THECOOPERUNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

COURSE CATALOG 2014|15 COOPER.EDU TABLE OF CONTENTS

2014–15 Academic Calendar 2 Mission Statement 3 A Brief History 4 General Information 5 Programs 5 Facilities and Resources 6 Student Life 7 Admission Process 9 Tuition, Fees and Expenses 16 Financial Aid 17 Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards and Prizes 20 General Regulations 22 Code of Conduct 30 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture 34 Mission Statement 34 Bachelor of Architecture Professional Degree Curriculum 35 Academic Standards and Regulations 37 Master of Architecture II Post-Professional Degree Curriculum 40 Academic Integrity 42 Facilities and Resources 43 Courses 45 Faculty 47 The School of Art 49 Mission Statement 49 Bachelor of Fine Arts Curriculum 50 Academic Standards and Regulations 53 Facilities and Resources 56 Courses 59 Faculty 66 The Albert Nerken School of Engineering 68 Mission Statement 68 Overview 69 Facilities and Research 70 Bachelor of Engineering Curriculum 72 Master of Engineering Curriculum and Requirements 75 Honors and Special Programs 76 Academic Standards and Regulations 78 Grades of Record 79 Departments and Programs 81 Courses 94 Faculty and Advisory Council 113 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 116 Aims and Objectives 116 Academic Regulations 116 Courses 118 Faculty 128

Trustees, Officers, Deans, President’s Council, Administration, Emeriti, Alumni Association 129 Policies 131 Index 150 2 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

2014–15 ACADEMIC CALENDAR January 5 Monday AND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Administrative offices reopen All grades are due in the Office of Admissions and Records before Noon August 26 Tuesday Move-in day for Residence Hall January 19 Monday Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday (staff holiday) August 26–September 1 Tuesday–Monday New student orientation January 20 Tuesday Spring semester classes begin. September 1 Monday NOTE: MODIFIED SCHEDULE; MONDAY CLASSES MEET Labor Day (staff holiday) January 28 Wednesday September 2 Tuesday There will be a $25 fee for dropping classes after this date Fall semester classes begin NOTE: TUESDAY CLASSES MEET February 11 Wednesday NOTE: MODIFIED SCHEDULE; FRIDAY CLASSES MEET September 9 Tuesday There will be a $25 fee for dropping classes after this date February 13–16 Friday–Monday Fall Festival (School in session) Founder’s Day/President’s Day (staff holiday) November 18–November 24 Tuesday–Monday March 14–22 Saturday–Sunday Registration for Spring 2015 classes Spring recess (administrative offices remain open) November 25 Tuesday April 21–24 Tuesday–Friday NOTE: MODIFIED SCHEDULE; THURSDAY CLASSES MEET Registration for Fall 2015 classes November 26 Wednesday May 6 Wednesday NOTE: MODIFIED SCHEDULE; FRIDAY CLASSES MEET Last day of classes November 27–November 30 Thursday–Sunday May 7–13 Thursday–Wednesday Thanksgiving (staff holiday) Final Exam/Critiques/Presentations Week December 10 Wednesday May 13 Wednesday Last day of classes Last day of Spring 2015 semester December 11–17 Thursday–Wednesday May 14 Thursday Final Exam/Critiques/Presentations Week Senior grades due in the Office of Admissions and Records before 4 pm December 17 Wednesday Last day of Fall 2014 semester May 18 Monday All non-senior grades are due in the Office of Admissions December 18–January 19 Thursday–Monday and Records before 4 pm Winter recess; all schools May 25 Monday December 24–January 4 Wednesday–Sunday Memorial Day (staff holiday) Staff holiday May 26 Tuesday Commencement rehearsal; annual student exhibition opens May 27 Wednesday Commencement July 2 Thursday Independence Day celebrated (staff holiday) 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 3

THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART

The Cooper Union was founded in 1859 as a place for ambitious working-class people to do more and become more by educating themselves. Since then, our schools of art, architecture and engi- neering have achieved international prominence. Our faculty, students and alumni shape their own lives and work and reimagine the world around themselves. The City of New York both inspires and thrives on their contributions.

There is nothing so personal as an idea. To achieve meaning, how­ever, we must express our ideas in relation to others, within, alongside or in contrast to the collected knowledge that forms a discipline. To study art, architecture or engineering is to learn to express ourselves within a context and, in so doing, to change that context.

A Cooper education is an intensive professional course of study, led by faculty who are teachers and practitioners. Focused attention to the humanities and social sciences provides the tools for incisive dialogue. Whether in the classroom, the studio or the lab, learning is a collaborative process of invention and critique. This is an expe- rience for those who live their work.

Jamshed Bharucha President The Cooper Union 4 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

both to men and women of working-class families, The Cooper A BRIEF HISTORY Union was a pioneer long before access to education became public policy. Cooper’s example motivated the founders of other The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, prestigious colleges, such as Andrew Carnegie, Ezra Cornell and established in 1859, is among the nation’s most distin­guished Matthew Vassar. institutions of higher education. At first, The Cooper Union provided night classes for men Located in New York City’s East Village, The Cooper Union is and women in the applied sciences and architectural drawing. In an all-honors college that provides 50% tuition scholarships to all addition,­ the Women’s Art School, open during the day, offered free undergraduates accepted. It offers degree programs in architec- art classes and training in the new occupations of photography, ture, art and engineering and courses in the humanities and social telegraphy, “type-writing” and shorthand. sciences. The Cooper Union has an enrollment of approximately Those classes—a landmark in American history and the 1,000 undergraduate students, all accepted on merit alone, prototype for what is now called continuing education—have and was the first college to forbid discrimination based on race, evolved into the three distinguished schools that make up The ethnicity or gender. The rigor of its three professional schools— Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art and Cooper, however, founded more than a college. From the the Albert Nerken School of Engineering—has made The Cooper beginning, The Cooper Union also provided a public reading room Union one of the most selective colleges in the nation. and library, and a meeting place for artists and inventors. In the Peter Cooper was a workingman’s son who had less than a historic 900-seat Great Hall, the public heard social and political year of formal schooling. Yet he went on to become an industri- reformers as well as free lectures on science and government. alist and an inventor; it was Peter Cooper who designed and built Before they were elected, Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, America’s first steam railroad engine. Cooper made his fortune Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama spoke in the cele­ with a glue factory and an iron foundry. Later, he turned his entre­ brated auditorium. Abraham Lincoln gave his “Right Makes preneurial skills to successful ventures in real estate, insurance, Might” speech from the Great Hall podium, earning him the railroads and telegraphy. Once, he even ran for president. nomination for the presidency. Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton and In the late 1850s, when Cooper was a principal investor and Barack Obama also spoke there as sitting presidents. Today, the first president of the New York, Newfoundland & London Tele- Great Hall continues as a home for public forums, cultural events graph Co., the firm undertook one of the 19th century’s monu- and community activities. mental technical enterprises—laying the first Atlantic cable. Many social and political movements were born in the Great Cooper also invented Jello—with help from his wife, Sarah, who Hall and the Cooper Union: the Red Cross and NAACP were added fruit to his clarified gelatin. convened here, suffragist Susan B. Anthony had her offices at As a boy, Peter Cooper learned carpentry, beer brewing and Cooper, and, recently, students in our school of engineering invented hat and coach making. But he was acutely aware of his lack of a cardboard box that can be folded and sealed in a single motion. “even a common education,” a deficiency that bothered him Peter Cooper’s dream was to give talented young people throughout his life. Though he later became one of America’s the one privilege he lacked—a good education. He also wanted richest men, he could not spell. So in 1800, as a nine-year- to make possible the development of talent that otherwise would old apprentice carriage-maker in New York City, he sought a have gone undiscovered. His dream—providing an education place where he could learn scientific techniques and theory to “equal to the best”—has come true. Since 1859, The Cooper supplement his innate inventiveness­ and manual skill. He found Union has educated thousands of artists, architects and engi­ no such place. neers, many of them leaders in their fields. Today, his dream is As he became one of the most successful busi­nessmen still our mission. of America’s Gilded Age, Cooper never forgot his beginnings­ or his lack of education. He thought children of immigrants and the working class deserved access to education. Inspired by a polytechnic school in Paris, he spent the last 30 years of his life creating and nurturing a school for the “boys and girls of this city, who had no better opportunity than I.” As one of the first colleges to offer a full-scholarship educa­tion 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 5

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper GENERAL INFORMATION Union offers the following NAAB-accredited degree programs: Bachelor of Architecture. (160 undergraduate credits). The next PROGRAMS accreditation visit for this program will be in 2016. Cooper Union operates on a semester calendar, typi- The following programs at The Cooper Union have been registered cally with the fall starting after Labor Day and the spring after by the New York State Education Department. Martin Luther King Day. Please refer to our academic calendar Program Hegis Code Degree for specifc term start and end dates. A limited summer term is Architecture 0202 B.Arch. offered with a small inventory of courses. Engineering 0901 B.S. Consistent with New York State guidelines, one credit Chemical Engineering 0906 B.E. earned at Cooper Union represents a minimum of 750 minutes Civil Engineering 0908 B.E. of instructor supervised class time (50 minutes per week for 15 Electrical Engineering 0909 B.E. Interdisciplinary Engineering 0901 B.E. weeks.) Many courses exceed the 50 minute/week requirement Mechanical Engineering 0910 B.E. determined as per the needs of each academic department. Fine Arts 1001 B.F.A. Fine Arts 5610 Certifcate* Master of Engineering 0901 M.E. Master of Architecture 0202 Master of Architecture II

Accreditation The Cooper Union is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education; all of the degree programs are registered with the New York State Education Department. In addition, the program leading to the bachelor of architecture degree is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, the program leading to the bachelor of fne arts degree is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the four programs (chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering) leading to the bachelor of engineering degree are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commis- sion of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. The National Architectural Accrediting Board mandates that the following information be included in catalogs: In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architec- ture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards. Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

* Admission to the Certifcate in Art is temporarily suspended wuntil further notice. 6 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

FACILITIES AND RESOURCES Professional librarians are always available during library The Cooper Union comprises five buildings at Manhattan’s hours. The librarians advise users in research techniques and Cooper Square, between Sixth and Ninth Streets and Third and regularly provide individual and group instruction. Fourth Avenues. The Cooper Library is a member of a consortium of academic libraries that includes New York University’s Bobst Library, the The Foundation Building At the center of this educational libraries of The New School, and the New York School of Interior complex is the Foundation Building, the original structure which Design. These libraries share a combined online catalog, and was built under Peter Cooper’s supervision. Housed in the students and faculty of The Cooper Union have access and building are the Great Hall, The Cooper Union’s historic audito- borrowing privileges at the consortium libraries. Cooper faculty rium; The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture; much of the and students also have borrowing privileges at the library of the School of Art; the library; the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and access to the Office of the President and Office Services (mail, photocopies). Cardozo School of Law library. The building also includes the Architecture Archive, classrooms, When classes are in session, library hours are as follows: shops and studios. Monday through Thursday 8:45 am to 9 pm, Friday 8:45 am to The building is open during the fall and spring semesters 6 pm, Saturday noon to 5 pm and Sunday 2 to 8 pm. The Visual from 8 am to 2 am, Monday through Thursday; 8 am to midnight, Resources Collection is open Monday through Friday 9 am to 5 Friday and Saturday; and noon to 2 am on Sunday. Hours may be pm. The Cooper Archives is available by appointment. extended during high-use periods such as the last two weeks of The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has stood for over a the semester. The School of Architecture office is open Monday century and a half as a bastion of free speech and a witness to the through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. The School of Art office is open from flow of American history and ideas. When the hall opened in 1858, 8:30 am to 6 pm during the academic year. Shops, special labs, the more than a year in advance of the completion of the institution, computer studio and other facilities that require supervision are it quickly became a mecca for all interested in serious discussion open on a more restricted basis; each facility posts its own hours. and debate of the vital issues of the day. It has continued in that A detailed schedule is available from the School of Art office. role ever since. During the summer months, the Foundation Building is open from 8 am to 6 pm Monday through Thursday; the admin- 41 Cooper Square In September 2009, The Cooper Union opened istrative offices are open from 9 am to 5:15 pm Monday through 41 Cooper Square, its newest facility. The building was designed Thursday; and all of the educational facilities are closed except by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, and features to high school students who participate in the Saturday/Outreach state-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms and studios along with Program and participants in the Typography Design Program. conference rooms, lounges, the 41 Cooper Gallery and the Fred- The Cooper Union Library features one of the finest erick P. Rose Auditorium. It houses the Albert Nerken School of collections in art, architecture and engineering in New York City. Engineering, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the The library also provides resources in related areas of the pure Louis and Jeannette Brooks Computer Center, the Herb Lubalin sciences, and in the humanities and social sciences. Study Center, the Saturday Outreach Program and provides Located on the ground floor of the landmark Foundation student and teaching studios. In the fall of 2010, the U.S. Green Building, the library houses over 100,000 volumes of books and Building Council awarded 41 Cooper Square the LEED Platinum periodicals, and provides licensed access to more than 70,000 rating, its most rigorous level of certifcation that acknowledges e-books and over 10,000 e-journals, in addition to thousands the building’s array of green features which reduce energy use and more open access titles, including U.S. government reports. The enhance the environment. 41 Cooper Square is the frst academic library’s electronic resources, including its many specialized building in New York City to achieve the LEED Platinum status. databases, are accessible from any computer on campus as well The building is open from 8 am to 2 am Monday through as to authorized users off campus. Thursday, 8 am to midnight Friday and Saturday, and noon to 2 Special collections include the Visual Resources Collection, am on Sundays. The Albert Nerken School of Engineering office which makes available flms, maps, and thousands of digital and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences office, are images, and the Cooper Archives, which preserves materials both open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday, and 9 am to relating to the history of The Cooper Union, its founder Peter 5:15 pm Monday through Thursday during the summer. The Brooks Cooper and the Cooper and Hewitt families. Computer Center is open from 9 am to midnight Monday through Friday, and noon to 8 pm on Saturday and Sunday. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 7

30 Cooper Square The Business Office, Office of Communication, Housing fees for the 2014–15 academic year are $12,240 per Admissions & Records and Registrar, Financial Aid, Alumni Affairs student per single room per year and $11,220 per student per & Development, Saturday Outreach Program (Art) and Continuing double room per year. Education & Public Programs are housed at 30 Cooper Square. Refund Policy for Student Residence Please refer to The building is open for public service from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday Section 10 of The Cooper Union 2014–15 Student Housing Affili- through Friday. Summer hours are Monday through Thursday, ation Occupancy Agreement for a schedule of refunds and penal- 9 am to 5:15 pm. ties imposed for cancellation. Continuing Education offers to the general public and the Hecht Viewing Gardens Located in front of the student residence Cooper Union community a wide range of lectures, symposia, are the George Hecht Viewing Gardens, made possible by a gift readings, performances and evening courses. These public from Hecht, a 1930 electrical engineering alumnus. programs comprise an effort to extend the creative and intellec- tual life of the institution into the larger community, as well as to complement Cooper’s undergraduate offerings. Many of the STUDENT LIFE programs, including courses, are free to Cooper Union students, With fewer than 1,000 students, The Cooper Union is a small faculty and staff. community of professionals-in-training within the larger commu- nity of New York City. The intellectual ferment of New York City Stuyvesant-Fish House The historic townhouse at 21 Stuyvesant provides the background for students’ rigorous studies in archi- Street, known as the Stuyvesant-Fish House, was gifted to the tecture, art or engineering, and students enjoy an abundance of institution in the late 1990s. Renovated by Cooper Union architec- cafés, galleries, theaters, movie houses, restaurants, shops and ture alumna Toshiko Mori, it serves as the president’s residence. clubs within walking distance. The local stations of two major Student Residence The Cooper Union Student Residence is subway lines provide easy access to midtown Manhattan and the located at 29 Third Avenue at the corner of Stuyvesant Street. outer boroughs. It provides housing for approximately 177 students in apart- The dean of students and the staff of the Office of Student ments consisting of single and double bedrooms with a shared Services oversee many aspects of student life outside the class- living space, kitchen and bathroom. Building amenities include room, including student clubs and the student government, a laundry room, the Menschel Common Room, and the Peter career counseling, fnancial aid, athletics and recreation and the Torraco Alumni Space. The Office of Student Services is located production of the Campus Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report. on the third floor. The building is equipped with sprinkler and alarm Life on campus is shaped by the current interests of systems, security cameras and a palm scanner for residents to students. The Joint Student Council has representatives from all gain access. class years in all three schools and allocates funding to student The student residence is overseen by the Office of Residence clubs through the Joint Activities Committee (JAC). Under the Life whose purpose is to provide a dynamic yet safe and comfortable rules of the JAC Constitution, clubs are readily formed and as a residential community through personal development opportuni- result, new clubs emerge every year. Up to 80 clubs have flour- ties and programs that acclimate students to independent living ished annually, including multiple professional organizations, a in New York City. The office promotes student and community drama society, several musical groups, dance clubs, the student development through targeted programs that help students grow newspaper, a variety of ethnic and cultural groups and recre- personally and professionally and gain exposure to the cultural ational groups. The clubs have sponsored lectures, exhibits, feld opportunities within the city. The student residence is staffed by trips, conferences, poetry readings, flms, dinners, publications, professionals from the Office of Residence Life, seven resident performances, ice cream socials, international food fairs and assistants, 24-hour security guards and a maintenance crew. community service work. Each year, the clubs jointly sponsor the The privilege of residing in the student residence is generally Fall Festival where members recruit new students to join the clubs extended only to students in their frst year of study. New students and give information about upcoming activities. Professional soci- receive instructions on how to apply when they are admitted to eties compete in national design competitions and have a stellar The Cooper Union. Upperclass students are provided housing as record of bringing home prizes. space is available. 8 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Students at The Cooper Union also participate in an exten- ships, and scholarships; helps shape and aid institutional goals; sive program of athletic and recreational activities supervised by provides direction and consultation within the institution on the dean of athletics. There are varsity women’s and men’s volley- career-development concerns; fosters constructive, reciprocal ball teams, basketball, cross-country, women’s and men’s tennis internal relationships; supports institutional assessment and teams, soccer and ping pong teams. Cooper Union students have relevant research endeavors and their publication, especially in access to two athletic facilities very close to the school where they relation to accreditation standards; and helps maintain Cooper can enjoy these activities. Each year, several hundred students, Union’s history through its archival practices. alumni and friends go on annual ski trips to Mont Sutton, Quebec, Students are encouraged to review career-development during the winter breaks in January and February. resources at cooper.edu/career. In addition, students are advised to utilize the Cooper Career Connection, the Career Center’s Services for Disabled Students The Cooper Union is an equal online job and internship board. The Career Center staff hosts opportunity institution that admits students without regard to their events and workshops throughout the academic year and are disabilities. The Cooper Union makes reasonable accommoda- readily available for student career-counseling appointments. tions and modifcations to policies, practices and procedures and provides auxiliary aids and services necessary to meet the needs The Office of Alumni Affairs & Development is responsible for of students with disabilities on campus. These aids and services alumni events, communications and fundraising for Cooper. The can include, but are not limited to, providing note takers, readers office engages alumni and parents throughout the United States and interpreters. through regional and on-campus events and manages the Annual Students with disabilities seeking any accommodations, Fund and other fundraising. modifcations or auxiliary aids or services regarding any aspect of You can learn more about the Office of Alumni Affairs & the full Cooper Union experience—including anything pertaining Development and purchase Cooper Union merchandise by emailing uniquely to one of the Cooper Union’s distinct schools—should Alumni Affairs at [email protected]. contact the dean of students for assistance, ideally at least six weeks before the beginning of the semester. Such requests may First-Year Profile–Fall 2013 In 2013, The Cooper Union also be given to the vice president for fnance, administration & received 3,193 frst-year applications; 247 students were treasurer/equal opportunity officer. admitted (8 percent) and 186 of those students accepted our offer (75 percent). The School of Architecture received 658 appli- Career Development The mission of the Center for Career Devel- cations; 22 students were admitted (3 percent) and 21 of those opment is to advance personal, educational and professional accepted our offer (95 percent). The School of Art received 1,313 growth. The Career Center complements The Cooper Union’s applications; 70 students were admitted (5 percent) and 65 of academically centered tradition by preparing students to make those students accepted our offer (93 percent). The School of a successful transition from studying with a distinguished and Engineering received 1,222 applications; 155 students were creative faculty to applying their knowledge and skills to a profes- admitted (13 percent) and 100 of those students accepted our sional practice. The Career Center facilitates student inquiry into offer (65 percent). relevant applications of the education they have received at the Geographically, 5 percent of the first-year architecture institution, strengthening The Cooper Union’s historic commit- students lived in New York State; 34 percent of the frst-year art ment to science and art. students lived in New York State; and 61 percent of the frst-year The Career Center helps both students and alumni to engineering students lived in New York State. In all, 45 percent of further their professional development by teaching them how all Cooper Union frst-year students came from New York State. to use self-knowledge in relation to career decisions, conduct Twenty percent of all Cooper Union frst-year students are career-related research, identify and pursue opportunities, Asian; 17 percent are African American, Caribbean or Latino; prepare competitive application materials, and document and 2 percent are Native American; 14 percent are international present their accomplishments. The Career Center’s staff seeks students; and 24 percent are Caucasian, non-Latino. Thirty-seven to achieve these goals while striving to maintain impartiality and percent of all Cooper Union frst-year students are women. refraining from imposing personal biases. The Career Center culti- vates positive relationships with employers, experiential-learning sites, graduate-study institutions, and not-for-profit resource organizations; identifes and promotes external grants, fellow- 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 9

High School Grades/Test Scores Standardized test scores do not ADMISSION PROCESS signifcantly enter the decision-making process for the School of The Cooper Union seeks students with a strong desire to study Art, but are important components of the architecture and engi- a professional curriculum and typically attracts applicants who neering admissions criteria. The middle 50 percent of architec- are highly motivated and passionate about furthering their educa- ture freshmen achieved a high school average between 91 and tion in an intense, hands-on, mentored environment. The student 95 and SAT scores of 1200 –1410. The middle 50 percent of art body and faculty share an excitement and drive that advances the freshmen achieved a high school average between 83 and 89 and academic disciplines of architecture, fne arts and engineering. SAT scores of 1060–1260. The middle 50 percent of engineering The admissions process varies for each of the three freshmen achieved a high school average between 92 and 97 and schools and is outlined in more detail in the following sections SAT scores of 1420–1510. Overall, the average ACT composite of the catalog. Information about deadlines, campus tours and score is 29–33. academic programs may also be found at cooper.edu. The Cooper Union offers a 50%-tuition scholarship education Retention and Graduation Rate Eighty-three percent of the fall to admitted undergraduates, regardless of their race, religion, sex, 2012 School of Architecture frst-year students returned for fall color, age, national and ethnic origin or disability. Admission 2013 and 64 percent of frst-year students entering the School requirements and procedures are not the same for all curricula of Architecture in fall 2007 graduated within six years. Architec- taught at The Cooper Union. (See the application calendar and ture students may expand their professional options with outside subsequent pages for details.) experience (foreign or domestic) for up to one year during their The application is available to be downloaded or transmitted course of study at The Cooper Union. (See page 39 for informa- online at cooper.edu. A $75 non-refundable application fee1 tion about Leave of Absence/Interim Year.) Ninety-seven percent is required when the application is fled. The admissions office of the fall 2012 School of Art frst-year students returned for fall is open for public service from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through 2013 and 81 percent of frst-year students entering the School of Friday. Information is readily available at cooper.edu. Art in fall 2008 graduated within fve years. Ninety-six percent of the fall 2012 School of Engineering frst-year students returned GENERAL APPLICATION PROCEDURE for fall 2013 and 85 percent of frst-year students entering the Each candidate must: School of Engineering in fall 2008 graduated within fve years. 1. Complete and return or electronically file an acceptable application and the $75 application fee (no cash).1 2. Submit official high school and college records before the specifed deadlines.2 3. Take all the required tests and submit official scores before the specifed deadlines.3 4. Some students may be asked to appear for an interview, though this is not a general requirement for admission.

To be enrolled, each admitted candidate must: 1. Accept offer of admission and pay the appropriate deposit. 2. Submit a fnal transcript before July 15. 3. File medical (including vaccination/immunization) records. 4. Document certifcation of citizenship status. 5. Register for courses.

The Cooper Union has agreed, with many other colleges, to use May 1 prior to the fall for which regular admission is sought as the deadline for students who are accepting our offer of admission. This is known as the candidate’s reply date.

1 A waiver of application fee may be granted if the student fles a written request with the application and formal documentation of need (FAFSA or W2 form). 2 See the appropriate section below to discover which high school subjects, which college records and which tests are required for the curriculum you wish to enter at Cooper Union. 3 Applicants should visit collegeboard.org for test dates and registration information. 10 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

APPLYING TO Students who apply while attending high school will be expected THE IRWIN S. CHANIN to supply transcripts of subjects studied during the first three SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE years of high school (Grades 9, 10 and 11). High school graduates must supply the full four-year record. High school transcripts FIRST-YEAR REQUIREMENTS— should be sent during the fall and winter months, but no later than BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DEGREE January 19 if supporting a freshman application. Each candidate should make certain that the high school subjects required for his Submit frst-year application before: January 12 or her major are completed prior to graduation since The Cooper Submit high school records before: January 19 Union will not be able to verify the candidates senior program until SAT I/ACT1 test taken by: January 24 Offcial test scores must be received by: March 1 final transcripts arrive in June or July. This is too late to make up a missing required subject or to make plans for admission to another Applications for first-year admission must be submitted before college. Students who have not fulflled their application require- January 12. ment may have their offer of admission recinded. All freshman Applicants for first-year admission in architecture will be candidates for degrees must submit acceptable scores on the required to complete and submit a home test. Details will be sent College Board Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT I or ACT). Test scores to applicants in late January or early February. should be sent to The Cooper Union (CEEB Code No. 2097). Testing High school records must show graduation with a minimum later than January 24 of the year for which admission is sought is of 19 units2 before July 15 of the year for which admission is not acceptable; results must reach The Cooper Union before sought, with required and elective subjects as follows: March 1. Applicants are required to have completed mathematics through Trigonometry, Algebra II and Pre-calculus. Students who Subject Units Required for have not demonstrated an appropriate level of mathematics Architecture achievement will be required to complete a pre-calculus course in English 4 the summer prior to their enrollment, in preparation for Calculus History and Social Studies 3 and Analytic Geometry, a frst-year requirement. Mathematics (including Trigonometry, Algebra II and Pre-calculus) 33 Recognizing that communication skills (both verbal and Science 3 written) are integral to all curricula of The Cooper Union, all Other Electives 6 incoming students will be required to participate in a writing Total Units Required 19 workshop conducted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences during the new student orientation program. An assess- ment based on the outcome of this workshop may indicate that student(s) will beneft from use of the resources of the Center for Writing (see page 117 for more information) in order to meet the expectations of the program as well as to develop the critical, analytical and communication skills that provide the foundation for creative, academic and professional success. Applicants whose frst language is not English must submit documentation of their English language profciency. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) will be taken into consider- ation in all admission deliberations (most admitted students score at least 250 [CBT], 100 [IBT] or 600 [paper test] on the TOEFL exam). Admission decisions will be made available in early April; candidates are expected to reply before May 1, the candidate’s reply date.

1 Applicants should visit collegeboard.org for test dates and registration information. 2 A unit represents a year’s study in a subject, with classes meeting at least four times a week in a secondary school. 3 As calculus is a required frst year course for all architecture students, applicants must have studied at a minimum pre-calculus prior to enrolling. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 11

TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS— APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS— BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DEGREE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE II DEGREE

Submit transfer application before: January 12 Submit application and all materials before: February 16 Submit college records before: January 19 Recommended GRE test date before: January 1 SAT I/ACT* test taken by: January 24 The post-professional Master of Architecture II degree program Offcial test scores must be received by: March 1 is open to applicants who: Transfer applicants for the architecture program are those who • hold the professional degree of Bachelor of Architecture will have completed elsewhere at least one year of an accredited (B.Arch.), the professional Master of Architecture I (M.Arch. I) architecture program by June of the year for which admission is or an equivalent accredited professional degree in architecture sought. from a foreign institution. Other individuals may be eligible to apply through the • have completed a minimum of one year of work experience transfer application process if they can submit a portfolio of their after obtaining their frst professional degree and before beginning creative work. This includes individuals who have or will have by the application process. June a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in a discipline other All applicants must submit the following: than architecture or those who have begun studies in a discipline • A completed application form (available at cooper.edu). related to architecture. Transfer applicants must apply before • Application fee of $75. January 6 for September classes. Transfer applicants will be • Official academic records (transcripts) from all colleges and required to complete and submit a home test. Details will be sent universities from which they have received credit. to applicants with the portfolio instructions. The admission deci- • Recent GRE scores. sions and the levels of entry for transfer students will be based • Recommendation letters (three are required). upon a review of college record, the home test and portfolio work. • Resume/CV. Special instructions concerning the content and form of transfer • Written essay: The essay should succinctly explain your portfolios are sent to applicants in late January or early February, interest in the Master of Architecture II program as well as the to be returned to us by the posted date. All transfer applicants specifed area of concentration. must submit official transcripts of previous educational experi- • Portfolio: Applicants must submit a portfolio that includes their ences (high school and college and prior SAT or ACT scores). most important and representative design and written work. The If admitted, transfer students are offered admission into portfolio should consist of professional, academic and/or scholarly a specifc year of the fve-year design sequence. Placement in work. It should be bound into a brochure no larger than 9 x 12” the design sequence is a condition of the offer of admission and (overall size). Applicants should not submit DVDs, slides, loose not subject to further review or appeal. By accepting the offer sheets or original drawings. Simple packaging is preferred. of admission, the transfer student agrees to this placement and • Potential candidates will be required to be available and make acknowledges his/her anticipated graduation date. It will be necessary arrangements for a personal interview. Interview necessary for the matriculating transfer student to successfully expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. complete the design studio to which he/she is admitted, as well as all subsequent studios, as part of his or her degree require- Deferral of an Offer of Admission—Architecture Due to the ments. There is no opportunity for transfer students to accelerate small size of the programs, the deferral of an offer of admission through the required design sequence. Transfer applicants from to the B.Arch. (undergraduate) and/or Master of Architecture II programs other than accredited architecture programs will likely (graduate) program is not permitted. be placed in the frst-year design studio (Architectonics). The offi- cial academic transcript of a transfer student will be reviewed prior to the student’s frst registration. This review will determine what, if any, additional coursework may be eligible for transfer credit. (See page 37 for more information on transfer credit evaluation by the School of Architecture.)

*Applicants should visit collegeboard.org for test dates and registration information. 12 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

APPLYING TO be sent to The Cooper Union (CEEB College Code No. 2097). THE SCHOOL OF ART Testing later than January 24 of the year for which admission is sought is not acceptable; results must reach The Cooper Union FIRST-YEAR REQUIREMENTS— before March 1. Applicants whose frst language is not English are BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE encouraged to submit alternative documentation of their English language profciency. The Test of English as a Foreign Language Submit frst-year application before: January 12 (TOEFL) will be taken into consideration in all admission delibera- Submit high school records before: January 19 tions (most admitted students score at least 250 [CBT], 100 [IBT] SAT I/ACT1 test taken by: January 24 Offcial test scores must be received by: March 1 or 600 [paper test] on the TOEFL exam). Admission decisions will Art Early Decision information: see this page be made in early April; candidates are expected to reply before May 1, the candidate’s reply date. Applications for first-year admission must be submitted before January 12. Early Decision (for Art Applicants only) A select number of Applicants for freshman admission in art will be required potential School of Art students seen at portfolio reviews are to complete and submit the home test and a portfolio of their invited to complete their application and home test for admission (completed) work. Details will be sent to applicants in late January before the application deadline. In addition, if the School of Art or early February. is a frst-year applicant’s first choice, he or she may choose the High school records must show graduation with a minimum Early Decision option. Application, test scores and high school 2 of 16 units before July 15 of the year for which admission is record must be received by the Office of Admissions and Records sought, with required and elective subjects as follows: by December 1. All Early Decision applications will be reviewed Subject Units Required and decisions will be rendered by the end of February, about one for Art month before the normal notifcation date of April 1. Applicants English 4 who are admitted under the Early Decision option must agree to History and Social Studies 2 enroll in the School of Art at Cooper Union and withdraw all other Mathematics 1 college applications. Early Decision is an option for both frst-year Science 1 Other Electives 8 and transfer art applicants. Total Units Required 16 Submit Early Decision application before: December 1 Students who apply while attending high school will be expected to Submit high school records before: December 1 supply transcripts of subjects studied during the first three years Offcial test scores must be received by: December 1 of high school (Grades 9, 10 and 11). High school graduates must Home test sent to applicant Mid-December supply the full four-year record. High school transcripts should be Completed home test submission Mid-January sent during the fall and winter months, but no later than January 19 if Notifcation of admission decision Late-February Early Decision candidate’s reply date April 1 supporting a freshman application. Each candidate should make certain that the high school subjects required for his or her major Rolling Admission (for Art Applicants only) Potential School of are completed prior to graduation since The Cooper Union will not Art students who have received a preliminary review at National be able to verify his or her senior program until fnal transcripts Portfolio Days, which occur after The Cooper Union’s regular arrive in June or July. This is too late to make up a missing required admission deadline (January 12), may be invited to apply after the subject or to make plans for admission to another college. regular admission deadline. All reasonable effort is made by the Students who have not fulflled their application requirements may School of Art Admissions Committee to review these applications have their offer of admission recinded. All first-year candidates in a fair and timely fashion. for degrees must submit acceptable scores on the College Board Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT I or ACT). Test scores should

1 Applicants should visit collegeboard.org for test dates and registration information. 2 A unit represents a year’s study in a subject, with classes meeting at least four times a week in a secondary school. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 13

TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS— Gainful Employment Regulations Periodically, The Cooper Union BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE enrolls a student in our Certifcate of Fine Arts Program* (see page 50). Standard of Occupation Codes attributed to this program Submit transfer application before: January 12 include: 27-1013.00 (onetonline.org/link/summary/27-1013.00 Submit high school records before: January 19 for more information) The Cooper Union is not currently accepting SAT I/ACT1 test taken by: January 24 applications for this program for the 2014–15 academic year. Offcial test scores must be received by: March 1 The Certifcate in Art program is offered as an alternative Art Early Decision information: see page 12 to the B.F.A. program. Candidates for the certifcate program Transfer applicants for the art degree are those who will have must complete 60 credits in two years of full time study (with a completed between 18 and 60 credits of college studio art courses minimum of 30 credits per year). All foundation studio courses by the time they enroll at The Cooper Union. Transfer applicants must be completed and students must complete prerequisite must not have completed more than 60 credits at another insti- course requirements in selecting advanced studio. The Certif- tution. (See also page 53.) All other applicants are freshman cate in Art program consists of 30 credits in foundation studio, candidates. Transfer applicants must apply before January 12 21 credits in advanced studio and nine credits in art history. All for classes beginning in September. The admission decisions admission requirements, academic standards and regulations of for transfer students will be based upon a review of prior college the School of Art apply to the certifcate program. record and of portfolio work, including the home test. Special Students in the certifcate program may apply through the instructions concerning content and form of transfer portfolios are Office of Admissions and Records for transfer to the B.F.A. program sent to applicants in late January or early February, to be returned after 42 credits of work have been completed at The Cooper Union. to us by the posted date. All transfer applicants must submit offi- Transfer certifcate students may transfer a maximum of 12 credits cial transcripts of previous educational experiences (high school from another institution toward their certifcate. and college and prior SAT or ACT scores). An accepted applicant As of Fall 2014, all incoming undergraduate students will who has previously earned a baccalaureate degree in a discipline receive a 50%-tuition scholarship. The additional costs a certif- other than art will be treated as a transfer student for purposes of cate student can be expected to incur are the following (see page evaluating completion of degree requirements and length of time 16 for more information on fees and expenses): allotted at The Cooper Union to complete the B.F.A. Application Fee: $75 Annual Student Fee: $800/semester General Lab and Studio Materials Fee: $125/semester Health and Insurance Fee: $1,200/year International Student Fee: $1,960/year Graduation Fee: $250/year Estimated Books, Supplies, Materials: $1,800/year Estimated Personal and Transportation Expenses: $2,325/year Estimated Room and Board Expenses: $1,600/year (commuter), $15,220/year (residence hall double), $16,240/year (residence hall single), $16,100/year (living off-campus)

* Admission to the Certifcate in Art is temporarily suspended until further notice. 14 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

APPLYING TO THE All engineering candidates must send to The Cooper Union ALBERT NERKEN (College Board Code No. 2097) results of the SAT I or ACT and SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING of the SAT II in physics or chemistry and in either Level I or Level FIRST-YEAR REQUIREMENTS— II mathematics. Applications for the SAT I and II should be fled BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING DEGREE with the College Board in Princeton, NJ, at least one month before the testing dates. Testing later than January 24 of the year for Submit frst-year application before: January 12 which admission is sought is not acceptable; results must reach Submit high school records before: January 19 The Cooper Union before March 1. Results of an SAT or ACT SAT I/ACT1 test taken by: January 24 taken before April 2009 will not be accepted. Applicants whose Math I or II and Physics or Chemistry SAT Subject tests taken by: January 24 frst language is not English are encouraged to submit alternative Offcial test scores must be received by: March 1 documentation of their English language profciency. The Test of Engineering Early Decision information: see page 15 English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) will be taken into consid- eration in all admission deliberations (most admitted students Candidates should fle their applications before January 12 of score at least 250 [CBT], 100 [IBT] or 600 [paper test] on the the year for which admission is sought and their official high TOEFL exam) Admission decisions will be made in early April; school transcripts before January 19. candidates are expected to reply before May 1, the candidate’s High school records must show the following:2 reply date.

Subject Units Required Advanced Placement Credit and Credit by Examination The for Engineering School of Engineering may grant credit for high school work in English 4 Advanced Placement courses in mathematics, chemistry and History and Social Studies 2 physics, according to the following results on the Advanced Place- Mathematics 4 ment examinations: Physics 1 Chemistry 1 AP Exam Score Course Waived Credits Electives 5–7 Calculus B.C. 4, 53 Ma 111 4 Total Units Required 17 minimum Chemistry 4, 54 Ch 110 3 19 recommended Physics, Mechanics (c) 53 Ph 112 4 Physics, Electro (c) 53 Ph 213 4 Students in high school will be expected to supply transcripts covering subjects taken during the first three years of high school Placement examinations are required before credit is granted in mathematics and physics. (Grades 9, 10 and 11). High school graduates must supply the full four-year record. High school transcripts should be sent No student is required to accept Advanced Placement during the fall and winter months, but no later than January 19 if credit from the School of Engineering. All students who score 5 supporting a freshman application. on Advanced Placement examinations in European history may Each candidate should make certain that the high school be eligible for three credits for the examination. In some cases, subjects required for admission are completed prior to gradua- instead of receiving credit, students may be permitted to fulfill part tion since The Cooper Union will not be able to verify his or her of the humanities or social sciences requirement with an appro- senior program until fnal transcripts arrive in June or July. This is priate elective course. Those who wish to be considered either for too late to make up a missing required subject or to make plans AP credit or for advanced placement in an elective course should for admission to another college. Students who have not fulflled notify the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences before the their application requirements may have their offer of admission first week of classes. The Cooper Union will consider granting recinded. In the area of mathematics, candidates may offer some- credit for study in the Armed Forces, verified by U.S.A.F.I. what different patterns of preparation provided they will be ready for the intensive study of calculus at college. Preparation beyond the listed minimum in mathematics is highly recommended. 1 Applicants should visit collegeboard.org for test dates and registration information. College Board Advanced Placement Mathematics are suitable 2 Including calculus. 3 courses for such further preparation. Students who earn a grade of 5 must take a Department of Physics examination in order to receive the 4 credits. In addition, students receiving a 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam must take a Department of Mathematics placement exam to receive credit for Ma III. 4 Students wishing to receive credit for AP Chemistry must also earn a 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 15

Early Decision If the School of Engineering is the frst choice of an APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS— applicant, the candidate may apply under the Early Decision plan. MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEGREE The Cooper Union will consider an application earlier than usual Students must submit graduate applications before: April 1 and give the applicant a decision in advance of the normal notifca- tion date. Application, test scores and high school record must be Students are accepted on an academically competitive basis received by the Office of Admissions and Records by December 2. subject to the availability of an adviser and of suitable facilities Applicants who are admitted under the Early Decision option for the proposed thesis research. To be admitted to the program, must agree to enroll in the School of Engineering at Cooper Union a student should have completed an engineering baccalaureate and withdraw all other college applications. program that is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engi- neering and Technology (ABET). Undergraduate students are Submit application and high school records before: December 1 not guaranteed admission to the program. Master of Engineering Offcial test scores (SAT I/ACT and SAT Subject Tests*) must be received by: December 1 applicants must apply by April 1. Candidate’s reply date January 23 Cooper Union Undergraduates must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average in their major upon graduation. Consult the Admission after Three Years of High School Candidates of department chairman regarding specific departmental require- exceptional merit may be considered for admission after comple- ments. Generally, students entering Cooper Union undergraduate tion of three years of high school. Engineering applicants must programs as freshmen require five years to complete the Bachelor have excellent high school averages and test scores. Art and and Master of Engineering and no more than six years. That grade architecture applicants must have excellent high school records point average will be calculated using courses with the prefxes and exceptional ability. A recommendation from the high school ChE, CE, ECE, ME, EID and ESC. Furthermore, there must be a principal, at least one recommendation from a teacher and an sufficient number of these engineering courses in a student’s record interview will be required. In accordance with the regulations of for the grade point average to be meaningful. Cooper Union under- individual states, a student may or may not be eligible to receive graduates will be required to pay the non-refundable $75 applica- an Equivalency Diploma after completion of a specific number of tion fee when applying to the Master of Engineering program. credits in appropriate subject areas at The Cooper Union. It is the Depending on the availability of faculty and facilities, the responsibility of the applicant to investigate his or her state regu- engineering departments may be able to admit a few outstanding lations in this regard. students into their master’s degree programs from outside The Cooper Union. To be considered for admission, a student should TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS— have completed an engineering baccalaureate program that BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING DEGREE is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and

Submit transfer application before: January 12 Technology (ABET). Applicants must submit official transcripts. Submit high school and college records before: January 19 Graduates of foreign institutions whose native language is not SAT I/ACT* test taken by: January 24 English are required to submit scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Admitted students may be required Math I or II and Physics or Chemistry SAT Subject tests taken by: January 24 to take advanced engineering courses to make up any deficien- Offcial test scores must be received by: March 1 cies in their preparation. Specific admission requirements may be waived upon recommendation of the faculty in the area of the Transfer applications should be submitted before January 12 of student’s major interest. the year for which admission is sought. It may be necessary to All application forms must be received by the Office of wait until late May, when the available space may be predicted Admissions and Records by April 1. The application form is available accurately, before receiving notifcation of the admission deci- to be downloaded at cooper.edu. sion. Transfer applicants must have completed all of The Cooper Union’s first-year program at another accredited college. If space is available, they are admitted on the basis of prior college records. All transfer applicants must submit official transcripts of previous educational experiences (high school and college and prior SAT or ACT scores). Special emphasis is placed on college-level grades in calculus, chemistry and physics. *Applicants should visit collegeboard.org for test dates and registration information. 16 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

International Students At Cooper Union we value a diverse TUITION, FEES AND EXPENSES student body. We attract and enroll students from around the TUITION world. Please read below for important information pertaining to Undergraduate The Cooper Union tuition charge for under- international students: graduate students for 2014–15 is $19,800 per semester. Each • International students are those who do not hold U.S. citizenship registered undergraduate student who entered prior to Fall 2014 or permanent residency. receives a full-tuition scholarship. Starting in Fall 2014, all incoming • International students are ineligible for Federal or State students received a 50%-tuition scholarship. Additional aid is avail- Financial Aid. able to help cover the cost of tuition, fees, living and personal • International applicants with less than three years of English expenses for those students who demonstrate fnancial need. study are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Graduate Language (TOEFL) to show English proficiency. A minimum The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture 2014–2015 TOEFL score of 600 (paper format), 250 (computer format) or 100 Tuition for the Master of Architecture II program is $19,800 per (internet-based format) is required. semester, for the three semester program. Graduate fellowships • All applicants to The Cooper Union are required to submit scores are available for accepted students of exceptional merit and/or from the SAT exam (collegeboard.com) or ACT exam (act.org). need. For the 2014-2015 academic year, the average fellowship • Make sure the name on your passport matches your name on grant was approximately $13,000 per semester. the application, TOEFL and SAT/ACT scores exactly. Albert Nerken School of Engineering 2014–2015 • All high school and college transcripts must be translated into Students in the Master of Engineering program are charged English, notarized and sent to The Cooper Union. $1,173 per credit; 30 credits total. Any admitted Cooper Union • Students who are non-U.S. citizens or who are not permanent alumnus entering the graduate program in Fall 2014 is eligible for U.S. residents and who are admitted to The Cooper Union will be a 50% tuition scholarship for two years of study. Merit-based required to demonstrate they have the fnancial resources to live scholarships will be available to a select group of highly accom- and study in New York City prior to obtaining an I-20 form and plished applicants in every degree-granting department. In order eventually obtaining an F-1 student visa. to be considered for merit-based scholarships, applications for Fall • All international students are assessed a fee of $1,960 per year. 2015 must be submitted by April 1, 2015.

