Transit systems basics, demand issues, design standards, economic and sustainability implications. Transit service planning for shuttle, corridor, and network systems, hybrid hierarchical systems, paratransit and demand-responsive services. Management of transit systems, fleet operations, and crew scheduling. Operational issues, vehicle movement, headway and schedule control.

Python is a language with a simple syntax and a powerful set of libraries. It is an interpreted language, with a rich programming environment, including a robust debugger and profiler. While it is easy for beginners to learn, it is widely used in many scientific areas for data exploration. This course is an introduction to the Python programming language for students without prior programming experience. We cover data types, control flow, object-oriented programming, and graphical user interface-driven applications.

Quantitative Research in Social Science

This course investigates methods implemented in multiple quantitative trading strategies with an emphasis on automated trading and quantitative finance-based approaches to enhance the trade decision-making mechanism. The course provides a comprehensive view of the algorithmic trading paradigm and some of the key quantitative finance foundations of these trading strategies. Topics explore markets, financial modeling and its pitfalls, factor model-based strategies, portfolio optimization strategies, and order execution strategies.

Railroad track engineering concepts including track component and system design, construction, evaluation, maintenance, load distribution, and wheel-rail interaction. Design and analysis tools for railroad track engineering and maintenance. Field trip to observe railroad track system and components. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: CEE 310.

Supervisory control aspects of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS): fundamentals of reliability analysis, real-time scheduling, simple feedback control, software fault tolerance architecture, wireless networking and energy saving, principles of safety critical system engineering. Student groups design and demonstrate supervisory control architecture for a robot. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: CS 241.

This course examines central issues in defining leisure, recreation, sport, and tourism. Historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological, and economic approaches to understanding these areas, their behaviors and meanings, social contexts, and personal and social resources are examined. By the end of the semester, students should understand their history and evolution, as well as their impact on contemporary society. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the effects of governments in the market failures in a competitive economy. The course will focus on industry structures and firm behavior, including the strategic interactions between firms. We first review firm behavior in various market settings, and discuss market efficiency, perfectly competitive market, market structure, strategic competition, and production efficiency. We then investigate the economics of regulation, that is, the behavior of a natural monopoly and various tools to regulate a natural monopoly.

The industry of financial technology has been growing up rapidly both regionally and globally. However, it also associates the potential risks because of lacking relevant experiences on how to regulate those new business models. In most jurisdiction, it normally requires the license to kickstart their financial business activities. For example, banking sector or brokers for securities industry. Nevertheless, those regulatory models may not truly fit the patterns of financial technologies.

This course "FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech)" help you to understand RegTech and to become more confident and persuasive in your ability to analyze and make recommendations to executives within the finance industry regarding how to react to these changes, e.g., Regulations to cryptocurrencies like BitCoin & Initial Coin Offering (ICO). It presents the views of several professors from the top business school in Asia as well as perspectives from industry professionals.