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Music Theory (MUTH) |
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MUTH 521 - Analytical Techniques of Recent Music 3 Credit Hours
Materials and analysis of music in the diverse styles of recent music. Topics may include set and scale theories, serialism, timbral analysis, contour space, rhythmic developments, and algorithmic composition.
Recommended Background: 400 or passing grade on music theory diagnostic exam.
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MUTH 530 - Music Theory Pedagogy: Written Skills 3 Credit Hours
Review of materials and methods used in teaching the written music theory sequence. Includes review of textbooks and technology used in the classroom.
Recommended Background: 400 or passing grade on music theory diagnostic exam.
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MUTH 531 - Music Theory Pedagogy: Aural Skills 3 Credit Hours
Review of materials and methods used in teaching aural skills (music dictation and sight singing). Includes review of textbooks and technology used in the classroom.
Recommended Background: 400 or passing grade on music theory diagnostic exam.
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MUTH 551 - Special Topics in Music Theory 3 Credit Hours
Intensive study in a particular area of music theory, analysis, or pedagogy.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Recommended Background: 400 or passing grade on music theory diagnostic exam.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUTH 590 - Music Theory Practicum 1 Credit Hours
Supervised experience in the theory classroom including tutoring, test construction and grading, materials preparation. Weekly meetings with faculty.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
Recommended Background: Music Theory 400 or passing grade on music theory diagnostic exam.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUTH 593 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of director.
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MUTH 595 - Music Theory Projects 2 Credit Hours
Preparation and execution of final teaching project for Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to certificate program in music theory pedagogy.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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Music Voice (MUVC) |
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MUVC 410 - Song Literature I 2 Credit Hours
German songs.
Credit Restriction: Graduate credit not available for students in vocal performance.
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MUVC 420 - Song Literature II 2 Credit Hours
French, Italian, Russian, Scandinavian, Czechoslovakian, British, and American art songs.
Credit Restriction: Graduate credit not available for students in vocal performance.
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MUVC 510 - Vocal Literature Seminar 2 Credit Hours
Topics vary.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
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MUVC 520 - Performance Techniques for Singers 1 Credit Hours
Improvisation, movement, and basic techniques for dramatic vocal performance.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Comment(s): Restricted to students in a vocal concentration.
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MUVC 540 - Opera Production 1-3 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUVC 550 - Advanced Vocal Pedagogy I 2 Credit Hours
Study of vocal production, examination of different methods.
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MUVC 560 - Advanced Vocal Pedagogy II 2 Credit Hours
Study of teaching materials, observation of studio teaching, analysis of vocal problems in selected students, and supervised teaching.
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MUVC 565 - Special Projects in Vocal Pedagogy 3 Credit Hours
Course is available only for graduate students majoring in vocal pedagogy.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUVC 575 - Internship in Vocal Pedagogy I 1 Credit Hours
Opportunity for vocal pedagogy students to develop and improve applied teaching skills through a shared practicum experience in a seminar setting. Includes supervised instruction.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 2 hours.
Comment(s): Available only for graduate students majoring in vocal pedagogy.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUVC 580 - Choral Literature I 2 Credit Hours
A historical survey of the development of the major choral genre.
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MUVC 585 - Choral Literature II 2 Credit Hours
A survey by historical period of choral literature that is considered part of the standard choral repertoire.
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MUVC 590 - Advanced Choral Conducting 2 Credit Hours
Expansion and continued refinement of conducting technique. Score reading and preparation, rehearsal techniques, and interpretation of styles and performance practices.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 20 hours.
Comment(s): Only students pursuing two or more Master’s degrees in Music may apply more than 8 hours of MUVC 590 to degree requirements.
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MUVC 593 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated: Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
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MUVC 594 - Project in Choral Conducting Performance 1-3 Credit Hours
Public performance, critical document; recording project.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 36 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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Musicology (MUCO) |
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MUCO 410 - Special Topics in Musicology 3 Credit Hours
Topics vary, drawn from historical, cultural, analytical, or musicological issues related to a musical genre, style, repertory, composer, or other.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Recommended Background: 100-level musicology course.