FEES AND REFUNDS Application Fee A nonrefundable application fee of $75 is paid by all candidates for admission. Student Fee Each student enrolled in a degree program pays a student fee of $800 per semester. For new students, this fee is payable on acceptance of admission and is not refundable. For continuing students, the $800 fee per semester is payable prior to the frst day class; it is 100 percent refundable prior to the beginning of classes and 50 percent refundable during the frst two weeks of classes. Thereafter, it is not refundable. Continuing students must pay each semester’s student fee in accordance with the bill’s “due date.” All fees are subject to annual revision. Students who do not pay the required fee will have their registration cancelled. General Lab and Studio Materials Fee A general lab and studio materials fee of $125 per semester will be charged to each student’s account. As the title suggests, this fee covers normal usage, “wear and tear,” and basic supplies for laboratory and studio projects. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 17

Student Residence Fee Students electing to live in the FINANCIAL AID student residence will be responsible for paying the regular housing If you are enrolled as a full-time student (minimum 12 credits), fees. The fees for the 2014–15 academic year are $11,220 for a are a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen, can demonstrate fnan- double (two students per bedroom) and $12,240 for a single (one cial need, have a valid Social Security Number, have a high school student per bedroom). The fees cover residence for the fall and diploma or General Education Development Certifcate (GED), spring semesters and may be paid in two installments. A student can or complete a high school education in a home school setting expect to spend approximately $4,000 per academic year for food. that is treated as such under state law, are registered with the Refund Policy for Student Residence Please refer to Selective Service (if required), are making satisfactory academic Section 10 of The Cooper Union 2014–15 Student Housing Affili- progress toward completing your course of study according to ation Occupancy Agreement for a schedule of refunds and penal- the standards and practices of the school, certify that you are not ties imposed for cancellation. in default on a Federal Perkins, Federal Family Education Loan Health Service and Insurance Fee Cooper Union requires or Federal Direct Loan, do not owe a refund on a Federal Pell or all students to submit proof, prior to registration, that they have Federal SEOG Grant and certify that you will use federal student health insurance. Students who fail to supply the information aid for educational purposes only—you may be eligible to receive requested on the Student Accident and Sickness/Enrollment fnancial aid. Waiver form by August 15 will be billed $1,200 for the Health The law suspends fnancial aid eligibility for any student Service and Insurance Fee for the 2014–15 academic year. convicted for the possession or sale of illegal drugs for offenses International Student Fee Students who are non-U.S. citi- that occurred while the student was receiving federal student aid. zens or who are not permanent U.S. residents must pay a fee of If you have a conviction or convictions for illegal drug offenses, call $1,960 per year payable by August 15. 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) to determine how, or if, this Graduation Fee A graduation fee of $250 is required of all law applies to you. students entering their last year at The Cooper Union. This fee is The U.S. Department of Education website can be accessed payable upon registration for the senior year and is refundable if a through the Financial Aid for Students home page at studentaid. student fails to meet graduation requirements that year. ed.gov. Special Fees A charge of $100 will be made for late payment For the most current information on fnancial aid at Cooper of the student fee. A charge of $25 will be made per occasion Union, please visit our web site at http://cooper.edu or contact the involving change of section or registration program. The Cooper Financial Aid Office. Union reserves the right to change its fees at any time. To apply for fnancial aid you must complete a Free Applica- Graduate Student Fee For students beginning their Master tion for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You may submit the FAFSA of Engineering program Fall 2014 onwards, the requirements for through the Internet using FAFSA on the Web at fafsa.ed.gov. the program must be completed within two years of admission to When processed, the form will produce an expected family contri- graduate status, except with the expressed consent of the dean bution (EFC), which determines the family resources available to of engineering. Requests for extension must be presented in meet your educational expenses and your eligibility for fnancial writing to the dean in the fnal semester of the second year. Thesis aid. From this analysis we will attempt to package fnancial aid to adviser approval is also required. Graduate students are assessed provide the greatest possible assistance to the neediest students a key/access fee of $150 per year. For students admitted to the frst and then to less needy students, as resources permit. We Master of Engineering program prior to Fall 2014 and who receive reserve the right to request copies of your parents’ tax return if you approval to extend their studies beyond two years will be assessed are considered independent under federal guidelines and your a maintenance of matriculation fee of $3,000 per semester. non-custodial parents’ tax return if your parents are divorced. ALL Books, Materials and School Supplies Each student must information submitted on the FAFSA as part of an application for supply, at his or her own expense, textbooks, drawing materials, fnancial aid is subject to verifcation, a requirement of the U.S. hand tools and other necessary items. Department of Education. Please see our website for more infor- If laboratory apparatus, machinery or studio equipment mation on the verifcation process. First-time applicants are also is damaged by careless handling, the student will be charged required to fle a CSS Profle Form. for repair or replacement. All students enrolled in School of Art FAFSA forms should be fled no later than April 15, and all courses should be prepared to pay for consumable materials forms should be submitted to us no later than May 1. supplied by the School for student use. 18 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

The Cooper Union offers financial aid awards suited to each Federal Work Study Under this program, eligible students student’s need. Generally, these awards are “packaged,” which may be employed on or off campus. Employment is generally means that more than one type of aid is provided. A typical award limited to about 10 hours a week during the academic year. In will include some grant funds and some self-help in the form of addition, students may apply at the Office of Career Services for a a loan, and possibly a work opportunity. It is expected that the variety of part-time jobs. entire package will be accepted. A student is encouraged to use Priorities In considering applications for aid, frst priority is given a portion of summer employment earnings toward the following to frst-degree undergraduates who have exceptional fnancial academic year’s expenses. need and therefore could not complete their education without Federal Pell Grants These grants are awarded to under- such aid. Second priority is given to frst-degree students who graduate students who have not yet earned a bachelor’s degree. demonstrate relative need. Second-degree students are prohib- The amount of a Federal Pell Grant is determined by the EFC and ited from receiving federal grants and are not eligible for insti- the cost of attendance at Cooper Union. Pell Grants provide a tutional grants beyond the 50% tuition scholarship. Therefore, foundation to which other aid may be added. second- degree students are referred to the various loan programs Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants for fnancial assistance. These grants, which usually range from $200 to $4,000 per academic year, are awarded to students with the greatest need. Rights and Responsibilities Students who receive fnancial aid They are funded by both federal sources and The Cooper Union. in their frst year at The Cooper Union generally continue to be Federal Direct Loan Program This program includes subsi- aided in accordance with their fnancial circumstances from year dized and unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans. During the frst to year. This does not imply, however, that the aid will be the same year of undergraduate study, an eligible student may borrow up each year. Each package depends on family resources, the avail- to $3,500; $4,500 in the second year; and $5,500 in subsequent ability of funds, the student’s capacity for self-help and continued years. Eligible dependent students may also borrow an additional appropriations from the federal government. To continue to $2,000 unsubsidized Stafford Loan. qualify for fnancial aid, students must maintain good academic Students who meet the federal requirements for indepen- standing and make satisfactory academic progress as determined dent student status and dependent students whose parents are by the standards of the school. Students on academic probation not able to secure a Federal PLUS Loan may be eligible to receive for two semesters are ineligible for federal fnancial aid. Reduced additional funds through the unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan. programs may result in a reduction in fnancial aid. First- and second-year students may borrow up to $6,000 and Federal regulations require that students who withdraw from upper-class students may borrow up to $7,000. school prior to completing 60 percent of the semester will have Also available under this program is the Federal PLUS Loan. their eligibility for aid recalculated based on the percent of the Parents with good credit histories may borrow up to the cost of semester completed. For example, a student who withdraws after education not covered by fnancial aid. completing only 30 percent of the semester will have “earned” Students and parents should always exhaust federal student only 30 percent of any financial aid received. The remaining loan options before considering private educational loans. 70 percent must be returned by the student and/or the school. Federal Perkins Loans This is a low-interest (5 percent) Students should contact the Financial Aid Office to determine loan for both undergraduate and graduate students with substan- how a withdrawal will affect fnancial aid. tial need. Repayment of these loans begins nine months after you Normally, fnancial aid is awarded for an entire academic graduate or leave school. year, with payments made after the beginning of each semester. Cooper Union Loans These loans are offered by Cooper Amounts in excess of Cooper Union charges may be used to meet Union and carry the same conditions and interest rate as Federal indirect costs and will be paid directly to the student each semester. Perkins Loans. If Federal Work Study is part of the fnancial aid package, a salary Cooper Union Grants The Cooper Union has funds available will be paid twice monthly, directly to the student. from which awards are made to qualifed students in need of aid. The Cooper Union is willing to make every effort to assist the student and the student’s family in helping to meet educational costs, but the school is unable to assume the role of substitute for the family. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 19

Students awarded a Federal Stafford Loan, a Federal Perkins BUDGET GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AT THE COOPER UNION Loan or a Cooper Union Loan will be required to sign a legally This budget guide has been prepared with the hope that it binding promissory note and agree to the terms of a prearranged will assist students in anticipating their financial needs while repayment schedule. Sample repayment schedules are available attending The Cooper Union. Based on our experience with on our web site. The terms of these loan obligations will be defned students, we believe this to be a realistic guide for a nine-month at the time the loans are made to the student and before the notes academic year. It should be used as a guide and obviously does are executed. It should be noted that these loans must be repaid not reflect the exact costs involved in individual cases. so that future students may also receive loans. Budget Guide for 2014–15 Our three schools of Architecture, Art and Engineering each Architecture & Art* have an Academic Standards Committee that is responsible for (includes an average of meeting with students who have not made satisfactory progress $1,800 for supplies) Commuter $27,375 toward degree completion. Each committee is comprised of a Residence Hall Resident $40,945 group of faculty, students and deans. Off-campus Resident $41,875 The committees meet after the conclusion of the fall and Engineering* (includes an average of Commuter $26,575 spring semesters (often mid-January and early June) at which $1,000 for supplies) Residence Hall Resident $40,145 point the students who are placed on academic probation have Off-campus Resident $41,075 an opportunity to discuss their academic performance with the members of the committee. * Students without health insurance should add a Health Service The requirements to maintain satisfactory progress toward and Insurance Fee of $1,100 degree completion vary for each school. More information can be found in the Academic Standards section of the respective school. International Student Budget Guide for 2014–15 Schools of Art and Architecture In addition, students must also make satisfactory academic Full-Time Matriculating Fees $ 3,810 progress by completing degree requirements on a timely basis. Room and Board $16,100 Federal regulations require students who receive federal fnan- **Other $ 4,125 cial aid to complete degree requirements within 150% of the Total: $24,035 published length of the program. Failure to complete degree requirements within this time frame will result in a suspension of **Books and Supplies $ 1,800 federal student aid. Transportation $ 750 Personal Expenses $ 1,575 Total: $ 4,125 School of Engineering Full-Time Matriculating Fees $ 3,810 Room and Board $16,100 **Other $ 3,325 Total: $23,235

**Books and Supplies $ 1,000 Transportation $ 750 Personal Expenses $ 1,575 Total: $ 3,325

All incoming students receive a 50%-tuition scholarship. The value of this scholarship is approximately $20,000 per year ($10,000 per semester). Additional fnancial aid will be provided to the neediest students to help cover tuition, housing, food, books, supplies etc. The amount of additional aid will be based upon a student’s demonstrated fnancial need. Students must fle both a FAFSA and CSS profle form to be considered for additional fnancial aid. Please note that for exceptional students, Cooper Union may also offer merit scholarships. 20 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS William H. Sandholm; Rudolph H. Schultz; Emil Schweinberg; The Starr AND PRIZES Foundation; Solon E. Summerfeld Foundation; Arlene and Irving Tashlick; Leonard E. Trentin; Clyde Walker Family;Clifford Warren; NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS Bert Weinstein The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Estate of Francis Black; Gus J. & Helen Condaris; Ismar David; Manuel & Flora Fernandez; FELLOWSHIPS John Q. Hejduk; George and Selma Klett; Beth and Arthur Kramberg; The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture William Cooper John Loeb & Frances Loeb; Mari Souval Spacedrafting Foundation Mack Thesis Fellowship, supports primary research and inquiry in the School of Art Danny Arje; Alice Noble Ball & Francis M. Thesis year and honors William Cooper Mack, class of 2006. Palmer Ball; Ruth Light Braun; William & Mary Jane Brinton; Caroline Fund; Hayden Travel Fellowship, travel Abroad For African-American Students Frank Chesek Memorial; Mary Walter Cooper; Joseph and Robert in Art and Architecture Cornell Memorial Foundation; Paul Dandwerth Family; Ismar David; School of Art Rhoda Lubalin Fellowship, honors Herb Lillyan deCaro Santo; Jane E. and Donald W. Deed; Pearl Dorn; James Lubalin and is awarded to a rising senior who has excelled in graphic Trimble and Alice Trimble DuBois; Antonya Eisen; Loring Eutemey; design; Helen Dubroff Dorfman Travel Fellowship; Palmer Hayden Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht & Herbert A. Feuerlicht; Evelyn Gra- Travel Fellowship, travel Abroad For African-American Students in ber; Amy Hewitt Green; Yip Harburg Foundation; William Randolph Art and Architecture; The O’Brien Fellowship for Study Abroad; Hearst Foundation; Abraham Hersh; Eleanor G. Hewitt Memorial; Martin Rothenberg Travel Fellowship; James Craig and Irene Scala Charles Ingraham; Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean; George and Selma Designing with Type Award, for two students interested in design to Klett; Mollie Levenstein; John Loeb & Frances Loeb; Sylvia Drucker travel abroad in 2013-2014 Mavis; Alphonse Normandia; Peter Ostuni; Hazel A. Robinson; Marvin Albert Nerken School of Engineering Henry C. Enders Fel- A. Schwam; Harrold Sosnow; Russell G. and Elsie K. Sweet; Henry Wolf lowship, for students wishing to pursue graduate study in engineering; Foundation; Womens Centennial Union The Maxwell Lincer Fellowship, for excellence in the engineering feld Albert Nerken School of Engineering Abdul Azimi Memorial; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Benjamin Edward J. Barlow; Robert W. Bassemir; Dean Eleanor Baum; Meredith Menschel Fellowships for Creative Inquiry, The Horace W. Goldsmith B. Blaustein; Grace, Bruna, Lutf Celkupa and Marie Hudak Celkupa; Foundation endowed this fellowship with a grant in 1994 to support Leon Chernick; Tunny Chin; John and Fedora Chironna; Horacio students in the felds of art, architecture, design and engineering Cundari; Jane E. and Donald W. Deed; Franklin W. Diederich; Frank J. Donovan; Margaret and Frederick Dornheim; Herbert E. Ennis; AWARDS AND PRIZES Margaret Lappin Finch; Samuel & Sally Gilman; Roger Gilmont; The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture The Toni and Charles Greenfield; Robert Greenwald; William Grimshaw; Dr. Michael David Yarnell Merit Award of Excellence in Architecture, presented to S. Gross; Elizabeth and Robert Hammond; Edward I. Hawthorne; The a graduating student who demonstrates exceptional ability and out- Hewitt Eightieth Birthday Scholarship; Fanny & Irving Katz Memorial; standing merit; The American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Laudy Scholarship; Seymour D. Lester; Leonard R. Luke; Henry Medal and Certificate of Merit, to the frst-ranked graduating student Mankin; Vincent C. Morrone; Robert P. Muhlsteff; Pio Nardone; O’Ro- in a frst professional degree program; The American Institute of Ar- urke Scholarship; Emil J. Pansky; Emil Parente; William F. Partridge; chitects Henry Adams Certificate of Merit, to the second-ranked Norman L. Perry Internship; John F. & Olga Petrowsky; Michael F. graduating student in a frst professional degree program; Alpha Rho Roberti; Emanuel Salma Memorial; Dr. Walter L. Schwartz; The Starr Chi (National Professional Architectural Fraternity) Medal, to a grad- Foundation; Sol Tanne; Jesse & Nina Tegethoff; Peter Torraco; Ralph uating student who has shown an ability for leadership, who has per- Torraco; Federick Urban; Dale & Charlotte Zand formed willing service for his or her school or department and who General Financial Aid Scholarships David Ackerman; gives promise of real professional merit; The Cooper Union Alumni Irwin & Lillian Appel; Bank of New York Minority Scholarship; H. Carl Association Annual Award, to a graduating student for outstanding Bauman; Leonard Beck; Frances & Max Birnbaum; Robert C. Bosch; service to the school; Abraham E. Kazan Award for Urban Design, to Catherine E. Campbell; Maria L. Campbell; Chubb; Myron Coe; Julius a graduating student for outstanding performance in urban design; Dingenthal; Abraham Drabkin; Edward Durbin; Kathleen Gerla; Estate George Ledlie Prize, to a graduating student as selected by the dean; of Joseph N. Golding; Salvatore & Tina Guzzardi; Robert Hawkes; Julian Peter Bruder Memorial Prize, to a graduating student for excellence Hirsch; Benedict A. Joffe ‘12; Dr. Peter Kabasakalian; Alice Keteltas; in structures; Allen N. Goldfscher Memorial Award, for a ffth-year John Marion Liptay; Arthur Loewe Trust; Estate of Charles E. Luffman; graduating student whose thesis project best explores relationships Estelle & Daniel Maggin; William H. Okun; Michael A. Rampino; Benja- between humanistic and aesthetic principals in an urban context min Reich; Charles Lowery Robertson; Louis Roeth; Charles Ruby; 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 21

School of Art Sylvia Appelman Award; for outstanding Howard M. Siegel Memorial Prize, for scholastic excellence in chem- third year painting student; The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust ical engineering; Lewis Gleekman Memorial Prize, for demonstrated Award, presented to a graduating student who demonstrates excep- professional interest in materials, metallurgy or corrosion engineering tional ability in the feld of painting or sculpture; The Toni and David Civil Engineering: Joseph Kalb Fund Prize, to a civil engi- Yarnell Merit Award of Excellence in Art, presented to a graduating neering graduate on the basis of scholarship and professional inter- student who demonstrates exceptional ability and outstanding merit; est; Maxwell Lincer Prize Fund, for excellence and achievement in The Cooper Union Alumni Association Annual Award, to a graduating the study of civil engineering student for high academic achievement and outstanding service to Electrical Engineering: Yusuf Z. Efe Award, for the out- the school; Richard Lewis Bloch Memorial Prize for Excellence in Art; standing electrical engineering master’s thesis; Abraham Pletman Vena T. Carroll Award, for excellence in art; Ethel Cram Memorial Prize, Fund, for excellence in electrical engineering; Eugene Ogur Memorial for excellence in art; Mary M. Doyle Memorial Prize, to a second-year Award, for excellence in electrical engineering; Jesse Sherman Book student; Henry Dropkin Award, for excellence in graphic design; Award, for an excellent academic record and superior electrical engi- Betty Morton Goldin Memorial Prize; Robert C. Goodhue Prize; Rolf neering laboratory work; Dale E. Zand Prize, for outstanding achieve- Haerem Award, to a fourth-year student for excellence in painting; ment in electrical engineering Sarah Cooper Hewitt Prize; Fred A. Lane Prize, to the most deserving Mechanical Engineering: Wallace Chinitz Prize, for excel- student in the third-year class; Elliot Lash Memorial Prize, for excel- lence in thermal studies; Alexander C. Grove Prize, to the student lence in sculpture; Eleanor Gay Lee Gallery Prize, to a deserving third- who demonstrates scholarship, personal integrity and professional or fourth-year student; A. A. Low Prize; Carin Tendler Lurkis Prize for promise in the feld of mechanical engineering; Tyler G. Hicks Prize, Watercolors, to a deserving second- or third-year student; The Medici to a mechanical engineering Junior for academic achievement during Award; Vincent J. Mielcarek, Jr. Photography Award, to a student in the frst and second years; Wilson G. Hunt/Class of 1905 Prize, to a the third-year class for excellence in photography; Pietro & Alfrieda mechanical engineering graduate, based on general excellence in Montana Prize, for excellence in drawing and sculpture; Michael S. engineering studies; Harold E. Rue Prize, for a senior in either elec- Vivo Memorial Prize, for excellence in drawing; Robert Breer Film trical or mechanical engineering; Nicholas Stefano Prize, for an out- Award; Tam Prize in Fine Arts standing senior project in mechanical engineering Albert Nerken School of Engineering The Harold S. Gold- Mathematics Class of 1907 Prize, for excellence in calcu- berg Prize, to a graduating student who demonstrates technical lead- lus; Irvin Leon Lynn Prize, for excellence in mathematics; Harry W. ership upon earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering; The Cooper Reddick Fund Prize and Medal, for meritorious work in mathematics Union Alumni Association Annual Award, to a graduating student for Bachelor of Science Henri D. Dickinson Fund Prize, to the high academic achievement and outstanding service to the school; student having the highest cumulative rating at graduation in a bach- The William C. and Esther Hoffman Beller Fund for Merit in Engineering elor of science curriculum Studies, to the most meritorious graduate in each of the following Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences The John L. felds: chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering; The Alpert Humanities and Social Sciences Prize; The Academy of Ameri- Leon Machiz Prize; Harald Kiel Award, for service to the Cooper can Poets Elizabeth Kray Poetry Prize; The Raymond G. Brown Memorial Union IT Department; Abraham Pletman Memorial Fund Prize, for Prize, for excellence in the Raymond G. Brown Seminar; Professor Frank excellence in electrical engineering Caldiero Humanities Award, for the best essay written in the frst-year Chemistry Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry core courses (HSS1 and HSS2); Second-year Core Curriculum Prize, Achievement Award, to an outstanding freshman Chemistry student; for the best essay written in the second-year core courses (HSS3 and Elmer J. Badin Chemistry Award, for students having the highest HSS4); The History Prize, for an outstanding essay in history; Charles grade-point average at the end of the junior year and having the highest Goodman Essay Fund Award in Humanities, open to seniors in the recommendation of the chemistry faculty; Robert Spice Fund Prize, School of Engineering; Dr. Martin J. Waters Memorial Prize, for ex- for the best record in Instrumental Analysis and Electronics cellence in the humanities and social sciences. Chemical Engineering: American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award, to the AIChE student member having achieved the highest scholastic record after two years; The American Institute of Chemists Student Award, to a Chemical Engineering graduate who has demonstrated scholastic achievement in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, leadership, ability and character; Herbert Baldwin Fund Prize, for the best record in the third year of Chemical Engineering; 22 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

GENERAL REGULATIONS Calendar Changes The academic year at The Cooper Union has fall and spring semesters and runs from September to May. The Cooper Union reserves the right to change or amend its regula- In order to serve the student body most effectively during the tions, curricula, fees and admission procedures without prior notice. academic year, The Cooper Union cannot modify its calendar or procedures to meet special demands of students. Registration Unless permitted by the dean of admissions and records to do otherwise, all students must register during one Academic Standards and Regulations For specific academic of the scheduled dates and pay fees and laboratory deposits. standards and regulations of each school, consult the appropriate Students who fail to meet all financial obligations to The Cooper sections of this catalog. Union will not be permitted to register. No student will be admitted Dismissal The Cooper Union reserves the right at any time to to classes without evidence of completion of registration. Students dismiss a student whose conduct, attendance or academic who fail to register will be dropped from the rolls. standing is, in its judgment, unsatisfactory and to grant or withhold credits, certifcates, degrees or diplomas. Disciplinary authority is ATTENDANCE vested in the president’s office. School of Architecture and School of Art Classes and studios are scheduled Monday through Friday between 9 am and Obligations Students will be held accountable for all individual 10 pm. Studio facilities usually are available to students on Satur- obligations, fnancial and other, entered into with The Cooper days and Sundays throughout the academic year. Union. Students who fail to meet all fnancial obligations to The Each student is required to be punctual and to attend each Cooper Union will not be permitted to register. No student will be scheduled class. In the case of unavoidable absence, the student included in the graduating class unless all obligations have been should, on his or her return, report to the instructor to explain the accounted for prior to graduation. The Cooper Union will withhold absence and inquire about making up the lost work. All architec- transcripts and other information about a student who has not ture students are provided with studio space and are expected to met financial obligations. work in the studio during regular building hours. Transcripts Official transcripts of a student’s scholastic record School of Engineering Each student is expected to attend are issued directly to officials of other institutions or examining all classes and to satisfy other requirements in each course in boards, upon request to the dean of admissions and records such ways as the instructor may prescribe. If a student is absent and registrar. Each copy of a transcript will cost $5 (there is no an excessive number of times, he/she may, at the discretion of the charge to currently enrolled students). Requests should include instructor and with the approval of the dean, be asked to withdraw the name and complete address of the person who is to receive from the course. the transcript and must include the signature of the student or After each absence, it is the student’s responsibility to alumnus/a. consult with the instructor, without delay, to determine the nature Transcripts are not issued for students during the period of the makeup work required. of time in which grades are being recorded. Transcripts of student Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Each student grades are issued to inquiring employers and agencies if a student is expected to attend all classes. No more than two unexcused notifies the dean of admissions and records and Registrar in absences will be permitted during any given semester. In the writing, authorizing the distribution of the transcript. case of an unavoidable absence, the student should, on his or her Official transcripts are issued directly to students or to alumni return, report to the instructor to explain the absence and inquire in a sealed envelope. about making up the lost work. Students who are absent three or Current students have access to their transcript and more times may receive a reduction of the final grade or, at the registration information on the portal to the school database, once discretion of the instructor, be asked to withdraw from the course. they receive a password and a login at the Computer Center.

Student Property The Cooper Union assumes no responsibility for loss of or damage to the work or property of students. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 23

STUDENT RECORDS Program Changes During the first several days of a Notification of FERPA Rights The Family Educational semester, courses may be added to or dropped from a student’s Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords students certain rights program without penalty or fee (program adjustment). Adding with respect to their education records. These rights include: 1) of courses after the posted date is not permitted. Students who The right to inspect and review the student’s education records wish to change their academic programs should consult with within 45 days of the day The Cooper Union receives a request for appropriate deans. All program changes must be reported by the access. Students should submit to the Office of Admissions and student to the dean of admissions and records. A $25 fee will be Records written requests that identify the record(s) they wish to charged for dropping courses after the drop/add period. inspect. The Office of Admissions and Records official will make Transfer of Academic Credit Every effort is made to provide arrangements for access and notify the student of the time and admitted students with a preliminary evaluation of their transfer place where the records may be inspected. If the records are not credit. School-wide policies dictate that a grade of B or better maintained by the Office of Admissions and Records, the office must be earned to be eligible for transfer of credit. shall advise the student of the correct official to whom the request To seek credit or if there is a question about whether or not a should be addressed. 2) The right to request the amendment of class taken at a previous institution is eligible for transfer of credit the student’s education records that the student believes is inac- please contact the department chairperson or respective dean of curate. Students may ask the Office of Admissions and Records to the school to which you are interested in obtaining credit. amend a record that they believe is inaccurate. They should write Each department/school reserves the right to ask for addi- the Registrar and clearly identify the part of the record they want tional information, i.e., coursework, syllabus, portfolio, etc., changed and specify why it is inaccurate. If the Registrar decides before granting transfer credit. not to amend the record as requested by the student, the Regis- Currently enrolled students must always contact the appro- trar will notify the student of the decision and advise the student of priate department chairperson and dean of school at The Cooper his or her right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Union prior to registering for classes at other colleges or univer- Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be sities should there be interest in obtaining transfer credit at The provided to the student when notifed of the right to a hearing. Cooper Union. Explicit permission must be granted by the depart- 3) The right to consent to disclosure of personally identifable ment chairperson and dean of school before registering at another information contained in the student’s education records, except college or university to ensure that the course will be transferable. to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent. Please see pages 23, 37, 53, 77 and 116 for more detailed One exception, which permits disclosure without consent, is information about transfer credit. disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational inter- HEALTH ests. A school official is a person employed by The Cooper Union The Cooper Union requires a report of a physical examination in an administrative, supervisory, academic, research or support from a licensed physician of the student’s choice. The Cooper staff position; a person or company with whom The Cooper Union Union will provide its own medical form for this purpose and the contracted (such as attorney, auditor or collection agent); a form must be completed in its entirety. This report must include a person serving on the Board of Trustees or a student serving on an record of vaccinations and immunizations. In addition, New York official committee (such as a disciplinary or grievance committee) state law requires that students respond to a query concerning or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks. whether or not they have been immunized against meningitis. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official The college reserves the right to exclude from attendance needs to review an education record in order to fulfll his or her at any time—temporarily or permanently—any student whose professional responsibility. 4) The right to fle a complaint with physical or emotional condition is such that, in the opinion of the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by an appropriate medical officer, attendance would endanger the The Cooper Union to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The health or welfare of other students and/or members of the Cooper name and address of the Office that administers FERPA is: Family Union community or otherwise disrupt the educational environ- Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education; 400 ment. A student whose attendance at the Cooper Union has been Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20202-5901. interrupted by a dismissal or extended leave of absence—for any reason—needs to submit new medical records before he or she resumes attendance. Likewise, students continuing on to the graduate program at Cooper Union must submit new medical forms at the time of beginning graduate study. 24 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Vaccination and Immunization New York State law requires that Students are asked to provide this information by July 15 of the all undergraduate and graduate students be immunized against year they enter The Cooper Union. measles, mumps and rubella. The law applies to all students born Health Insurance The Cooper Union requires all students to on or after January 1, 1957. submit proof that they have health insurance prior to registra- Proof of immunity consists of: tion. Students who fail to supply the information requested on • Measles: Two doses of live measles vaccine administered after the Student Accident and Sickness Insurance Enrollment/Waiver 12 months of age, physician documentation of measles disease Form before August 15 will billed for the Cooper Union Student or a blood test showing immunity. The exact date of these shots Accident and Sickness Insurance at a cost of $1,200 for the in month-day-year format must be written on the form and certi- 2014–15 academic year. fied by the physician. • Mumps: One dose of live mumps vaccine administered after LEAVE OF ABSENCE 12 months of age, physician documentation of mumps disease Discretionary Leave of Absence Students who have completed or a blood test showing immunity. The New York State Assembly at least one year of study may request an interruption of their is currently considering a proposal to require two mumps shots. studies for a Discretionary Leave of Absence. The request must • Rubella: One dose of live rubella vaccine administered after 12 be submitted, in writing, to the student’s academic dean or asso- months of age or a blood test showing immunity. ciate dean. A Discretionary Leave of Absence for up to one year (2 Proof of immunity, including dates of immunizations, must be semesters) with an automatic guarantee of reinstatement may be fled with the Office of Student Servicesprior to each student’s granted to students in good academic standing who are making initial registration at The Cooper Union. Students who claim a reli- satisfactory progress toward their degree. gious objection to being immunized must send a signed letter A request for a Discretionary Leave beginning in the fall attesting to this fact to the dean of students by July 15. semester must be made before April 15th. A request for a Discre- tionary Leave beginning in the spring semester must be made before Students may not attend any events on campus, including November 15th. Approval for a Discretionary Leave is neither classes and orientation programs, without having submitted automatic nor guaranteed. Before taking such a leave, all fnan- these forms. cial obligations to the Cooper Union must be satisfed. Students on aca­demic leave do not have access to the facilities of The Cooper Meningitis Status New York State Public Health Law Section Union. 2167 requires colleges to distribute information about meningo- Returning from a Discretionary Leave Students on a Discre- coccal disease and vaccination to all enrolled students. tionary Leave must notify, in writing, their academic dean of their Meningitis is rare; however, cases of meningitis among intention to return at least four (4) weeks prior to the registration young adults have more than doubled since 1991. When the period for the semester of their intended return. The dean must disease strikes, its flu-like symptoms make diagnosis difficult. notify the registrar to reactivate the student record. If not treated early, meningitis can lead to swelling of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal seizures, limb amputation and Medical Leave of Absence A student who must interrupt his/her even death. studies for medical reasons must submit a written request for a Medical Leave of Absence to his/her academic dean along with The Cooper Union is required to maintain a record of the following supporting documentation, which must include a letter from the for each student: treating health care provider. • A response to the receipt of meningococcal disease and vaccine Returning from Medical Leave A student on a Medical information signed by the student or the student’s parent or Leave of Absence must notify his/her academic dean of his/her guardian, AND EITHER intention to return at least eight (8) weeks prior to the semester • A record of meningococcal meningitis immunization within the of the student’s intended return. The student must also provide past 10 years, OR a letter from his/her treating health care provider that he/she is • An acknowledgement of meningococcal disease risks and ready and able to return to school. The dean must notify the regis- refusal of meningococcal meningitis immunization signed by the trar to reactivate the student record. student or the student’s parent. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 25

Compulsory Medical Leave of Absence The Cooper Union seeks Academic Leadership team and one other officer of The Cooper to foster a safe and peaceful campus environment (including, but Union and will be held no sooner than fve (5) days after the letter not limited to its classrooms, laboratories, studios, shops, and is sent to the student. If necessary, the student may request dormitories) that nurtures its students’ well-being and allows accommodations (e.g., modifcations to policies, practices, or them to focus on their studies. procedures; the need for an auxiliary aid or service) to participate The professional degree programs at The Cooper Union are in the hearing. At this hearing, the student may submit additional exceptionally rigorous courses of study that require a student’s medical records and/or other appropriate information/documen- full commitment of time and effort and involve collaborative work in tation. The hearing officers will decide whether to accept the shared studios and laboratories. Additionally, in light of the highly recommendation, reject it, or modify it and will inform the student specialized technical skills needed to run equipment in its shops within 24 hours of their decision, in writing. The hearing will be and laboratories, The Cooper Union has the highest concern for digitally recorded. safety on its premises and has appointed staff and faculty to A student may be temporarily suspended from the institu- supervise these facilities. Such concerns are carefully balanced tion prior to this hearing. with the institution’s historic commitment to student rights. A student may be placed on compulsory medical leave If a staff or faculty member notifes the student’s academic for either a semester or a year, depending on the nature of the dean that a student’s conduct, actions or statements indicate circumstances of the leave, submitted medical documenta- that the student: (i) poses a threat of harm to the safety of others tion, and the student’s academic program. Students placed on (either directly or through an inability to safely perform any compulsory medical leave will be asked to provide an evaluation necessary functions as a student); and/or (ii) is engaged (or may from a physician of Cooper Union’s choosing attesting to their engage) in behavior or conduct that is disrupting the academic medical readiness to resume their studies, with or without accom- experience of others on campus, the dean will promptly assess modation. such concerns and determine whether there is a problem, the Appeal Process A student who has been the subject of a hearing nature, duration and severity of the problem, and the probability under these procedures may appeal the decision of the hearing that such harm or disruption may occur. The academic dean committee within 3 business days by writing a letter to the vice or the dean of students will promptly meet with the student to president for fnance, administration & treasurer/equal opportu- analyze the situation. If a medical situation is involved, the student nity officer or academic dean setting forth the reasons why the may be asked to provide medical information from a healthcare appeal is being made. The vice president will convene an Appeal provider in order to clarify the situation as necessary. Considering Board within 3 days of receiving the appeal letter. The board will all the information, the dean will determine if a problem exists consist of the vice president or her designee and one member of and, if so, whether a reasonable modifcation of policies, prac- the Presidential Leadership Team who was not involved in any tices or procedures or the provision of auxiliary aids or services way in the prior hearing. The Appeal Board shall limit its review can appropriately mitigate the problem. If so, following such an to these issues: accommodation/modifcation, the student will be permitted to • does the record show that the party had a full and fair opportu- continue with his/her studies. At any point during the investigative nity to present his or her case? process, the student will have the right to take voluntary medical • does the solution imposed achieve the proper balance between leave of absence following the procedure stated above. maintaining a safe and peaceful campus environment and respecting If an accommodation/modifcation cannot sufficiently alle- the rights of the student to continue his or her education? viate the risk/disruption to allow the student to remain actively After considering the record and the letter of appeal, the enrolled, and the student is not able or willing to take a voluntary Appeal Board may: medical leave of absence, the academic dean may recommend • Accept the decision of the hearing committee; to the Academic Leadership Team that the student be placed on • Order a new hearing in keeping with the Appeal Board’s compulsory medical leave of absence. The student will be sent instructions; a letter notifying him or her of the dean’s recommendation for a • Reverse the hearing committee’s decision in its entirety; compulsory medical leave of absence, the basis for such a recom- • Accept the hearing committee’s decision but modify the solution. mendation, and inviting the student to a hearing on this matter. If the Appeal Board accepts the decision of the hearing committee, This hearing—granting the student the opportunity to respond to whether or not it modifes the terms of the compulsory medical this recommendation—will be conducted by one member of the leave, the matter shall be deemed fnal. 26 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Policy on Copyrighted Material IT Department Responsibilities In order to receive a Cooper Copyright Infringement The Cooper Union is obligated by federal Union computer account, a student is required to sign a document law to inform its students of its policies and sanctions related to provided by the IT Department in which they promise to respect copyright infringement. Unauthorized distribution of copyrighted the rights of copyright holders. While the IT Department does not material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer fle sharing (e.g., monitor its networks for content, it may monitor the volume of use using BitTorrent to obtain/distribute music or movies) may subject (bandwidth) for any computer on its networks. A student who is students to civil and criminal liability, sanctions arising from a using excessive bandwidth may have his or her Internet access violation of The Cooper Union’s Code of Fair Practice, and loss of reduced or terminated. Internet services provided by the Cooper Union IT Department. Students should be aware that representatives of copyright holders routinely search the Internet for infringers, resulting in The basics of copyright law may be found at numerous websites, lawsuits being fled against students. Such lawsuits may be very including those of many universities whose policies relating to expensive to settle. Copyright holders have frequently fled notices of copyright infringement generally and fle sharing in particular are copyright violations directly with The Cooper Union, which requires similar to The Cooper Union’s policy: the school to take immediate action to eliminate infringement. uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/copyright/copyrightrefresher.htm The IT Department advises against installing and/or leaving deanofstudents.utexas.edu/lss/spot_illegalflesharing.php file sharing programs on any computer attached to a Cooper copyright.gov/title17/ Union network. While there are legitimate reasons for using such Fair Use A limitation on copyright protection is known as programs (e.g., the distribution of non-copyrighted software), by “fair use.” Permission of a copyright holder is not required (i.e., operating “silently” they may put the owner of the computer in the there is no copyright infringement) where the use is for noncom- position of distributing infringing fles, and being liable for such mercial activities such as teaching (including multiple copies distribution, even though he or she has no intent of doing so. for classroom use), scholarship, research, studio work, criti- cism, comment, or news reporting. [Note that while “teaching” Policy on Religious Observances No student shall be refused activities may qualify as fair use, the doctrine of fair use has a admission to or be expelled from The Cooper Union solely because requirement relating to the “amount and substantiality” of the he/she is unable to participate in any examination, study or work copyrighted work that does not permit, for example, the copying requirement because of religious observances and practices. It and distribution of an entire copyrighted textbook to a class.] is the intent of The Cooper Union to accommodate reasonably The routine use of fle sharing programs to obtain music, individual student and faculty religious obligations and prac- movies and software does not constitute fair use. For more infor- tices without penalty, based on good faith effort and due notice mation on fair use see: copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html to those relevantly concerned of the anticipated religious obser- Code of Conduct In addition to the sanctions for copyright vance date. There is a mutual obligation of students and faculty infringement provided by federal law, The Cooper Union’s Code of to provide prior notice to each other of anticipated absences. Conduct explicitly prohibits: Students absent because of religious observances and practices • “illegally duplicating copyrighted or licensed software” (Cate- will be given the opportunity to make up any examination, study or gory B offense). work requirement missed without penalty. • “any unauthorized use of network and/or computer hardware” Bicycle Policy As of September 27, 2010 Cooper Union has (Category B offense). 24 indoor bicycle parking spaces (for non-folding bicycles) for A violation of copyright law might also be viewed as an act of faculty, staff and students of the Cooper Union only. The parking academic dishonesty or fraud, which are Category A offenses and facility is located in the lower level of the Foundation building. punishable by suspension or dismissal. Access to the parking facility is as follows: • To determine if there are spaces available, check the sign at the entrance to the Foundation Building. The security desk in the Foundation Building will have serial-numbered tags equal to the number of spaces available in the parking facility at that time. • To obtain a tag you must show valid Cooper ID and sign in. • The security guard will give you the tag which must be locked or chained to your bicycle at all times the bicycle is in the building. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 27

• You must return the tag and sign out when you leave the building. In the event that bicycles are stolen on campus, members • When there are no more tags at the security desk, there is no of the Cooper Union community should report the incident to more indoor parking and your bicycle must remain outside. the Office of Buildings and Grounds. In addition, members of • You must use the square elevator to reach the lower level and to the Cooper Union community are also encouraged to report the return to street level. You may not use the stairs or the round elevator. incident to the local Police Precinct (212.477.7811). The Cooper • No more than three bicycles may be in the elevator at the same time. Union is not responsible for lost or stolen personal belongings, • You must lock your bicycle and tag to the bike rack. including bicycles. • No overnight parking—bicycles must be removed when the Policy on Smoking In accordance with the New York City Clean building closes. (Except when there is 24 hour building access.) Indoor Act, as amended, and New York State Public Health Law • Failure to follow these guidelines will result in termination of an Article 13-E, the following Smoking Policy is effective at The individual’s access to indoor bicycle parking. Cooper Union September 1, 2009: • If a bicycle is found in any other part of the building, or in any Smoking is prohibited at all times in all college owned other building on campus, it will be removed without prior notice buildings, including but not limited to auditoriums, classrooms, to the owner. laboratories, offices and public areas and the Student Residence • Harassing security or any other Cooper employee regarding Hall. Furthermore, smoking is not permitted within 25 feet from a access to the facility will result in termination of an individual’s Cooper Union facility entrance. access to indoor bicycle parking. This smoking policy is intended to keep the air clear of THE BICYCLE POLICY IMPLEMENTED IN SEPTEMBER 2009 smoke for those within our facilities and for those entering and REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OTHER BICYCLES. leaving Cooper Union owned buildings. The Cooper Union encourages the use of the bicycle as a viable The Cooper Union requests and expects your cooperation mode of transportation to and from campus. To ensure the and assistance in the implementation and enforcement of the safety of our faculty, students and staff, and taking into account smoking prohibition. Those who do not comply with this policy the college’s space constraints, the following bicycle policy was will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including fnes implemented September 1, 2009. and/or expulsion from the college, or termination of employment. Bicycles that do not fold are not permitted in the Founda- Complaints against persons represented by a labor organization tion Building, 41 Cooper Square, the Residence Hall or 30 Cooper will be handled in a manner that is consistent with the applicable Square. Nor are loose bicycle tires permitted in these buildings. collective bargaining unit. Folding bicycles, which must be covered prior to entering the Conflicts related to smoking among employees should be building, may be stored in offices or lockers. Folding bicycles brought to the attention of appropriate supervisory personnel and, stored in lockers must ft within the locker such that locker doors if necessary, referred to the equal opportunity officer. To report an remain closed. Bicycles found in public spaces such as studios, incident concerning violation of this policy, please send a written hallways, laboratories and lounges will be removed. Violators report to the director of facilities management. of this policy will be subject to disciplinary action and will be Students alleged to be in violation of the policy are subject to responsible for any assessed damages. Violations by persons disciplinary action through the appropriate student conduct juris- represented by a labor organization will be handled in a manner diction. consistent with the applicable collective bargaining agreement. In accordance with the law, any individual can voice objec- Bicycles may be parked outdoors only in those areas which tions to smoke that gathers in any smoke-free area without fear have been specifically designated for this purpose. A bicycle of retaliation. parking area is indicated by the presence of bicycle racks. Bicycles may not be parked in a way which would impede access to a building entrance or exit. No bicycle may be parked at any entrance, exit or access ramp to any Cooper Union owned building. 28 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Policy on Alcoholic Beverages and Illegal Drugs The Cooper Serving Alcohol Union strictly adheres to all local, state and federal laws relating 1. The serving of hard liquor is not permitted. to the use, possession or illegal manufacture of drugs and alcohol 2. The Cooper Union has a New York State Liquor Authority permit on its premises or at any official college-sponsored event. Viola- for the serving of wine and beer at student events. Such serving will tors may be subject to prosecution in accordance with federal, be limited to those persons who can prove attainment of the state or municipal law and are subject to The Cooper Union minimum legal drinking age in New York State of 21 years. To facilitate disciplinary proceedings as outlined in The Code of Conduct. On quick identifcation of students of legal age at the point of service, a campus, students over the age of 21 may consume alcohol only process of carding that requires the presentation of a Cooper Union in the context of official campus events where there is a security ID will be carried out by a security guard available solely for that guard present to check IDs. Alcohol may not be carried from the purpose and paid for by the student sponsors either through allo- room in which it is served. Student groups recognized by the Joint cated JAC funds, or, in the case of student exhibitions, by the student Activities Committee and approved for a budget line for serving exhibitors. There are no exceptions to this requirement. alcohol must apply for an alcohol permit and follow The Cooper 3. Sponsors of events have the primary responsibility for ensuring Union’s procedures listed at the end of this section. that only those of legal drinking age are served alcohol. Sponsors must include at least two persons 21 years of age or older, and NEW YORK STATE LAW REGARDING ALCOHOL they must sign the required alcoholic beverage permit. Before Section 65 of the New York State Alcohol Beverage Control authorization to hold an event can be given, all student sponsors Law states: must undergo an orientation with the dean of students or a desig- “No person shall sell, deliver, give away or cause or permit to be nated representative of the Office of Student Services. sold, delivered or given away any alcoholic beverages to: 4. Such events must include the serving of food, in sufficient amount for the numbers attending, and the displaying of a variety • Any person, actually or apparently, under the age of twenty-one of non-alcoholic beverages must be featured as prominently as (21) years; alcoholic beverages and dispensed in the same area. • Any visibly intoxicated person; 5. The promotion of alcohol in advertisements for events is not • Any habitual drunk.” permitted. Other aspects of the event such as entertainment or In addition, legislation enacted in November 1991 specifes that food should be emphasized in the advertisements. a U.S. or Canadian driver’s license or non-driver’s identifcation 6. The serving of alcoholic beverages should be discontinued at card, a valid passport or an identification card issued by the approximately one hour before the end of the event. United States Armed Forces must be used as written evidence 7. Event sponsors must not only refuse to serve alcoholic bever- of age for the purchase of alcoholic beverages. New York State ages to anyone who appears intoxicated, but also must provide law also prohibits the possession of alcoholic beverages with the appropriate assistance to such persons. Assistance may include, intent to consume by a minor and penalizes the use of a fraudu- but is not limited to, providing safe transportation arrangements lent proof of age to procure alcohol. Social host liability may be for intoxicated guests and arranging for medical help. imposed on any person who serves alcohol to a minor. 8. State law requires that a U.S. or Canadian driver’s license or non-driver identifcation card, a valid passport or an ID issued by Procedures for Use in Serving Alcoholic Beverages at Student the U.S. Armed Forces must be used as written evidence of age Events/Exhibitions: Student groups recognized by the Joint for procuring alcoholic beverages. Activities Committee must frst apply for and be approved for 9. The amount of alcohol permitted shall reflect the number of a budget for their event. No later than two weeks before the students over 21 years of age expected at the event, as approved by approved event, two members of the student group must apply the dean of students, and in no case shall exceed two kegs of beer. for an alcohol permit from the dean of students and complete arrangements to hire security guards. These student sponsors must sign an agreement to follow the rules listed below: 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 29

Exhibitions CAMPUS SECURITY AND SAFETY Students who wish to serve alcohol in connection with a student The Cooper Union has been fortunate in maintaining an atmo- exhibition opening should consult the appropriate academic sphere where serious criminal activities have not occurred. Our dean for the policies and procedures to follow, including ordering goal remains to encourage the integrity, honesty and responsi- a guard. The following rules apply to all exhibitions where alcohol bility of each individual student to maintain an atmosphere of is served. harmony and mutual respect. 1. The serving of hard liquor is not permitted. Every incident of behavior that seems inconsistent with 2. Alcohol service will be permitted at student receptions only our philosophy and principles of safety and security should be when the student presenters are over 21 years of age. In the case reported to appropriate campus authorities. The guards in the of a group presentation the majority of students must be over 21. lobby of each building should be notified immediately of any 3. The Cooper Union has a New York State Liquor Authority permit emergencies. Depending on the circumstances, it may also be for the serving of wine and beer at student events. Such serving appropriate to call the police at 911. will be limited to those persons who can prove attainment of the Students and staff should also fle an incident report with minimum legal drinking age in New York State of 21 years. To either the Office of the Director of Facilities Management or with facilitate quick identifcation of students of legal age at the point the Office of Student Services. Such reports help The Cooper of service, a process of carding that requires the presentation of Union respond to breaches in security. The director of facilities a Cooper Union ID will be carried out by a security guard avail- management maintains a daily log of such incidents. This log is able solely for that purpose and paid for by the student exhibitors. available for inspection in room 111, 41 Cooper Square. There are no exceptions to this requirement. When appropriate, information about such incidents shall be 4. Such events must include the serving of food, in sufficient disseminated to the community as a whole via fliers or memoranda. amount for the number attending, and the displaying of a variety The Campus Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of non-alcoholic beverages must be featured as prominently as of 1990 requires colleges and universities to make available to alcoholic beverages and dispensed in the same area. all current students and employees and to all applicants for 5. The promotion of alcohol in advertisements for events is not enrollment or employment statistics concerning the prevalence permitted. of certain types of crime on campus and in the neighborhood. 6. Event sponsors must not only refuse to serve alcoholic bever- These statistics are published annually in the Campus Safety, ages to anyone who appears intoxicated, but also must provide Security and Fire Safety Report available on the Cooper Union appropriate assistance to such persons. Assistance may include, website and from the Office of Student Services, 29 Third Avenue, but is not limited to, providing safe transportation arrangements 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003. Crime statistics are available for intoxicated guests and arranging for medical help. online at http://opc.ed.gov/security. 7. State law requires that a U.S. or Canadian driver’s license or non-driver identifcation card, a valid passport or an ID issued by the U.S. Armed Forces must be used as written evidence of age for procuring alcoholic beverages. 8. The amount of alcohol served at a student reception shall not exceed 48 (12 oz.) cans or bottles of beer or 12 (750 ml.) bottles of wine. 30 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

CODE OF CONDUCT 4. Undermining campus safety by setting off false fre alarms, discharging fre extinguishers, tampering with security systems, Preamble: As an educational community, The Cooper Union or ignoring the instructions of security guards or studio monitors. affirms the freedom of its students to pursue their scholarly, 5. Possessing or introducing dangerous weapons to campus in artistic and intellectual interests. The Cooper Union has devel- the manner prohibited in the Weapons Policy. oped policies to safeguard this freedom and to maintain an envi- 6. Violations of campus alcohol policy that result in injury or ronment conducive to academic endeavor. These rules are not damage to property or undermine the safety and security of the intended to replace federal, state or municipal laws. All Cooper campus community, including acts of hazing. Union students are responsible for upholding such laws, and any 7. Acts of fraud. Some examples of these acts, but not limited violation of law may result in disciplinary action being taken by The to the following, are: misrepresentation, falsifying records or Cooper Union. documents, assuming the identity of another person, or furnishing In addition to the Standards of Conduct defned below, students fraudulent information. are bound by the rules of their individual school or program, and 8. Acts of theft or vandalism (including graffiti) against the any rules regarding the use of the facilities or equipment at The property of another student, guest, staff or faculty member or Cooper Union, including, but not limited to, classrooms, the against the property of Cooper Union itself. library, the Great Hall, the Student Residence, the Computer 9. Reckless behavior involving the interior or exterior struc- Center, laboratories, shops, studios, and other facilities. tures of campus buildings. Some examples of these acts, but not The Cooper Union has established separate policies, limited to the following, are climbing the grid of 41 Cooper Square, published elsewhere, to adjudicate claims of academic dishon- hanging over terrace balustrades, and accessing the roof of the esty, and claims of discrimination or harassment against a Student Residence. protected class (e.g., race, sex, and disability). For these categories of violation, the sanction will ordinarily The Cooper Union reserves the right to modify and/or amend be suspension or dismissal. In some cases, the Presidential Right this Code at any time it deems necessary and in accordance with of Summary Suspension will be invoked. applicable laws. Category B The purpose and ideals of The Cooper Union depend, for their full achievement, on respect, cooperation and integ- Part One: Student Rights rity among members of the community. The Cooper Union has Students have certain rights established by federal, state or local adopted the following rules of behavior in the interests of main- statutes or under institutional policy. Among these rights, but not taining an orderly atmosphere. limited to these alone, are: 1. At all reasonable times, a student shall comply with a The freedom to engage in free discussion, inquiry and expression. request for identifcation from an employee or security guard of The freedom of access to public records. The Cooper Union. The freedom of association. 2. Students will respect the building hours and will leave the Freedom from assault. premises at the appropriate time. The right to express views on issues of institutional policy. 3. Students will cooperate with the staff supervising the facili- Freedom of the press. ties of The Cooper Union. Freedom from discrimination on the basis of age, race, religion, 4. Except for actions protected under state or federal law or sex, color, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, the institutional governances, a student may not willfully obstruct or any other legally protected characteristic. or disrupt any authorized activities on college premises or other Freedom from discriminatory or sexual harassment. Cooper Union activities, including its public service functions. Freedom from improper academic evaluation. 5. A student may not engage in libel or slander. 6. A student may not be involved in acts that cause physical or Part Two: Standards of Conduct for Students psychological harm. Category A The Cooper Union finds the following violations 7. A student may not consume, buy, sell, borrow, possess, lend extremely serious and subject to the highest penalties: or give as a gift any drug, narcotic, or alcoholic beverage in such 1. Physical assaults resulting in injury, including sexual assaults. a way that would be a violation of any local, state or federal law or 2. The sale of drugs in a manner that violates federal or state law. the institutional alcohol policy. 3. Possession of drugs, as defned as a felony, under state or federal law. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 31

