2013–2014 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

form of restricted and technical/business electives that allow further
depth and breadth in a discipline of choice.
Freshman Year
FALL CREDITS
ASC 1000 University Experience ............................................................ 1
CHM 1101 General Chemistry 1 .............................................................. 4
COM 1101 Composition and Rhetoric ...................................................... 3
CON 1004 Construction Plan Reading .................................................... 2
CVE 1000 Introduction to Civil Engineering .......................................... 3
MTH 1000 Precalculus ............................................................................. 4
17
SPRING
BUS 1301 Basic Economics ..................................................................... 3
COM 1102 Writing About Literature ........................................................ 3
CVE 1001 Computer Applications Lab ................................................... 1
MTH 1001 Calculus 1 ............................................................................... 4
OCN 2602 Environmental Geology .......................................................... 3
Free Elective ........................................................................... 1
15
Sophomore Year
FALL CREDITS
BUS 2211 Introduction to Financial Accounting .................................... 3
COM 2223 Scientific and Technical Communication .............................. 3
CON 2001 Construction Methods and Operations .................................. 3
HUM 2051 Civilization 1 .......................................................................... 3
PHY 1999 Physical Concepts for Construction ....................................... 4
PHY 2091 Physics Laboratory 1............................................................... 1
17
SPRING
BUS 2601 Legal and Social Environments of Business ........................... 3
BUS 2212 Introduction to Managerial Accounting ................................. 3
CON 2000 Statics and Mechanics for Construction ................................ 4
CVE 2080 Construction Measurements .................................................. 3
Humanities Core Course ....................................................... 3
16
Junior Year
FALL CREDITS
BUS 2703 Statistics for Business ............................................................. 3
CON 3001 Building Structures and Structural Systems .......................... 3
CVE 3012 Engineering Materials ............................................................ 3
CVE 3013 Engineering Materials Lab ..................................................... 1
Humanities Elective ............................................................... 3
Technical Elective .................................................................. 3
16
SPRING
BUS 3501 Management Principles .......................................................... 3
BUS 3705 Managing Small Business....................................................... 3
CON 3000 Construction Soils .................................................................. 3
CON 3002 Building Mechanical and HVAC Systems .............................. 3
Technical Elective .................................................................. 3
15
Senior Year
FALL CREDITS
CON 4000 Construction Controls: Budget, Schedule and Quality.......... 3
CON 4003 Construction Estimating, Bidding and Value Engineering .... 3
CON 4005 Construction Safety ................................................................ 3
CON 4091 Construction Project Proposal (Q) ......................................... 1
CVE 4000 Engineering Economy and Planning ...................................... 3
Technical Elective .................................................................. 3
16
SPRING
CON 4001 Building Electrical and Electronic Systems ........................... 3
CON 4002 Construction Equipment and Safety ...................................... 3
CON 4092 Construction Project (Q)........................................................ 3
CVE 4074 Leading Construction Operations .......................................... 3
Business Elective .................................................................... 3
15
TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED........................................ 127
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Electives
Business Electives
BUS 3401 Corporate Finance .................................................................. 3
BUS 3504 Management Information Systems ......................................... 3
BUS 3601 Marketing Principles .............................................................. 3
BUS 4212 Environmental Auditing ......................................................... 3
BUS 4425 Environmental and Urban Planning ....................................... 3
BUS 4426 Environmental and Resource Economics ............................... 3
BUS 4503 Business Ethics....................................................................... 3
Technical Electives
AVM 3201 Aviation Planning ................................................................... 3
AVT 4301 Aviation Safety ........................................................................ 3
CHE 3170 Introduction to Environmental Engineering .......................... 3
CHE 4284 Industrial Safety ..................................................................... 3
ENS 4010 Geographic Information Systems ........................................... 3
ENS 4300 Renewable Energy and the Environment ............................... 3
ENS 4700 Environmental Hydrology (senior standing required) ............ 3
ENS 4701 Environmental Regulations and Impact
Assessment (senior standing required) .................................. 3
BiOMEDiCAL ENGiNEERiNG DEGREE PROGRAMS
Kunal Mitra, Ph.D.
Professors
Fredric M. Ham, Ph.D., Harris Professor, biosensors, bio-signal processing,
neural networks.
Samuel P. Kozaitis, Ph.D., automated feature extraction, image processing.
Kunal Mitra, Ph.D., short pulse laser-based systems, biomedical imaging,
therapy of cancer/tumor, bio-heat transfer modeling, radiation transport
modeling, ablation of hard and soft tissues, nanobiosensors, cellular
interrogation.
Research Professor
Ross Davis, M.D., neurophysiology, neurosurgery, central and peripheral
nervous systems, strokes and spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, intractable pain.
Associate Professors
Veton Z. Këpuska, Ph.D., human-machine interaction and communication,
speech recognition.
Razvan Rusovici, Ph.D., orthopedic biomechanics, modeling biological tissue
under dynamic and static loading.
Assistant Professor
Mehmet Kaya, Ph.D., ultrasound imaging and therapeutics, cardiac and
vascular mechanics, biomedical signal processing, bio-sensors and biomedical
instrumentation, electrophysiology, computer modeling for diagnostic and
therapeutic applications.
Mission Statement
The mission of the biomedical engineering programs is to pursue excellence
in biomedical engineering education, research and innovation
by imparting knowledge for improving human health. This will be
accomplished by offering innovative educational methods and practices
to solve technical issues in biology and medicine. Graduates of
our programs are highly skilled biomedical engineers who understand
the ethical, social and economic implications of their work and will
be able to fill diverse professional roles in industry, graduate school
and the medical professions.
Program Education Objectives
The educational objectives of the biomedical engineering program
are that a few years after graduation, alumni will demonstrate they
are technically competent in their engineering profession; are actively
employed in the careers related to healthcare and biomedical engineering
or entered the medical profession; are engaged and provide
leadership to their profession; and have completed advanced degrees