Courses

American society, politics, economics, and foreign affairs from the end of World War I to the origins of the Cold War.

Economic and social changes, imperialism, and the growth of government in the United States from 1877 to the 1920s.

Explores the social, political, cultural, economic, and diplomatic history of the U.S. from the end of World War I to the end of World War II.

The scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, concentrating on the astronomical work of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton; Darwinian evolution; the conquest of epidemic diseases; the development of nuclear weapons.

This course provides an introduction to selected key topics in chronic diseases burden endured globally. We will address the following questions: How is it that people in some countries live twice as long as in others? Why is there a rising epidemic of NCDs such as cancer, heart and lung disease, obesity, and diabetes spreading globally? What are the burdens posed by these diseases? What steps are being taken to control it? What key tools are at our disposal?

Survey of European society and social classes from the origins of capitalism in the Middle Ages to the triumph of the "middle class world" in the 19th century; rise of the middle class, development of bourgeois ideology and culture, and creation of the working class.

This lab-oriented course will be focused to give graduate students the theory and hands-on experience in operation, data acquisition and interpretation of widely used thermal characterization techniques such as differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), thermo gravimetric analyzer (TGA) , Simultaneous TGA-DTA, Thermo mechanical analyzer (TMA), Dynamic mechanic analyzer (DMA) and rheological and viscosity analyses of polymeric resins and composite materials.

This lab-oriented course will be focused to give graduate students the theory and hands-on experience in operation, data acquisition and interpretation of widely used thermal characterization techniques such as differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), thermo gravimetric analyzer (TGA) , Simultaneous TGA-DTA, Thermo mechanical analyzer (TMA), Dynamic mechanic analyzer (DMA) and rheological and viscosity analyses of polymeric resins and composite materials.

Laboratory component of MSE 628 and must be taken concurrently.

Laboratory component of MSE 728 and must be taken concurrently.