2018-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) 
    
    Jun 26, 2024  
2018-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


A Brief Guide to Course Descriptions

Each program described in this catalog contains detailed descriptions of the courses offered within the program.

The first line gives the official course number for which students must register and the official course title. The letters indicate the discipline of the course and the first number of the official course numbers indicates the level of the course. The levels are as follows:

  • 1XXX - Freshman Level
  • 2XXX - Sophomore Level
  • 3XXX - Junior Level
  • 4XXX - Senior Level
  • 5XXX to 9XXX - Graduate level

Typically the last number of the course number indicates the number of credits. The breakdown of periods of the course is also listed.

When selecting a course for registration, the section of the course may include the following notations:

  • “LEC” - lecture section
  • “RCT” or “RC” - recitation section
  • “LAB” or “LB” - lab section

Additionally, any other letter or digit listed in the section will further identify the section and being liked to another section of the class with the same letter and/or digit combination. Further information on sections is available from academic advisers during registration periods.

The paragraph description briefly indicates the contents and coverage of the course. A detailed course syllabus may be available by request from the office of the offering department.

“Prerequisites” are courses (or their equivalents) that must be completed before registering for the described course. “Co-requisites” are courses taken concurrently with the described course.

The notation “Also listed…” indicates that the course is also given under the number shown. This means that two or more departments or programs sponsor the described course and that students may register under either number, usually the one representing the student’s major program. Classes are jointly delivered.

 

Finance and Risk Engineering

Undergraduates in Graduate FRE Courses

The Department of Finance and Risk Engineering does not permit undergraduates to take courses with the prefix “FRE”; these are graduate courses reserved for graduate students. Exceptions are made only for sub-matriculated undergraduates; undergraduates who have applied to and been accepted to the MS FE program at NYU Tandon in their Senior year of undergraduate studies. No other exceptions are made.

  
  • FRE-GY 6883 Financial Computing

    3 Credits
    This course covers programming applications to financial engineering, including C++ and Java and the various common development environments for them. Topics include structured and object-oriented programming in C++ with applications to binomial options pricing, multi-threaded programming in Java with applets and graphical interfaces with applications to risk measurement tools, data-based manipulation and programming in SQL and standard database access libraries with applications to historical financial data series retrieval and management, and other advanced programming concepts important for financial engineering such as numerical techniques, trading systems, and large-scale software design.

    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 6901 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering: QUANTITATIVE FINANCE & BIG DATA ANALYTICS (TOPFER CHAIR LECTURE SERIES)

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples might include infrastructure and projects finance, international and global finance, economics and finance in developing countries, global finance in a global world, international investment strategies, finance and taxes, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission.
     
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 6911 Financial Regulation

    1.5 Credits
    The course provides an overview of the legal and institutional framework of regulations for capital markets, with a strong emphasis on the United States with some discussion of the financial regulation of banks, insurance firms and financial services in general. In addition, attention is given to regulation in global and emerging markets. The goal is to develop a practical understanding for application in business decision making. The course explores the interplay of regulation (both intended and unintended effects), risk management and the evolution of global modern banking. In light of current market developments, the course develops a critical perspective and discusses potential approaches to the structure of financial regulation.

    Prerequisite(s): matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 6921 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering, FINANCIAL MARKETS: COMMODITY FINANCIAL MARKET

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples might include infrastructure and projects finance, international and global finance, economics and finance in developing countries, global finance in a global world, international investment strategies, finance and taxes, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
  
  • FRE-GY 6921-6991 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering

    1.5 Credits


    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples might include infrastructure and projects finance, international and global finance, economics and finance in developing countries, global finance in a global world, international investment strategies, finance and taxes, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission.

    Matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0

  
  • FRE-GY 6931 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering: FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE & BANK REGULATIONS

    1.5 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
  
  • FRE-GY 6971 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering: FINANCIAL ANALYTICS

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics will be emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples might include urban finance engineering, environmental finance, infrastructure and projects finance, real estate finance, insurance finance and derivatives, macro hedge funds management, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission and Graduate Standing.
     
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
  
  • FRE-GY 6991 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering: FIN ADVISING & INVEST MGMNT

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples might include infrastructure and projects finance, international and global finance, economics and finance in developing countries, global finance in a global world, international investment strategies, finance and taxes, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission and Graduate Standing.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
  
  • FRE-GY 7003 Financial Accounting and Analysis

    3 Credits
    This course provides a solid understanding of the creation and interpretation of modern financial statements. Topics include the reasons for financial statements, U.S. accounting principles and how they differ abroad, quality of financial information, financial ratios and their uses, cash-flow analysis, measurement of corporate performance. The course will also cover various methods of forecasting statements and a discussion of valuation.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing or permission of FRE department.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • FRE-GY 7021 Financial Engineering Capstone: Internship

    1.5 Credits


    In this course, the Career Services Office helps the student to secure an internship. Students work under faculty supervision. However, the course is intended to be largely self-directed within the guidelines established by the supervising faculty member. A paper based on the internship work is required.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Prerequisite(s): This course should be taken during the student’s final semester. Prerequisites vary depending on the student’s track and the nature of the internship and Graduate Standing.