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MUCO 411 - Music of Appalachia 3 Credit Hours
Explores the diverse, complex and frequently misunderstood music and culture of the Appalachian region. Topics include balladry, early fiddle and banjo styles, religious music, bluegrass, early country music, and Americana.
Cross-listed: (Same as American Studies 411.)
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MUCO 412 - Woman, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde 3 Credit Hours
Explores interdisciplinary 20th-century phenomena of performance and performativity with sexuality, feminisms, social constructions of gender, and identifications and presentations of the body. Consideration of ways in which performative expressions employ and encompass aspects of music, voice, and sound, drama, spoken word, film, visual arts, movement, and dance.
Cross-listed: (Same as Women’s Studies 412.)
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MUCO 413 - Music and the African Diaspora 3 Credit Hours
Introduces music and related cultural expressions of the African diaspora connecting Africa, the Americas (especially North America) and Europe. Introduces interdisciplinary social theories, evaluates critical debates, and explores several case studies of African and African American music and performance.
Cross-listed: (Same as Africana Studies 413.)
Comment(s): Students who have taken MUCO 310 cannot receive credit for MUCO 413.
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MUCO 414 - Music and Media 3 Credit Hours
Explores the role of music and sound as they intersect with visual and aural media. Topics may include gramophone and radio, film, television, computer technologies, and others. Focus on changing perceptions about music through new media from the perspectives of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, media studies, cinema studies, and allied disciplines.
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MUCO 460 - Music Aesthetics 3 Credit Hours
Nature of music and musical experience, sense perception and emotions, music, and the role of artist in society. Aesthetic viewpoint of individuals and historical eras through selected writings.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125
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MUCO 480 - Music in Christian Worship 3 Credit Hours
Hymnody, liturgies, and liturgical music.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125
Recommended Background: 100-level musicology course.
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MUCO 540 - Medieval and Renaissance Music 3 Credit Hours
Musical phenomena from c. 900 to c. 1600, selected from chant, troubadour song, early polyphony, madrigal, mass, and motet. Genres considered against historical, cultural, analytical, and literary frameworks, including words-music relationships, the role of music in devotion, sacred and secular interchanges, oral and written transmissions.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
Recommended Background: 400.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 550 - Music in the Baroque Period 3 Credit Hours
Aspects of western European art music, c. 1600 to c. 1750, from historical and cultural perspectives. Genre, national identities, the roles of voices and instruments, the emergence of tonality, issues of gender, and music’s role in social, religious and performance practices.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
Recommended Background: 400.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 580 - Music in the 20th-Century 3 Credit Hours
Composers, repertories, and issues in twentieth-century art music of western Europe and the United States. New roles for composers and performers, confluences of high and low art forms, influences of technology, and music’s place in the formation of national, political, and gendered identities.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
Recommended Background: 400.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 585 - Topics in Music of the Americas 3 Credit Hours
Historical or cultural study of a topic concerned with music and musical practice in the Americans. Topics vary.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
Recommended Background: 400.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 586 - Topics in Opera 3 Credit Hours
Topics vary within operatic repertory from the 17th -century to the present including music and drama; interdisciplinary, race, or gender studies; realism; nationalism; expressionism; minimalism.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
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MUCO 587 - Music, Ethnography and the South 3 Credit Hours
Introduces current research methods and theories on music ethnography by exploring several communities associated with traditional, religious, and popular musics in the southern United States. Teaches methodologies and theories of field-based music research and ethnographic writing. Provides a foundation for further work as music ethnographers and offers insight into the study of music from this unique research perspective.
(DE) Corequisite(s): MUSC 510.
