This course provides academic credit for independent studies under the direction of a faculty member. The scope and direction of the studies are determined by the student (or small group of students) in consultation with the course instructor.

This course is for students holding graduate research assistantships (GRAs) as recognition of the academic contributions of GRA positions to a student’s overall educational experience. 

Courses in special topics of timely interest to the profession, conducted by resident or visiting faculty.

Introduction to engineering economic decision making, economic decision criteria, discounted cash flow, replacement and timing decisions, risk, depreciation, and income tax.

Topics include conditional probability, density and distribution functions from engineering, expectation, conditional expectation, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, and introduction to Poisson Processes.