UNITE Spring 2024 Course Offerings

UNITE Distributed Learning provides access to live streaming video of class sessions plus same-day access to streaming video archives and downloadable video and audio files of course meetings to the students who enroll through UNITE in a UNITE section of the course.

Semester Schedule

The UNITE sections of a course follow the same semester schedule as the on-campus section of the course. This includes exams (which are synchronous events - see below) and homework deadlines as well as University deadlines for adding courses, cancelling courses, refunds, etc.

Exams and Homework

Exams are Synchronous

Students enrolled through UNITE are REQUIRED to take exams on the same day/same time as the students enrolled in the on-campus sections of the course. If you need to make other arrangements you will need to contact the instructor directly - work out these arrangements with the instructor before the 100% refund period ends.

Exams Must be Proctored by a Person (live proctoring)

Students are responsible for finding and submitting proctor information to UNITE to evaluate and approve. UNITE will contact all students enrolled through UNITE to initiate this process shortly after the semester begins.

Final Exams: Final exam dates are posted in the official University of Minnesota Class Schedule. UNITE will stream video on Saturdays. If you are enrolled in a UNITE section with an exam on a Saturday, you will need to have a proctor administer the exam. If you need to make other arrangements you will need to contact the instructor directly to seek approval.

Homework Submission and Return

Increasing, faculty and TAs are using Canvas course sites for submission and return of homework.

For those faculty and TAs who do not, homework may be submitted to UNITE via email. Our office will record submissions and deliver to instructors and/or TAs for grading. Graded materials will be returned to your University email account when we receive it.

For more information, refer to the "Step Two: Know How UNITE Works" of UNITE Steps to Success.

The courses offered are subject to change. For the summer semester, UNITE will stop recording/streaming a course if there are no students enrolled in that course through UNITE.

Course descriptions taken from the University of Minnesota Course Catalog. Courses topics may be revised per instructor. Contact instructor for more detailed and up-to-date information.

Grad 0999 – 51566 Call Number – UNITE students must register online themselves for this status. Graduate students registering for this status must register before the semester begins or they will be charged the normal late registration fees.

Undergraduate students taking classes on campus may enroll in UNITE courses with instructors' permission. Learn more about Undergraduate Credit Enrollment though UNITE.

Please note Important Spring Semester Dates.

Students enrolled in on-campus sections have limited access to UNITE Media; refer to UNITE Streaming Video Access for On-Campus Students for more details.

TENTATIVE SPRING SCHEDULE

(updated January 29th, 2024)

Use online tools to search all University credit offerings:

Aerospace Engineering's Class Schedules by Department online search tool
Humphrey School of Public Affairs' ClassInfo online search tool
(Note: These tools list ALL offerings - on-campus, including UNITE offerings)

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

AEM 8421 (also offered as EE 5235) - Robust Multivariable Control System Design (3.0 cr)
Ryan Caverly
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Prerequisites:
5321 or equiv
Description:
Application of robust control theory to aerospace systems. Role of model uncertainty/modeling errors in design process. Control analysis and synthesis, including H[sub2] and H[infinity symbol] optimal control design and structural singular value [Greek letter mu] techniques.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

BMEN 5041 - Tissue Engineering (3 cr)
Wei Shen
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CSE upper div or grad student or med student or instr consent
Description:
Fundamentals of wound healing and tissue repair; characterization of cell-matrix interactions; case study of engineered tissues, including skin, bone marrow, liver, vessel, and cartilage; regulation of biomaterials and engineered tissues.

BMEN 5601 - Cardiovascular Devices (1 cr)
Jason Bjork
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on Th 2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
BMEN 3011, 3111, 3211, or equivalents with instr consent
Description:
Design of cardiovascular devices with experts from local medtech companies. Discussion of clinical need, the generic design (emphasizing use of engineering principles), typical testing and validation methods, and major limitations of the available devices. Design, analysis, and testing of these and related devices.

BMEN 8602 - Biomedical Engineering Seminar (1.0 cr)
Wei Shen
Seminars and Colloquia taken for credit are offered only as live and archived streaming video - NO downloadable video or audio podcast versions are offered.
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 3:35 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Description:
Lectures and demonstrations of university and industry research introducing students and faculty to methods and goals of biomedical engineering.

Looking for a course not listed here? Ask for it! We already offer many College of Science and Engineering courses through UNITE, but are looking for other courses that we can offer through UNITE. Use our online Course Request Form.