Recommended Background: MUCO 400.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 590 - Introduction to Ethnomusicology 3 Credit Hours
Ethnomusicology as scholarly discipline. History, theories, and methodologies as applied to study of music in culture.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
Recommended Background: 400.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 593 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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MUCO 595 - Seminar in Ethnomusicology 3 Credit Hours
Exploration of a methodological, theoretical, or ethnographic topic in ethnomusicology. Topics vary.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
Recommended Background: 400.
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MUCO 596 - Seminar in Historical Musicology 3 Credit Hours
Topics vary; specific musical genre, composer, or phenomenon.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
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Nuclear Engineering (NE) |
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NE 401 - Radiological Engineering Laboratory 4 Credit Hours
Physics and electronics associated with radiation detection and measurement. Concepts covered include radiation interactions and signal formation in different detector types, radiation counting and spectroscopy, nuclear instrumentation, applications of radiation detection systems, and statistical methods of data analysis.
(RE) Corequisite(s): Electrical and Computer Engineering 301, Mathematics 241 or 247.
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NE 402 - Nuclear Engineering Laboratory 4 Credit Hours
Heat transfer experiments, instrumentation and controls, diffusion properties of neutrons, measurements of nuclear materials, nuclear reactor measurements.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 401.
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NE 404 - Nuclear Fuel Cycle 3 Credit Hours
Mining, milling, enrichment, fuel fabrication, in-core management, nuclear reactor theory, reprocessing, waste disposal, regulatory requirements, nuclear facilities, nuclear material accountancy and physical protection. Exercise on signatures and observables of nuclear materials processing.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 470.
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NE 406 - Radiation Shielding 3 Credit Hours
Types of radiation sources, fundamentals of gamma ray and neutron attenuation, biological effects, approximate methods of shield design, discrete ordinates, and Monte Carlo.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Physics 232.
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NE 421 - Introduction to Nuclear Criticality Safety 3 Credit Hours
Fundamentals of nuclear criticality safety. Criticality accidents and safety standards. Overview of experiments, computational methods, and applications.
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NE 427 - Honors: Nuclear Engineering Laboratory 4 Credit Hours
Students will attend 402 classes with supplementary laboratory assignments.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 433 - Principles of Health Physics 3 Credit Hours
Radiation quantities, limits and risk assessment, external and internal dosimetry, biological effects of radiation, radiation detection, radiation interactions and decay, applications. Graduate students taking the course will perform advanced calculations related to radiation protection and dosimetry in addition to the material described above.
Credit Restriction: Students who have received credit for 233 may not receive credit for 433.
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NE 440 - Introduction to Nuclear Fuels and Materials 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to nuclear fuels and materials in light water reactors, with a focus on the effect of irradiation on properties and performance.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): Mechanical Engineering 331.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Materials Science and Engineering 201 and Mechanical Engineering 321.
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NE 441 - Corrosion in Nuclear Power Systems 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to materials degradation due to aqueous corrosion of the materials in nuclear power plants.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): Mechanical Engineering 331 and Materials Science and Engineering 201.
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NE 460 - Introduction to Fusion Technology 3 Credit Hours
An overview of the technologies associated with proposed fusion energy systems.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 200 and Physics 231.
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NE 470 - Nuclear Reactor Theory 3 Credit Hours
Fundamentals of reactor physics relative to cross sections kinematics of elastic scattering, reactor kinetics, reactor systems, and nuclear data. Analytical and numerical methods applicable to general criticality problems, eigenvalue searches, perturbation theory, and the multigroup diffusion equations.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 362 or consent of instructor.
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NE 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Industrial Engineering 483).
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NE 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Industrial Engineering 484).
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NE 490 - Radiation Biology 3 Credit Hours
Interactions of ionizing radiation with living cells and its effects on human health.
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NE 494 - Special Topics in Nuclear Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Problems related to recent developments and practice.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level ― senior or graduate standing.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 500 - Thesis 1-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities 1-15 Credit Hours
Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 511 - Transport Processes in Nuclear Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Rheology of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; integral and system conservation equations for single and multi-component fluids; in-depth development of differential conservation equations for mass, energy, and momentum; exact and approximate solutions of equations of motion; boundary layer analysis; numerical analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer.