     

     

     

  
  • FRE-GY 7023 Financial Engineering Capstone: Internship

    3 Credits


    In this course, the Career Services Office helps the student to secure an internship. Students work under faculty supervision. However, the course is intended to be largely self-directed within the guidelines established by the supervising faculty member. A paper based on the internship work is required.

    Prerequisite(s): This course should be taken during the student’s final semester. Prerequisites vary depending on the student’s track and the nature of the internship. Graduate standing required.

     
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0

  
  • FRE-GY 7043 Financial Engineering Capstone: Project

    3 Credits
    In this project course, students work with faculty on proprietary or non-proprietary research projects. Generally, students work under faculty supervision. However, the course is intended to be largely self-directed within the guidelines established by the supervising faculty member. A significant written research component is required.

    Prerequisite(s): This course should be taken after the student has successfully completed two Semesters and has earned at least 18 credits. Prerequisites vary depending on the student’s track, the nature of the project to be undertaken, and Graduate Standing.
  
  • FRE-GY 7103 Macroeconomics

    3 Credits
    Macroeconomics deals with the performance, structure and behavior of a national or regional economy as a whole. This course provides the basic tools for analyzing macroeconomic phenomena. Economic models are developed that explain the relationship between factors such as national income, output, consumption, unemployment, inflation, savings, investment, international trade and international finance. Applications investigate the causes and consequences of short-run fluctuations in national income and attempts at predicting long-run economic growth.

    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7121 Statistical Arbitrage

    1.5 Credits
    Statistical arbitrage refers to strategies that combine many relatively independent positive expected value trades so that profit, while not guaranteed, becomes very likely. This course prepares students to research and practice in this area by providing the tools and techniques to generate and evaluate individual trading strategies, combine them into a coherent portfolio, manage the resulting risks, and monitor for excess deviations from expected performance. It introduces theoretical concepts such as cointegration, risk capital allocation, proper backtesting, and factor analysis, as well as practical considerations such as data mining, automated systems, and trade execution. Programming languages such as R, Python, or C++ will be used to present applications to data at low, intermediate and high frequency.

    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department & FRE-GY 6123  and FRE-GY 6083 
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7211 Forensic Financial Technology and Regulatory Systems

    1.5 Credits
    The goal of this course is to understand the technology behind financial forensics and regulatory systems. These include innovative database techniques (“dataveillance”), artificial intelligence, data mining, and non-parametric outlier methods used by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as the FBI, and other federal and state agencies. Student teams will prepare and present projects or case studies applying the concepts covered in class.

    Prerequisite(s): FRE-GY 6153   and Graduate Standing.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7221 Big Data in Finance

    1.5 Credits
    This is an advanced course on practical computer science and database topics most relevant to financial applications. As such it covers fundamental concepts such as financial database design, use, and maintenance, distributed financial computing and associated storage, grid and cloud computing, modeling unstructured financial data, and data mining for risk management.

    Prerequisite(s): FRE-GY 6153  and matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7241 Algorithmic Portfolio Management

    1.5 Credits
    This course focuses on portfolio construction and rebalancing strategies such as momentum, value, and size strategies, among others. The course emphasizes backtesting and risk factor analysis as well as optimization to reduce tracking error. It will also address how a quantitative investment approach can help both individual and institutional investors make sound long-term investment decisions.

    Prerequisite(s): FRE-GY 6123  and Graduate Standing
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7251 Algorithmic Trading & High-Frequency Finance

    1.5 Credits
    Algorithmic trading refers to the utilization of special computer programs in an order management system that restructure an order into a sequence of sub-orders based on the dimensions of submission time, price, size, and side. The goal of this course is to survey several algorithmic strategies used by financial institutions and to understand their implementation in the context of order management systems and standard financial protocols (such as FIX and FIXatdl). Student teams will prepare and present projects or case studies applying the concepts covered in class.

    Prerequisite(s): FRE-GY 6153  and FRE-GY 7221  and Graduate Standing.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7261 News Analytics and Strategies

    1.5 Credits
    The fast-growing field of news analytics requires large databases, fast computation, and robust statistics. This course introduces the tools and techniques of analyzing news, how to quantify textual items based on, for example, positive or negative sentiment, relevance to each stock, and the amount of novelty in the content. Applications to trading strategies are discussed, including both absolute and relative return strategies, and risk management strategies. Students will be exposed to leading software in this cutting-edge space.

