2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

320 Course Descriptions/Accounting671. Contemporary Accounting Topics. Credit 1 to 3. Current issues and research in topical areas: financialdata audit and control; international accounting; accounting for natural resources; tax planning,theory and structure of taxation. Classification 6 students may not enroll in this course. Prerequisite:Approval of instructor.680. Tax Research and Policy. (3-0). Credit 3. Methodology and sources of tax research; tax analysis research,policy implications, behavioral aspects and use of quantitative analysis. Classification 6 studentsmay not enroll in this course. Prerequisite: ACCT 405 or 611.684. Professional Internship. Credit 1 to 6 each semester. A directed internship in an organization toprovide students with on-the-job training with professionals in organizational settings appropriate tothe student’s professional objectives. Classification 6 students may not enroll in this course. Prerequisites:Approval of committee chair and department head.685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 4 each semester. Directed individual study of selected problems usingrecent developments in business research methods. Classification 6 students may not enroll in thiscourse. Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of instructor.688. Doctoral Seminar. (3-0). Credit 3. Historical development of the conceptual framework of accountingtheory and practices; analysis of current research and controversial issues in the field. For doctoralstudents only. May be repeated for credit. Classification 6 students may not enroll in this course. Prerequisiteor corequisite: ACCT 665.689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of accounting. May be repeatedfor credit. Classification 6 students may not enroll in this course.691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation. Classification 6 studentsmay not enroll in this course.Department of Aerospace Engineeringaero.tamu.eduInterim Head: R.D. Bowersox; Graduate Advisor: J. E. HurtadoThe Department of Aerospace Engineering offers graduate work and research programs in aeronautical/aerospaceengineering. Programs leading to the degrees of MEng, MS and PhD are available.The department also offers courses and faculty supervision for students pursuing the Doctor of Engineeringdegree. Major areas of interest are aero/fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, fluidstructureinteraction (aeroelasticity), flight mechanics, astrodynamics, spacecraft/aircraft dynamics andcontrol, computational mechanics, solid mechanics, micromechanics, nanomechanics, composite materials,bio-nano materials, aging aircraft and structures. The department defined five cross-disciplinaryresearch thrust areas that receive significant support and offer unique educational/research opportunities.The thrust areas are: (1) Autonomous Aerospace Vehicle Systems, (2) Aerospace Propulsion andEnergy Systems, (3) Controlled Intelligent Materials and Structures, (4) Hypersonic Vehicle Systems,and (5) Space Exploration and Sensing Systems.The aerodynamics and propulsion-related research within the department includes airfoil and winganalyses, boundary layer stability, turbulence, combustion, propulsion and flow-control for aircraft,land vehicles, wind turbines and other applications. A major focus within the department is viscousflows across the speed regimes ranging from incompressible subsonic to hypersonic. Fundamentaltransition research is performed within the NASA/AFOSR National Hypersonic Science Center inLaminar-Turbulent Transition, where experiments are conducted using world-class quiet-flow facilitiesthat include the Klebanoff/Saric Low Disturbance Tunnel and the NASA Langley/TAMU Mach6 Quiet Tunnel. Several research aircraft are available for full-scale flight research. The Texas A&MUniversity National Aerothermochemistry (TAMU-NAL) Laboratory is a graduate research facility forconducting leading research in support of national interests in high-speed gasdynamics, unsteady flowsand flows with thermal and chemical non-equilibrium effects. The Flight Research Laboratory housesseveral piloted aircraft for basic and applied research.Research involving dynamics and control of autonomous intelligent vehicles, formation flying ofspacecraft and other problems in astrodynamics is performed in the Center for Mechanics and Control.The Land, Air and Space Robotics (LASR) laboratory enables sensing and control research with emphasison high fidelity emulation of close proximity motions of two or more vehicles. LASR is beingutilized to research spacecraft on-orbit proximity operations, autonomous aerial refueling of UAVsand astronaut supervision of robots for surface operations on the Moon or Mars. Research related tosatellite design, responsive space systems and autonomous rendezvous and docking is conducted by the