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NE 521 - Nuclear Reactor Dynamics, Instrumentation, and Controls 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to state variable methods for system dynamics and control analysis and application of these methods to nuclear plant dynamics, simulation and control problems.
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NE 522 - Experimental Methods in Reactor Dynamics 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to time domain and frequency domain techniques. Measurement, analysis, and interpretation of process signals for reactor surveillance and diagnostics. Introduction to time-series modeling.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 521.
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NE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 529.)
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NE 530 - Nuclear Security Science and Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Understanding nuclear threats and the evolution of nuclear threats to present day. Issues and strategies in detecting nuclear threats. Issues and approaches for nuclear security concerns, both state-level (e.g., nonproliferation and deterrence) and asymmetric concerns (e.g., nuclear smuggling and nuclear terrorism). Exercises in applied nuclear security scenarios.
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NE 531 - Global Nuclear Security Culture 3 Credit Hours
Principles and best practices in nuclear security, nuclear safety, and nuclear materials safeguards (“3S”) culture with an emphasis on developing and expanding nuclear power-producing states. Introduction to relevant international conventions and agreements such as the Nonproliferation Treaty, the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the key milestones for nations seeking to develop a peaceful nuclear power program.
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NE 532 - Advanced Topics in Nuclear Security Science and Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Advanced topics in radiation measurement science, nondestructive assay techniques, and nuclear material safeguards. Exercise on analysis of nuclear security data.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 401.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 533 - Physical Security for High-Consequence Facilities 3 Credit Hours
Design criteria and performance basis that make up a physical security program for high-consequence and critical environments. Introduction to security design and engineering technology forming the basis behind detection, delay, and response elements of security systems. Elements of risk, system evaluation, site and security surveys, and the legal basis for protection. Evaluative methodologies common to academia and industry will be applied.
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NE 534 - Physical Security Vulnerability Assessment 3 Credit Hours
Evaluation of threat basis, facility characterization, and asset determination. Students will engage in field surveys, perform interviews, and gather open-source information which provides the background information necessary to evaluate system effectiveness from a quantitative perspective. Evaluative and analytical approaches necessary to perform physical security vulnerability assessments and development of models designed to predict effectiveness of systems.
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NE 535 - Radio and Nuclear Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Chemistry 580.)
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NE 536 - Export Control and Nonproliferation 3 Credit Hours
Principles and regulatory frameworks for controlling sensitive nuclear technology. US and European export control regulations and governance, international export control and nonproliferation considerations for nuclear technology trade in the global context. Best practices resources such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Supplier Group, and other organizations. Case studies in export control violations relevant to nuclear proliferation.
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NE 537 - Human Reliability in Nuclear Systems 3 Credit Hours
Methodology for understanding, assessing and managing human reliability factors in nuclear systems. Issues in human reliability and human sources of error in nuclear systems performance. Indicators and issues in identifying and minimizing the impact of human actions (accidental - by action or inaction or deliberate) adverse to successful operation in nuclear systems, protection of information and nuclear materials.
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NE 540 - Fundamentals of Irradiation Effects in Nuclear Materials 3 Credit Hours
Detailed analysis of the atomistic mechanisms controlling radiation damage and effects on materials in nuclear environments.
Cross-listed: (Same as Materials Science and Engineering 573.)
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NE 542 - Management of Radioactive Materials 3 Credit Hours
Technology for processing, treatment, handling and storage of radioactive nuclides. Analytical and numerical methods for evaluating environmental impact of radioactive materials. Licensing and regulation issues.
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NE 543 - Selected Topics in Nuclear Criticality Safety 3 Credit Hours
Criticality safety computational and experimental methods for enrichment, fabrication, storage, reprocessing, and transport applications; overview of safety practices and regulatory requirements.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 421 or consent of instructor.
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NE 544 - Ion Beam Analysis of Materials 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Materials Science and Engineering 571.)