    Prerequisite(s): FRE-GY 6153  and FRE-GY 7221  and Graduate Standing.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7703 Data Science for Financial Engineering

    3 Credits


    This is an on-line quantitative course especially geared toward Master of Science in Financial Engineering students. The course covers the statistical tools needed to model and estimate the joint dynamics of markets.

    Included are:
    - topics in multivariate statistics that are relevant for risk management and portfolio management
    - machine learning models as generalizations of linear factor models, omnipresent across finance
    - the connection between the estimation/calibration of machine learning models and classical and Bayesian econometrics
    - backtesting and model/estimation risk in the context of decision theory
    - distributional stress-testing for risk management and portfolio/business construction for portfolio management. The final exam may be administered on-line or in-person.

    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into MS Financial Engineering or permission of FRE department.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3

  
  • FRE-GY 7773 Machine Learning in Financial Engineering

    3 Credits
    This course covers the theory of Machine Learning and its fundamental applications in the field of Financial Engineering. Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning paradigms are discussed.

    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into MS Financial Engineering or permission of the FRE department.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • FRE-GY 7801 Topics in Finance and Financial Markets I

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples might include Financial Economics, Macroeconomics and Finance, the Bond market, the securities markets, Derivatives markets, Contract Theory, Credit and Counterparty Risks, Banking Finance and others.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7811 Quant Topics in Financial Markets II: Financial Risk Management

    1.5 Credits
    The course analyzes and discusses current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering. Selected topics are emphasized and provide focus for further study. Examples can include Behavioral Finance, Personal Finance, Investment Theories and Alternative Finance, Corporate and Financial Responsibility, Financial Ethics, Hedge Funds Investment Strategies and their Management and macro hedge funds management, among others.

    Prerequisite(s): matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7821 Topics in Risk Finance I

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in Actuarial Science are analyzed and discussed. Course topics may include for example: Pension Funds management, Actuarial Science and Social Security, Life Insurance, Insurance and Financial Products design and management.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7831 Topics in Financial and Risk Engineering I: FINANCIAL ANALYTICS & BIG DATA

    1.5 Credits
    Current and selected topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide a focus for further study. Topics include Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives, Quantitative Methods in Rare Events, Energy, Oil and Water Finance as well as advanced topics in financial econometrics and computational finance.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7841 Topics in Risk Finance II

    1.5 Credits
    Current and selected topics of particular importance in Actuarial Science and in the insurance-finance convergence are analyzed and discussed. Course topics may include Risk Engineering and the Insurance Business, Principles of Insurance Management in a Dynamic and Global Setting, Finance-insurance convergence.

    Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7851 Topics in Financial and Risk Engineering II

    1.5 Credits
    Current topics of particular importance in finance and risk engineering are analyzed and discussed. Selected topics are emphasized and provide a focus for further study. Examples can include urban finance engineering, environmental finance, infrastructure and projects finance, real-estate finance, insurance finance and derivatives, and macro hedge funds management.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • FRE-GY 7871 Topics in Financial Information Services and Technology

    1.5 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
  
  • FRE-GY 7891 Topics in Management of Financial Services: FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE & BANKING REGULATION

    1.5 Credits
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
  
  • FRE-GY 9713 Special Topics in Asset Pricing

    3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • FRE-GY 9733 Special Topics in Financial Engineering

    3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • FRE-GY 9743 Special Topics in Risk Management

    3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • FRE-GY 9973 MS Thesis in Finance & Risk Engineering

    3 Credits
    In this research course, students undertake proprietary or non-proprietary research and write a thesis-type research paper. Generally, students work under faculty supervision. However, the course is intended to be largely self-directed within guidelines established by the supervising faculty member.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing. This course should be taken during the student’s final semester. Prerequisites vary depending on the student’s track and the nature of the thesis project.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0

General Engineering

  
  • EG-UY 1001 Engineering and Technology Forum

    1 Credits
    In this course, the notions of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship (i2e) are brought to the forefront of students’ educational experience in an effort to introduce undergraduates to elements of a research-intensive institution and encourage intellectual and scholarly interaction with their peers and faculty. This course includes presentations and discussions on emerging and exciting topics by leading engineers, scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs discussing case studies on innovations, inventions and entrepreneurship as well as relevant contemporary and emerging environmental-, economic-, global-, energy- and health-related topics. The course exposes students to an array of collegiate academic skills such as the elements of a research-intensive institute, information-technology resources and ethics in science and engineering, as well as discussions of student life-related topics and issues.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • EG-UY 1003 Introduction to Engineering and Design

