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Course Descriptions

Undergraduate Bulletin Course Description Introduction

Course descriptions are listed (in this section) in alphabetical order by curricular subject abbreviations. Undergraduate courses are those numbered from 100 through 499. All numbers above that are for graduate credit.

General Education, Racial and Ethnic Studies and Global Perspective Requirements

This section describes the purpose of and outlines the requirements of each of these course categories.

Each degree program has a general education component designed to provide you with knowledge and skills in communication, analytic reasoning, natural sciences, arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, contemporary issues, social responsibility and ethical reasoning. The university also requires students to take courses to learn about the diverse cultures that make up the United States. With careful planning, some of the general education courses and racial and ethnic studies courses may overlap. That is, you may take a course that meets both general education and racial and ethnic studies requirements. While the credits you earn count once toward graduation, they may be used to satisfy requirements in these two areas. The global perspective requirement for undergraduates stems from the goals of UW-Stout’s distinctive mission and array of programs that combine theory, practice and experimentation.

  

Racial and Ethnic Studies Requirements

The Racial and Ethnic Studies requirement is six credits with a minimum of three credits from RES-A. Each student must satisfy the racial and ethnic studies requirement as preparation for being an engaged citizen in a highly diverse society. Racial and ethnic studies courses prepare students for being engaged citizens in a highly diverse society and to come to appreciate, understand, value and respond respectfully to cultural diversity. Through the study of U.S. cultures other than those from a European origin, we hope to discourage racism and thus reduce its effects. An important emphasis is critical reflection and application of acquired learning to professional and personal contexts. Lists of the racial and ethnic studies courses in each category are available online. Transfer students who have fulfilled the racial and ethnic studies requirement at another UW System university are exempt from meeting UW-Stout’s criteria.

Global Perspective Requirement

Both the globalization of work and the career education that is part of UW-Stout’s mission make it desirable that students appreciate cultural, economic, political, environmental and social differences. Learning a second language at the college level and developing an understanding of another culture provides students with skills they will use in international situations. To earn a bachelor’s degree, students who started Fall 2010 or later must fulfill a global perspective requirement by:

  • Completing a program of university-approved work or study abroad, or
  • Completing six credits of courses approved as fulfilling the global perspective requirement.

Interpreting Course Descriptions

This document will help you understand the various codes used in the course descriptions that follow.

A typical course description in the Undergraduate Bulletin appears like this:

LIT 273 American Multicultural Literature  

The three digits of the course codes refer to the course level. The 100 series is primarily for freshmen; 200 – sophomores; 300 – juniors; and 400 – seniors.

Credits

UW-Stout defines a credit hour as an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that reasonably approximates: [1] At least one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately 15 weeks for one semester hour of credit, or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time; or [2] At least an equivalent amount of work as required in part one [1] of this definition for other academic activities as established by UW-Stout, including distance education, online, hybrid, or other indirect faculty instruction, laboratory work, internships, co-op experiences, studio work, and other academic work leading to the award of credit hours.

Course Planning Information

Information included with the course description helps you as you plan your course schedules. General Education, Racial and Ethnic Studies, Global Perspective, repeatability, and terms offered (if known) are indicated.

The terms indicated serve only as a general guide and do not guarantee that a course will be offered during a particular semester. Verify availability of a course in any given term by checking the online Open Courses listing or through Access Stout when planning your schedule.
 

Information and Technology Management
  

  • ITM-300 Workshop: Voice Mail & Unified Messaging

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Cisco Unity Connection architecture, components, functionality, and features. Implement and administer Cisco Unity Connection to create a unified workspace encompassing applications, devices, networks, and operating systems. Explore the various administration tools and reports available in Cisco Unity Connection.
  

  • ITM-308 Convergence Technologies

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Creation of single networks that support many different types of traffic: data, audio, video, and interactive multimedia. Planning physical design and installation of a telephone and converged system, requirements of a converged network, and what makes convergence.
    Prerequisite: take ICT-103  and ITM-134  
  

  • ITM-330 IP Telephony Design & Implementation

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internet protocol (IP) telephony components and protocols examination; converged network interpretation; analog and digital voice interface configuration; quality of service configuration; single and multisite IP telephony deployment; IP telephony features implementation.
    Prerequisites: take ITM-441  
  

  • ITM-349 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • ITM-361 Workstation And Server

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Installing, configuring, and administering Microsoft Windows utilizing the current commercial version of the product for both workstations and servers. Helps prepare students for two of the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification examinations.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-134  
  

  • ITM-362 Server Applications

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Installing, configuring, and administering server applications using multiple industry standard operating systems. Server applications may include World Wide Web, FTP, software updates, mail, file sharing, DNS, DHCP, and terminal services.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-361  
  

  • ITM-363 Directory Services

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Provides knowledge and skills to plan, implement, and troubleshoot directory services. Design and implement a secure network. Focuses on a directory services environment, including forest and domain structure, domain name system, site ology and replication, organizational unit structure, and delegation of administrations.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-361  
  

  • ITM-382 Network Systems Design

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Concepts from communication networks. LAN, MAN, WAN networks. Introduction to LAN switching, ATM and virtual LANS. Designing and integration of LAN switching virtual networking and ATM into today’s networks.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-134  
  

  • ITM-383 Introduction to Network Security

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Design, implementation and management of network security in multilayered computer networks. Identifying and evaluating network security threats; internet, intranet, and extranet security issues.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-134  
  

  • ITM-391 Wireless Systems

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Wireless networking combining Radio Frequency (RF) and Local Area Networking (LAN) technology fundamentals. Basic concepts and building blocks or the convergence between RF and networking technologies. Technologies and tasks vital to installing, managing, and supporting wireless networks.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-134  
  

  • ITM-399 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
  

  • ITM-441 Scalable Internetworks

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    One of three core courses for preparation for the Cisco CCNP and CCDP professional certification. Students will learn how to build scalable routable networks. Students are required to pass the associated Cisco certification examination.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-134  
  

  • ITM-442 Remote Access Networks

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    One of three core courses for preparation for the Cisco CCNP and CCDP professional certification. Students will learn how to build remote access networks to interconnect central sites to branch offices and home offices. Students are required to pass the associated Cisco certification examination.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-441  
  

  • ITM-443 Multi-Layer Switched Networks

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    One of three core courses for preparation for the Cisco CCNP and CCDP professional certification. Build multi-layer switched networks. Students are required to pass the associated Cisco certification examination.
    Prerequisite: take ITM-441  
  

  • ITM-444 Internetwork Troubleshooting

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Specialization course for the Cisco CCNP professional certification. Students will learn to troubleshoot internetworks. Students are required to pass the associated Cisco certification examination.
    Prerequisites: Take ITM-441  and ITM-443  
  

  • ITM-445 Internetwork Design

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Specialization course for the Cisco CCNP professional certification. Students will learn to design internetwork solutions. Students are required to pass the associated Cisco certification examination.
    Prerequisites: take ITM-441 , ITM-442 , and ITM-443  
  

  • ITM-449 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • ITM-450 Enterprise Solutions and Unified Communications

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Enterprise-level network utilizing the technologies and methods that are current industry best practices. Provide enterprise network solutions and unified communications to an organization while maintaining quality of service. New and emerging network technologies for an enterprise network.
    Prerequisites: take ITM-330 , ITM-363 , and ITM-444  
  

  • ITM-484 Advanced Network Security and Auditing

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Network infrastructure, operating systems, data centers, and virtualized environment security and auditing. Information technology government and industry regulation compliance.
    Prerequisites: take ITM-363 , ITM-383 , and ITM-443  
  

  • ITM-490 Information Technology Management Capstone

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Work with an outside organization in a team environment utilizing concepts of design, brainstorming, problem solving, team work, creativity, evaluation, and present findings in oral and written formats.
    Prerequisite: Take ITM-450  
  

  • ITM-499 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent

Literature
  

  • LIT-203 American Poets

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Poetry of American writers: how culture, race, ethnicity, and nature shape American poetry.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-205 The Short Story

    3 cr.
    Literature, Contemporary Issues
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Style, structure, history and development of short story as a literary form.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-208 Fiction Into Film

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    A literary and cultural examination of film adaptations. Special attention is given to the evolving depiction of non-dominant racial and ethnic cultural groups in literature and film.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-230 American Cinema

    3 cr.
    Literature, Contemporary Issues, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    A literary and cultural examination of American cinematic development. Special attention is given to the evolving depiction of non-dominant cultural groups and contemporary issues. Examination of these issues allows students to actively discover, assess, and execute the creative problem-solving needed to be fully engaged with contemporary issues.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-255 Recent World Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Global Perspective
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Selected readings in Contemporary Literature in Translation.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-260 Modern American Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Selected poetry, prose and drama produced since World War I.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL 101  or ENGL 111  
  

  • LIT-265 Literature and Economics

    3 cr.
    Literature, Contemporary Issues
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Exploration of economic concepts and principles in literary works form a variety of periods. Application of literary and economic theory to novel-length texts.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-272 Women Writers

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Global Perspective
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Study of representative American and international women writers within the tradition of feminist literary theory.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-273 American Multicultural Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category A
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    American multicultural literature, focusing on Hispanic, African, Asian, and Native American writers.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-275 Environmental Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Literary and critical analysis of environmentalist discourses. Exploration of literary works that treat land use and co-existence among life forms.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-280 Best-Sellers

    3 cr.
    Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Fiction and non-fiction best-sellers: expression of an impact on popular culture.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-281 Recent American Literature: Culture, Race, Ethnicity and Nature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    How culture, race ethnicity, and nature shape American literature.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-285 Science Fiction

    3 cr.
    Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Critical survey of popular and classic science fiction.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-299 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-300 Children’s Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Critical survey and ways of presenting literature for children from infancy to age 12.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-301 English Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Selected prose and poetry from 1798 to modern times.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-302 Topics in Literature

    1 cr.
    Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Intensive analysis of selected authors and literary works with emphasis on discourse analysis in group and workshop settings.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-303 Coming of Age in Literature and Film

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Exploration of literary and filmic works that treat age, coming of age, aging, and old age. Literary and critical analysis using age studies in literature.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-304 American Folklore

    3 cr.
    Literature, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Analysis and interpretation of stories, songs, jokes, and material culture of families, work groups, ethnic groups, and religious groups.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-306 Shakespeare

    3 cr.
    Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Several representative plays and selected criticism.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-307 After 9/11: American Literature of Public Crisis and Trauma

    3 cr.
    Literature, Contemporary Issues, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category A, Global Perspective, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Literary and cultural analysis of 9/11 and its aftermath in American and global contexts. Exploration of new racial formations, discourses of citizenship in the wake of trauma.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-308 Alice Walker: Beyond Purple

    3 cr.
    Contemporary Issues, Racial & Ethnic Studies Category A
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Explore Alice Walker’s short stories, poetry, essays, children’s literature, and novels. Consider Walker’s writing in its social and historical contexts, particularly the civil rights, anti-Viet Nam war, and women’s liberation movements, and connect those themes to contemporary issues.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-350 Modern British Literature

    3 cr.
    Literature, Global Perspective
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Selected poetry, prose, and fiction produced since World War I.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-396 Romantic Poets

    3 cr.
    Humanities and the Arts - Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-399 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-450 Experience in China: Modern East Asian Literature and Cinema

    3 cr.
    Global Perspective
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Through the Experience China Study Abroad Program, this course introduces students to the cultural, social, political, and aesthetic developments in Modern East Asia through the study of major works of 20th and 21st century Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Literature and film. Includes study of memoirs, writings of political theory, sociology, religion, and history.
    Department Consent
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-450 Studies in Literature (Theme, Author, Genre)

    2-3 cr.
    Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    A study of a selected writer’s work or of literature focusing on a significant theme of literature or of a genre not offered as a distinct course of similar duration within the departmental curriculum.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-450 Studies in Literature: Alice Walker: Beyond Purple

    2-3 cr.
    Humanities and the Arts - Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Study of Alice Walker’s short stories, essays, children’s literature, poetry, and novels, making connections with the social and historical contexts, particularly the civil rights, anti-Viet Nam war, and women’s liberation movements.
    Prerequisites: ENGL-102  or ENGL-112  or ENGL-113  
  

  • LIT-450 Studies in Literature: Women’s Autobiographical Writing: Private Lives, Public Stories

    3 cr.
    Humanities and the Arts - Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Women’s Autobiographical Writing: Private Lives, Public Stories: The changing contexts of women’s lives and how women’s actions have shaped and responded to those contexts as seen through women’s autobiography. Rhetorical situations and consequences of various types of women’s autobiography including autobiography using new medial such as blogging.
    ENGL-102  or ENGL-112  
  

  • LIT-450A Studies in Literature (Theme, Author, Genre)

    2-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    A study of a selected writer’s work or of literature focusing on a significant theme of literature or of a genre not offered as a distinct course of similar duration within the departmental curriculum.
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-496 Films and Literature

    3 cr.
    Humanities and the Arts - Literature
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  
  

  • LIT-499 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
    Prerequisite: take either ENGL-101  or ENGL-111  

Logic
  

  • LOG-250 Critical Thinking

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Formulation, clarification and critical evaluation of claims: justification through non-formal argumentational strategies.
  

  • LOG-301 Introduction to Logical Thinking

    3 cr.
    Logic
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Problem-solving strategies based on induction and on categorical and propositional deduction.
  

  • LOG-305 Symbolic Logic

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Propositional and first-order quantificational languages and deductive systems, proof construction, introduction to soundness and completeness, application to natural language reasoning and computability.
  

  • LOG-499 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent

Manufacturing Engineering
  

  • MFGE-106 Impacts of Engineering Design

    2 cr.
    Global Perspective, Technology
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Investigation and exploration into past and present practices of engineering design and the resulting impacts on people, society, and the environment.
  

  • MFGE-149 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGE-199 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGE-249 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGE-275 Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer

    2 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Application of thermodynamics and heat transfer fundamentals to the design and analysis of manufacturing processes and systems.
    Prerequisite: take PHYS-291  and MATH-250  (which may be taken concurrently)
  

  • MFGE-325 Computer Aided Manufacturing for Manufacturing Engineers

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Effects of product mix and demand patterns on manufacturing system design and selection of process control methods. Introduction to quick changeover strategies and reprogrammable automation including numerically controlled machine tools, robotics, group technology, CAD/CAM, automated inspection and other computerized processing techniques.
    Prerequisites: take ENGGR-210 , and take MFGT-252  or MFGT-341  
  

  • MFGE-349 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGE-351 Manufacturing Process Engineering I

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Understanding, analysis, and control of machining and metal forming processes. Emphasis is given to process characteristics of heat transfer, process forces and pressures, and machine tool dynamics. Sheet metal designs utilizing solid modeling software.
    Prerequisites: take CHEM-341 , MECH-294 , MFGT-252 , MFGE-275 , and STAT-330  
  

  • MFGE-352 Manufacturing Process Engineering II

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Analysis of polymer and metal behavior in processing; mechanics of processing; identification of appropriate fabrication processes; diagnosis of process related problems; mathematical modeling of process designs.
    Prerequisites: take MFGT-251 , MFGT-253 , MECH-294 , MFGE-275 , and STAT-330  
  

  • MFGE-363 Controls and Instrumentation

    4 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Programmable logic controllers, structured ladder logic developments, input/output module description, and interfacing with analog and digital sensors and actuators. Motion, temperature, pressure and flow sensors. Advantages of closed loop control, mathematical modeling of electric and mechanical systems, stability analysis and frequency response. Introduction to motion control.
    Prerequisites: take ELEC-290  and MATH-250  
  

  • MFGE-365 Control Theory

    2 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Mathematical modeling of electrical and mechanical systems, stability analysis, and frequency response. Laplace transforms and transfer functions. Introduction to classical control theory. Controller design for stabilization and/or performance.
    Prerequisites: take ELEC-290  and MATH-250 ; not for students taking MFGE-363  
  

  • MFGE-391 Fluid Mechanics

    2 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Fundamental fluid properties. General Flow characteristic, including viscid/inviscid, laminar/turbulent, steady-state/transient, compressible/incompressible, and internal/external flow. Static pressure distributions and related forces. Conservation of mass and energy applied to both inviscid and viscid flows. Pump behavior and sizing of pumps for systems. Fluid equipment, including valves, actuators, flow measurement, and pressure measurement.
    Prerequisite: take MFGE-275  
  

  • MFGE-395 Seminar

    1-2 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    (Title will reflect specific manufacturing content.) Designed to upgrade effectiveness of teachers or secondary school manufacturing content.
  

  • MFGE-399 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGE-400 Intro to FAB Lab: How to Make Anything

    1 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to personal digital fabrication using the UW-Stout Discovery Center BAB Lab, modeled after the FAB Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Bits and Atoms. Use of laser cutters, 3-D printers, vinyl cutters, SHOPBot CNC routers, and desk milling machines and other digital and analog tools to fabricate and test design projects. Explore a variety of fields including graphic design, art, business, computer-assisted design, physical and natural science, mathematics, and engineering.
  

  • MFGE-400 Workshop:

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Special topics in manufacturing, providing hands- on or experiential learning activities. Specific content and title to reflect the topic of the workshop.
  

  • MFGE-405 Capstone I: Concurrent Design

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Concurrent product design and development. Concept of design; brainstorming, problem solving, and creativity methods. Engineering methods. Design analysis, solid modeling, finite element analysis and information sources. Development of teamwork and communications skills. Consideration of cell needs and limitations.
    Prerequisites or Corequisites: take MFGE-351 , MFGE-352 , and MFGE-441  
  

  • MFGE-410 Capstone II: Manufacturing System Design

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Dedicated and flexible manufacturing systems through the design, building and testing of a flexible manufacturing cell that produces a discrete family of parts, design of part transfer, tooling, sensing, production control and integrated inspection systems will be emphasized.
    Prerequisite: Take MFGE-405 ; Prerequisites or corequisites: MFGE-325 , MFGE-363 , and MFGE-415  
  

  • MFGE-415 Machine Vision and Robotics

    2 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Design of machine vision and industrial robotic applications, including cost justification.
    Prerequisites: take INMGT-300  and MECH-293  
  

  • MFGE-416 Machine Vision Systems

    1 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Design a machine vision system to inspect parts geometry.
    Prerequisite: take PHYS-282  or PHYS-293
  

  • MFGE-440 Manufacturing System Design and Simulation

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Design of manufacturing systems using contemporary methods and philosophies. Modeling and comparison of system designs using simulation software. Interpretation of experimental simulation results to evaluate system design alternatives. Preparation of technical reports summarizing projects.
    Prerequisite or Corequisite: take INMGT-335  
  

  • MFGE-441 Design Of Jigs, Fixtures, And Tooling

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Design of tooling used for machining, locating and transferring multiple parts for fixed and flexible manufacturing. Design, setup and development of tooling for robots, computer numerical control machines and other production equipment. Transfer line tooling.
    Prerequisites: MFGT-252 , ENGGR-210 , and MECH-294  
  

  • MFGE-449 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGE-465 Reliability Engineering

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    A practical introduction to reliability engineering with the opportunity for application. Topics covered include reliability need, calculations, prediction and modeling, and test design.
    Prerequisite: take STAT-330  
  

  • MFGE-490 Manufacturing System Design Problems

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Manufacturing system design through the application of previously learned principles and techniques. Issues to be addressed include: product design for manufacturability, process and tooling design and fabrication, system layout and equipment configuration, information and control architecture, implementation of quick-changeover strategies, task sequencing and scheduling, and simulation and evaluation of alternatives.
  

  • MFGE-499 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent

Manufacturing Technology
  

  • MFGT-110 Materials and Manufacturing Processes

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Manufacturing processes, material properties and their selection for product functions. Structure and characteristics of metal, polymer/wood, ceramic and composite materials will be examined.
  

  • MFGT-149 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGT-150 Introduction to Engineering Materials

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Exposure to engineering materials, their properties, and behavior. topics will include: material types, testing, mechanical properties, heat treatment, and material selection. Students are expected to have had H.S. chemistry.
    Math Placement >= MATH-120 , or MATH-150  
  

  • MFGT-199 Independent Study

    1-3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGT-202 Welding and Casting Processes

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Lab intensive class utilizing various processes and parameters in the welding and foundry areas.
    Prerequisite: take MFGT-110  
  

  • MFGT-203 Machining Metal Forming Processes

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Machine tool concepts providing an operational knowledge of traditional and non-traditional machining processes. Fundamental forming machine and hand tool operations. Sheet metal pattern development.
    Prerequisite: take MFGT-110  
  

  • MFGT-204 Polymer Processes

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to properties of plastic, elastomeric and fiber-reinforced composite materials and the processes used to manufacture products from them. Primary and secondary manufacturing processes used to convert wood-fiber materials into components and/or finished products.
    Prerequisite: take MFGT-110  
  

  • MFGT-249 Cooperative Education Experience

    1-8 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
    Department Consent
  

  • MFGT-250 Introduction to Plastics

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Examine basics of molecular structure, mechanical behavior, and rheological properties of plastics. Overview of plastics processing, new technologies related to processing, post-consumer-life, and introduction to ASTM/ISO standards used for testing and materials characterization.
    Prerequisite: take MFGT-150  
  

  • MFGT-251 Fundamentals of Plastics Materials and Processing

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to polymers, including their material, mechanical, and rheological properties. Process fundamentals including setup, operation, and troubleshooting of primary and secondary processes through a combination of classroom lectures and laboratory experiments. Introduction into analytical testing methods for characterizing polymers and analyzing defects and failures.
    Prerequisite: take MFGT-150  or MFGT-110  or PKG-220  
  

  • MFGT-252 Material Removal and Forming Processes

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Machine tool concepts providing an operational knowledge of machining and metal forming processes. Analysis and application of primary and secondary processing methods for the manufacture of products. Measurement principles and practice applied to inspection and process control. Development of process designs appropriate for product specifications.
    Prerequisite: take either MFGT-150  or MFGT-110  
  

  • MFGT-253 Joining and Casting Processes

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Process concepts providing an operational knowledge of the practice and theory of welding, thermal cutting, adhesive bonding, and metal casting processes. Analysis and application of primary and secondary processing methods for the manufacture of products. Development of process designs and practices appropriate for product specifications, inspection and process control.
    Prerequisite: take either MFGT-150  or MFGT-110  
  

  • MFGT-303 Computer Aided Manufacturing

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Justification for and application of computer assistance in manufacturing process; machine process control, inventory and materials handling, robotics and automated assembly, product design and part grouping in relation to total manufacturing operation.
    Prerequisites: take MFGT-203  or MFGT-252 , and take ENGGR-112  or AEC-131  
  

  • MFGT-315 Metallurgy

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Properties of crystalline solids, production of iron and steel, the carbon-iron equilibrium diagram, principles of heat treatment, properties of ferrous alloys. Production, properties, and theory of the most important non-ferrous metals and alloys.
  

  • MFGT-330 Plastics for Teachers

    2 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Overview of plastics as a manufacturing material. Focus on plastics processes: injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, thermoforming, and reinforced resin composites. Includes lab projects for the technology education classroom and tours to plastic processing industries.
  

  • MFGT-341 Injection Molding Technology

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Injection molding process parameters, part and tooling design, materials selection, quoting, rapid prototyping, troubleshooting, and cycle time reduction efforts. Laboratory experiments for understanding various technologies associated with injection molding of quality parts.
    Prerequisite: take either MFGT-250  or MFGT-251  
  

  • MFGT-342 Thermoform and Blow-Molding Technology

    3 cr.
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Part/mold design, film/sheet forming techniques, methods of heating, sheet stretching and cooling, draw ratio calculations, materials selection, part thinning, and other aspects of thermoforming. Laboratory experiments for understanding various technologies associated with thermoforming and blow molding of quality parts, including tooling options, failure analysis, and product design.
    Prerequisite: take either MFGT-250  or MFGT-251  
 

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