NOTE: UNITE WILL NOT TAKE REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL COURSES FOR SPRING 2024 AFTER NOVEMBER 15th, 2023.

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CSCI 4041 - Algorithms and Data Structures (4.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 22)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
James Moen
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
UNITE streams live video of on-campus 002/884 lab section on Th 3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[(1913 or 1933) and 2011] or instr consent; cannot be taken for grad CSci cr:Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for CSCI 4041H
Description:
Rigorous analysis of algorithms/implementation. Algorithm analysis, sorting algorithms, binary trees, heaps, priority queues, heapsort, balanced binary search trees, AVL trees, hash tables and hashing, graphs, graph traversal, single source shortest path, minimum cost spanning trees.

CSCI 4203/EE 4363 - Computer Architecture and Machine Organization (4.0)
Ulya Karpuzcu
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
2361
Description:
Introduction to computer architecture. Aspects of computer systems, such as pipelining, memory hierarchy, and input/output systems. Performance metrics. Examines each component of a complicated computer system. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: CSCI 4203 or EE 5361.

CSCI 5103 - Operating Systems (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (7 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Abhishek Chandra
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
4061 or instr consent
Description:
Conceptual foundation of operating system designs and implementations. Relationships between operating system structures and machine architectures. UNIX implementation mechanisms as examples.

CSCI 5105 - Introduction to Distributed Systems (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Arnand Tripathi
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[5103 or equiv] or instr consent
Description:
Distributed system design and implementation. Distributed communication and synchronization, data replication and consistency, distributed file systems, fault tolerance, and distributed scheduling.

CSCI 5421 - Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 5 (0 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Ravi Janardan
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
4041 or instr consent
Description:
Fundamental paradigms of algorithm and data structure design. Divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy method, graph algorithms, amortization, priority queues and variants, search structures, disjoint-set structures. Theoretical underpinnings. Examples from various problem domains.

CSCI 5461 - Functional Genomics, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 20 (no spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Chad Myers
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
4061 or instr consent
Description:
Computational methods for analyzing, integrating, and deriving predictions from genomic/proteomic data. Analyzing gene expression, proteomic data, and protein-protein interaction networks. Protein/gene function prediction, Integrating diverse data, visualizing genomic datasets.

CSCI 5512 - Artificial Intelligence II (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (2 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Nicholas Johnson
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[STAT 3021, 4041] or instr consent
Description:
Uncertainty in artificial intelligence. Probability as a model of uncertainty, methods for reasoning/learning under uncertainty, utility theory, decision-theoretic methods.

CSCI 5523 - Introduction to Data Mining (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 18th) - if you wish to be added to the wait UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Vipin Kumar Michael Steinbach
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
4041 or equiv or instr consent
Description:
Data pre-processing techniques, data types, similarity measures, data visualization/exploration. Predictive models (e.g., decision trees, SVM, Bayes, K-nearest neighbors, bagging, boosting). Model evaluation techniques, Clustering (hierarchical, partitional, density-based), association analysis, anomaly detection. Case studies from areas such as earth science, the Web, network intrusion, and genomics. Hands-on projects.

CSCI 5525 - Machine Learning (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Paul Schrater
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
Grad student or #; fall, even years
Description:
Models of learning. Supervised algorithms such as perceptrons, logistic regression, and large margin methods (SVMs, boosting). Hypothesis evaluation. Learning theory. Online algorithms such as winnow and weighted majority. Unsupervised algorithms, dimensionality reduction, spectral methods. Graphical models.

CSCI 5541 - Natural Language Processing (3 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 5(0 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Dongyeop Kang
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CSCI 2041
Description:
Computers are poor conversationalists, despite decades of attempts to change that fact. This course will provide an overview of the computational techniques developed in the attempt to enable computers to interpret and respond appropriately to ideas expressed using natural languages (such as English or French) as opposed to formal languages (such as C++ or Python). Topics in this course will include parsing, semantic analysis, machine translation, dialogue systems, and statistical methods in speech recognition.

CSCI 5551 - Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems (3.0)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (3 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024.
Karthik Desingh
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
2031 or 2033 or instr consent
Description:
Transformations, kinematics/inverse kinematics, dynamics, control. Sensing (robot vision, force control, tactile sensing), applications of sensor-based robot control, robot programming, mobile robotics, microrobotics.