8. When a student has a guest on campus, the appropriate Part Four: The Cooper Union Student Judicial Committee guest procedures must be followed, and the student is respon- 1. Jurisdiction. The Student Judicial Committee of the Joint sible for the conduct of his or her guest and for any damages Student Council shall have jurisdiction of all matters involving an caused by that guest. alleged violation of the Standards of Conduct stated above. 9. The use of the computer and network facilities is for the 2. Membership. Each student council shall elect two repre- purpose of supporting the educational experience at The Cooper sentatives and two alternates to the Student Judicial Committee Union. Unauthorized or inappropriate use of these facilities is and one representative and one alternate to the Judicial Appeals prohibited. Misuse may include, but is not limited to, damaging or Committee. Student Judicial Committee members must be altering records or programs; invading the privacy of other users elected to the Joint Student Council with plurality and cannot be by using or manipulating directories, fles, programs or passwords; on probation for academic reasons or have been issued a sanction engaging in disruptive behavior; illegally duplicating or copyrighted by the Student Judicial Committee. Judicial panels shall ordinarily or licensed software; using the facilities in support of a commer- be chosen from members of the Student Judicial Committee; cial concern or venture or any unauthorized use of network and/or however, any member of the Joint Student Council eligible to serve computer hardware, software, accounts or passwords. on the Student Judicial Committee can serve on a judicial panel 10. A student may not gamble for money or other valuables if necessary. while on the campus of The Cooper Union. 3. General Rules. Proceedings conducted by the Student Judi- 11. A student may not threaten members of the Student Judicial cial Committee are completely independent of any civil or crim- Committee or attempt to tamper with witnesses to the Student inal proceeding and may occur simultaneously with such court Judicial Committee. action. The Student Judicial Committee is administrative, rather 12. A student may not smoke within any Cooper Union building than criminal or civil, in nature. The standard of proof applied or within 20 feet of the entrance to any Cooper Union building. by the Student Judicial Committee shall be “preponderance of the evidence.” Judicial Panels do not use technical rules of Category C: Other Complaints. The Student Judicial Committee evidence. Committee members may take notice of any matter in may also consider complaints that are not delineated under Cate- the common experience of Cooper Union students. gory A or Category B above, provided that the person against Before calling a Judicial Panel, the dean of students shall whom the complaint is made is notifed in writing as to whether review the list of eligible panelists for possible prejudice with the the proceeding will follow the rules of Category A or Category B, complainant and the person being accused. The dean of students delineated below. shall notify the members of the Judicial Panel as to the time and date of the hearing. This does not preclude the dean of students Part Three: Presidential Right of Summary Suspension. from acting as witness, if necessary. Subject to prompt review, the president of The Cooper Union may Representatives to the Student Judicial Committee may also summarily suspend a student from the college when, in his or her serve as mediators in informal hearings. best judgment, such immediate action is necessary for protecting All hearings shall be considered confdential except when the health and safety of the college and/or any member of the applicable law mandates disclosure to the community; the college community. The president will consult with the student’s complainant, however, shall have the right to be notifed as to the academic dean prior to such action, if time permits. Any person result of the hearing. so suspended shall have all the rights as outlined in The Code of Every student charged under The Code of Conduct shall Conduct. Summary Suspensions must be reviewed by a judicial be presumed not to have violated The Code of Conduct until the panel within seven regular business days of the suspension. Until Judicial Panel arrives at its decision. and unless the accused is found to have violated the Standards of If, because of a disability, a student participating in the any Conduct, his/her status as a member of the Cooper Union commu- stage of the hearings (or subsequent appeals process) in any nity shall not be altered. Any person so suspended shall have the capacity requires a modifcation to policies, practices, or proce- right, if the suspension is not upheld, to excused absences from all dures, and/or an auxiliary aid or service the student should submit classes and examinations during the suspension period. such a request in writing to the dean of students at least fve days prior to the scheduled start of the hearing so that the request can be appropriately assessed prior to the start of the hearing. 32 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

4. Judicial Panels for Category A Violations. For a Category A Part Six: Procedures for Conducting Hearings offense, the Judicial Panel shall be a subcommittee of the Student 1. The Judicial Panel shall elect one of its members to be chair- Judicial Committee drawing one representative from each student person and to preside over the hearing. The person presiding shall council plus any two administrative officers of The Cooper Union. exercise control over the proceedings to avoid needless consump- The associate dean of the school in which the student charged tion of time and to achieve orderly completion of the hearing. in the complaint is registered shall ordinarily be invited to partic- Any person who disrupts a hearing, including the parties to the ipate as one of the administrative officers on the Judicial Panel complaint, may be excluded by the person presiding. in the Category adjudication. Persons charged with a Category A 2. The failure of the student charged to appear at the stated offense have the right to a representative of his or her choice at time and place shall constitute a waiver of the right to a hearing. his or her expense, but the representative’s role will be limited to The complainant shall have the option of not appearing at providing support to the person being charged. Cooper Union may the hearing; however, a complainant cannot selectively attend also appoint a lawyer to such committee to serve as an adviser to portions of the hearing but must follow the instructions of the committee members. the chairperson. 5. Judicial Panels for Category B Violations. For a Category B 3. Any person being charged, having appeared at the hearing, offense, the Judicial Panel shall be a subcommittee of three from shall have the right to contest the acceptance into the record of the Student Judicial Committee, generally one representative any evidence presented in support of the charges. from each school. 4. Each party shall have the right to summon witnesses, A Judicial Panel formed under the rules of Category B has provided that a list of these is presented to the dean of students the right to stop the hearing and request that the case be heard 72 hours prior to the hearing. The chairperson of the hearing shall instead under Category A Rules, so long as the parties are notifed have the right to exclude witnesses who appear to offer redundant and the Category A hearing is scheduled within 7 days. testimony. 5. Each party may question the other party’s witnesses, under Part Five: Procedures for Filing Charges the supervision of the chairperson. 1. Any member of the Cooper Union community may file a 6. The chairperson shall summon witnesses into the hearing written complaint about an infraction of the Standards of Conduct room and ask them to withdraw once they fnish testifying. by a student. Such complaint should be addressed to the Student 7. Hearings shall be taped on an audio recorder. Tapes shall be Judicial Committee and delivered to the Office of Student destroyed at the expiration of the appeal process. Services, 29 Third Avenue, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003, Atten- 8. After testimony is concluded, the panel shall come to a tion: Dean of Students. decision and present the decision in writing to the person being 2. A complaint must be made within 30 days of the alleged charged, either by hand or by mail to the last address given by infraction. the student. 3. The complaint must set forth the basic facts of the alleged 9. In the event of a disciplinary dismissal, the president shall infraction, including the date, time, and place in which the inci- review the recommendation before it is put into effect. dent occurred. 4. The dean of students will meet with the complainant to determine if the complaint can be resolved informally or through mediation. The penalties of warning, probation or loss of privileges may be meted out in these cases by the dean of students, with the agreement of all parties concerned. 5. Absent a successful resolution, the dean of students will schedule a hearing within 10 business days. S/he will notify the student being charged by letter of the charges, place and time of the hearing, and whether it will be conducted as a Category A or B hearing. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 33

Part Seven: Disciplinary Sanctions Part Eight: Appeal Process By majority vote, the Judicial Panel may impose any of the 1. Filing an Appeal. Any student found to have violated any of following sanctions. The Student Judicial Committee will retain the Standards of Conduct may appeal the decision of the Judi- a written copy of the sanction in its fle until the student perma- cial Panel within 4 business days by writing a letter to his or her nently separates from The Cooper Union. academic dean setting forth the reasons why the appeal is being 1. Warning. A warning in writing, in the case of a minor infrac- made. The dean will convene an Appeal Board within 5 days of tion, that further violation of the Standards of Conduct may result receiving the appeal letter. in a more severe disciplinary sanction. 2. Composition of the Appeal Board. The board will consist of 2. Loss of Privilege. In cases that involve breaking the rules of two students and one academic dean. Ordinarily, the academic a specifc facility, students may lose the privilege of using that dean and one of the students shall come from the same school facility on a temporary or permanent basis or have the hours of as the appellant. The remaining student shall be from one of the their use restricted. other schools. Alternates may replace student representatives A student who loses privileges may also be issued a warning and have full rights to vote on the appeal board. or higher penalty. 3. Limitations of the Authority of the Appeal Board. The Appeal 3. Behavioral Probation. A letter of censure given in instances Board shall limit its review to these issues: of more serious violations of the Standards of Conduct. Behavioral —does the record show that the party had a full and fair opportu- probation is a trial period in which a student who has been in diffi- nity to present his or her case? culty has the opportunity to demonstrate that he or she can be a —was the sanction imposed fair and proper in light of the infrac- responsible member of the community. The terms of the proba- tion proved? tion may be varied to ft the individual circumstances. 4. Decision of the Appeal Board. After considering the record 4. Suspension. Given in cases where it is judged that the and the letter of appeal, the Appeal Board may: student should be removed from the college community. This a. Accept the decision of the Judicial Panel; penalty is for a stated period of time, either one semester or one b. Return the case to the Student Judicial Committee for a year. A suspended student is prohibited from being on any Cooper further hearing in keeping with the Appeal Board’s instructions; Union premises during the period of the suspension without c. Reverse the Judicial Panel’s decision and dismiss the written authorization from the Office of the President. A notifca- case; tion of the suspension will be sent to the Office of Admission and d. Accept the Judicial Panel’s decision but reduce the Records, the Office of the President, and the Office of Buildings sanction. The sanction may not be increased. and Grounds as well as to the student’s academic dean. If the Appeal Board accepts the decision of the Judicial 5. Dismissal. Subject to the approval of the president of the Panel, whether or not it reduces the sanction, the matter shall be college before taking effect, a disciplinary dismissal involves deemed fnal. involuntary and permanent dismissal from the college. The pres- ident shall have the right to accept, reject or modify the proposed dismissal. The dismissal will be a permanent part of the student’s fle and will be noted on his or her transcript. 6. Other Actions. The Judicial Panel may impose other penal- ties that it deems appropriate to the infraction. Examples of such penalties are: fnancial restitution for damages or for medical expenses, letters of apology, community service work, etc. 7. Legal Action. The above listed penalties shall be in addi- tion to any penalties or liabilities pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, both civil and criminal. Cooper Union or its designee may, at its discretion, depending on the gravity of the violation, fle a criminal or civil complaint. Filing an action under this Code does not preclude the complainant from also filing a civil or criminal complaint. 34 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

MISSION STATEMENT The mission of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture is to provide for its students the finest professional education available within an intellectual environment that fosters and expands their creative capacities and sensibilities and establishes the founda- tion for a productive professional life. The school is committed to the belief that one of society’s prime responsibilities is toward learning and education in the deepest sense: that the exercise of individual creativity within a willing community is a profoundly social act. Fundamental to the mission of the school is the main- tenance of an atmosphere in which freedom of thought and explo- ration can flourish, where students can explore and utilize their special and individual talents, interests and modes of working, to their highest potential. THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 35

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE essential skills of drawing, model-making and design develop- PROFESSIONAL DEGREE CURRICULUM ment are complemented by a full investigation of the analytical and critical uses of digital technologies. The study of world archi- Aims and Objectives The School of Architecture offers a five-year tecture and urbanism is deepened by the understanding of indi- program leading to the bachelor of architecture, a first profes- vidual cultures, environmental and technological issues at every sional degree which is accredited by the NAAB. The architecture scale. The theory of the discipline, past and present, is investi- curriculum is designed to prepare students for a breadth of oppor- gated through the close analysis of critical texts and related to the tunities in the profession, offering a broad cultural and intellectual theory and practice of other arts, such as public art, film and foundation in the liberal arts as they relate to the design of the video. The position of the School of Architecture, together with the environment at all scales. The discipline of architecture inter- Schools of Art and Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities and preted as a cultural practice is seen as a basis for a fully-rounded Social Sciences, offers a unique opportunity for interaction and education at the undergraduate level. Students develop their interdisciplinary research and experience. knowledge and design skills within a framework of studios and The Cooper Union’s location in New York City in the heart of courses that stimulate research and debate into the nature and downtown Manhattan provides a stimulating professional, social role of architecture as a cultural practice with profound social and and cultural context for the education of an architect and an environmental implications. urban laboratory for the study of design in society. The numerous The content of the curriculum, based on a wide cultural view cultural institutions of the city provide an inexhaustible resource of architecture, reflects broad ethical values. Faculty-student for research and experience outside the studio and classroom. interaction is conducted on an intensive basis in the design studio The school’s faculty includes nationally and internationally recog- and other classes. Within this framework faculty members nized architects; the school’s diverse student body consists of encourage students to develop their individual interests and highly talented and motivated individuals and its distinguished strengths, with a constant stress on fundamentals and a basic alumni are leaders in architecture and related fields. commitment intended to equip the graduate with a lasting ability to produce an architecture that is a meaningful synthesis of the social, aesthetic and technological. The relationship between architecture and other creative disciplines is stressed through the five years. Students are encouraged to express themselves both verbally and visually. In a moment where the nature, role and scope of the archi- tect is rapidly assuming new directions and dimensions in both the social and technological domains, the school emphasizes the principles of design and their underlying human values, while preparing students to respond positively to change. The program seeks to engender a strong sense of the responsibilities of service and leadership, team-work and individual creativity essential to the development of principled professionals dedicated to inter- preting and constructing the spatial needs of the community. The five-year design sequence is carefully structured to introduce the student to the principles of architectonics, the investigation of program and site, structures and environmental and building technologies, in a comprehensive and integrated curriculum. The studios comprise an introduction to the basic elements of form, space and structure; complex institutional design problems in their urban context; and a year-long thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to synthesize a comprehensive understanding of architecture in society. The traditional and 36 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture offers a five-year program Minor Students who complete a minimum of 15 upper-division leading to the bachelor of architecture degree. The degree require- credits in a specifc feld of liberal arts may qualify for a minor in ments are intended to provide students with a rigorous training in that feld of humanities and social sciences. Minors are offered and exposure to the creative and technical aspects of architecture. and will be designated on student transcripts in the following The professional courses in the curriculum are supplemented and fields: American studies; art history; literature; history and enhanced by required courses both within and outside the discipline society. Additional information is available from the office of the of architecture. The requirements are as follows: dean of humanities and social sciences.

Credits Courses Sem 1 Sem 2 Accreditation First Year NAAB The National Architectural Accrediting Board mandates Arch 111 A-B Architectonics 4 4 that the following information be included in catalogs: In the Arch 114 A-B Freehand Drawing 3 3 Arch 115 A-B History of Architecture I 3 3 United States, most registration boards require a degree from Arch 118 A-B Computer Applications and Descriptive Geometry 2 2 an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for FA100R A-B Introduction to Techniques 1 1 licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), Arch 103-4 Calculus and Analytic Geometry 3 3 Freshman Seminar 3 - which is the sole agency authorized to accredit professional Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New - 3 degree programs in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. Total Credits First Year 19 19 regional accreditation, recognizes three types of degrees: the Second Year Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Arch 121 A-B Design II 5 5 Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted an eight-year, Arch 122 A-B Structures I 2 2 Arch 125 A-B History of Architecture II 3 3 three-year, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on the Ph 165-6 Concepts of Physics 2 2 extent of its conformance with established educational standards. The Making of Modern Society 3 - The Modern Context: Figures and Topics - 3 Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree Total Credits Second Year 15 15 programs may require a preprofessional undergraduate degree in Third Year architecture for admission. However, the preprofessional degree Arch 131 A-B Design III 5 5 is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree. Arch 132 A-B Structures II 2 2 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Arch 133 Introduction to Urban History and Theories - 2 Arch 134 A-B Environmental Technologies 3 3 Union offers the following NAAB-accredited degree programs: Arch 135 A-B Building Technology 2 2 Bachelor of Architecture (160 undergraduate credits). The next Electives* 4 2 accreditation visit for this program will be in 2016. Total Credits Third Year 16 16 The NAAB Conditions for Accreditation, including the Fourth Year Student Performance Criteria, and the NAAB Procedures for Arch 141 A-B Design IV 5 5 Arch 142 A-B Structures III 2 2 Accreditation are available on the NAAB website. Arch 143 A-B Construction Management 1 1 Conditions for Accreditation: Electives * 7 7 http://naab.org/accreditation/2014_Conditions Total Credits Fourth Year 15 15 Student Performance Criteria: Fifth Year Arch 151 A-B Thesis 6 6 http://naab.org/accreditation/2014_Conditions Arch 152 Structures IV 2 - (Part Two (II): Section 1) Arch 154 A-B Professional Practice 1 1 Procedures for Accreditation: Arch 205/225 Advanced Concepts/Topics 2 2 Electives * 4 6 http://naab.org/accreditation/2012_Procedures Total Credits Fifth Year 15 15 Total Credit Requirement for B.Arch. Degree 160

*The bachelor of architecture curriculum includes 32 credits of required coursework in general studies (non-professional coursework outside the discipline of architecture). In addition to general studies, students also complete 30 elective credits. The elective component can be fulflled by elective courses in subject areas such as architecture, humanities and social sciences, visual arts, mathematics, engineering, science and languages. Among the elective credits, at least six elective credits must be completed in humanities and social sciences. Additionally, a minimum of seven elective credits must be completed outside the discipline of architecture for a total of thirteen elective credits in general studies. THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 37

ACADEMIC STANDARDS A student must pass a sufficient number of credits each AND REGULATIONS semester to complete his or her degree requirements within five years of study. When dropping or adding courses, a student must Credits Only those students who are officially registered in a follow all degree requirements for their particular year of study. course (i.e., by approval of the dean of the School of Architecture The normal course load is 15–19 credits per semester. or a faculty adviser and notification of the Office of Admissions and Students are required to be registered for a minimum of 12 credits Records) will have grades and credits entered on their records. per semester. Failure to maintain satisfactory progress toward the degree may be grounds for dismissal. Satisfactory Progress Toward Degree The bachelor of architec- Students are eligible to register for more than 18 credits per ture degree program is a rigorous course of study that seeks to semester, but not more than 20, if they have received at least a prepare students intellectually and professionally for the inves- 3.0 rating for the previous semester. tigation and making of architecture. The privilege of studying at The Cooper Union, with the beneft of a 50% tuition scholarship Transfer Students When admitted, transfer students are offered for all admitted undergraduate students, brings with it important admission into a specifc year of the fve-year Design sequence. responsibilities. For students in the School of Architecture, these Placement in the Design sequence is a condition of the offer responsibilities include meeting the requirements of a demanding of admission and not subject to further review or appeal. By professional curriculum. All students who accept our offer accepting the offer of admission, the transfer student agrees to of admission are expected to fully commit themselves to this placement and acknowledges his/her anticipated graduation completing the degree requirements in accordance with the date. There is no opportunity for transfer students to accelerate curriculum, which has been designed with great attention through the required Design sequence. to sequence, prerequisites and the relationships between course Placement in the Design studio sequence is the only transfer work and the goals of each design studio. All classes that comprise credit evaluation made at the time of the offer of admission. Inde- the curriculum are essential to the education of an architect, and pendently of Design studio placement, transfer students must must be successfully completed by each student in the year fulfll all of their B.Arch degree requirements either through and sequence intended. Students admitted as freshmen transfer credit or by completing required and elective coursework will complete the program in five years; transfer students will here. Transfer credit evaluation for required and/or elective course- complete the program in accordance with their placement in the work in the B.Arch curriculum, other than the Design studio, is the design sequence. responsibility of the individual transfer student. Transfer students Students who do not successfully complete required courses are required to have all other previous courses individually evalu- as outlined in the curriculum will not be permitted to advance to the ated for transfer credit. It may not be possible for transfer students next year of study until the missing requirement(s) is/are completed. to complete all academic coursework simultaneously with their Since make-up classes are not offered at The Cooper Union, Design studio requirements. It will be necessary for the matricu- missing requirements may need to be fulfilled through course- lating transfer student to successfully complete the design studio work taken outside The Cooper Union. The intention to complete to which he or she is admitted, as well as all subsequent studios, requirements outside The Cooper Union requires a meeting with as part of his or her degree requirements. The official academic the appropriate academic adviser or faculty member in order to transcript of a transfer student will be reviewed prior to the obtain advance approval of the potential substitute course, and student’s frst registration. This review will determine what, if any, to confrm the minimum grade required in order for transfer credit additional coursework may be eligible for transfer credit. to be awarded. It is the responsibility of the student to locate an Transfer Credit Incoming students who have completed college- eligible course at a college/university that allows part-time/summer level academic work outside The Cooper Union may be eligible to study; the approved course will be taken at the student’s expense. receive transfer credit. Approval of transfer credit will be made by Students making up courses in this manner will be permitted to the appropriate dean or faculty based on transcripts from other register for Cooper Union classes in September only after the schools and additional materials, including a course description, Office of Admissions and Records receives a transcript showing a course syllabus with topics and course requirements, a reading the successful completion of these courses. It is in the best list and any quizzes, examinations, papers or projects, etc., that interest of each student to complete their coursework here at demonstrate the level, content and requirements of the course, Cooper Union in conformance with the approved curriculum. as well as the student’s proficiency with the course topics. If 38 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

necessary, a profciency/placement exam may be administered W The student has received permission from the instructor and in certain subject areas. Transfer students must be prepared to the dean of the School of Architecture and has withdrawn from present these and other requested materials for each course for a course while passing the course requirements at the time of which transfer credit is sought. Transfer credit evaluation must be withdrawal. This permission must be obtained before the end of completed by the end of the first semester of study. the sixth week of the semester. The grade is not included in the Currently enrolled students who fnd it necessary to complete calculation of the student’s semester rating but remains on the degree requirements at another institution for transfer credit to The student’s transcript. (See Change of Program: Withdrawing from Cooper Union must have appropriate advance approval. a Course, page 39.) Students are not permitted to withdraw from Credit may be granted for work done at another institution by required classes. any student upon examination by the dean. This credit is to be WF The student has received permission from the dean of the recorded after satisfactory completion of one semester’s work at School of Architecture and the instructor and has withdrawn from The Cooper Union. a course while failing the course requirements at the time of with- drawal. This permission must be obtained before the end of the Grades used, with their numerical equivalents, are: A (4.0), A- sixth week of the semester. This grade is included in the calcu- (3.7), B+ (3.3), B (3.0), B- (2.7), C+ (2.3), C (2.0), C- (1.7), D+ lation of the student’s semester rating, its numerical equivalent (1.3), D (1.0), D- (.7), F (0). The assigned numerical equivalents is 0, and it remains on the student’s transcript. (See Change of are used in computing semester and annual ratings by multi- Program: Withdrawing from a Course, p.39.) plying the numerical equivalent of the grade for each subject by When appropriate, certain courses may be designated as the credits assigned to the subject. The sum of such multiplica- Pass/Fail courses. tions for all the subjects carried by a student is divided by the total Pass Requirements completed. This designation is not included credits carried by him/her for that period to determine the average in the calculation of the student’s semester rating. rating. Fail Failure to meet the minimum requirements of a course. This grade is included in the calculation of the student’s semester The official meanings for letter grades are as follows: rating; its numerical equivalent is 0. A Outstanding performance B Above average performance Academic Probation/Final Probation A semester rating below C Requirements satisfactorily completed 2.0 and/or a grade less than C in Architectonics, Design or Thesis D Minimum requirements met; passing but places a student on automatic probation and may be the basis for unsatisfactory final probation or dismissal, as determined by the Academic Stan- F Failure to meet the minimum requirements of a subject dards Committee. I The designation I indicates that the work of the course has The Academic Standards Committee meets following the not been completed and that assignment of a grade and credit end of the Fall and Spring semesters to review the academic has been postponed. An I designation is permitted only in cases records/status of students on automatic probation and, as nece- of illness (confirmed by a physician’s letter) or documentation of sary, final probation. These students will be informed of the other extraordinary circumstances beyond the student’s control. meeting in order to have the opportunity to appear before the The deadline for removal of an I designation will be deter- Committee. mined by the instructor and recorded at the time the designa- A student who receives a grade of C- or below in Architec- tion is given, but will not be later than two weeks after the start tonics, Design or Thesis may be required by the Academic Standards of the next semester. If the I is not removed within the set time Committee to repeat the studio. The student may also be removed limit, either by completing the work in the subject or by passing from automatic probation as determined by the Academic Stan- a reexamination, the I will automatically become an F unless the dards Committee. dean of the School of Architecture extends the time or the student A student who receives a grade of D+, D or D- in Architec- withdraws from school. tonics, Design or Thesis will be placed on automatic probation The designation of I will be granted only with the approval of and will be required to repeat the studio. The Academic Stan- the dean. dards Committee may place the student on fnal probation. The Academic Standards Committee may also set further academic and/or grade requirements for the student. THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 39

A student who receives an F in Architectonics, Design or Thesis Change of Program will be placed on fnal probation and will be required to repeat the Adding a Course A student is permitted to add a course only studio. The student will be required to receive a grade of C+ or during the frst week of a semester, during the drop/add period, better in the repeated class. A student who fails to meet this condi- and only with the dean’s approval. tion may be dismissed by the Academic Standards Committee. Adding a course after the drop/add period is not permitted A second probation may result in final probation or the dismissal even if the student has been attending the class. of the student as determined by the Committee. The Academic Dropping a Course A student may drop a course during the Standards Committee may place a student on final probation. frst week of the semester, during the drop/add period, with the A student placed on automatic probation may be subject to dean’s approval. A student who wishes to drop a course may be academic requirements as determined by the Academic Stan- required to add equivalent credits in another course as needed to dards Committee. maintain satisfactory progress towards the degree. A student on final probation who receives a semester rating A course dropped during the frst week of the semester will below 2.0 and/or a grade less than C in Architectonics, Design or be deleted from the transcript. Thesis at any point in the remainder of his or her academic career Withdrawing from a Course After the drop/add period a in the School of Architecture will be automatically and perma- student may withdraw from a course through the sixth week of the nently dismissed from The Cooper Union with a forfeit of the right semester, with the dean’s approval. If the student is passing the of appeal. Automatic dismissal on final probation unconditionally course at the time of withdrawal, a grade of W will appear on the and irrevocably terminates a student’s academic career in the transcript. If the student is failing the course at the time of with- School of Architecture. A student dismissed on fnal probation (or drawal, a grade of WF will be recorded. It is the student’s respon- permitted to withdraw on fnal probation) cannot apply or petition sibility to obtain the necessary permission from the school and to for readmission to the School of Architecture. notify the instructor in order to withdraw from a course. A student on probation may not be registered for more than Failure to attend a class does not constitute withdrawal; a 18 credits a semester. student who fails to attend a class without formally withdrawing Each student is responsible for his or her total accomplish- will earn a grade of F in the course. A student may not withdraw ment and for being continuously aware of the standards defined from a course to avoid receiving a failing grade. in the preceding paragraphs. Students whose work by mid A student is not permitted to drop or withdraw from a course semester indicates possible failure to meet the minimum stan- necessary to maintain satisfactory progress towards the degree. dards of a course, including excessive absences, may be so LEAVE OF ABSENCE informed and should arrange to meet with their respective faculty to address the matter in detail. Mandatory Leave of Absence A student’s academic record will A student must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 be reviewed by the Academic Standards Committee if it meets or better in order to graduate from the School of Architecture. any of the criteria for Academic Probation/Final Probation (see A student may not repeat any Design studio (or Architec- page 38 for more information). tonics and Thesis) more than once. If the student is permitted to continue, the student will do so Any student who fails Arch 151 (Thesis) twice will be as per the instructions of the Academic Standards Committee. A dropped automatically from the program. student who is required to repeat studio (Architectonics, Design Additional credits for any repeated Design studio (including or Thesis) may also be required to meet other conditions set by Architectonics or Thesis) do not count towards the 160 credits the Academic Standards Committee. If it is not possible for the required for the B.Arch degree. student to make signifcant progress towards the degree require- ments in the semester prior to repeating the studio course (as Change of Grade A change in an official grade of record cannot be determined by the Academic Standards Committee and/or the made by the dean of admissions and records without the express dean), the student will be placed on a mandatory leave of absence consent of the dean of the School of Architecture. The dean of for one semester and will resume his or her studies in the following admissions and records will automatically convert an I designa- semester by repeating the required studio and enrolling in other tion to an F if an official change of grade is not submitted within classes for a total registration of at least 12 credits. The student’s the two-week deadline after the start of the following semester. registration must be approved by the dean. Grade changes will not be accepted after one calendar year has elapsed from the completion of the course. 40 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Leave of Absence—Other See pages 24–25 for The Cooper Union’s MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE II regulations governing Discretionary Leave of Absence, Medical POST-PROFESSIONAL Leave of Absence and Compulsory Medical Leave of Absence. DEGREE CURRICULUM

Readmission Students who have withdrawn from the School of Aims and Objectives The Master of Architecture II post-profes- Architecture after having completed at least one year of study at sional degree program was launched in 2009 to extend the vision The Cooper Union must reapply to the school to be considered for and intellectual rigor of the undergraduate program and allow a readmission as a transfer applicant. further development of the school’s preeminent position in the Students who have withdrawn from school before they have education of architects. completed one year of study at The Cooper Union must reapply The Master of Architecture II is a design research, post-pro- through the freshman admission procedure. fessional degree open to applicants with a first professional Students who have been dismissed by the Academic Stan- degree in architecture (Bachelor of Architecture or Master of dards Committee or to whom the Academic Standards Committee Architecture I) from a program accredited by the NAAB or equiv- has given permission to withdraw in lieu of dismissal and are alent accrediting agency in another country. The program is eligible for readmission must apply within two years to the chair of intended for professionals who wish to continue in practice with the Academic Standards Committee before May 15 for admission higher research and design skills in those areas in which the in September and before November 15 for admission in January. program offers specialization. It additionally prepares those with They should be prepared to demonstrate a change from the frst professional degrees who wish to develop parallel careers in circumstances that warranted their dismissal. teaching and/or continue to engage in research toward an appro- Former students who have been dismissed by the Academic priate Ph.D. degree at another institution. Standards Committee or to whom the Academic Standards The program seeks to address modern and contemporary Committee has given permission to withdraw in lieu of dismissal issues in the practice and theory of architecture and urbanism, and who have been out of The Cooper Union for more than two incorporating considerations from history as well as the present years (four semesters) at the time of anticipated return must condition of globalization and the continual emergence of new apply through the regular admission procedure. If offered admis- scientifc developments and technologies. sion, previous Cooper Union credits earned may be evaluated for The program offers concentrations in one or a combination transfer credit. of three areas: theory, history and criticism of architecture, urban studies and technologies. Prospective students will declare their Residence A candidate for a degree must be enrolled and in resi- area(s) of concentration during the application process. Appli- dence during the entire academic year immediately preceding cants are required to complete a minimum of one year of work the granting of the degree. experience after obtaining their frst professional degree before Graduation To be eligible for graduation, a student must applying to the program. complete all curriculum requirements for the bachelor of archi- The design studio is a major component of the program; tecture degree program and must spend a minimum of four students from all three concentrations will work together on a semesters in full-time resident study at The Cooper Union. To be common program under the direction of a studio critic during the eligible for graduation with the Master of Architecture II, a student frst two semesters. Seminars will address issues particular to the must complete all curriculum requirements for the degree while concentrations as well as other topics making use of the interdis- in residence during three contiguous and consecutive semesters ciplinary resources offered by The Cooper Union. of study (Fall, Spring, Summer). Students are responsible for their total accomplishment and for being continuously aware of the standards for graduation. Graduation requirements as outlined in this catalog are guidelines that are subject to change. THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 41

Theory, History and Criticism of Architecture Considers Courses Credits questions concerning the theory and criticism of modernism Semester I (Fall) and contemporary architecture, the philosophy and aesthetics Arch 411 Graduate Research Design Studio I 6 of architecture, the mediatization of architecture and broader Arch 401 Proseminar 2 FA100R Introduction to Techniques 0 cultural and historical issues through the critical readings of texts, Seminar in concentration 2 the development of critical projects and a written thesis. Seminar out of concentration 2 Urban Studies Addresses issues central to the design, planning Total Credits First Semester 12 and development of cities and regions, including study of the Semester 2 (Spring) morphological, social and cultural effects of globalization; the Arch 412 Graduate Research Design Studio II 6 survival of local urban cultures; redevelopment of central cities, Arch 402 Thesis Research Tutorial 2 suburbs and exurbs; and issues specifc to New York and compar- FA100R Introduction to Techniques 0 Seminar in concentration 2 ative cities. Seminar out of concentration 2 Technologies Focuses on technological issues of architectural Total Credits Second Semester 12 design, representation, planning and production, such as the Semester 3 (Summer) impact of new information technologies, new materials and Arch 413 Graduate Thesis (written or studio) 6 manufacturing processes; hardware and software development; Total Credit Requirement for Master of Architecture II Degree 30 mapping and modeling techniques; and the technologies of fabri- cation as they influence new design strategies. This area focuses Thesis In April of the spring semester prior to advancing to Arch as well on the economic, ethical and technological dimensions 413 Thesis, each student will be required to present an elabora- and design potentialities of sustainability and developments in tion of his or her thesis topic and program for review and accep- new structural systems, materials and building assemblies. tance by the faculty. Final thesis presentations will be made Program Requirements All applicants to the Master of Architec- during the second week of September at the end of the student’s ture II program must 1) hold the professional degree of Bachelor year of study. of Architecture (B.Arch.), the professional degree of Master of Seminars Out of Concentration It is recommended that students Architecture (M.Arch. I) or an equivalent accredited professional register for courses originating in the graduate program (Arch degree in architecture from a foreign institution; and 2) have 482, Arch 483 and Arch 485) to satisfy their out-of-concentration completed a minimum of one year of work experience after seminar requirements. obtaining their frst professional architectural degree. The program Graduate courses in the Albert Nerken School of Engineering is structured to be completed in two full-time consecutive semes- as well as select upper level undergraduate elective courses could ters with a fnal thesis semester during the subsequent summer be made available to Master of Architecture II students with prior session. See the Academic Calendar and Holiday Schedule on permission from the student’s academic adviser and the indi- page 2 for information on the Fall and Spring semesters. The vidual course instructor. Undergraduate courses may be used to Summer semester runs from June-early September (after Memorial satisfy requirements for out-of-concentration coursework only. Day until the date of the Master of Architecture II fnal Thesis review and exhibition opening during the second week of September). NCARB/IDP The Cooper Union’s Master of Architecture II Final thesis presentations will take place during the second week of degree program is an NCARB-approved advanced degree September at the end of the student’s year of study. Graduate program that qualifes for IDP supplemental experience. students must complete all 30 credits of the Master of Architecture II http://www.ncarb.org/Experience-Through-Internships/IDP2- degree requirements in full-time contiguous resident study at The Experience-Settings/IDP2-Supplemental-Experience-Elective/ Cooper Union. Post-Professional-Degrees-Overview/Post-Professional-Degree- Programs.aspx 42 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY resource, in fact the meaning and purpose of education, lies in the community of teachers and students at the heart of an institu- Built upon Peter Cooper’s vision of education, The Cooper Union tion. Young minds flled with endless possibilities come searching from its inception has been dedicated to the highest ethical for a sanctuary in which they can be inspired, strengthened and standards. The School of Architecture, founded on principles of tempered by listening to and working with voices of wisdom, knowl- independent and exploratory thought, maintains that individual edge and experience. There is no higher calling for an educational creativity within a willing community is a profoundly social act. In institution than the stewardship and advocacy of this community. fostering a context of intellectual rigor, the program gives emphasis The particular modes of knowledge that form the discipline of to a broad spectrum of cultural and ethical concerns which are architecture are to a large extent embodied knowledge; they are of signifcance in the preparation of students for a professional acquired through a combination of intense study and present tense degree and their role in society as practicing professionals of intel- creativity. The education of an architect requires a studio culture ligence, creativity and integrity. that encourages the faculty and students to explore their creativity in teaching and learning, it requires crafting and maintaining an Authorship Acts of academic dishonesty are extremely serious evolving studio environment that cultivates the personal imagina- violations of both the spirit and the substance of this community. tion. Individual creativity within a willing community is a profoundly The Academic Standards Committee of the School of Architecture transformative act. As each moment contains the potential for will review acts of academic dishonesty including cheating, plagia- reinvention, “school” is not a means to a predetermined end, but rizing or the submission of work that has not been prepared by the rather it is a place for signifcant works, for research and explora- person claiming authorship. Such acts are viewed as extremely tion, a place of creative urgency, for people and their works to listen serious violations, punishable by probation, suspension or dismissal. to each other. Great educational institutions are great communi- The action of the Academic Standards Committee in such cases will ties: physically, geographically and intellectually, the studio is the become part of the student’s permanent academic record. center of the community at the School of Architecture. The myriad The Studios/Studio Culture Central to maintaining a creative personal and public exchanges that form our studio culture lead environment for intellectual investigation and intuitive exploration to new ideas, new forms of expression and movements of thought are the shared design and computer studio spaces on the third and that ultimately enrich our discipline and our humanity. seventh floors of the Foundation Building. Students must be aware Annual Exhibition of Student Work The End of Year Show is an of and observe all policies and conditions for the use of the studios essential part of the pedagogy of the school, exhibiting student (which are distributed at the beginning of each academic year). work developed during the academic year to the academic and Students are required to be present in studio for all hours that their professional communities and the public at large. It is an oppor- design studio meets and to develop their work in the studio. tunity to present the pedagogical framework of the school and In the studios, students work together as a community of faculty and to celebrate the rigor and diversity of the student individuals. Here, students and faculty from all years engage in a work. The School of Architecture exhibition covers approximately process of rigorous inquiry, discussion and critique, freely sharing 10,000 square feet of space. Preparation of exhibition spaces— knowledge, ideas and methodologies. Students study the principles lobbies, halls and classrooms of the third and seventh floors, and and works of architecture that have contributed to the betterment the Houghton Gallery—and hanging the work is a tremendous of the human condition in the development of their own projects. task that must be accomplished in the very short period of time Students of the upper years serve as mentors for the lower years. between the end of classes and commencement. All students Diversity and balance are critical values in generating an academic must make requested projects available for the exhibition and are ambiance where humanistic ideals and ethical views serve as a expected to fully participate in the installation. constant reference for individual growth and development. The In addition to the Annual Exhibition, individual student work may social and intellectual environment thus created is considered a be requested for other purposes (other exhibitions, accreditations, vital part of the students’ experience at The Cooper Union. etc.). Students are required to provide requested projects or other As articulated by our Architectonics (first-year Design materials, which will be returned to them in a timely manner. While studio) faculty: Educational institutions are the stewards of disci- student work is to be available for these purposes, work produced by pline, they are the crucibles in which the living form of a discipline students as part of their coursework remains their property. is transferred through the generations. Many forms of resource are marshaled toward animating this stewardship; the primary THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 43

Students are required to sign a release form at the start of FACILITIES AND RESOURCES their studies granting the school permission to use, copy, publish or distribute, perform or publicly display, create derivative works, The facilities of the School of Architecture are housed on the and incorporate into compilations or collective works the works second, third and seventh floors of the Foundation Building, of authorship created during their enrollment as a student at initially completed in 1859 and now a National Historic Landmark Cooper Union in any form, format or media now known or later widely referred to as one of New York City’s great monuments. In developed or created in the future, for educational purposes and 1974, John Hejduk, the frst dean of the School of Architecture, for promoting, marketing and advertising Cooper Union and its completed a major alteration of the interior. In 2002, the restoration educational services worldwide, without compensation. The of the brownstone exterior was completed after two years of work. student retains the copyright to the work. The Studios All students in the School of Architecture are provided workspace on the third floor within a shared studio. With the frst through fourth years sharing a single large studio and the ffth-year thesis class and graduate students in smaller studio spaces, a unique environment fostering cross-fertilization between classes and individual students is maintained. Students are provided with individual studio workspace with individual and shared tables for drawing, work, study, reference, model building, etc. The school does not support the principle or practice of continual 24-hour studio access. Studios are generally open Monday–Thursday 7:30 am–2 am, Friday 7:30 am–midnight, Saturday 8 am–midnight, and Sunday noon–2 am.

Computer Studio The School of Architecture Computer Studio on the seventh floor of the Foundation Building is specifcally intended to support a design curriculum that recognizes the use of computing as an instrument of investigation and practice and which urges students to explore its formal and cultural impli- cations. The facility utilizes both Macintosh and Dell Precision PCs (including high-end multiple-processor rendering stations), scanning and printing capabilities and two large-format plotters. Software includes an array of imaging, drawing, drafting and 3D modeling and rendering programs. This facility is open to all students of The Cooper Union. Considered integral to the activ- ities of the design studio, the computer studio is generally open whenever the design studios are open, giving students access an average of 17 hours a day. A student monitor trained to assist in the effective use of the facility and to do simple troubleshooting on the hardware is present whenever the center is open. The School of Architecture Computer Studio also supports a 3D printer and laser-cutter; other three-dimensional output capa- bilities include a laser-cutter in the School of Art and CNC and rapid prototype machines in the School of Engineering. Computing facilities designed to serve the specifc needs of the Schools of Art and Engineering are open for use by students of the School of Architecture. 44 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Lecture Room A small auditorium on the third floor is used for Modernism (presented with the Institute for Sustainable Design, lecture classes and invited lecturers. Special lectures are open to with generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation), all interested Cooper Union students. Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967- 2012 (organized by the Yale School of Architecture with Shop An outstanding all-college sculpture shop is located on the additional support provided by the Graham Foundation for fourth floor. Integral to both the program and pedagogy of the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Turner Foundation, and School of Architecture, the art and architecture shop is equipped by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown),Bernhard Hoesli: Collages. for projects in wood, metal, plastics, plaster and clay, and includes a bronze casting foundry. For a complete description of the shop The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design The Coo- facility, please refer to the School of Art section (page 57). per Union Institute for Sustainable Design seeks to provide the Study Collection The School of Architecture has fostered the greater Cooper Union community—architects, engineers and growth of a non-circulating Study Collection of books and peri- artists—with the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills that are odicals that are not otherwise accessible through the Cooper necessary to create a sustainable society. We defne a “sustain- Union library system, sometimes including rare or limited edition able society” as one that prospers because its economy, social items, often on loan from private collections. Students make use practices, physical infrastructure and engineering systems all of the room for quiet reading and study. The room is also used for work in harmony with the ecological dynamics and resource lim- seminar classes and meetings. itations of the earth. More detailed information about the Institute for Sustainable Design and its programs, its projects and its ac- School of Architecture Archive The School of Architecture tivities, is available on The Cooper Union website: cooper.edu/isd Archive is responsible for the ongoing collection, documentation and storage of student work, and now has a record of student 41 Cooper Square In September 2009, The Cooper Union work produced at the school since 1965. This provides an invalu- opened its frst new academic building in ffty years at 41 Coo- able record of the pedagogy of the school that can be used for per Square, opposite the landmark Foundation Building. This exhibitions, publications and student research. In addition, the building houses the School of Engineering and the Faculty of Archive’s Blueprint Collection, Lantern Slides, New York Postcard Humanities and Social Sciences, studios for the School of Art, Collection, Stanley Prowler Slide Collection, New York City Water- classrooms and computing studios for all students, and a shared front Archive, Limited Edition Books and rare books are resources gallery and auditorium. The frst academic building to achieve the available for use by students and faculty for research and study. LEED Platinum status, 41 Cooper Square provides all students of The Archive also manages the loan of analog and digital video The Cooper Union with access to state-of-the-art tools to pursue cameras as well as other photographic equipment for student use creative and original research and design in the course of their on class projects. learning. Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery Named for Arthur A. Houghton Personal Laptops The School of Architecture Computer Studio as Jr., former trustee and chairman of The Cooper Union, this well as the Cooper Union Computer Center at 41 Cooper Square 1800 square-foot gallery supports the pedagogy of the School are open to all architecture students and are equipped with all of of Architecture through public exhibitions and events. Over the the hardware and software necessary for their work and study. years, the works of architects, photographers, painters, builders We recommend that students who wish to purchase their own and faculty and students of the school have been exhibited, laptop computers complete their frst year of study before making drawing viewers from schools of architecture and the wider a purchase in order to fully test a range of programs and plat- professional communities as well as the public at large. The forms. Current students have selected a variety of laptop models School of Architecture Archive works with other institutions in both Mac and PC platforms for individual use. The Cooper Union to present jointly sponsored exhibitions, or will curate, design assumes no liability for personal laptops. Students who use/bring and install original exhibitions. Recent exhibitions presented their personal laptops to school are solely responsible for the safety by the school include Musikerhaus: Raimund Abraham, and security of their equipment and are strongly advised to secure Landscapes of Extraction: The Collateral Damage of the Fossil their laptops in their lockers when not in use. Fuels Industries (presented with the Institute for Sustainable Design), and Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway (presented with The Drawing Center, New York), Lessons from THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 45

