Strength, behavior, and design of reinforced concrete members subjected to moments, shear, and axial forces; emphasis on the influence of the material properties on behavior. 3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. Prerequisite: CEE 360.

Renewable energy sources and applications, including solar, geothermal, wind, and biomass. Renewable energy's role in reducing air pollution and global climate change. Capstone project to design a system for converting renewable energy into thermal or electrical energy. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for both ABE 436 and TSM 438. Prerequisite: PHYS 211.

Research Skills Training I for Graduates（ Resaerch Regulations of Animal Center and Ethics ） is an one-short-semester course for students of Master's degree. The students participate in once-weekly lectures,tutorials and practicals. The topics include introduction to laboratory animal science, regulations of Animal Center and ethics on experimental animals etc. We will also teach some basic skills on mouse experiments.

Advanced technology is very important for current research in life science. These technology often utilize fast-growing high-end scientific instruments, to which in general new graduate students are not familiar. Therefore, we establish the training course, aiming to help our new students learn basic principle, operation, maintenance of those instruments and related data acquisition and analysis. The 1 credit hour course contains 16 teaching hours in a semester.

This is a survey of the basic numerical methods that are used to solve scientific problems. The emphasis is evenly divided between the theoretical analysis of the methods and their practical applications. Some convergence theorems and error bounds are proved. The course also provides an introduction to Matlab, an interactive program for numerical linear algebra, as well as practice in computer programming. One goal of the course is to show how calculus and linear algebra are used in numerical analysis.

This course is aiming to give Year 1 postgraduates basic training in reference selection, critical thinking and scientific writing. The students will be trained to get an overview on given themes, including hot topics, recent advancement, as well as their own research projects etc., thus lay foundations for the beginners of academic study. Lecture, group discussion and individual presentation will be integrated in this course to facilitate students to be both independent and cooperative.The content to be included are: 1) Reference selection and analytical reading,

This course is aiming to give Year 1 postgraduates basic training in reference selection, critical thinking and scientific writing. The students will be trained to get an overview on given themes, including hot topics, recent advancement, as well as their own research projects etc., thus lay foundations for the beginners of academic study. Lecture, group discussion and individual presentation will be integrated in this course to facilitate students to be both independent and cooperative.

This course focuses on the methodology of engineering science research, discusses and dissects the proposal of engineering science problems, research strategies and means, analysis and summary methods. At the same time, through the reading and analysis of scientific and technical English literature, this paper introduces and discusses several main scientific and technological writing forms, structures and grammars, and cultivates students' logical thinking ability, systematic organization and achievement description and expression ability.

It covers the basic rules of script writing, such as the establishment of character relationship, the setting of time and space, and the main narrative mode. Based on the thorough analysis of the film and television texts, this course investigates the representation system, lens language activities, narrative logic and structural process of the film and television text, so as to guide the graduate students to master the basic skills and methods of the scriptwriting and complete the script creation independently.

Students will work with a wide variety of sculptural materials, methods and strategies in a studio art context. Students will explore sculpture concepts, form, and technique through production and critique of artworks, as well as address theories and histories of visual representation through readings and discussion. Students with little or no background in visual art are encouraged to participate along with those who may have significant knowledge and experience. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Humanities – Lit & Arts