2014-2016 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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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. |
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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-Poly in their Senior year of undergraduate studies. No other exceptions are made. |
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FRE-GY 6791 Operational Risk Measurement and Management 1.5 Credits
The operational difficulties faced by financial institutions have created a need for tools to measure and manage operational risk. An accurate appreciation of risks, exposures and controls is critical to managing risk effectively in today’s dynamic global business environment. This course examines the effects of transaction processing, liquidity management, organizational structure, personnel and compliance on the nature of operational risk. Qualitative and quantitative measures of operational risk are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 6711.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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FRE-GY 6811 Financial Software Laboratory 1.5 Credits
This course teaches students to use financial software tools commonly employed in industry. Examples include: @Risk, Yieldbook, Excel, R, and C++.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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FRE-GY 6821 Financial Econometric Laboratory 1.5 Credits
This course teaches students to use Eviews and Stata.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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FRE-GY 6831 Computational Finance Laboratory 1.5 Credits
This course teaches students to use MATLAB and GAMS.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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FRE-GY 6861 Financial Software Engineering Laboratory 1.5 Credits
This financial lab requires students to publicly participate in a large software project. This participation could take the form of innovation, such as contributing to an open-source financial software project with the contributions being accepted and committed to the main branch, or invention, such as publishing a stand-alone library or package for a programming language commonly used in financial applications, or pure entrepreneurship, such as the development or updating of a brand-new industrial strength financial software application. As the students work on their project, this course will focus on important software engineering considerations specifically as they apply to the real-time world of financial projects, such as formalized procedures for revision control and bug tracking and other proven methods of software management in a fast-paced financial and business environment.
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
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FRE-GY 6871 R in Finance 1.5 Credits
This course introduces the free programming language R and its many applications to finance including risk management, portfolio construction, strategy development and testing, and trading and execution. Topics covered include financial time series analysis, advanced risk tools, applied econometrics, portfolio management, and derivatives valuation. Students will be required to write some code in R every week.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FRE-GY 6931 Selected Topics in Financial Engineering: FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE & BANK REGULATIONS 1.5 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
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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
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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
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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 during the student’s final semester. Prerequisites vary depending on the student’s track and the nature of the project to be undertaken. Graduate Standing required.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FRE-GY 7871 Topics in Financial Information Services and Technology: FINANCIAL DATA VISUALIZATION 1.5 Credits
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
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FRE-GY 7891 Topics in Management of Financial Services: FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE & BANKING REGULATION 1.5 Credits
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5
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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
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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
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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
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General Studies |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Higher Education Oppurtunity Program |
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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.
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History |
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HI-UY 2204/W Medieval Technology 4 Credits
This course considers medieval heritage, culture, society, technology and its impact and continuity in modern times. The course looks at the nuclear family as it originated in medieval times, and emphasizes concepts of modern law, religion, war, science, race and class.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 2234 Introduction to the History of Western Technology 4 Credits
This course surveys generally the history of technology (from the early modern period to the present) and investigates how technology shapes society, and how society molds technology. Topics include ancient technologies, the printing press, the Industrial Revolution, the replacing of laborers with machines, electricity, transportation, Ford and the invention of the automobile, Taylorism and the organization of labor, technology during World War II (including radar, V1and V2 rockers and the Enigma machine) and the rise of the NASA space program.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 2254/W From Heat Engines to Black Holes 4 Credits
What is the nature of heat? How does it relate to atoms, black holes, information and a demon in a box full of gas molecules? This course answers these questions by developing the history of thermodynamics. That history begins with early 18th-century caloric theories of heat, 19th-century analyses of steam engines, the kinetic theory of gases, the statistical approach to mechanics, atomic theories of matter, the concept of entropy, early 20th-century concepts of information and, finally, current applications to black holes (as well as Maxwell and his famous demon). The course considers theoretical descriptions of the phenomena and the technologies derived from them.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 2264 The Ship 4 Credits
Ships, the largest human-made moving objects, have played a pivotal role in trade and warfare throughout history. This course covers the history, development and technology of ships from ancient times to the present. The course discusses aspects of the atmosphere and seas as they relate to ship design and use. Technological advances in hull design, materials, sails and power also will be discussed. The use of ships in trade, human transportation, warfare, fishing, piracy and global exploration are covered, along with the satellite industries of shipbuilding and port support. The course also looks at the manning of ships, the social and military organization, the life of mariners, the development of navigation and its technologies in an historical context, and submarine evolution and technologies.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 2353 A History of NYC Transit and the Development of NYC 3 Credits
This course traces the technological history of public transportation in New York City and investigates its role in the development of the city, its economy and its social fabric. From the early days of horse-drawn public carriages to the modern subway system, the role of the public transit in the historical development patterns of New York City is treated. The course covers trolley systems, the age of the elevated railways and the subway system. Political, social and economic issues involved in the development of these critical infrastructures are discussed. Students develop independent project reports on aspects of the NYC public transit system, or on public-transit systems in other major world cities.
