THE HENRY
SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
GRADUATE STUDY
Graduate Student
Affairs Office
101 Engineering and Computing Trailer; (949) 824-4334
John
LaRue, Associate Dean
ADMISSIONS
For information on requirements for admission to graduate study at UCI, contact the appropriate Engineering department or the Graduate Student Affairs Office in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Additional information is available in the Catalogue's Office of Graduate Studies section. Admission to graduate standing in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering is generally accorded to those possessing a B.S. degree in engineering or an allied field obtained with an acceptable level of scholarship from an institution of recognized standing. Those seeking admission without the prerequisite scholarship record may, in some cases, undertake remedial work; if completed at the stipulated academic level, they will be considered for admission. Those admitted from an allied field may be required to take supplementary upper-division courses in basic engineering subjects. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test is required of all applicants.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Teaching assistantships and fellowships are available to qualified applicants (who should contact the Department to which they are applying for information). Research assistantships are available through individual faculty members. Although not required, it is beneficial for applicants to contact the faculty member directly to establish the potential for research support. Early applications have a strong chance for financial support.
PART-TIME STUDY
Those students who are employed may pursue the M.S. degree on a part-time basis, carrying fewer units per quarter. Since University residency requirements necessitate the successful completion of a minimum number of units in graduate or upper-division work in each of at least three regular University quarters, part-time students should seek the advice of a counselor in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering Graduate Student Affairs Office and the approval of the Graduate Advisor in their program. M.S. programs must be completed in four calendar years from the date of admission. Students taking courses in University Extension prior to enrollment in a graduate program should consult the following section on Transfer of Courses.
TRANSFER AND SUBSTITUTION OF COURSES
Upon petition, a limited number of upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level courses taken through University Extension, at another UC campus, or in another accredited university may be credited toward the M.S. degree after admission. The applicability of transfer or substitution courses must be approved by the student's department and the Graduate Dean of the University, in accordance with Academic Senate regulations. Also in accordance with UC Academic Senate policy, transfer credit for the M.S. degree cannot be used to reduce the minimum requirement in strictly graduate (200 series) courses.
Graduate Programs
Specific information about program requirements can be found in the department sections.
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical and
Computer Engineering (Concentration in Computer Graphics and Visualization, Concentration
in Computer Networks and Distributed Computing, Concentration in Computer Systems
and Software, Concentration in Electrical Engineering)
Information about the following programs can be found below.
Engineering (Concentration
in Environmental Engineering, Concentration in Materials and Manufacturing Technology,
Materials Science and Engineering)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The M.S. and Ph.D. degree program in Networked Systems is supervised by an interdepartmental faculty group. Information is available in the Interdisciplinary Studies section of the Catalogue.
Graduate Concentration in Environmental Engineering
101 Engineering
and Computing Trailer; (949) 824-4334
William J. Cooper, Director and Graduate
Advisor
Faculty
Rafael L. Bras: Hydrology, eco-hydrology, hydroclimatology, hydro-meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, fluvial geomorphology, land surface evolution, remote sensing
William J. Cooper: Environmental chemistry, advanced oxidation processes for water treatment, aquatic photochemistry of carbon cycling
Donald Dabdub: Mathematical modeling of urban and global air pollution dynamics of atmospheric aerosols, secondary organic aerosols, impact of energy generation on air quality, chemical reactions at gas liquid interfaces
Nancy A. Da Silva: Bioremediation, genetic engineering
Russell L. Detwiler: Groundwater hydrology, contaminant fate and transport, subsurface process modeling, groundwater/surface-water interaction
Derek Dunn-Rankin: Combustion optical particle sizing, particle aero-dynamics, laser diagnostics and spectroscopy
Carl A. Friehe (Emeritus): Boundary-layer meteorology, atmospheric turbulence, air-sea energy exchange
Stanley B. Grant: Marine and fresh water quality, biocolloid stability and transport, molecular biotechnology
Chenyang (Sunny) Jiang: Water pollution microbiology and environmental biotechnology
Henry C. Lim: Bioreactor control optimization, genetic engineering, bioremediation
Betty H. Olson: Aquatic microbiology, environmental health and molecular biology, water resources
Diego Rosso: Environmental process engineering, mass transfer, wastewater treatment, carbon- and energy-footprint analysis