CSCI 5561 - Computer Vision (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (5 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Junaed Sattar
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5511 or instr consent
Description:
Issues in perspective transformations, edge detection, image filtering, image segmentation, and feature tracking. Complex problems in shape recovery, stereo, active vision, autonomous navigation, shadows, and physics-based vision. Applications.

CSCI 5607 - Computer Graphics I (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (7 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Victoria Interrante
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5511 or instr consent
Description:
Fundamental algorithms in computer graphics. Emphasizes programming projects in C/C++. Scan conversion, hidden surface removal, geometrical transformations, projection, illumination/shading, parametric cubic curves, texture mapping, antialising, ray tracing. Developing graphics software, graphics research.

CSCI 5609 - Visualization (3.0 cr) - added 1/19/24
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (10 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Daniel Orban
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[1913, 4041] or equiv or instr consent
Description:
Fundamental theory/practice in data visualization. Programming applications. Perceptual issues in effective data representation, multivariate visualization, information visualization, vector field/volume visualization.

CSCI 5708 - Architecture and Implementation of Database Management Systems (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Mohamed Mokbel
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
4707 or 5707 or instr consent
Description:
Techniques in commercial/research-oriented database systems. Catalogs. Physical storage techniques. Query processing/optimization. Transaction management. Mechanisms for concurrency control, disaster recovery, distribution, security, integrity, extended data types, triggers, and rules.

CSCI 5802 - Software Engineering II (3 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (4 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Mattia Fazzini
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5801 or instr consent
Description:
Introduction to software testing, software maturity models, cost specification models, bug estimation, software reliability models, software complexity, quality control, and experience report. Student groups specify, design, implement, and test partial software systems. Application of general software development methods and principles from 5801.

CSCI 5980/CSCI 8980 - Machine Learning for Healthcare (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Yogatheesan Varatharajah
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5521 or an equivalent course is recommended
Description:
Machine Learning is transforming healthcare. This course will introduce students to a range of healthcare problems that can be tackled using machine learning, different health data modalities, relevant machine learning paradigms, and the unique challenges presented by healthcare applications. Applications we will cover include risk stratification, disease progression modeling, precision medicine, diagnosis, prognosis, subtype discovery, and improving clinical workflows. We will also cover research topics such as explainability, causality, trust, robustness, and fairness. More information at https://yoga-varatha.github.io/ml4health-umn/

CSCI 8970/DSCI 8970 - Computer Science Colloquium (1.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (6 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Ju Sun
Seminars and Colloquia taken for credit are offered only as live and archived streaming video - NO downloadable video or audio podcast versions are offered.
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on Mondays 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Description:
Recent developments in computer science and related disciplines. Students must attend 13 of the 15 lectures. For the entire schedule, see the Computer Science & Engineering Colloquia Series Web Site

CSCI 8980/CSCI 5980 - Machine Learning for Healthcare (3.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (no spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Yogatheesan Varatharajah
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5521 or an equivalent course is recommended
Description:
Machine Learning is transforming healthcare. This course will introduce students to a range of healthcare problems that can be tackled using machine learning, different health data modalities, relevant machine learning paradigms, and the unique challenges presented by healthcare applications. Applications we will cover include risk stratification, disease progression modeling, precision medicine, diagnosis, prognosis, subtype discovery, and improving clinical workflows. We will also cover research topics such as explainability, causality, trust, robustness, and fairness. More information at https://yoga-varatha.github.io/ml4health-umn/

NOTE: UNITE WILL NOT TAKE REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL COURSES FOR SPRING 2024 AFTER NOVEMBER 15th, 2023.

DATA SCIENCE

DSCI 8970/CSCI 8970 - Computer Science Colloquium (1.0 cr)
UNITE section enrollment limited by department to 10 (6 spaces available as of January 18th)
UNITE is no longer keeping wait lists for Spring 2024 as of January 29th.
Ju Sun
Seminars and Colloquia taken for credit are offered only as live and archived streaming video - NO downloadable video or audio podcast versions are offered.
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on Mondays 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Description:
Recent developments in computer science and related disciplines. Students must attend 13 of the 15 lectures. For the entire schedule, see the Computer Science & Engineering Colloquia Series Web Site

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

EE 4363/CSCI 4203 - Computer Architecture and Machine Organization (4.0)
Ulya Karpuzcu
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
2361
Description:
Introduction to computer architecture. Aspects of computer systems, such as pipelining, memory hierarchy, and input/output systems. Performance metrics. Examines each component of a complicated computer system. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: CSCI 4203 or EE 5361.