Prerequisite(s): Junior Status or permission of instructor.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 2514/W 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 first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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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.
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HI-UY 3034/W 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 first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 3244/W The History of Light 4 Credits
What is the nature of light? How does it relate to magnets, electric circuits, TVs, radioactivity and the fundamental forces of nature? More importantly, what really happens to your burrito when you microwave it? This course answers these and similar questions by following the historical development of three apparently distinct and unrelated phenomena- electricity, magnetism and light. Topics range from descriptions of these phenomena by the Greeks to Maxwell’s 19thcentury unification of them into a single phenomenon to Einstein’s theory of special relativity to their incorporation into the Standard Model of contemporary physics. The course considers theoretical descriptions of the phenomena and technologies derived from them.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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HI-UY 3254/W 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.
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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 first year writing requirements and One level 2 STS cluster course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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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.
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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 3034/W or instructor’s permission.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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Industrial Engineering |
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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IE-GY 6183 Inventory Models
This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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IE-GY 6273 Operations Research: Deterministic Models
This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.
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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
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IE-GY 6283 Operations Research: Stochastic Models
This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.
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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
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IE-GY 6503 Queuing Systems I
This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.
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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
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IE-GY 6853 System Reliability
This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.
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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
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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
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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.
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IE-GY 7753 Industrial Safety Engineering
This course is offered irregularly in Response to industry demand.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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JW-GY 6313 Proposal Writing 3 Credits
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BMS-UY 3514 Organismal Physiology 4 Credits
Mechanism involved in functional processes of cells and multicellular organisms, including integration and control aspects. Membrane function, transport, excitation, conduction, contraction, luminescence.
Prerequisite(s): BMS-UY 2004 and CM-UY 1004 or CM-UY 1024 . Corequisite(s): PH-UY 2023 .
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 3 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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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
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MG-GY 999X PhD Dissertation in Technology Management 3 Credits
Students are required to complete 24 credits of doctoral dissertation research.
Prerequisite(s): Doctoral standing or instructor’s permission.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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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
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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
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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
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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
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MG-GY 6083 Economics 3 Credits
The course examines the fundamentals of microeconomics needed by managers. Topics: Demand theory (theory of the consumer) including models of demand, demand elasticities and demand forecasting. Supply theory (theory of the firm) including diminishing returns, profit-maximizing production levels, labor/capital tradeoffs, and long-run vs. short-run issues. Market structures and how they affect optimal production and profit levels. Positive and negative externalities and government intervention including regulation, tariffs and subsidies. Selected applied topics. All topics are presented with examples that emphasize managerial applications.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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MG-GY 6093 Accounting and Finance 3 Credits
The course covers elements of accounting and finance of importance to managers. Topics: Analysis of principles and practices of the finance function. Financing methods for internal and external ventures and innovations; capital budgeting; R&D portfolio analysis. Contrast of strategic perspectives emphasizing innovation and development with those emphasizing short-term return and investment.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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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
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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
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