Communication Email is an essential form of communication COURSES Arch 151 A-B Thesis at The Cooper Union. Each new student is assigned a Cooper A synthesis of four years’ educational experience. The choice of the area Union email address during Orientation. It is the responsibility of Students should consult official class of study is the responsibility of the lists for courses offered in a given all students to actively and regularly check and use their Cooper student. The scope of the problem semester. There is no assurance that is defined by each student, who Union email in order to receive, in a timely manner, official school a course listed in this catalog will be also decides on his or her method of given every year. announcements, important information about registration, mes- exposition. Problems are analyzed and Be advised that each school studied with the aid of faculty from sages of general interest about events, exhibitions and programs, offers certain electives that are open each discipline and by visiting critics. to all students; consult each school’s 6 credits per semester safety updates, policy notifcations, etc. As The Cooper Union course listing. continues its transition to an online administrative system, linked MATHEMATICS (Required) solely to The Cooper Union email address, this line of commu- Undergraduate Arch 103-104 Calculus and nication becomes even more vital. In addition, wireless internet DESIGN (Required) Analytic Geometry access is available throughout The Cooper Union and can only Emphasis on topics that involve the Arch 111 A-B Architectonics mathematical approach to geometrical be accessed via a Cooper Union email address and password. Introduction to the study of and physical relationships and on basic architecture; investigation of the concepts and applications of calculus interrelationships of space, structure and functions of one and two variables. and visual composition. Exploration of 3 credits per semester the syntax of architecture. Models and orthographic drawing. STRUCTURES (Required) 4 credits per semester Arch 122 A-B Structures I All Architectonics students are A qualitative examination of the required to take an Introduction to behavior of structures. Characteristics (Shop) Techniques course. and development of the stresses 1 credit per semester generated from the simple to the complex. A study of the materials of Arch 121 A-B Design II construction used in structures. Projects comprise elemental 2 credits per semester architectural programs wherein the student is required to sustain the Arch 132 A-B Structures II formal investigations of frst year The study of strength of materials while integrating the complexities of is applied to the quantitative design program, context and site. Spatial, procedures for wood and steel structural, material, environmental and structures. Students complete visual design are integrated. Emphasis individual projects in wood and low- is placed on communicating concepts rise steel structures. through drawings and models. 2 credits per semester. Prerequisites: 5 credits per semester Arch 103/104, Ph 165/166 and Arch 122 A-B Structures I Arch 131 A-B Design III Study and analysis of historical Arch 142 A-B Structures III precedents followed by a sequence The design of reinforced concrete using of design problems of increasing stress methods and plastic design complexity. Emphasis on the planning is combined with individual projects of buildings and the interrelationships in low-rise concrete structures. among form, structure, detail and Elements of soil mechanics and soil technologies. investigations are included (Fall only) in 5 credits per semester foundations design. 2 credits per semester. Prerequisite: Arch 141 A-B Design IV Arch 132 A-B Structures II Investigation of urban programs and sites requiring the integration of form, Arch 152 Structures IV structure and space. Examination Intensive seminars are completed of the complexities implicit in the on prestressed concrete, wind and resolution of urban problems. Analytic earthquake design for tall structures studies and explorations generate and special structures, while the specifc programs for development student becomes the structural of each project. Emphasis given to consultant for individual assignments large-scale integrations and the impact for the structural solution of real of urban transformations upon architectural projects covering existing fabric. prestressed, high-rise steel and 5 credits per semester concrete buildings and shells. 2 credits. Prerequisite: Arch 142 A-B Structures III 46 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF ADVANCED CONCEPTS Arch 165 Analysis of TECHNOLOGIES ARCHITECTURE AND TOPICS Architectural Texts (Required) (Required) (Required) Introduction to analytical methods and techniques and their relationship to Arch 134 A-B Environmental Arch 115 A History of Architecture Arch 205 Advanced Concepts synthetic activity in the design process. Technologies I (Sem. I) An introduction to the study This course is intended to be an 2 credits. Prerequisite: permission Environmental and life safety systems of the concepts, designs and built advanced course dealing with the of instructor as they affect program and building examples of architecture from antiquity relationship between architectural form, including mechanical (heating, through approximately the third century space and some other discipline in the Arch 175 Modern Architectural cooling, ventilating), water supply and C.E. Selected projects from throughout humanities. The course deals with an Concepts disposal, electrical, lighting, acoustics, the world will be analyzed in terms of interdisciplinary approach toward a The concepts and generators of form vertical transportation, communication, planning, design, structure, technique, new poetic and the phenomenology, and space relative to architecture of security and fre protection. Principles function, social context and meaning. psychology and metaphysics of space. the 20th century are explored and of sustainability. Passive and active 3 credits (After fulflling the Arch 205 Advanced investigated. systems. Concepts degree requirement, a 2 credits. Prerequisites: Arch 115 A-B 3 credits per semester Arch 115 B History of Architecture I student may enroll in other additional History of Architecture I, Arch 125 A-B (Sem. II) Arch 205 Advanced Concepts classes History of Architecture II or permission BUILDING TECHNOLOGY An introduction to the study of the for elective credit.) of instructor (Required) concepts, designs and built examples 2 credits of architecture from approximately Arch 176 Theory of Landscape Architecture Arch 135 A-B Building Technology the fourth through the 15th century. Arch 225 Advanced Topics Lecture/studio course explores the Materials and methods of architectural Selected projects from throughout in History, Theory, Criticism interrelationships of nature, site design construction, lectures, examination the world will be analyzed in terms of Advanced study in history, theory, and built form. Focus on basic elements and discussion of classic as well as planning, design, structure, technique, criticism of architecture, urbanism of nature addressed ideologically, current building techniques. Students function, social context and meaning. and technology. poetically, culturally and practically assemble full-size “mock-ups” of 3 credits (After fulflling the Arch 225 Advanced through an interdisciplinary study of details for class study germane to their Topics degree requirement, a student works by selected artists, writers, design classes. In general, this course Arch 125 A History of may enroll in other additional Arch 225 landscape architects and architects. does not separate “construction” from Architecture II (Sem. I) An Advanced Topics classes for Work with landscape fundamentals, “design” but attempts to supplement, introduction to the study of the elective credit.) continue on to more complex issues by means of a more detailed study of concepts, designs and built examples 2 credits. Prerequisites: Arch 115 A-B of natural processes and aesthetics, design assignments. Field trips may be of architecture from approximately the History of Architecture I, Arch 125 A-B such as atmosphere, ephemerality made to buildings under construction. 15th through the 18th century. Selected History of Architecture II or permission and time, and of site planning, such as 2 credits per semester projects from throughout the world of the instructor will be analyzed in terms of planning, site selection, topography, drainage, ecology and climate, especially as DRAWING (Required) design, structure, technique, function, PROFESSIONAL (Required) social context and meaning. related to architecture and art in the land. 3 credits Arch 143 A-B Construction Arch 114 A-B Freehand Drawing 2 credits. Open to all students Basic drawing skills, composition and Management Arch 125 B History of Introduction to construction color perception. Studio and homework Arch 177 Computer Graphics, Architecture II (Sem. II) management principles, techniques assignments. Image Processing and Vision An introduction to the study of the and methods including scheduling, 3 credits per semester Introduction to basic concepts of concepts, designs and built examples cost-estimating, planning and spatial description and manipulation of architecture from approximately the controlling construction process. Arch 118 A-B Computer by computer enables student to Applications and Descriptive 18th through the 20th century. Selected 1 credit per semester projects from throughout the world use these techniques as an aide in Geometry problems of formal spatial drawing will be analyzed in terms of planning, Arch 154 A-B Professional Practice Descriptive geometry as a science with a computer. Examination of the design, structure, technique, function, The role of the architect in relation of graphical representation of three- issues of “hand-eye axis” in computer- social context to the community, client, builder, dimensional lines, surfaces and based drawing and “paint” systems and meaning. worker and engineer. Societal, ethical, solids with emphasis on development as well as more abstract algorithmic 3 credits legal and personal obligations. Office of drawing and drafting skills. methods of drawing. Image acquisition organization and administration. Understanding how graphical and and transformation by computer, its construction information is represented Arch 133 Introduction to 1 credit per semester Urban History and Theories relation to computer vision and control in the computer, how information is of robots and machines which build represented in drawings, nature of the An introduction to Urban History and ELECTIVE COURSES to the principles, concepts, and will be another area of emphasis. overlap between the two. Develop a Survey of a wide variety of applications critical facility to appreciate limitations Theories of Urbanism, from antiquity Arch 153 Town Planning to the present, with an emphasis on including typeface design, page layout and strengths of representational A modernist response to the problems and make-up, animation and interactive techniques.Computer as a mechanism the 20th Century urbanism. of large metropolitan cities. Taking 2 credits control of video systems. for communication and research. a historical perspective, the course 2 credits. Open to all students 2 credits per semester will analyze town planning responses of specific architects and groups for cities such as Paris, London, New York, Vienna and Chicago, questioning the cultural determinants that made town planning a modernist stance. 2 credits per semester THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 47

Arch 178 Advanced Drawing Arch 194 Environmental Arch 413 Graduate Thesis FACULTY Seminar Technologies Elective The choice of the area of study is The course will focus on the dialogue Advanced study in environmental the responsibility of the student. The between fguration and abstraction. issues to include such topics as cultural scope of the project and method of Administration Students will be expected to plan and environmental sustainability, exposition is defned by each student in Elizabeth O’Donnell and elaborate an ongoing series of resource allocation, new materials consultation with their thesis adviser Acting Dean drawings. The class will meet on and methods, global networks, and must be approved prior to the a seminar basis to critique work in urban growth, etc., as they relate to beginning of the summer term on the Monica Shapiro progress and to discuss issues relevant architecture on many scales. basis of a thesis prospectus presented Academic Administrator to the language of drawing. There may 2 credits. Prerequisite: Arch 134 to the group of faculty. Students Robyn Fitzsimmons be an open studio available for those A-B Environmental Technologies or will develop a mutually agreed upon Administrative Assistant students who wish to pursue drawing permission of the instructor. schedule for meetings with their from the model. However, students will adviser and for regular project reviews. Emmy Mikelson be encouraged to investigate a broad 6 credits Senior Associate for Public Programs spectrum of imagery and materials. Graduate and New Initiatives 2 credits. Prerequisite: permission Arch 482 Graduate Seminar Required for students in Steven Hillyer of instructor in Technologies Director, Architecture Archive all concentrations. Selected topics in the advanced study Arch 185 Crossings All courses are one semester. of technological issues in architectural Sarah Burrell This project-oriented studio course will design, representation, materials, Special Projects Associate, explore and investigate developments Arch 401 Proseminar planning, production and construction. Architecture Archive in architecture, art, literature An introduction to research in Open to undergraduate fourth- and and engineering that reinforce or architecture and urbanism: theory, ffth-year architecture students as Full-Time Faculty reintroduce the interrelationships of research (methods and techniques) an elective with permission of the these diverse disciplines including and writing, for M.Arch. II degree instructor and the dean. Professors students only. Selected readings the implications of recent scientifc 2 credits per semester Diana I. Agrest developments that cross and in historiography, theory, criticism Dipl. Arch., School of Architecture and disrupt established boundaries and and design and methods. Includes Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires; foundations of compartmentalized lectures and seminars by faculty and Arch 483 Graduate Seminar Université de Paris: Ecole Pratique des disciplines, giving us new insights visiting specialists in the felds of in Urban Studies Hautes Etudes VI Section; into the natural processes within the history and criticism, architecture and Selected topics in the advanced study R.A., F.A.I.A. rich diversity of nature. A revitalized urban design methods, research in of urban form including readings and and stimulating feld of inquiry is representational techniques, digital case studies in urban analysis, global Diane H. Lewis now offered to architects, artists and technology, etc. Presentations by each development, historic preservation and B.Arch., The Cooper Union; engineers, with technological and student in the program will encourage typological transformation. Open to The American Academy in Rome; cultural implications. interdisciplinary comparison and undergraduate fourth- and ffth-year R.A., F.A.A.R. shared knowledge. 2 credits. Prerequisite: permission architecture students as an elective Anthony Vidler of the instructor 2 credits with permission of the instructor and B.A. Hons., Dipl.Arch., the dean. Arch 402 Thesis Research Tutorial Cambridge University; Arch 185 Crossings 2 credits per semester Ph.D., Delft University of Technology The Feltman Seminar Individual thesis research conducted (The Netherlands) This seminar will investigate under the supervision of an adviser Arch 485 Graduate Seminar the principles, aesthetics and or advisers leading to the preparation in Theory, History and Criticism methodologies of lighting perception of a Thesis Prospectus required for of Architecture Proportional-Time and design. The Feltman Fund, a gift advancement to the third semester Selected topics in the advanced Faculty to the school, makes this seminar of the program. study of the theory and criticism possible and supports its chairs. 2 credits of modernism and contemporary Professors 2 credits. Open to all students architecture, the philosophy and Arch 411 Graduate Design Kevin Bone aesthetics of architecture, the University of Colorado; Arch 190 Structures Elective Research Studio I mediatization of architecture and The Design Research Studio 1 Wright/Ingraham Institute; The reason for the unique structural broader cultural and historical issues, B.Arch., Pratt Institute; solutions for existing building will establish a general problem through the critical readings of texts incorporating aspects of architectural, Royal Danish Academy of Art; structures is presented in depth. as well as case studies. Open to R.A., F.A.I.A. These studies will include structures urban and technological design undergraduate fourth- and ffth-year of all sizes subject to gravity, wind research to be undertaken by the architecture students as an elective Anthony Candido and/or seismic forces. The path class, with each student contributing with permission of the instructor and Georgia Institute of Technology; followed to arrive at the best solution to his or her specifc area of expertise. the dean. B.Arch., Illinois Institute of Technology The studio will include seminars by is analyzed in open discussion. The 2 credits per semester David Gersten correlation between the architectural, invited guests on topics relevant to the program’s principal areas of study. New York Institute of Technology; structural and mechanical needs, B.Arch., The Cooper Union as well as considerations related 6 credits to the actual erection of these Roderick Knox structures, is presented. Arch 412 Graduate Design B.Arch., B.F.A., The Cooper Union; Research Studio II 2 credits. Prerequisites: Arch 122 A-B, M.Arch., Harvard University; Individual design projects within Arch 132 A-B, Arch 142 A-B, Arch 152 R.A., N.C.A.R.B. general guidelines established by the or permission of the instructor faculty, each emphasizing the special area(s) of research of the student. 6 credits 48 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Elizabeth O’Donnell Associate Professors Instructors Emeriti University of Minnesota; Tulay Atak Dorit Aviv Peter D. Eisenman B.Arch., The Cooper Union; B.Arch., METU (Turkey); Ph.D., UCLA B.Arch., The Cooper Union; M.Arch., The Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished R.A. Princeton University; Certifcate in Professor Emeritus of Architecture Steven Kreis Stephen Rustow Urban Planning, Woodrow Wilson B.Arch., Cornell University; B.S., University of Missouri; B.A., University of Rochester; School of Public Policy M.S.Arch., Columbia University; M.S., Hunter College CUNY M.Arch., M.G.P., Massachusetts M.A., Ph.D., University of Cambridge; Daniel Meridor Institute of Technology; Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa R.A., N.C.A.R.B., F.A.I.A. Tel-Aviv University; R.A., N.C.A.R.B. Dipl. Arch., University of Buenos Aires Venice International University; Sue Ferguson Gussow Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Sean W. Sculley B.Arch., M.Arch., The Cooper Union Professor Emerita of Architecture Ernesto de la Carcova Argentina; B.A., Harvard University; Pratt Institute; M.Sc. University of Buenos Aires; Savina Romanos B.Arch., Columbia University; The Cooper Union; M.Arch., Princeton University B.Arch., The Cooper Union; MAUD, R.A. The Brooklyn Museum; Harvard University Markus Schulte B.S., Columbia University; David Turnbull B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Hannover Wes Rozen M.F.A., Tulane University B.A. Hons, Dipl.Arch., University (Germany); B.Arch, The Cooper Union of Bath (England) John Q. Hejduk* P.E. Will Shapiro Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School Guido Zuliani Georg Windeck B.Sc., Brown University; Cambridge of Architecture Diploma (M.Arch.), Istituto Dipl.Ing., Technical University of Berlin; University (England); B.Arch, The Professor Emeritus of Architecture Universitario d’Architettura di Venezia, R.A. Cooper Union The Cooper Union; Italy B.S. in Arch., University of Cincinnati; Lydia Xynogala Assistant Professors M.Arch., Harvard University; Associate Professor B.Sc., Bartlett School of Architecture Università degli Studi, Rome; David Allin (U.C.L.); B.Arch., The Cooper Union; Tamar Zinguer Hon. L.H.D., University of Illinois B.Arch., Cornell University; M.Arch., Princeton University B.Arch., The Cooper Union; at Chicago; M.Arch., Princeton University M.Sc.,Technion-Israel Institute R.A., N.C.A.R.B., F.A.I.A.; Previous Faculty Appointments of Technology; Luis Pep Aviles Fellow of the Royal Society In order to indicate the distinction and M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Dipl.Arch., M.A., ETSAB-UPC (Spain); level of professional accomplishment Richard Henderson* M.A., Princeton University, Ph.D. of these professors, we take pleasure Associate Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin Assistant Professor (in progress), Princeton University in listing appointments of the past School of Architecture Michael Young Hayley Eber years: Anders Abraham, Wiel Arets, Professor Emeritus of Architecture B.Arch., California Polytechnic Institute; B.A.S., The University of Cape Town; John Ashbery, Manuel Baéz, Norman B.Arch., Cornell University; M.Arch., Princeton University; B.Arch., The Cooper Union; Bryson, Eduardo Cadava, Susannah R.A. R.A. M.Arch., Princeton University Drake, Sverre Fehn, Jay Fellows, Ricardo Scofdio Robert Freeman, Remo Guidieri, Janis Louis Katsos Professor Emeritus of Architecture Hall, Martin Harries, John Hawkes, B.C.E., M.B.A., New York University The Cooper Union Christopher Janney, Lydia Kallipoliti, Adjunct Faculty B.Arch., Columbia University; James Lowder Josef Paul Kleihues, Jana Leo de R.A., N.C.A.R.B. Professors B.Arch., Southern California Institute of Blas, James Merrill, Don Metz, Aida Architecture; Miron, Francesco Pellizzi, Ahmad Ysrael A. Seinuk* Samuel M. Anderson M.Arch., Princeton University Rahimian, Gaetano Pesce, John Degree in Civil Engineering, A.B., Harvard College; Rajchman, George Ranalli, Aldo Rossi, University of Havana; Michael M. Samuelian Sussex University, England; Lindy Roy, Joseph Rykwert, Antonio P.E., F.A.C.I., C.Eng., F.I.C.E., B.Arch., The Cooper Union; B.Arch., The Cooper Union; Sanmartín, Jürgen Sawade, Massimo F. A. S. C. E. M.Arch., Harvard University; R.A. Scolari, Catherine Seavitt, Raf Segal, R.A., N.C.A.R.B. Chester Wisniewski D. Grahame Shane, David Shapiro, William Clark Professor Emeritus of Architecture Sheng Shi Daniel Sherer, Lee Skolnick, Richard B.A., Pennsylvania State University; B.Arch., Syracuse University; B.S.C.E., M.S.S.E., Drexel University; Stapleford, Bernhard Strecker, Anthony M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Taliesin. R.A., N.C.A.R.B. P.E. Titus, Bernard Tschumi, Hans Tupker, Ashok Raiji Wim van den Bergh, Tod Williams, Mersiha Veledar B.Sc., University of Bombay, India; Lebbeus Woods and Bruce McM. B.Arch., The Cooper Union; B.S., M.S., Texas A&M University; Wright. P.E. M.Arch., Princeton University Peter Schubert Gia Wolff The Cooper Union B.S.Arch., Ohio State University; B.F.A., Parsons School of Design; Institute for Sustainable Design M.Arch., Harvard University M.Arch., Columbia University; Kevin Bone R.A., F.A.I.A. Director Michael Webb Diploma, Regent Street Polytechnic

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THE SCHOOL OF ART

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the School of Art is to educate artists in the broadest sense, both as creative practitioners engaged with a wide range of disciplines in the visual arts and as enlightened citizens of the world who are prepared to question and trans- form society. The program is structured around an integrated curriculum that fosters connections between disciplines, as well as between traditional and new media. The studio experience affords the opportunity for the development of individual artistic vision in dialogue with collective debates and experiments within an intimate community of artists. The study of history, theory and criticism in the visual arts and general studies in the humanities and social sciences are considered essential in intellectually grounding studio practice. Central to the school’s philosophy is the advancement of the artist’s role in initiating critical responses and alternative models in relation to the prevailing forms and insti- tutions of cultural production. Students are challenged to expand their research and experimentation across The Cooper Union, as well as in the surrounding urban environment and in the wider public sphere. 50 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS CURRICULUM Students in the certificate program may apply through the Office of Admissions for transfer to the B.F.A. program after Goals and Objectives The goal of the B.F.A. program is to educate completing 42 credits at Cooper Union. students in the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary Transfer students applying to the certificate program may for professional practice in art- and design-related felds. An inte- transfer, at the time of admission, a maximum of 12 credits from grated program not only teaches students in specifc disciplines, another institution.

but also in the complex interrelation of all visual vocabularies. For Students who entered on or after September 2011 The Foundation Program consists of a series of prerequi- site courses taken during the frst year. This introductory year is Course Credits designed as a basis for the educational program of the School of Required Foundation Courses Art and is intended to prepare students for studies in all of the Basic Drawing (Analytical and Descriptive) 61 disciplines offered within the curriculum. Through exposure to 2-Dimensional Design 61 1 a variety of two- and three-dimensional projects, students are 3-Dimensional Design 6 1 given a general introduction to the specifcs of visual and spatial 4-Dimensional Design 3 Color 21 phenomena, and to concepts, principles and techniques of the Introduction to Techniques 11 visual arts. Foundation Project 11 Following the completion of the Foundation Program, the disciplines offered are drawing, flm and video, graphic design, Required Art History Courses painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Elective studio Modern to Contemporary: An Introduction to Art History 41 classes and seminars are also offered on a rotating basis. Students may choose to focus their work in one or more areas of special- Art History Electives 10* ization and are encouraged to follow an integrated approach by Required General Academic Studies selecting from various areas while observing a prerequisite system Freshman Seminar 31 designed to allow in-depth study in specifc disciplines. Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 31 2 Bachelor of Fine Arts Requirements Candidates for the bach- The Making of Modern Society 3 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 32 elor of fne arts degree are expected to complete 130 (131 for Science 3 students who entered in 2010 only) credits within eight semesters

of study and within the following disciplinary credit distribution. General Academic Studies Electives (See chart at right.) To be elected from Art History3, Foreign Language4, History of Architecture, Humanities, Certificate in Art Requirements* A certifcate in art program Social Sciences and Sciences 12 is available for a small number of students for whom the B.F.A.

program is not appropriate. Candidates for the certificate program Prerequisite and Advanced Studio Courses must complete 60 credits in two years of full-time study (with a To be elected from any studio discipline 54 minimum of 30 credits per year) or in four years of part-time study (with a minimum of 15 credits per year). All Foundation studio Required Senior Presentation 0 courses must be completed and students must follow prerequi- site course requirements in selecting advanced studio electives. Free Electives To be elected from courses in any discipline at Cooper Union The certificate program consists of 24 credits in Foundation or at other institutions approved by the dean of the studio and a minimum of 27 credits in advanced studio. Students School of Art 10 may take up to nine credits in art history. Total Credit Requirement B.F.A. Degree 130 All academic standards and regulations of the School of Art apply to the certificate program. * Including 2 credits in prehistory through 17th century art and 2 credits in global perspectives on art

1 First-year requirement for all students 2 Second-year requirement for all students 3 Maximum of three credits * Admission to the Certifcate in Art is temporarily suspended until further notice. 4 With permission of the dean of the School of Art THE SCHOOL OF ART 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 51

For Students who entered on or after September 2010 Studio Courses The student’s choice of studio courses is based on individual interest in various disciplines, on prerequisite Course Credits courses for advanced areas of study and on the student’s interest Required Foundation Courses in working with particular instructors. 1 Basic Drawing (Analytical and Descriptive) 6 There are limitations on the number of credits a student may 1 2-Dimensional Design 6 take each semester in any one area of study, depending upon the 3-Dimensional Design 61 student’s progress in the program (number of credits completed 4-Dimensional Design 31 toward the degree). The number of credits allowed is determined Color 21 Introduction to Techniques 21 as listed below: 1 Foundation Project 1 Maximum Credits per Credits Completed Semester per Area of Study* Required Art History Courses B.F.A. 32 (Sophomore) 6 1 Introduction to Art History I 2 64 (Junior) 9 1 Introduction to Art History II 2 96 (Senior) no limit Introduction to Art History III 22 Certificate** 30 9 Art History Electives 8 45 no limit Required General Academic Studies Freshman Seminar 31 * Includes related techniques courses Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 31 ** Admission to the Certifcate in Art is temporarily suspended until further notice. The Making of Modern Society 32 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 32 General Academic Studies Requirements and Electives During Science 3 the first two years, B.F.A. candidates must take four core courses in the humanities and social sciences (12 credits), as well as one General Academic Studies Electives course each semester in art history (two required courses and two To be elected from Art History3, Foreign Language4, elective courses, eight credits total). At any time after the first- History of Architecture, Humanities, year they must take a three-credit science course. Social Sciences and Sciences 12 Throughout the last two years, they must complete a Prerequisite and Advanced Studio Courses minimum of 18 elective credits, six of which are required to be in To be elected from any studio discipline 54 art history; the remaining 12 may be taken in humanities, foreign languages (with permission of the dean of the School of Art), social Required Senior Presentation 0 sciences, art history (maximum three credits), history of architec- ture and the sciences. Free Electives Foreign language credit for intermediate and advanced To be elected from courses in any discipline at Cooper Union courses, taught by language instructors with appropriate or at other institutions approved by the dean of the School of Art 10 academic credentials, will be granted two general studies credits per semester with a limit of four credits accepted in the category Total Credit Requirement B.F.A. Degree 131 of general academic studies electives with permission of the dean of the School of Art. Intermediate or advanced foreign language studies beyond four credits counted toward general academic studies will be acceptable for free elective credit, limited to two credits in language studies per semester.

Free Electives During the last three years, students have a choice of electives in the School of Art in addition to the required curric- ulum. Courses designated with the prefix TE or SE receive free 1 First-year requirement for all students elective credit, as do studio courses taken beyond the 54 credit 2 Second-year requirement for all students 3 requirement. Only one TE course per semester may be taken. Maximum of three credits 4 With permission of the dean of the School of Art 52 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Students may also enroll in engineering or architecture courses at Transfer students must have completed at least 32 credits in The Cooper Union or courses at other accredited institutions with residence at The Cooper Union before applying for non-resident the permission of the dean of the School of Art (or the academic study and must have an additional 32 credits to complete in adviser). Free elective credits are approved and granted by the residence upon their return. Transfer students must also have dean of the School of Art (or the academic adviser). met all first- and second-year requirements and be in good academic standing, defned as having a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.0 overall. Outside Electives These electives may be used only to meet free Students applying for non-resident study must be in resi- elective and/or general academic studies credit requirements; dence during the semester when they are completing the appli- they cannot substitute for prerequisite or advanced studio elec- cation process. tives. Students may take up to three credits per semester at a Students may earn a maximum of 12 credits in studio college other than The Cooper Union. For credit to be counted courses for one semester of study on exchange or mobility. A toward the B.F.A. degree, permission of the dean of the School maximum of six credits may be awarded by any one faculty of Art (or the academic adviser) is required before registration at member for work done while on exchange or mobility. another institution for the semester concerned. No such credit Since foreign schools may have academic calendars at will be awarded retroactively. variance with that of The Cooper Union, students studying on Senior Presentation Requirement A public presentation of each exchange who cannot return in time for the start of the next senior student’s work, normally in the student’s fnal semester, semester at the School of Art must request a discretionary leave is a requirement for graduation. Each student may satisfy this of absence for that semester. requirement with an exhibition or, where appropriate, a screening, Students may participate in non-resident study only once performance or publication. No student will be permitted to during their stay at The Cooper Union. receive a degree unless this requirement is completed to the Students should consult the Office of Off-Campus Programs satisfaction of the faculty and the dean of the School of Art at a for information about these exchange and mobility opportunities. mutually agreed upon time and venue. Completion of the require- Students from other institutions who are enrolled at the ment will be reflected on the student’s transcript. The 41 Cooper School of Art as exchange or mobility students may not apply to Gallery will be reserved for senior student exhibitions during much transfer to The Cooper Union School of Art while in residence at of the spring semester; other appropriate exhibition spaces will The Cooper Union. also be made available. Exchange Programs The School of Art offers a number of Progress Toward the Degree Students are expected to main- exchange programs with schools abroad. They currently include tain normal progress toward their degrees, i.e., passing enough opportunities to study in the Czech Republic, England, France, credits each semester to complete degree requirements within Germany, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and four years of study. Switzerland. The normal work load is 17 credits per semester during the Mobility Program The Cooper Union School of Art is a member Foundation year and 16 credits per semester thereafter (= 130 of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design credits = B.F.A. degree requirement). (A.I.C.A.D.). A list of schools participating in the mobility program Students should consult with the Office of Academic in the U.S. and Canada is available in the Office of Academic Advisement in order to assess their progress towards the degree. Advisement and Off-Campus Programs. Requirements for Nonresident Study Eligibility for non-resident Schools in the metropolitan New York City area are not avail- study, i.e., the exchange and mobility programs, is as follows: able for a semester exchange. Students who have completed at least 64 credits toward the bach- elor of fne arts degree, have a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.0 overall, and have no outstanding first- and second-year requirements, may apply for one semester of non-resident study. The student must maintain good academic standing in the semester prior to depar- ture, otherwise permission to participate may be revoked.

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ACADEMIC STANDARDS Independent Study Independent study is an alternative to class- AND REGULATIONS room study and may be taken only with a member of the resident faculty (defined as full-time or proportional-time faculty members Credits A credit is an academic unit of measure used for recording or adjunct faculty members on three-year appointments). Only progress in the program of study and in meeting the academic juniors and seniors in good academic standing (defned as having requirements of the degree. In studio and lecture courses, one (1) earned a minimum 3.0 G.P.A. overall for the previous semester credit represents a minimum of three (3) hours of work during each are eligible for independent study. Independent study may be week of a 15-week semester dedicated solely to that course. These taken only once during a semester in an advanced subject for criteria apply to each course in which the student is enrolled. one (1), two (2) or three (3) credits. One (1) credit of indepen- Example in studio courses: dent study represents a minimum of three (3) hours of work during Drawing, 3 credits, equals 9 hours of work per week (i.e., 4 hours each week of a 15-week semester. in class and 5 hours outside work [studio or home] or 3 hours in The major consideration in approving proposals for indepen- class and 6 hours outside work). dent study is the educational value of the study project within the structure of the degree requirements. Permission to undertake Example in techniques courses: study off-campus can be given only when it is required by the Casting Techniques, 2 credits, equals 6 hours of work per week nature of the specific project and when the experience has been (i.e. 4 hours in class and 2 hours outside work). evaluated to be valid by the instructor and approved by the dean Example in a lecture course: of the School of Art. English Literature, 3 credits, equals 9 hours of work per week (i.e., Transfer Credits All incoming students (freshmen with advanced 3 hours in class and 6 hours of outside work). standing and transfer) may apply for transfer credits to be counted The number of credits awarded in each course represents the toward the B.F.A. degree requirements or certificate in art. These fulfillment of an agreement by the student to satisfy the course credits must be approved by the dean of the School of Art, after requirements as defined by each instructor, on time, and in accor- the evaluation by faculty based on official transcripts from other dance with the definition of credit. schools. The transfer credits will be officially recorded only after one semester of satisfactory work is completed at The Additional Credits in an Advanced Studio Course Permission Cooper Union. to add credits to individual course commitments may be granted Transfer credits may be granted specifically in lieu of the only under special conditions and must receive the written School of Art’s foundation, prerequisite or elective courses. A approval of the instructor and the dean of the School of Art (or the maximum of 60 credits may be transferred toward the B.F.A. academic adviser) during the registration process. degree, at the time of admission only. An accepted applicant Juniors and seniors in good academic standing (defned who has previously earned a baccalaureate degree in a discipline as having earned a minimum 3.0 G.P.A. in School of Art studio other than art will be treated as a transfer student for purposes of courses for the previous semester) may add credits to their indi- evaluating completion of degree requirements and length of time vidual course commitment under the following conditions: no allotted at The Cooper Union to complete the B.F.A. more that two (2) additional credits in one course and no more The required 10 credits of free electives, however, must that a total of three (3) additional credits in any one semester. be completed during the student’s stay at The Cooper Union. Additional Credits in a Semester Normal progress towards a No previously earned credits may be transferred into this cate- degree is 16 credits per semester. Students may register for up gory. Exceptions to this rule may be granted by the Admissions to 19 credits only if they earned a minimum 3.0 G.P.A. overall for Committee, with the approval of the dean of the School of Art, at the previous semester. Under special conditions, students may the time of admission only. (See also page 13.) register for more than 19 credits only with the permission of the Attendance Attendance at classes is mandatory. Unexcused dean of the School of Art (or the academic adviser). Students who absences and excessive lateness will be cause for probation wish to register for less than 16 credits must do so in consultation or dismissal. with the Office of Academic Advisement of the School of Art. 54 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Registration Only those students who are officially registered W Indicates that the student has received permission from the in a course (i.e., by approval of the dean of the School of Art) will dean of the School of Art and the instructor to withdraw from a have the grades and credits entered on their records. Students course while passing the course requirements at the time of with- are required to register for each semester through the online drawal. This permission must be obtained no later than the end of registration system, during the announced registration period. the eighth week of the semester. The grade is not included in the A student who receives a grade of F, W or WU in the first calculation of the student’s semester rating. semester of a one-year course will not be allowed to register WU Indicates that the student has dropped a course without for the second semester of that course. In such a situation the permission of the dean of the School of Art and the instructor student will be called before the Academic Standards Committee after the end of the eighth week of the semester. This grade is not for individual review and/or counseling in order to determine included in the calculation of the student’s semester rating. a future program of study. Students whose records by mid-se- When appropriate, certain courses may be designated as mester indicate a possible failure to meet required standards may Pass/Fail courses. be so informed. Pass Requirements completed. This designation is not included in the calculation of the student’s semester rating. Grades At the end of every semester each student receives a Fail Failure to meet the minimum requirements of a course. This grade for his or her semester’s work in each subject. grade is included in the calculation of the student’s semester The grades, expressing the faculty’s evaluation of students’ rating; its numerical equivalent is 0. work in School of Art courses, are: A (4.0), A- (3.7), B+ (3.3), B (3.0), A change in an official grade of record, other than the I desig- B- (2.7), C+ (2.3), C (2.0), C- (1.7), D+ (1.3), D (1.0), D- (.7), F (0). nation, cannot be made by the dean of Admissions and Records The numbers in parentheses give the assigned numerical without the express written consent of the instructor and the dean equivalents of the letter grade for each course. These are used in of the School of Art. Grade changes will not be accepted after one computing semester index and cumulative index ratings by multi- year has elapsed from the completion of the course. plying the numerical equivalent of the grade for each course by the credits assigned to that subject. The sum of such multiplica- Change of Program tions for all the subjects carried by a student is divided by the total Adding a Course A student is permitted to add a course only credits carried by him or her for that period to determine the index during the frst week of a semester, during the drop/add period, or grade point average. and only with the dean’s approval. The meanings for the letter grades are as follows: Dropping a Course A student may drop a course during the A Outstanding performance frst week of the semester, during the drop/add period, with the B Above average performance adviser’s approval. A student who wishes to drop a course may be C Requirements completed; average performance required to add equivalent credits in another course as needed to D Passing, but unsatisfactory maintain satisfactory progress towards the degree. F Failure to meet the minimum requirements of a subject A course dropped during the frst week of the semester will I The designation I indicates that the work of the course has be deleted from the transcript. not been completed and that assignment of a grade and credit Withdrawing from a Course After the drop/add period a has been postponed. An I will be given only in cases of illness student may withdraw from a course through the eighth week of (confirmed by a physician’s letter ) or documentation of other the semester, with the dean’s and instructor’s approval. If the extraordinary circumstances beyond the student’s control. The student is passing the course at the time of withdrawal, a grade designation of I will be granted only with the approval of the dean of W will appear on the transcript. A student who stops attending of the School of Art. a course without permission of the instructor and the dean of the The deadline for removal of an I designation will be deter- School of Art will receive a grade of WU; however, the instructor mined by the instructor and recorded at the time the designation is free to record a grade of F in such a case. is given, but will not be later than two weeks after the start of the If, in the opinion of the instructor, a student’s presence next semester. If the I is not removed within the set time limit, is hindering the educational progress of the class, the student either by completing the work in the subject or by passing a reex- may be dropped from the class at the request of the instructor. A amination, the I will automatically become an F unless the dean of grade of W will be recorded for the course. the School of Art extends the time or the student withdraws from school before the deadline date. 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Academic Probation and/or Dismissal from The Cooper Union Withdrawal from School Written requests for withdrawal from A semester rating of all courses, (i.e., School of Art and Faculty school should be addressed to the dean of the School of Art. of Humanities and Social Sciences) below 2.5 places students Readmission Students who have been dismissed or who have on probation and makes them subject to dismissal by the withdrawn from the school and wish to be considered for read- Academic Standards Committee. Students with unexcused mission must reapply through the normal admissions procedures. absences and those excessively late to class are also subject to Such applicants may be asked to appear for an interview probation or dismissal. Students must maintain normal progress with a representative of the Admissions Committee as part of toward the degree (see page 54). Failure to observe this standard this process. is grounds for probation or dismissal. Graduation To be eligible for graduation students must complete Appeal Students may appeal to the Academic Standards the minimum number of credits required for the B.F.A. degree Committee of the School of Art in person and/or in writing when or the Certificate and must have been enrolled for a minimum of notifed of their unsatisfactory academic performance. Students four semesters at The Cooper Union as a full-time student for the have on-line access to their grades. Please contact the Registrar’s B.F.A., or a minimum of four semesters as a part-time student for Office for more information. the Certificate in Art. When students are called to the Academic Standards All candidates for the B.F.A. degree must satisfactorily Committee meeting, they are strongly advised to take this opportu- complete the requirement for a senior presentation. nity to communicate/explain/defend their unsatisfactory academic Students must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or performance. The student should appear in person. If this is not better in order to graduate from The Cooper Union School of Art. possible the student may address the committee in writing. Students eligible to graduate and participate in commencement After the hearing and deliberation the Academic Standards exercises must be approved by the Faculty of the School of Art. Committee shall either determine a probationary period or vote for Students who have not fulfilled the requirements for gradu- dismissal. The decision of the committee is fnal. ation will normally not be permitted to participate in commence- Students on academic probation who do not improve their ment exercises. academic standing during the probationary semester or who fail Graduation requirements as outlined in this catalog are to meet minimal academic standards during any subsequent guidelines that are subject to change. semester may be called to the committee and are subject to Students are responsible for their total accomplishment probation or dismissal from The Cooper Union. and for being continuously aware of the standards defined in the preceding paragraphs. Leave of Absence See pages 24–25 for Cooper Union’s regulations governing leaves Residence A candidate for a degree must have been enrolled of absence. during two academic semesters preceding the granting of the In the School of Art, discretionary leave is available only upon degree and in residence during the last semester. completion of the first-year Foundation Program. Before taking such a leave, all fnancial obligations to The Cooper Union must be satisfed. All requests for leaves of absence should be made through the Office of Academic Advisement. Note that this office is closed between June 10 and August 15 each year. Students must request all leaves of absence in writing. A written request for reinstatement is also required. A student on leave does not have access to the facilities of The Cooper Union.

* Admission to the Certifcate in Art is temporarily suspended until further notice. 56 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

FACILITIES AND RESOURCES Photography The traditional/analog photography area includes a spacious, well-ventilated black-and-white communal darkroom The School of Art is primarily housed in the 1859 landmark Foun- with 16 photo enlargers capable of printing negatives ranging dation Building. The renovated studios and labs offer complete from 35mm to 4 x 5 inches. An adjacent accessory darkroom facilities for a visual arts education. Seniors, juniors and many room houses a color/black-and-white enlarger that can print flm sophomores are assigned individual studio spaces by lottery. In sized from 35mm to 8 x 10 inches. In addition, there is a large addition, some Foundation Program classrooms, many student black-and-white flm processing area with automatic temperature studio spaces, the Herb Lubalin Study Center, and the 41 Cooper control and a dedicated alternative-processes room with UV expo- Gallery are housed in the new academic building located at 41 sure units that can produce up to 30 x 48 inch exposures. Cooper Square. The digital photography lab includes 16 Macintosh worksta- tions with seven 13-inch-wide professional-quality inkjet printers. Graphic Design Two multimedia classrooms at 41 Cooper Square There are also numerous 8.5 x 11 inch flatbed scanners, one Nikon are equipped with high-definition projection teaching stations, 35mm flm scanner, and numerous Wacom tablets. An additional and with Apple iMacs and MacPros connected to the Internet via advanced digital lab houses two Macintosh workstations, two T1 lines. In addition, the Computer Studio provides scanners, and 17-inch-wide professional-quality inkjet printers, a Nikon 35mm black-and-white and color printers. and medium-format flm scanner, as well as a Hasselblad Flex- A metal type shop, located on the ffth floor of the Foundation tight flm scanner capable of scanning flm sized from 35mm to Building, with Vandercook presses is also available with technical 5 x 7 inches. Students are able to request prints up to 44 x 90 staff assistance. The students’ personal studio areas provide indi- inches to be made on one of two wide-format inkjet printers. vidual drawing tables and flat file storage for advanced students. A well-equipped studio provides the space and tools to Students also have access to the collection of design ephemera, photograph a wide range of sets using tungsten, electronic flash, periodicals and books in the Herb Lubalin Study Center, located or daylight-balanced fluorescent lighting systems. A complete on the lower level of 41 Cooper Square. tethered capture system with a Macbook Pro is available for A professional staff of technical assistants is available during advanced photo students. A variety of large- and medium-format posted Computer Studio hours. flm cameras are available for checkout, as are a range of profes- Painting/Drawing Both the historic Foundation Building and 41 sional DSLR cameras including the Canon 5D Mark II. Cooper Square house facilities for Painting and Drawing. In the A knowledgeable staff of technical assistants is available Foundation Building, skylight ceilings flood abundant natural continuously during posted studio hours.

daylight throughout a number of classrooms, workrooms and Printmaking A well-equipped and ventilated printmaking shop student studio spaces dedicated to painting and drawing. Addi- accommodates intaglio, lithography, silkscreen and relief printing tional painting studios and a drawing classroom are located on processes and papermaking. The facility includes three lithography the ninth floor of 41 Cooper Square. Classrooms are equipped presses, three etching presses and three silkscreen vacuum tables. with easels, model stands, palette tables, sawhorse tables and There is a dedicated computer facility with two large format printers storage room for props. Common workrooms are furnished with for digital imaging and pre-press photographic work. There are slop sinks, worktables and storage racks to accommodate the more than 100 stones for lithography and a collection of rollers for preparation and storage of artwork. lithography, monotype, and surface rolling in etching. The paper The painting offices in both buildings have equipment for mill is complete with beater, a 75-ton hydraulic press, vats and the check-out and a limited number of art supplies for sale. Staff tech- capability for both Western and Japanese papermaking. nicians are available during the week to provide technical support A professional staff of technical assistants is available and help facilitate a healthy and safe work environment. A staff continuously during posted studio hours. technician is available during weekend and evening hours. THE SCHOOL OF ART 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 57

Sculpture A large, all-college sculpture shop supports opportu- Animation Lab The computer lab adjacent to the flm and video nities for production of a wide range of three-dimensional work. areas provides workstations for two- and three-dimensional This facility is equipped with machinery for wood- and metal- animation, stop motion capture, image processing and audio/ working, mold-making, bronze casting and projects using wax, video editing and compositing. Software includes Final Cut Studio, clay, plaster and some plastics. An Epilog 36EXT 60 Watt Laser Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, iStopMotion, Dragon Stop cutting/ engraving system has been implemented. Motion, Pro Tools LE and various other software for producing A professional staff of technical assistants is available animation and digital artwork. Additional hardware includes a continuously during posted shop hours for management and flatbed scanner, digital copy/animation stands, digital rotoscope supervision, as well as consultation and collaboration on projects station, vocal isolation booth and various analog and digital audio/ from many different studio disciplines. video decks. The animation lab also serves as a supplementary facility for students working with flm, video and sound projects and Film The film area provides Super 8 and 16mm cameras, is networked and equipped with an HD video/data projector with supported by solid-state digital audio recorders, microphones, surround sound for instruction and viewing student work. lighting kits, tripods and other production equipment. A professional staff of technical assistants is continuously The editing facility includes Super 8 and 16mm telecine available during posted studio hours. (flm to tape) transfer machines, Bolex and DSLR animation stands, a 16mm rotoscope system and a JK optical printer. The Computer Studio The Computer Studio, a part of the Depart- Students can edit on flm using Steenbeck flatbed editors and ment of Information Technology, is located on the eighth floor Super 8 viewers, or use Final Cut Studio to cut their projects on of 41 Cooper Square. It comprises two high-end Apple iMac and digital video. The sound room is equipped with a ProTools HD MacPro classrooms and a central scanning and color output area. digital audio workstation with surround mixing capabilities and a The Department of Information Technology supports both PC and vocal isolation booth. ProTools LE Mbox systems are also available. Mac technology, and provides students with a wide range of digital The projection booth is equipped for 16mm and Super 8 and media and imaging options. The facility houses Apple iMac and offers flexible signal-routing with ties to the main classroom/ MacPro computers, which can boot into Mac or Windows oper- screening room, which doubles as a theater for large-screen ating systems, and Dell PCs; high-resolution reflective and trans- projection of film and video. parency scanners; black-and-white and color laser printers; and A professional staff of technical assistants is available large format color printers. The Computer Studio workstations are continuously during posted studio hours. capable of producing high quality digital video and audio for broadcast, new media and web publishing. Video The Video area provides Mini-DV, AVCHD & HDV Software available includes complete suites of applications camcorders, as well as 3CCD 24p SD and HD camcorders, for graphic design, multimedia, 3D design, audio-video produc- HDSLRs and large sensor HD camcorders. Accessories include tion and animation. The fully-networked studio also provides microphones, lighting kits, tripods and other production equipment. Internet access, CD and DVD production capabilities and printing The video editing facility has eight workstations with Final to many different types of media. Digital video cameras, digital Cut Studio, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, Pro Tools LE and still cameras and microphones are available for loan by students other audio and video software. Additional outboard equipment in the lower level 1 A/V Resource Center. includes various analog audio and video decks, mixers and special A professional staff of technical assistants is available effects devices. Other equipment (monitors, speakers, projec- Monday through Saturday during posted Computer Studio hours. tors, VCRs and DVD and media players) is also available for multi- media installations. The video lab is networked and equipped with Center for Design & Typography The Center, located at 30 a video/data projector for instruction and viewing student work. Cooper Square, combines education with public service. Videos can also be viewed in the screening room equipped with Advanced graphic design students work in guided classroom situ- an HD video projector and surround sound system. ations with actual outside non-profit agencies as clients, and on A professional staff of technical assistants is continuously internal Cooper Union print and web design projects. available during posted studio hours. 58 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Galleries Several galleries around the campus are used to exhibit the work of students and outside artists in solo or group shows. In the new academic building at 41 Cooper Square, the 41 Cooper Gallery and the Lubalin Center Gallery feature large windows offering views from the building’s entrance and an abundance of natural light. These spaces, often used in conjunction with one another and with the adjacent Rose Auditorium, serve as a highly visible site of artistic activity consisting of exhibitions, programs, and screenings for the Cooper Union community, neighborhood and city at large. In the Foundation Building, a number of lobby galleries present students’ artwork in the historical heart of the school, near many of the studios and shops where it was created. Beginning late in each fall semester and carrying through the spring, gallery spaces in both the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square showcase work by seniors in The School of Art, with additional exhibitions of exchange student work, class proj- ects and work by fellowship recipients. These exhibitions offer an opportunity for students to contextualize and showcase projects developed throughout the course of the year. The annual student exhibition at the end of the school year—referred to colloquially as the End of the Year Show—is mounted throughout the school’s exhibition, studio and classroom spaces and features the work of art, architecture and engineering students at all levels.

Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography Located at 41 Cooper Square, adjacent to the Lubalin and 41 Cooper Galleries, the Herb Lubalin Center’s core collection includes an extensive archive of Herb Lubalin’s work, as well as seminal design ephemera by other important graphic designers. It also houses a reference library pertaining to the history and theory of visual communication. In addition to the archive, the Center main- tains a rich and varied programming schedule, including exhibi- tions and lectures addressing major trends in graphic design. THE SCHOOL OF ART 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 59

COURSES FA 105 Four-Dimensional Design CALLIGRAPHY TE 305 Techniques in HTML This course investigates the properties and Programming Students should consult offcial of time and movement and the TE 216 Calligraphy This course explores techniques and schedules for courses offered in a fundamentals of four-dimensional Geometry, optical balance and the projects in HTML and programming. given semester. There is no assurance design. Students explore duration, stroke of the broad-edge pen are Students will complete projects that that a courses listed in this catalog condensation, expansion, interruption, primary influences that shape the demonstrate their skill and will be given every year. simultaneity, stillness, action and Roman alphabet. Students learn the understanding of building web sites Each school offers a range of situation through a wide range of fundamentals of “beautiful writing” and basic programming. The primary elective courses that are open to materials. through the study of historical models software used in the course will be all students; consult each school’s 3 credits. Spring only. Burckhardt/ and the principles that are the basis BBEdit and PHP. course listing. Hayes (Leave of Absence Fall 2014)/ of classical and modern letterforms. 2 credits. One-semester course. Cannot Magid/Lehyt/ Raad (Leave of Absence Exercises in ink train the hand be repeated. Free elective credit. Prefix Key Fall 2014) kinaesthetically to write letters with Sparling FA designates studio courses (meet graceful movement. Exercises in pencil three or four hours per week) FA 109.1, FA 109.2 train the eye to see and analyze the CONTEMPORARY SE designates seminars or lecture Three-Dimensional Design subtle geometry and skeletal “ideal” ART ISSUES courses (meet two or three hours Students work on projects that explore form of letters. Precise rhythm in per week) the fundamentals of forms and space letter-spacing and careful line-spacing SE 401A&B Contemporary TE designates techniques courses and investigate the properties of create the color and texture of the Art Issues (meet four hours per week) materials, structure, mass, scale, light page. The class will have an emphasis Topic for Fall 2014: and motion. on page design involving hand written The Middle East in Contemporary Art Required 3 credits per semester. One-year course. compositions. Roman and Italic The Middle East has held a commanding Adams/Ashford/Farmiga/Lins capitals and small letters will be the presence in the art world of the 21st Foundation Courses focus of frst semester students. Those Century thus far. Collectors from the SE 150 Foundation Project who repeat may be introduced to other region top lists of the art scene’s FA 100.1, FA 100.2 A course that brings together all historical hands. power players. There is a steady and Introduction to Techniques Foundation year students around a 2 credits. One-semester course. May rising stream of exhibitions dedicated An introduction to the physical aspects series of presentations that introduce be repeated once. Free elective credit. to artists from the region in European of working with wood, metal, plaster— various artistic practices, critical DiEdwardo and American museums and galleries. and plastics, as well as an introduction languages, and criticism. The course Meanwhile, new exhibition spaces and to on-campus computer facilities and intends to present contrasting FA 419 Independent Study major museums are opening throughout resources. A basic introduction to the historical and contemporary models of in Calligraphy the countries of the region to support Adobe interface, specifcally Photoshop creating, seeing, speaking and thinking 1-3 credits. Requires approval of established and emerging talent locally and Illustrator will be provided. about art. instructor and the dean of the and invest in the culture economy as a ½ credit per semester. One-year 1 credit. Fall semester only. School of Art part of developing national infrastruc­ course. Pass/Fail. Staff Morgan/Rockhill tures. Most importantly, artists rooted COMPUTER TECHNIQUES in this geography are making some of FA 101 Color Elective, the most compelling work of our time. A study of the physical, perceptual, TE 303 Techniques in Photoshop Yet, the Middle East remains very little art historical and cultural aspects Prerequisite and This course explores techniques and understood, often represented with a of color. The phenomenon of color Advanced Courses projects in Photoshop. Students will singular identity. and principles of light are explored complete projects that demonstrate This course will dedicate each in various media towards an Students may enroll in advanced their skill and understanding of digital meeting to a specifc site within the understanding of color application in studio classes with the same course image creation. Students will apply the greater Middle East, highlighting the all of the fne art disciplines number multiple times. Instructors software to projects that they are distinctive historical and artistic and architecture. and syllabi in these courses will vary. engaged in or planning. A structured character of that place, its signifcant 2 credits. Fall only. Ellis/Osinski/Rodman In addition, the content of advanced series of projects/problems will be institutions, and leading artists locally studio classes changes with the mix presented to help students master the as well as in its diaspora. Each class FA 102.1, FA 102.2 of students in each class. various techniques and tools as well will combine a review of selected art, Two-Dimensional Design Consequently, the development of as the application of the software to readings, presentations and seminar Exploration of the visual and individual students’ work varies with real world situations. discussion. Additionally, class visits to intellectual aspects of form on the the interchange of ideas among these 2 credits. One-semester course. Cannot key exhibition spaces for art from the two-dimensional surface, in a variety students and their instructor. be repeated. Free elective credit. TBA region will add to our discussion. of media. Investigations into the 2 art history credits. One-semester relationships of perception, process The School of Art believes that the TE 304 Techniques in After Effects course. May be repeated once and presentation. ability to work with the same instructor This course explores techniques and for art history credit. 3 credits per semester. One-year course. in the same discipline multiple times projects in Adobe After Effects. Abbaspour Essl (Sabbatical Fall 2014; Leave of (even as the course content changes) Students will complete projects that Absence Spring 2015)/Lindell/Morton/ can foster a valuable mentoring demonstrate their skill and RublTochilovsky relationship between an instructor and understanding of visual effects and an advanced student. motion graphics. Projects will be FA 104.1, FA 104.2 faculty and student generated. Basic Drawing (Analytical 2 credits. One-semester course. Cannot and Descriptive) be repeated. Free elective credit. A course in freehand drawing designed Garrett to emphasize perceptual and inventive skills in all drawing media. 3 credits per semester. One-year course. 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DRAWING FA 345A, FA 345B Advanced Drawing of artists working in flm. FA 209 Video II This course offers an opportunity 3 credits. One-semester course. Students develop shooting and editing PREREQUISITE COURSE to develop a vital vocabulary in May not be repeated. Prerequisite skills with an emphasis on using digital drawing through exploration of to all advanced flm courses. camcorders and digital non-linear FA 240A, FA 240B Drawing I fguration, abstraction, observation or Pre- or corequisite to Animation I. editing and compositing systems. The course is designed to explore the imagination. There will be an emphasis Perlin A sequence of short assignments phenomena of drawing as basic to the on the development and evolution of introduces students to specifc digital visual language of all disciplines. The concepts, ideas—and observations Note: Film I is required of all students techniques and a range of software. fundamental notion of observation and from the sketchbook to completed who wish to pursue additional work in Students will also begin developing analysis in drawing is investigated. works. the medium. their personal conceptual orientation As preparation for work in an advanced 3 credits. One-semester course. TBA and vocabulary. Students will level, the course involves further FA 375 Film II complete a series of short videos, as development of drawing skills and FA 347A, FA 347B Advanced Drawing This introduction to 16 mm flmmaking well as explore both mainstream and techniques, as well as an emphasis Offered to students working covers a wide range of techniques experimental approaches to the moving on individual aesthetic development. independently in any medium. such as shooting with the reflex Bolex, image. Assignments and group critiques are Must be self-motivated. There will be lighting, single-frame construction, 3 credits. May not be repeated. central to the course. group and individual critiques. sound and editing. Students learn Prerequisite: Video I. McElnea 3 credits per semester. One-semester 3 credits. One-semester course. 16mm flmmaking with hands-on course. May be repeated once. Gleeson experience and are encouraged to use ADVANCED COURSES Prerequisite to all Advanced Drawing. the unique qualities of the medium Gleeson/Goldberg/Lawley/Leary Advanced Drawing/Visiting Artists to express their original visions. This FA 376A Animation I Course description varies according to course integrates theory and analysis Students will learn an arsenal of ADVANCED COURSES the instructor. of cinematic language with flm physically-based flm animation practice. Films made by independent techniques from line animation, direct- FA 341A, FA 341B FA 346A, FA 346B flmmakers and artists will be on-flm and roto-scoping to cut-out Advanced Drawing Advanced Drawing screened and discussed and advanced animation. Students will apply their Advanced studies in drawing This course will use the seminar format flmmaking techniques such as optical- skills and passions based in their emphasizing the student’s conceptual to address the practice of drawing in printing and multiple-exposure will be own work in other art forms (drawing, independence from traditional our contemporary context. Individual taught. Critiques of student work will painting, photography) and will make draftsmanship. This course is for meetings, assigned reading material take place at various points during the a few short animation projects over students who have an established and group critiques will be integral semester and students are required to the semester. The course emphasizes direction in drawing. to the course. Emphasis will be placed complete their own fnal 16mm sound the creation of meaningful and 3 credits. One-semester course. Barth on balancing concerns of both form flm by the end of the course. realized flms through the integration and content through experimentation 3 credits. May not be repeated. of content and ideas with aesthetics FA 342A, FA 342B or consistency in materials, research, Prerequisite: Film I. Perlin and technique. All animation artwork Advanced Drawing technique and installation. will be created non-digitally, though Students are encouraged to explore 3 credits. One-semester course FA 208 Video I students will learn to shoot and fnish and experiment with drawing as a way Visiting Artist Michelle Segre An introduction to video production, their projects both digitally and to to further develop visual understanding postproduction, history and criticism. flm. Classes will incorporate basic of pictorial and sculptural space. The For Spring 2015 and later semesters, Students are introduced to basic technical instruction, viewings and issues surrounding representation and please see course schedule and camera operations, sound recording discussions about a variety of classic perception are addressed. The focus registration materials for course and lighting, as well as to basic and contemporary animation flms, of this class is to help students to use descriptions specifc to Visiting Artists editing using Apple’s Final Cut Pro hands-on animation work and critiques. drawing as a critical and procedural teaching that semester. software, and to DVD production 3 credits. May not be repeated. Reeves tool. Using notebooks and journals as using Apple’s DVD Studio Pro. Three well as reading and research methods FA 449A, FA 449B assignments are to be completed FA 376B Animation II to process ideas, students will work Independent Study in Drawing during the semester: two are assigned Students will create and complete with drawing to advance and integrate 1-3 credits. Requires approval of in conjunction with the professor. individual advanced animations, their individual studio practice both instructor and the dean of the Critiques of the assignments are utilizing and building upon techniques technically and conceptually. Group School of Art crucial to the course as students are learned in Animation I. Through critiques and drawing sessions as expected to speak at length about presentations and critique, screenings well as individual meetings with the FILM/VIDEO the formal, technical, critical and of classic and inventive animations, instructor are integral components of historical dimensions of their works. and in-class work, students will the course. PREREQUISITE COURSES Weekly readings in philosophy, critical broaden their perception and command 3 credits. One-semester course. Bordo theory, artist statements and literature of animation language and practice. FA 270 Film I are assigned. The course will also Several animation techniques will FA 343A, FA 343B Advanced Drawing An introduction to the techniques and include weekly screenings of flms and be introduced. Projects begun in Offered to students working aesthetics of flmmaking. In a mixture videos, introducing students to the Animation I may be expanded in independently in any medium. of theory and practice, participants will history of video art as well as to other Animation II. The class will have a Must be self-motivated. There will be be required to produce at least two flm contemporary art practices. screening at the end of the semester group and individual critiques. projects in response to concepts and 3 credits. One-semester course. to exhibit their completed projects. 3 credits. One-semester course. Masnyj issues raised. The course is in three May not be repeated. Prerequisite Prerequisites: Film I or Video I; parts: technical instruction, critique and to Video II; Hayes (Leave of Absence Animation I, or permission of the FA 344A, FA 344B Advanced Drawing screenings of artists’ work. Students Fall 2014)/Jemison/McWreath instructor. Offered to students working are trained in all aspects of flmmaking 3 credits. Spring only. Prerequisites: independently in any medium. from shooting, lighting and sound to Note: Video I is required for all Film I or Video I; Animation I, Must be self-motivated. There will be editing in flm or on computer and DVD students who wish to pursue additional or permission of the instructor. group and individual critiques. authoring. There are weekly reviews work in the medium. Reeves 3 credits. One-semester course. 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FA 377A, FA 377B FA 479A, FA 479B ADVANCED COURSES Fall 2014/Section II Advanced Film Independent Study in Film Advanced Design: Type Design Independent projects workshop in 1-3 credits. Requires approval of FA 310A, 310B Information Design In this hands-on class students will Super 8 and 16mm flm. As well as instructor and the dean of the School The visual communication of complex go from the fundamentals of writing working in depth with flm, students of Art information is introduced through and hand drawn type to contemporary are encouraged to explore all presentations and studio projects that digital type design. By the end of this possibilities of the moving image from FA 489A, FA 489B explore organizational structures such class every student will have created expanded projection techniques to Independent Study in Video as charts, diagrams, maps, illustrations, their own, original digital font. kinetic constructions. 1-3 credits. Requires approval of photographs and typography. Computer 3 credits. Prerequisite: Graphic 3 credits. One-semester course. instructor and the dean of the instruction will be provided as it relates Design II. Pre- or corequisite: May be repeated. Prerequisites: Film School of Art to specifc projects. Typography I. Famira I and one of the following: Film II or 3 credits. Prerequisites: Graphic Design I Animation II. Hayes (Leave of Absence GRAPHIC DESIGN and II. Pre- or corequisite: Typography. FA 317A, FA 317B Advanced Fall 2014)/Issa/Simpson Visiting Artist Alicia Cheng (Fall 2014) Design: Open Studio PREREQUISITE COURSES In this course students will complete FA 380A, FA 380B FA 311A, 311B Publication Design two fully realized independent Advanced Video FA 211 Graphic Design I The complex issues unique to projects. Emphasis will be placed on Advanced students use all the An introduction to the techniques and editorial and publication design are contemporary graphic design practices facilities of the video lab and continue visual language of graphic design. explored through studio projects and and developing a personal aesthetic. to develop their personal styles Weekly projects explore fundamental presentations that emphasize the grid, Visiting lecturers, readings, and through close individual instruction. concepts in form, composition, effective sequencing and typographic individual meetings with the instructor Students complete two fully realized and typography. Presentations and form. Computer instruction will be will complement group critiques. independent projects. Analysis and readings in graphic design history will provided as it relates to specifc projects. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Graphic Design discussion of current video exhibitions complement weekly assignments. 3 credits. Spring only. Prerequisites: I and II. Pre- or corequisite: Typography. supports group critiques. Students will explore basic image- Graphic Design I and II. Pre- or Essl (Sabbatical Fall 2014; Leave of 3 credits. One-semester course. making processes as well as be corequisite: Typography. Corbitt Absence Spring 2015) May be repeated. Prerequisite: Video instructed in digital production II. Hayes (Leave of Absence Fall 2014)/ techniques. FA 312 Experimental Typography FA 320 Visual Identities Design Issa/Simpson 3 credits. Fall only. Essl (Sabbatical Fall This course will emphasize innovation, The class will concentrate on 2014; Leave of Absence Spring 2015)/ imagination and creativity in the realm innovative solutions to graphic identity FA 381 Digital Sound Design Gasparska/Joel/Medina of typography, manipulating it freely systems. Students will increase their Workshop as a means of expression. Computer profciency in developing symbols and An investigation of the structures of FA 212 Graphic Design II techniques as well as hand drawing, typography to build a visual language the sounds around us and how to listen The complex relationship between collages and pictures will be used to that amplifes the narrative of a to, analyze and manipulate them, with word and image is explored. The compose layouts, including posters, company, organization or product. special emphasis on sound for picture. study of semiotics, emphasizing the limited art books and animated 3 credits. Prerequisites: Graphic Discussion of how the gulf between philosophy of communication, provides typography for the web. Students will Design I and II. Pre- or corequisite: the sounds of the environment and a rich historical and intellectual base choose a theme and develop it with Typography. TBA composed music was bridged in the for experimental projects combining abstract type expression. 20th century. Training in the use of verbal and pictorial information. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Graphic Design FA 322A, FA 322B Protools, an all-inclusive system for Weekly projects reflect a broad range I and II. Pre- or corequisite:Typography. Professional Practice recording, editing and mixing sound, of disciplines within the feld of design. TBA Graphic design projects for non-proft which has become the system of Computer instruction will be provided institutions, under the direction choice in the modern studio. as it relates to specifc projects. FA 313 Art of the Book of faculty and in cooperation with 3 credits. Offered Fall and Spring. 3 credits. Spring only. Prerequisite: In this course the book will be explored the staff of the Center for Design Pre- or corequisite: Film I or Video I Graphic Design I. Essl (Sabbatical as an interdisciplinary medium, and Typography, provide students or Motion Graphics. May not be Fall 2014; Leave of Absence placing emphasis on integrating and with an opportunity for professional repeated. J. Burckhardt/Cramer Spring 2015)/Gasparska/Joel/Medina experimenting with form, content, experience. Portfolio presentation and structure and ideas. During the frst half professional ethics will be addressed. FA 382A, FA 382B FA 215 Typography of the semester, students will make a 3 credits. One-semester course. The Question of the Document Empirical explorations of typographic number of books, examining sequence, Prerequisites: Graphic Design I and II. This class is open to students working messages through placement, massing, series and text/image relationships, Pre- or corequisite: Typography. Lang in all forms. Students are expected weight, size and color are analyzed to using various book structures. These to initiate and work on independent develop an understanding of aesthetic “sketches” will prepare students for FA 326 Interactive Design Concepts projects—individually or in groups composition of typographic form and an extended book project during the An exploration of the nature of and must be willing to show work in meaning. Legibility, unpredictability second half of the term. interactive design and how it informs class while in the process of making and sequencing, as well as the use of 3 credits. Fall only. Morton and transforms experience. Information it. The focus of the class will be on the grid structures, are investigated. The structures, navigational issues, design question of the document in media art development of critical judgment about FA 315A, FA 315B Advanced Design strategies and social implications and related themes of history, facticity, typography is emphasized. Topic and instructor vary. of interactive experiences using testimony, witnessing and evidence. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Graphic Design I Fall 2014/Section I: Can your work be traditional as well as electronic media Students are expected to attend all and II. Tochilovsky recognized as ‘your work’ instantly? will be examined. screenings and exhibitions, keep up Is that a good thing? This class will 3 credits. One-semester course. with the assigned readings and write explore how to make use of and come May not be repeated. Prerequisite: short papers. to terms with the intersection of your Techniques in HTML and Programming 3 credits. Pre- or corequisite: personal aesthetic and the realities of or permission of the instructor. Kendall One advanced studio course. May be professional problem solving. repeated with a different instructor 3 credits. Prerequisite: Graphic Design II. TBA Pre- or corequisite: Typography I. 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FA 327 Advanced activists, designers, writers, curators, ADVANCED COURSES FA 339A, FA 339B Advanced Interactive Design Concepts: gallerists and other practitioners Painting/Guest Artist Series Computational Media involved in the arts from positions that FA 331A, FA 331B This course is for students who An advanced design course in embody an interdisciplinary approach Advanced Painting have made a strong commitment to interactive computational media. or that imply new uses for disciplinary For students who wish to have painting. Students are expected to The course will explore advanced traditions. Accordingly, the course their work critiqued primarily on an work independently in their studios on interactive design concepts utilizing is designed to introduce students to individual basis. High motivation and a series of paintings that will develop software which that includes some of the debates currently driving dedication are of primary concern. during the semester in response to Processing and Macromedia Flash contemporary art and the larger social There will be occasional group a dialogue with the different guest as well as XHTML coding. Students context it embodies. Members of the critiques. artists. will complete two fully realized class are expected to be active partici­ 3 credits. One-semester course. True 3 credits. One-semester course. Bordo independent projects. Analysis of pants and will therefore be asked relevant work and readings support to respond with some intellectual FA 334A, FA 334B Advanced Painting/Visiting Artists group critiques. invention to a variety of topics with Advanced Painting Course description varies according to 3 credits. One-semester course. weekly discussions, readings, and A seminar course for students who the instructor. For Fall 2014: Prerequisite: Interactive Design written or oral presentations. have the ability to work independently Concepts. Kendall 2 credits. Free elective credit. in their studios with a primary focus in FA 332A Advanced Painting Raad (Leave of Absence Fall 2014)/ drawing or painting. Students will be In this course, students develop their FA 328 Motion Graphics Pascher expected to develop their ideas and individual studio work through exper- Students will explore the conceptual work independently, but the class will imentation, risk taking and rigorous and technical challenges of design for meet together every week or two for evaluation of how to explore questions the television screen. All aspects of MATHEMATICS IN ART discussion of each other’s work, as of content in their work. Students are industry video/broadcast production are well as various museum and gallery encouraged to work through their ideas introduced and integrated into a design Ma 151.1 Mathematics in Art shows, readings or slide presentations and relationship to painting to fnd core focused on strong communication. This course deals with the period of current work. The course will their own distinct voice and ways of Projects include identity design, beginning with Pythagoras in ancient emphasize experimentation and working. The course is centered around combining kinetic typography, animation, Greece and goes up to the present day. expansion of one’s visual language and individual meetings, with occasional sound and video. The course includes Topics included: Godel’s work on the process, and the ability to articulate group critiques for group evaluation workshops in After Effects, Final Cut limits of mathematics, Euclidean and these ideas in discussion. and discussion. Supplemental read- Pro and Protools. non-Euclidean geometries, infnity, 3 credits. One-semester course. Bordo ings, image presentations, discussions, 3 credits. One-semester course. paradoxes and soap flm experiments. and gallery/museum visits expand the Prerequisites: Graphic Design I and Also discussed are black holes, the FA 337A, FA 337B knowledge of the open feld of painting II. Pre- or corequisite: Typography. Big Bang theory, relativity, quantum Advanced Painting today and its potential for invention Vondracek theory and atomic particles. The course Students will explore the inner and the production of meaning. is open to all Cooper Union students reservoirs of the imagination and 3 credits. One-semester course. FA 429A, FA 429B but is primarily oriented toward investigate, as well, specifc external Visiting Artist Jessica Dickinson Independent Study making the above-mentioned concepts resources for imagery. The course will in Graphic Design comprehensible to those with very seek to develop a range of expressive FA 335A Advanced Painting 1-3 credits. Requires approval of little mathematics in their background. vocabulary including representation In the broadest sense, painting can instructor and the dean of the School The relatedness of seemingly disparate and abstraction. Group and individual reflect and elevate experience of being of Art felds (science, art, mathematics, critiques will be augmented through in the world. This class will encourage music) is a central theme of the course. discussions of museum and gallery the student’s ability to identify and TECHNIQUES 3 general studies credits. exhibitions and slide presentations. develop a language that conveys Spring only. Bailyn Emphasis will be upon developing a the particularity of our perceptual TE 306 Techniques in Letterpress personal visual direction. experience, with a focus on using This course explores techniques and PAINTING 3 credits. One-semester course. TBA both the physicality of surface and projects in typesetting. Students will materiality of the language of painting. complete projects that demonstrate FA 338A, FA 338B Along with occasional group critiques PREREQUISITE COURSE their skill and understanding of Advanced Painting/Water Media and related readings in contemporary typographic composition and Students will focus on water media— art, may include individual study. FA 130A, FA 130B Painting letterpress printing techniques. acrylic, transparent watercolor and 3 credits. Visiting Artist A studio experience with the physical, 2 credits. One-semester course. Cannot gouache—through work on canvas compositional and conceptual Pamela Wilson-Ryckman be repeated. Free elective credit. TBA and paper. The class will explore the components of pictorial invention and specifc technical challenges and image-making. Readings, assignments characteristics inherent in these media and critiques will enhance the INTRADISCIPLINARY including the range from transparency development and articulation of an to opacity. Individual approaches SEMINAR inventive individual approach to the will be encouraged in developing the painting discipline in preparation for aesthetics of the evolving image from SE 403A, SE 403B advanced level work. spontaneity to studied expression, IntraDisciplinary Seminar 3 credits per semester. One-year from fguration to abstraction. This course is a hybrid between a course. Prerequisite to all Advanced Exposure to selected examples of lecture series and discussion seminar. Painting courses. Bordo/Treib/True historical and contemporary imagery It is intended to provide a stimulating will be accomplished through slides, and rigorous forum between students’ exhibitions and gallery or studio visits. artistic concerns and those of twelve 3 credits. One-semester course. TBA visiting speakers in a public lecture series of the School of Art. Class discussions will center on diverse presentations by artists, theorists, THE SCHOOL OF ART 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 63

FA 336A Advanced Painting performance practices within the ADVANCED COURSES FA 363A, FA 363B Advanced The course will emphasize attention feld of contemporary art, as well as Photography: Digital Photography in equal parts to art-making and their current manifestations. Lectures, FA 360A, FA 360B Advanced This studio course focuses on issues analytical thinking in students’ studio screenings, readings and discussions Photography: Printing Images related to digital imaging. Students will practices. We will work at consistently support the development of individual This course will focus on the materiality explore ideas related to digital work as defning the language and terminology and collaborative studio work. of the photographic print, both analog well as techniques such as color manage­ used in class discussions, individual 3 credits. One-semester course. and digital. Options in silver-gelatin ment, various corrective measures, and meetings and group critiques so May not be repeated. Hayes (Leave of printing including toning, bleaching and options in digital cameras and printers. that students will leave the course Absence Fall 2014) plating, as well as advanced options in Issues central to photography in the with a solid understanding of crucial digital printing will broaden students’ digital era will be explored. Students will concepts in the feld. Discussions will FA 395 Performance understanding of the photographic pursue individual projects that will be be focused around readings, artist Performance or the live event has been image. Issues involving photographic discussed in group and individual critiques. interviews, assigned exhibition visits, a continuous element of art practice representation will be addressed 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. student presentations and class trips throughout most of the 20th century. through discussions, group and Osinski (Sabbatical Spring 2015) to galleries, museums and artists’ The changing technologies of sound individual critiques, hands-on demon- studios. The aim of the course is to and digital recording devices and their strations and feld trips. Students FA 365A, Advanced Photography: prioritize critical engagement, both in increasing availability have enhanced will produce a fnished set of printed Digital Workflow and out of the studio. the possibilities of documentation images by the end of the semester. In this critique-based studio class, 3 credits. One-semester course. and allowed artists to consider the 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. students will advance their work by Visiting Artist Mark Gibson mediation and documentation of a Osinski (Sabbatical Spring 2015) focusing on the digital color workflow. live event as an integral part of the Technical instruction will include: a For Spring 2015 and later semesters, work itself. In this course, students FA 361 Advanced Photography: dvanced digital camera controls, please see class schedule and will examine the interaction between Large Scale high-end scanning techniques, registration materials for course performance and its documentation This course will concentrate on Lightroom, color management through descriptions specifc to Visiting Artists through practical, historical and subject matter, methodology, size, Photoshop and the use of color profles teaching that semester. theoretical interrogation. The class scale, genre, style, theory and history as well as inkjet printing. Students will proposes to address documentation, of photography. The orientation will advance their work through individual FA 439A, FA 439B not as an inadequate representation be the development of projects, from and group critiques, discussion and Independent Study in Painting nor as a nostalgic marker but as the inception of ideas to professional workshops. 1-3 credits. Requires approval something that operates within a presentation and execution of artistic 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. of instructor and the dean distinct system that can become a work with an emphasis on making Fall only. Vahrenwald of the School of Art vital site of art production. This class large negatives and/or producing takes an interdisciplinary approach to large prints. Students are encouraged FA 365B Advanced Photography: TECHNIQUES making performance work. The medium to take advantage of the full range Studio Photography of performance and its utilization of of image-making resources available The course will primarily address TE 418.1 Water Media Techniques photography, video and sound will be to aid in the creation of works that lighting, including the use of hot lights, This course provides a foundation for explored. Students will read and discuss challenge perceptions. Various options flash, and strobes, with specifc studio techniques, processes and materials texts, looking at the work of other artists of cameras and large scale analog and equipment such as sweeps, diffusers, involved in painting with watercolor, and making their own work. digital printing will be explored. backdrops, tethered shooting, gouache and acrylic. The class explores 3 credits. One semester course. Hayes 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. TBA Lightroom, and Capture One. Retouching the specifc technical challenges (Leave of Absence Fall 2014)/Visiting and color correction in Photoshop will and characteristics inherent in these Artist Alexandro Segade (Fall 2014) FA 362A, FA 362B be covered. media, including the range from Advanced Photography: 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. transparency to opacity. Acquaintance PHOTOGRAPHY Lighting on Location Spring only. Vahrenwald with a wide range of brushes, tools, This critique-based studio course materials, pigments and papers will PREREQUISITE COURSES explores the use of light on location FA 366 Advanced Photography: be offered. A range of approaches in photography. Topics explored by Alternate Processes will be introduced from traditional to FA 106 Photography I this course will include the use and A course for students who wish to experimental so that the student can A one-semester course which explores modifcation of available light as well explore the possibilities of hand- acquire mastery of the medium through the visual language of photography as the use of portable light sources applied photographic emulsions and a variety of experiences. The relevance through both black-and-white and color such as flash (both single and multiple), alternative methods of printing. of technique and imagery to each mediums. Students will learn camera portable battery powered strobes, Processes will include liquid light, student’s personal work and interests controls through the use of 4x5 and remote light triggers and other tools. cyanotype, palladium, color copier and will be developed through discussions digital cameras. 35mm cameras are The emphasis of this course will digital printing options. Student and resource examples. optional. Darkroom printing augments be on using lighting techniques work will be discussed in relation 2 credits. One-semester course. May class assignments and student projects.* outside the studio in order to gain an to contemporary art issues. not be repeated. Free elective credit. 3 credits. One-semester only. May understanding of how light effects the 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. Williams TBA not be repeated. Mickey/Osinski way we interpret our world. (Sabbatical Spring 2015)/Tse 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. FA 368A, FA 368B PERFORMANCE Vahrenwald Advanced Photography: *It is recommended that students have Guest Artist Series FA 290 Elements of Performance digital cameras. Instructors will make This course is intended to help This course examines the elements camera recommendations on the frst students clarify and further the growth that unify the diverse set of practices day of class for those students who of their own work through group and gathered as “performance art.” may wish to purchase one. individual critiques, classroom Engaging concepts of time, movement, presentations and discussions with voice, text and body in performance- contemporary guest artists and the based work, the course addresses both instructor. the historical development of 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. Osinski (Sabbatical Spring 2015) 64 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

FA 369A Advanced Photography FA 367A Advanced Photography: FA 252 Etching I FA 355A, FA 355B Students will produce work using Cameras An introduction to etching images Relief photographic material(s), camera Contemporary photographers employ on metal plates, through the use of Students will be instructed in various or any photographic device of their a variety of technologies. This studio hardground, aquatint softground. relief printing techniques, including choice. Work will be discussed in class will consist of a series of The emphasis is on the technical traditional Japanese water-based group critiques as well as individual demonstrations and assignments to understanding of the medium. Other woodblock and Western techniques conferences with the instructor. explore how the history and aesthetics image-making processes to be covered with oil-based inks on wood and Photographic issues and representation are drypoint and engraving. linoleum. Use of the hydraulic press of photography are inextricably linked will be the subject of reading and 3 credits. One-semester course. will allow large format works to be to the technological developments class discussions. May not be repeated. Powell produced. Hand-printing techniques 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. of the medium. A wide spectrum will be taught as well. Small edition Fall only. Raad (Leave of Absence of ‘cameras’ will be introduced, ADVANCED COURSES printing in multiple colors will be Fall 2014) specifcally the camera obscura, emphasized. analog and digital camera formats and FA 350A, FA 350B 3 credits. One-semester course. FA 369B Advanced Photography the panorama. Students will make Silkscreen Workshop Shibata This course will explore multiple- analog, digital or hybrid prints of their An advanced workshop in which the image structures in photography and choosing. students are free to explore screen FA 356A, FA 356B will include issues and examples of 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. printing, graphic arts and photography. Etching Workshop: Photogravure sequencing, time, fctional and non- Visiting Artist David LaSpina There will be formal teaching of This class will primarily teach fctional narratives and meta-narratives For Spring 2015 and later semesters, advanced photographic processes such approaches to the 19th century process and image and text relationships. please see class schedule and as halftone and color separation. of photogravure. Photogravure is a truly Studio projects will be combined with registration materials for course 3 credits. One-semester course. continuous tone photographic intaglio lectures, presentations, feld trips, descriptions specifc to Visiting Artists Prerequisite: Silkscreen I. Clayton/ process. Tonalities are created by an readings and class discussions to teaching that semester. Nobles ink layer, gradually varying in depth, provide the critical framework leading with a very fne aquatint to hold the to the development and production FA 469A, FA 469B FA 351A, FA 351B ink. Photogravure will be the starting of projects that address traditional Independent Study in Photography Lithography Workshop point for the projects rather than the as well as experimental methods of 1-3 credits. Requires approval of An advanced workshop concentrating fnal step. Students should be open multiple-image structures. Projects instructor and the dean of the on individual projects and further to continuing to work on plates with can include but are not limited to: School of Art investigations into the reproducible traditional intaglio techniques. color/black and white, flm/digital/ image and its implications. Discussion 3 credits. One-semester course. flm stills. PRINTMAKING and demonstration will be offered both Prerequisite: Etching I or Photo I. TBA 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. in the direction of a more technical and Spring only. Morton PREREQUISITE COURSES chemical understanding of lithography FA 459A, FA 459B and working in conjunction with other Independent Study in Printmaking Advanced Photography/ FA 250 Silkscreen I traditional print techniques. 1-3 credits. Requires approval of Visiting Artists This course explores screen printing 3 credits. One-semester course. instructor and the dean of the School Course description varies as a means of communication with Prerequisite: Lithography I. Nobles of Art according to the instructor. emphasis on the execution of these For Fall 2014: images. Students visit museums FA 352A, FA 352B TECHNIQUES to learn to appreciate posters from Etching Workshop FA 364A Advanced Photography various historical periods. The actual This course will involve individual TE 353 Papermaking Techniques The class will commence with an screen printing will be taught with directions in etching as well as the This course includes the making of image presentation; all students the use of images, type and color. development of projects combining traditional Western paper from rags are required to bring in one piece of The goal of the course is to combine print technique and aesthetic goals. to a fnished sheet and the making of work to the frst class for orientation the components of art, printing and The understanding and use of the traditional Oriental paper from tree and discussion. An emphasis communication. contemporary professional print shop bark to a fnished sheet. Students learn throughout the class will be placed 3 credits. One-semester course. will be discussed. to use a pulp beater, dyes, sizings and on photographic ideas, methods, May not be repeated. Clayton 3 credits. One-semester course. a small vacuum table for molding the strategies, and installation of work. Prerequisite: Etching I. TBA pulp. Simple binding and box-building Students will be required to pick an FA 251 Lithography I techniques as well as marbling are artist of their choice from class list An introduction to traditional and FA 354A, FA 354B demonstrated. and give a presentation about their contemporary image-making on Experimental Printmaking 2 credits. One-semester course. work. The class will include group lithographic stones and commercial The course will supplement the Free elective credit. DiEdwardo critiques and discussions, individual aluminum plates, with emphasis on the traditional printmaking techniques of studio visits, as well as class trips to technical aspect of the medium. The etching, lithography and silk screen exhibitions. various areas to be examined include with an introduction to linoleum 3 credits. Prerequisite: Photo I. stone graining, crayon and tusche woodcut techniques and monoprint/ Visiting Artist Joy Episalla drawing, processing, proofng and monotype combination of methods edition printing procedures, etc. appropriate to developing an aesthetic 3 credits. One-semester course. understanding of the vocabulary of May not be repeated. Nobles the print. Color, multiple printing, work in series or book formats will be discussed in developing student projects. 3 credits. One-semester course. Prerequisites: 2 of the following 4 courses: Silkscreen I, Lithography I, Etching I or Papermaking Techniques. Gleeson/Nobles THE SCHOOL OF ART 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 65

PROJECTS SCIENCE RS 201i Science, Technology and artistic practice. Student work will be Societal Impact reviewed by the entire class and by FA 349 Senior Presentation Project RS 201 Science Topics vary. This course explores the ramifcations the instructor on an individual basis. This project class seeks to mentor 3 general studies credits. Required of the latest scientifc discoveries Lectures, readings and feld trips will students in the development of science course. To be taken during and technological breakthroughs. complement studio critiques. their senior presentations. The class the sophomore, junior or senior year. How will they affect our lives and 3 credits. One-semester course. Adams presents and explores traditional and Armstrong/Davies/Jorgenson the planet? What social, moral, alternative curatorial and exhibition and ethical questions have inspired FA 392A Sculpture models, including one-person and RS201a Earth Science artists to use them in their work? This course is based on the group exhibitions, collaborative The course will cover a broad range Each class will focus on a different development of an in-depth practice and curatorial projects, site- and of Earth Science topics including scientifc discipline such as genetic that connects to the multiple properties institution-specifc installations, understanding rocks and the stories engineering, cognitive neuroscience, of sculpture. Thematic subjects will be interventions and performance. Class they tell, the vast scale of geological tissue engineering, synthetic biology, open, based on individual body of work, discussions and individual meetings time, dynamic plate tectonic processes, and personal genomics. An explanation at the same time, subject positioning, with the instructor will allow for a full climate change, and what makes the of the science will be followed by viewer/author relationship, and clarity range of critical interaction. A written planet habitable for life. It will inspire a discussion examining the utopic/ of reading will be studied. Classes component is an intrinsic part of this wonder and a deep appreciation for dystopic myths surrounding these will be guided by the theoretical and project whether towards the writing the Earth. The course will present to technologies, fact vs. hype, and what affective connections the students of project proposals, artist statements, students a different way of looking questions should be raised as we have in their engagement with materials power point lectures, or artist talks at the Earth: not as something that is implement them. Guest artists and and the practice of sculpture as idea and performances. Each student is constant and static but rather dynamic their work will be featured along with and as concrete daily activity. Ideas required to make a presentation to and constantly changing, a place with scientists and ethicists. and mediums will be discussed and the class outlining the parameters a broad and exciting history of which analyzed in relation to context, and of his or her artistic theses. Three we are only a small part. RS 201j The Climate System historical grounding. Texts of different recent graduates of the School of Art The Earth’s climate system is complex kinds will be used as complementary representing different artistic practices RS 201f Current Issues in Biology and dynamic, and a solid understanding to the work being produced and as and goals, ranging from those who This introductory course will provide of this system is crucial in order to tools for each student. Group critiques attend(ed) graduate school, to those in an understanding of the science address concerns about human will focus on delving deeply into each the process of developing individual or behind many of the current issues influences on climate. In this course student’s work with special emphasis collaborative artistic practices, will be facing society. The goal is to provide we examine the basic physical and on connecting what the student wants invited to give artist talks and to join biological literacy in order to evaluate chemical processes that control the the work to be, how it functions, is in class discussions as a further scientifc arguments presented in modern climate system, including the experienced and read. articulation of the senior presentation topics related to human disease and role of incoming solar radiation, 3 credits. Lehyt experience within the extended Cooper current events affecting human health the greenhouse effect, ocean and community. such as stem cell research, genetically- atmospheric circulation, and El Niño. FA 393A Sculpture 3 credits. One-semester. Bordo modifed food and genetic testing. We also look at the methods and This course helps students explore archives used to reconstruct climate and develop their personal process FA 384A Projects RS 201g Astronomy in the past. We explore the possible of making art, with an emphasis This course is open to all third and This course begins with an historical effects of greenhouse gas emissions on sculpture. Formal and material fourth year students who intend to overview and then introduces the caused by humans on modern and choices will be discussed in relation initiate or pursue a longer term (longer contemporary understanding of the future climate by examining the models to intention, meaning, context, and than a semester) art project. Students universe. Students learn about the key used in climate prediction, and discuss contemporary culture. Research and are expected to present their work-in- elements of the universe, including the challenges of modeling such a development are given equal weight progress weekly, to research the works motion, energy, gravity and light. complex system. Although this course to fnished work. Students will discuss of other artists, writers, and thinkers, Topics include; the solar system and is taught from a primarily scientifc their process individually with the and to participate actively in class its origins; the sun; stellar evolution perspective, it includes discussions of instructor, and present work for review discussions. including white dwarfs, neutron stars, the roles policy and economics play in to the entire class. In-class slide Open to all 3rd and 4th year students. and black holes; galaxies beginning the current dialogue on global climate presentations, readings, and feld trips May be repeated with instructor’s with the structure of the Milky Way; change. Finally, we look at some of the will complement class discussions. permission. Raad (Leave of Absence dark matter, dark energy and the Big local impacts of climate change and 3 credits. Magid preparedness planning for New York City. Fall 2014) Bang theory. Labs and feld trips to an observatory augment class discussion. FA 394A, FA 394B SCULPTURE Sculpture RS 201h Topics in Physics: This course takes a concrete approach Space, Time, Light, and Matter FA 391A, FA 391B to the development of critical discourse The course provides an overview of Sculpture about works of art. It exercises the discoveries in physics over the past This course helps students develop student’s ability to analyze the activity two millenia, focusing on the develop­ projects related to their own vision and of making sculpture in particular and ment of modern theories. Topics include ideas. Class discussions address the advances the student’s understanding nature of light and matter, relativity, full range of conceptual and material of how to proceed in the studio. quantum mechanics, evolution of the processes that generate production. Problems of structure, materials, universe and the nature of science. Research and development will be meaning, intention and context are the Knowledge of basic algebra is assumed. given equal weight to fnished work. subject of class discussion. Field trips and computer lab assignments Intention, form, materiality and 3 credits. One-semester course. Logis are included in the syllabus. context will be analyzed against larger (Leave of Absence Fall 2014)/Farmiga/ questions of culture in relation to Visiting Artist Judith Shea 66 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

FA 396A, FA 396B TECHNIQUES FACULTY Proportional-Time Sculpture: Seminar in Public Art Faculty This course focuses on the production TE 390 Casting Techniques Administration of artworks that question and/or re- Casting Techniques is a process Associate Professors invent the boundaries between public intensive course covering the methods and private spheres. Student projects of translating a wax positive into Saskia Bos, Dean Douglas Ashford will be generated and analyzed in bronze or other non-ferrous metals. All Stamatina Gregory, Associate Dean B.F.A., The Cooper Union relation to current transformations associated techniques from beginning Judith Cantor Bernstein Niki Logis (Leave of Absence Fall 2014) in culture and technology as they a plaster or rubber mold to casting, B.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY affect the meaning of “publicness.” chasing, fnishing and patination of Coordinator of Academic Operations Complementing studio production will metal sculptures will be covered. Danyel Ferrari David True be lectures, readings and discussions Students will explore a variety of Coordinator of Student Exhibitions B.F.A., M.F.A., Ohio University that engage social, political and urban approaches to casting, as well as issues relevant to the topic. Traditional engage in discussions involving the Tia Jeung, Budgets Coordinator Adjunct Faculty approaches to public art, such as history of bronze casting, and its place Margaret Wray, Assistant to the Dean enhancement and commemoration in contemporary art. Professors will be challenged by more temporal 2 credits. One-semester course. May Christine McCann and critical strategies Historical not be repeated. Free elective credit. Administrative Assistant Betsy Alwin examples will be examined, including Alwin/Wilhelm Amy Westpfahl, B.A., B.F.A., Mankato State University; M.F.A., Illinois State University the Flaneur, Russian Constructivism, Coordinator, School of Art Admissions the Situationists, Fluxus and SOUND ART Jack Barth Conceptualism, as well as the most Office of Academic Advisement B.A., California State University; recent example of public interventions. FA 281 Project in Sound Art and Off-Campus Programs M.F.A. University of California at Irvine 3 credits. Adams This class will introduce strategies Larry Brown for understanding and participating in Day Gleeson B.A., Washington State University; FA 397A, FA 397B the aural world. The course is divided Academic Adviser Sculpture M.F.A., University of Arizona into specifc weekly topics, including Margaret Morton This course takes a concrete approach acoustic ecology, circuit-bending, radio Jacob Burckhardt Director, Off-Campus Programs to the development of critical discourse transmission, synaesthesia and others. B.A., University of Pennsylvania about works of art. It exercises the Screenings, readings and discussion Joyce Bishop, Coordinator, Lorenzo Clayton student’s ability to analyze the activity are supported by hands-on workshops Offce of Academic Advisement B.F.A., The Cooper Union of making sculpture in particular and in capturing, manipulating and advances the student’s understanding reproducing sound in unconventional Full-Time Faculty Warren Corbitt of how to proceed in the studio. ways. Grading is based on three B.A., Vassar College; Problems of structure, materials, student projects and participation in Professors M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art meaning, intention and context are the class discussions. Cara DiEdwardo subject of class discussion. 3 credits. One-semester course. Dennis Adams B.F.A., The Cooper Union 3 credits. One-semester. Ashford/Lins May not be repeated. Poff B.F.A., Drake University; M.F.A., Tyler School of Art Stephen Ellis Sculpture/Visiting Artists Margaret Morton B.F.A., Cornell University; Course description varies according B.F.A., Kent State University; New York Studio School to the instructor. M.F.A., Yale University Glenn Goldberg For Fall 2014: Christine Osinski New York Studio School; FA 398A Sculpture (Sabbatical Spring 2015) M.F.A., Queens College, CUNY 3 credits. Visiting Artist Leon Finley B.F.A., School of the Art Institute Beverly Joel of Chicago; B.F.A., The Cooper Union Spring 2015 and later semesters, M.F.A., Yale University please see class schedule and Mindy Lang registration materials for course Associate Professors B.F.A., The Cooper Union descriptions specifc to Visiting Artists Robert Bordo Lisa Lawley teaching that semester. McGill University; B.F.A., The Cooper Union; New York Studio School M.F.A., Yale University FA 499A, FA 499B Independent Study in Sculpture Mike Essl (Sabbatical Fall 2014; Pamela Lins 1-3 credits. Requires approval of Leave of Absence Spring 2015) M.F.A., Hunter College, CUNY instructor and the dean of the B.F.A., The Cooper Union; Jill Magid School of Art M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art B.F.A., Cornell Unversity; Day Gleeson M.A., Massachusetts Institute of B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design Technology Sharon Hayes Jeremy Mores McWreath (Leave of Absence Fall 2014) B.F.A., The Cooper Union; B.A., Bowdoin College M.F.A., University of Southern M.F.A., University of California, California Los Angeles; Whitney Museum Yuri Masnyj Independent Study Program B.F.A., The Cooper Union Walid Raad (Leave of Absence Fall 2014) Scott Nobles Rochester Institute of Technology; B.F.A., The Cooper Union; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester M.F.A., Hunter College (CUNY) THE SCHOOL OF ART 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 67

Zach Poff James Leary David LaSpina Heidi Lau B.A., University of Maryland B.F.A., The Cooper Union B.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technical Assistant, Printmaking Technology; M.F.A., Yale University Jennifer Todd Reeves Cristobal Lehyt Kevin Leonard B.A., Bard College; Universidad Catolica de Chile; Alexandro Segade Co-Head Technician, M.F.A., University of California, Hunter College; Whitney Independent B.A, M.F.A., University of California Art & Architecture Shop San Diego Study Program Los Angeles Ross McLaren Zach Rockhill John Lindell Michelle Segre Technical Assistant, Film/Video B.F.A., University of Kansas; M.F.A., B.A., University of California, Berkeley B.F.A., The Cooper Union Eric Monasterio Rutgers University Patrick McElnea Judith Shea Technical Assistant, Art & Architecture Yasuyuki Shibata B.F.A., The Cooper Union; M.F.A., Yale B.F.A., Parsons School of Design Shop B.F.A., Kyoto Seika University, Japan University Helene Silverman Scott Nobles Erin Sparling Pablo Medina Stanton Chair in Graphic Design Digital Specialist Print Technician, School of the Art Institute of Chicago B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute Syracuse University Printmaking Alexander Tochilovsky Darin Mickey Pamela Wilson-Ryckman Zach Poff B.F.A., The Cooper Union; B.F.A., The School of Visual Arts B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Technical Assistant, Film/Video M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art M.A., School of the Art Institute of Nyeema Morgan Daniel Porvin Chicago Michael Vahrenwald B.F.A., The Cooper Union; M.F.A., Lab Supervisor, Film/Video B.F.A., The Cooper Union California College of the Arts Robin Randisi M.F.A., Yale University Staff Stephan Pascher Technical Assistant, Film/Video Andrew Wilhelm B.F.A., The Cooper Union Betsy Alwin Joseph Riley B.F.A., Kutztown University; Jenny Perlin Technical Assistant, Technical Assistant, Type Shop M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., School Art & Architecture Shop University Michael Stickrod of the Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Amy Buckley Technical Assistant, Jennifer Williams Independent Study Program Technical Assistant, Photography Art & Architecture Shop B.F.A., The Cooper Union; Freya Powell M.F.A., Goldsmith’s College (London) Ian Burnley Colin Todd B.A., Bard College; M.F.A., Hunter Painting Offce Coordinator, Technical Assistant, Photography College of CUNY Painting/Drawing Instructors Ryan Toth Halsey Rodman Blake Carrington Night Monitor, Painting/Drawing Mitra Abbaspour B.A., Univeristy of California Santa Technical Assistant, Film/Video B.A., Scripps College; M.A., Barbara; M.F.A., Columbia University Andrew Wilhelm University of California Riverside; Lea Cetera Technical Assistant, Roy Rub M.Phil., City University of New York Technical Assistant, Art & Architecture Shop B.F.A., The Cooper Union Art and Architecture Shop Tim Cramer Jennifer Williams Mary Simpson B.Arch, Pratt Institute Lorenzo Clayton Co-Head Technician, Photography B.A., Pacifc Lutheran University Technical Assistant, Printmaking Rondi Davies M.F.A., Columbia University Bryan Zimmerman B.S., University of Sydney (Australia) Pablo Diaz Co-Head Technician, Photography PhD., Macquarie University (Australia) Patricia Treib Technical Assistant, Type Shop B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute The Herb Lubalin Study Center Hannes Famira of Chicago; M.F.A., Columbia University Cara DiEdwardo of Design and Typography B.A., KABK, Royal Academy of Fine Skowhegan School of Painting and Technical Assistant, Printmaking Arts, The Hague (Netherlands) Sculpture and Head Technician, Type Shop Alexander Tochilovsky Adriana Farmiga Ka -Man Tse Andrew Fillmore Curator B.F.A., The Cooper Union B.A., Bard College; Technical Assistant, Photography Laura Mircik-Sellers M.F.A., Bard College M.F.A., Yale University Saredt Franco Archive Coordinator Ryan Garrett John Vondracek Technical Assistant, Printmaking B.F.A., The Cooper Union; M.F.A., B.F.A., The Cooper Union Ben Fries The Saturday/Outreach Program University of Southern California; Technical Assistant, Film/Video Whitney Independent Study Program Marina Gutierrez Visiting Artists (Fall 2014) Pedro Gonzalez Agnieszka Gasparska Co-Director Alicia Cheng Technical Assistant, Film/Video B.F.A., The Cooper Union B.A., Barnard College; Stephanie Hightower Anna Hostvedt Co-Director Iman Issa M.F.A., Yale University Senior Coordinator, Painting/Drawing B.F.A., American University Jessica Dickinson Karma Mayet Johnson in Cairo (Egypt) Haisi Hu B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Saturday Program Writing Liaison M.F.A., Columbia University Technical Assistant, Film/Video Art; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art Charles Fambro Steffani Jemison James Kendi Joy Episalla Saturday Program B.S., Columbia University; M.F.A., Technical Assistant, Photography A.A., Rochester Institute of Technology; Curriculum Coordinator School of the Art Institute of Chicago B.F.A., California College of the Arts Caitlin Keogh Pablo Diaz Ellen Jorgensen Technical Assistant, Painting/Drawing Leon Finley Outreach Program Manager B.A., New York University; M.A., B.F.A., The Cooper Union; Frank Kurtzke M. Phil, Columbia University; PhD., Aisha Tandiwe Bell M.F.A., Yale University Co-Head Technician, Saturday Program General Coordinator New York University Art & Architecture Shop Mark Gibson Joseph Kendall B.F.A., The Cooper Union; B.F.A., The Cooper Union M.F.A., Yale University 68 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

THE ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

MISSION STATEMENT

The Albert Nerken School of Engineering will create an educa- tional culture with a commitment to excellence. We will bring together the best and brightest engineering students; we will nurture and develop their talents; we will encourage them to work and learn at their highest levels; and we will instill in them the desire and the ability to use their engineering background to fulfll their potential as knowledgeable, creative and responsible leaders in society. cooper.edu/engineering ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 69

OVERVIEW programs are the emphasis on project-based learning and oppor- tunities for undergraduate research. Students and their peers With an average enrollment of about 450 undergraduate students, regularly join the faculty in solving real-life problems that exist in engineering is the largest of The Cooper Union’s schools. The contemporary society. Multi-disciplinary teams work together, school maintains small class sizes in courses and laboratories in frequently cooperating with outside professionals, who act as order to provide for personal attention. It offers bachelor of engi- mentors. Superior analytical abilities and thorough grounding in neering (B.E.) degree programs in chemical, civil, mechanical and engineering fundamentals and design enable students to collaborate electrical engineering, accredited by the EAC commission of ABET*. on these projects. Results may be published, presented at confer- In addition, the school offers a general engineering program ences or even patented. (B.S.E.). This program empowers students to create their own A strong background in engineering design threads curricula (within carefully set parameters) in those areas of engi- through-out the curriculum, starting with the frst year. This neering that cross traditional boundaries—for example, computer design experience takes into consideration factors such as envi- science, invention, entrepreneurship, biomedical, energy, ronmental issues, sustainability, economics, teamwork, societal sustainability, infrastructure, environmental, mechatronics, impact, safety and political climate—showing students that a robotics, etc. “design” is much more than a purely technological solution. The B.S.E. program provides an excellent preparation for Some design problems are offered in collaboration with foreign graduate work in law, medicine, business, etc. universities to increase awareness of the global nature of the engi- The integrated master’s program offers the opportunity to neering profession (e.g., The Cooper Union’s study abroad and earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in an engineering international programs). Others may involve collaboration with discipline at The Cooper Union within four, fve or six years. industry or hospitals. Degree programs are designed to prepare students to enter Diverse electives are offered so that interested students can the engineering profession immediately after graduation or to pursue add a background in business and entrepreneurship, additional graduate study. An extraordinary number of Cooper Union engi- mathematics and science or a “concentration” in an additional neering graduates have gone on to earn Ph.D. degrees at the nation’s engineering area. most prestigious graduate schools. Others have gone on to study in Like The Cooper Union’s other schools, the Albert Nerken felds such as medicine, law or business. Many graduates have risen School of Engineering is intimately involved with the New York to leadership positions in industry, education and government. metropolitan area. Sometimes, the city and its infrastructure are The early curricula in engineering are based on intensive used as a laboratory. The school also draws on the region’s abun- work in the sciences, mathematics, computer science and engi- dant talent and resources, including an outstanding array of engi- neering sciences, which serve as preparation for in-depth study neers and scientists employed at major corporations, within the various engineering felds. Building on this strong base governmental agencies and consulting frms in the New York of mathematics and sciences, and emphasizing the integration of region. The school calls on physicians, lawyers and other special- knowledge, these curricula are concerned with an understanding ists to collaborate on research and mentoring and to give unique of nature, the limitations of our present knowledge and the poten- insights into contemporary problems and social issues confronting tial for advancing that knowledge. modern engineers. Many of these professionals serve as adjunct Strong mathematical and computer skills are developed in all faculty members who lend a dynamism to the classroom. engineering students.This includes the ability to mathematically Students beneft from an uncommonly close interaction with model and solve problems algorithmically, in a suitable language, devoted faculty, many of whom are loyal alumni, in a conservatory- and to use existing commercial packages for analysis and design. style environment. Our faculty bring their diverse experiences to the Students are expected to be fluent in at least two computer classroom and laboratory setting and serve as role models to our languages, and many specialized packages are used both in elective students. Our students are encouraged to participate in The Cooper and in required courses. The faculty expect assignments to be Union’s rich seminar and cultural programs as well as to attend carried out using the computer in appropriate ways, both as a design talks by guest speakers. They join various professional societies, tool using packages and also as a platform for original software. many of which have chapters at The Cooper Union. Students are Defning characteristics of the School of Engineering’s inspired to qualify for membership in national engineering honor

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societies; many join before graduation. They also participate in student FACILITIES AND RESEARCH government and sports, and take advantage of the vast cultural environment offered by New York City and the neighborhood. The Brooks Computer Center is available to all students and In preparation for their responsibilities as engineers who are faculty. It provides a centralized administration and technological affected by the dynamics of technological advances and social support for all academic computing needs, and allows students to change, students are exposed to and challenged in the felds of take advantage of rapidly emerging hardware and software tech- social science, humanities and other general studies. nologies. The center maintains an ample supply of computers of The School of Engineering strongly encourages undergraduate all major types—Intel™ based machines, Apple Macintosh,™ Sun research activities and permits juniors and seniors to register for Microsystems,™ IBM™ are examples. Workstations are concen- graduate level courses, when deemed appropriate. This enroll- trated in computer classrooms, offices, laboratories, the resi- ment does not guarantee admission to the master’s program dence hall and special centers. however. A Cooper Union undergraduate may apply to the graduate The Department of Information Technology provides a wired program (Master of Engineering) in one of the degree-granting and wireless network resulting in a rich and reliable computing departments during the second semester of the senior year. environment. It is locally accessible through the intranet, which Graduates of The Cooper Union are recruited regularly by connects all but specialized stand-alone systems. Students have major national and international corporations and graduate access to all the major operating systems such as the varieties of schools nationwide. Alumni are found in the top management and Microsoft Windows,™ Solaris,™ Linux™ and Mac/OS.™ research leadership of many American corporations; hold key The Department of Information Technology has both formal positions in federal, state and city agencies; and distinguish them- classroom instructional facilities and informal drop-in accommo- selves on university faculties and administrations nationwide. dations. Currently, there exist no restrictions or charges for Through their many and varied professional accomplishments, computer time and availability is widespread. alumni have earned for the school its reputation for excellence. A full complement of applications, programming languages and Internet tools are available. Multimedia hardware includes audio/video capture and output, print and flm scanners, digital cameras, CD burners and large-format color plotters. Data communications with the outside community are maintained via multiple dedicated high-speed Internet connec- tions. Students and faculty have access to software packages and programming languages on the local network and can download content from all Internet sites worldwide. Students are expected to pay careful attention to copyright and ethical uses of the Internet and to conduct themselves professionally at all times.