EE 5164 - Semiconductor Properties and Devices II (3.0 cr)
Sarah Swisher
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5163 or instr consent
Description:
Principles/properties of semiconductor devices. Charge control in different FETs, transport, modeling. Bipolar transistor models (Ebers-Moll, Gummel-Poon), heterostructure bipolar transistors. Special devices.

EE 5235 (also offered as AEM 8421) - Robust Multivariable Control System Design (3.0 cr)
Ryan Caverly
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CSE grad, 3015, 5231 or instruct consent
Description:
Development of control system design ideas; frequency response techniques in design of single-input/single-output (and MI/MO) systems. Robust control concepts. CAD tools.

EE 5302 - VLSI Design Automation II (3.0 cr)
Sachin Sapatnekar
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[5301, CSE grad student] or dept consent
Description:
Basic algorithms, computational complexity. High-level synthesis. Test generation. Power estimation. Timing optimization. Current topics.

EE 5324 - VLSI Design II (3.0 cr)
Yu Cao
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[5323, CSE grad student] or dept consent
Description:
CMOS arithmetic logic units, high-speed carry chains, fast CMOS multipliers. High-speed performance parallel shifters. CMOS memory cells, array structures, read/write circuits. Design for testability, including scan design and built-in self test. VLSI case studies.

EE 5393 - Circuits, Computation, and Biology (3.0 cr)
Marc Riedel
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
MATH 2263 or dept consent
Description:
Connections between digital circuit design and synthetic/computational biology. Probabilistic, discrete-event simulation. Timing analysis. Information-Theoretic Analysis. Feedback in digital circuits/genetic regulatory systems. Synthesizing stochastic logic and probabilistic biochemistry.

EE 5571 - Statistical Learning and Inference (3 cr)
Georgios Giannakis
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
Courses in Stochastic Processes (EE 5531) and Digital Signal Processing (EE 4541)
Description:
Deterministic and random approaches to learning and inference from data, with applications to statistical models for estimation, detection, and classification. Algorithms and their performance include minimum-variance unbiased estimators, sufficient statistics, fundamental bounds, (non)linear least-squares, maximum-likelihood, expectation-maximization, nonparametric density estimators, mean-square error and Bayesian estimators, importance sampling, Kalman and particle filtering, sequential probability ratio test, bootstrap, Monte Carlo Markov Chains, and graphical models.

EE 5602 - RF/Microwave Circuit Design (3.0 cr)
Yahya Tousi
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[5601 or equiv], [CSE grad student or instr consent]
Description:
Transmission lines, network analysis concepts. CAD tools for passive/active designs. Diode based circuit designs (detectors, frequency multipliers, mixers). Transistor based circuit design (amplifiers, oscillators, mixer/doubler).

EE 5621 - Physical Optics (3.0 cr)
James Leger
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[3015, CSE grad student] or dept consent
Description:
Physical optics principles, including Fourier analysis of optical systems/images, scalar diffraction theory, interferometry, and coherence theory. Diffractive optical elements, holography, astronomical imaging, optical information processing, microoptics.

EE 5741 - Advanced Power Electronics (3 cr)
Siddharth Raju
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Prerequisites:
CSE grad student] or dept consent
Description:
Physics of solid-state power devices, passive components, magnetic optimization, advanced topologies. Unity power factor correction circuits, EMI issues, snubbers, soft switching in dc/ac converters. Practical considerations. Very low voltage output converters. Integrated computer simulations.

EE 8215 - Nonlinear Systems (3 cr)
Donatello Materassi
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on WF 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
instr consent
Description:
Current topics in stability analysis of nonlinear systems, design of controllers for nonlinear systems, discrete-time and stochastic nonlinear systems.

EE 8231 - Optimization Theory (3 cr)
Nicola Elia
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Prerequisites:
CSE grad student] or dept consent
Description:
Introduction to optimization in engineering; approximation theory. Least squares estimation, optimal control theory, and computational approaches.

