Individual studies credit for Masters level graduate students in a topic of the student's choice related to their Engineering concentration(s). Topic must be approved and supervised by the sponsoring professor. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

1 Credit Hour
1 Total Contact Hour
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
1 Other Hour

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of GR

Individual studies credit for master's level graduate students in a topic of the student's choice related to their Engineering concentration(s). Topic must be approved and supervised by the sponsoring professor. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

1 Credit Hour
1 Total Contact Hour
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
1 Other Hour

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of GR

This course is designed to encourage engineering graduate students to fulfill their considerable potential to influence fundamental issues, questions and approaches to education of engineers and engineering education and leadership practices. It includes studying past efforts to advance engineering education, current initiatives and of the field.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Appraisal of methods and assessment competencies important for engineering education research, including a variety of quantitative and qualitative assessment strategies, introduces students to thinking critically about research methods including evaluation plans. Students learn the formulation of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods and measures of reliability, in research studies. Students will learn to design and critique engineering education and leadership research that addresses various standards including rigor, quality and value.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Students explore the practice of teaching undergraduate engineering through experiential learning. Beginning with study of the interstices between theory and practice of teaching engineering education, students explore their own teaching. Students focus on preparation and research- based methods for providing excellent, outcomes-based engineering education. Reflecting upon formative educational experiences, students correlate theories of learning, educating and teaching engineering courses while self-articulating how they learn themselves.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

This course develops design skills for graduate students in engineering and computer science, building on students' technical knowledge to help them identify and find novel solutions for difficult design problems. To do this, the course enables students to improve their innovation skills and to understand the role of innovation in technology-based enterprises. Working with the innovation techniques of Liberating Structures as a central theme, the course Integrates improvisation and story-telling to build creativity.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Intellectual Property Law This course introduces students to intellectual property law , with particular attention to topics of interest for the fields of engineering and computing. The course focuses on the constitutional provisions, laws and court decisions that create and define rights in intellectual property, with primary attention to patents and copyrights, and with secondary attention to trade secrets. Students will gain basic skills in critical thinking, reading, understanding and explaining statutes and cases relating to intellectual property.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Law and Commercialization This course introduces students to the technology commercialization process, with particular attention to topics of interest for the fields of engineering, science, and business. The course focuses on the practical aspects of invention disclosure, patent protection, marketing, and licensing, and technology start-up formation and fundraisin. Students will gain skills in invention triaging, patent claim amendments, drafting patent marketing materials, and negotiating commercialization-related contracts.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

The course introduces graduate engineering students to the concepts, theory, and practice of engineering law and ethics. Engineers must act professionally, ethically, and socially responsibly in diverse contexts. They must apply codes of ethics and understand how the legal system influences their practice. Students will study real-world case studies to learn about the legal and ethical responsibilities of engineering. This course will provide an introductory understanding of the legal framework under which engineers work, topics such as contracts, torts, and intellectual property.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of GR

This course divides into two main components. The first deals with individual leadership development by providing a framework for understanding the elements of an organization's leader development system. The second part focuses on collective leadership capacity in organizations. This course ties together and integrates many initiatives stemming from different areas of expertise with the primary goal to be present knowledge in a way that students can use in their efforts to create leadership development experiences.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of GR

Learning to evaluate financial performance through interpretation of income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and project reports is critical to an engineer's project manager's success as well as the success of a business. This course teacher the engineering design professional how to read and interpret the income statement, including such components as gross revenue, net revenue, direct and reimbursable expenses, indirect expenses, net profit before taxes, depreciation, gross profit and net profit after taxes. It examines the primary benchmarks of performance.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of GR

Provides students opportunities to learn about advanced topics intended to develop in-depth areas of particular student interest in engineering education and leadership. Engineering education and leadership is being pushed and pulled into new realms. This course examines the front- edges of engineering education developments, with particular focus on those programs and innovations that are part of a growing global movement to reimagine. Students examine the pillars of engineering education, look at technologies and their impact on teaching and learning, and proceed to formulate their own philosophy of leadership engineering, and how they enact, present, and study (lifelong learning) their engineering professional cannons. May be repeated.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course provides students interested in pursuing further graduate studies, for example in doctoral programs, the opportunity to conduct research in topics pursuant to advanced graduate programs at UTEP and beyond. Research is anticipated to produce research output; for example, a grant application or a publication, under the direct supervision of a faculty member.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

This course provides students opportunities to do individual research, design, or analysis on advanced phases of engineering education and leadership problems to further develop in-depth areas of particular student interest in engineering education and leadership. This course examines basic and applied engineering education research, with particular focus on local, regional and state issues, as well as developments in national and global engineering education. The courses, including a written report, are requested of all students in the non-thesis option.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Thesis.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Thesis.

Department: Engineering Ed. & Leadership

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (EEL 5398 w/C or better)