    3 Credits
    This course introduces selected aspects of the history, philosophy, methodology, tools and contemporary topics in engineering. Also included are basic engineering experimentation and data analysis, a team-design project and analysis and presentation of engineering data and designs.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1 | Weekly Lab Hours: 3 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 1.5
  
  • EG-UY 3003 Precapstone Innovation

    3 Credits
    The Pre-Capstone Innovation Experience course is designed for our undergraduate engineering students and aimed at preparing them for capstone/senior design projects with the following goals: 1) to provide students with multidisciplinary engineering prototyping tools spanning biological engineering to circuit design; 2) to expose student to customer discovery process and Lean Launchpad methods; 3) to facilitate E-team formation around multidisciplinary groups; and 4) to prepare students for innovative capstone prototypes and understand the process to transform ideas into commercial ventures.

    Prerequisite(s): EG-UY 1001 , Junior Standing and permission from adviser.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
  
  • EX-UY 1 Examination Hour


  
  • EX-UY 2 Examination Hour


  
  • VIP-UY 300X Vertically Integrated Projects

    1-3 Credits
    The Vertically Integrated Projects I-IV courses are designed to allow select students to participate in ongoing research projects within student teams, under the direction of faculty from within Tandon, and other schools of NYU. These courses are open to students from the sophomore to senior years, and students must apply to engage in a specific project in a given semester. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the faculty advisors for the project, in consultation with the Director of the VIP Program.

    Prerequisite(s): Department Consent Required.
  
  • VIP-UY 3000 Vertically Integrated Projects

    0 Credits
    The Vertically Integrated Projects courses are designed to allow select students to participate in ongoing research, innovation, design, and entrepreneurial projects within student teams, under the direction of faculty from within Tandon, and other schools of NYU. This is the zero-credit version of the course. These courses are open to students from the first to senior years, and students must apply to engage in a specific project in a given semester. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the faculty advisors for the project, in consultation with the Director of the VIP Program. Students must commit to at least three semesters of participation in VIP, either enrolling in VIP-UY 300X or VIP-UY 3000.


General Studies

  
  • GS-UY 101 Computer Skills for Engineers


    This course focuses on the basic functions and intricacies of AutoCAD, MATLAB and/or Python. Course requirements: weekly lab assignments, a midterm and final exam, and an individual project synthesizing the course content.

  
  • GS-UY 102 Pre-college Writing


    This course helps to prepare students for college-level writing. Class time includes reading and writing exercises, grammar quizzes and lessons and a close examination of student writing (workshops). Course requirements include daily participation, weekly quizzes/essays, daily homework assignments and multiple written assignments and revisions.

  
  • GS-UY 103 Pre-college Math


    This course helps to prepare students for math at NYU-Poly. The math course taken over the summer will be determined by the results of the Math Assessment. Course requirements: daily participation, weekly quizzes, daily homework assignments and a midterm and final exam.

  
  • GS-UY 106 Pre-college Physics


    This course introduces the foundational concepts and laws of physics and their connection to the engineering disciplines. The subject matter helps students apply scientific methods to physical problems and prepares them for university-level physics. Topics include vectors, kinematics, Newton’s Laws, work and energy, momentum and collision theory, rotational motion, and angular momentum. Course requirements: daily participation, weekly quizzes, daily homework and a midterm and final exam.


Higher Education Oppurtunity Program

  
  • HE-UY 1 Study Skills

    NC Credits
    This skills workshop prepares students for the academic and social challenges of college. Workshop topics include self-exploration and development of skills, such as taking notes, preparing for examinations and evaluating academic goals. This course is offered only in the fall semester.

    | Weekly Lab Hours: 1 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0

History

  
  • HI-UY 2514W Introduction to New York City History

    4 Credits
    This course looks at the history and development of the City of New York, from Verazzano’s exploration to the present. Major themes include the evolution of the city’s political economy, political and economic influences on land and space use, and ethnic and class conflict in the urban environment.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of EXPOS-UA 1  or EXPOS-UA 4 
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • HI-UY 2534 History of Computing

    4 Credits
    This is a course about the history of the Computer Revolution and its causes, consequences, and meanings for modern society. Our goal is to provide students with the tools necessary for critically evaluating claims made about the role and in uence of computer technology in modern social, economic, and political life. By the end of the course, the students will have developed a nuanced understanding of the relationship between technology and society that moves beyond simplistic claims that “the computer changes everything” to encompass models of innovation that include not only technological invention but also social, legal, and economic developments as well.