Scott Samuelsen: Energy, fuel cells, hydrogen economy, propulsion, combustion and environmental conflict; turbulent transport in complex flows, spray physics, NOx and soot formation, laser diagnostics and experimental methods; application of engineering science to practical propulsion and stationary systems; environmental ethics
Brett F. Sanders: Environmental and computational fluid dynamics, water resources engineering
Jean-Daniel M. Saphores: Environmental and natural resource economics and policy, transportation economics, planning and policy, quantitative methods
Jan Scherfig: Biological treatment, water reclamation and reuse, waste treatment
William A. Sirignano: Combustion, theory and computational methods, multiphase flows, high-speed turbulent reacting flows, flame spread, microgravity combustion, miniature combustors, fluid dynamics, applied mathematics
Soroosh Sorooshian: Hydrology, hydrometeorology and hydroclimate modeling, remote sensing, water sources management
Jun Wu: Air pollution exposure assessment and epidemiology
Environmental Engineering addresses the development of strategies to control anthropogenic emissions of pollutants to the atmosphere, waterways, and terrestrial environment; the remediation of polluted natural systems; the design of technologies to treat waste; fire safety; noise suppression; energy efficiency; and the evaluation of contaminant fate in urban environments. Environmental engineering issues are now an important component in the development of many engineering technologies and consequently are an important aspect of an engineering education. The discipline itself is interdisciplinary and requires a curriculum that provides students with an understanding of fundamentals in air- and water-quality sciences, contaminant fate and transport, and design concepts for pollutant emission control and treatment. To avoid the development of environmental engineering solutions which only transform one form of pollution to another, modern engineering education programs must require exposure and familiarity with a greater number of subjects than ever before.
Environmental engineers with an interdisciplinary background are particularly sought to address the complex infrastructure needs of today's society, where they must be able to communicate with teams of scientists and engineers from different disciplines. Environmental engineering graduates who meet this description can expect to remain in strong demand in the private and public employment sectors, and their range of career opportunities is highly diverse. Examples of career fields and activities include the development of new technologies to genetically engineer microorganisms for waste treatment, design of combustion and control processes that minimize pollutant emissions and maximize energy efficiency, resolution of complex pollutant transport processes in naturally heterogeneous systems, development of new physical-chemical treatment approaches, and characterization of pollutant transformation mechanisms in natural systems.
Curricular and research subjects of interest in Environmental Engineering include environmental air and water chemistry, environmental microbiology, combustion technologies, aerosol science, transport phenomena, reactor theory, unit operations and systems design, mathematical modeling, energy systems, soil physics, fluid mechanics, hydrology, and meteorology. Interdisciplinary research endeavors commonly bridge many of these different subjects and a current focus is maintained on new and emerging technologies. Curriculum objectives have also been set to maintain a balance between the depth and breadth of program scope for each student.
Students may pursue either the M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Engineering.
Required Background
The interdisciplinary nature of the program allows students with a variety of backgrounds to undertake studies in this field. Students with a background in engineering—particularly chemical, civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering—as well as scientists from biology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics, are encouraged to participate.
Students admitted to the program are expected to have had rigorous undergraduate exposure to a number of relevant subject areas including air quality, environmental chemistry, fluid mechanics, microbial processes, and reactor theory and design. The degree to which each student meets the program's background requirement is determined by participating faculty at the time of admission. Students with an insufficient background who are offered admission will be required to take a set of appropriate prerequisite courses. Prerequisite work typically involves at least two and frequently as many as five or six upper-division, undergraduate courses each of which must be completed with a final grade of B or better. Occasionally, lower-division work in chemistry, mathematics, or physics is required. The student's specific prerequisite course work requirement, if any, is stated the letter of admission.
The background requirement establishes a common foundation for graduate study in the program. Not all students are required to take prerequisite course work; those who are may do so following matriculation in the graduate program. In addition, M.S. students may use a limited amount of upper-division course work taken to meet the background requirement in partial fulfillment of graduate degree requirements.
Although this list is not exhaustive, commonly required prerequisite courses within each of the required background areas are as follows:
Air Quality: Engineering MAE110, MAE162, or MAE164.
Environmental Chemistry: CEE162 or Earth System Science 102.