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NE 550 - Radiation Measurements Laboratory 4 Credit Hours
Physics and electronics associated with radiation detection and measurement. Concepts covered include radiation interactions and signal formation in different detector types, radiation counting and spectroscopy, nuclear instrumentation, applications of radiation detection systems, and statistical methods of data analysis.
Cross-listed: (Same as Chemistry 581.)
Credit Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for both 401 and 550.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 551 - Radiation Protection 3 Credit Hours
Fundamental concepts and definitions used in radiation protection. Interactions of photons, neutrons and heavy charged particles with matter and mechanisms of energy loss. Chemical and biological effects of radiation. Introduction to current radiation protection standards and regulations.
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NE 552 - Radiological Assessment and Dosimetry 3 Credit Hours
Transport of radionuclides in environment, food chain pathways, internal dosimetry and personnel dosimetry.
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NE 563 - Plasma Physics and Plasma Materials Interactions 3 Credit Hours
Begins with an introduction to plasma physics and plasma materials interactions as it pertains to the operation of a magnetically confined fusion device.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 460.
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NE 567 - Medical Physics I 3 Credit Hours
Ionizing radiation use in radiation therapy to cause controlled biological effects in cancer patients. Physics of interaction of various radiation modalities with body equivalent materials and physical aspects of clinical applications.
Contact Hour Distribution: Lecture and lab.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 568 - Medical Physics II 3 Credit Hours
Physics of ionizing radiation therapy with emphasis on quality assurance, treatment planning, radiation protection, and special treatment procedures.
Contact Hour Distribution: Lecture and lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 567.
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NE 570 - Nuclear System Design I 1 Credit Hours
Design and analysis of a nuclear system. The groundwork will be laid for an actual nuclear engineering design project, including feasibility and cost analysis. Will be taught in conjunction with 471 but with additional requirements for graduate students.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 470.
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NE 571 - Reactor Theory and Design 3 Credit Hours
Analytical and numerical techniques for neutronics modeling of nuclear systems. Forward and adjoint Boltzmann transport equation. Multigroup diffusion theory. Core analysis methods and codes.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 470 or consent of instructor.
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NE 572 - Nuclear System Design II 3 Credit Hours
Design and analysis of a nuclear system, interface with non-nuclear aspects of system design: system reliability and economics; class project.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 570.
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NE 575 - Equipment and Systems Prognostics 3 Credit Hours
The three types of prognostic techniques will be introduced with theoretical foundations, assumptions, and data requirements: Conventional reliability-based using failure times (e.g. Weibull analysis), Population based with environmental considerations (e.g. proportional hazards modeling), Individual based (e.g. general path model).
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 579 or consent of instructor.
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NE 577 - Neural and Fuzzy Approaches in Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Neural network and fuzzy logic technology for use in intelligent systems; neural network architectures and optimization, fuzzy approaches and neuro-fuzzy hybrid models.
Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 577; Biomedical Engineering 577.)
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 579 - Empirical Models for Monitoring and Diagnostics 3 Credit Hours
Development and application of advanced statistical and artificial intelligence based techniques for process and equipment monitoring and diagnostics. Linear, non-linear, parametric, and non-parametric techniques including ridge regression, principal component analysis, kernel regression. Data preprocessing, model optimization, and uncertainty analysis will be taught.
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NE 582 - Monte Carlo Analysis 3 Credit Hours
General overview of the Monte Carlo Method for solving problems in physics and engineering. Random sampling, evaluation of integrals, analog particle transport, techniques of variance reduction, forward and adjoint modes of analysis, importance function biasing, splitting/weight window survival biasing and contribution theory. Particular emphasis on solving neutral particle radiation transport problems using the MCNP code system.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 583 - Radiation Transport Methods 3 Credit Hours
Application of analytic/deterministic solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation to problems in neutral particle transport. Special emphasis is placed on application of the discrete ordinates method (in forward and adjoint) to deep penetration shielding analysis.