C.V. Starr Research Foundation The C.V. Starr Research Foun- dation, whose forerunner was established in 1976 as The Cooper Union Research Foundation, is a not-for-proft corporation and sponsors many of the externally funded research projects in the School of Engineering. By encouraging and supporting research, the foundation augments the educational opportunities for students, enhances professional development of faculty, promotes multidisciplinary research and serves the community through its research and development efforts and as a sponsor of public seminars and conferences. Participation in research activities by faculty and students is essential to the vitality of the educational programs. In attempting to meet this objective, The C.V. Starr Research Foundation plays an important role for faculty and students having research talent who ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 71

wish to pursue sponsored research individually or in concert with The center enables collaborations between the Cooper Union other faculty and students. The foundation facilitates collabora- community and distinguished mentors from industry and other tion with other universities, hospitals, industry and government. educational institutions, who contribute their time, insights and Projects undertaken by The C.V. Starr Research Foundation resources. are externally funded. Faculty serve as project directors, assisted Applied skill sets are required to develop, fund and ulti- by other faculty members, outside consultants and undergrad- mately bring to market a successful product. The center provides uate and graduate students of The Cooper Union. a supportive, flexible research and learning laboratory based The C.V. Starr Research Foundation supports all programs upon real-world problem solving. in all of the schools at The Cooper Union, both at the undergrad- Technology depends upon the skills of numerous disciplines uate and graduate levels, by providing real-life research projects and lateral thinkers. CIAT will make a difference by solving some throughout the curriculum. To this end, several inter-disciplinary of today’s challenges and providing a forum where the disciplines research centers have been developed. can be merged. Each of the centers aims to draw upon the varied faculty The Center for Urban Systems and Infrastructure has started expertise across The Cooper Union and uses laboratory resources research in the areas of urban security and protective design, in the School of Engineering, as well as the resources of the infrastructure rehabilitation, new energy technologies, acoustics Schools of Art and Architecture. and noise abatement and sustainable environment. Industrial Recent research sponsors of The C.V. Starr Research Foun- partnerships have been formed with various corporations and dation include Zimmer, Pfzer, EPRI, Con Edison, the National government agencies. The Cooper Union Institute for Urban Security Agency, the City of New York Departments of Transpor- Security operates under the auspices of this center, and the tation, Environmental Protection and Design and Construction, following institutes are being developed: Transpo, Lucent, NYSERDA, the U.S. DOE, Lenox Hill Hospital, • The Institute of Water Resources and the Environment, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of • The Institute of Renewable Energy and Health, Albert Einstein, STRYKER. Verdant Technologies and the • The Institute for Soil Structure Interaction and the Underground Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Built Environment. The C.V. Starr Research Foundation has a proprietary interest in several new technologies, all of them patented and The Center for Materials and Manufacturing Technology most of them developed at The Cooper Union. Examples include engages in research in composite materials, fre-resistant and several patents in asphalt technology, a clean coal-burning tech- blast-resistant materials, robotics, mechatronics, nano-technolo- nology, an innovative hydro-electric generation process, fuel-cell gies and nano-biosensors. The center is also active in innovative processes, a micro-balance sensor and several patents in tele- product design and automation. communications and environmental measurement devices. The Center for Signal Processing, Communications and Computer The Maurice Kanbar Center for Biomedical Engineering Engineering (S*PROCOM2) engages in ongoing research in pursues groundbreaking biomedical research in such felds as biomedical signal and image processing, neuroscience, software orthopedic biomechanics, medical imaging, minimally invasive engineering, mapping algorithms to FPGA and other specialized surgery, tissue engineering, medical device design, ergonomics architectures, network security, Monte Carlo simulations and and injury rehabilitation. The center has established collaborative wireless communications. Other areas of interest include sensor relationships with several hospitals and medical research institu- arrays and networks, embedded control systems and cognitive tions in the New York City area. systems. Partnerships and collaboration have been established with technology frms, both small and large, medical research The Center for Innovation and Applied Technology is an inter- institutions and fnancial frms in and around New York City. disciplinary research and educational resource that provides answers to our technological and productivity challenges. Bold and innovative concepts are linked with successful planning and practical implementation strategies. Innovation is the result of creative conceptualizations that are developed and brought to market. Inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs are needed to make lasting societal contributions. 72 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

The Center for Sustainable Engineering, Art and Architecture– BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Materials, Manufacturing and Minimalization (SEA2M3), SEA2M3 The requirements for the bachelor’s degree programs must be seeks to develop an awareness of solutions to engineering prob- completed within four years of frst registration, except with the lems that preserve the integrity of the commons; it is a space where explicit consent of the dean/associate dean. Requests for exten- true cross-disciplinary conversation and reciprocal learning generate sion must be presented in writing to the dean’s office prior to the real solutions that can be imagined, created and implemented. sixth semester of registration (or the end of junior year). It is the Using their ability to communicate and infused with an under- responsibility of the student to maintain normal and reasonable standing of the world, its people and cultures, students create and progress toward the degree. disseminate designs suited to, and in harmony with their place of Courses may be taken at other institutions for credit with use. SEA2M3 provides a forum within which students from the prior appropriate adviser(s) approval only. The student is respon- schools of engineering, art and architecture come together to sible for all costs incurred. As a general matter, many courses develop new design criteria that yield materials, manufacturing simply may not be taken elsewhere (e.g., Physics I). In order to get techniques, habitats and lifestyles that are sustainable, and that, a course pre-approved, bring as much course documentation as ultimately, reduce the chasm between the rich and the poor. possible to the Chair of the appropriate department to have the course assessed. These materials must include at least the syllabus and textbook. The course must be judged to be equiva- lent to one taught at Cooper. Note that only grades “B” or better can be transferred (not B-) and the grade will not be factored into your G.P.A. Additionally, ABET accreditation requires: • one year of a combination of mathematics and sciences (some with experimental experience) appropriate to the discipline, • one and a half years of engineering topics consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student’s feld of study and • a general educational component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and institutional objectives.

In order to graduate, all students must meet the following conditions: • A minimum of 135 credits are required; • Satisfaction of all program curricula; • Satisfaction of the residence study requirements; • A minimum grade point average (G.P.A.) of 2.0; • A minimum grade point average (G.P.A.) of 2.0 for the junior and senior years combined.

Faculty Advisers All frst-year students have the same faculty adviser. For subsequent years, students will be assigned one, two or more advisers each, appropriate to their feld of study. Each student’s program is established in consultation with his or her adviser(s); changes can only be made with approval of the adviser(s). ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 73

Humanities and Social Sciences The requirements in this area Course Substitutions and Credits A student may request to are satisfed by courses offered by The Cooper Union Faculty of substitute for a required course or courses given in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences or by transfer credit for liberal Engineering provided that: arts courses taken at other institutions. The courses in this area • the substitution is limited to 12 credits maximum toward are intended to provide both breadth and depth and should not be the total number of credits required for graduation, limited to a selection of unrelated introductory courses. • the substitution is approved by the dean/associate dean The Cooper Union liberal arts courses, shown elsewhere in and program adviser(s) and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences catalog section, • ABET accreditation requirements are not violated. have prefxes H, S and HTA. The basic courses HSS1–HSS2 and The Chemical Engineering Department does not permit HSS3–HSS4 are prerequisites for all higher level courses in the the substitution of any courses. same prefx family. H and S courses carry three credits each; HTA The number of academic credits for each course generally courses carry two credits. Engineering students should consult is based on the following relationship: with the dean of Humanities and Social Sciences about choice of • 1 credit per contact hour in class

1 courses to satisfy particular interests. • ⁄2 credit per contact hour of laboratory Transfer credits for liberal arts courses must be approved by This relationship was established on the basis that generally two the dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. Courses that cannot hours of preparation are expected of the student for every contact be used to satisfy the Humanities and Social Sciences require- hour in class or project activities and generally one hour of prepa- ment are: ration is expected for every contact hour of laboratory. • language skills courses such as introductory foreign language, public speaking, report writing; Residence Study Requirement A candidate for a bachelor’s • craft and performance courses unless accompanied degree must be enrolled during the entire academic year immedi- by theory or history; ately preceding the granting of the degree and must carry at least • subjects such as accounting, fnance, engineering economy, 12 credits per semester during that period. Also, the candidate industrial management, personnel administration. must have been enrolled for a minimum of four semesters at The Cooper Union as a full-time student for the bachelor’s degree. Some programs require “free electives or non-technical elec- tives.” For transfer credit for particular courses, the School of Art or the School of Architecture may be a more appropriate authority to sanction the transfer. Students who are uncertain should approach the Office of the Dean of Engineering in the frst instance and be directed to the correct group of faculty.

Program Requirements The specifc programs for entering students are shown in detail in the curriculum tables which are shown in “Departments and Programs” starting on page 82. From time to time, changes are made to these programs following curricular developments authorized by the faculty. Advances in technology and new technologies are closely monitored and are reflected by adjustments in all the engineering programs. 74 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Core Curriculum of the School of Engineering IN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Freshman Year Credits General Engineering Fall Semester: The School of Engineering offers a program in General Engi- ESC 000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 neering leading to the degree of bachelor of science in engi- Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 neering (B.S.E.). It is Intended for students who have a clear Idea Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 of their educational objectives. These may require a more flexible EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Inter-disciplinary course of study. This program Is also suitable for CS 102 Computer Programming for Engineers 3 students who desire a strong, broad-based, rigorous engineering HSS 1 Literary Forms and Expressions 3 background as preparation for graduate study in mathematics, Total credits fall semester 18 science or other disciplines. Spring Semester: ESC 000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 Curriculum Ma 113 Calculus II 4 While details of programs will vary according to educational goals Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 and adviser’s requirements, the core is as follows: Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 Credits Total credits spring semester 15.5 Core Courses 55 Humanities and Social Sciences minimum 6 Sophomore Year Credits (over and above the core courses) Engineering and Engineering Science and Computer Science minimum 44 Fall Semester: (over and above the core courses) ESC 000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 Free Electives 30 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 Total credits 135 Ma 224 Probability 2 Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Lab 1.5 The program is administered by an advisor assigned by the HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 dean’s office. Students may choose courses from the existing Electives 6 Engineering programs or from the proposed Computer Science Total credits fall semester 18.5 program as well as free electives from select courses open to Spring Semester: engineering students within Art, Architecture and the Humanities ESC 000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 and Social Sciences. Choice of electives is closely monitored for Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations 3 academic rigor and coherence. Ph 214 Physics III: Optics and Modern Physics 3 Students who are considering applying to medical or dental HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 school after completing the program are advised to take one year Electives 10 of biology. Law schools may require additional courses in the Total credits spring semester 19 social sciences. The program is not suitable for students who wish licensure. ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 75

MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEGREE REQUIREMENTS CURRICULUM AND REQUIREMENTS Credit Requirements A minimum of 30 credits beyond the The integrated bachelor/master of engineering program is baccalaureate degree must be completed at The Cooper Union intended to integrate work at the undergraduate and graduate (in addition to possible undergraduate defciencies). Of these, not levels and prepare graduates for entry into the engineering profes- more than six credits may be undergraduate-level courses. The 30 sion at an advanced level or for further graduate study. It affords credits offered for the degree must satisfy the following distribution: diversifcation and versatility by requiring a student to elect a feld of study—the major—offered in the School of Engineering, and a Credits minor in a different feld of engineering or science; this provides The major minimum 12 depth and breadth. The school offers master’s degrees in chem- A coherent concentration of graduate-level courses in the chosen feld, which must ical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering and include courses approved by the adviser(s). mechanical engineering. (A planned course of study must be submitted for approval by the dean’s offce.)

Admission Procedure Please refer to the “Application and Admis- The minor minimum 12 sion Information” section, page 9. A concentration in an area of engineering other than the chosen major.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS Thesis project 6

Applicants are expected to have a superior undergraduate record Total Credits 30 and to have given evidence of ability for independent work. Students are accepted on an academically competitive basis Grade Requirement A minimum overall grade point average of subject to the availability of an adviser and of suitable available 3.0 is needed in all courses used to satisfy the 30 credit master’s facilities. Undergraduate students are not guaranteed admission degree requirement. to the graduate program.

Cooper Union Undergraduates To be considered for admission Appropriate Excess Credits Taken as an Undergraduate For to the master’s program, one must be a currently enrolled Cooper Cooper Union baccalaureate holders, any credits of appropriate Union undergraduate, with a minimum 3.0 grade point average level, taken as undergraduates in excess of their bachelor’s according to the major. degree requirement, may be applied to the master’s degree, Students should consult the respective departments subject to the above requirements and advisory approval. regarding specifc policies or requirements for admission into the graduate program. Time Limitation For students that began their program prior to the Fall 2014 semester, the requirements for the master of engi- Graduates of Other Colleges The School of Engineering may neering program must be completed within two years of admis- admit outstanding students or qualifed practicing professionals, sion except for extraordinary circumstances that require the on a tuition basis, into the master’s degree programs. To be express consent of the dean or associate dean of engineering. considered for admission, a student should have completed an Requests for such extension must be presented in writing to the engineering baccalaureate program that is accredited by the Office of the Dean in the fnal semester of the second year. Thesis Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). adviser’s approval is also required. Master’s students who receive Applicants must submit official transcripts. Graduates of foreign approval to extend their studies beyond two years will be assessed institutions whose native language is not English are required to a maintenance of matriculation fee of $3,000 per semester. submit scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Admitted students may be required to register for advanced engineering courses to make up for any defciencies. 76 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Program of Study A complete program of study, major as well as HONORS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS minor, is designed by the student with the assistance and approval Dean’s List The Office of Admissions and Records determines a of the academic adviser(s) and approved by the Office of the Dean Dean’s List twice a year, at the end of each semester, on the basis of Engineering. of the record of the completed grade in every subject at the official end of the grading period. To qualify, a student must have a 3.5 or Minors Minor concentrations are offered in accordance with better semester grade point average for a study program of at faculty interests and school resources. Courses in engineering least 12 credits during that semester with no grade lower than C and science are chosen to form an innovative and coherent and no grades of Incomplete (I).* program of study for a minor with the approval of the department and faculty adviser(s). Course Overload An overload in the frst year consists of a credit total greater than the standard load for that semester in a Thesis/Project student’s respective program. A student having a grade point • Each student is required to submit a thesis or project in the average of 3.0 or better may elect to take an overload of one major or the minor area of study, equivalent to a maximum of course in any given semester. In all other cases of overload, six credits (400 level), for partial fulfllment of the master of approval of the student’s academic adviser(s) and the written engineering requirements. This project must be discussed with approval of the dean/associate dean of engineering must be and approved by an adviser prior to being started. obtained. Overload beyond 21.5 credits also requires the written • The thesis or project must be successfully presented orally permission of the dean/associate dean and no overload is by the student and submitted in written form. permitted for students with a prior semester G.P.A. of less than 3.0 or a cumulative G.P.A. of less than 3.0. Requests for overloads Fellowships One source of funding available to students wishing must be submitted to the dean/associate dean during the add to pursue graduate study in engineering is the Enders Fund, governed period of that semester, and only after all grades from the previous by the will of Henry C. Enders and administered by the New York semester(s) have been entered. Community Trust. This fellowship is available to engineering grad- Graduation with Honors Each graduating senior in the School of uates of The Cooper Union who plan to do graduate work in either Engineering who has achieved an overall cumulative rating of 3.8 chemistry, chemical engineering, chemistry-based environmental or higher is awarded the degree with the notation summa cum engineering or chemistry-based bioengineering and, who have laude. Magna cum laude requires a G.P.A. of 3.7 or higher and satisfactorily completed all of the chemistry courses required of cum laude requires at least a 3.5 G.P.A. Cooper Union chemical engineering graduates. Recipients are selected by the joint faculties of chemistry and chemical engineering. Curricular Transfers Students wishing to change their course of study should frst discuss their interests with the current adviser(s) in both the current and the new speciality areas. Transfer is at the discretion of the dean’s office and the receiving department. It may be affected by the student’s grades and availability of program resources. Students who request a change in major must consult with the policies of the department they wish to transfer into. It becomes effective when the required petition form, approved by the dean or associate dean of engineering, has been delivered to the Office of Admissions and Records. First-year students may not change their area of study until the end of the year when two semes- ters’ grades are available. A G.P.A. of 3.0 or better is required for approval to transfer curriculum.

* Students may petition the dean/associate for reconsideration in the Dean’s List after the Incomplete (I) has been made up. ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 77

Transfer Credit Students, at their own expense, desiring to and sophomores, provides a range of experiences and training register for courses at another institution for transfer credit to The through a zero-credit program of seminars, workshops events Cooper Union must have appropriate advance approval. For and activities under the course number ESC000.1-000.4 with a courses in mathematics, sciences or engineering, this approval is PASS/FAIL grade. Each workshop, seminar or activity is assigned to be obtained from: a points score and successful completion of the course is based • the department responsible for the course at The Cooper Union on accumulating a minimum number of points. and Because this is a zero-credit course, failure to accumulate • the dean or associate dean of engineering. enough points will not affect a student’s GPA, his or her ability to graduate or inclusion on the Dean’s List. However, successful For liberal arts courses, approval is to be obtained from the dean of completion will result in a note on the transcript stating: Humanities and Social Sciences. In order that transfer credits from “ESC000.X Engineering Professional Development Seminars and another school be accepted, a grade of B* or better is required. An Workshops—Successfully Completed.” exception may be granted in special circumstances only upon The course is designed to introduce students to the profes- formal appeal to the Academic Standards Committee. sion of engineering, as well as aspects of their professional devel- Transfer credit is never granted for paid summer internships or opment. A wide range of topics are covered in ESC000 including work experience or paid or unpaid research. ethics, environmental awareness, lifelong learning, career devel- opment, interpersonal skills, workplace issues, professional soci- Pre-Medical, Pre-Law or Pre-Business Studies Upon comple- eties, professional licensure, teamwork skills, etc. These topics tion of the engineering degree, some graduates may decide to are dealt with using methods such as case studies, role-playing attend medical, dental, business or law school. Most of the and interactive activities—“learning by doing” all provided by a prerequisites for such a course of action are offered at The Cooper diverse team of people ranging from students to alumni to profes- Union. For medical school or dentistry, students are advised to sional experts. For example, extensive career development op- take one year of organic chemistry and one year of biology. For law portunities are provided by the Center for career Development, or business, additional economics, political science and profes- the Engineering Student Council moderates several seminars and sional ethics courses are useful. Students should consult their Q and A sessions with alumni and upperclassmen and The Coo- adviser(s). per Union’s CONNECT Program provides intensive training in Study Abroad The Cooper Union offers suitably qualifed, communication skills and awareness of the importance of effec-� approved students the opportunity to participate in research tive communication in engineering. programs at various foreign universities during the summer. For These experiences help to make students aware of the im- example, students have attended universities in England, Ireland, portance of the non-technical skills needed for professional suc- Scotland, Australia, Hong Kong, Germany, China, Japan, Italy, cess. The course introduces engineering students to a number of Spain, Ghana and France. Cooper Union credit (up to six credits the topics required for student outcomes (a–k) by ABET. Through at the 300 level) is granted upon successful completion of the this program students are given significant help in navigating research work, presentation of a written report and its approval by their career at The Cooper Union as well as easing the transition the Office of the Dean. Applications are available in the dean’s into the workplace and ensuring professional success. office in mid-January. (Students on probation are ineligible for this Engineering Advisory Council program). Credit is only allowable for exchange programs autho- The School of Engineering is advised in key engineering issues, rized by The Cooper Union School of Engineering. such as leadership, ethics, communication skills, entrepreneurship Professional Development Mastering the technical aspects of an and corporate responsibility, by its Advisory Council, which is engineering field is only part of being a successful engineer. There comprised of company presidents, C.E.O.s, Nobel Laureates, engi- are many other areas that go toward building and continuing a neers, physicians, attorneys and other business and professional professional career. experts. The council meets annually with faculty and students to The School of Engineering has established the Aba and Leja discuss important issues in engineering education. In addition, the Lefkowitz Center for Professional Development to strengthen the Technology Transfer Advisory Committee is made up of appropriate non-technical attributes required of its engineering undergradu- individuals to advise students and faculty about issues such as ates. The program, which is mandatory for engineering freshmen patents, commercialization of inventions, entrepreneurship, etc.

*A grade of B- cannot be transferred 78 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ACADEMIC STANDARDS Faculty members may not unilaterally resolve incidents of AND REGULATIONS academic dishonesty. Each faculty member is required to report all cases of plagiarism or academic dishonesty to the engineering Academic Integrity dean’s office in a memorandum. If documentary evidence of the Faculty at Cooper Union are committed to preserving an environ- incident exists, it should be attached. The dean’s office, in ment that challenges every student to realize his or her potential. consultation with the faculty member and the student, will select You are expected to provide your best effort and will be supported from the following sanctions: a grade of F for the assignment,a to produce original work of the highest caliber. Plagiarism is the grade of F for the course or dismissal of the student from the presentation of another person’s “work product” (ideas, words, school. A record of all incidents will be kept in the dean’s office equations, computer code, graphics, lab data, etc.) as one’s own. and considered for second-time offenders. Students who are Whether done intentionally or unintentionally, plagiarism will not dismissed because of academic dishonesty should be aware that be tolerated in the School of Engineering. incident reports and any responsive actions by the dean’s office There are many types of plagiarism, some of which are listed or Academic Standards Committee become part of their perma- below. (The list is not exhaustive. Speak with the appropriate faculty nent record. member or dean or associate dean of engineering if you are uncertain as to what constitutes ethical conduct in a particular situation.) Sexual or Racial Harassment Such behavior will not be tolerated. Incidents should be reported You are plagiarizing if: immediately. Students should see the dean or associate dean, • You present as your own work product a homework assignment, and also the dean of students as soon as possible. a take-home exam or a class project that includes the efforts of other individuals. The contributions of other individuals (if Code of Conduct permitted by your instructor) must be acknowledged in writing Students are required to read and abide by The Code of Conduct on the submitted assignment, exam or project. published by the Office of Student Services. • You copy the work of other students on an in-class examination or communicate with other individuals in any fashion during an exam. • You submit as part of a homework assignment, take-home exam or class project material that has been copied from any source (including, but not limited to, a reference book, periodical, the Internet) without properly citing the source, and/or without using quotation marks. It is also prohibited to submit such materials in a minimally altered form without proper attribution. Improperly copied material might include text, graphics (computer or otherwise), computer source code, etc.

Other prohibited acts of academic dishonesty include (but are not limited to): • Attempting to obtain a copy of an examination before it is administered. • Dishonesty in dealing with a faculty member or a dean, such as misrepresenting the statements of another faculty member. • Bringing notes into an examination when forbidden to do so. • Bringing any device into an examination (computer/ smartphone/ calculator), which permits the retrieval of examination-related materials unless expressly permitted by the instructor. • Bringing any device into an examination that allows communication with other individuals or computers or computer databases unless expressly permitted by the instructor. ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 79

GRADES OF RECORD The deadline for removal of an l designation will be deter- mined by the instructor, but will not be later than six weeks after The defnitions below deal with the student’s attainment in the the start of the spring semester for students who receive such a formal work of the subject. Nevertheless, it should be understood designation in the fall semester and not later than one week after that such essential qualities as integrity, adherence to class regu- the start of the fall semester for students who receive such a lations, enthusiasm, motivation, clarity in presentation of work designation in the spring semester. If the l is not removed within and sense of obligation, together with ability to use the English the set time limit, either by completing the work in the subject or language correctly and intelligibly, are reflected in the grade. The by passing a re-examination, the l will automatically and irrevo- course grade is assigned by the instructor in conformity with def- cably become an F unless the dean or associate dean of engi- nitions indicated in this section. neering, in consultation with the instructor, extends the time or The grade A indicates a superior and comprehensive grasp the student withdraws from the school. of the principles of the subject. It denotes an ability to think quickly and with originality toward the solution of difficult problems. Grade Point Average or Ratings To determine academic ratings, The grade B indicates evidence of a good degree of famil- numerical equivalents are assigned to grades as follows: A is iarity with the principles involved in the subject. It implies less represented by 4, B by 3, C by 2, D by 1 and F by 0. The sum of the originality and a tendency to hold to patterns of thought presented products of credits attempted and grade equivalents earned in a in the formal subject matter. period at The Cooper Union, divided by the sum of credits for that The grade C indicates an average knowledge of the principles period, is the rating for that period. involved in the subject and a fair performance in solving problems Only Cooper Union grades of A, B, C, D and F will be used in involving these principles. This grade implies average ability to determining ratings. Grades from other colleges and other desig- apply the principles to original problems. nations such as l and W are not used in Cooper Union ratings. The grade D indicates a minimum workable knowledge of Grade Changes A change in an official grade of record, other than the principles involved in the subject. This grade denotes low the designation l, cannot be made by the dean of Admissions and achievement and therefore the number of such grades permitted Records without the express consent of the dean or associate any student is limited in a manner prescribed by the section on dean of engineering. Grade changes will not be accepted after Scholastic Standards. one year has elapsed from the completion of the course. The grade F indicates an unsatisfactory understanding of the subject matter involved. A grade of F may be made up only by Final Examinations Final examinations are held in most subjects, repeating the subject in class; both the new grade and the new except in cases when content does not lend itself to formal exam- credits and the original grade and credits are included in the ination, such as laboratory or project work. In certain other permanent record and in the grade point average. A student who subjects, the class record may be ample for determining student receives an F grade in a repeated course is a candidate for standing. The decision on giving a fnal examination in a given dismissal by the school’s Academic Standards Committee. subject is made by the instructor.

The Incomplete (I) Grade The designation of l indicates that the work of the course has not been completed and that assignment of a grade and credit has been postponed. This designation will be given only in cases of illness (confrmed by authorized physician’s letter) or of other documented extraordinary circumstances beyond the student’s control. The l designation will be given only with the approval of the dean or associate dean of engineering. At the time of submission of an l designation, the instructor will indi- cate whether the student’s progress to that point has been satis- factory or unsatisfactory, offering an estimation of grades whenever possible as a means of assisting the Academic Standards Committee in their deliberations. 80 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ACADEMIC PROBATION, WITHDRAWAL AND DISMISSAL CHANGE OF PROGRAM

Probation is the consequence of unsatisfactory scholarship. It is a Adding a Course A student is permitted to add a course only warning that may involve a compulsory reduction of academic during the frst week of a semester, during the drop/add period, load, interviews with an assigned adviser and additional academic and only with the adviser’s approval. counseling. A student on academic probation must fulfll condi- Adding a course after the drop/add period is not permitted tions as prescribed by the Academic Standards Committee. even if the student has been attending the class. Dropping a Course A student may drop a course during the • The records of all students will be reviewed by the associate frst week of the semester, during the drop/add period, with the dean of engineering for recommendations to the Academic adviser’s approval. Standards Committee for appropriate action at any point in the A course dropped during the frst week of the semester will student’s career. be deleted from the transcript. • Students may be required to withdraw or resign from The Withdrawing from a Course A student anticipating inability Cooper Union based on a single semester’s academic to continue an assigned program should immediately see his or performance, a cumulative GPA lower than 2.0, and/or her adviser. A student’s program may be adjusted at the discretion infractions of the academic integrity policies. of and after conferring with the adviser and the dean or associate • The Academic Standards Committee reserves the right dean of engineering, but only in cases where scholastic performance to determine probation and/or dismissal at any point in the is impaired by conditions beyond the control of the student, such student’s career for appropriate academic issues. as health or home conditions. After the drop/add period a student • A student whose semester grade point average is below 2.0 may withdraw from a course through the eighth week of the se- is on automatic probation and is a candidate for dismissal by mester. A grade of W will appear on the transcript. A student who the committee. stops attending a course without permission of the instructor and • Estimates of grades in subjects with I designations may be the dean or associate dean will receive a grade of WU; however, included in all committee deliberations. the instructor is free to record a grade of F in such a case. • Students who fail to register will have their records annotated: A student may lighten his or her academic load and receive “Dropped: Failure to Register.” a W grade after the eighth week of classes only with the approval • For information about leaves of absence, please refer to of the course instructor, the adviser, and the dean or associate pages 24–25. dean. It is the policy of the faculty and the Office of the Dean not • Students who believe that a modifcation of their status should to approve any withdrawal after the eighth week of classes except be made because of extenuating circumstances may petition, under extreme, extenuating circumstances. in writing, the Academic Standards Committee. A student is not permitted to drop or withdraw from a course if doing so would impede satisfactory progress towards the degree. Repeating a Course When a course is repeated (due to failure or any other reason), the grade earned each time the course was repeated is calculated into the G.P.A. ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 81

COURSE DESIGNATION The designation of a course offered in the School of Engineering DEPARTMENTS uses an alphabetical prefx and a three-digit numbering system. AND PROGRAMS The frst digit usually denotes: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (1, 2) lower level undergraduate courses, (3) advanced undergraduate courses and FACULTY (4) graduate courses. Brazinsky, Davis, Lepek, Okorafor, Stock (chair)

Course Prefix Mission Statement Biology Bio The Cooper Union’s Department of Chemical Engineering is Chemical Engineering ChE committed to the development and graduation of engineering Chemistry Ch professionals. The department will promote student learning and Civil Engineering CE understanding of science and engineering fundamentals and Computer Science CS guide and encourage the application of this knowledge to the Electrical Engineering ECE ethical, professional practice of chemical engineering. This will be Engineering Sciences ESC undertaken in an environment that is responsive to new technolo- Interdisciplinary Engineering EID gies and that encourages lifelong learning and research. Mathematics Ma Mechanical Engineering ME Program Objectives Physics Ph • Our graduates will attain professional careers where they Students should consult official class schedules for courses apply their abilities to solve problems and meet challenges in offered in a given semester. There is no assurance that a course engineering an non-engineering felds. listed in this catalog will be given every year. • Our graduates will join professional societies and/or attain professional licensure. Be advised that each school at The Cooper Union offers certain • Our graduates will grasp the concept of lifelong learning and electives that are open to all students; consult each school’s appreciate the continuing development of new technologies course listing. and issues in the professional feld. Unless otherwise indicated, credit listings are for single semesters. • Our graduates will transition easily into their professional careers and demonstrate success in that role. Courses are not generally offered in the summer. • Those graduates who pursue graduate studies and research at The Cooper Union and/or other institutions will have the necessary Definitions technical background, support and preparation to succeed. • A free elective is any course (for which a student is qualifed) given within The Cooper Union. Foreign language courses do not The education of the chemical engineer requires a strong founda- count as free electives. tion in chemistry and physics, which must be applied through the • The status advanced engineering elective is to be determined medium of mathematics to the solution of design, modeling, by the adviser(s) and the Office of the Dean. Normally, such scale-up and control problems. A thorough knowledge is required courses will require prerequisites and are usually taken by of chemical structures, together with the energetic and kinetic juniors, seniors or graduate students. relationships predicted in chemical reactions and molecular • A core elective is defned as any course required in either the transport. The chemical engineer deals with the application of frst, second or third year of the CE, ChE, EE or ME programs. these principles to processes carried out on a variety of scales • A minimum of 12 credits of engineering electives must be at from micro-reactors to an industrial scale, in which matter under- an advanced level. goes changes in physical state, chemical composition or energy content. Emphasis is placed on developing creative ability; facts and theories are presented primarily to stimulate further thought and study in all felds of chemical engineering. 82 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Formal instruction is supplemented by visits to several plants and Environmental Engineering companies where the contribution of engineers can be observed CE 141/Environmental Systems Engineering and understood with respect to equipment, utilities, safety, costs, CE 142/Water Resources Engineering (also EID 142) environmental impact, labor and supervision. The students get CE 346/Hydraulic Engineering frst-hand experience in the chemical engineering laboratory in EID 141/Air Pollution Control Systems applying engineering analysis to equipment performance, and in CE 414/Solid Waste Management learning limitations of theoretical concepts. In the senior year, the CE 435/Geo-Environmental Engineering (also EID 435) student learns how to design chemical plants from fundamental CE 440/Industrial Waste Treatment Design data on new processes and to recognize areas of limited knowl- CE 441/Water and Wastewater Technology edge from the results of the design, and thus recommend pilot CE 446/Pollution Prevention or Minimization plant studies, if necessary. CE 447/Stream and Estuary Pollution Chemical engineering graduates fnd employment in a wide CE 449/Hazardous Waste Management variety of areas. In addition to the chemical and petroleum indus- Che 447/Sustainability and Pollution Prevention tries, chemical engineers are involved heavily in the biomedical, materials and environmental felds. A chemical engineering Biomedical Engineering education can also be easily applied to other interdisciplinary ECE 343/Bio-instrumentation and Sensing areas such as biochemical and biomedical engineering, energy EID 121/Biotransport Phenomena resources, environmental engineering and materials science. As EID 122/Biomaterials a result, chemical engineers are also fnding employment in EID 124/Bioengineering in Safety Design non-industrial institutions such as government, research think- and Injury Analysis and Prevention tanks, policy study groups and even publishing companies. EID 125/Biomechanics The chemical engineering department does not make use of EID 320/ Special Topics in Bioengineering the 12-credit rule; see “Course Substitutions and Credits” under EID 325/Science and Application “Bachelor of Engineering Curriculum.” of Bioengineering Technology EID327/Tissue Engineering Minors Ch 340/Biochemistry (also Bio 102) A minor can be obtained by a student in chemical engineering Bio 101/Molecular and Cellular Biology taking any four (4) courses in one of the felds below. The courses EID 424/Bioengineering Applications in Sports Medicine require permission of the student’s advisor and the department Ch 440/Biochemistry II chair. The courses listed are examples currently in The Cooper Energy Engineering Union catalog. Note that some may require prerequisites or ME 130/Advanced Thermodynamics permission of the instructor. Additionally, note that it will not be ME 131/Energetics (also EID 131) necessary to obtain a minor in any feld in order to graduate with a ME 330/Advanced Engine Concepts bachelor of engineering in chemical engineering. ChE 421/Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering In the Thesis M.E. degree graduate students in chemical ChE 430/Thermodynamics of Special Systems engineering must complete a minimum of 30 credits beyond ChE 434/Special Topics in Combustion (also ME 434) their baccalaureate degree. Of those 30 credits 9 credits must come from the following courses: ChE 421/Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering ChE 430/Thermodynamics of Special Systems or ChE 431/Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics and Molecular Theory ChE 441/Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer Of the remaining 21 credits, 3 credits must be from Chemical Engineering 400-level graduate courses, 6 credits may be from graduate engineering or science electives, 6 credits from a the- sis project on an approved topic and no more than 6 credits may be from undergraduate-level engineering or science electives. ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 83

Graduate Program Upon completion of the minor a student should submit a list of courses that he or she wishes to be considered for certifcation to the department chair. Successful completion of the minor will be acknowledged by a certifcate from the department accompanied by a letter listing the minor achieved and the courses taken. A thesis candidate must choose a full-time Cooper Union faculty member from either the chemistry or chemical engi- neering department as one of his or her thesis advisers. Before choosing a thesis topic, however, the student should explore various professors’ research interests. Research interests of chemical engineering faculty members include non-Newtonian flow, crystal growth from high-temperature melts, polymer extru- sion, heat and mass transfer with change of phase, drag coeffi- cients in dense phase transport, construction of a database of engineering materials, mathematical modeling of bio-heat transfer in micro-circulation, mathematical modeling of whole-body heat integrated gasifcation procesess for the simultaneous disposal of sludge and garbage with concomitant production of steam and electricity, biochemical separation, protein-purifcation, environ- mental engineering and mathematical modeling, evaluation of sustainability, batch process design and optimization, pollution prevention and mitigation, infnite linear programming, particle technology, multiphase flow and fluidization, pharmaceutical engineering and processes, nano-materials and energy systems and processes. 84 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Chemical Engineering Program Junior Year Credits Fall Semester: Freshman Year Credits Ma 224 Probability 2 Fall Semester: ESC 121 Basic Principles of Electrical Engineering 2 ESC000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 Ch 251 Instrumental Analysis Laboratory 2 Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 Ch 261 Physical Chemistry I 3 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 ChE 131 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II 3 Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 ChE 140 Fluid Mechanics and Flow Systems 3 EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Engineering Elective 3 CS 102 Introduction to Computer Science 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 18 HSS 1 Literary Forms and Expressions 3 Spring Semester: Total Credits Fall Semester 18 Ch 262 Physical Chemistry II 2 Spring Semester: ChE 121 Chemical Reaction Engineering 3 ESC000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 ChE 141 Heat and Mass Transfer 4 Ma 113 Calculus II 4 ChE 151 Process Simulation and Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 Mathematical Techniques for Chemical Engineers 3 Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 Engineering or Science Elective 3 Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 Free Elective 3 HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 18 Total Credits Spring Semester 15.5

Senior Year Credits Sophomore Year Credits Fall Semester: Fall Semester: ChE 162.1 Chemical Engineering Laboratory I 1.5 ESC000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 ChE 161.1 Process Evaluation and Chemical Systems Design I 3 ChE 170 Material and Energy Balances 3 ChE 142 Separation Process Principles 3 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 ChE 152 Chemical Process Dynamics and Control 3 Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 Engineering or Science Elective 3 ESC 110.1 Materials Science for Chemical Engineers 3 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Laboratory 1.5 Total Credits Fall Semester 16.5 Ch 231 Organic Chemistry I 3 Spring Semester: HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 ChE 162.2 Chemical Engineering Laboratory II 1.5 Total Credits Fall Semester 19.5 ChE 161.2 Process Evaluation and Chemical Systems Design II 3 Spring Semester: Engineering or Science Elective 3 ESC000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 Free Elective 3 Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations 3 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 Ph 214 Physics III: Optics and Modern Physics 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 13.5 Ch 232 Organic Chemistry II 2 Ch 233 Organic Chemistry Laboratory 2 Total credits required for degree 135 ChE 130 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I 3 HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 16 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 85

CIVIL ENGINEERING 8. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, FACULTY and societal context J. Ahmad (Chair), Cataldo, Guido, Tzavelis, Yapijakis 9. A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning Mission Statement 10. A knowledge of contemporary issues To prepare our students as civil engineering professionals who will 11. An ability to use the techniques, skills and modern have the depth and breadth of knowledge, sense of social and engineering tools necessary for engineering practice ethical responsibility, commitment to a safe environment and a 12. A broad fundamental knowledge to qualify for and pass desire to serve society in leadership positions. the New York State FE Exam administered in April of the year of their graduation. Program Objectives • Our civil engineering graduates will engage in lifelong learning Program description to stay abreast of the latest body of knowledge and professional Civil engineering, earliest of the engineering professions, has practices in civil engineering and allied disciplines throughout evolved into a broad spectrum of specialities: structural, geotech- their careers. nical, hydraulic, environmental, transportation, urban planning, • Our graduates will excel in teamwork, interdisciplinary concepts, construction management, sustainable design, urban security organizational skills and problem-solving methodologies in their and infrastructure rehabilitation. Depending on his or her inter- professional careers. ests and abilities, the modern civil engineer also may become • Our graduates will attain positions of leadership as professional involved in research, design and development related to projects practitioners, government officials, academicians, inventors, in alternative energy sources, space structures, protection against researchers, etc., during their professional careers. natural and man-made disasters, etc. The civil engineer also • Our graduates will have a strong sense of commitment to studies and develops new materials, new structural systems and excellence, independent thinking, innovation and modern new strategies for optimizing design. Basic research, especially in professional practices throughout their careers. the areas of applied and experimental mechanics, often arises • Our graduates will have a strong commitment to professional either as a preliminary or adjunct requisite to these studies. and ethical responsibility during their careers. The civil engineer who wishes to practice creatively in any of • Our graduates who pursue careers in engineering will seek and these felds must be thoroughly grounded in the basic sciences, successfully achieve professional licensure in their chosen felds. mathematics and applied mechanics, structures and structural mechanics, engineering sciences and computer applications. Student Outcomes Members of the civil engineering faculty are actively engaged in The Civil Engineering Department has established the following research in their specialities, which include modern advances in set of outcomes that our undergraduate students are expected to structural engineering and materials, geotechnical engineering, achieve by the time of graduation: alternative energy sources, green design of buildings, water 1. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and pollution control technologies, water resources engineering and engineering urban security. 2. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as Within the civil engineering program, students may elect to to analyze and interpret data pursue specialized study through an appropriate choice of elec- 3. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet tives in two areas: desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, • Structural and Geotechnical Engineering environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, • Water Resources and Environmental manufacturability and sustainability Graduate level courses in these areas are available to seniors with 4. An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams superior academic records as indicated in the following lists: 5. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems 6. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility 7. An ability to communicate effectively 86 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Structures and Geotechnical Engineering: CE 422, CE Spring Semester: 425, CE 426, CE 427, CE 428, CE 431, CE 432, CE 433, CE 434, ESC000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 CE 450, CE 470. ESC 120 Principles of Electrical Engineering 3 Water Resources and Environmental Engineering: CE 414, Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations 3 Ph 214 Physics III: Optics and Modern Physics 3 CE 440, CE 441, CE 442, CE 443, CE 444, CE 445, CE 446, CE ESC 101 Solid Mechanics 3 447, CE 448, CE 449. CE 120 Fundamentals of Civil Engineering 3 HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 Graduate Program Total credits spring semester 18 Completion of the master of engineering degree program in civil engineering is important for entry into the profession in any of the Junior Year Credits specialized areas discussed above. The civil engineering depart- Fall Semester: ment offers many graduate level courses in the cited areas, such CE 121 Structural Engineering 4.5 CE 141 Environmental Systems Engineering 4.5 as structural engineering and environmental engineering. Grad- ESC 130 Engineering Thermodynamics 3 uate minors may include computer engineering, civil engineering ESC 140 Fluid Mechanics and Flow Systems 3 management and others. Also recognized are minors in interdis- Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 ciplinary areas of engineering. Total credits fall semester 18

Civil Engineering Program Spring Semester: CE 122 Structural Engineering II 3 Freshman Year Credits CE 131 Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering 4.5 Fall Semester: CE 142 Water Resources Engineering 4.5 ESC000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 CE 341 Design of Steel Structures 3 Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 Total credits spring semester 18 Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Senior Year Credits CS 102 Introduction to Computer Science 3 Fall Semester: HSS 1 Literary Forms and Expressions 3 CE 342 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures 3 Total credits fall semester 18 CE 351 Urban Transportation Planning 3 Spring Semester: CE 363 Civil Engineering Design I 3 ESC000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 Engineering or Science Electives 6 Ma 113 Calculus II 4 Total credits fall semester 15 Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 Spring Semester: Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 CE 361 Civil Engineering Experimental Projects 2 Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 CE 364 Civil Engineering Design II 3 HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 Engineering or Science Electives 9 Total credits spring semester 15.5 Total credits spring semester 14

Sophomore Year Credits Total credits required for degree 135 Fall Semester: ESC000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 Ma 224 Probability 2 Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Laboratory 1.5 ESC 100 Engineering Mechanics 3 ESC 110 Materials Science 3 HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 Total credits fall semester 18.5 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 87

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING are encouraged, as part of the Integrated Master Program, to take graduate level electives once they have the proper prerequisites. FACULTY The curriculum interweaves strong theory, grounded in Cumberbatch, Dahlberg, Fontaine (Chair), Keene, Kirtman, Sable mathematics and science, with extensive use of CAD tools and practical projects. A broad education is supported by tak- Mission Statement ing non-technical electives, including in humanities and social To develop a highly trained, consummate engineer: able to lead, sciences. Team and individual projects begin in the freshman to practice in a professional manner, to grow with technological year and culminate with year-long senior projects. All laboratory advances, to express himself or herself in written and in oral form, courses, and many recitation courses, are project based. By the to function as a project engineer immediately upon graduation time students commence their senior projects, they perform and to pursue graduate studies in a variety of professional felds. open-ended system design, implementation and testing, cost analysis and prepare written and oral presentations. They act as project managers, under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Program Objectives There are numerous research and independent study op- • Our graduates will have positions where they function as portunities involving close work with faculty and practicing pro- frst-class project engineers. fessionals on cutting edge problems. • Our graduates will have positions that require Students plan their courses with the assistance of a faculty exceptional technical knowledge and professional design skills. advisor. Through extensive experience working on team projects • Our graduates will engage in activities that involve and proper selection of courses, students obtain a well-rounded, professional-level written and oral expression. diverse and challenging educational experience. • Our graduates will engage in activities that require demonstrating leadership skills. Graduate Program • Our graduates will engage in activities that demonstrate The candidate must choose a full-time Cooper Union faculty a commitment to lifelong learning, research, independent member from the electrical engineering department as one of thinking and innovation. his or her thesis advisors. In addition, that advisor, in consulta- tion with the other faculty in the department, approves the set of Program description courses used to fulfll the requirements for the Master’s program. Basic courses in electronic circuits, signal processing and computer Possible areas of concentration or thesis topics are numerous engineering, along with core mathematics, science and humanities and reflect the diverse interests of the faculty. Some examples courses, are taken in the freshman and sophomore years. Students are: digital signal processing (including speech, audio, image, may then elect to pursue study through an appropriate choice of video and biomedical signals); wireless communications and courses in three areas: networks; big data, machine learning, NLP, reconfgurable and • Electronic Systems and Materials distributed computing; electronic materials and integrated circuit • Signal Processing and Communications engineering; sustainable engineering. • Computer Engineering

There is overlap among the courses in the three tracks, and all Web Site students are exposed to a broad range of areas within electrical The Electrical Engineering department maintains a website at engineering, while being given the opportunity to study areas of ee.cooper.edu. interest in signifcant depth. The track designations are advisory in nature, and students may change their identifed track as long as, by the time they graduate, they have fulflled all the require- ments in a selected track. By the junior year, students are taking required advanced undergraduate courses (with a 300-level designation) that include material at the graduate level. The only required courses in the senior year are the capstone senior design project courses (ECE195/196). Undergraduate students with a strong background 88 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Electronic Systems and Materials Track Junior Year Credits in Electrical Engineering Fall Semester: ECE 142 Electronics II 3 Freshman Year Credits ECE 193 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects I 1.5 Fall Semester: ECE 300 Communication Theory1 3 ESC000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 310 Digital Signal Processing2 3 Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 ECE 320 Control Systems3 3 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 Ma 326 Linear Algebra 3 Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 19.5 CS 102 Introduction to Computer Science 3 Spring Semester: HSS 1 Literary Forms and Expressions 3 ECE 194 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects II 4 Total Credits Fall Semester 18 ECE 303 Communication Networks4 3 Spring Semester: ECE 335 Engineering Electromagnetics5 4 ESC000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 341 Integrated Circuit Design 3 Ma 113 Calculus II 4 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 Total Credits Spring Semester 17 ECE 150 Digital Logic Design 3 Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 Senior Year Credits Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 Fall Semester: HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 ECE 195 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects III 4 Total Credits Spring Semester 18.5 Non-technical Elective 3 Engineering or Science Electives 7 Sophomore Year Credits Total Credits Fall Semester 13 Fall Semester: Spring Semester: ESC000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 196 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects IV 3 ECE 140 Circuit Analysis 3 Non-technical Elective 3 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 Engineering or Science Electives 8.5 Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 14.5 Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Laboratory 1.5 Total credits required for degree 135 HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 16.5 Spring Semester: ESC000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 110 MATLAB Seminar: Signals and Systems 0 ECE 111 Signal Processing & Systems Analysis 3 ECE 141 Electronics I 3 ECE 151 Computer Architecture 3 Ma 224 Probability 2 Ph 214 Physics III: Modern Physics 3 HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 17

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Signal Processing and Communications Track Junior Year Credits in Electrical Engineering Fall Semester: ECE 142 Electronics II 3 Freshman Year Credits ECE 193 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects I 1.5 Fall Semester: ECE 300 Communication Theory1 3 ESC000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 310 Digital Signal Processing2 3 Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 ECE 320 Control Systems2 3 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 Ma 326 Linear Algebra 3 Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 19.5 CS 102 Introduction to Computer Science 3 Spring Semester: HSS 1 Literary Forms and Expressions 3 ECE 194 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects II 4 Total Credits Fall Semester 18 ECE 302 Probability Models & Stochastic Processes 3 Spring Semester: ECE 303 Communication Networks4 3 ESC000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 335 Engineering Electromagnetics5 4 Ma 113 Calculus II 4 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 Total Credits Spring Semester 17 ECE 150 Digital Logic Design 3 Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 Senior Year Credits Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 Fall Semester: HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 ECE 195 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects III 4 Total Credits Spring Semester 18.5 Non-technical Elective 3 Engineering or Science Electives 7 Sophomore Year Credits Total Credits Fall Semester 14 Fall Semester: Spring Semester: ESC000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 196 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects IV 3 ECE 140 Circuit Analysis 3 Non-technical Elective 3 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 Engineering or Science Electives 8.5 Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 14.5 Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Laboratory 1.5 Total credits required for degree 135 HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 16.5 Spring Semester: ESC000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 110 MATLAB Seminar: Signals and Systems 0 ECE 111 Signal Processing & Systems Analysis 3 ECE 141 Electronics I 3 ECE 151 Computer Architecture 3 Ma 224 Probability 2 Ph 214 Physics III: Modern Physics 3 HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 17

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Computer Engineering Track in Electrical Engineering Junior Year Credits Fall Semester: First Year Credits ECE 142 Electronics II 3 Fall Semester: ECE 165 Data Structures and Algorithms II 2 ESC000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 193 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects I 1.5 Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 ECE 300 Communication Theory1 3 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 ECE 310 Digital Signal Processing2 3 Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 Ma 352 Discrete Mathematics 3 EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 CS 102 Introduction to Computer Science 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 18.5 HSS 1 Literary Forms and Experessions 3 Spring Semester: Total Credits Fall Semester 18 ECE 194 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects II 4 Spring Semester: ECE 302 Probability Models & Stochastic Processes 3 ESC000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 303 Communication Networks3 3 Ma 113 Calculus II 4 ECE 361 Software Engineering & Large System Design 3 Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 ECE 150 Digital Logic Design 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 16 Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 Senior Year Credits HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 Fall Semester: Total Credits Spring Semester 18.5 ECE 195 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects III 4 Non-technical Elective 3 Sophomore Year Credits Engineering or Science Electives 6 Fall Semester: Total Credits Fall Semester 13 ESC000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 Spring Semester: ECE 140 Circuit Analysis 3 ECE 196 Electrical & Computer Engineering Projects IV 3 ECE 161 Programming Languages 3 Non-technical Elective 3 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 Engineering or Science Electives 6.5 Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 12.5 Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Laboratory 1.5 Total credits required for degree 135 HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 19.5 Spring Semester: ESC000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 ECE 110 MATLAB Seminar: Signals and Systems 0 ECE 111 Signal Processing & Systems Analysis 3 ECE 141 Electronics I 3 ECE 151 Computer Architecture 3 ECE 164 Data Structures and Algorithms I 2 Ma 224 Probability 2 Ph 214 Physics III: Modern Physics 3 HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 19

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Mechanical engineering is an ideal foundation for careers in the aerospace industry, ocean engineering, marine engineering, FACULTY biomedical engineering, the automobile industry, the power and Baglione, Delagrammatikas, Lima, Sidebotham, utility industries and virtually any area of activity that requires analyt- Wei (chair), Wootton ical abilities combined with a strong background in design practice. The sequences of courses shown in the undergraduate Mission Statement curriculum table emphasize the fundamental engineering The Cooper Union’s Department of Mechanical Engineering will sciences as well as their applications in a computer environment produce broadly- and rigorously-educated graduates, able to and professional design practice. By the selection of electives and practice professionally, pursue advanced studies and innovate in of their design and research projects, students have a large a wide range of felds. Together with our faculty and staff, our degree of flexibility in exploring their own interests. students will develop a commitment toward lifelong interdisci- plinary learning, fulfll their potential for responsible leadership Graduate Program and inspire others to continuously pursue excellence by example. Areas of research include computer-aided design and engineering, robotics, biomedical engineering, automotive systems, mecha- Program Objectives tronics, thermoelectric power generation, vibrations and acoustics, Our graduates will combustion and other interdisciplinary areas of engineering. • apply their broad and rigorous education to responsible, interdisciplinary problem solving, • communicate clearly and effectively in their chosen professions and • continue to learn and educate themselves in their felds of pursuit.

