Summer Courses

Course Description: This course explores Disability Studies in global context, centering perspectives of disabled people, scholars, designers, and activists worldwide. Taking a decolonial approach, we examine how disability is constructed differently across global settings, situating disability politics, identity, and design alongside critical perspectives on ableism. Integrating social scientific and humanistic approaches, we consider disability as a relational experience across diverse locations, including Russia, Japan, Australia, Turkey, Uganda, China, and the United States. Through futures thinking, we critique ableist assumptions embedded in technoscience, envision inclusive alternatives, and engage with crip temporalities to challenge normative ideas of progress. Drawing on ethnography, creative writing, critical theory, historical materials, films, and other media, we develop ethical frameworks for reimagining care and accessibility beyond the pathologizing practices of medical care and global public health.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

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Course Description: This course provides a functional introduction to programming, data structures, elemental computational theory, and data exploration for graduate students from non-computing backgrounds. Students prepare for working with data and artificial intelligence techniques.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

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Course Description: This is the first in a two-course sequence oriented to the solution of real world engineering design problems. This is a capstone learning experience that integrates engineering theory, principles, and processes within a collaborative environment. Multidisciplinary student teams follow a systems engineering design process, which includes assessing customer needs, developing engineering specifications, generating and evaluating concepts, choosing an approach, developing the details of the design, and implementing the design to the extent feasible, for example by building and testing a prototype or implementing a chosen set of improvements to a process. This first course focuses primarily on defining the problem and developing the design, but may include elements of build/ implementation. The second course may include elements of design, but focuses on build/implementation and communicating information about the final design.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: This course presents the philosophy and methods that enable participants to develop quality strategies and drive process improvements. The fundamental elements of Lean Six Sigma are covered along with many problem solving and statistical tools that are valuable in driving process improvements in a broad range of business environments and industries. Successful completion of this course is accompanied by \"yellow belt\" certification and provides a solid foundation for those who also wish to pursue a \"green belt.\" (Green belt certification requires completion of an approved project which is beyond the scope of this course).

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: This course presents the philosophy and methods that enable participants to develop quality strategies and drive process improvements. The fundamental elements of Lean Six Sigma are covered along with many problem solving and statistical tools that are valuable in driving process improvements in a broad range of business environments and industries. Successful completion of this course is accompanied by \"yellow belt\" certification and provides a solid foundation for those who also wish to pursue a \"green belt.\" (Green belt certification requires completion of an approved project which is beyond the scope of this course).

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: For the MS in Product Development (MPD) program. Students in the program must demonstrate intellectual leadership in the field of new product development. The general intent of the Capstone is to demonstrate knowledge of the integrative aspects of new product development in the context of a company-oriented problem solving project. The project should address issues of significance to multiple functions or disciplines and should draw upon skills and knowledge acquired from various courses and experiences in the program Team-based projects are encouraged. Projects must be approved in advance of registration.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: A presentation of the fundamental concepts and theories used in organizing and structuring data. Coverage includes the data modeling process, basic relational model, normalization theory, relational algebra, and mapping a data model into a database schema. Structured Query Language is used to illustrate the translation of a data model to physical data organization. Modeling and programming assignments will be required. Note: students should have one course in object-oriented programming.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: This course builds on the basics of web page development that are presented in Web and Mobile I and extends that knowledge to focus on theories, issues, and technologies related to the design and development of web sites. An overview of web design concepts, including usability, accessibility, information architecture, and graphic design in the context of the web will be covered. Introduction to web site technologies, including HTTP, web client and server programming, and dynamic page generation from a database also will be explored. Development exercises are required.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: The user experience is an important design element in the development of interactive systems. This course presents the foundations of user-centered design principles within the context of human-computer interaction (HCI). Students will explore and practice HCI methods that span the development lifecycle from requirements analysis and creating the product/service vision through system prototyping and usability testing. Leading edge interface technologies are examined. Group-based exercises and design projects are required.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

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Course Description: Students will survey and apply contemporary techniques used in analyzing and modeling information requirements. Requirements will be elicited in a variety of domains and abstracted at conceptual, logical, and physical levels of detail. Process, data, and state modeling will be applied in projects that follow a systems development lifecycle. Object-oriented modeling will be explored and contrasted with data and process oriented modeling. Individual and team modeling assignments will be required.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: This course will introduce the topic of contemporary databases by covering the design, application and use of non-relational (NoSQL) database technologies. Topics include an overview of data types, structuring and processing data and knowledge, data transformation, and data storage and warehousing. Students will learn the interaction between relational and non-relational databases in the Cloud or other storage media. Programming assignments will be required.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

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Course Description: This course provides students with exposure to foundational concepts and technologies for non-relational data management. Topics include an overview of data types, structuring and processing data and knowledge, data transformation, and data storage. Students will work with non-traditional (NoSQL) data stores to manage large datasets in the context of specific problem scenarios, gaining practical experience with data modeling, querying, and scalability considerations. Web application development exercises are required.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/13-7/6)

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Course Description: This course introduces students to Visual Analytics, or the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Course lectures, reading assignments, and practical lab experiences will cover a mix of theoretical and technical Visual Analytics topics. Topics include analytical reasoning, human cognition and perception of visual information, visual representation and interaction technologies, data representation and transformation, production, presentation, and dissemination of analytic process results, and Visual Analytic case studies and applications. Furthermore, students will learn relevant Visual Analytics research trends such as Space, Time, and Multivariate Analytics and Extreme Scale Visual Analytics.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: The project-based culminating experience for the Master of Science in Information Technology and Analytics program. A MS project will typically include a software system development component requiring a substantial and sustained level of effort. Students must submit an approved project proposal in order to enroll. (Permission of project committee and graduate program director).

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: The project-based culminating experience for the Master of Science in Information Technology and Analytics program. A MS project will typically include a software system development component requiring a substantial and sustained level of effort. Students must submit an approved project proposal in order to enroll. (Permission of project committee and graduate program director).

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: An independent project in sustainability serving as a capstone experience for students completing the non-thesis option. This course requires a formal proposal and a faculty sponsor.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, non-trigonometry based calculus course. The topics include a review of the fundamentals of algebra: solutions of linear, fractional, and quadratic equations, functions and their graphs, polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and rational functions, and systems of linear equations.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, trigonometry-based calculus course. Topics include functions and their graphs, with an emphasis on functions that commonly appear in calculus including polynomials, rational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. The course also includes the analytic geometry of conic sections. One hour each week will be devoted to a collaborative learning workshop.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, trigonometry-based calculus course. Topics include functions and their graphs, with an emphasis on functions that commonly appear in calculus including polynomials, rational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. The course also includes the analytic geometry of conic sections. One hour each week will be devoted to a collaborative learning workshop.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

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Course Description: This course is an introduction to the topics of discrete mathematics, including number systems, sets and logic, relations, combinatorial methods, graph theory, regular sets, vectors, and matrices.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

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