Comment(s): Prior knowledge may satisfy prerequisites, with consent of instructor.
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NE 585 - Process System Reliability and Safety 3 Credit Hours
Qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessing and improving process systems reliability and safety. Probabilistic risk assessment, event tree analysis, fault tree analysis, statistical inference, and associated dependent failure analysis.
Cross-listed: (Same as Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 585 and Industrial Engineering 585.)
(DE) Prerequisite(s): Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 483, Industrial Engineering 483, Mechanical Engineering
483, or Nuclear Engineering 483.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 588 - Particle Accelerators: Technology and Applications 3 Credit Hours
A study of particle accelerators used for research in nuclear, radiological, and materials science and engineering, including linacs, tandems, cyclotrons, synchrotrons, light sources, and neutron facilities. General principles of experiment design at accelerator facilities.
Cross-listed: (Same as Materials Science and Engineering 570.)
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NE 597 - Special Topics in Nuclear Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Lectures and recitation on recent advances in nuclear engineering.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 598 - Nuclear Engineering Practice 3-9 Credit Hours
Experience in solving and reporting on engineering problems.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Comment(s): Enrollment limited to alternative plan students.
Registration Permission: Consent of department.
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NE 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation 3-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate, major in nuclear engineering.
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NE 611 - Selected Topics in Reactor Theory 3 Credit Hours
Transport theory, control rod theory, stochastic methods. Selected topics from literature.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 572.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 615 - Transport Processes in Nuclear Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Rheology of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; integral and system conservation equations for single and multi-component fluids; in-depth development of differential conservation equations for mass, energy, and momentum; exact and approximate solutions of equations of motion; boundary layer analysis; numerical analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 621 - Selected Topics in Radiation Protection 3 Credit Hours
Investigation of new developments.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 551 and 552.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 635 - Nuclear Forensics 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to nuclear forensics. Principles of isotopic signatures and their origins, ultra-trace radiochemical separations, and isotope measurements via nuclear counting and mass spectrometry. Forensic assessment methods for nuclear materials and post-detonation debris analysis. Applications of nuclear forensics in interdicted materials and crisis response scenarios.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 640 - Nuclear Cross Section Modeling 3 Credit Hours
Nuclear scattering theory and database development applied to neutral and charged particle transport. Methods of calculating total, elastic, inelastic and fragmentation (breakup) cross sections using a variety of nonrelativistic quantum mechanical techniques including partial wave analysis and multiple scattering theory will be presented.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 641 - Charged Particle Transport Methods 3 Credit Hours
Transport theory applied to radiation fields consisting of heavy charged particles or electrons. Solution methods utilizing analytical approximations, perturbation theory, the methods of characteristics, and Monte Carlo techniques will be investigated.
Comment(s): Prior knowledge may satisfy prerequisite, with consent of instructor.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 653 - Theory of Information Processing 3 Credit Hours
Modern system theoretical methods for evaluating system performance from dynamic measurements. Univariate and multivariate stochastic modeling, Kalman filtering, short-term Fourier transform (STFT), wavelet and Hilbert-Huang transforms, and statistical decision making.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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NE 660 - Defect Physics in Materials Exposed to Extreme Environments 3 Credit Hours
Provides detailed fundamental instruction about defect physics phenomena in materials that are important for fission and fusion energy systems.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 540.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 661 - Gas Dynamics in Nuclear Materials 3 Credit Hours
Will provide detailed fundamental instruction about the behavior of noble gases, and corresponding property degradation caused by gas bubble formation, in materials that are important for fission and fusion energy systems.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 540.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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NE 662 - Advanced Characterization Methods Applied to Nuclear Materials 3 Credit Hours
Will provide detailed fundamental instruction about the experimental characterization of defects and nano-scale second phases in nuclear materials that control materials performance in fission and fusion energy systems.
Cross-listed: (Same as Materials Science and Engineering 662).
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 540 or Materials Science and Engineering 573.
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