Program description Mechanical engineering is concerned with the devices and phenomena related to the generation, transmission, application and control of power. Mechanical engineering grew up with the Industrial Revolution and is today the broadest of the engineering disciplines, encompassing many activities and felds of interest. Mechanical engineers may be involved with research and devel- opment, design, manufacturing, sales, application and service, administration and management, as well as teaching and consulting. Fields of interest include solid mechanics, materials, fluid mechanics, vibrations and acoustics, heat transfer and thermodynamics, combustion, control systems, manufacturing, CAD/CAM and robotics or combinations of these as is often the case in the design and development work of complex projects. (Examples: the space shuttle, the investigation of alternate energy from renewable resources, the development of completely auto- mated factories, robotics and biomedical engineering systems.) At the Albert Nerken School of Engineering, the mechanical engi- neering faculty and students have been, and continue to be, involved in these and other exciting new developments through their project work, research work or consulting.

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Mechanical Engineering Program Junior Year Credits Fall Semester: Freshman Year Credits ESC 130 Engineering Thermodynamics 3 Fall Semester: ESC 140 Fluid Mechanics & Flow Systems 3 ESC000.1 Professional Development Seminar 0 ME 100 Stress and Applied Elasticity 3 Ma 110 Introduction to Linear Algebra 2 ME 151 Feedback Control Systems 3 1 Ma 111 Calculus I 4 Engineering or Science Elective 3 Ch 110 General Chemistry 3 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 EID 101 Engineering Design and Problem Solving 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 18 CS 102 Introduction to Computer Science 3 Spring Semester: HSS 1 Literary Forms and Expressions 3 ME 101 Mechanical Vibrations 3 Total Credits Fall Semester 18 ME 130 Advanced Thermodynamics 3 Spring Semester: ME 142 Heat Transfer 3 ESC000.2 Professional Development Seminar 0 ME 160 Engineering Experimentation 3 1 Ma 113 Calculus II 4 Engineering or Science Elective 3 Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 4 Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 EID 103 Principles of Design 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 18 Ch 111 General Chemistry Laboratory 1.5 Ch 160 Physical Principles of Chemistry 3 Senior Year Credits HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: Old Worlds and New 3 Fall Semester: Total Credits Spring Semester 18.5 ME 163 Mechanical Engineering Projects 3 ME 312 Manufacturing Engineering 3 Sophomore Year Credits Electives: Fall Semester: ME 300- or 400-level Lecture Course 3 2 ESC000.3 Professional Development Seminar 0 Free Electives 4 Ma 223 Vector Calculus 2 Total Credits Fall Semester 13 Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equation 3 Spring Semester: Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic Phenomena 4 ME 164 Capstone Senior Mechanical Engineering Design 3 Ph 291 Introductory Physics Laboratory 1.5 Electives: ESC 100 Engineering Mechanics 3 ME 300- or 400-level Lecture Course 3 ESC 110 Materials Science 3 Free Electives2 6 HSS 3 The Making of Modern Society 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 12 Total Credits Fall Semester 19.5 Spring Semester: Total credits required for degree 135 ESC000.4 Professional Development Seminar 0 ESC 121 Basic Principles of Electrical Engineering 2 Ma 224 Probability 2 Ph 214 Physics III: Optics and Modern Physics 3 ESC 101 Mechanics of Materials 3 ESC 161 Systems Engineering 3 ME 155 Design and Prototyping 2 HSS 4 The Modern Context: Figures and Topics 3 Total Credits Spring Semester 18

1 Courses with prefx BIO, ChE, CE, CS, EE/ECE, ME, EID, ESC 2 Any course, except foreign languages, offered at The Cooper Union ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 93

NON-DEGREE DEPARTMENTS The department of mathematics offers a minor in mathematics. Students seeking a minor in mathematics must complete at least Chemistry 15 credits of mathematics coursework in addition to the 17 credits Faculty: Lay, Newmark (chair), Savizky, Topper required by every engineering department. These additional The Department of Chemistry offers a wide range of courses that credits must include Mathematical Analysis I and II (Ma 350, are necessary for the understanding of the various engineering 351), Linear Algebra (Ma 326), Modern Algebra (Ma 347) and an disciplines. All frst-year engineering students enroll in General elective course in mathematics at or above the 300 level. An Chemistry (a general quantitative and descriptive overview of overall G.P.A., at graduation, of at least 3.0 among the mathe- chemistry), Physical Principles of Chemistry (a quantitative matics portion (32 credits) of the program is required to obtain a discussion of chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry and minor in mathematics. chemical kinetics) and General Chemistry Laboratory recording , report writing and safety). Physics Sophomore and junior level courses required for chemical Faculty: A. Wolf (chair), Yecko engineering majors can also be taken as electives by those wishing The physics program at The Cooper Union provides a sequence of to further their knowledge in the areas of analytical chemistry, introductory courses devised to introduce students in engineering biochemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. to fundamental physical concepts that underlie all the engineering In addition, advanced elective courses in biochemistry, inor- disciplines. Additionally, the Physics Department offers elective ganic chemistry and theoretical chemistry are available which are courses that are crafted to provide an enhanced understanding of suitable for students interested in bioengineering, chemistry, specially selected felds of interest in engineering science. materials engineering, nanotechnology, or pre-medical studies. Research at the undergraduate and master’s levels can be conducted under the supervision of the chemistry faculty. Inter- ested students should meet with the department faculty to discuss possible research areas. The Department operates laboratories in general chemistry, organic chemistry and instrumental analysis for instruction and research projects.

Mathematics Faculty: Agrawal (chair), Bailyn, Hopkins, Mintchev, Smyth, Vulakh The primary responsibility of the Department of Mathematics is the maintenance and delivery of the core mathematics curric- ulum for the School of Engineering. This consists of a sequence of required courses given in the frst two years covering calculus, linear algebra, probability, vector calculus and differential equa- tions. In addition to the core courses, there are a variety of elective mathematics courses, some of which are computer-related. The mathematics curriculum will more than adequately prepare the student for professional work as well as graduate study in engi- neering and applied mathematics. The faculty of mathematics strives to develop in the student a frm foundation in, and an appreciation of, the structure and methods of mathematics. Students interested in mathematics research should consult the chair for specifc areas of expertise. 94 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

COURSES Chemical ChE 141 Heat and Mass Transfer ChE 152 Chemical Process Engineering Introduction to heat and mass transfer. Dynamics and Control Students should consult offcial Steady-state and unsteady-state heat Introduction to logic of process schedules for courses offered in a transfer. Steady-state and unsteady- dynamics and principles of control in given semester. There is no assurance UNDERGRADUATE state mass transfer. Interphase chemical engineering applications; that a course listed in this catalog transport and transfer coeffcients. block diagram notation, input Convective heat and mass transfer. disturbance, frequency response will be given every year. ChE 121 Chemical Reaction Internal and external forced convection. and stability criteria for chemical Each school offers a range of Engineering Heat transfer equipment. Natural equipment and chemical reaction elective courses that are open to After consideration of chemical convection. Boiling and condensation. systems; single- and multiple-loop all students; consult each school’s reaction kinetics and thermodynamics, Radiation heat transfer. systems; phase plane analysis of course listing. the course focuses on the design 4 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140. reaction systems; application of analog relationships for batch, semi-batch, computer in solution of problems. Prefix Key plug-flow and mixed reactors. ChE 142 Separation Process 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 151 Course designations use an The application of these design Principles alphabetical prefx and a three-digit relationships is explored in ideal, Application of thermodynamic and ChE 161.1 Process Evaluation numbering system. isothermal, non-isothermal, transport concepts to the design and Design I adiabatic reactors. Homogeneous, The frst digit usually denotes: of continuous-contact and staged The course uses design projects to heterogeneous and biological systems (1, 2) Lower level undergraduate mass transfer processes common explore process flow diagrams and are discussed including the effect of in the chemical process industries. initial equipment design estimates (3) Advanced undergraduate transport phenomena on reaction rates Separation by phase addition, phase based on process and unit operation (4) Graduate courses and reactor design. creation, by barrier, by solid agent material and heat balances. Studies Bio Biology 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 170 and and by external feld or gradient. include equipment cost estimation ChE 140 ChE Chemical Engineering Examination of the limitations of theory methods that are developed into and empiricism in design practice. process economic evaluations and Ch Chemistry ChE 130 Chemical Engineering 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 131 and proftability analysis. The course CE Civil Engineering Thermodynamics I ChE 141 concludes with process and equipment First law of thermodynamics for closed CS Computer Science design using Simulation Science’s systems; perfect gasses, 2- and 3-phase ECE Electrical Engineering ChE 151 Process Simulation and PRO-vision/PRO-II and an examination systems of one component; transient and ESC Engineering Sciences Mathematical Techniques for of optimization techniques. steady state analyses using the frst law Chemical Engineers 3 credits each. Prerequisites: ChE 141 EID Interdisciplinary Engineering of thermodynamics for open systems; In this course, numerical methods will and ChE 121 Ma Mathematics second law of thermo-dynamics; be applied to chemical engineering ME Mechanical Engineering introduction to concepts of entropy. problems in mass and energy balances, ChE 161.2 Process Evaluation and Gibbs free energy and Helmholtz free Ph Physics thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat Design II energy; derivation and application of transfer, separations, and chemical This is a continuation of ChE 161.1, equations describing the auxiliiary reactor analysis. Topics include: and is the “capstone design course” thermodynamic functions and conditions computer calculations and round-off in chemical engineering. All aspects of equilibrium in imperfect gasses. error, algorithms and convergence, of chemical engineering are 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ch 160 or fnding roots by bisection or Newton’s integrated in the design of a chemical ChE 170 method, curve ftting and interpolation/ process plant. The design process extrapolation, numerical integration consists of flow-sheet development, ChE 131 Chemical Engineering and differentiation, numerical solution equipment selection and sizing, Thermodynamics II of initial value problems, stiffness, utility requirements, instrumentation Concept of fugacity in imperfect gases; matrices and determinants, matrix and control, economic analysis and chemical potential and partial molal properties, special matrices, methods formulation of safety procedures. properties in mixtures; Gibbs-Duhem of solution for systems of linear The plant design is carried out in class Equation; ideal solutions of imperfect equations by matrices, eigenvalues, and includes the use of professional gas mixtures; the Lewis and Randall eigenvectors, solving systems of simulation packages. The AIChE project Rule; methods of calculating activity non-linear equations, and applications is included in this course. coeffcients in non-ideal mixtures; to unit operations. We will use series 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 161.1 vapor-liquid equilibria; checking methods and numerical methods applied thermodynamic consistency of to various chemical engineering ChE 162.1-162.2 Chemical vapor-liquid equilibrium data; models, including the following specifc Engineering Laboratory I & II equilibrium constant, enthalpy change methods: Euler’s method, Runge-Kutta This laboratory course emphasizes and Gibbs free energy of formation in methods, the Finite difference method, the application of fundamentals and chemical reactions. and Newton-Raphson for vector systems. engineering to processing and unit 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 130 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 140 operations. The experiments range from traditional engineering applications ChE 140 Fluid Mechanics and to new technologies and are designed Flow Systems to provide hands-on experiences Introductory concepts of fluid that complement the theories and mechanics and fluid statics. principles discussed in the classroom. Development and applications of Preparation of detailed project reports differential forms of basic equations. and oral presentations are important Dynamics of inviscid and viscous components of this course. fluids, flow measurement and 1.5 credits each. Prerequisite: ChE 121, dimensional analysis with applications ChE 141; corequisite: ChE 142 in fluid dynamics. Friction loss and friction factor correlation; design of piping systems. 3 credits. Prerequisites: none ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 95

ChE 170 Material and Energy ChE 433 Rocket Science ChE 447 Sustainability ChE 461 Principles of Design and Balances Introduction to the (same as ME 433) and Pollution Prevention Analysis of Reactors analysis of chemical process 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 130 (same as EID 447) The chemical engineer must develop, systems, using material and energy and ChE 140 The frst part of this course discusses design and engineer both the complete conservation equations. Estimation of in detail a methodology for defning process and the equipment used; thermodynamics and thermochemical ChE 434 Special Topics in and assessing the sustainability of an choose the proper raw materials; properties of real fluids for engineering Combustion (same as ME 434) entity. The course then proceeds with operate the plant effciently, safely and calculations. Numerical methods and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 130 more traditional topics in pollution economically; and see to it that their implementation on the digital prevention for chemical processes, products meet the requirements set by computer for solution of chemical ChE 440 Advanced Fluid outlining concepts on the macroscale, the customer. Chemical engineering is engineering problems. Mechanics (same as EID 440 (life-cycle assessment) and mesoscale both an art and a science. Whenever 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 160 and ME 440) (pollution prevention for unit science helps the engineer to solve a Introduction to the energy equation. operations). By the end of this course, problem, science should be used. ChE 391 Research Problem I Steady and transient heat transfer by you should be able to use a fuzzy- When, as is usually the case, science An elective course available to conduction. Convective heat transfer. logic-based methodology to defne does not give a complete answer, it is qualifed and interested students Energy transport in flowing media. Free and assess sustainability, perform a necessary to use experience and recommended by the faculty. Students convection. Conservation of species sensitivity analysis which identifes judgment. The professional stature of may select problems of particular equation. Fisk’s law of binary diffusion. the most critical components of an engineer depends on skill in utilizing interest in some aspect of theoretical Mass transfer with simultaneous homo­ sustainability for a given corporation, all sources of information to reach or applied chemical engineering. Topics geneous or heterogeneous reaction. perform a life-cycle assessment on a practical solutions to processing range from highly theoretical to Multicomponent heat and mass product or process, identify and apply problems. This course will concentrate completely practical, and each student transfer. Stefan-Maxwell equations chemical process design methods for specifically on the theoretical and is encouraged to do creative work on for multicomponent diffusion. waste minimization, energy effciency, practical principles of detailed his or her own with faculty guidance. Simultaneous heat and mass transfer. and minimal environmental impact and equipment design for process reaction 3 credits. Prerequisite: senior standing Transport in electrolyte solutions. design, size, and cost a simple waste- operations. Attempts will be made to Special topics may include: membrane treatment process. emphasize modern technologies used ChE 392 Research Problem II separation processes, drug delivery 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission in these operations. Continuation of ChE 391. and controlled release, turbulent heat of instructor 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 391 and mass transfer, boundary layer heat instructor and mass transfer, and chemically ChE 460 Process Heat Transfer ChE 393 Research Problem 111 reacting flows. Equipment ChE 462 Design and Operation of Continuation of ChE 392. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140 The chemical engineer must develop, Distillation Systems 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 392 design and engineer both the complete The chemical engineer must develop, ChE 441 Advanced Heat and process and the equipment used; choose design and engineer both the complete ChE 394 Research Problem IV Mass Transfer (same as EID 441) the proper raw materials; operate the process and the equipment used; Continuation of ChE 393. Introduction to the energy equation. plant effciently, safely and economically; choose the proper raw materials; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 393 Steady and transient heat transfer by and see to it that products meet the operate the plant effciently, safely and conduction. Convective heat transfer. requirements set by the customer. economically; and see to it that GRADUATE Energy transport in flowing media. Free Chemical engineering is both an art products meet the requirements set by convection. Conservation of species and a science. Whenever science helps the customer. Chemical engineering is ChE 421 Advanced Chemical equation. Fick’s law of binary diffusion. the engineer to solve a problem, both an art and a science. Whenever Reaction Engineering Mass transfer with simultaneous science should be used. When, as is science helps the engineer to solve a Principles and practices of chemical homogeneous or heterogeneous usually the case, science does not give problem, science should be used. reaction systems emphasizing reaction. Multicomponent heat and a complete answer, it is necessary When, as is usually the case, science heterogeneous chemical kinetics, mass transfer. Stefan-Maxwell to use experience and judgment. The does not give a complete answer, coupled heat and mass transfer in equations for multicomponent professional stature of an engineer it is necessary to use experience and reacting systems and reactor dynamics. diffusion. Simultaneous heat and depends on skill in utilizing all sources judgment. The professional stature of Modeling and simulation of systems mass transfer. Transport in electrolyte of information to reach practical an engineer depends on skill in utilizing are extensively applied. solutions. Special topics may include: solutions to processing problems. all sources of information to reach 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 121 membrane separation processes, This course will concentrate specifically practical solutions to processing drug delivery and controlled release, on the theoretical and practical problems. This course will concentrate ChE 430 Thermodynamics of turbulent heat and mass transfer, principles of detailed equipment design specifically on the theoretical and Special Systems boundary layer heat and mass transfer, for process heat transfer operations. practical principles of detailed (same as EID 430 and ME 430) and chemically reacting flows. Attempts will be made to emphasize equipment design for process distillation 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 131 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 440 or modern technologies used in these operations. Attempts will be made to ME 440 or EID 440 operations. emphasize modern technologies used ChE 431 Advanced Chemical 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission in these operations. Engineering Thermodynamics ChE 445 Particle Technology of instructor 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of and Molecular Theory Introduction to particle technology and instructor Modern methods of applying multiphase flow. Particle properties thermodynamics and molecular physics and characterization. Granular to phase behavior of fluid mixtures, materials and flow. Gas-solid flows. intermolecular forces and Flow through packed beds. Fluidization. thermodynamic properties, molecular Gas-solid separations. Slurry transport. dynamic properties, molecular theory Pneumatic transport. Powders and bulk of gases and liquids, theories of liquid solids. Mixing and segregation. Particle solutions and fluid mixtures at high size reduction and enlargement. pressures. Aerosol dynamics. Industrial 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 131 petrochemical and pharmaceutical processes: fluid catalytic cracking, gas cyclones, hoppers, granulation, coating. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140 96 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ChE 475 Pharmaceutical ChE 490 Process Synthesis Civil Engineering CE 141 Environmental Systems Engineering This course provides a new basis for Engineering (same as EID 141) Introduction to pharmaceutical the design of integrated chemical Qualitative and quantitative engineering. Overview of the processes. The ability to predict, at UNDERGRADUATE treatment of water and wastewater pharmaceutical industry and drug the outset, achievable design targets systems as related to domestic and discovery and development. Clinical that have a sound scientifc basis is CE 120 Civil Engineering industrial needs and their effect on trials, regulation, and validation. fundamental to the approach. These Fundamentals the environment. Introduction to air Scientifc principles of dosage forms targets relate to energy, capital and Planning, execution and interpretation pollution sources and control and including solutions, disperse systems, raw materials, costs and flexibility. of drawings and specifcations for civil solid/hazardous waste engineering. dissolution, stability, and surface Topics will include review of basic engineering projects. Sample drawings Design of water and wastewater phenomena. Biopharmaceutical thermodynamic concepts, capital/ and specifcations. Contractual treatment plants. Field and laboratory principles of drug delivery. energy trade-off, process integration– requirements. Sample contracts. techniques for measurement of Pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, multiple utilities, process/utility Permitting, scheduling and cost water quality parameters. Laboratory and biopharmaceuticals. Unit interface, reactors and separators in estimation. Basic operations of design analysis of representative waters and operations for solid and liquid dosage the context of overall process–power and construction frms. Interface wastewaters for commonly determined forms. Pharmaceutical plant design. optimization, design for flexibility, with other disciplines on civil parameters as related to applications 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 121, ChE total sites layout, batch processes and engineering projects. in water environment. 142, and ChE 262, or permission of process plant retroft. 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 101 4.5 credits (3 hours of lecture, 3 hours instructor 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 161.1 and of laboratory). Prerequisite: ESC 140 ChE 161.2 or permission of instructor CE 121 Structural Engineering I ChE 488 Convex Optimization Discussion of materials, loads and CE 142 Water Resources Techniques (same as EID 488) ChE 499 Thesis/Project forms of structures. Analysis of Engineering (same as EID 142) This course discusses Master’s candidates are required determinate structures. Displacements Problems in conservation and in detail different methods for the to conduct, under the guidance of structures and their importance in utilization of water. Hydrologic optimization of systems of engineering of a faculty adviser, an original applications. Experimental aspects techniques. Surface water and and economic interest using the investigation of a problem in chemical of materials behavior in structural ground water supplies. Water techniques of linear and nonlinear engineering, individually or in a applications. Emphasis is placed on transmission and distribution. Flood programming. The focus is on convex group, and to submit a written thesis basic experimental techniques, design control, navigation and irrigation. optimization, which is the solution describing the results of the work. of experiments, selection and use Introduction to open channel flow and of problems with only one best cost, 6 credits for full year. of appropriate instrumentation and pipe networks. Design of hydraulic design, size etc. We will consider interpretation of results. structures. Experimental aspects problems such as least squares, supply 4.5 credits (3 hours of lecture, 3 hours of hydraulic phenomenon. Emphasis chain management, batch process of laboratory). Prerequisite: ESC 101 is placed on basic experimental networks, network flow, dynamic techniques, design of experiments, programming, portfolio optimization CE 122 Structural Engineering II selection and use of appropriate and other examples across all Modern methods of structural analysis instrumentation and interpretation engineering disciplines. Students of indeterminate structures. Discussion of results. will learn about optimization theory of energy methods, force methods and 4.5 credits (3 hours of lecture, 3 hours and problem formulation, with some displacement methods. Formulation of laboratory). Prerequisite: ESC 140 computational component. By the of elementary matrix stiffness end of the course, students should be and flexibility methods. Computer CE 331 Foundation Engineering able to: create optimization problems applications in structural analysis. Layout of subsurface investigation from a physical situation, identify 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 121 program, SPT (Standard Penetration whether a problem can be solved or Test), Dutch-cone penetrometer. not, transform problems into equivalent CE 131 Introduction to Analysis and design of spread footings forms, list optimality conditions for Geotechnical Engineering on cohesive and cohesionless soil by problems, fnd the dual of a problem Introduction to various indexing stability and settlement procedures, and identify its relation to the primal, tests of soils, clay mineralogy, combined footings, strap footings, and use at least one method to solve permeability, seepage and flow nets, floating foundations and pile a convex programming problem using stress distribution in soil masses, foundations. Settlement analysis due a computer. one-dimensional consolidation theory, to deep-seated consolidation. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 151 strength characteristics of soils, 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 131 or ESC 161, Ma 326 (co-enrollment application of Mohr’s Circle to soil is fne) mechanics, stability of slopes. CE 332 Lateral Earth Pressures 4.5 credits (3 hours of lecture, 3 hours and Retaining Structures of laboratory). Prerequisite: ESC 101; Introduction to classical lateral prerequisite or corequisite: ESC 140 earth pressure theories (Rankine and Coulomb). Analysis and design of cantilever and gravity retaining walls, cantilevered and anchored sheetpile bulkheads, anchorage systems (individual and continuous deadmen, grouted tiebacks) and braced cofferdams. Gravity Wall Systems (Gabion Walls, Criblock Walls and Double Wall). 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 131 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 97

CE 341 Design of Steel Structures CE 361 Civil Engineering CE 391 Laboratory Testing CE 425 Structural Dynamics Study of behavior and design of Experimental Projects of Building Materials (same as EID 425) structural steel components and Exploratory experimental projects Laboratory testing of common building Dynamic behavior and design of their connections. Understanding and in materials, hydraulics, soils, materials such as concrete, steel, and structures subjected to time-dependent development of design requirements environmental or other civil laminated glazing. Concrete mix design. loads. Included in the load systems are for safety and serviceability, as related engineering specialties. Projects are Casting, curing and strength testing earthquakes, blasts, wind and vehicles. to latest structural steel specifcations conceived, designed and executed of concrete cylinders at 7, 21 and 28 Shock spectra and pressure impulse by the American Institute of Steel by groups of students under faculty days. Casting, curing and testing of a curves. Special applications in blast Construction (A.I.S.C.). Current supervision. reinforced concrete beam for stress, mitigation design. design emphasizing LRFD, fabrication 2 credits. Prerequisite: permission of strain and deflection. Casting, curing 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 122 and construction practices. instructor. (Students are required to and strength testing of a reinforced Composite design. have taken introductory civil engineering concrete column. Deflection testing CE 426 Advanced Structural Design 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 121; subject(s) related to project) of a steel beam. Buckling of slender Discussion of principal design codes corequisite: CE 122 steel columns. Vibrations of a steel (AISC, ACI and AASHTO) as they relate CE 363 Civil Engineering Design I beam and a steel frame. Control to ASCE Standards, the International CE 342 Design of Reinforced Individual or group design projects of deflections through bracing and Building Code (IAC) and NYC Building Concrete Structures based upon the interests of the stiffeners. Impact testing of laminated codes Advanced materials behavior. Study of the behavior and design of students and with the approval of the glazing panels.The course will consist Strength and serviceability requirements. structural concrete components and instructor. Final engineering reports of 3-hr. weekly laboratory sessions for Design of composite girders and slabs. their connections. Understanding and and formal oral presentations are 15 weeks. Limit state response and formation of development of design requirements required for all projects. Lectures by 3 credits. Prerequisite: This course is plastic hinges in steel and concrete for safety and serviceability, as related faculty and professional practitioners open to third-year architecture and structures. Structural upgrade and retro- to latest specifcations by the American cover the following topics: engineering, third-year civil engineering students. ft of existing structures. Concrete Institute (A.C.I.). Current environmental and economic feasibility Art students and engineering students 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: design, fabrication and construction assessment issues; preparation of majors other than civil engineering CE 341 practices. Introduction to prestressed of plans and specifcations; cost require permission of instructor. concrete. estimates; progress chart and critical CE 427 Behavior and Design of 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 122 path; interfacing with community, etc. Prestressed Concrete Structures Field visits to major New York City GRADUATE Behavior and design of prestressed CE 346 Hydraulic Engineering projects under construction. members in flexure, shear, bond and An integration and application of 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of CE 414 Solid Waste Management torsion; continuous beams; columns; the principles of fluid mechanics to instructor. (Students are required to (same as EID 414) prestressed systems; loss of prestress. problems concerned with water supply have taken introductory CE subject(s)) Engineering aspects of solid waste Emphasis is placed on ultimate and distribution. Open channel flow related to project) collection, transport and disposal, strength design and the background of and design of hydraulic structures. including sanitary landfll design, latest ACI code. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 142 CE 364 Civil Engineering Design II incineration, composting, recovery and 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 341 Continuation of CE 363. re-utilization of resources. Optimization CE 351 Urban 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 363 techniques of facility-siting and CE 431 Advanced Foundation Transportation Planning collection route selection and economic Engineering Historical background and evolution of CE 369 Civil Engineering Project evaluation of factors affecting Analysis and design of foundations current procedures used in the “urban Individual design, research or selection of disposal methods. subjected to vibratory loading, beams transportation planning process.” experimental projects. Open only to 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission on elastic foundation (vertical subgrade Covered are the historical framework, well-qualifed students. of instructor modulus), laterally loaded piles (with urban development theories, land 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission software applications), Wave Equation use, trip generation, trip distribution of instructor CE 422 Finite Element Methods Analysis of Piles (with software models, traffc assignment techniques, (same as EID 422) application of WEAP). modal split and introduction to urban CE/EID 390 Introduction to Shape functions and generalized 3 credits. Prerequisites: CE 131 and transportation systems. Sustainable Design Sustainable displacements. Assemblage of permission of instructor 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission design minimizes the impact on the elements. Convergence criteria. of instructor environment by site planning and Triangular, rectangular and CE 432 Special Topics in design, energy and water conservation quadrilateral elements in plane Lateral Earth Pressure and CE 352 Elements of and interior environmental quality. stress and plane strain. Isoparametric Retaining Structures Transportation Design This course will focus on the design of formulations. General solids. Analysis and design of cellular Review of urban transportation a prototype structure using sun, light, Hexahedral and tetrahedral elements. cofferdams, reinforced earth-retaining planning process. Specifc design air, renewable materials, geological Flexure in plates. General shells. structures, slurry walls and retaining elements of various highway and systems, hydrological systems and Natural coordinates. Computer structures subjected to earthquake public transportation systems. Included green roofng. Each student will develop programs. loading, soil nailing. are locational design, traffc service, a project outlined by the U.S. Green 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 122 or 3 credits. Prerequisites: CE 131 and environmental impact analyses, Building Council rating system known ME 100 permission of instructor alternatives evaluation, geometric as LEED. The six areas that will be design elements, operations and developed to design the project are: CE 424 Plates and Shells CE 433 Advanced Topics in capacity and level-of-service analysis. sustainable sites, water effciency, Discretized grid-work and grillage Geotechnical Engineering I Also, selected topics in urban energy and atmosphere, material analysis by matrix techniques. Analysis of slopes using translatory transportation systems. and resources, indoor environmental Development of the classical thin slides and available software packages 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission quality and innovative design process. plate theory. Mathematical and (PCSTABL). Ground improvement of instructor Class time is separated into a series numerical solutions of the plate technologies: including dynamic of lectures, private consultations and equation. Introduction to thin shell compaction, grouting, ground freezing student presentations. theory. Practical applications such as and reinforced earth technologies. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140, CE 122 cylindrical shell roofs, spherical shell 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission or ME 100 and permission of instructor with an edge ring and various cases of of instructor shells of revolution. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 122 98 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

CE 434 Advanced Topics in CE 444 Hydrology CE 450 Civil Engineering CE 482 Resilient Civil Infrastructure Geotechnical Engineering II Hydrology of the water cycle related Construction Hazard mitigation including Stresses in homogeneous and layered to air mass movement, precipitations, Preparation of plans and specifcations. quantifcation of resilience. Multi-scale systems due to surface and buried evaporation, stream flow, floods, The bidding and award process. and/or multi-hazard risk assessement. loads. Development of flow network infltration and groundwater including Contractual relations between the Smart/adaptive systems to protect concepts and the Terzaghi one- statistical hydrology. Design of owner and the contractor. Preparation against natural and human-created dimensional consolidation theory, irrigation systems. of cost estimate for a competitively bid hazards. Predictive science toward secondary consolidation, site pre- 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 142 project. Preparation of a progress chart forecasting infrastructure response loading, sand drains and prefabricated and critical path. Sequencing various job to climate change or extreme events. vertical drains. CE 446 Pollution Prevention elements. Engineering the actual Development of frameworks for 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission or Minimization (same as EID 446) construction. Management of labor. optimization of infrastructure networks. of instructor Introduction to the new concept and Interlacing with the community. Environ­ Complex systems approaches to the regulations in the U.S. and Canada mental requirements. Job safety. analysis of the interconnected nature CE 440 Industrial Waste Treatment of Pollution Prevention or Waste Changes and unanticipated conditions. of civil infrastructure and its Design (same as EID 438) Minimization for managing Contract disputes and their resolutions. interdependencies. Integrated lecture and design periods hazardous pollution and protecting 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 341 3 Credits. Prerequisite: permission of that cover the sources of industrial the environment and public health. instructor wastewaters, their quantities and Methodology of conducting CE 460 Innovations in characteristics, and their treatability environmental audits and lessons Urban Infrastructure Design CE 483 Building Information by physical, chemical and biological learned from successful pollution Innovations in the design, delivery, Modeling processes. Status of regulations prevention programs. Case studies monitoring and rehabilitation of urban Introduction to Building Information involving categorical standards, local of various programs in industry, etc. infrastructure. Recent advances in Modeling (BIM). Generation and and state industrial pretreatment 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission methods and technologies such as management of digital representations of programs, NPDES permits, etc. of instructor remote sensing, visualization, data physical and functional character­istics Problems and solutions involved in acquisition systems, non-destructive of a facility. Extensive use of BIM as a combining municipal and industrial CE 447 Stream and testing, data mining, geographical shared knowledge resource among the waste treatment. Case studies. Estuary Pollution infor­mation systems (GIS), and building various stakeholders to support 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission Application of basic concepts of fluid information modeling (BIM). Emphasis decision-making about a facility from of instructor kinetics and dynamics to the analysis will be placed on applications relating earliest conceptual stages, through of dispersal and decay of contaminants to real-world projects in large urban design and construction, and through CE 441 Water and Wastewater introduced into lakes, streams, centers in the United States and its operational life and eventual Technology (same as EID 439) estuaries and oceans. Analysis and the world. demolition. Wastewater sources and estimates of modeling of leachate and other 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 121 or ME 101 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of domestic, commercial and industrial contaminants into groundwater. instructor flows. Integrated lecture and design 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 142 CE 470 Urban Security periods that cover unit processes for (same as EID 470) CE 484 Civil Engineering Project water and wastewater treatment. CE 448 Environmental and Sanitary Design of urban systems to protect Management Design projects include hydraulic and Engineering (same as EID 448) against terrorism. Analysis of blast This course provides an overview of the process design of oxidation ponds, Topics include types of environmental loads. Blast mitigation design guiding principles of civil engineering screening, grit removal, sedimentation pollution and their effects; water considerations. Technology transfer: project management. Five groups of tanks, secondary biological treatment, quality standards and introduction to military/defense to civilian sector. project management processes will be other physicochemical processes and laboratory analyses of water quality Response spectra. Pressure-Impulse considered: initiating, planning, outfall design. parameters; sources and estimates Curves. Stand off distances. Blast executing, monitoring and controlling, 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of water and wastewater flows; mitigation measures for buildings, and closing. The focus will be on of instructor physicochemical unit treatment bridges and tunnels. Prevention of developing the core competencies and processes. Integrated lecture and progressive collapse in tall buildings. skill sets required for planning and CE 442 Open Channel Hydraulics design periods cover water supply Design of glazing. Retroft upgrade controlling civil engineering projects Derivation of the general one- network, wastewater collection system of existing urban infrastructure. and understanding interpersonal issues dimensional equations of continuity, and water treatment design projects. Proposed changes in New York City that drive successful project outcomes. momentum and energy used in open 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission Building Code to protect against 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of channel flow analysis. Steady uniform of instructor terrorism. Insurance issues for instructor flow and boundary resistance. Steady commercial buildings. nonuniform flows, channel transitions CE 449 Hazardous Waste 3 credits. Prerequisites: CE 122 or CE 485 Green Sustainable Cities and controls, hydraulic jumps, Management (same as EID 449) ME 101 and permission of instructor Design and modeling of green streets surges, surface curves for gradually Defnition and characteristics of green walls, green roofs, blue roofs, varied flow including the effects of hazardous wastes. Generation, CE 481 Bridge Engineering and green parking lots; concepts and lateral inflow. Unsteady flow in open transport, treatment, storage and Codes and Applicability. General forms practical considerations. Study of channels. Dynamic waves, method disposal of hazardous wastes. and components—trusses, segmental, evapotranspiration, radiation, and of characteristics, surge formation. Leachate characteristics and cable-stayed and suspension. Primary drainage of vegetative systems. Kinematic waves, flood routing and management. Treatment technologies. loads and load combinations. Sustainable management and reuse overland flow. Design of channels and Monitoring and safety considerations. Serviceability vs. strength. Consideration considerations of urban storm water; other hydraulic structures. Obligations under Resource of extreme events. Design of super­ sustainable and positive environmental 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 142 Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) structures—deck design, girder design, impact design concepts. Management and Comprehensive Environmental floor-beam design. Design of and reuse/recycle considerations for Response, Compensation and Liability substructures-piers, abutments, frames urban gray water. Examples of Act (CERCLA). Field trips. and foundations. Scour and other international projects and case 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission adverse considerations. Wind, seismic studies. Team design projects with of instructor and pushover analyses. Bearings, class powerpoint presentations. expansion joints and barriers. 3 Credits. Prerequisite: permission of 3 credits. Prerequisite CE 122 or instructor permission of instructor. ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 99

CE 486 Urban Megaprojects and Electrical ECE 141 Electronics I architectures; addressing modes; Environmental Impacts Semiconductor physics: band theory, vector operations; microprogrammed The political embrace of city Engineering carrier distributions and transport and hard-wired controllers; machine competition internationally has mechanisms. PN-junctions, PN junction language and assembly language combined with the globalization of UNDERGRADUATE devices. Diode circuits. BJTs: current programming; static and dynamics banking, real estate development, relationships, operating region. Biasing memory operation, timing and and architecture to make Urban circuits, DC Analysis; small-signal interfacing; cache; virtual memory; ECE 110 MATLAB Seminar: Megaprojects seemingly inevitable. models, AC analysis. BJT amplifer I/O systems: bus design and data Signals & Systems With the world economy slowed, it confgurations. transfer, DMA; interrupts and interrupt A weekly hands-on, interactive seminar is time to delve into the motivation 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 140 handling, polling; disk operation and that introduces students to MATLAB, for and consequences (including organization; pipelined processor in general, and the Signal Processing environmental impacts) of the now- ECE 142 Electronics II design. The course has a substantial Toolbox in particular. Students explore ubiquitous and globally-entrenched MOS circuits: DC operation and project component that includes scientifc computation and scientifc Urban Megaprojects. The aim of this analysis. Single stage MOS amplifers, assembly language programming visualization with MATLAB. Concepts course is to understand the causes circuit design, DC and small signal and the design and construction of of signal processing and system and consequences of new scales analysis. Cascode amplifer. Current systems that contain microcontrollers, analysis that are presented in ECE 111 and forms of territorial restructuring mirrors, active loads. BJT and MOS programmable logic, and a variety or other introductory courses on the in a steadily globalizing world by differential amplifers. Monolithic of I/O devices. subject are reinforced through a variety focusing on Urban Megaproject operational amplifers. Output stages. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 150. of demonstrations and exercises. It is development. Case studies from Frequency response. Introduction to strongly encouraged for students taking cities such as Bilbao, Budapest, Abu feedback theory, amplifer topologies. ECE 161 Programming Languages a frst course in signals and systems, or Dhabi, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Circuit design and analysis are Examination of the fundamental for students expecting to use MATLAB Shanghai, Detroit, Philadelphia, and supplemented with industry standard concepts of practical programming in projects or courses. Mexico City will be presented in an CAD software. languages, focusing on C and C++ but 0 credits. interdisciplinary approach including 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 141 including additional languages. Topics sociology, planning, architecture, and and ECE 111 include binary representations of ECE 111 Signal Processing environmental impacts. Individual numbers, operators, static and dynamic & Systems Analysis term papers on case studies will be ECE 150 Digital Logic Design memory allocation, arrays, strings, A presentation of signals and systems presented to class with powerpoint. Theoretical and practical issues structures, flow control, fle I/O, stacks, that does not rely on prior knowledge 3 credits. Prerequisite: instructor’s concerning design with combinational queues, lists, activation records and of electrical circuits or differential approval and sequential logic circuits, and recursion. Object oriented programming equations. Sine waves, phasors, programmable logic devices. concepts covered include classes, continuous-time and discrete-time CE 487 Alternative Energy Projects Number systems, Boolean algebra, encapsulation, information hiding, signals, sampling. Starting from The design parameters and pros and representation and simplifcation of operator and function overloading, elementary discrete-time systems cons of all types of alternative energy Boolean functions, universal logic constructors, destructors, inheritance (FIR flters), and moving on to more production systems currently in use families. Finite-state machines, state and polymorphism. complex systems (IIR digital flters around the world will be presented. tables and state diagrams, flip-flops, 3 credits. Prerequisite: CS 102 and analog flters), concepts such Concepts, practical considerations, counters, registers. Adders, decoders, as impulse response, convolution, environmental impacts, and economics comparators, multiplexers, memories ECE 164 Data Structures frequency response, transfer functions will be evaluated. Alternative energy and applications. Programmable & Algorithms I (z-transform and Laplace transform) production systems such as solar, devices: PLA, PLD, etc. Principles of An introduction to fundamental data are presented. Block and signal-flow wind power, geothermal, hydropower, analog circuits are presented in the structures and algorithms, with an diagrams. Linearity, causality, time- pumped storage, industrial growth of context of real world problems, such as emphasis on practical implementation invariance, stability. Feedback: open- algae for biodiesel, will be examined “glitches,” power and ground bounce, issues and good programming loop and closed-loop gain. Transient and cade studies from around the contact bounce, tri-state logic and bus methodology. Topics include lists, response, poles and zeros. Vector world will be presented. Individual interfacing, timing circuits, asynchronous stacks, queues, trees, hash tables and spaces of signals, Fourier analysis, term papers on case studies will be versus synchronous circuit components. sorting algorithms. Also an introduction modulated signals, random signals. presented to class by powerpoint. Characterization of electronic and logical to analysis of algorithms with Examples include speech and audio 3 credits. Prerequisite: instructor’s properties of digital circuits. Course work big-O notation. Assignments include signals, communication and control approval involves individual and team projects programming projects and systems. Extensive use of MATLAB. in which: digital circuits are designed problem sets. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113; CE 499 Thesis/Project and prototypes are constructed and 2 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 161 or corequisite: ECE 110 Master’s candidates are required tested on breadboards; designs involving permission of the instructor to conduct, under the guidance programmable logic devices are ECE 140 Circuit Analysis of a faculty adviser, an original developed using CAD tools. The projects, ECE 165 Data Structures Circuit components, dependent and investigation of a problem in civil approximately 50 percent of the course & Algorithms II independent sources, Kirchhoff’s laws, engineering, individually or in a grade, are used to assess technical A continuation of ECE 164, also with an loop and nodal analysis. Superposition, group, and to submit a written thesis writing, oral presentation, teamwork and emphasis on practical implementation Thevenin and Norton equivalent describing the results of the work. project management skills. issues and good programming circuits, and other techniques for circuit 6 credits for full year. 3 credits. Prerequisites: none. methodology. Topics include graphs, simplifcation. Time-domain analysis Non-refundable materials fee: $40 graph-related algorithms and dynamic of RLC circuits, initial conditions, programming techniques. Also an transient response and steady-state. ECE 151 Computer Architecture introduction to some advanced topics Phasor analysis, complex power. Ideal Introduction to the design of computers such as Turing machines, computability op-amps. and computer systems. Topics and NP-complete systems. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113. Ma include: integer and floating-point Assignments include programming 240 is a suggested corequisite representations and operations: ALU projects and problem sets. design; von Neumann and Harvard 2 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 164 architectures; accumulator, general purpose register and stack-based processor design; RISC and CISC 100 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ECE 193 Electrical & and prepare written reports. Students processes. Deterministic systems ECE 311 Modern DSP Hardware Computer Engineering Projects I attend weekly lectures covering: with stochastic inputs, correlation Advanced modern digital signal An introduction to laboratory social, economic, legal and ethical and power spectral density, ARMA processors—algorithm design and techniques for electrical and computer issues; safety and laboratory models. Hilbert space and applications: implementation for parallel and engineering. Topics include the use of practice; design methodologies; orthogonality principle, discrete Wiener reconfgurable hardware platforms. electronic test equipment (e.g., DVM, technical writing; preparation of and Kalman flters, linear prediction, Systems to be studied include FPGAs, oscilloscope, curve tracer, spectrum multimedia presentations and tailoring lattice flters. multi-core processors, GPUs. HDL, analyzer); circuit analysis, design and presentations to target audiences. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 224 validation and performance evaluation. simulation; and the use of discrete 4 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 194. and ECE 300 or ECE 310 or permission A wide variety of target applications and integrated electronic components of instructor will be considered, selected according and circuits. Several projects/ ECE 196 Electrical & Computer to student and instructor interest. experiments of limited scope reinforce Engineering Projects IV ECE 303 Communication Networks 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 310 and concepts learned in previous courses This course concludes the senior Analysis and design of communication ECE 151 and provide an understanding of the project begun in ECE 195. Students networks. Network protocols, fundamental building blocks employed submit two complete theses, one in architecture, security, privacy, routing ECE 313 Music & Engineering in the more advanced designs in short form and the other in long form, and congestion control, Internet, local Spectral representation and analysis successive projects courses. Students and give at least two presentations, area networks, wireless networks, of music. Analog and digital music regularly give oral presentations and one short and one long. The initial goal multimedia services. Physical layer, signals, instruments and synthesizers, demonstrate laboratory profciency is to a achieve a functioning system. multiple access techniques, transport analog circuits and digital processing. through in-class demonstrations and Afterwards, students undertake layer. Introduction to probabilistic Description of musical quality and concise, formal technical reports. the completion of the prototyping and stochastic analytic techniques perception, introduction to acoustics, 1.5 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 111, ECE cycle, which may involve improving for communication networks. stereo and special effects. Computer 141, ECE 150. Co-requisite: ECE142. the circuit implementation (such as 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 150 interfacing with MIDI and laboratory by employing PCBs populated with and Ma 224 experiments. ECE 194 Electrical & Computer surface mount chips), adding a user- 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 111 and Engineering Projects IV friendly interface, obtaining precise ECE 305 Computer Security ECE 150 Principles learned in ECE 193 are performance evaluations, or developing This course covers attack and defense applied to the design, construction demonstrations and a user’s manual. perspectives of applied information ECE 314 Audio Engineering and characterization of electrical and Advanced students are strongly security. Topics will include networked Projects computer engineering projects of encouraged to complete their project and embedded applications, access An introduction to design, signifcant complexity. Assignments early and commence a master’s thesis. controls systems and their failure implementation, fabrication and may involve both analog and digital 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 195. modes, privilege escalation, case modifcation of musical and audio design, and students are free to studies and some applied cryptography. electronics and hardware in a pursue any solution that satisfes the ECE 300 Communication Theory Safe practices and OS flaw mitigation laboratory environment. Projects engineering requirements and meets Information theory: entropy, will be reinforced through security- will include analog and digital signal with the instructor’s approval. Formal information, channel capacity, rate- sensitive programming projects. processing for audio signals, with and informal lectures are given on distortion functions, theoretical limits Course work will include penetration focus on implementation of real-time safety, circuit operation and design, to data transmission and compression. testing, code auditing and independent algorithms in hardware. Additional and construction techniques; students Error control coding: block, cyclic and programming projects using projects will include design and participate in design reviews and write convolutional codes, Viterbi algorithm. professional auditing frameworks. implementation of electro-mechanical technical reports. Baseband and bandpass signals, 3 credits. Prerequisite: CS 102 systems and transducers for audio 4 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 193. signal constellations, noise and input / output / display. Formal and channel models. Analog and digital ECE 310 Digital Signal Processing informal lectures will include examples ECE 195 Electrical & Computer modulation formats (amplitude, phase Review of Laplace and z-transforms. drawn from standard implementations, Engineering Projects III and frequency), MAP and ML receivers, Minimum-phase and all-pass functions. safety concerns, audio specifc ECE 195 and ECE 196 constitute ISI and equalization. Coherent and non- Multidimensional signals, systems design and construction techniques; the year-long senior design project. coherent detection, carrier recovery and Fourier analysis. Analog flter participation in oral presentations and Students work in small groups on and synchronization. Performance: design, digital IIR and FIR flter design. technical reports will be required. projects chosen with the advice computation of SNR, BER, power Sampling, multirate systems and 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 141 and and consent of the faculty adviser. and bandwidth requirements. TDMA, flter banks, A/D and D/A converter ECE 150, or permission of the instructor Projects may be oriented towards FDMA, CDMA. models. Discrete-time state-space. research or product development, 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 224 and Filter structures, quantization effects ECE 320 Control Systems and may be in any area of electrical ECE 111 and design to mitigate quantization Block and signal-flow diagrams, and computer engineering, such as effects. DFT and FFT. Spectral analysis Mason’s theorem. Laplace transform, in: computer engineering, signal ECE 302 Probability Models of deterministic and random signals. frequency response, Bode plots, root processing (imaging, sensor arrays, & Stochastic Processes Introduction to adaptive flters. locus, Routh-Hurwitz array. Analysis of multimedia), telecommunications, Topics in probability, random variables Differential coding, transform coding. feedback control systems: open-loop computer networks, microwaves, and stochastic processes applied to Speech, audio and video signals. and closed-loop gain, Nichols chart, optics, advanced electronics, VLSI chip the felds of electrical and computer Extensive use of MATLAB. Nyquist diagram, gain and phase design, or an interdisciplinary area engineering. Probability, events, 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 240 and margin. Continuous-time state-space such as robotics or bioengineering. random variables, expectation, ECE 111 analysis, state-variable feedback, Students perform all aspects of project moments, characteristic functions, canonical forms, observability management, such as scheduling, conditional probability and expectation. and controllability. Second-order budgeting, system design and Functions of random variables, random models, transient and steady-state developing milestones, as well as vectors, Gausian random vectors, performance. Emphasis on analog technical work including hardware Poisson points. Bounding and limit systems, although digital control and software implementation, testing theorems. Relations among important systems will be discussed as time and performance evaluation. Students distributions and probability models. allows. Extensive use of MATLAB. also give several spontaneous and Stochastic processes: stationarity, 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 240 and rehearsed oral presentations ergodicity, Brownian motion, Markov ECE 111 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 101