    Prerequisite(s): EXPOS-UA 1 
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
  
  • HI-UY 2724 Urban Environmental History

    4 Credits
    This course will examine the development of cities, primarily in North America, the evolution of the technologies used for that development, and their effect on the natural environment of cities and their regions, and the effects of the modernization and electrification of rural America on cities. Students will use a broad toolkit of historical methods and modes, including environmental history, social history, world history and history of technology.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • HI-UY 3034 Introduction to Urban Infrastructure History

    4 Credits
    This survey of urban infrastructure history concentrates on water, sanitation and public health, electrical and communications systems, the development of housing and real estate, the security infrastructure and plans for the future, with one or two cities as a case study. The course explores how the urban political economy has shaped its physical environment and how technological innovations have made the city modern and postmodern.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of EXPOS-UA 1  or EXPOS-UA 4 .
    Note: Satisfies a HuSS elective.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
  
  • HI-UY 3034W History of New York’s Urban Infrastructure

    4 Credits
    This survey of New York City’s infrastructure concentrates on water, sanitation and public health, electrical and communications systems, the development of housing and real estate, the security infrastructure and plans for the future. The course explores how the city’s political economy has shaped its physical environment and how technological innovations have made the city modern and postmodern.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of EXPOS-UA 1  or EXPOS-UA 4 
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • HI-UY 3144 History of American Capitalism: Enterprise, Technology and Work

    4 Credits
    This course is an exploration of the intersection of economic enterprise, technology, culture and work in modern American history. This course is aimed to build a historical understanding of the rise of the American economy, the role of technological advance and change, business and management systems and their impact on how we work. The course will supply you with an historical understanding of the rise of the modern American economy.

    Prerequisite(s): EXPOS-UA 1 
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
  
  • HI-UY 3254W History of Mass Media

    4 Credits
    This mass-media history course examines broadsides, newspapers, cinema, radio, TV and the Internet, from the advent of cheap print in the early modern period to the turn of the 21st century. Themes include the history of mass-media technology, the mass dissemination of news and its effects on popular culture and gender relations, sensationalism, and the role of the media in developing advertising and consumer culture.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • HI-UY 3304 Science and Technology as a Strategic Resource in World War II

    4 Credits
    This course examines the role of technology and science during World War II. Among the technologies that are considered are some that were inherited from World War I and much improved (e.g., tanks, airplanes, aircraft carriers and submarines). Others were completely new and required considerable scientific input to be developed (e.g., radar, code breaking by the use of computers, jet engines, ballistic missiles, antibiotics and the atomic bomb).

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of EXPOS-UA 1  or EXPOS-UA 4 .
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • HI-UY 3434 History of Intellectual Property in America

    4 Credits
    This course, a history of successive regimes of patent, trade secret, copyright and trademark law from the early modern period to the present, introduces undergraduates to basic intellectual property concepts, language, the political and distributive implications of intellectual property regimes, and the possibility or even inevitability of alternative regimes.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

  
  • HI-UY 4334W Seminar in Urban Infrastructure History

    4 Credits
    This seminar investigates the urban and environmental history of New York City’s infrastructure, including water, sewage, transportation, housing and office construction. The course investigates these systems in the context of the environmental, political and economic concerns that shape the city’s infrastructure. The course looks at the transnational circulation of ideas about designing and constructing urban systems. Questions include: How and why are infrastructure systems built? Why are they built the way they are? How do the technologies used affect the environment? Are the systems sustainable and interoperable? How do ideas about infrastructural needs, design and financing circulate transnationally?

    Prerequisite(s): HI-UY 3034W  or instructor’s permission.
    Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 4

Industrial Engineering

  
  • IE-GY 6003 Engineering Economics

    3 Credits
    Engineers are responsible for the design, development, deployment of products and projects and should evaluate alternatives when available.  Solutions run from the simple where the decisions are made quickly to detailed analysis of complex alternatives. Student will learn the necessary accounting terms, financial concepts, costing, investment analysis, time-value of money, equipment, and how material specifications are used in the investment decisions processes. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to quantity the alternatives used as part of the decision process in recommending what course of action to be taken.  The most economical choice may not be the recommended alternative based on other considerations i.e. political, past experience with suppliers, equipment standardization.

  
  • IE-GY 6063 Work Design and Measurement


    Principles and techniques of designing work methods and work simplification programs.  Theory and techniques of workplace design, work measurement, time study, work sampling, standard data systems, methods analysis, rating, and work allowances.  Applications of ergonomics and anthropometrics to promote worker health and safety in lean manufacturing environments.

  
  • IE-GY 6113 Quality Control and Improvement

    3 Credits
    This course provides students with a solid foundation in the cost of quality, quality assurance and quality management. Emphasis is on the basic tools of quality control such as control charts and their use, the concept of “out of control,” acceptance sampling, variables and attributes charts and producer’s and consumer’s risk. A unique aspect of this course is the demonstration of the power of teams of people with different expertise to improve quality. A course project is required.