EE 8551 - Multirate Signal Processing and Applications (3 cr)
Emad Ebbini
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Prerequisites:
CSE grad student] or dept consent
Description:
Multirate discrete-time systems with applications in modern signal and data processing problems. Hilbert Spaces and Linear Operators; Reisz Bases and Frames; Vector Space Representation of Sampling, Interpolation, Time-frequency analysis and wavelets; Filterbanks and Polyphase Structures; Sparsity and redundancy with applications in linear and nonlinear approximation, super-resolution, blind-source separation.

EE 8620 - Advanced Topics in Magnetics (1-3 cr)
Jian-Ping Wang
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
5653 or instr consent
Description:
Coming from department

EE 8744 - Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Renewable Energy Systems (3 cr)
Murti Salapaka
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Prerequisites:
instr consent
Description:
The electrical power system has been widely recognized as the most important engineering achievement of the 20th century. High power quality and availability are maintained in the bulk power system mainly by enforcing hierarchical operational practices, central decision making, and topological redundancy. However, this status quo is being challenged by changing generation, consumption and operational landscapes. Particularly, increased renewable generation, supply scarcity, the impetus to improve resiliency to extenuating weather impacts, and expanding electricity access call for the development of transformative architectural and operational paradigms. Recognizing these developments, this course will present enabling modeling, analysis, and control methods that will be integral to architect next-generation renewable-based power systems. These methods will be developed adopting a bottom-up approach by leveraging recent theoretical advances in circuit theory, nonlinear systems, complex networks, and stochastic processes.

EE 8660 - Magnetics Seminar (1.0 cr)
Seminars and Colloquia taken for credit are offered only as live and archived streaming video - NO downloadable video or audio podcast versions are offered.
Jian-Ping Wang
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on Friday 2:30 - 3:20
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
Instruct consent
Description:
Current literature, individual assignments.

EE 8950 - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (3.0 cr)
Keshab Parhi
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
Cr ar [may be repeated for cr]; instr consent; Graduate Student
Description:
Basic concepts and physical principles underlying magnetic devices and systems to achieve energy efficiency, energy conversion and harvest; Engineering designs and basic features of matured magnetic devices and systems: heat assisted magnetic recording (HMAR), magnetic-random-access memory (MRAM), permanent-magnet-based electric motors and wind-turbines, magnetic sensors, etc; New functionalities and engineering designs and challenges of spin-orbit-torque (SOT) devices, magnetic energy conversion and harvest devices, and magnetic in-memory computingdevices and systems, etc.

NOTE: UNITE WILL NOT TAKE REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL COURSES FOR SPRING 2024 AFTER NOVEMBER 15th, 2023.

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

IE 3521 - Statistics, Quality and Reliability (4.0 cr)
Yiling Zhing
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 9:05 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
MATH 1372 or equiv
Description:
Random variables/probability distributions, statistical sampling/measurement, statistical inferencing, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, single/multivariate regression, design of experiments, statistical quality control, quality management, reliability, maintainability.

IE 5441 - Financial Decision Making (4 cr)
Ankur Mani
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 11:15 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CSE upper div or grad student
Description:
Cash flow streams, interest rates, fixed income securities. Evaluating investment alternatives, capital budgeting, dynamic cash flow process. Mean-variance portfolio selection, Capital Asset Pricing Model, utility maximization, risk aversion. Derivative securities, asset dynamics, basic option pricing theory.

IE 5551 - Production and Inventory Systems (4 cr)
Krishnamurthy Iyer
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 1:25 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CNR or upper div or grad student
Description:
Inventory control, supply chain management, demand forecasting, capacity planning, aggregate production and material requirement planning, operations scheduling, and shop floor control. Quantitative models used to support decisions. Implications of emerging information technologies and of electronic commerce for supply chain management and factory operation.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ME 5241 - Computer-Aided Engineering (4.0 cr)
Thomas Chase
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 12:20 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
3222, CSci 1113 or equiv, CSE upper div or grad
Description:
Apply computer-aided engineering to mechanical design. Engineering design projects and case studies using computer-aided design and finite element analysis software; design optimization and computer graphical presentation of results.

ME 5243 - Advanced Mechanism Design (4.0 cr) - added to UNITE Schedule 10/2/23
Arthur Erdman
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 10:10 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CSE upper div or grad, 3222 or equiv, basic kinematics and dynamics of machines; knowledge of CAD packages such as Pro-E recommended
Description:
Analytical methods of kinematic, dynamic, and kinetoelastodynamic analysis and synthesis of mechanisms. Computerized design for function, path, and motion generation based on Burmeister theory.

