Includes field work. Students not meeting prerequisites may enroll with permission of instructor.

May be repeated for credit. Theory and practice of writing for publication/Production. Variable focus on fiction, poetry, or drama. For students with considerable writing experience.

Foundations of machine learning; supervised and unsupervised methods, regression, classification, clustering, feature engineering, working with time-series data, sensor signals, images, employing neural networks and deep learning (regression, classification, clustering); neural networks and introduction to deep learning and reinforcement learning.

Sketching and computer aided drafting (CAD).

Fundamentals of safety relating to an environment of mechanical and physical hazards and unsafe human practices. Development of safety consciousness and an understanding of approved methods of accident prevention.

Principles, theory, operation and troubleshooting of hydraulics and pneumatics with mechanical linkage systems applications.

Resistors, capacitors, inductors and transformers; analysis of DC, AC, RC, RL, and RLC circuits.

Digital logic, number systems, digital hardware interfacing, and digital system development. IC types and families, memory circuits, counters, Flip flops, multivibrator circuits, ADC converters and interfacing digital and analog systems.