    Prerequisite(s): MA-GY 6513  or familiarity with the concepts of probability and statistics.
    Also listed under: MN-GY 6113 .
    Note: Online version available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6123 Quality Engineering Using Robust Design

    3 Credits
    This course provides a broad review of procedures to improve manufacturing quality. By employing both Taguchi techniques, such as the use of signal-to-noise ratio representations and other techniques less sensitive to parameter interactions, a full spectrum of robust design methods are presented. Applications of these procedures are reviewed, including online trouble-shooting methods to assure manufacturing quality.

    Prerequisite(s): IE-GY 6113 .
    Also listed under: MN-GY 6123 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6163 Job and Workplace Design

    3 Credits
    This course examines theory, research and applications of job and workplace design. Job design is presented from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on how job design influences attitudes and work behavior within organizations. Students are exposed to diagnostic tools for measuring and evaluating jobs and the psycho-social aspects of the workplace environment, as well as the principles of work redesign. Topics include influences on work design by innovations in information technology, modern manufacturing, virtual work arrangements and open office systems; design and support of effective work teams; re-engineering and total quality management; and privacy and communication in the workplace.

    Also listed under: MG-GY 6163 .
    Note: Online version available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6183 Inventory Models


    This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.

  
  • IE-GY 6193 Production Planning and Control

    3 Credits
    This is a survey course in basic and advanced manufacturing planning and control systems, covering short-term forecasting systems, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, inventory management, capacity management, production activity control and just-in-time.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6203 Project Planning and Control (Project Management)

    3 Credits
    This course discusses the knowledge and process required to manage a project through its life cycle, from concept to completion. Topics include engineering analysis, screening and selection, configuration and total quality management, scheduling using Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM), budgeting and resource management, computer support and software. Case studies are used to illustrate the process.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6213 Facility Planning and Design

    3 Credits
    Topics in this course include facilities design for global competitiveness, strategic master site planning, site selection, factory layout and design, facility-management systems and materials handling and storage planning. Also presented are guidance on selecting alternative facility plans and application of queuing methods and computer modeling for facility design and evaluation.

    Note: Online version available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6273 Operations Research: Deterministic Models

    3 Credits
    Development of mathematical models for solving decision problems of deterministic nature. Classical optimization, Lagrange multipliers, linear programming, transportation method, network procedures, games. Dynamic programming.

    Prerequisite(s): Calculus.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 2.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6273 Operations Research: Deterministic Models


    This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.

  
  • IE-GY 6283 Operations Research: Stochastic Models

    3 Credits
    Mathematical models for solving decision problems of stochastic nature. Queuing, Markov processes, inventory models, reliability, probabilistic dynamic programming. IE-GY 6273  and IE 6283 constitute standard one-year survey course in operations research.

    Prerequisite(s): MA-GY 6813 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 2.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6283 Operations Research: Stochastic Models


    This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.

  
  • IE-GY 6453 Productivity Management

    3 Credits
    This course examines modern approaches to productivity measurement, evaluation, planning and improvement in both manufacturing and service industries. Participants develop productivity models for various types of organizations.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6503 Queuing Systems I


    This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.

  
  • IE-GY 6823 Factory Simulation

    3 Credits
    This course examines modeling and simulation of complex industrial, commercial and service systems, such as factories and hospitals. Students develop, run and test several simulation models using different software packages.

    Prerequisite(s): Computer literacy.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 6853 System Reliability


    This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.

  
  • IE-GY 7113 Engineering Applications in the Business Environment

    3 Credits
    This course fills the gap between theory and practice by immersing the student into actual engineering problems in operating businesses. Students work with an engineering manager in the client company and under the academic supervision of a faculty member to solve real engineering problems. Student will apply the knowledge acquired through course work to solving current industrial problems. By identifying a single project for the student, the course will focus on applying theory and academic knowledge to the analysis and improvement of the clients’ processes, products and operations. Students will experience the difference between the class room setting and business setting in applying engineering skills to problem solving. Students will experience the demands of meeting deadlines and providing cost – benefit solutions as professional engineers in the practice of engineering. This course provides the student with an opportunity to bridge the gap between theory and practice while still in school.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Instructor.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7213 Engineering Applications in the Business Environment

    3 Credits
    This course fills the gap between theory and practice by immersing the student into actual engineering problems in operating businesses. Students work with an engineering manager in the client company and under the academic supervision of a faculty member to solve real engineering problems. Student will apply the knowledge acquired through course work to solving current industrial problems. By identifying a single project for the student, the course will focus on applying theory and academic knowledge to the analysis and improvement of the clients’ processes, products and operations. Students will experience the difference between the class room setting and business setting in applying engineering skills to problem solving. Students will experience the demands of meeting deadlines and providing cost – benefit solutions as professional engineers in the practice of engineering. This course provides the student with an opportunity to bridge the gap between theory and practice while still in school.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Instructor.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7653 Human Factors in Engineering Design


    Human Factors is a body of knowledge about human abilities, human limitations, and other human characteristics that are relevant to design. Human factors engineering is the application of human factors information to the design of products, tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for safe, comfortable, and effective human use.