Environmental Microbiology: CBEMS112 or CBEMS116/216.
Fluid Mechanics: CEE170, CBEMS120A, or MAE130A.
Reactor Theory and Design: CBEMS110.
Core Requirement
Students must complete an advanced mathematics course, either CBEMS230 (Applied Engineering Mathematics I), CEE283 (Mathematical Methods in Engineering Analysis), or MAE200B (Engineering Analysis II).
Areas of Emphasis
Each student selects a primary area of emphasis within Environmental Engineering: Water Quality, Water Resources, or Air Quality and Combustion. To achieve the interdisciplinary objectives of the program, students are required to take at least two electives outside their primary area, one each in two different areas. These outside electives may also be taken from approved courses in other academic units, including the Schools of Social Ecology, Physical Sciences, and Medicine. Electives within each of the emphasis areas in Engineering are listed below.
Water Quality: CBEMS210 (Reaction Engineering), CBEMS214 (Bioremediation), CBEMS216 (Field Practicum), CBEMS218 (Bioengineering with Recombinant Organisms), CBEMS220 (Transport Phenomena), CBEMS234 (Bioreactor Engineering), CEE263 (Advanced Biological Treatment Processes), CEE265 (Advanced Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes), Earth System Science 262 (Global Biogeochemical Cycles).
Water Resources: CEE271 (Flow in Unsaturated Media), CEE272 (Stochastic Geohydrology), CEE274A (Transport Phenomena in Saturated Porous Media), CEE274B (Transport Phenomena in Unsaturated Porous Media and Fractures), CEE275 (Coastal Engineering), CEE276 (Surface Water Hydrology), CEE277 (Transport in Rivers and Estuaries), CEE278 (Flow in Rivers and Estuaries), CEE279A (Computations in Environmental Hydrologies), Earth System Science 203 (Earth System Change).
Air Quality and Combustion: MAE210 (Advanced Fundamentals of Combustion), MAE215 (Advanced Combustion Technology), MAE230A (Advanced Incompressible Fluid Dynamics I), MAE231 (Fundamentals of Turbulence), MAE232 (Atmospheric Turbulence), MAE233 (Turbulent Free Shear Flows), MAE260 (Issues Related to Atmospheric Processes), MAE261 (Air Pollution Modeling), MAE264 (Combustion Particulates and Aerosols), Earth System Science 220 (Earth System Climatology).
MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE
Two options are available for M.S. degree students: a thesis option and a comprehensive examination option. Both options require the completion of 36 units of study. Study plans for both options must also include two graduate courses from outside the student's primary area of emphasis.
Plan I. Thesis Option
A thesis option is available to students who prefer to conduct a focused research project. Students selecting this option must complete an original research investigation and a thesis, and obtain approval of the thesis by a thesis committee. Of the 36 required units, at least 20 must be graduate courses (numbered 200-289), including either CBEMS230, MAE200B, or CEE283. A maximum of eight M.S. research units and up to eight units of upper-division undergraduate elective courses may be applied to the degree with the prior approval of a faculty advisor.
Plan II. Comprehensive Examination Option
Alternatively, students may select a comprehensive examination option in which they must successfully complete 36 units of study and pass a comprehensive examination. At least 24 units must be graduate courses (numbered 200-289), including either CBEMS230, MAE200B, or CEE283. Up to 12 units may be taken as upper-division undergraduate elective courses.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
The Ph.D. concentration in Environmental Engineering requires the achievement of original and significant research that advances the discipline. Doctoral students are selected on the basis of an outstanding record of scholarship and potential for research excellence.
The doctoral study program is tailored to the individual student in consultation with a faculty advisory committee. There are no specific course requirements, however, additional mathematics courses beyond those required for an M.S. degree may be required. Within this flexible framework, the School maintains specific guidelines that outline the milestones of a typical doctoral program. All doctoral students should consult the Environmental Engineering program guidelines for details, but there are several milestones to be passed: admission to the Ph.D. program by the faculty, passage within the first year of a preliminary examination, formal advancement to candidacy by passing a qualifying examination in the third year (or second year for students who entered with a master's degree), completion of a significant research investigation, and the submission and oral defense of an acceptable dissertation.
