What I’ve studied.

Turning software requirements into specifications, prototypes, and designs using engineering methods.

Professional practice and ethical responsibilities in computing and engineering.

Designing maintainable object-oriented software, separating interfaces from logic, and evaluating efficiency.

Mathematical foundations for computing, including logic, counting techniques, trees, and graphs.

Probability models and random variables, with statistical tests, correlation, and regression applied to engineering problems.

Protecting computer systems and communications through cryptography, secure protocols, and privacy techniques.

Comparing high-level language designs through study and programming practice.

Operating-system concepts and practical systems programming using Java.

Evaluating software designs, recognizing useful patterns and problematic designs, and comparing architectural approaches.

Exploring formal languages, grammars, and abstract computing machines, including which problems can be solved computationally.

Planning substantial software projects through requirements, estimation, design, and verification.

Building dependable software through verification, validation, and testing, with attention to software management and ongoing maintenance.

Discovering, documenting, validating, and managing requirements throughout software development.

Comparing algorithm efficiency and designing effective procedures for handling data.

Team-based software development applying requirements analysis, effort estimation, design, and verification in a substantial group project.

Investigating electronic devices and embedded hardware to understand behavior, interfaces, and stored data.

Practical neural-network modeling for nonlinear problems, including classification, forecasting, system identification, and control.

Building and testing websites with markup, styling, scripting, and web services.

Modeling and analyzing linear electrical circuits, including circuit laws, equivalent circuits, and transient responses.

Data models, query languages, and algorithms for distributed database systems.

Using graphs, trees, networks, paths, and matrix representations to model problems and construct algorithms.

An introduction to computer hardware, operating systems, everyday applications, online searching, and organizing files.

Practical arithmetic for everyday and workplace situations, including rational numbers, ratios, proportions, and percentages.

Exploring career interests, researching employment opportunities, setting goals, and preparing resumes, cover letters, and interview responses.

Developing reading, writing, research, and study skills for clear communication.

Practicing the writing process through paragraphs and essays, with attention to revision, grammar, organization, and transitions.

Developing coherent essays through planning, drafting, revision, and critical thinking about purpose and audience.

Algebraic preparation for further mathematics, including functions, equation systems, polynomials, rational expressions, radicals, and quadratic equations.

Solving engineering problems through mathematical models, analytical methods, spreadsheets, and collaborative projects.

Studying functions and their graphs, including polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, alongside conics and equation systems.

Studying human behavior and mental processes through biological, psychological, and social perspectives, including learning, memory, and research methods.

Foundational chemistry with laboratory work, covering measurement, matter, chemical names, and quantitative relationships.

Collaborative engineering design with hands-on projects, microcontrollers, creative problem solving, and design optimization.

Programming fundamentals in C++, including control flow, functions, arrays, pointers, dynamic memory, and introductory object-oriented concepts.

Beginning Japanese conversation, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, with an introduction to the writing system and cultural context.

Trigonometric functions, identities, and equations, with applications involving triangles, vectors, polar coordinates, and parametric equations.

An algebra-based introduction to mechanics, including motion, forces, energy, and momentum.

Continuing Japanese language study through conversation, reading, writing, and grammar in everyday cultural and social contexts.

Limits, continuity, derivatives, and introductory antiderivatives, with applications to algebraic and transcendental functions.

A business seminar focused on business in Japanese. The linked catalog describes the broader BUS 190 seminar course; topics vary by offering.

Developing object-oriented C++ programs using recursion, inheritance, templates, polymorphism, and structures such as stacks, queues, lists, and trees.

Examining supply and demand, pricing, production, firm behavior, and how regulation and international trade affect markets.

Integration techniques and applications involving areas, volumes, and work, alongside numerical methods, improper integrals, and parametric curves.

Analyzing experimental measurements and uncertainty, building models, collaborating in teams, and writing scientific reports.

Calculus-based mechanics for engineering and science, the first course in the engineering physics sequence.

Infinite series and Taylor polynomials, vectors and planes, partial derivatives, and double integrals with applications.

Designing and analyzing combinational and sequential logic circuits using foundational components and modern design tools.

Further practice in experimental modeling, uncertainty analysis, scientific reporting, teamwork, and independent research.

Calculus-based study of thermodynamics and waves, continuing the engineering physics sequence.

Designing and carrying out experiments in a team, then presenting the results in a formal scientific report.

Calculus-based electromagnetism, completing the engineering physics sequence.

Exploring American cultural values through history, literature, and the arts, including questions of race, class, gender, privilege, and religion.

Connecting assembly programs to processor operation through instruction sets, datapaths, pipelining, memory organization, and input/output systems.

Creating technical documents for different audiences using research and visual design, including proposals, instructions, specifications, and analytical reports.

Multivariable and vector calculus, including triple, line, and surface integrals, gradients, and the major integral theorems.

Designing and comparing algorithms in C++ using advanced data structures, complexity analysis, and asymptotic notation.

Solving linear systems and studying matrices, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors.

An overview of business in a global economy, including ethics, management, finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, and human resources.

Evaluating reasoning through categorical, propositional, and predicate logic, with practice constructing formal proofs.