ME 5248 - Vibration Engineering (4.0 cr) - Enrollment is paused for ME 5248 by department 11/21/23
This course has a required ON-CAMPUS lab. UNITE-enrolled students will need to attend the on-campus lab - select one of the on-campus lab sections (section 2, W 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.; section 3, W 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.; all lab sections held in Mechanical Engineering 356). When you submit your registration to UNITE, note which lab section you prefer.
Frank Kelso
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on WF 8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
CSE upper div or grad, 3281
Description:
Apply vibration theory to design; optimize isolators, detuning mechanisms, viscoelastic suspensions and structures. Use modal analysis methods to describe free vibration of complex systems, relating to both theoretical and test procedures.

ME 5286 - Robotics (4.0 cr)
Required, weekly ON-CAMPUS labs (University ID required for access)
Mechanical Engineering 74, East Bank
A weekly 2-hour laboratory lasting week two through the end of the semester will provide students with practical experience using and programming robots; students will work in pairs determined early in the semester based on schedules and perform a series of experiments using a collaborative robot.
Max Donath, Tim Kowalewski
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on TTh 8:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
[3281 or equiv], [upper div ME or AEM or CSci or grad student]
Description:
The course deals with two major components: robot manipulators (more commonly known as the robot arm) and computer vision. Lecture topics covered under robot manipulators include their forward and inverse kinematics, the mathematics of homogeneous transformations and coordinate frames, the Jacobian and velocity control, task programming, computational issues related to robot control, determining path trajectories, reaction forces, manipulator dynamics and control. Topics under computer vision include image sensors, digitization, preprocessing, edge detection, neural networks, and machine learning techniques.
Laboratory:
Students will work in pairs and perform a series of experiments, and then assemble a flashlight using the Universal Robots UR5, a collaborative robot. Note that the lab period is not included in the scheduled lecture time. We will form lab groups and schedule lab periods (that don't conflict with your other classes) during the 1st week of class. The selection of lab partners and time slots will be based on the availability of all students in the class. In order to do this, a survey of availability will be filled out during the first day of class (Tuesday). You will be assigned a lab time slot and partner on the 2nd day of class (Thursday). Additional time can be scheduled to complete the lab during open slots.

ME 8342 - Convection (3.0 cr) - added to UNITE Schedule 10/2/23
Vinod Srinavasan
UNITE streams live video of on-campus section on MW 9:05 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
Grad level course on fundamentals of fluid mechanics that has a substantial component on viscous flows or instr consent
Description:
Heat transfer in fluids flowing around bodies and in tubes/ducts. Forced/natural convection. Laminar/turbulent flow regimes. Turbulent transport and modeling. High-speed flows, viscous dissipation, variable property effects. Application to heat exchange devices. Convective mass transfer.

STATISTICS

STAT 5021 - Statistical Analysis (4 cr)
This course has a required lab which UNITE will live stream/record - there is no seat for UNITE-enrolled students in an on-campus lab for this course. UNITE-enrolled students will be enrolled in lab section 884, which is a subset of lab section 002 (on-campus students).
Lu Yang
UNITE streams live video of on-campus lecture section on MWF 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
UNITE streams live video of on-campus 002/884 lab section on Th 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
college algebra or instr consent; credit will not be granted if credit has been received for STAT 3011
Description:
Intensive introduction to statistical methods for graduate students needing statistics as a research technique.

STAT 5102 - Theory of Statistics II (4 cr)
This course has a required lab which UNITE will live stream/record - there is no seat for UNITE-enrolled students in an on-campus lab for this course. UNITE-enrolled students will be enrolled in lab section 884, which is a subset of lab section 002 (on-campus students).
Hui Zou
UNITE streams live video of on-campus lecture section on MWF 3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
UNITE streams live video of on-campus 002/884 lab section on T 3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
Archived videos typically available to UNITE-enrolled students within an hour
Prerequisites:
(MATH 2263 or MATH 2374 or MATH 2573H), (CSCI 2033 or MATH 2373 or MATH 2243)
Description:
Sampling, sufficiency, estimation, test of hypotheses, size/power. Categorical data. Contingency tables. Linear models. Decision theory.

NOTE: UNITE WILL NOT TAKE REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL COURSES FOR SPRING 2024 AFTER NOVEMBER 15th, 2023.