Committees for preliminary and Ph.D. qualifying examinations and the doctoral committee must have at least one Environmental Engineering faculty member from outside the student's area of emphasis. The student's dissertation topic must be approved by the student's doctoral committee. The degree is granted upon the recommendation of the doctoral committee and the Dean of Graduate Studies. The normative time for completion of the Ph.D. is five years (four years for students who entered with a master's degree). The maximum time permitted is seven years.
M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering with a Concentration in Materials and Manufacturing Technology
101 Engineering
and Computing Trailer; (949) 824-4334
Chin C. Lee, Director and Graduate Advisor
Faculty
Mark Bachman (Adjunct): Microfabrication technology, integrated microsystems, sensors, biomedical microdevices
Ozdal Boyraz: Silicon photonics, nonlinear optics in silicon, cascaded cavity silicon Raman lasers
Peter J. Burke: Quantum electronics, high-speed semiconductor technology
Zhongping Chen: Optical sensor and imaging, MEMS and biophotonic system, and biomedical devices
James C. Earthman: Fatigue behavior and cyclic damage, automated materials testing, high-temperature fracture, biomaterials, cellular networks
Franco De Flaviis: Microwave materials and devices, MEMS devices and fabrication processes
Noo Li Jeon: Biomaterials
John C. LaRue: Fluid mechanics, micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS), turbulence, heat transfer, instrumentation
Abraham Lee: Micro and nanofluidic chips, droplet-based reactors for bioassays and materials synthesis, cell and biomolecular based sensors, nanoparticles and vesicles for drug delivery and targeted therapeutics
Chin C. Lee: Electronic packaging, thermal management, semiconductor devices, and microwaves
Henry P. Lee: Optoelectronic materials, growth, and devices
Guann Pyng Li: Optoelectronic devices, integrated circuit fabrication and testing, high-speed semiconductor technology
Marc J. Madou: Fundamental aspects of micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), biosensors, nanofluidics, biomimetics
Martha L. Mecartney: Electron microscopy, ceramics, interfacial engineering
Farghalli A. Mohamed: Mechanical properties, creep, superplasticity, correlations between property and microstructure
Daniel R. Mumm: Thermo-mechanical behavior of materials, interfaces and microstructure, materials for power and propulsion, cellular materials, morphing structures, micro/nano-mechanics
Richard Nelson (Adjunct): Applications: MEMS, nanosystems; materials: structural, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of materials for the construction of new devices and integrated systems
Regina Ragan: Self-assembly, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, chemical and biological sensors, organic/inorganic interfaces and nanofabrication
Andrew A. Shapiro (Adjunct): Electronic properties of materials; electronic packaging materials, processes, and characterization
Andrei M. Shkel: Design and advanced control of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), precision micro-sensors and actuators for tele-communication and information technologies, MEMS-based health monitoring systems, disposable, diagnostics devices, prosthetic implants
Frank G. Shi: Optoelectronics packaging, packaging materials, photonic glass and nanocomposites
Lizhi Sun: Micromechanics and nanomechanics, dislocation dynamics, composites and thin films, multiscale modeling, elastography
Chen S. Tsai: Integrated optic devices, circuits, materials; acoustic microscopy with applications to materials, device characterization
Lorenzo Valdevit: Multifunctional sandwich structures, thermal protection systems, morphing structures, active materials, MEMS, electronic packaging, cell mechanics
Albert Yee: Nanofabrication of soft materials, physics of polymer thin films, nanomechanical properties of polymers, ultra-low-k dielectrics, fracture and toughening of polymer nanocomposites
Materials and Manufacturing Technology (MMT) is concerned with the generation and application of knowledge relating the composition, structure, and processing of materials to their properties and applications, as well as the manufacturing technologies needed for production. During the past two decades, MMT has become an important component of modern engineering education, partly because of the increased level of sophistication required of engineering materials in a rapidly changing technological society, and partly because the selection of materials has increasingly become an integral part of almost every modern engineering design. In fact, further improvements in design are now viewed more and more as primarily materials and manufacturing issues. Both the development of new materials and the understanding of present-day materials demand a thorough knowledge of basic engineering and scientific principles including, for example, crystal structure, mechanics, mechanical behavior, electronic, optical and magnetic properties, thermodynamics, phase equilibria, heat transfer, diffusion, and the physics and chemistry of solids and chemical reactions.
