108-1108L and ENGR 2140.
Biomaterials and groundwork for topics such as mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties of replacement materials and tissues. Implantation of materials in the body is studied for the biological point of view.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.

ENGR 4760/6760. Biomechanics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BIOMECHANICS.
Undergraduate prerequisite: BIOL 1108-1108L and ENGR 2130 and ENGR 2140.
The application of engineering principles to body dynamics is discussed. The student should understand the mechanics of the musculoskeletal system. A term design project is required.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.

ENGR 4920. Engineering Design Project. 4 hours. 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGINEERING PROJECT.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2920 and permission of department.
Engineering design experience including completion of a design project under the supervision of a project director.
Non-traditional format: Students will meet with a faculty review panel every two weeks. The faculty will evaluate progress and feasibility of the work.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 4940. Introductory Systems Modeling. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO SYSTEMS MODEL.
Prerequisite: ENGR 1140 and ENGR 2110 and MATH 2700.
Computer modeling of biological and agricultural processes and the solution of engineering/management problems in agro-industrial systems through computer simulation. Four methodologies will be presented: statistical data fitting, system dynamics, bond graph, and discrete event modeling.
Offered every year.

ENGR 4980. Special Topics in Engineering. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SPEC TOPICS IN ENGR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Special problems in engineering design, analysis, or synthesis.
Not offered on a regular basis.

ENGR 5930/7930. GPS with Engineering and GIS Applications. 2 hours. 1 hour lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: GPS ENGR & GIS APP.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 1120 or GEOG 4370/6370-4370L/6370L.
The Global Positioning System, Differential GPS, and Real Time Kinematic GPS. Applications of GPS to engineering and geographic information systems.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 6110. Momentum and Heat Transport Processes. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HEAT TRANSPORT PROC.
Prerequisite: (ENGR 3140 and ENGR 3150 and MATH 2700) or permission of major.
Transport processes with an emphasis on fluid mechanics and heat transfer, transport of momentum and energy in continuous media, introduction to approximate solutions.
Offered every year.

ENGR 6130. Bioengineering Systems. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: BIOENGR SYSTEMS.
Prerequisite: (MATH 2700 and PHYS 1212-1212L) or permission of major.
Integrating physics, mathematics, engineering, and chemical and biological principles for analysis of plant and animal systems.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 6410. Open Channel Hydraulics and Sediment Transport. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: OPEN CHANNEL FLOW.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Fundamental mass, energy, and momentum transport relations in water flows open to the atmosphere. Channel design and measurement of flows in natural channel. Sediment transport relations are introduced.
Not offered on a regular basis.

ENGR 6580. Directed Readings in Bioconversion Engineering. 3 hours. 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: BIOCONVERSION ENGR.
Prerequisite: (CHEM 2100 and CHEM 2100L and MIBO 3500 and MATH 2700 and ENGR 3140) or permission of major.
Quantitative description of aerobic, facultative, and anaerobic fungal/microbial modes for biotransformation of organic compounds in natural and controlled environments, with emphasis on mathematical representation of mechanisms involved and mechanisms manipulation.
Non-traditional format: Independent study. Students will work in the bioconversion lab for two hours per week and they will meet and lecture weekly on weekly topics.
Not offered on a regular basis.

ENGR 6640. Advanced Strength of Materials. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV STRENGTH MAT.
Not open to students with credit in ENGR 6630.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2140.
Advanced topics in strength of materials. Determining the stress and strain on members under non-linear loading.
Offered every even-numbered year.

ENGR 6910. Research Methods. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: RESEARCH METHODS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
The philosophy of engineering research, research methodology, review of the departmental research programs, and writing and presenting thesis and dissertation proposals and grant proposals.
Offered fall semester every year.

ENGR 6920. Engineering Design. 3 hours. 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGINEERING DESIGN.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Fundamentals of engineering design, problem selection, and application of design principles to a supervised project.
Non-traditional format: A detailed design project will be required. Students will conduct hands-on activities for experimenting and the fabrication of design.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.

ENGR 7000. Master's Research. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 45 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MASTER'S RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a master's degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 7300. Master's Thesis. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MASTER'S THESIS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Thesis writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and thesis preparation.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 7430. Nonpoint Source Modeling. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: NPS MODELING.
Prerequisite: MATH 2200 and MATH 2200L and PHYS 1111-1111L and CHEM 1212 and CHEM 1212L.
Watershed systems, hydrologic processes and pollutant transport processes; structure and capabilities of current watershed computer models; "hands-on" use of some current watershed models; and written and oral reports on the model application to an example watershed.
Offered summer semester every odd-numbered year.

ENGR 8250. Advanced Control Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED CONTRL SYS.
Prerequisite: ENGR 4220/6220 or permission of major.
Advanced control techniques. Practical aspects of control design.
Not offered on a regular basis.

ENGR 8290. Advanced Instrumentation. 3 hours. 6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED INSTRUM.
Prerequisite: ENGR 4230/6230 or permission of major.
The use of sensors and advanced instrumentation in engineering research applications.
Not offered on a regular basis.

ENGR 8420. Theory of Drainage - Saturated Flow. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: THEORY OF DRAINAGE.
Prerequisite: (MATH 2700 and CRSS 4600/6600-4600L/6600L) or permission of department.
The theory of saturated water flow in porous media. Steady and unsteady flow will be considered. Applications to agricultural drainage and well hydraulics will be discussed.
Offered summer semester every even-numbered year.

ENGR 8550. Non-Destructive Characterization of Biological Materials. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: CHAR BIOL MAT.
Prerequisite: ENGR 6130.
Techniques for non-destructive characterization of biological materials or systems. Topics may vary from year to year.
Offered spring semester every year.
Offered every even-numbered year.

ENGR 8580. Compost Facility Engineering. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: COMPOST ENGINEERING.
Prerequisite: ENGR 6580 or permission of major.
Factors impacting the design and operation of large scale composting facilities.
Not offered on a regular basis.

ENGR 8930. System Simulation. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SYSTEM SIMULATION.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Solution of engineering/management problems in biological and agricultural systems through computer modeling and simulation of continuous-time and discrete-event systems. Deterministic and stochastic systems will be considered. Introduction to system stability and optimization concepts.
Offered spring semester every year.

(ENGR)CSCI 8940. Computational Intelligence. 4 hours.
Oasis Title: COMPUT INTELLIGENCE.
Prerequisite: CSCI(PHIL) 4550/6550 or permission of department.
Programs that solve complex problems in a particular domain, typically independent of knowledge used to direct the search for an optimal solution. Approaches include simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, neural networks.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 8950. Graduate Seminar. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit.
Oasis Title: GRAD SEMINAR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Presentations/discussions related to engineering research, teaching, design, and service presented by students, faculty, and industry leaders.
Offered spring semester every year.

ENGR 8980. Advanced Topics in Biological Engineering. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: ADV TOPICS BIO ENGR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Advanced directed readings in special topics in biological engineering in an area(s) of interest to the student.
Non-traditional format: Students will be required to study advanced topics on the area and provide written and oral summaries. Additionally, students will be given special assignments such as leading several discussion sessions and extended written and oral reports on the state-of-the-art knowledge of a topic.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 8990. Advanced Topics in Agricultural Engineering. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: ADV TOPICS AGR ENGR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Advanced directed readings in special topics in agricultural engineering in an area of interest to the student.
Non-traditional format: Students will be required to study advanced topics on the area and provide written and oral summaries. Additionally, students will be given special assignments such as leading several discussion sessions and extended written and oral reports on the state-of-the-art knowledge of a topic.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

ENGR 9000. Doctoral Research. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 45 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCTORAL RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

ENGR 9300. Doctoral Dissertation. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCT DISSERTATION.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.