  
  • IE-GY 7753 Industrial Safety Engineering


    This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.

  
  • IE-GY 7763 Manufacturing Resources Planning

    3 Credits
    This course studies computerized systems to effectively run a manufacturing business. Also covered is the process of software specification, evaluation, selection and implementation. Topics include Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP) logic, enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution systems, inventory management and bill of materials. Several software systems and their features are highlighted.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7763 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7853 computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems

    3 Credits
    This course examines the basic concepts of manufacturing complex products with complex processes. It relies heavily on computer and data processing technologies, which are introduced. Also a variety of perspectives are addressed from all aspects relative to products and processes-planning, design, manufacturing and shipping. Students explore techniques for managing and optimizing manufacturing productivity.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7853 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7873 Lean Manufacturing

    3 Credits
    This course provides an overview to the basic principles, and theories of lean manufacturing which involves identifying and eliminating non-value-adding activities in design, production, and supply chain management. Students will learn an integrated approach to efficient manufacturing with emphasis on synchronized product, quick changeover, cell design, visual factory, value stream, one-piece flow and understand the metrics used to monitor performance.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7873 .
    Note: Online version available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7883 Manufacturing Systems Engineering

    3 Credits
    Topics in this course concentrate on contemporary techniques for product design and manufacture, including financials of the manufacturing firm, quality, reliability, Taguchi methods of product and process design, scaleup and partitioning, production flows, modern manufacturing methods such as JIT/TQC, pull and synchronized manufacturing. Cultural factors are also discussed.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7883 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7923 Design for Manufacturability

    3 Credits
    This course introduces concepts and techniques for economical, functionally sound and high-quality product design for manufacture. Emphasis is on designing for easy assembly, manually and with robotics and on the effective use of plastics to reduce manufacturing costs. Managerial and organizational approaches and case studies of successful designs are reviewed.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7923 .
    Note: Online version available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7933 Environmental Health and Safety

    3 Credits
    This course presents an overview of environmental, health and safety management, and introduces students to management systems within a manufacturing operation. The course explores motivations and strategies for environmental, health and safety management. Students learn about the mandatory standards understanding the technical and legal rationale for insuring that workers are provided with a safe and healthy workplace. These skills are needed to work effectively in operations, human resources and employee development as well as in industrial relations, since the law provides workers specific safety and health rights.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7933 .
    Note: Online version available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 7993 Supply Chain Engineering

    3 Credits
    Students in this course gain an understanding of how companies plan, source, make and deliver their products with a global competitive advantage. The course stresses the engineering components in developing an integrated supply chain that covers the entire manufacturing enterprise. It looks at the supply-chain infrastructure and the velocities of different models. The focus is on understanding and detecting the constraints of the infrastructure and the lowest common denominator of the information system used. Students also gain an understanding of logistical networks and the optimizing of the various traffic and location alternatives. Synchronization of supply and demand is examined in detail, looking at variability in both processes with the objective of maximizing throughput and capacity, emphasizing partnering, e-commerce and the bullwhip effect. Finally, the course establishes global performance measurements that compare companies in different industries.

    Also listed under: MN-GY 7993 .
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 9113 Selected Topics in IE

    3 Credits
    These topics cover areas not covered in other courses. Specific topics vary according to instructor, who may be a visiting professor. Topics and prerequisites announced during the term before classes.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 9123 Selected Topics in IE

    3 Credits
    These topics cover areas not covered in other courses. Specific topics vary according to instructor, who may be a visiting professor. Topics and prerequisites announced during the term before classes.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • IE-GY 9303 Readings in Industrial Engineering I

    3 Credits
    In this course, students individually read selected papers and current literature in specialized area and are guided by a faculty member.

    Prerequisite(s): Approval of adviser, instructor and department head.
  
  • IE-GY 9313 Readings in Industrial Engineering II

    3 Credits
    In this course, students individually read selected papers and current literature in specialized area and are guided by a faculty member.

    Prerequisite(s): Approval of adviser, instructor and department head.

Journalism

  
  • JW-GY 6003 Introduction to Technical Communication

    3 Credits
    This course is an overview of the research, writing, editing and design principles of technical communication. Particular attention is paid to writing for new media. Students learn to gather, organize and present information effectively, according to audience and purpose. Interviewing skills, technical presentation skills and writing for the Web are covered.

