Courses

This course will provide instruction regarding fetal echocardiography and sonographic applications used in fetal risk assessment and viability of high-risk pregnancies. A focus will be placed on fetal cardiac anatomy, pathophysiology, lab values, and biometric measurements. At completion, the student will be required to differentiate between normal and abnormal fetal echocardiographic studies.

This course will focus on analytical methods for a series of advanced topics with an emphasis on practical applications to space science, such as Vector and Fourier Analysis, ODEs/PDEs in space science, and Green's functions, Spherical Harmonics, Spectral Analysis, Wavelet Transforms, Fractals and Complexity, and Inverse Problems.

Survey equipment calibration, instrumentation error, topographic mapping, control leveling, instrumentation error, and the propagation of error through survey calculations. This course is the second course of a one-year study of survey fundamentals.

This course examines advanced research methods, measurement and assessment principles, statistical analytic techniques, standard setting, test bias, and equating. Students will understand how these methods are used to measure and evaluate student progress and how the information gathered through these processes can be used to inform decisions about students, programs, and activities.

Introduction to classical and modern (IRT) test theory, measurement properties, differential item functioning, standard and adaptive testing.

Practice in evaluation and grading of beef, pork, and lamb carcasses and cuts. Development of communication skills and exposure to animal agriculture through training and intercollegiate competition. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours.

This course focuses on the application of standards used in drafting / designing auxiliary, section, detail, and assembly views, using computer-aided drafting / design software. Topics include the proper use and techniques of computer-aided drafting / design, the arrangement of auxiliary, detail, and section views. The student will be expected to apply the skills and techniques to make technical drawings, using computer-aided drafting / design software.

Variation of stress at point including determination of principal and maximum shear stresses. Strain gages and rosettes. Failure theories. Inelastic stress-strain behavior of axially loaded bars. Torsion of noncircular sections and plastic torque. Curved beams. Elastic and plastic analysis for unsymmetrical bending. Shear center. Beams on elastic foundations.

Variation of stress at point including determination of principal and maximum shear stresses. Basic problems involving symmetrical deformation; thickwall cylinders, spheres, and rotating disk. Torsions of noncircular sections. Curved beams. Failure Theories. Unsymmetrical bending and shear center.

Classical lamination theory, analysis and failure of reinforced composite material systems, anisotropic elasticity, stress analysis and design of laminated composites including 3D effects, stress concentrations, free-edge effects, hygrothermal behavior, adhesive and mechanical connections.