The field of MMT ranks high on the list of top careers for scientists and engineers. The services of these engineers and scientists are required in a variety of engineering operations dealing, for example, with design of semiconductors and optoelectronic devices, development of new technologies based on composites and high-temperature materials, biomedical products, performance (quality, reliability, safety, energy efficiency) in automobile and aircraft components, improvement in nondestructive testing techniques, corrosion behavior in refineries, radiation damage in nuclear power plants, fabrication of steels, and construction of highways and bridges.
Subjects of interest in Materials and Manufacturing Technology cover a wide spectrum, ranging from metals, optical and electronic materials to superconductive materials, ceramics, advanced composites, and biomaterials. In addition, the emerging new research and technological areas in materials are in many cases interdisciplinary. Accordingly, the principal objective of the graduate curriculum is to integrate a student's area of emphasis—whether it be chemical processing and production, electronic and photonic materials and devices, electronic manufacturing and packaging, or materials engineering—into the whole of materials and manufacturing technology. Such integration will increase familiarity with other disciplines and provide students with the breadth they need to face the challenges of current and future technology.
Students with a bachelor's degree may pursue either the M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Manufacturing Technology (MMT). If students choose to enter the Ph.D. program, directly, it is a requirement that they earn an M.S. degree along the way toward the completion of their Ph.D. degree.
Recommended Background
Given the nature of Materials and Manufacturing Technology as an interdisciplinary program, students having a background and suitable training in either Materials, Engineering (Biomedical, Civil, Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical), or the Physical Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Geology) are encouraged to participate. Recommended background courses include an introduction to materials, thermodynamics, mechanical properties, and electrical/optical/magnetic properties. A student with an insufficient background may be required to take remedial undergraduate courses following matriculation as a graduate student.
Core Requirement
Because of the interdepartmental nature of the concentration, it is important to establish a common foundation in Materials and Manufacturing Technology (MMT) for students from various backgrounds. This foundation is sufficiently covered in MMT courses that are listed below and that deal with the following topics: MSE205 (Materials Physics); CEE242 (Advanced Strength of Materials); MAE252 (Fundamentals of Microfabrication); MAE247/EECS278 (Micro-Systems Design).
Electives
These electives are grouped into four areas of emphasis.
Chemical Processing and Production: Chemistry 213 (Chemical Kinetics), CBEMS210 (Reaction Engineering), CBEMS220 (Transport Phenomena), CBEMS230 (Applied Engineering Mathematics I), CBEMS240 (Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics), MSE210 (Materials Characterization Techniques and Analysis).
Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices: BME210 (Cell and Tissue Engineering), EECS174 (Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices), EECS188 (Optical Electronics), EECS274 (Biomedical Microdevices), EECS276 (Solid-State Electronics), EECS277A-B (Advanced Semiconductor Devices I, II), EECS277C (Nanotechnology), EECS285A (Optical Communications), EECS285B (Lasers and Photonics), EECS280A-B (Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics I, II), MSE272 (Microelectronic and Photonic Materials and Technology.
Electronic Manufacturing and Packaging: EECS273 (Electronics Packaging), CBEMS280 (Optoelectronics Packaging), EECS279/MAE249 (Micro-Sensors and Actuators), EECS285A (Optical Communications), EECS285B (Lasers and Photonics), EECS285C (Integrated and Fiber Optics), MSE272 (Microelectronic and Photonic Materials and Technology), MAE253 (BIOMEMS).
Materials Engineering: Chemistry 225 (Polymer Chemistry: Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers), Chemistry 226 (Polymer Materials: Polymer Structure-Property Relationship), Physics 238A-B-C (Condensed Matter Physics), MSE210 (Materials Characterization Techniques and Analysis), MSE251 (Dislocation Theory), MSE252 (Theory of Diffusion), MSE254 (Polymer Science and Engineering), MSE255A (Design with Ceramic Materials), MSE255B (Science of Composite Materials), MSE256A (Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials), MSE256B (Fracture of Engineering Materials), MSE266 (Science of Nanoscale Materials and Devices), MSE268 (Principles of Coatings, Thin Films, and Multi-layers), MSE259 (Transmission of Electron Microscopy), MSE263 (Computer Techniques in Experimental Materials Research).