    Prerequisite(s): Adviser’s approval.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • JW-GY 6313 Proposal Writing

    3 Credits

Technology Management and Innovation

  
  • MG-GY 997X MS Thesis in Technology Management

    3 Credits
    Students choose original investigation topics for their theses. While they conduct research and draft their theses, students are required to confer with their advisers and to submit progress reports. A final written report is required at completion. The department may request an oral examination.

    Prerequisite(s): Degree status and approval of supervising professor, MSM Program Director and TM department chair.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 999X PhD Dissertation in Technology Management

    3 Credits
    Students are required to complete 24 credits of doctoral dissertation research.

    Prerequisite(s): Passing grade in RE-GY 9990 PhD Qualifying Exam  and doctoral standing or instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 5050 Probability and Managerial Statistics

    0 Credits
    This course starts with the basic concepts of random phenomena and goes on to advanced applications of statistics relevant to managers. Topics include probability theory, discrete and continuous probability variables, sampling, measures of central value and dispersion, hypothesis testing, statistical inference, quality control, analysis of variance, regression, correlation and nonparametrics. The course emphasizes application of concepts.

    Note: No credit is allowed toward any graduate degree program administered by the Department of Technology Management. This course is Pass/Fail only.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6013 Organizational Behavior

    3 Credits
    Introduction to theory, research and practice to better understand human behavior in organizations. Topics include motivation and job satisfaction; decision making; group dynamics; work teams; leadership; communication; power, politics and conflict; organization culture, structure and design; impact of technology; management of work stress; organizational change and development; and career management. Analysis of organizational behavior problems by self assessments, case studies and simulations.

    Note: Distance learning available.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6023 Economics & Strategy

    3 Credits
    This is a course in Economics, Strategy and the Firm with a primary focus on the needs of managers. It draws upon a range of concepts and tools from the fields of Industrial Organization and Strategic Management to review the cognitive building blocks that provide an economic foundation to strategic thinking. Strategy is ultimately about value creation and capture of economic value. Value-based strategies show that a firm that introduces a technological innovation creates value, and if it fails to protect it from competition it will be driven out of business. This basic level of insight is linked to the rich tradition in economics to untangle some ambiguities surrounding these concepts and provide a deeper understanding of strategic decisions made by managers within the bounds imposed by competition.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6033 Financial Analysis for Tech Managers

    3 Credits
    The course will focus upon accounting issues as well as financing and investment functions/decisions of the financial manager as applied to practical real world situations. We will first cover basic concepts of accounting (including cost accounting); as well as basic concepts of finance. Some of the course will involve analysis of actual case studies of real business situations. In the process of analyzing the cases students will be able to apply these accounting and finance concepts to actual business problems and their solutions.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6043 Innovation Management in Money, Banking and Financial Markets

    3 Credits
    This is an intensive course that examines the critical management issues of the management of financial institutions. The principal focus of the course is on interplay between the economic and technological developments in the management of modern financial institutions.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6073 Marketing

    3 Credits
    This course covers marketing concepts, processes and institutions. Topics: Positioning, segmentation and product-life cycles. Integration of marketing with new product planning, design and development. Strategies for technology-based products, services and processes. Market research, consumer behavior, advertising, promotion and sales. The special character of governmental and international markets.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6103 Management Science

    3 Credits
    This course introduces major concepts and methods associated with Management Science, which deals with the application of quantitative modeling and analysis to management problems. Students learn to employ important analytical tools, to determine the assumptions used, and to recognize the limitations of such methods. The course discusses methods of linear and nonlinear programming, queuing, decision analysis, simulations and game theory. The course also introduces modeling with spreadsheets.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6113 Career Management

    3 Credits
    This course integrates theory, research and practice pertaining to careers in organizations, particularly as they change through the life span. It examines careers from the perspectives of both the individual and the organization, including topics such as career-stage models, organizational entry, early career development, mid-career transition, career change and career issues for women. The course develops greater understanding and insight into one’s own career growth and development through the use of career-assessment techniques and standardized instruments for self-evaluation.

    Corequisite(s): MG-GY 6013  or instructor’s permission.
    Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
  
  • MG-GY 6131 Labor Relations

    1.5 Credits
    This course introduces labor relations from various perspectives in both union and nonunion organizations. Topics include labor movement history; the current state of the labor movement; labor statistics; labor laws and practices; union organizing; negotiating; economics and labor unions; contract administration; achieving cooperation; grievances; labor and employment arbitration; employee discipline; engineering and professional unions, public sector unions; global aspects; and the future for unions.

    Note: Distance learning available. Not open to students who have completed MG-GY 6133.

    Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
 

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