Review of 3D state of stress and strain, stress redistribution around mine openings, tunnels, wellbores, intact rock and rock mass properties, rock mass failure criteria, role of discontinuities and failure along discontinuities, rock reinforcement and support, numerical modeling in Geomechanics, FEM, FDM.
This course introduces the freshman student to the concept of community. What is a community? Who is part of the community and who is not? Anthropological theories and concepts involved in defining communities and cultures and in building a sense of community will be explored as will the use of anthropological methods and data collection and presentation.
Ecological genetics resides at the interface of ecology, evolution, and genetics. At the heart of ecological genetics lie two components of adaptive evolution: genetic variation in phenotypic traits and natural selection on phenotypes. In this course, students will explore basic concepts in population and quantitative genetics and apply these to the analysis of genetic and phenotypic data. This course provides a conceptual link between courses focused on genetics and molecular biology and courses focused on whole organisms and their ecology.
This course examines three major categories of topics in relation to data analysis and visualization. First, this course will cover the basic ways that data can be obtained from various sources, such as raw text files, web APIs, and data repositories. It will also cover the techniques of data cleaning and how to organize data for analysis. Second, the course will cover the essential techniques for analyzing quantitative data. It will teach prediction and clustering methods that are useful to solve various real data analysis tasks.
This course provides an overview of the economics of equine markets, both domestic and international, and includes an examination of market structures and functions.
What is sex? Who has sex? What is sex for? This course is about the biological aspects of sex and gender, two of the most powerful forces in nature. We will explore the early evolution of sexual exchange of DNA and the emergence of genders. We will also discover the mechanisms by which gender is assigned across a vast array of different organisms and the amazing variability of sexual activity, ranging from duplicitous orchids to the rapacious passions of giant squid.
An examination of the principles of developmental biology, particularly of animals, including genetic and environmental control of development at the molecular, cellular, and physiological levels.
The course focuses on advanced information systems used to control and predict project performance (cost and schedule) in construction. Building Information Modeling is examined as a systems approach of integrating design and construction for the benefit of developing construction work packages, 4D simulations, clash detection, trade coordination, and status visualization
Review of shear strength principle including laboratory and field tests for shear strength and shear strength of unsaturated soils; theoretical and practical aspects of infinite slopes, block analysis, method of slices, effective and total stress analysis, analysis of unsaturated slopes, commercial software packages for slope stability analysis, probabilistic analysis of slope stability problems, rapid drawdown, and slope failure mitigation.
This course introduces the broad impact of small-scale biological and synthetic structures and resulting miniature technologies on the biological, medical, and environmental fields, focusing on interfaces and devices. It will discuss the fundamental science behind the technologies, highlighting the advantages that result at the micro- and nanoscale (e.g. mass and energy transport). In particular, medical (diagnostic and therapeutic devices) and environmental applications will be examined, with several examples of micro- and nanoscale systems exhibiting enhanced properties highlighted.
