EngrCEE 11: Probability and Statistics (Undergraduate course, offered Winter, 2020).
After successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the concepts of probability and statistics in the context of real life engineering problems.
- Acquire basic knowledge of fundamental probability distribution functions.
- Estimate and interpret correlation coefficient, understand the basic concepts of regression.
- Carry out point and interval estimations.
- Understand hypothesis testing and the meaning of the null hypothesis.
- Have an appreciation for Monte Carlo simulation techniques.
EngrCEE298: The Science and Engineering of Wildfires (Graduate course, offered Spring, 2020)
In this course, students will be introduced to the following concepts:
- How fuel, weather and topography can influence wildland fire behavior.
- Effects of fuel treatments and landscape engineering on fire behavior.
- Characterization of the fire-wind and fire – weather/climate interactions.
- Multiscale and multi-fidelity fire modeling.
EngrCEE 298: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence (Graduate course – offered Fall 2020)
At the end of this course, students will be expected to be able to answer the following questions:
- What is turbulence? Why is it difficult to understand, to model or to approximate with confidence?
- What kind of solutions can we expect to obtain?
- How to use statistical approaches and engineering models to compute turbulent flows?
- How to extract order from the chaos of multiscale turbulent flow dynamics?
- How to apply turbulent flow theory to environmental problems?