It should be noted that specific course requirements within the area of emphasis are decided based on consultation with the Director of the MMT concentration.
MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE
A minimum of 36 units is required for the M.S. degree. Two options are available, a thesis option and a comprehensive examination option. For the thesis option, students are required to complete an original research project and write an M.S. thesis. A committee of three full-time faculty members is appointed to guide the development of the thesis. Students must also obtain approval for a complete program of study from the program director. At least 21 units must be taken from courses numbered 200-289, among which at least 12 units are from MMT core courses and at least nine units are in the area of emphasis approved by the faculty advisor and the graduate advisor. Up to eight units of CBEMS296, EECS296, MAE 296, BME 296, or CEE296 and up to eight units of upper-division undergraduate elective courses taken as a graduate student at UCI can be applied toward the 36-unit requirement. For the comprehensive examination option, students are required to complete 36 units of study. At least 24 units must be taken from courses numbered 200-289, among which at least 12 units are from MMT core courses and at least 12 units are in the area of emphasis approved by the faculty advisor and the graduate advisor. Up to eight units of upper-division undergraduate elective courses taken as a graduate student at UCI can be applied toward the 36-unit requirement. In the last quarter, an oral comprehensive examination on the contents of study will be given by a committee of three faculty members including the advisor and two members appointed by the program director. Part-time study for the M.S. degree is available and encouraged for engineers working in local industries. Registration for part-time study must be approved in advance by the MMT program director and the Graduate Dean.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
The Ph.D. degree in Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Manufacturing Technology requires a commitment on the part of the student to dedicated study and collaboration with the faculty. Ph.D. students are selected on the basis of outstanding demonstrated potential and scholarship. Applicants must hold the appropriate prerequisite degrees from recognized institutions of high standing. Students entering with a master's degree may be required to take additional course work, to be decided in consultation with the graduate advisor and the program director. Students without a master's degree may be admitted into the Ph.D. program. However, these students will be required to complete the degree requirements above for the master's degree prior to working on doctoral studies. After substantial academic preparation, Ph.D. candidates work under the supervision of faculty advisors. The process involves immersion in a research atmosphere and culminates in the production of original research results presented in a dissertation.
Milestones to be passed in the Ph.D. program include the following: acceptance into a research group by the faculty advisor during the student's first year of study, successful completion of the Ph.D. preliminary examination during year two, development of a research proposal, passing the qualifying examination during year three, and the successful completion and defense of the dissertation during the fourth or fifth year. There is no foreign language requirement.
The preliminary examination, to be taken during the second year of the Ph.D. program, is based on the core courses in MMT and courses taken in the area of emphasis. The examination committee is appointed by the MMT Director with subsequent approval by the School's Associate Dean of Student Affairs. Students must advance to candidacy in their third year (second year for those who entered with a master's degree). The degree is granted upon the recommendation of the doctoral committee and the Dean of Graduate Studies. The normative time for completion of the Ph.D. is five years (four years for students who entered with a master's degree). The maximum time permitted is seven years.
Graduate Courses in Engineering
ENGR250 Calit2 Seminar: Trends in Optical Communication (1 to 4). Addresses the current status and future trends of fiberoptic materials, components, systems, and manufacturing that are the foundation of the ongoing fiberoptic communication revolution, through weekly seminar presentations by leading experts from both industry and academia. Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
ENG260A Technology for Life (3). Engineering techniques including physics, chemistry, biology, and micro/nano technology for enabling life sciences research in the areas of genomics/proteomics, cells, tissues/organs, and biomolecules. Prerequisite: One course from Physics 106, Chemistry 128L, Biological Sciences M118L, BME145, BME146, or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
ENGR260B Technology of Life (3). Engineering perspectives of evolution in life sciences including the physics, chemistry, and mechanics of various life systems such as DNA, RNA, biomolecules, cells, organs. Prerequisite: One course from Physics 146A, Chemistry 128, Biological Sciences D114, BME50A, BME50B, or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
ENGR295 Special Topics in Engineering (1 to 4). Prerequisites vary. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
ENGR296 Master of Science Thesis Research (4 to 12). Individual research or investigation conducted in the pursuit of preparing and completing the thesis required for the M.S. in Engineering. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit.