ARE 5141 - District Energy Electrical Systems

• Identify the required components in a district energy system
• Design medium and low voltage services and feeders
• Devise protection schemes for medium and low voltage feeders to mechanical equipment and electrical distribution equipment
• Analyze various distribution topologies and justify selections based on cost and reliability considerations
• Discuss the site distribution options used in campus power systems such as tunnels, duct banks and direct-buried cabling
• Discuss distributed energy and microgrid resources
• Create site power distribution profiles based on existing topography
• Design electrical power system for a central utility plant
• Design a district energy system with team members for an integrated design

• None

• History, examples, and applicability of district energy systems
• Components and benefits of district energy systems
• System master planning
• Estimating peak, seasonal, and hourly loads
• Construction and economic considerations and costs
• Electrical considerations for district cooling plants
• Electrical service location
• Load expansion
• System topology
• Site distribution routes
• Cogeneration
• Microgrids and distributed energy
• Energy storage
• Emergency and standby equipment; design for resiliency
• Metering and monitoring
• Interconnection standards
• Tour a large district energy plant

ARE 5151 - Design of Lighting Systems II

• Interpret the lighting design process for specialty building applications
• Apply codes and standards to specialty lighting design
• Understand and define the trends in lighting for buildings
• Apply engineering principles to illuminating engineering problems
• Select luminaires and other lighting hardware appropriate to an application
• Design daylighting delivery systems for buildings and the associated controls
• Devise and apply appropriate lighting control topologies based on the application and cost considerations

• Basic proficiency with Lighting Analysts’ software

• Lighting design process
• Solid state lighting sources
• Color discrimination and TM-30
• Lighting and health
• Residential and hospitality lighting
• Office lighting
• Museum lighting
• Lighting for seniors
• Lighting for health care environments
• Daylighting
• Lighting controls
• Lighting trends

ARE 5161 - Design of Power Systems II

• Explain the structure and content of the NEC and other NFPA codes
• Apply codes and standards to various types of buildings such as high-rise buildings, healthcare buildings, and data centers
• Design electrical distribution for specific applications
• Select equipment for specific applications

• None

• The National Electrical Code and other NFPA Codes
• IEEE Standards
• Medium voltage systems
• Emergency power
• Energy storage systems
• Distributed generation systems
• DC distribution systems in buildings
• Measurement and instrumentation

ARE 5162 - Electrical Power Quality for Buildings

• Identify various power quality disturbances by their waveform signatures and explain typical techniques for mitigating the problem
• Explain the benefits associated with operating at a high-power factor and select proper power factor capacitor choices
• Evaluate the IEEE-std-519 limits for harmonic current and voltage distortion for a given power system
• Produce harmonic current and voltage analysis
• Select UPS, active harmonic filters and other power quality equipment
• Design a base harmonic filter
• Select proper SPD ratings for various equipment or applications 

• None

• Classifications of power quality problems
• Power quality terms and requirements
• Sags and interruptions
• Transient over-voltages
• Harmonic distortion
• Principles for controlling harmonics
• Long-duration voltage variations
• Effects of lightning on power systems
• Grounding and wiring issues leading to voltage problems
• Power quality standards

• Power quality instrumentation and interpretation
• Harmonic current and voltage measurements of Adjustable Speed Drives
• Line voltage transients
• Voltage sags, surges
• Comparison of power quality for different devices used for lighting
• Neutral current issues in three-phase circuits

ARE 5421 - Design of Building Control Systems

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits

• Explain MEP system control theory
• Develop a basic control specification for a variety of MEP system types
• Explain the operating characteristics and proper application of control systems components
• Design a basic control system using the proper interface devices
• Illustrate and evaluate existing control diagrams
• Design of controls systems and applications across multiple disciplines
• Implement mechanical system control criteria
• Evaluate the operating characteristics and proper application of different control strategies
• Use software logic to drive control device
• Design the software and hardware for a basic control system
• Devise detailed control specification for a variety of mechanical system types

For Mechanical Specialty Students:

• Basic principles of electrical engineering for buildings

For Electrical Specialty Students:

• Basic principles of mechanical engineering for buildings

• Basic control theory and terminology
• Elements of control systems
• Control energy sources and control devices
• Sub-system controls
• Equipment control
• Complete HVAC control systems
• Management and control systems
• Central plant control systems
• Electrical and Illumination control systems
• Communication and other low voltage control systems
• Access and security controls
• Building Automation System (BAS) structure
• Integration of non-HVAC control systems into a BAS
• Review of basic control theory and terminology
• Balance between thermal comfort and energy efficiency
• Direct digital control systems
• Control software and logic
• Control hardware and field devices
• Mechanical controls drawings
• Selection of control devices
• Specifying control software and devices
• Advanced mechanical systems and controls logic
• Controls optimization for energy efficiency
• Controls and energy monitoring
• Basic controls commissioning
• Calibration and ongoing maintenance

• Weekly hands-on exercises and interactive problem-solving sessions that reinforce the weekly lecture topics, including:
  • Control equipment identification
  • System schematic design
  • Building automation systems
  • HVAC controls
  • Lighting controls
  • Access and security controls

ARE 5431 - District Energy Mechanical Systems

• Identify the required components in a district energy system
• Calculate how to size equipment to meet full-load and part-load conditions
• Discuss various heating and cooling equipment options for central plants
• Calculate the load for a district energy system including system diversity
• Identify buildings that are candidates for inclusion in the district energy system
• Discuss the types of piping and joining methods used in district systems
• Discuss the site distribution options for cooling and heating systems
• Create site distribution profiles based on existing topography
• Discuss the various methods of flow rate measurement at the consumer interconnection
• Explain the basic components required of a steam and condensate system
• Design a basic steam system including pipe sizing, steam traps, drip legs, pressure reducing valves, condensate pumps, and boiler feed pumps
• Design a district energy system for an integrated design

• None

• Introduction to district energy
• History, examples, and applicability of district energy systems
• Components and benefits of district energy systems
• System master planning
• Technical issues
• Developing the database and alternatives
• Construction and economic considerations and costs
• District cooling plants
• Decision to cogenerate
• Steam vs hot water thermal energy plants
• Heating fuels
• Distribution systems
• Site distribution routing and pipe profiles
• Access point and pit design
• Steam fundamentals
• Condensate pump and boiler feed pump sizing
• Consumer interconnections
• Types of heat exchangers
• Consumer interconnection metering
• District energy system controls
• Tour a large district energy plant

ARE 5451 - Design of Mechanical Systems II

• Define all heat gains and losses in a given building, and calculate the total cooling load and heating load of a building
• Identify the fundamental parts of building energy simulation structures and their hierarchies
• Identify the fundamental parts of a mechanical design process and coordinate with the appropriate stakeholders
• Apply the basic principles of fluid mechanics, to calculate pressure losses in ducts and pipes and produce a design
• Design heat exchangers
• Analyze and characterize different cooling equipment systems
• Analyze and characterize different heating equipment systems
• Analyze and characterize different cooling equipment plants
• Analyze and characterize different heating equipment plants
• Compare the ASHRAE Standards to HVAC calculations and design
• Compare the utility rate structures to the building energy consumption and demand

• None

• Building energy simulation software structure
• Cooling and heating loads calculations with computer software
• Cooling systems
• Heating systems
• Cooling plants
• Vapor compression refrigeration components
• Heating plants
• Ancillary heating and cooling devices
• Utility (electricity and gas rate) structures
• Duct design
• Ductwork equipment selection
• Pipe design
• Piping equipment selection
• Heat exchangers
• Working drawings
• Building energy simulation modeling with computer software
• Acoustics
• Mechanical specifications
• Construction administration work

ARE 5452 - Design of Hydronic Systems

• Identify the required components in a hydronic system
• Calculate how to size equipment to meet full-load and part-load conditions
• Discuss the types of piping and joining methods used in HVAC hydronic systems
• Design various methods for controlling hydronic system thermal expansion and identify when piping layout requires expansion compensation
• Discuss the various methods of flow rate measurement
• Explain the factors required to size and select an expansion tank
• Evaluate control valve characteristics including valve authority, rangeability, and selection
• Recognize the importance of proportional balancing
• Compare and contrast a low temperature and standard hot water systems
• Discuss the options in solar thermal collectors and system design configurations
• Explain the differences between water source and ground source heat pumps
• Calculate the size requirements for a ground loop geothermal system
• Design a chilled water or ice storage system
• Identify the design considerations for a chilled beam system
• Communicate the options for piping distribution in district energy systems
• Discuss the requirements for water treatment in open and closed loop systems

• None

• Hydronic systems overview
• Piping materials and joining methods
• Pumping and piping configurations
• Air elimination and control
• Thermal expansion in piping systems
• Water flow measurement
• Control valve characteristics
• Control valve sizing and authority
• System balancing
• Low temperature hot water systems
• Condensing boilers
• Hot water system retrofits
• In-Floor and radiant heating systems
• Snow melt systems
• Solar panel collectors
• Solar thermal heating systems
• Water source heat pump systems
• Geothermal/ground source heat pump systems
• Ground loop designs
• Radiant cooling systems
• Chilled beam systems
• Chilled water storage systems
• Ice storage systems
• Water treatment for open and closed system

ARE 5453 - Indoor Air Quality

• Define the title, purpose, and scope of ASHRAE Standard 62.1
• Calculate and apply the ventilation rate procedure, indoor air quality procedure, or natural ventilation compliance path for acceptable indoor air quality
• Calculate the ventilation rate procedure for ASHRAE Standard 62.1 using the ASHRAE provided spreadsheet
• Classify mechanical system equipment that shall be maintained and the frequency of the maintenance related to indoor air quality
• Explain the interdisciplinary relationship required for indoor air quality including architects, engineers, facility managers, owners, contractors, physicians, and industrial hygienists
• Discuss worker productivity and the economics related to indoor air quality
• Define factors affecting occupant comfort within a space
• Define and classify particulate and gaseous contaminants
• Explain the testing procedure used in ASHRAE Standard 52.2 for determining minimum efficiency reporting values (MERV)
• Evaluate the appropriate air cleaning techniques to particulate and/or gaseous air contaminants
• Analyze factors affecting filter design and selection
• Communicate an integrated design and construction approach to achieve acceptable indoor air quality
• Identify and analyze potential sources of indoor and outdoor contaminants
• Analyze methods to control moisture in buildings
• Produce an indoor air quality plan

• None

• ASHRAE standard 62.1
• Indoor environmental health
• Estimates of productivity and health benefits
• Indoor air quality factors in designing a healthy building
• Indoor and outdoor pollutants
• Particulate contaminants
• Gaseous contaminants
• Air cleaners
• Particulate air cleaners
• Gaseous air cleaners
• Indoor air quality management
• Managing the design and construction process
• Limiting indoor and outdoor contaminant sources
• Assessing indoor air quality
• Creating an indoor air quality plan
• Preventing indoor environmental problems
• Advanced ventilation techniques

ARE 5871 - Commissioning

• Identify the benefits that the commissioning process brings to new construction and existing buildings as it pertains to HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and building enclosure
• Define the commissioning process and the roles that commissioning providers, design teams, contractors, facilities, and owner play in the commissioning process
• Facilitate a successful commissioning meeting
• Implement the commissioning process and the steps necessary to create a cohesive team environment and a successful project outcome
• Prepare construction verification forms from design documents, specifications, and equipment submittals
• Identify installation and implementation issues while on site
• Explain sequences of operation in a manner understood by the entire commissioning team. Identify areas of concern or confusion
• Develop functional test documents from existing sequences of operation and controls submittals
• Demonstrate proficiency with hand-held measuring devices and data loggers
• Analyze trend data from controls systems and data loggers to verify proper or improper operation of the control system; provide appropriate samples to communicate concerns; evaluate outcomes of functional testing and the next steps to take to move towards a properly functioning system
• Compose verbal and written communication to address all levels of personnel on the commissioning team, including potential shareholders, with class participation with practice and feedback

• General understanding of at least one of the following building systems:
  • HVAC
  • Plumbing
  • Electrical
  • Fire protection
  • Construction management (from a GC perspective)
  • Envelope/enclosure

• Introduction to commissioning, the role of the commissioning provider, the economics of commissioning, the benefits of commissioning, The Building Commissioning Association (BCA) Handbook, and ASHRAE Guideline 0
• Communication skills: verbal and written, use of words
• Participate in the process for creating an Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR) document through a user group meeting session, discussing the tie to commissioning, and creating an OPR
• Review Basis of Design (BoD) documents, including a compare and contrast of BoDs to OPR
• Perform commissioning-based design reviews at various stages of design - schematic, design, construction phase documents
• Construction phase commissioning process, commissioning kick-off meeting, commissioning progress meetings, defining the commissioning team
• Creating and utilizing construction verification forms; understanding what commissioning is looking for during visits to site, creating a site visit report
• Life safety dampers: reviewing the installation and functional testing processes and tie in to fire alarm testing (2 lecture hours)
• Firestopping review
• Students will participate in a tour of a site TBD to see mechanical and electrical equipment in action and to understand from a commissioning perspective what is important to verify both during the installation process and functional testing processes
• Building enclosure commissioning process from the design phase through the construction phase and field testing
• Review electrical distribution and emergency power projects, including information gathered with one-line drawings; discuss implementation on site and commissioning testing strategies
• Review a designer’s sequence of operation; review a controls submittal; facilitate a controls page turn meeting
• Learn strategies for writing functional test documents for the control contractor to utilize for testing on site
• Trends: verify trends, capture trends, review trends, analyze and understand trends
• Tools: use of various handheld measuring devices and data loggers
• Students will participate in functional testing on site if possible or via remote access to the BAS to see mechanical and electrical equipment performing through various control strategies
• Reporting of test data in an effective manner
• Operations phase commissioning process
• Seasonal functional testing
• Recommissioning and retro-commissioning; understand how the commissioning team dynamics differ from a new construction commissioning process, communication, planning, and facilitating the commissioning process

ARE 5980 - Topics in Architectural Engineering

• Vary

• Vary, depending on the topics covered. Consult instructor.

• Vary

ARE 6121 - Low Voltage Systems and Wireless Networks

• Describe fundamentals of wireless and low voltage systems
• Implement leading technologies in building applications
• Analyze wireless communication system designs to determine ways in which to improve their effectiveness
• Design wireless communication systems that solve multiuser system design issues
• Design wireless and low voltage systems used in smart building applications
• Determine how to effectively manage resources in a wireless network design

• None

• Low voltage systems and their applications
• Wireless channel models, noise, and interference
• Wireless networks and resource management
• WiFi and cellular systems within buildings
• Smart building technologies
• Security in low voltage and wireless systems

ARE 6431 - Building Energy Simulations

• Discuss and illustrate potential Energy Efficiency Measures (EEM) including financial payback analysis
• Evaluate the impact of climate zones on energy use and different building types
• Analyze raw energy consumption data from measured-meter readings
• Explain energy metrics and how they are developed
• Explain the process of certifying professionals in energy assessment
• Calculate an ASHRAE bEQ In Operation rating for a building
• Develop a bEQ In Operation workbook to apply for a bEQ Certificate and Dashboard
• Develop a building energy model for a commercial building
• Explain how building envelope construction affects building energy consumption
• Justify system selection procedures to a building based on energy use goals
• Evaluate energy cost budgets and performance ratings using ASHRAE 90.1

• Basic use of energy modeling software

• Building benchmarking and labeling
• Building energy use and management
• Energy calculations and targets
• ASHRAE bEQ program
• US EPA Energy Star program
• Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey
• Preliminary energy use analysis
• Analyzing energy costs, bills, and rate structures
• Developing energy targets and requirements
• Calculations of energy consumption and paybacks
• Level 1, 2, and 3 energy audits
• Equipment life cycle and life expectancy
• Identifying opportunities for energy conservation
• Energy efficiency measures
• Indoor environmental quality survey
• Building controls and energy management
• Completing and submitting a bEQ project
• Energy estimating and modeling methods
• Energy modeling using software programs
• High-performance buildings
• Energy code analysis and compliance
• System selection process
• Modeling as part of the design efforts
• Energy modeling for existing buildings
• Comparison of approaches to energy modeling

ARE 6591 - Design of Tall Buildings

• Use content learned in prior courses and apply the concepts to tall buildings
• Evaluate design aspects and analysis methods for tall buildings
• Devise efficient schemes for resisting gravity loads in tall buildings
• Devise efficient schemes for resisting lateral loads in tall buildings
• Compare and contrast various types of vertical and lateral load resisting systems that are commonly used in tall building design

• None

• Introduction to tall building design
• Application of structural dynamics and linear/nonlinear response spectra to tall buildings
• Lateral force resisting systems commonly used in tall buildings
• Effects of building configurations
• Effect of wind loads on tall buildings
• Effect of seismic loads on tall buildings
• Design for wind and seismic loads
• Serviceability considerations unique to tall building design

ARE 6999 - Architectural Engineering Independent Study

• Determined by faculty member and student

• Vary

• Determined by faculty member and student

ARE 7901 - Architectural Engineering Graduate Capstone I

2 lecture hours 0 lab hours 2 credits

Within the M.S. Architectural Engineering degree program, students have the option of completing a one-semester capstone experience or a two-semester capstone experience. Students opting for the one-semester capstone experience will complete ARE 7901 and other course work. Students opting for the two-semester option will complete ARE 7901 and ARE 7902.

In ARE 7901, students work one-on-one with a capstone advisor to define a research question, perform a critical literature review and define the methodology needed to analyze the research question.  By the end of ARE 7901, the student will, at a minimum, be poised to begin the data collection/analysis phase of their research upon commencement to ARE 7902; or, in the case of students opting for the one-semester capstone experience, the student will be able to fully articulate research opportunities for others to pursue and to propose viable methodologies for doing so.

Satisfactory progress and completion of ARE 7901 is to be determined by an academic committee typically composed of the faculty advisor and two faculty members. (prereq: graduate program director consent) (coreq: CAE 7810 )

• Devise the initial phases of an independent research project, including research question definition, critical literature review, and identification of an effective research methodology to effectively analyze the stated problem
• Produce the results of these initial phases of the research project in a written capstone paper that clearly conveys all technical information related to the initial phases of the research project (i.e., research question definition, critical literature review, and identification of an effective research methodology) and that properly cites all scholarly references
• Communicate the results of the initial phase of the research project clearly to a technical audience as part of the project oral defense

• Knowledge in the student’s specialty area

• Determined by student and faculty advisor. Students are expected to meet, at a minimum, once weekly with the faculty advisor to consult on the progress of the project.

ARE 7902 - Architectural Engineering Graduate Capstone II

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

The student will execute data collection, design strategies and/or technical analyses as laid out in ARE 7901 to complete the project. The student will compile and document the results in a formal capstone report, typically using the IMRAD (Introduction-Methods-Results-Analysis-Discussion) format.

Satisfactory progress and completion of ARE 7902 is to be determined by an academic committee typically composed of the faculty advisor and two faculty members. (prereq: graduate program director consent, ARE 7901 , and CAE 7810 )

• Complete an independent, advanced architectural engineering project
• Produce the results of the project in a written capstone report that clearly conveys all technical information involved in the execution of the project and properly cites all scholarly references
• Communicate the results of the project clearly to a technical audience as part of the project oral defense

• Knowledge in the student’s specialty area

• Determined by student and faculty advisor. Students are expected to meet, at a minimum, once weekly with the faculty advisor to consult on the progress of the project.

BUS 5000 - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

• Develop an educational mission for the school to promote the academic success and well-being of each student
• In collaboration with members of the school and the community and using relevant data, develop and promote a vision for the school on the successful learning and development of each child and on instructional and organizational practices that promote student success
• Articulate, advocate, and cultivate core values that define the school’s culture and stress the imperative of child-centered education; high expectations and student support; equity; inclusiveness; and social justice; openness, caring, and trust; and continuous improvement. 
• Implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment that promote the mission, vision, and core values of the school, embody high expectations for student learning, align with academic standards, and are culturally responsive
• Align and focus systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment within and across grade levels to promote student academic success love of learning, the identities and habits of learners, and a healthy sense of self
• Promote instructional practice that is consistent with knowledge of child learning and development, effective pedagogy, and the needs of each student
• Ensure instructional practice that is intellectually challenging, authentic to student experiences, recognizes student strengths, and is differentiated and personalized
• Promote the effective use of technology in the service of teaching and learning
• Employ valid assessments that are consistent with knowledge of child learning and development and technical standards of measurement
• Use assessment data appropriately and within technical limitations to monitor student progress and improve instruction
• Develop teachers’ and staff members’ professional knowledge, skills, and practice through differentiated opportunities for learning and growth, guided by an understanding of professional and adult learning and development
• Foster continuous improvement of individual and collective instructional capacity to achieve outcomes envisioned for each student
• Deliver actionable feedback about instruction and other professional practice through valid, research-anchored systems of supervision and evaluation to support the development of teachers’ and staff members’ knowledge, skills, and practice
• Use methods of continuous improvement to achieve the vision, fulfill the mission and promote the core values of the school
• Engage others in an ongoing process of evidence-based inquiry, learning, strategic goal setting, planning, implementation, and evaluation for continuous school and classroom improvement
• Develop technically appropriate systems of data collection, management, analysis, and use, connecting as needed to the district office and external partners for support in planning, implementation, monitoring, feedback, and evaluation

• None

• Hattie frameworks
• Components of an effective learning environment. 
• District, school, and individual values and beliefs that underpin high quality instruction. 
• The role of the leader in creating, nurturing, and sustaining high quality teaching and learning environments in every classroom 
• Audit of current learning community connected to components of quality teaching and learning, values and beliefs 
• Analysis of federal and state oversight of curriculum, instruction, and assessment (CIA) systems 
• Analysis of locally developed policies, protocols, and processes related to CIA 
• Assessment data to drive teaching and learning planning 
• Multi-Tiered Systems and Supports (MTSS) in meeting the needs of every learner 
• Monitoring CIA systems 
• Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness system and local implementations. 
• Adult learning theory  
• Feedback to improve classroom instruction. 
• Audit of local teacher evaluation structures and strategies. 
• Analysis of local continuous improvement models and their relation to student achievement (ADKAR, Leading and Managing Complex Change Matrix, SMART Goals, Initiative Management Systems, strategy maps) 
• Distributed leadership in school improvement processes. 

BUS 5100 - Practicum- School Business Administrator

• Develop competencies by attempting tasks around finance, accounting, auxiliary services, and operations improvement initiatives under the supervision of a competent, experienced administrator
• Explore larger school or district picture of change and improvement with business services

• None

• Student-directed timeline in conjunction with practicum mentor
• Periodic check-ins to be made by practicum supervisor to ensure successful completion within a determined timeframe
• Practicum supervisor to simultaneously check-in with practicum mentor to determine appropriate growth, learning and understanding is taking place

BUS 5200 - Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners

• Learn strategies for differentiating content, learning process, and learning products
• Identify appropriate tools for assessing student progress, engaging interests, and meeting varied learning styles
• Discuss how to manage a differentiated classroom, focusing in particular on the importance of using assessment data to guide individual instruction
• Reflect on the differentiated instructional strategies you plan to implement in your own classroom/school
• Understand special education policies and laws and allocate resources for efficient delivery of service

• None

• Capper and Frattura  
• Educational options for students 
• Equity Audit 
• SWOT analysis of current environment 
• Critical equity questions 
• Leadership for social justice self-reflection and leading beyond inclusion self-evaluation 
• Shifting to meet student needs 
• Quality instruction and assessment self-assessment 
• Hiring practices to align with mission, vision, values, and goals 
• Qualities of highly effective teams 
• Effective professional development systems and structures 

BUS 5300 - Advanced Finance and Accounting- School Business Administrator

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

• Identify the financial decisions confronting organizations, and learn to analyze an organization’s status using financial tools and techniques
• Apply accounting methods used in the public and private sector, as well as produce key financial statements
• Understand the principles and concepts of school accounting, auditing, financial reporting, capital project planning, and debt service management
• List revenue sources and expenditure categories, assess allocations in relationship to the overall operating budget and determine the need for preservation of fund balance
• Explain recent legislation, as well as financial ramifications to stakeholders
• Summarize the scope of “Business Office” operations
• Outline the process, conduct analysis, evaluate financial ramifications, and determine the funding for major school district initiatives, especially construction 
• Identify areas associated with ethics violations and identify operations or procedures that become “red flags” in the auditing process

• None

• Budget preparation: calendar
  • Budget preparation: revenue limit
  • Overview of the audit cycle 
• Cash handling proficiency - activity 
  • Budget preparation: cash flow calendar 

• Cash flow borrowing-types of borrowing

  •   Budget preparation: WUFAR

• Special education funding
  • Budget preparation: enrollment
  • Budget preparation: grant

• Special ED funding 011/019 

• Debt management 
  • Budget preparation: staffing and other expenditures
  • Budget preparation: philosophy
• DPI reporting - standard(s) 6 
  • Budget preparation: debt and other funds 

BUS 5400 - Practicum - Curriculum and Instruction

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

The student must accrue 150 hours of practicum-related activities and experiences between May 1st and August 30th of the same calendar year. These activities are supervised by a qualified practicum supervisor and verified by the course instructor.  Qualified supervising administrators must hold a valid and current #10 license in the state of Wisconsin and have served in the role of Director of Instruction or similar for at least 3 years. Three meetings between the student, their supervising administrator, and the course instructor will occur during the course of the practicum experience: an introductory conference, a mid-practicum check-in, and an end-of-practicum conference. (prereq: none) 

• Develop, advocate, and enact a shared mission, vision, and core values of high-quality education and academic success and well-being of each student
• Act ethically and according to professional norms to promote each student’s academic success and well-being
• Strive for equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices to promote each student’s academic success and well-being
• Develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being
• Cultivate an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community that promotes the academic success and well-being of each student
• Foster a professional community of teachers and other professional staff to promote each student’s academic success and well-being
• Engage families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways to promote each student’s academic success and well-being
• Manage school operations and resources to promote each student’s academic success and well-being

• None

• Students are responsible for submitting a weekly practicum reflection, creating a practicum portfolio and log as well as completing a practicum project during their practicum experience

BUS 5500 - Statistics and Data Analytics

• Apply fundamental concepts in the use and interpretation of statistical methods
• Prepare data for use in statistical and analytical processes
• Generate and interpret descriptive statistics related to business scenarios
• Use diagnostic analytics to inform solutions to business problems
• Select an appropriate statistical or analytic method to address a given business problem
• Communicate the meaning of statistical or analytic results to stakeholders
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and write statistical program code in R and/or Python that automates the processing of statistical data sets that are not conducive to manual processing due to their size and/or scale

• None

• Introduction to statistics
  • Populations, population samples, descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Qualitative vs. quantitative data, variables
  • Means, medians, percentiles, distributions, summations, arithmetic and geometric series, progressions
  • Logarithms, linear and non-linear transforms
• Charting and graphing data
  • Histograms, stem and leaf diagrams, frequency plots, box plots, bar charts, line graphs, dot plots, scatter diagrams, etc.
• Summarizing distributions
  • Central tendency, mean, median, mode, etc.
  • Measuring variability (sum of squared deviations, variance, standard deviation) and the Variance Sum Law
  • Shapes of distributions (uniform, normal, binomial, etc.)
  • Effects of linear transformations on variability
• Describing univariate and bivariate data
  • Pearson’s correlation
  • Variance Sum Law II
• Probability
  • Basic concepts, independent probability, conditional probability, gambler’s fallacy
  • Permutations and combinations
  • Binomial distribution, multinomial distribution, Poisson distribution, hypergeometric distribution
  • Bayes theorem
• Research and experimental design
  • Scientific method, null hypothesis, measurement problems, sampling bias, causation vs. correlation
  • Hypothesis testing, significance testing, one and two-tailed testing
  • Steps in hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, common misconceptions
• Estimation
  • Characteristics of estimators, degrees of freedom, bias and variability, confidence intervals for mean, T-distribution, correlation, and proportion
• Statistical Programming in Python
  • Python environments, integrated development environments, and Jupyter Notebooks
  • Python expressions, data types, operators, statement execution
  • Python programming logic for branching, iteration, nesting and stacking logic structures
  • Python data structures (lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets)
  • Python functions and lambda expressions
  • Python libraries and collections (arrays, nd-arrays, data frames, etc.)
  • Object-oriented programming in Python

BUS 5600 - Operations and Auxiliary Services-School Business Administrator

• Gain knowledge and training in the management of school operations and auxiliary services 
• Apply processes and procedures necessary in the management of operations 
• Examine school transportation, plant/maintenance, and food services operations 
• Explore various management concepts and techniques in school business operations 
• Utilize computer applications for efficient operations 
• Learn principles, concepts, and skills needed in collective negotiations and contract management in schools 

• None

• Capital planning project           
• Plan development framework 
• Referendum do’s and don’ts 
• Technology 
• Procurement 
• RFP Process 
• Policy management (bidding policy) 
• Food service  
• Transportation 
•  For project (review facility description after hearing about these items) 
• Community programs 
• Risk management 
•  Property, liability, and worker’s compensation 
• Safety programs 
• Long-range maintenance plan 
• Capital projects funds         

BUS 5700 - Marketing

• Describe the major components of the marketing planning process  
• Analyze status and concerns of stakeholders  
• Design a marketing plan that includes market segmentation, target markets and marketing mix 
• Use critical components involved in connecting with the customer to construct a customer relationship management plan  
• Select the best communication strategy based on the desired message and with awareness of diverse needs of stakeholders    
• Select an appropriate communication channel, tool or technology for a given message  
• Evaluate the marketing plans of different organizations

• None

• What is marketing and how has it evolved?
• Identifying your stakeholder customers and understanding their voice
  • Stakeholder interviewing (how to uncover customer insights?)
  • Developing relationship management plans to gain additional understanding
• Importance of analysis in developing marketing strategy
  • (Situational analyses PESTEL, SWOT)
  • Synthesizing your analysis to key marketing implications
• Target and target segmentation
• Positioning
• Branding/brand equity
• Developing marketing objectives and strategies
  • What’s the difference between objective, strategies, and tactics
  •  Identifying what you want your customers to KNOW, THINK, FEEL, DO
• Developing marketing strategies
  • Product
  • Communication
  • Partnership
• Developing tactics for your defined strategies
  • Digital and social marketing trends
  • Developing a social media and content strategy
• Evaluating marketing plans
• Measuring for effectiveness

BUS 5800 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Construct a business model canvas for a potential new product opportunity
• Prepare a set of measurable SMART goals for a business opportunity
• Model an ideal customer for the proposed solution in the form of attributes
• Test a proposed solution defined in a conceptual design for market need
• Analyze a target market opportunity niche based on product-market fit
• Create and deliver a business pitch to earn the support of stakeholders

• None

• Invention vs. innovation
• Intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship
• Start-ups are not just small businesses
• MVP - minimally viable products
• Business models
• Business model canvas creation
• Product and model iteration
• Hypothesis testing
• Product-market fit
• Ideal customer attributes
• Market potential analysis
• Business model viability
• Business model sustainability
• Pitching the model
• Building the plan, implementing the plan

BUS 5950 - New Product Management

• Adapt innovation processes for effectiveness and continuous improvement
• Analyze the effectiveness of innovation processes using relevant metrics
• Apply innovation best practices to existing new product development processes
• Apply the principles of the learning organization and knowledge management to innovation
• Examine the opportunity to improve phase-gate processes using Agile and Lean principles
• Integrate sustainable innovation practices for long term success of innovation strategy

• None

• Designing your (innovation) future
• Innovation strategy
• Innovation portfolio management
• Phase-gate process
• Innovation culture
• Tools and metrics
• Role of market research, market research tools
• Creating the right product
• Delivering with speed and precision
• Fixed and flexible (Lean product development)
• High-performance development teams
• Leading development
• Knowledge management for innovation (the learning organization)
• Pursuit of product perfection
• Linking strategy to execution: a comparison of Toyota to Tesla

BUS 5980 - Topics in Business Administration

• Vary

• Vary

• Vary

BUS 6000 - Organizational Behavior

• Understand, synthesize, and apply classic and contemporary theories that describe, explain, predict, and guide the actions of individuals and groups in relationship to organizational structures and cultures
• Assess values, emotions, personality, and motivations while understanding perceptions and differences in others and the impact each has communication, decision-making, teamwork, ethics, performance, and satisfaction
• Examine multiple dimensions of teamwork, leadership, conflict, and power to expand one’s ability to be more effective within and leading diverse group situations
• Analyze elements of organizational structure and culture to discern alignment and fit
• Gain awareness of multiple and sometimes conflicting views that occur within diverse, global, and complex organizations to explore, evaluate, appreciate, and manage multiple perspectives using conceptual frameworks and applied tools to create inclusive workplaces in an increasingly interconnected world

• None

• Organizational behavior
• Individuals in organizations
• Organizational behavior
• Groups in organizations
• Organizational structure and culture
• Change dynamics in organizations
• Professional development

BUS 6100 - Ethical Leadership

• Apply ethical principles to real-world choices
• Recognize behaviors, beliefs, and commitments that impact upon personal and business responsibility
• Analyze the role of business in society
• Demonstrate skills in ethical analyses that can assist managers as they make both individual-level and firm-level decisions about responsible courses of action

• None

• Leadership
• Ethical reasoning and business responsibility
• Individual decision‐making and responsibility in organizations
• Wearing two hats? Personal responsibility and business responsibility
• Behavioral aspects of responsibility
• Personal reflections on ethical/legal experiences
• Speaking up
• What is character?
• Deciding what’s right - moral philosophy
• Why we make bad decisions - psychology and corporate crime
• Responsibility in diverse settings
• Obligations to the truth: ethics, politics, and business

BUS 6112 - Global Achievement Gap-Education Leadership

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

• Establish high expectations and build organizational systems that result in a high-performing school
• Establish a learning environment with instructional programs that meet the diverse learning needs and interests of students and lead to increased student achievement
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of the instructional program for continuous improvement to assure high levels of student achievement
• Collaborate with families, the community, service providers, and other key decision-makers to increase student achievement
• Develop, implement, and evaluate school policies, programs, and practices that ensure social justice, equity, confidentiality, inclusion, and respect between and among students, parents, faculty, and the community to support student achievement
• Know, understand, and articulate the relationships among social justice, culture, and student achievement and promote programs to address inequities within the school community
• Advocate for school policies, programs, and instructional practices that promote an equitable and culturally relevant instructional program
• Analyze and resolve school problems considering the larger political, social, cultural, economic, and historical context

• None

• Wagner’s 7 Survival Skills 
• Defining key terms 
• Achievement vs. growth 
• Data deep dive 

Evidence-based teaching and learning 

• Hattie and effect size 
• Collective efficacy and team performance
• Bolman and Deal’s 4 Frames

Equity and special education 

• Defining equity 
• Legal responsibilities 
• Best practices 
• Special education data review 

Work-based learning experiences 

• Redefining ready 
• Transforming schools 
• Innovative programs 

Social-emotional learning 

• Defining SEL 
• Universal instruction 
• Supporting mental health
• SWOT analysis 
• Site-based SEL analysis 

BUS 6121 - Data Wrangling and Exploration

• Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the field of business analytics, including trends and challenges
• Evaluate sources of data and opportunities for data collection and use across an organization
• Perform data wrangling using appropriate methods and tools for a given analytics scenario
• Apply appropriate data exploration techniques for a given analytics scenario
• Use data visualization techniques to gain insights into the meaning of the data
• Communicate the meaning of statistical or analytic results to stakeholders
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and write statistical program code in R and/or Python that automates the processing of statistical data sets that are not conducive to manual processing due to their size and/or scale

• None

• Python language environments
  • I-Python (Interactive Python) console mode, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Jupyter Notebook environment
  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of I-Python environments using shared environments (Rosie, Google CoLab, etc.) and single-user environments (Anaconda)
• Python language basics
  • Expressions, operators (arithmetic, logical, and relational), data types (none, integers, floating point numeric and object), compound expressions leading to statements
  • Flow of control in Python (sequential, branching (if/elif/else), iteration (for loops, while loops, ranges, else parts to loops, iteration over collections), functions and lambda expressions). Points of syntax - importance of colons and tab stops
  • Collections in Python (lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets) indexing and slicing, iteration over collections using comprehensions, iterable objects, and generators
  • Classes and object-oriented programming in Python (instance variables, methods, operator overloading, inheritance, polymorphism)
• Numeric Python (NumPy)
  • Data structures (array and n-dimensional arrays or ndarrays)
  • Indexing, sorting, finding unique elements, random number generation, file I/O
• Pandas library
  • Series and DataFrame data structures
  • Indexing, axis manipulation, selection, filtering, sorting, ranking, summarizing
  • File I/O between Series, DataFrame and files on disk, file formats
  • Reading and writing data using various file formats (text, JSON, HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel)
• Data cleaning and preparation
  • Handling missing data, filtering out bad/missing data, filling in missing data
  • “Binning” and aggregating data values, making continuous variables discrete
  • Indicator matrices and dummy variables
• Data wrangling: join, combine, reshape
  • Hierarchical indexing, summarizing statistics by level
  • Combining and merging data sets, SQL-style “joins” among DataFrames
  • Reshaping and pivoting DataFrames
• Data visualization
  • Plotting with mathplotlib
  • Figures and subplots
  • Line graphs, bar charts, box plots, histograms, density diagrams, scatter plots, etc.
  • Seaborn, Bokeh, and other visualization libraries built on matplotlib
• Data aggregation and group operations
  • The GroupBy operator
  • The Split-Apply-Combine pragma for manipulating data
  • Processing large data sets efficiently
• Machine learning basics
  • Linear regression fundamentals, simple and multivariate linear models
  • Training sets, test sets, validation sets, and other data set partitioning
  • Closed form equation solution for linear regression on small data sets
  • Iterative linear regression techniques for large data sets
  • Learning rates, error surfaces, residual analysis
  • Polynomial regression, logistic regression

BUS 6131 - Predictive Analytics

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

• Evaluate, propose, and apply appropriate predictive analytics techniques for a given decision-making scenario
• Illustrate the benefits of business analytics for individuals, stakeholders, and organizations
• Develop and deliver clear and persuasive messages based on the outcomes of analytics projects
• Build decision models using supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms
• Implement predictive models using supervised learning methods of linear, polynomial and logistic regression, support vector machines, decision trees and forests, and gradient boosting trees and artificial neural networks
• Implement predictive models using unsupervised learning methods of clustering, k-means analysis, hierarchical clustering, anomaly detection and reinforcement learning

• Python language environments
  • I-Python (Interactive Python) console mode, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Jupyter Notebook environment.
  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of I-Python environments using shared environments (Rosie, Google CoLab, etc.) and single-user environments (Anaconda)
• Python language review
  • Expressions, operators (arithmetic, logical and relational), data types (None, integers, floating point numeric and object), compound expressions leading to statements
  • Flow of control in Python (sequential, branching (if/elif/else), iteration (for loops, while loops, ranges, else parts to loops, iteration over collections), functions and lambda expressions). Points of syntax - importance of colons and tab stops
  • Collections in Python (lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets) indexing and slicing, iteration over collections using comprehensions, iterable objects and generators
  • Classes and object-oriented programming in Python (instance variables, methods, operator overloading, inheritance, polymorphism)
  • Numeric Python (NumPy), Scientific Python (SciPy) and Pandas Libraries
• Machine learning basics
  • Linear regression fundamentals, simple and multivariate linear models
  • Training sets, test sets, validation sets and other data set partitioning
  • Closed form equation solution for linear regression on small data sets
  • Iterative linear regression techniques for large data sets
  • Learning rates, error surfaces, residual analysis
  • Problems related to underfitting and overfitting
• Multivariate regression models
  • Polynomial regression and curve fitting techniques
  • Logistic regression for binary decision-making
• Decision model regularization
  • Occam’s razor and its role in model reduction
  • Ridge regression and Lasso regression
  • Model parameters and hyper-parameters
• Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
  • Linear and non-linear SVMs for Classification (SVCs)
  • SVM Regression (SVRs)
• Decision trees
  • Decision tree regressors
  • Decision tree classifiers
• Ensemble learning with random forests
  • Bagging and pasting
  • Boosting techniques
  • Gradient boosting
• Unsupervised learning
  • Clustering, k-nearest neighbors, k-means clustering
  • DBSCAN and other clustering algorithms
• Artificial neural networks
  • Artificial neurons and the digits problem
  • Perceptrons and multilayered neural networks
  • Backpropagation algorithm
• Deep learning neural networks
  • Using Keras as a front end to implement deep neural networks
    • TensorFlow - a deep learning library from Google
    • PyTorch - a deep learning library from Facebook
  • Image processing and computer vision models
  • Natural language processing models

BUS 6141 - Analytics Leadership and Strategy

• Conduct an analytics stage assessment within an organization
• Create an analytics strategy aligned with organizational goals
• Recommend an implementation plan for the action items within an analytics strategy
• Evaluate ethical dilemmas that arise within analytics
• Deliver a professional presentation recommending an analytics strategy and implementation plan

• None

• Analytics life cycle, decision-making
• Building analytic capacity and nature of analytic competition
• Communicating analytics
• DELTA framework
• Simulation and presentation
• Building an analytic culture and comprehensive analytic review
• Staying analytical and analytic challenges
• Analytic decisions

BUS 6151 - Data Visualization

• Create visualizations that directly tie analytics to a given decision-making context
• Develop dashboards to support organizational decision-making
• Evaluate analytics interfaces and select the best interface for a given audience
• Monitor and improve the performance of visualizations and dashboards

• None

• History of data visualization
• What makes for a “good” visualization
• Determining audience and main idea for a visualization
• Interpreting the meaning behind visualizations
• Types of visualizations
• Ethics of data visualization
• Creating a dashboard
• Pre-attentive processing attributes
• Aesthetics and color blind visualizations
• Professional applications of data visualization
• Applications within Excel
• Applications within a presentation (Powerpoint)
• Applications within Tableau

BUS 6200 - Finance and Accounting

• Develop the financial and accounting skills managers need to use in nonfinancial roles
• Identify and relate to the role financial management plays in the management of today’s business organization
• Work with the 3 key financial statements, knowing what they report, and how to use them to make better decisions
• Recognize and use cash flow concepts in decision-making
• Perform business financial planning including the preparation of budgets and pro-forma-financials
• Expand the concepts of Time Value of Money and use these in the making of investment decisions
• Identify the concept of Cost of Capital and the various related sources of capital available to business, both short-term and long-term
• Apply financial tools and techniques to make sound business decisions

• None

• Introduction to finance
• Transaction processing
• Financial analysis
• Supply chains and working capital management
• Review of time value of money
• Capital budgeting
• Project budgeting
• Cash flow estimation
• Risk assessment
• Risk and return
• Capital markets and investments
• Cost of capital
• Capital structure decisions

BUS 6202 - Finance and Accounting-Education Leadership

• Assess alignment of annual organization budget with strategic priorities
• Describe the basic financial decisions confronting organizations
• Evaluate spending proposals utilizing financial tools and techniques
• Monitor and report resource expenditures against budget
• Interpret the three key financial statements used by most organizations
• Describe relevant data, data sources, data access techniques, and reporting practices within a given organization
• Present a budget proposal based on your A3 that outlines a solution to a problem that is persistent within your current building

• None

• Understanding Wisconsin School Finance Game
• State revenue limits
• Other sources of revenue
• Budget
• Process/strategies
• Cycle
• Examination of budgets
• Coding expenses/revenues
• Purpose
• Amount of detail needed
• Accounting entries
• Financial statement
• Development
• Review
• District fund balance - correlation to financial statements
• Staff planning
• Salaries
• Benefits
• Retirement
• Capital projects
• Referendum
• Debt procurement/costing
• Risk-potential affects
• Purchasing process: start to finish

BUS 6302 - Statistical Thinking and Data Analytics-Education Leadership

• Create a plan that ensures a high degree of transparency in the reporting of local measures against standards and benchmarks
• Compare current performance to benchmarks and identify gaps
• Utilize data from organization performance monitoring systems to improve student achievement
• Demonstrate how statistics and analytics can be used to identify patterns and analyze problems
• Determine the root cause of a problem and identify the data needed to help understand and address it
• Apply methods of descriptive inferential, predictive, and evaluative statistics to support decision-making and problem resolution
• Use existing data sources, extract data, and convert it into a useful format to support decision-making and goal achievement
• Identify tools and techniques that support the aggregation and disaggregation of organization performance data to support decision-making on multiple levels
• Identify data sources and evaluate data quality
• Apply multiple techniques to analyze and define the root cause of a problem
• Assist others in developing a “statistical thinking” mindset and incorporating data analysis in appropriate tasks

• None

• Qualitative vs. quantitative, descriptive vs. inferential
• Central tendency, normal distributions, Bell curve, standard deviation
• Calculating risk ratios, survey development (qualitative) - interviews/focus groups/observations
• Survey development and sampling, survey data analysis, qualitative coding, frequency distributions
• Reporting results, data ethics, formal standardized testing, and norms
• Strategic Use of Data and Multiple Measures of Data (Bernhardt)

BUS 6400 - Economics

• Strengthen analytical/problem-solving skills by applying microeconomic and macroeconomic criteria to decisions
• Develop an appreciation for the dynamic environment of business, the need for it to add value to its product or service markets, and the necessity to make decisions that are economically sound
• Demonstrate the value to business of analyzing demand and supply, price elasticities, marginal utility, and decision-making with uncertainty
• Develop an appreciation for the macroeconomic environment and international economic issues
• Solve a limited set of investment problems that include time value concepts

• None

• Microeconomic theory: markets and the circular flow, supply and demand, elasticity, product and markets.
• Macroeconomic theory: GDP, growth, business cycle, unemployment, inflation, aggregate supply and demand; fiscal policy; money and banking, monetary policy; international economics
• Time value of money

BUS 6500 - Supply Chain Management

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

• Identify the basic elements in a supply network, and understand trade-offs in supply network design
• Examine approaches to developing a supply network and analyze inputs and risks of various supply networks (comprehension)Identify drivers of supply chain performance and appropriate metrics of success
• Link the drivers to the success of supply strategy
• Analyze strategies for sourcing: including make vs. buy decisions, supplier evaluation, RFQ, pricing, total cost, etc., during procurement/product development process
• Analyze points of communication and integration, as well as causes of risk in the supply network - both during product development and ongoing supply - including effects of forecast/ERP
• Identify mechanisms to reduce inventory without hurting cost or product availability
• Compare and contrast various approaches to reduce total product lead time - including manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and logistics strategies
•  Analyze sources of supply chain risk and explore strategies to help mitigate risk present in a global supply chain
• Compare and contrast pros/cons of global vs. local supply chains - including in-region/for-region sourcing strategies vs. global distribution

• None

• Basic elements of a supply network
• Value chains
• Supply strategy as a competitive advantage in business strategy

Supply networks

• Supply network design
• Inputs to supply network
• Risks and benefits in various supply networks

Sourcing vs. purchasing

• Sourcing strategy and inputs to sourcing decisions
• Make v. buy inputs and decisions
• Supplier evaluation

Supply integration: product improvement and development

• Supply coordination
• Supplier partnerships and benefits

Supplier performance and improvement

• Supply chain metrics
• Supplier performance feedback
• Supplier development

Supply chain MRP

• Forecasting methods
• Demand variability
• Seasonality
• Supply chain lead times

Connected supply

• Methods of transparency
• Data management in supply

Supply chain inventory management

• Total product lead time
• Inventory management strategies

Logistics and distribution

• Warehousing and distribution strategies
• Design of distribution network

Global supply

• In region for region strategy
• Challenges in global supply chains

Supply chain risk

• Supply continuity risk
• Methods of risk mitigation

Supply management case study

• Application of supply management topics to real world supply situation

BUS 6600 - Human Resources Management

• Describe applicable employment law related to decisions on recruitment, selection, discipline, promotion, and separation from the organization
• Develop a compensation model that encourages and rewards performance and results and also ensures employee satisfaction and retention; the model also reflects understanding of labor supply and demand and organizational finances
• Identify specific, unambiguous, job-related criteria on which to base hiring decisions and develop a comprehensive recruitment and selection plan
• Demonstrate understanding of performance management by articulating clear expectations, monitoring performance, and coaching for improvement; engage in productive crucial conversations with employees

• None

• Strategic human resources management
• Current and emerging human resource challenges
• Equal opportunity and the legal environment
• Managing diversity, equity, and inclusion; developing strategies to ensure representation and participation
• Human resources planning, job analysis, job descriptions, job specifications
• Recruiting
• Interviewing and pre-employment testing and screening
• Performance management: setting expectations, coaching, crucial conversations, performance reviews
• Training and career development
• Discipline and due process
• Employee and management rights
• Managing employee separations, downsizing and outplacement
• Managing compensation
• Rewarding performance
• Designing and administering benefits
• Employee relations
• Workplace safety and health, stress

BUS 6602 - Human Resource Management-Education Leadership

• Describe applicable employment law related to decisions on recruitment, selection, discipline, promotion, and separation from the organization. 
• Develop a compensation model that encourages and rewards performance and results and also ensures employee satisfaction and retention; the model also reflects an understanding of labor supply and demand and organizational finances.  
• Identify specific, unambiguous, job-related criteria on which to base hiring decisions and develop a comprehensive recruitment and selection plan.
• Demonstrate understanding of performance management by articulating clear expectations, monitoring performance and coaching for improvement; engage in productive crucial conversations with employees

• None

• Strategic human resources management
• Current and emerging human resource challenges
• Equal opportunity and the legal environment
• Managing diversity, equity, and inclusion; developing strategies to ensure representation and participation
• Human resources planning, job analysis, job descriptions, job specifications
• Recruiting
• Interviewing and pre-employment testing and screening
• Performance management: setting expectations, coaching, crucial conversations, performance reviews
• Training and career development
• Discipline and due process
• Employee and management rights
• Managing employee separations, downsizing and outplacement
• Managing compensation
• Rewarding performance
• Designing and administering benefits
• Employee relations
• Workplace safety and health, stress

BUS 6802 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship-Education Leadership

• Apply human-centered design methodologies to a problem of practice
• Make meaningful connections between the role of improvement and innovation to a strategic plan
• Explore innovation of an aspect of a student’s system through optimization, redesign, or displacement of key features
• Understand and apply risk management and mitigation strategies to a problem of practice
• Research, analyze, and present a social innovation strategy

• None

• Introduction to innovation
• Human-centered design process and innovation development   
• Innovation and strategy
• Continuous improvement strategies as innovation
• Sources of data, observation, and design ethnography
• Development of a design problem statement
• Managing innovation: identifying and mapping risk
• Reputational, legal, political, financial risk assessments
• Communication and implementation plan
• Recognizing evidence of culture
• Communication for change, managing perceived loss
• Investigating and identifying system and personal competing commitments
• System and school design
• Identifying innovation constraints
• Identifying tools, tasks that afford change

BUS 6900 - Strategic Management

• Identify and discuss the strategic imperatives that face every company, every day
• Develop a vision, mission, and set of core values for a firm
• Determine the financial and non-financial performance targets for a firm
• Analyze the industry and recommend the strategic position for a firm
• Create a strategic plan, using a base competitive advantage targeting above-average performance
• Develop a strategic implementation plan

• None

• The need for strategy
• Vision, ethics, and leadership
• Strategy and performance
• Sustainability and triple bottom line (people, planet, and profit)
• Strategic direction, vision, mission, values, and core principles
• Strategic analysis, industry analysis, competitive analysis, value-chain analysis
• Open strategy
• Resource-based competitive advantage
• Business-level strategy formulation
• Industry life cycles and innovation
• Competitive dynamics and competitive intelligence
• Corporate strategy
• Strategy implementation, structure, and control

BUS 6902 - Strategy- Education Leadership

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

• Communicate your school’s data strategy story in a way that inspires, prioritizes, and captures the most important work of your system
• Identify key work processes and how they can be improved to effect change in an organization
• Evaluate new technologies and their potential impact on a school
• Reflect thoughtfully on current ethical challenges relating to data, technology, and organizational performance
• Develop an understanding of business and operational strategies for project management and implementation of new systems and practices

• None

• Telling your data story
• Leadership challenges
• Dashboard/scorecard development
• Annual reports

Process improvement tools

• PDSA
• Lean six
• Design thinking

Employee engagement

• Rounding
• Recognition
• Stoplight reports

Process mapping

• Strategic, operational, and support processes
• Process map for school or district
• Lucid chart

Technology as a tool

• Technology resources in schools
• Technology tool with data
• Administrative role in technology
• Kaizen

Law and schools

• Policies

BUS 6960 - Technology Strategy

• Integrate the concepts of a dominant design, industry standards, the timing of entry, and diffusion in the technology strategy for a firm
• Apply the appropriate sources of innovation and types of innovation for a given industry to a technology strategy for a firm
• Identify and describe the historical character of the six models of change in organizations
• Produce an innovation/technology strategy to support strategic business initiatives using one of the appropriate models for technology innovation
• Prepare a presentation and communication plan for the innovation and technology strategy for a firm, including the concepts above

• None

• Importance of technological innovation
• Sources of innovation
• Types of innovation
• Technological discontinuity
• Learning curve effects
• Dominant design
• Timing of entry
• Innovation portfolio strategies
• Innovation collaboration strategies
• Technology diffusion
• Managing virtual development teams
• Technology strategy
• Learning organization and a culture of innovation
• Intra-firm collaboration 
• Measurement of innovation

BUS 6999 - Business Independent Study

• Vary

• Vary

• Vary

BUS 7901 - Applied Project Management I

• Identify organizational problems and opportunities
• Describe problems using an A3
• Assemble a team and draft norms, meeting practices, and communication protocols
• Create a project plan to achieve triple constraints
• Implement strategies for project advocacy and engaging stakeholders

• None

• PM terminology and PMBOK methodology overview
• Where project ideas originate
• A3
• Team norms and assessment instruments
• Charter
• Project advocacy
• Systems maps
• Stakeholder plan and requirements matrix
• Scope
• WBS
• Estimating time, cost, resource requirements
• Schedules
• Time-phased budget
• Resource plans
• Time- and resource-constrained schedules

BUS 7902 - Applied Project Management II

• Establish a team culture that allows an honest exchange of challenges and concerns
• Develop a risk plan and a risk communication plan
• Define change management protocols for the team and the organization
• Conduct Action After Reviews (AARs) and project retrospectives

• Topics from BUS 7901

• Risk plan
• Change management protocols
• Project failure
• Integrated change control
• AARs and project retrospectives
• Closing the project and lessons learned
• Project failure and change management

BUS 7903 - Applied Project Management III

• Project performance against baseline plans
• Use tracking Gantt charts and control charts to assess schedule performance
• Calculate earned value, cost variance, schedule variance, and other indices in order to make appropriate decisions to deliver the triple constraints
• Complete status reports
• Implement strategies to reduce project duration

• Topics from BUS 7902

• Monitoring and controlling
• Tracking Gantt charts
• Control charts
• Planned value, earned value, cost variance, schedule variance, etc.
• Status reports
• Crashing the schedule

BUS 7921 - Applied Project Management I - MBA

• Identify organizational problems and opportunities
• Describe problems using an A3
• Assemble a team and draft norms, meeting practices, and communication protocols
• Create a project plan to achieve triple constraints
• Implement strategies for project advocacy and engaging stakeholders

• None

• PM terminology and PMBOK methodology overview
• Where project ideas originate
• A3
• Team norms and assessment instruments
• Charter
• Project advocacy
• Systems maps
• Stakeholder plan and requirements matrix
• Scope
• WBS
• Estimating time, cost, resource requirements
• Schedules
• Time-phased budget
• Resource plans
• Time- and resource-constrained schedules

BUS 7922 - Applied Project Management II - MBA

• Identify organizational problems and opportunities
• Describe problems using an A3
• Assemble a team and draft norms, meeting practices, and communication protocols
• Create a project plan to achieve triple constraints
• Implement strategies for project advocacy and engaging stakeholders

• None

• PM terminology and PMBOK methodology overview
• Where project ideas originate
• A3
• Team norms and assessment instruments
• Charter
• Project advocacy
• Systems maps
• Stakeholder plan and requirements matrix
• Scope
• WBS
• Estimating time, cost, resource requirements
• Schedules
• Time-phased budget
• Resource plans
• Time- and resource-constrained schedules

BUS 7923 - Applied Project Management III - MBA

• Identify organizational problems and opportunities
• Describe problems using an A3
• Assemble a team and draft norms, meeting practices, and communication protocols
• Create a project plan to achieve triple constraints
• Implement strategies for project advocacy and engaging stakeholders

• None

• PM terminology and PMBOK methodology overview
• Where project ideas originate
• A3
• Team norms and assessment instruments
• Charter
• Project advocacy
• Systems maps
• Stakeholder plan and requirements matrix
• Scope
• WBS
• Estimating time, cost, resource requirements
• Schedules
• Time-phased budget
• Resource plans
• Time- and resource-constrained schedules

BUS 7924 - Applied Project Management IV - MBA

• Identify organizational problems and opportunities
• Describe problems using an A3
• Assemble a team and draft norms, meeting practices, and communication protocols
• Create a project plan to achieve triple constraints
• Implement strategies for project advocacy and engaging stakeholders

• None

• PM terminology and PMBOK methodology overview
• Where project ideas originate
• A3
• Team norms and assessment instruments
• Charter
• Project advocacy
• Systems maps
• Stakeholder plan and requirements matrix
• Scope
• WBS
• Estimating time, cost, resource requirements
• Schedules
• Time-phased budget
• Resource plans
• Time- and resource-constrained schedules

CHM 5980 - Topics in Chemistry

• Vary

• Vary

• Vary

CAE 5461 - Water Reclamation and Treatment Systems

• Identify the socio-economic factors that lead to water reuse
• Analyze water quality needs and match those needs with appropriate water treatment technologies
• Evaluate alternative technologies and treatment scenarios for a water reuse system based on local, economic, and technological factors
• Design a water reuse treatment system for use in a realistic situation
• Present a design report to alleviate typical fears associated with water reuse systems

• Working knowledge of water systems design

• Introduction to course and topics
• One water concepts
• Water quality issues
• Centralized treatment paradigm
• Decentralized paradigm
• Water quality measurement
• Physical treatment processes
• Chemical treatment processes
• Biological treatment processes
• Pathogen reduction processes
• Typical centralized reuse systems
• Typical decentralized reuse systems

CAE 5511 - Analysis of Structures by Matrix Methods

• Develop stiffness matrices to analyze statically indeterminate trusses, beams, and frames
• Develop computer models for structural analysis using commercial software and evaluate the validity of results

• Knowledge of linear algebra
• Knowledge of differential equations

• Forces in statically determinate structures
• Deformations and displacements
• Redundant force method for statically indeterminate structures
• Concept of matrix stiffness method
• Matrix stiffness method for trusses
• Matrix stiffness method for beams
• Matrix stiffness method for frames
• Complex assemblies
• Introduction to non-linear behavior

CAE 5512 - Introduction to the Finite Element Method

• Derive stiffness matrices for axial, beam and frame elements
• Analyze structures using one-dimensional finite elements
• Analyze structures using approximations of two-dimensional finite elements
• Analyze diverse structures using finite element software
• Formulate numerical models using general purpose finite element analysis software

• None

• Review of topics from elastic theory and mechanics of materials
• Classical approaches for generalized numerical solutions
• Development of material models for numerical analyses
• Two degree of freedom spar elements (axial rods)
• Four degree of freedom beam elements
• Planar elements, plane stress and plane strain
• Solid rectangular trilinear elements (“brick” elements)
• Applied loading, nonlinear analyses, dynamic analyses

CAE 5521 - Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures II

• Design concrete members and frames considering advanced techniques and complex internal force scenarios
• Design two-way slabs using ACI methodologies and advanced software
• Design concrete systems using advanced analysis techniques, such as strut-and-tie modeling
• Evaluate needs for applying complex analysis and design techniques

• None

• Review of ACI provisions for joists, beams, columns, frames and foundations
• Design of members subjected to torsion and shear
• Design of brackets and corbels
• ACI code provisions for pan joist floors
• Design of pan joist floor systems for shear and moment
• Wide module considerations
• ACI code provisions for flat slab floors
• The Direct Design and Equivalent Frame method
• ACI code provisions for flat plate floors
• Introduction to posttensioned floor design
• Design of slender columns
• Strut and tie modeling
• Advanced materials and high-strength concrete

CAE 5522 - Design of Precast Concrete Structures

• Design prestressed concrete beams for deflection, flexure, development, shear, and torsion
• Design prestressed concrete columns subjected to axial and flexural loads
• Determine prestressed connection capacities

• None

• Analysis methods
• Loss of prestress
• Flexure design
• Shear and torsion design
• Compression member design
• Connection design

CAE 5551 - Design of Masonry Structures

• Describe the material properties of masonry units and mortar
• Design masonry flexural members
• Design masonry walls for axial loads
• Design masonry walls for out-of-plane bending
• Design masonry walls for in-plane bending and shear
• Apply code prescribed detailing requirements for masonry walls
• Design anchorage in concrete and masonry

• None

• Materials
• Reinforced masonry beams
• Masonry with axial loads
• Masonry walls with out-of-plane bending
• Masonry walls with in-plane bending and shear
• Detailing of masonry
• Anchorage design in masonry and concrete
• Construction issues

CAE 5561 - Design of Steel Structures II

• Design plate girders for flexure and shear
• Design steel frames for gravity and axial loads
• Design bracing systems for steel structures
• Design connections for steel structures
• Apply advanced floor serviceability provisions

• None

• Design of plate girders
• Design of columns including slender element effects
• Design of braced and moment frames, including design using the direct analysis method
• Analysis of steel framed floors for occupant-induced vibrations
• Design of connections for steel structures, including partially restrained connections

CAE 5571 - Design of Wood and Timber Structures

• Explain the material properties and manufacture of sawn and engineered wood products
• Design sawn and engineered wood members for flexure, shear, bearing, axial, and combined axial and flexural loads
• Design structural wood panels for out-of-plane loading
• Design wood diaphragms and wood shear walls
• Design bolted and nailed connections of wood members

• None

• Material properties and manufacture of sawn and engineered wood products
• Sawn and engineered wood member design
• Connection design

CAE 5591 - Design of Structural Systems

• Determine gravity and lateral loadings on building frames
• Analyze and design steel frames and/or systems subjected to gravity and lateral loads
• Analyze and design concrete frames and/or systems subjected to gravity and lateral loads
• Develop efficient building geometries for concrete and steel framed systems
• Design efficient lateral force resisting systems
• Design multi-story columns
• Design foundations for building systems

• None

• Calculation of loads (dead, live, wind, snow, seismic) using ASCE 7
• Gravity load path: horizontal framing and vertical framing systems
• Wind load path: diaphragm analysis and design, connections, and lateral force systems
• Selection of metal deck, open web steel joists and joist girders
• Selection of precast concrete elements as part of a structural system
• Efficient geometries for different building types and framing systems
• Design of foundation systems
• Design of systems composed of different materials (concrete, steel, wood, masonry)
• Connection design

CAE 5980 - Topics in Civil and Architectural Engineering

• Vary, depending on topics covered. Consult instructor.

• Vary

CAE 6511 - Structural Dynamics

• Analyze single degree of freedom systems for a variety of dynamic loadings
• Analyze multi-degree of freedom systems for a variety of dynamic loadings
• Calculate the response of simple structures due to dynamic and earthquake loading

• None

• Single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems and equation of motion
• Free vibration
• Harmonic loads
• Periodic loads
• Impulsive (short-term) loads
• Response to general loads
• Methods for numerical solution of equations of motion
• Multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) systems
• Equation of motion
• Multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) equations of motion
• Eigenvalue problems
• Modal analysis and mode superposition
• Numerical solutions using MATLAB or other software
• Introduction to analysis for earthquake loading; response spectra

CAE 6512 - Stability of Structures

• Explain fundamental concepts of stability and equilibrium
• Formulate solutions for stability of columns, beams, and frames
• Evaluate structural systems using analytical, numerical and energy approaches

• Thorough understanding of basic solid mechanics (mechanics of materials)
• Understanding of differential equations, including partial differential equations

• Basic principles of stability
• Buckling of columns and beam-columns
• Stability of rigid frames
• Buckling of beams
• Torsional and lateral-torsional buckling
• Numerical and energy solutions to stability problems

CAE 6513 - Analysis of Nonlinear Structures

• Identify situations when advanced analysis techniques are needed
• Solve problems with nonlinear material behavior
• Solve problems with nonlinear geometric behavior
• Evaluate complex structures with advanced structural software and understand results

• None

• Classical analysis techniques
• Cable-supported structures
• Arches
• Grid structures
• Material nonlinearity
• Geometric nonlinearity
• Adjustments to stiffness matrices for nonlinear effects
• Numerical solutions to nonlinear structures

CAE 6514 - Theory of Elasticity

• Explain fundamental concepts of solid mechanics and their underlying theories
• Formulate the fundamental equations of elastic behavior
• Evaluate results from numerical solutions (e.g., finite element solutions)

• Thorough understanding of basic solid mechanics (mechanics of materials)
• Understanding of differential equations, including partial differential equations

• Introduction to elastic theory and review of fundamental concepts
• Analysis of displacement and strain
• Analysis of stress
• Material behavior and constitutive laws
• Three-dimensional elasticity problems
• Numerical solutions to elasticity problems

CAE 6561 - Design of Structural Steel Connections

• Explain the basis for connection design as presented in the AISC Manual
• Determine limit states for different types of connections
• Determine connection efficiency for given loads
• Determine suitability of connections for different situations
• Evaluate analysis methods unique to connection design
• Design simple shear, moment, and partially restrained connections
• Design light and heavy bracing connections
• Compare and contrast connection types for structural efficiency and relative cost
• Evaluate how seismic loading affects the design of the connection

• Determinate and indeterminate structural analysis
• Understanding of structural analysis software
• Understanding of design of simple connections (tension, shear, moment)

• Fastener types
• Eccentric loading on fasteners
• Prying action
• Framing connections
• Moment connections
• Bracing connections
• Partially restrained connections
• Introduction to connection design for seismic loading 

CAE 7810 - Research and Writing

• Explain what constitutes a formal technical research paper-describe the IMRAD structure and understand the significance of each component to the overall research process
• Explain how the formal technical research paper and process aligns with the overall goals of the MSAE or MSCV programs, with the MSOE Mindset, and with the broader goals of graduate education
• Develop a coherent research question, and outline a research plan for investigating the question, in consultation with student’s capstone advisor
• Write a graduate capstone paper that features a critical literature review utilizing scholarly resources, including various technical databases and including proper citation formatting, in support of the research question
• Format and cite sources using various standardized style guides, including APA
• Develop a research plan for investigating the research question, including proposing methodology for data collection and analysis.  Understand how to interact with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) when collecting data involving research on human subjects, and understand the ethics involved with such research.
• Illustrate how to format a formal technical paper consistent with journal or conference proceeding standards
• Write a graduate capstone paper, using appropriate formatting, grammar, figure and graphical annotations, and citation formatting 

• Knowledge in the student’s specialty area

• Course introduction: explanation of the formal research process, significance of the research process to the graduate level education and to the MSOE Mindset and to program goals
• Elements of a formal technical paper and how to develop them, including guidance on writing
• Research questions: what they are, how to develop them
• Literature reviews: how they fit into the overall research process, types, the critical literature review, using technical databases and other legitimate scholarly sources to develop a literature review
• Citing sources and formatting a report to be consistent with a given style guide
• Research plans: developing methodology for data collection and analysis
• Research designs and methods employed in civil and architectural engineering
• Types of research in civil and architectural engineering requiring IRB approval and how such approval is obtained
• Journal articles and conference proceedings: how to format these and derive them from a longer thesis or capstone report paper
• Guidance on technical writing, clear communication, and ethical issues associated with the written capstone report

CVE 5201 - Environmental and Water Law

• Explain the differences in approaches to water law under the appropriation and riparian doctrines
• Interpret water and environmental law in the context of engineering projects
• Devise engineering strategies to achieve environmental and water law compliance
• Evaluate legal and regulatory strategies to protect public welfare and the environment

• None

• Water rights
• Regulatory jurisdiction
• Land use and zoning
• Shoreland and floodplain management
• Lake and stream management regulations
• Dams and flowages
• Water drainage
• Discharge of pollutants to surface waters
• Groundwater law
• Wetland regulations
• Insurance
• Legal remedies
• Differences between water rights under the appropriations doctrine and riparian doctrine.
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• Clean Water Act (CWA)
• Oil Pollution Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Laws relating to brownfields redevelopment
• Sara Title III and community right-to-know laws
• OSHA regulations
• Toxic Substances Control Act
• Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations relating to shipments of wastes
• Clean Air Act (CAA)
• Laws relating to new source construction and major source operation permits

CVE 5211 - Air Quality

• Identify sources of air pollution and implement pollution control remedies
• Formulate permitting processes based on current standards
• Evaluate means and methods for mitigating air pollution
• Design an air pollution control strategy and facilities needed to achieve permit compliance

• None

• Sources of air pollution and available control options
• Carbon dioxide, methane and other global warming gases as a pollutant
• Impacts of air pollution on disadvantaged populations, social equity, ethical issues
• National ambient-air quality standards (NAAQS) along with federal new source performance standards (NSPSs) and hazardous air pollutant emission standards (NESHAPs)
• Federal permitting and enforcement
• Title V permitting process, determining when a permit is required, describing the process for applying for permits, determining permit compliance
• Understanding Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT), Best Available Control Technology (BACT), Reasonable Available Control Technology RACT, and Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate (LAER) requirements
• Development of integrated strategies to achieve air quality goals
• Design of air pollution control equipment
• Development and design of carbon capture systems to address global warming

CVE 5221 - Environmental Chemistry for Civil Engineers

• Explain the principles underlying the chemical transformations that take place in groundwater, surface water, and in water and wastewater treatment processes
• Apply the principles of water chemistry to the design of selected water/wastewater and soil/groundwater remediation processes
• Identify the various classes of organic compounds and how organic compounds behave and react in the environment
• Formulate the field and laboratory procedures involved in the sampling and analysis of water and soil samples
• Evaluate the roles of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycles

• None

• Electroneutrality and its application to water analysis
• Rates of chemical and biochemical reactions
• Acid-base reactions and the carbonate system
• Complexation reactions and chelation
• Precipitation and dissolution reactions
• Oxidation-reduction reactions
• Survey of organic chemistry and how organic compounds react and behave in the environment
• Adsorption reactions
• Survey of environmental laboratory procedures and analytical techniques in environmental chemistry

• Students will participate in several laboratory sessions that will illustrate the course topics, including alkalinity, BOD/COD, lime/soda-ash softening, and carbon adsorption

CVE 5222 - Environmental Microbiology

• Interpret the significance of the sequence of nitrogenous bases in nucleic acids in applications such as taxonomic placement of organisms, protein synthesis, and genetic lineage
• Compare and contrast the structure and function of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and algae
• Evaluate situations where the activity of microorganisms in facilitating biogeochemical cycles occurs in natural and anthropogenic habitats
• Communicate the hazards represented by microbial pathogens in the environment, direct and indirect methods of their detection, and methods of their control
• Compose the steps involved in biofilm formation
• Compare and contrast the roles of microbes in various types of wastewater treatment
• Design a process whereby microbial degradation of organic contaminants might occur

• Understanding of general biology

• Survey of microbial groups, chemistry review
• Observation of microbes; organic chemistry review
• Macromolecules; carbohydrates and lipids
• Macromolecules; amino acids, proteins
• Macromolecules; nucleic acids, cell membranes
• Cell structure and membrane structure in various microbes
• Protein synthesis and function, enzymes
• Metabolism; respiration and photosynthesis
• Viral structure and replication, plasmids, bacterial genome
• Pathogens, bacterial - waterborne and airborne
• Pathogens, viral and protozoan; methods for control of pathogens
• Quantification of heterotrophic bacteria, pathogens, and FIB (fecal indicator bacteria)
• Nutrient cycling and the ecological role of microbes in the environment
• Microbially mediated processes in wastewater treatment
• Bioaugmentation, bioremediation, methanogenesis

CVE 5241 - Solid Waste Engineering and Design

• Describe the historical development of solid waste management systems
• Characterize the sources, composition, and engineering properties of typical solid waste streams
• Estimate solid waste generation rates for new developments
• Utilize solid waste data to develop concept plans for waste transfer, landfill, and materials recycling facilities
• Evaluate and design waste transfer, landfill, and materials recovery processing facilities
• Identify the major local, state, and federal laws and regulations governing solid waste management systems in the U.S.
• Describe several chemical, biological, and thermal conversion technologies used in solid waste management systems
• Select the appropriate mix of technologies for solid waste management program development

• None

• Methods of waste characterization
• Collection systems design
• Design of landfills
• Design of thermal processing systems

CVE 5321 - Design of Foundations

• Compare and contrast the common types of foundations and select an appropriate solution for a given situation
• Design shallow foundations for axial load and moment
• Design deep foundations for axial and lateral loads

• None

• Soil mechanics review
• Foundation selection
• Shallow foundation design
• Deep foundation design

CVE 5331 - Retaining Structures and Slope Stability

• Apply various soil mechanics properties and lateral earth pressure theories applicable to the analysis and design of retaining structures and slope stability
• Analyze and design various earth retaining structures for internal and external stability
• Analyze the stability of slopes using various hand calculation and computer methods

• None

• Review of soil mechanics
• Gravity retaining walls
• Cantilever retaining walls
• Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls
• Seepage and forces on hydraulic structures
• Sheet pile and soldier pile walls
• Braced cuts and bottom stability
• Slope stability
• Slope stabilization

CVE 5423 - Ecological Aspects of Environmental Microbiology

• Explain how environmental conditions affect nitrogen transformations such as nitritation, nitrification and anammox
• Identify conditions that support the proliferation of environmental pathogens
• Develop an understanding of how the inter-related activities of a consortium of microbes can function to create a pathway for degradation of organic matter
• Use scientific literature to define the distribution and significance of specific bacteria of special importance to use of the natural environment by humans

• None

• Nitrogen transformations
  • Ammonia to nitrate
  • Nitrite to nitrogen gas
  • Ammonia to nitrogen gas (anammox)
• Phosphorus accumulation
  • Rhodocyclus
  • Acinetobacter
• Acetogenesis
• Role of Clostridium in anaerobic decomposition of organic matter
• Methanogenic bacteria
  • hydrogenic
  • acetogenic
• Pfiesteria   - variation in life cycle & pathogenicity
• HAB (harmful algal blooms) bacteria
  • Microcystis
  • Red tide - dinoflagellates
• Escherichia coli
  • Life outside of its normal host
  • Fate in aquatic systems - effects of temperature, nutrients, other biota
  • Pathogenicity & genome variation
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
  • Utility in biodegradation
  • Pathogenicity for cystic fibrosis patients
• Aquatic hyphomycete fungi and their role in degradation of cellulosic material

CVE 5611 - Traffic Analysis

• Utilize traffic flow theory and traffic analysis tools and methodologies
• Implement the proper application of traffic analysis tools and methodologies
• Analyze, optimize, and simulate traffic conditions utilizing software application(s)
• Evaluate analysis results for accuracy and implementation

• None

• Traffic flow theory
• Relationship between traffic stream variables: speed, flow, and density
• Human factors
• Flow models
• Unsignalized intersection theory
• Signalized intersection theory
• Traffic analysis tools
• Microsimulation modeling software
• Calibration
• Definition, interpretation, and calculation of traffic analysis tools’ measures of effectiveness

CVE 5621 - Design and Planning of Airports

• Demonstrate the importance of the relationship between airport planning, design, and management 
• Select and apply appropriate airport elements for an efficient airport layout
• Design a small airport conforming to Federal Aviation Administration design standards
• Evaluate existing airport layouts, identify areas of deficiency, and recommend improvements  

• None

• Aviation concepts
• Airport planning
• Airport elements
• Federal Aviation Administration design standards
• Airport geometric design
• Airport management

CVE 5631 - Design of Bridges

• Understand the different types of bridges and when their use is appropriate
• Determine AASHTO loading requirements for bridges
• Design basic steel girder bridges
• Design basic reinforced concrete slab bridges

• None

• Short topics: Minneapolis I-35 collapse; bridge types and economical spans; fatigue and fracture mechanics; Hoan Bridge; aesthetics in design; arches; suspension bridge types; Tacoma Narrows; Connecticut Turnpike at Mianus River
• Basic structural analysis with moving loads
• Loadings and load combinations
• Girder bridges: general concepts
• Two-span continuous composite rolled steel beam bridge design
• Girder bridges: additional topics for precast concrete girders and steel plate girders
• Multi-span reinforced concrete slab bridge design
• Multi-cell box culvert design

CVE 5661 - Pavement Design

• Discuss flexible and rigid pavement structure
• Identify stresses and strains in flexible and rigid pavements and design pavement to resist those stresses
• Evaluate traffic loading, pavement distresses, material characterization, and pavement performance to assist with developing pavement designs
• Compare and contrast flexible and rigid pavement designs by utilizing a pavement design and life cycle cost analysis software program

• None

• Pavement analysis and design introduction
• Stresses and strains in flexible pavement
• Stresses and strains in rigid pavements
• Traffic loading and volume
• Drainage design
• Flexible pavement design
• Rigid pavement design

CVE 5681 - Traffic Control

• Explain the usage of several roadway traffic control devices
• Synthesize knowledge of traffic control devices to assist with selecting appropriate traffic control devices for specialty applications
• Design roadway traffic control plans for various scenarios
• Evaluate and redesign roadway traffic control plans, as needed, to accommodate changing conditions

• None

• What is the MUTCD?  Who uses the MUTCD?  Why is the MUTCD important?
• MUTCD History
• Legality of the MUTCD
• MUTCD Part 2 - Signs
• MUTCD Part 3 - Markings
• MUTCD Part 4 - Traffic Signals
• MUTCD Part 6 - Temporary Traffic Control
• MUTCD Part 8 - Traffic Control for Railroad and Light Rail Transit Grade Crossings
• MUTCD Part 9 - Traffic Control for Bicycle Facilities

CVE 5721 - Hydraulic Design

• Open Channel Hydraulics:
  • Compute flow profiles in open channels under uniform and gradually varied conditions using both the direct and standard-step methods
  • Design culverts, underflow gates, overflow gates, flow measurement flumes, and spillways to regulate flow or pass a design discharge
  • Apply physical model similitude principles in open channel situations
  • Analyze unsteady flow in open channels including determining the impact of a dam-break
  • Design new or replacement hydraulic structures in rivers in a manner that minimizes their impact on flood stage.
  • Assess the impact of scour on bridge structures
  • Design channels to minimize scour and energy dissipation structures
  • Utilize the HEC-RAS computer program to assist in all the above outcomes

• Closed-Conduit Hydraulics
  • Apply Reynolds Transport theorem
  • Apply dimensional analysis and Buckingham Pi theorem to establish similarity
  • Calculate a system curve for a system with complex combinations of fittings and pipe
  • Compute hydraulic transient pressures in a force main
  • Design surge attenuation to control hydraulic transients
  • Design thrust restraints due to forces caused by changes in pressure and momentum at fittings
  • Design a pump station with multiple variable-speed pumps and force main to achieve a desired performance (functional design)

• None

• Open-channel steady flow including sketching, identifying, and calculating gradually varied water surface profiles using direct and standard step methods
• Underflow and overflow gates, flow measurement flumes, and spillways
• Flow through culverts
• Unsteady flow including dam break analysis
• Design of structures in waterways to minimize impact on flood stage
• Scour of channels, bridge piers and abutments
• Analysis and design of open channel systems using HEC-RAS
• Pump station analysis and design including development of system curves, variable speed pumping, and multiple pumps
• Analysis and control of hydraulic transients
• Momentum and thrust restraint at fittings

• Physical model similitude and scale-physical models
• Identification and creation of water surface profiles
• Flow through culverts
• Flow through underflow and overflow gates and flumes
• Physical modeling of a dam outlet structure
• Unsteady open-channel flow
• Control of hydraulic transients
• Thrust and restraint requirements

CVE 5731 - Physical Hydrogeology

• Describe the properties of groundwater systems
• Prepare groundwater flow maps and determine groundwater flow directions
• Design and implement field tests to collect groundwater data
• Analyze groundwater data and calculate aquifer properties
• Discuss the major groundwater systems in Wisconsin
• Apply concepts of groundwater movement to large-scale, complex hydrogeologic systems through the use of groundwater modeling
• Evaluate groundwater management methods for sustaining long-term yield and productions in various geologic settings

• None

• Groundwater occurrence
• Geologic properties of groundwater systems
• Groundwater recharge sources and discharge sinks
• Darcy’s law of groundwater movement
• Differential equations of groundwater flow
• Solutions of steady and unsteady groundwater flow to well equations
• Aquifer test design
• Groundwater field methods including a field trip
• Groundwater modeling
• Management of groundwater systems

CVE 5741 - Hydrology

• Use geographic information systems and public information sources to obtain hydrologic data
• Determine the boundaries of a watershed, its time of concentration, and its infiltration characteristics  
• Calculate infiltration, evapotranspiration, snowmelt, and runoff using various methods including water balance
• Disaggregate hydrographs into base and wet weather flow components
• Develop calibrated and synthetic unit hydrographs and apply unit hydrograph theory to develop storm hydrographs
• Characterize river flow and precipitation data using statistical methods including estimating return intervals of extreme hydrologic phenomena
• Perform hydrologic modeling of a watershed using a deterministic computer model (i.e. HEC-HMS) for purposes of analysis and design.
• Perform transfer function modeling of the rainfall-temperature-streamflow relationship for purposes of analysis and design

• Familiarity with Green-Ampt Equation, level pool routing, and NRCS hydrology
• Familiarity with statistical concepts such as mean, standard deviation, skew, probability density functions and cumulative distribution functions
• Ability to perform least squares regression
• Conceptual understanding of ordinary and partial differential equations

• Precipitation: Weather systems, point and area precipitation, water balance, rainfall distributions.
• Watershed characteristics and data: Watershed delineation, watershed geomorphology, watershed data sources
• Runoff generation: Soil and cover characteristics evaporation, infiltration, curve numbers
• Stream flow: Developing unit hydrographs from stream gage records, synthetic unit hydrographs, time of concentration
• Probabilistic approaches: Probability concepts, probabilistic models of design flow rates, regional analysis, probability distributions, Bulletin 17C
• Deterministic modeling of events: Introduction to deterministic modeling, introduction to HEC-HMS, HEC-HMS modeling with applications, model calibration
• Transfer function hydrologic modeling: Introduction to H2O Metrics, Antecedent Moisture Model and linear transfer function model, antecedent moisture retention
• Term project: introduction, time of concentration, Antecedent moisture model, HEC-HMS model, report outline  

CVE 5811 - Applied Statistics and Modeling

• Compare two or more treatments or data sets for differences using the t-test, Tukey HSD or non-parametric tests
• Evaluate the effects of one or more variables on the response of a system using full and fractional factorial designs
• Design testing programs to control the probability of Type I and Type II errors
• Build mathematical models of systems using linear and non-linear regression analysis, and time series analysis and estimate confidence intervals for model parameters
• Design experiments using full and partial factorial models and analyze the results of such experiments
• Compose artificial data sets suitable for modeling purposes using Monte Carlo simulation
• Utilize a commercial statistical package with facility to perform statistical analysis

• None

• Review of statistics and definitions, data visualization, estimating percentiles, software introduction and use
• Performing hypothesis testing using parametric tests: “proving” difference or equivalence; understanding Type I and Type II error
• Non-parametric testing for “proving” difference; experimental design: design testing programs to control the probability of Type I and Type II errors
• Building models using linear regression, parsimony; transformations, problems with linearization
• Experimental design: measuring the effects of variables on an outcome using full and fractional factorial designs
• Time series analysis, auto and partial auto-correlations, smoothing
• Identifying distributions, Monte Carlo simulation
• Signal versus noise, Bayes theorem

CVE 5980 - Topics in Civil Engineering

• Vary

• Vary, depending on topics covered. Consult instructor.

• Vary

CVE 6031 - Municipal Permitting of Development

• Discuss the history of planning and zoning and the role of local government 
• Explain the purpose, structure, and function of a Plan Commission, Architectural Review Board and Community Development Authority
• Evaluate project development plans and identify potential concerns
• Design a model community and produce a map, a master plan, and a simple zoning ordinance for the community

• None

• Thinking like a community member
• History of planning and zoning/role of local government
• Building codes, permitting and inspections
• City/Community Master plans
• Plan commissions/Architectural Review Boards
• CDAs/TIFs/BIDs/PUDs/incentive projects
• Stormwater management
• Brownfields, Greyfields and redevelopment
• Discussion after attending a PC/ARB/CDA meeting

CVE 6202 - Environmental Management and Risk Control

• Explain the environmental risk assessment process
• Describe the environmental auditing process and the impact of ISO 14000 on the auditing process
• Discuss how federal requirements relate to performing environmental assessments and developing impact statements
• Relate how waste minimization principles are key to minimizing environmental risks
• Analyze industrial case studies and identify and assess environmental risks associated with these cases
• Recommend how risks might be minimized in these case studies by applying principles of waste minimization

• None

CVE 6231 - Contaminant Hydrogeology and Soil Remediation

• Interpret and apply environmental regulations to groundwater contamination sites
• Formulate a plan to identify sources, monitor, and determine the nature and extent of soil and groundwater contamination
• Evaluate groundwater flow movement with contaminant and soil properties to predict contaminant fate and transport in soil and groundwater
• Evaluate different alternatives to remediate contaminated soil and groundwater to identify the most practicable approach

• None

• Types and properties of contaminants
• Identifying sources of soil and groundwater contamination
• Contaminant migration mechanisms including advection, dispersion, diffusion, and chemical and biological transformations
• Contaminant transport equations for the vadose zone and groundwater systems
• Federal and state regulations and risk assessment practices governing contaminant cleanup levels
• Contaminated soil and groundwater investigation and monitoring
• Remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater to meet risk and regulatory requirements

CVE 6671 - Traffic Safety

• Discuss and explain terms used in traffic safety and their definitions
• Evaluate the importance and complexity of safety data
• Identify roadway safety issues
• Produce condition and collision diagrams
• Analyze traffic safety data and select appropriate countermeasures

• None

• Road safety
• Multidisciplinary approaches
• Road users
• Human behavior
• Safety data
• Condition diagrams
• Crash diagrams
• Safety countermeasures
• Road safety management
• Site-level safety management
• System-level safety management
• Road safety research

CVE 6691 - Urban Planning for Transportation Engineers

• Demonstrate the importance of the relationship between urban planning and transportation engineering  
• Select and apply appropriate urban planning principles that minimize adverse impacts to the transportation system   
• Design a master plan that incorporates urban planning principles while balancing transportation demands
• Evaluate emerging transportation technology and its impact on urban planning   

• None

• Principles of urban planning
• History of urban planning and transportation
• Transportation and land use planning, urban revitalization, and infrastructure planning
• Designing cities to incorporate emerging transportation technology

CVE 6711 - Receiving Water Quality Analysis and Modeling

• Explain how water quality criteria for surface waters are developed
• Analyze the fate and transport of conservative and decaying contaminants in river and still water environments using advection/dispersion models
• Devise approaches to address total maximum daily load limits to streams
• Evaluate approaches to achieve water quality compliance through mixing zones

• None

• Water quality parameters and their significance
• Development of water quality criteria for surface waters
• Modeling water quality in rivers, lakes, and reservoirs
• Determining waste assimilative capacities
• Developing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for receiving waters
• Water toxicity and bioassays
• Mixing zone studies

CVE 6831 - Facilities Planning

• Evaluate alternatives that result in data-driven decisions for facilities plans
• Communicate key elements to facilities plans to stakeholders
• Justify decisions made in the facility planning documents

• None

• Purpose of a facilities plan
• Elements of a facilities plan
• Data collection and analysis
• Alternatives analyses
• Formulations and recommendations
• Stakeholder involvement
• Regulatory review

CVE 6852 - GIS Applications in Civil Engineering

• Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of applying GIS to develop, analyze, and manage spatial data
• Formulate GIS datasets with distributed information civil engineering models for robust analysis of civil engineering systems
• Produce spatial data sets, maps, and graphics that represent the product of civil engineering system modeling and analysis

• Basic understanding of ArcGIS software

• Introduction to GIS engineering applications
• Introduction to ArcGIS Pro and related software for spatial data management
• GIS spatial data sources on the Internet; creating new data sets from xy events; heads-up digitizing, GPS for GIS data capture
• GIS analysis functions and operations
• Managing gridded data
• Image processing; supervised and unsupervised classification; image rectification and resampling; vectorizing raster lines
• Geostatistical analysis and interpolation; trend surface analysis; data smoothing, interpolation, kriging
• GIS interface requirements for modeling software in selected applications in the fields of urban hydrologic modeling, urban stormwater management, nonpoint source pollution control, ecological assessment, utility and infrastructure management; water, sewer and transportation network analysis, and watershed management

• Weekly interactive problem-solving sessions that reinforce the weekly lecture topics

CVE 6881 - Life Cycle Assessment of Building and Infrastructure Systems

• Understand the basic elements required when performing an ISO 14040 compliant Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)
• Understand the basic elements of the Economic Input Output (EIO) method for quantifying environmental life cycle impacts
• Perform a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) on a building or infrastructure system
• Perform a Life Cycle Impacts Assessment (LCIA) on a building or infrastructure system
• Identify and quantify social impacts of a building or infrastructure system project
• Perform a Life Cycle Cost Assessment on a building or infrastructure project, accounting for uncertainties associated with future costs and discount rates
• Synthesize LCIA, LCC, and social impact score techniques to create a model for comparing TBL outcomes of two or more projects

• None

• Introduction to the ISO 14040 Life Cycle Assessment protocols and methodology
• Introduction to the Economic Input Output (EIO) method
• Review of life cycle cost modeling using the net present value technique
• Strategies for quantifying uncertainties in the life cycle cost modelling of green building and infrastructure projects
• How LCA is incorporated into common green rating systems such as LEED, Green Globes, and Envision
• Social Impact scores and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL)
• Introduction to the OpenLCA software package for LCIA modelling
• Building and infrastructure case studies of life cycle assessment and life cycle cost modeling

CVE 6999 - Civil Engineering Independent Study

• Determined by faculty member and student

• Vary

• Determined by faculty member and student

CVE 7901 - Civil Engineering Graduate Capstone I

2 lecture hours 0 lab hours 2 credits

Within the M.S. Civil Engineering degree program, students have the option of completing a one-semester capstone experience or a two-semester capstone experience. Students opting for the one-semester capstone experience will complete CVE 7901 and other course work. Students opting for the two-semester option will complete CVE 7901 and CVE 7902.

In CVE 7901, students work one-on-one with a capstone advisor to define a research question, perform a critical literature review, and define the methodology needed to analyze the research question. By the end of CVE 7901, the student will, at a minimum, be poised to begin the data collection/analysis phase of their research upon commencement to CVE 7902; or, in the case of students opting for the one-semester capstone experience, the student will be able to fully articulate research opportunities for others to pursue and to propose viable methodologies for doing so.

Satisfactory progress and completion of CVE 7901 is to be determined by an academic committee typically composed of the faculty advisor and two faculty members. (prereq: graduate program director consent) (coreq: CAE 7810 )

• Devise the initial phases of an independent research project, including research question definition, critical literature review, and identification of an effective research methodology to effectively analyze the stated problem
• Produce the results of these initial phases of the research project in a written capstone paper that clearly conveys all technical information related to the initial phases of the research project (i.e., research question definition, critical literature review, and identification of an effective research methodology) and that properly cites all scholarly references
• Communicate the results of the initial phase of the research project clearly to a technical audience as part of the project oral defense

• Knowledge in the student’s specialty area

• Determined by student and faculty advisor. Students are expected to meet, at a minimum, once weekly with the faculty advisor to consult on the progress of the project.