ECE 321 Control Systems Design cavity resonators. Microwave network ECE 357 Computer GRADUATE Control system design using Bode analysis and device characterization Operating Systems plots, Nichols chart, root locus. Design with scattering parameters. Antennas, Theory and implementation of ECE 401 Selected Topics by pole placement, Ackermann’s antenna arrays and Fourier optics. modern computer operating systems. in Communication Theory formula, state-variable feedback. Additional topics from microwaves Message-based and multiprocessor Advanced topics in communications Cascade compensation, minor-loop and optics will be covered as time kernels. Networking and interprocess engineering, selected according to feedback. Controller and estimator allows. Students use a vector network communication. Security, auditing student and instructor interest. design, regulator systems, systems analyzer to perform measurements at and authentication. Device drivers, 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 300 and with a reference input. Introduction high frequencies. interrupt handling, task switching, permission of instructor to digital control: hybrid analog- 4 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 223, virtual memory, memory management, digital control systems, sampled-data Ph 213, ECE 140 and ECE 111 scheduling, synchronization and ECE 402 Selected Topics systems, digital extensions of Bode locking. File systems, resource in Probability & Stochastic plots and root locus, Ragazzini’s ECE 341 Integrated Circuit allocation and management. Real- Processes method. Extensive use of MATLAB. Engineering time, fault-tolerant and high security Advanced topics in applied probability 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 320 Feedback theory, frequency operating systems. User environment or stochastic processes. Possible compensation. Integrated circuit and interface issues. Projects areas of study include: Markov ECE 323 Embedded System Design fabrication and technology. Device in operating system design and processes, queuing theory, information Hardware and software design modeling, thermal effects. VLSI CAD programming, case studies. theory, stochastic systems, fnancial for embedded systems. SBC and design tools. Circuit layout, extraction 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 151 and engineering. microcontroller architectures, A/D and and simulation. Design and analysis of ECE 161 or ECE 164 1-3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 302 or D/A conversion, signal conditioning, multistage MOS operational amplifers, permission of instructor interfacing and controlling electronic OTA architectures. Nonlinear circuits, ECE 361 Software Engineering and electro-mechanical systems. comparators. Analog switches. Digital & Large Systems Design ECE 405 Advanced Digital Assembly language and high-level phase-locked loops. Sample and hold This course teaches about the Communications language programming, effcient use of circuits. Data converter architectures. development stages of large, robust, Advanced digital modulation including computational and physical resources, Switched capacitor circuits. Bandgap expandable software systems formats with memory, continuous- considerations for speed and reference circuits. MOST digital developed as part of a team. Topics phase and constant-envelope schemes. robustness, debugging methods, use of circuit design and layout, hierarchical include project management, capturing Performance analysis for AWGN simulators and in-circuit emulators. The approaches. Final design project is a requirements, system design, UML, and other channels. Multitone and course is project-based, and students mixed analog/digital circuit (e.g., Flash program design, testing, delivery and multicarrier communications. Spread are required to design and construct an A/D converter, phase-locked loop), maintenance. The class will develop spectrum with applications to embedded system. which is sent for fabrication. a large project as a team using Java multiple access schemes and secure 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 320 and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 142 throughout the semester. Tools, communications. CDMA: PN sequence ECE 151 libraries and techniques necessary for generation and properties, multi- ECE 343 Bio-instrumentation the project will be covered in class, user detection. Additional topics as ECE 332 Electro-Mechanical and Sensing e.g., Eclipse, Javadoc, XML, SOAP, time permits. Energy Conversion The basic human vital signs and servlets, threads and processes, 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 300 and Analysis of energy sources some related elementary physiology Swing, JUnit, mySQL, JDBC, etc. The ECE 302 and energy converters. Principles of viewed from an engineering standpoint specifc resources might change from electro-mechanical energy conversion; with special emphasis placed upon semester to semester. ECE 407 Wireless System Design singly and multiply excited systems; current electronic measurement 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 165 Hands-on exposure to the design rotating and linear machines; three- methods. Electrocardiographic and and implementation of modern phase circuits; magnetic circuits and electromyographic signals. Safety ECE 391 Research Problem digital communication systems transformers; torque and induced problems related to electrical isolation. An elective course open to qualifed using software-defned radio (SDR) voltage from feld considerations; Guarded, fully isolated, modulated upper division students. Students may technology. The prototyping and real- synchronous machines; induction carrier operational amplifers and approach an EE faculty member and time experimentation of these systems motors; DC machines. Introduction microvolt-level amplifcation. Solid-state apply to carry out research on problems via SDR will enable greater flexibility in to power electronics. Applications “grain of wheat” pressure sensors, of mutual interest in theoretical the assessment of design trade-offs as including high-speed transportation, microelectrodes, thermal probes, or applied electrical and computer well as the illustration of “real world” energy storage and interconnection ultrasonic transducers and other engineering. Student performs creative operational behavior. Laboratory of distant generating stations. biosignal sensors. Course work includes work with faculty guidance. modules for performance comparisons 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 120 or instrumentation and sensing projects. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Instructor with quantitative analytical ECE 140 and Ph 213 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 111 and approval techniques will be conducted in order ECE 142 to reinforce digital communication ECE 335 Engineering ECE 392 Research Problem II system design concepts. A large Electromagnetics (continuation of ECE 391) course project consisting of original This course emphasizes time-varying 3 credits. Prerequisite: instructor research will be required. Course felds, with topics presented from approval topics include SDR architectures and electrostatics and magnetostatics implementations, digital signaling and as necessary. Maxwell’s equations, ECE 399 Selected Topics in data transmission analysis in noise, constitutive relations, phasor vector Electrical & Computer Engineering digital receiver structures (matched felds, wave and Helmholtz equations, Subjects may include seminars fltering, correlation), multicarrier potentials, boundary conditions. Plane on topics related to advances in communication techniques, radio waves in lossless and lossy materials, technology, current research areas. frequency spectrum sensing and polarization, incidence. Transmission Also individual research, design and identifcation (energy detection, lines: transient analysis, TDR, phasor development or study of subjects in matched fltering), and fundamentals of analysis, standing wave diagrams, electrical and computer engineering. radio resource management. Smith chart, impedance matching. 1-3 credits. Prerequisite: permission 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 300 and Guided waves: TEM, TE and TM of instructor ECE 310 modes, dispersion, evanescence, 102 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ECE 408 Wireless Communications ECE 415 Wavelets and ECE 418 Digital Video ECE 433 Optical Communications Survey of cellular mobile radio systems Multiresolution Imaging Digital video coding, compression, Devices & Systems and formats, including market trends (same as MA 415) processing and communications. Target PIN, avalanche and Schottky and technological advances. The Wavelets and multiresolution signal applications from low bit-rate, low photodiodes; risetime, noise, amplifer emphasis is on CDMA and 3G systems, processing with an emphasis on 2D quality to high bit-rate, high quality. requirements. Semiconductor and emerging schemes such as WiFi and 3D cases. STFT, wavelet analysis, Two- and three-dimensional sampling, optical devices: radiative and non- networks, although TDMA systems will wavelet packets, DWT. Multirate color spaces, motion representation. radiative recombination, quaternary be discussed as well. Propagation and flter banks, PR and paraunitary Motion estimation: optical flow, block- semiconductors, heterojunctions, multipath fading channel models and conditions, multidimensional matching; constrained optimization: quantum wells, bandwidth minimization, simulation. Cellular system capacity, flters, multidimensional sampling Bayesian methods, simulated lasers, distributed feedback, vertical traffc models, multiple-access lattices. Bases, frames and sparse annealing, Gibbs random felds. cavity structures. Internal and external techniques, handoff and power control representations. Image and video Mathematical basis for compression modulation, electro-optic modulators, algorithms. Modulation formats, applications such as: compression, standards such as JPEG and MPEG, Stark effect. Optical fbers: mode detection schemes and performance. noise reduction, tomography and and digital television including HDTV. structure, attenuation, dispersion, Mitigating fading: pulse shaping, DFE, other inverse problems, hyperspectral Rate-distortion based compression PM fbers, WDM. System architecture, MLSE (Viterbi). DSP algorithms for imaging, compressive sensing. Course for optimal bit allocation via dynamic analog/ digital communications, baseband processing. work includes MATLAB projects and programming (Viterbi algorithm). terabit data links. Solitons. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 300 readings in the technical literature. Scalability in multimedia systems. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 335 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 310 and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 310 and ECE 135 ECE 410 Radar & Sensor Array MA 326 or permission of instructor Processing ECE 421 Advanced Control ECE 434 Bioelectricity Terminology and system overview ECE 416 Adaptive Filters System Design Electrical behavior of cellular for modern radar and sensor array Statistical signal processing theory: Design of control systems using membranes. Ion transport, systems; antenna parameters; radar discrete-time Wiener and Kalman two-degrees of freedom and PID electrochemical equilibrium, signals and waveforms; Doppler flters, linear prediction, steepest compensators. Ackermann’s formula, applications of circuit and cable theory, processing; detection; synthetic descent and stochastic gradient. H-infnity control theory and Hodgkin-Huxley model, resting and aperture imaging (SAR); beamforming LMS, normalized LMS, LS, RLS, applications. Analysis and design for action potentials. Generation and and space-time array processing QR-RLS, order-recursive algorithms. nonlinear systems using describing propagation of signals within the (STAP); adaptive methods; additional Applications include equalization, noise function, state-variables, Lyapunov’s nervous system and the heart. Case topics may be covered according cancellation, system identifcation, stability criterion and Popov’s method. studies and consideration of topics to student and instructor interest. sensor array processing. Numerical Introduction to optimal control theory of current research interest, such as: Computer simulations and readings in linear algebra: eigenanalysis, SVD, (dynamic programming). Design developmental biology, regenerative the technical literature. matrix factorizations. Transversal problems and extensive use of MATLAB. medicine, neural prostheses, tissue 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 300 and flters, lattice flters, systolic arrays. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 310 and engineering. ECE 310 Performance: convergence, learning either ECE 320 or ME 151 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 141 or ESC curves, misadjustment, tracking in 120, PH 213 ECE 411 Selected Topics nonstationary environments. Additional ECE 425 Digital Control Systems in Signal Processing topics such as adaptive IIR flters, Basic components of digitally ECE 441 Digital Integrated Circuit Advanced topics in signal processing neural networks and quantization controlled dynamic systems. Sampling Engineering selected according to student and effects may be covered as time allows. and reconstruction: the ideal sampler, Design of static and dynamic CMOS instructor interest. Extensive use of MATLAB. zero and higher order hold elements. combinational logic gates, layout and 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 310 and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 111 The pulse transfer function and the simulation. Standard cell construction. permission of instructor z-transfer function description of Sequential logic systems—registers, ECE 417 Design for Custom dynamic systems. Stability criterion latches, clocks. Design of arithmetic ECE 414 Machine Learning DSP Hardware and analysis by the Nyquist, root locus building blocks, ALU, multipliers. Machine learning of structural Design of programmable and and Bode methods. The modifed Routh- Memory circuits and organization. relationships among variables from custom digital signal processors, Hurwitz and Jury stability criteria. The FPGAs. System design—hardware empirical data. Decision theory, and realization of DSP algorithms in state-variable approach: state equations description languages, floorplanning, Bayesian methods. Classifcation: specialized architectures. Features of dynamic systems with sample and system architecture. A major naïve Bayes, linear discriminant of programmable DSPs such as data- hold devices, state equations of systems component of the course is the design analysis, support vector machines stationary and time-stationary coding, with all-digital elements. Digital simula­ and fabrication of an ASIC using a (SVM), boosting. Regression: least- MAC and ACS ALUs, circular buffers. tion and approximation. Controllability, variety of VLSI CAD tools. squares, regularization methods, Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) observability and stability. State and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 341 logistic regression. Clustering using processors. Applications of graph output feedback, state observers and k-means and EM algorithms. Model theory and passivity theory to map the separation principle. Digital control ECE 442 Communication Electronics selection: bias-variance tradeoff, DSP algorithms to custom structures: system design by state feedback. Circuit design for advanced cross-validation, over-ftting. Feature SFGs, DFGs, retiming, folding and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 320 communications applications. Design selection and dimensionality reduction unfolding, lattice and orthogonal flters, of high-frequency amplifers, oscillators methods including PCA, ICA, MDS. scheduling and allocation, systolic ECE 431 Microwave Engineering and mixers using large signal analysis. Kernel methods. Other topics may be architectures. Optimization with Passive circuits, open-boundary Effects of noise and non-linearities are covered as time permits. respect to number of hardware units, waveguides, perturbation theory, examined from the diode and transistor 3 credits. Prerequisities: Ma 223, speed (sample period and latency), coupled modes, waveguide junctions, level to board level. Communication Ma224; either ECE 111, ChE 151 VLSI area, power consumption and microstrip. Two- and three-terminal subsystems of interest include or ESC 161 performance (quantization effects). devices; varactor diodes, Gunn diodes; phase locked loops, modulators and Special CAD tools and languages for IMPATT and MESFET technology. demodulators (AM, PM FM), and signal rapid prototyping. Case studies and Design of RF amplifers and phase- processors for multiple access systems programming exercises. shifters. Computer-aided simulation (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA). Course work 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 310 and and design. includes computer-aided simulation ECE 151 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 335 and design projects. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 300, and ECE 142. Corequisite: ECE 335 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 103

ECE 443 Thin-Film Electronics ECE 460 Selected Topics in ECE 466 Compilers ECE 469 Artificial Intelligence Properties of polycrystalline, amorphous, Computer Engineering The theory, design and implementation This course covers many subtopics liquid and organic semiconductors. Advanced topics in computer hardware of a practical compiler. Finite of AI, focusing on a few important Methods of deposition: vacuum and or software engineering selected automata, LL and LR parsing, subtopics in detail. The “intelligent nonvacuum techniques, epitaxial and according to student and instructor attribute grammars, syntax-directed agent” approach is explained and nonepitaxial growth. Assessment of interest. Prerequisites will depend on translation, symbol tables and scopes, forms a foundation for the rest of the thin flm semiconductors: structural, the topics to be covered. type systems and representations, course. Intelligent search: uninformed optical, electrical. Thin flm 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of abstract syntax trees, intermediate search, depth-frst search, breadth-frst semiconductor devices: transistors, instructor representation, basic blocks, data and search, iterative deepening; informed displays, photovoltaics, flexible control flow optimizations, assembly search, best-frst search, A*, heuristics, conductors. Optical coatings and ECE 462 Interactive language generation including register hill climbing; constraint satisfaction architectural applications. Thin flm Engineering Graphics and instruction selection. Students problems; intelligent game playing, superconductors: metallic, allow and Graphical primitives, windows, clipping apply tools such as Flex and Bison minimax search, alpha-beta pruning. high Tc, fabrication and assessment. and viewports. Two- and three- to writing a functional compiler for a Machine learning: probability, Bayesian Superconducting devices: Cooper pairs, dimensional geometric transformations subset of a real programming language learning; decision trees; statistical Josephson junctions, SQUIDS, and translations; rotation, pan and such as C. machine learning, neural networks, Josephson computers. zoom. Hidden line and surface 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 164 Naive Bayes, k-nearest neighbors, 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 142 removal. Region flling and shading. support vector machines. Natural The architecture of high performance ECE 467 Natural Language language processing: syntax, semantics ECE 445 Design with graphical engines. Representing Processing and pragmatics; real-world knowledge; Operational Amplifiers lighting, shading and textures. This course focuses on computational parsing; statistical NLP. Philosophy Analysis and design of operational Rendering. Rotation. GUIs. Animation. applications involving the processing of AI: AI and consciousness, the Turing amplifer circuits with various Course work includes design projects. of written or spoken human languages. test, the Chinese room experiment. applications, including amplifers, 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 164 Content may vary from year to year. Coursework includes two large flters, comparators, signal generators, Theoretical subtopics will likely include individual programming projects. D/A and A/D converters and phase- ECE 464 Databases word statistics, formal and natural 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 164 locked loops. Introduction to issues Engineering and design of databases. language grammars, computational such as static and dynamic limitations, Topics to be covered may include: data linguistics, hidden Markov models, and ECE 491 Selected Topics in noise and stability. Use of industry models, database and scheme design; various machine learning methods. Electrical & Computer Engineering standard CAD software. schema normalization and integrity Applications covered will likely include Subjects may include study in electrical 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 142 constraints; query processing and information retrieval, information and computer engineering, or seminars optimization; distributed and parallel extraction, text categorization, question on topics related to advances in ECE 446 Low-Voltage, Low-Power databases; SQL and XML. answering, summarization, machine technology, This course may not be Electronic Circuit Design 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 164 translation and speech recognition. used to expand the number of credits The physics and modeling of submicron Course work includes programming of thesis, or cover material related to MOS transistors for analog and digital ECE 465 Cloud Computing projects and tests. the thesis. circuit design. Circuit techniques for Critical, foundational technology 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 164 1-3 credits. Prerequisite: permission the design of low-power, low-voltage components that enable cloud of instructor digital combinatorial logic, multipliers, computing, and the engineering ECE 468 Computer Vision memory and system design. Circuit advancements that have led to today’s Visual perception and imaging geometry. ECE 499 Thesis/Project techniques for the low-power, low- ecosystem. Students design, build and Pixels, pixel neighborhoods and pixel Master’s candidates are required voltage analog circuits including test representational software units connectivity. Image transforms: Fourier, to conduct, under the guidance of a the design of low-voltage constant that implement different distributed Hadamard, Walsh, Discrete Cosine, faculty adviser, an original individual g_m differential amplifers. The use computing components. Multi-threaded Haar, Slant and others. Techniques for investigation of a problem in electrical of switched capacitor circuits for programming in Java. Functional image manipulation and enhancement and computer engineering and to analog signal processing. The course programming (MapReduce). Hadoop: in both the frequency and spatial submit a written thesis describing the will culminate with the design and a programmer’s perspective; building domains. Histogram equalization, image results of the work. simulation of a low-voltage low-power and confguring clusters; Flume as an subtraction and local averaging. Filtering, 6 credits over 1 year. mixed signal circuit. input engine to collect data; Mahout homomorphic methods.Color models 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 142, as a machine learning system to and use of monochrome techniques ECE 341 or permission of instructor perform categorization, classifcation on RGB channels. Image restoration: and recommendation; Zookeeper for camera movement cancellation, scratch ECE 453 Advanced Computer systems coordination. removal. Image compression techniques, Architecture 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE151, lossy and lossless. Image segmentation, This course studies modern, advanced ECE164. edge detection, edge linking, boundary techniques used to design and produce detection; region growing, splitting and current, state-of-the-art computer merging. Image representation as a architectures. Technology, performance hierarchical collection of objects, and price. The quantitative principle chain codes, Fourier descriptors. and Amdahl’s law. Instruction sets; Object recognition, signatures. addressing modes, operands and 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 111 opcodes; encoding instruction sets. and ECE 161, or ECE 164 RISC versus CISC architectures; MIPS. Pipelining; the classic fve-stage pipeline, hazards, exceptions, floating point operations. Advanced pipelining techniques: dynamic scheduling, branch prediction. Multiple issue, speculation. Limits of parallelism. Compiler support for parallelism, VLIW. Caches. Examination of modern processors. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 151 104 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Mechanical ME 130 Advanced Thermodynamics ME 153 Mechatronics ME 164 Capstone Senior ME Design Equations of state; properties of pure (same as EID 153) The application of open-ended design Engineering substances; ideal and real gas and gas- Topics include computer architecture, work to the synthesis of engineering vapor mixture properties, fundamental PIC processor overview, dynamic devices and systems for the satisfaction UNDERGRADUATE process and cycle analysis of ideal and modeling, sensors, data acquisition, of a specifed need. Consideration real systems; modern gas and vapor digital PID control theory, and of market requirements, production power cycles and refrigeration cycles. utilization of assembly language to costs, safety and esthetics. Projects ME 100 Stress and Computer applications to problem code the controller. Students will are carried out in small groups and Applied Elasticity solving. design, build and test a controller are supervised by the instructor in Three-dimensional theory of elasticity; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 130 board and present a fnal prototype of a accordance with professional practice. state of stress, state of strain, elastic control system. Engineering economics The goal of the course is to create stress-strain relations. Applications ME 131 Energetics will be introduces and integrated into a working design, clearly defned in include elementary three-dimensional (same as EID 131) the fnal project. drawings and specifcations. problems, plane stress and plane Current and near-term energy sources, 3 Credits. Prerequisite: ME 151 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: strain, Saint Venant’s long cylinder, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear or ECE 121 or ChE 152 ME 163 beams and plates. Computer-aided fssion, hydroelectric, oil shale and design projects. refuse. Description of contemporary ME 155 Design and Prototyping ME 165 Sound and Space 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 101 methods of energy conversion including A mechanical engineering hands-on (same as EID 165) conventional utility power plants and workshop geared towards the Basics of acoustics, including sound ME 101 Mechanical Vibrations nuclear power plants. Introduction to understanding and practice of basic waves, room and hall acoustics and Mechanical systems with single direct energy conversion; magneto- engineering design and fabrication metrics of sound. Audio engineering, and multiple degrees of freedom; hydrodynamics, fuel cells, thermionic tools. Topics include hand tools, simple including microphones, signal longitudinal, torsional and lateral and thermoelectric. Design of the machining, mold making, casting, processors, amplifers and loudspeakers. vibrations; free and forced oscillations; thermodynamic operation of a steam materials, fasteners, adhesives, and Skills and techniques using Pro Tools vibration testing, dynamic stability, power plant. fnishes. 3-D digitizing, solid modeling, brand audio editor system to create vibration isolation, design criteria. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 130 rapid prototyping and computer original sonic and musical compositions. Computer-aided design assignments. interfacing will also be presented. Public exhibition of an electronic 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 101 and ME 142 Heat Transfer: Fundamentals Team projects will familiarize the music program. Ma 240 and Design Applications students with typical tools and 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission One-dimensional steady-state processes employed in realizing of instructor ME 105 Drawing and Sketching for conduction. Two-dimensional steady- a design concept, from sketch to Engineers (same as EID 105) state conduction and transient functional prototype. Each student will ME 312 Manufacture Engineering This course introduces engineering conduction: fnite-difference equations participate in and contribute to the (same as EID 312) students to the fundamentals of free- and computational solution methods. team-learning and creation process. Study of metal processing theory and hand drawing and sketching with an Convection; introduction to laminar and 2 credits. Prerequisites: EID 101 and application with emphasis on casting, emphasis on the interpretation and turbulent viscous flows; external and EID 103 machining, and metal deformation communication of insights, concepts internal forced convection problems, processes; plastic forming; special and dimensioned solutions. Drawings including exact and numerical solution ME 160 Engineering Experimentation processing techniques; work-holder and sketches are often the frst steps techniques; free convection. Introduction Selection, calibration and use of design principles. Specifc areas in innovative engineering solutions to radiation heat transfer and multimode subsystems for the measurement of studied include stages of processing, and invention. The primary goal of this problems. Open-ended design projects mechanical, thermal/fluid and electrical mathematical modeling of processes, course is to provide a comprehensive will include application to fns, heat phenomena. Laboratory work includes equipment determination, relationship foundation in traditional drawing and exchangers, tube banks and radiation investigations of heat exchangers, of plant layout, tooling, metrology, and sketching methods for engineers. enclosures and will make use of fluid systems and internal combustion product design to product cost. 2 credits. Prerequisites: none computer-aided design techniques. engines. Emphasis is placed on data 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 142 and 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140 collection and statistical reduction, ME 155 ME 116 Musical Instrument Design computational methods and written (same as EID 116) ME 151 Feedback Control Systems and oral presentation skills. ME 322 Fundamentals of Theory and use of musical scales, Modeling and representation of 3 credits. Prerequisites: none Aerodynamics including just intonation and equal dynamic physical systems: transfer Study of incompressible potential temperament systems. Musical functions, block diagrams, state ME 163 Mechanical Engineering flow around bodies of aerodynamic harmony and basic ear training. equations, and transient response. Projects interest, by the use of equations of Human hearing and the subjective Principles of feedback control and Original investigations, involving motion, method of singularities and measures of sound: pitch, loudness linear analysis including root locus and design and experimental work which conformal transformation. Investigation and timbre. Acoustic analysis of design frequency response methods. Practical allow the application of engineering of experimental results and techniques. and operating principles of traditional applications and computer simulations sciences to the analysis and synthesis Consideration of the effects of viscosity instruments, including members of the using MATLAB. Discussions of ethics of devices or systems and permit the and transition from laminar to turbulent percussion, string and wind families. will be integrated into the curriculum. deepening of experience in engineering flow. A design-oriented project, usually Prototyping and testing of original 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 240 and decision making. Projects are carried involving application of computer musical instrument concepts. ESC 161 out in small groups and are supervised methods, will be required. 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission by the instructor in accordance with 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140 of instructor professional practice. 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of instructor ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 105

ME 324 Space Dynamics ME 350 Introduction to Industrial ME 405 Automotive Engineering ME 413 Microelectromechanical Fundamental principles of advanced Design Fundamentals Systems (MEMS) dynamics; kinematics, transformation The collaborative relationship between An introductory course in modern Advances in the design, or coordinates; particle and rigid art, engineering and industrial design, automotive design, covering aspects of fabrication, analysis and control of body dynamics. Application to space academically and professionally, is a prime movers, aerodynamics, brakes, mircoelectromechanical systems problems; satellite orbits; gyro-dynamics, pivotal relationship in the development tires, steering, transmission, suspension (MEMS) have positioned MEMS at space vehicle motion; performance and of new ideas. This course serves and handling, chassis and advanced the forefront of high-value, cutting- optimization. Generalized theories of as an introduction to the world of hybrid powertrain concepts. Simulations edge technologies. The scope of this mechanics; virtual work, D’Alembert’s industrial design and its wide-ranging and physical prototyping give students course covers both the fundamental principle; Lagrange’s equation; applications. The students will learn a hands-on approach to the design, and advanced aspects of MEMS. Hamilton’s principle. about the history of design and design optimization, fabrication and testing Topics include introduction to MEMS, 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 100 concepts and methodology through of various vehicle subsystems in a materials and fabrication processes, lectures, discussions, and small team-based learning environment. sensors and actuators, microfluidics, ME 330 Internal Combustion projects; and will explore, develop, 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 130 scaling principles, device concepts Engine Design and execute a term design as part of a or permission of instructor and system design. MEMS processing A broad analytical and experimental class project as the course progresses. simulation and modeling, testing review of the governing parameters The main goals of this course are to ME 407 Introduction to and packaging of MEMS will also be involved in piston engine design and develop a better understanding of the Computational Fluid Dynamics presented. Furthermore, exposure to optimization. Thermodynamics, fluid perspective of an industrial designer The need for and applications basic MEMS processing and cleanroom mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, and to gain experience in the practice of computational fluid dynamics protocol will be included. emissions, thermochemistry, dynamic of industrial design. (CFD). Introduction to CFD analysis 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 110 or and static loading, and fuel effciency, 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME155 or and commercially available codes. ESC 110.1 as they apply to different engine permission of instructor Governing equations and numerical cycles and types, are covered. Varied solution methodologies for basic fluid ME 415 Introduction to research examples from industry, ME 363-364 Selected Topics in flow systems. Geometric modeling and Nanotechnology government, and academia, with Mechanical Engineering grid generation. Examination of various Understanding and control of matter particular emphasis on automotive This course will deal with current physical models. Use of a commercial at dimensions in the range from engine design, are analyzed from frst technological developments in various CFD code. one to 100 nanometers for novel principles. Students develop hands-on felds of mechanical engineering. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140 applications are the main objectives learning skills through computational Projects and design will be emphasized. of nanotechnology. The scope of and experimental assignments. 3 credits each. Prerequisite: ME 408 Introduction to Computer this course encompasses nanoscale 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 130 ME faculty permission Aided Engineering (CAE) science and engineering. Typical Theory and practical applications topics will include the unique ME 336 Design Elements ME 365 Mechanical Engineering of computer aided engineering properties of some nanometer scale Application of the principles of Research Problem methodologies, and use of multiphysics materials, processiong and fabrication mechanics to the design of basic An elective course available to software, in mechanical engineering technologies for nanomaterials, machine elements; study of qualifed students. Students may elect practices. Topics include principal imaging, measuring, modeling components subjected to static, impact to consult with an ME faculty member modeling and solution techniques, and manipulating matter at this and fatigue loading; influence of stress and apply to carry out independent computational geometry applications, length scale. In addition, laboratory concentration; deflection of statically research on problems of mutual modeling of mechanical engineering demonstrations on nanomaterials determinate and indeterminate interest in theoretical or applied problems, and non-linear and dynamic processing, nanoarchitecturing and structures by the energy method. mechanical engineering. problem solving. Students use typical self-assembling of nanostructures will Design projects apply basic criteria to 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME faculty commercial software packages to work be included. the design of shafts, springs, screws permission and senior standing. on practical case studies. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 110 or ESC and various frictional elements; May be repeated 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 100 110.1 design projects make use of computer, experimental and modeling techniques. GRADUATE ME 412 Autonomous Mobile Robots ME 430 Thermodynamics of 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 100 This course introduces basic concepts, Special Systems (same as EID 430 ME 401 Advanced Mechanical technologies, and limitations of and ChE 430) ME 338 Mechanical Design Vibrations autonomous mobile robots. Topics Thermodynamic analyses of solid Mechanical design of basic Combined analytical and experimental include digital and analog I/O, systems undergoing elastic strain and transmission elements; design approach to mechanical vibration tactile sensing, IR sensing and range of magnetic, electric and biological optimization by blending fundamental issues; characterization of the dynamic fnding, light sensing, sonar, magnetic systems. Equations of state for these principles and engineering judgment; behavior of a structure in terms of feld sensing, encoders, DC motor and other fluid and non-fluid systems. design criteria for the various frictional its modal parameters; digital data actuators, servo motor actuators, Thermodynamics of low temperature machine elements. Design projects acquisition and signal processing; high-level microprocessor control, systems. Recent advances in obtaining provide authentic involvement in experimental modal analysis procedures low-level microprocessor control, real fluid and solid properties. problems from industry; design projects and excitation techniques; extraction power management, and prototyping. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 130 make use of computer, experimental of modal parameters from measured Students will form teams to design and modeling techniques. frequency response functions. Students and build autonomous mobile robots 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 336 will acquire hands-on experience confgured to compete with each other with impact hammer and shaker in a singles-match game, or to perform data acquisition and analysis. a team-oriented task. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 101 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 153 or ECE 151 106 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

ME 432 Introduction to Nuclear ME 440 Advanced Fluid Mechanics Chemistry Ch 231 Organic Chemistry I Power Plant Technology (same as EID 440 and ChE 440) Bond types and strengths, structural Nuclear power provides a high- Introduction to the fundamental theory, bond angles and hybrid bonds; potential form of alternative energy, constitutive relations and conservation UNDERGRADUATE covalent bonds, polarity of bonds and with signifcant safety constraints. The laws of fluid mechanics. Steady molecules; dipole moments; molal course centers on the study of a typical and transient velocity distributions Ch 110 General Chemistry refraction; melting points and boiling US commercial nuclear power plant— of viscous flow. Stream functions, An introduction to the general scientifc points relative to properties and its design philosophy and analysis potential flow, and creeping flow. principles associated with chemistry. natures of molecules; solubilities based of nuclear steam supply system and Boundary layer theory. Modeling of This course will deal with fundamental on structures; functional groups; critical balance of plant systems (including turbulent flow. Special topics may ideas such as the concept of the atom, temperature, pressure and volume as heat exchangers, pumps, relief valves, include: hydrodynamic stability, the molecule, the mole and their a function of structure and functional etc.) for normal operation and steady vorticity dynamics and mixing, waves applications to chemical problems. The groups, prediction of vapor pressure state and transient accident analysis, in fluids, airfoil theory, lubrication classical topics include: dimensional curves, latent heats. Nomenclature and longer term spent fuel storage. theory, compressible flow, multiphase analysis and signifcant fgures; isomers and properties. Resonance and The course utilizes disciplines/methods flow, bubbles and droplets, non- atomic weights; periodic properties; delocalization of charge phenomena; of thermodynamics, heat transfer and Newtonian flow, and computational chemical reactions and stoichiometry; acidity and basicity (Lewis concept). fluid flow, and plant drawings and data. fluid dynamics. redox reactions; ideal gas law and 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 160 Analysis includes Three Mile Island 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 140 and real gas equations of state; the Accident, a small break loss-of-coolant permission of instructor liquid state and intermolecular Ch 232 Organic Chemistry II accident. When feasible, this course forces; solution concentrations; Extension of Ch 231 to systematic study includes a tour of an operating nuclear ME 458 Industrial Robots chemical equilibrium and equilibrium of aliphatic and aromatic compounds, power plant. (same as EID 458) constants; acids and bases; solubility with emphasis on functional behavior 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 130 and Basic concepts, techniques, and equilibria; nomenclature of inorganic and interpretation of mechanisms ESC 140 limitations of modern industrial and organic compounds. The topics and bond types, polyfunctional robots; industrial automation; robot for atomic and molecular properties compounds, carbohydrates and ME 433 Rocket Science (same as programming languages; defnition include: atomic structure and the heterocyclic compounds. ChE 433) and description of a robot work space; quantum theory; electronic structure 2 credits (2 lecture hours). Prerequisite: Transient and steady-state control application of transform and operator of atoms; the covalent bond and bond Ch 231; corequisite: Ch 233 volume balances (mass, momentum matrices in industrial robotics. Student properties; molecular geometries and and energy) that involve compressible projects include computer programming hybridization; molecular orbital theory. Ch 233 Organic Chemistry flow phenomena are applied to of forward and inverse kinematics, 3 credits. Prerequisites: none Laboratory (primarily) aerospace applications. and application programming with an Laboratory work will cover subject Fundamental topics include variable industrial robot. Ch 111 General Chemistry matter studied in Ch 231 and Ch mass accelerating control volumes, 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 151 Laboratory 232, including synthesis and type variable area adiabatic flows, normal Methods of quantitative analysis are reactions and identifcation of organic and oblique shock waves, expansion ME 493-494 Selected Advanced used to explore chemical reactions and compounds. fans, friction effects (Fanno flow) and Topics in Mechanical Engineering analyze unknowns. Modern chemical 2 credits (4 laboratory hours) heat transfer effects (Rayleigh flows). These courses will deal with current instrumentation as well as “classic” Prerequisite: Ch 231 Numerical and analytical techniques advanced technological developments wet chemistry analytical techniques are developed. Applications include in various felds of mechanical are covered. Statistical analysis of the Ch 251 Instrumental Analysis basic trajectories, water rockets, engineering. Projects and design will experimental data is used to analyze Laboratory converging/diverging rocket nozzles, be emphasized. results. Chemical laboratory safety Fundamental principles of instrumental RAM and SCRAM jets, supersonic 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME faculty and industrial chemical regulations are methods will be covered, including wakes from underexpanded and permission and graduate standing covered, as are the fundamentals of laboratory applications and limitations overexpanded nozzles, gas exchange in writing a technical report. in scientifc research. Specifc reciprocating engines. ME 499 Thesis/Project 1.5 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 110; methods include electrometric, such 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC130 and Master’s candidates are required to corequisite: Ch 160 as polarography, electro-gravimetry ESC140 conduct, under the guidance of a faculty and potentiometry; optical (such as adviser, an original investigation of a Ch 160 Physical Principles visible and ultraviolet absorption), ME 434 Special Topics In problem in mechanical engineering, of Chemistry spectroscopy, emission spectroscopy Combustion (same as ChE 434) individually or in a group and to submit The study of physicochemical and infrared spectroscopy; and other Analysis of diffusion and premixed a written thesis describing the results properties will be extended and techniques such as chromatography flame processes, including droplet of the work. advanced. The laws of thermodynamics, and mass spectroscopy shall be and particle flames, combustion in 6 credits for full year. which involve energy, enthalpy, included. sprays, chemical reactions in boundary entropy and free energy concepts, will 2 credits (4 laboratory hours). layers, combustion instability in be applied to chemical systems. Other Prerequisite: Ch 160 liquid and solid rocket engines and topics include: vapor pressures and gas burner flames. Consideration of colligative properties of solutions; the Ch 261 Physical Chemistry I ignition and quenching processes and phase rule; kinetics of homogeneous With an emphasis on the basic flammability limits. reactions; electrolytic conductance theoretical justifcations underlying 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 130 and electrochemistry. observed physical phenomena, 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 110, Ma 111; quantum mechanics will be developed corequisite: Ch 111 and applied to the study of chemical systems with an emphasis on interpreting spectroscopic data. Modern methods of computational molecular modeling are introduced. Statistical mechanics is introduced as a link between quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ch 160 and Ph 214 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 107

Ch 262 Physical Chemistry II as well as Monte Carlo and molecular Ch 391 Research Problem I Ma 111 Calculus I Continuation of Ch 261 with emphasis dynamics methods. Some projects An elective course available to any Functions; limit of functions, continuity. on electrochemistry, chemical will require computer programming. qualifed and interested student The derivative and its applications: kinetics and solid state chemistry. Applications to liquids, nanoclusters, irrespective of year or major. Students curve sketching, maxima and minima, Selected topics. polymers, surface adsorbates and may approach a faculty member and related rates, velocity and acceleration 2 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 261 biomolecules are considered. Guest apply to carry out independent research in one dimension; trigonometric, speakers from academia and industry on problems of mutual interest, in pure exponential, logarithmic and hyperbolic Ch 333 Advanced Organic are invited to share their perspectives. or applied chemistry. Topics may range functions. Defnite and indefnite Chemistry 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ch 261 and from the completely practical to the integrals; area, the fundamental Modern areas of organic chemistry, Ch 262, or permission from instructor highly theoretical, and each student is theorem, techniques of integration. including synthesis, structure encouraged to do creative work on his 4 credits. Prerequisites: none determination, stereo-chemistry and Ch 364 Solid-State Chemistry or her own with faculty guidance. conformational analysis, reaction Solid-state reactions; nucleation and 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission Ma 113 Calculus II mechanisms, photochemistry, diffusion theory; thin flms of elements of research adviser and student’s Applications of defnite integrals: area, conservation of orbital symmetry, and compounds; current topics. adviser(s) volume, improper integrals, work, arc molecular rearrangements and other 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 262 length, surface area, centroid. Polar selected topics. Advanced laboratory Ch 392 to 398 Research Problem coordinates. Parametric curves in two studies in research problem form. Ch 365 Chemical Kinetics II to VIII and three dimensions: velocity, speed Typical problems would involve Fundamental study of chemical This is intended to allow students to and accelerations. Partial derivatives studies of the synthesis, structure reaction systems in gaseous and continue ongoing research. and the chain rule, properties of and properties of organic compounds, condensed phases; absolute rate 3 credits each. Prerequisite: permission the gradient. Maxima and minima. utilizing modern instrumental theory; collision theory; energetics from of research adviser and student’s Sequences and series: convergence techniques. Independent laboratory molecular and macroscopic viewpoints. adviser(s) of sequences and series, Taylor and work may be arranged. Experimental rate techniques, Maclaurin series, power series. 3 credits. (2 hours of lecture; 4 hours interpretation of experimental data. GRADUATE 4 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 111; of Laboratory). Prerequisite: Ch 232 Reaction mechanisms and models for prerequisite or corequisite: Ma 110 complex and elementary reactions. Ch 440 Biochemistry II Ch 334 Physical Organic Chemistry Homogeneous and surface catalysis; (continuation of Ch 340) Ma 151.1 Mathematics in Art Molecular orbital theory in organic enzyme-controlled reaction rates. Discussion of metabolism: Glycolysis, This course deals with the period chemistry, orbital symmetry and 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 262 Glycogen Metabolism, Transport beginning with Pythagoras in ancient stereoelectronic selection rules, through membranes including Greece and goes up to the present day. rate theory, kinetic isotope effects, Ch 370 Inorganic Chemistry ATP-Driven Active Transport and Ion Topics include: Goedel’s incompleteness carbonium ions and rearrangements, The vast and fascinating chemistry of Gradient-Driven Active Transport, theorem. Euclidean and non-Euclidean acid-base catalysis, quantitative inorganic compounds and materials Citric Acid Cycle, Electron Transport geometries, infnity, paradoxes, soap correlations of reactivity and other will be covered. Atomic structure and Oxidative Phosphorylation, flm experiments. Also discussed are selected topics. and the periodic table; molecular Lipid Metabolism including Fatty black holes, the Big-Bang theory, 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ch 232 and symmetry and spectroscopy selection Acid Oxidation and Biosynthesis, relativity and quantum theory. The Ch 261 rules; coordination chemistry; ligand- Cholesterol Metabolism, Arachidonate course is open to all Cooper Union feld theory and other electrostatic Metabolism: Prostaglandins, students but is primarily oriented Ch 340 Biochemistry bonding models; superacids; reaction Prostacyclins, Thromboxanes and toward making the above-mentioned This course in the fundamentals mechanisms; organometallic chemistry; Leukotrienes; DNA Repair and concepts comprehensive to those of biochemistry will cover the chemistry of the heavy elements; Recombination, Eukaryotic Gene with very little mathematics in their following: Chemistry of carbohydrates, nuclear chemistry. Chemistry and Expression including Chromosome background. Engineering students lipids, amino acids, proteins, and physics of ionic and molecular solids; Structure, Genomic Organization, should see the Mathematics faculty nucleotides; bioenergetics; kinetics atomic and molecular clusters; Control of Expression, Cell and their adviser(s) for permission to and mechanisms of enzymes; and an chemisorption and physisorption Differentiation. take this course. The relatedness of introduction to molecular genetics, of surface-bound species; cage 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 340 seemingly distant felds (science, art, and biochemical dynamics of DNA compounds and catalysts; bioinorganic mathematics, music) is a central theme and RNA. chemistry. A useful course for chemical of the course. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Bio 101 and engineers to extend their knowledge Mathematics 3 credits. Prerequisites: none Ch 231 of inorganic chemistry beyond the content of Ch 110. Strongly UNDERGRADUATE Ma 223 Vector Calculus Ch 363 Advanced Physical recommended for students interested Double and triple integrals and their Chemistry in graduate work in chemistry. Ma 110 Introduction to Linear applications. Vector felds. Gradient, Modern applications of physical 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ch 110, Algebra divergence and curl. Line and surface chemistry and chemical physics are Ch 160, Ch 231 and Ch 261 Vectors in two- and three-dimensions, integrals. Theorems of Green, Gauss developed. Topics covered include: vector algebra, inner product, cross and Stokes. Path independence of Quantum and classical statistical Ch 380 Selected Topics in product and applications. Analytic line integrals. mechanics, phase space, and Chemistry geometry in three dimensions: lines, 2 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 110 and fluctuations. Intermolecular forces Study of topics related planes, spheres. Matrix algebra; Ma 113. Usually given in fall and and their experimental/theoretical to specialized areas as well as solution of system of linear equations, spring semesters determination. Computational advanced fundamentals. determinants, inverses, complex molecular modeling, including ab initio, 2-6 credits. Prerequisite: Chemistry numbers. Ma 224 Probability semiempirical and molecular mechanics Sample spaces. Random variables. faculty approval required 2 credits. Prerequisites: none predictions of molecular properties, Probability. Distribution and density functions. Expectation. Mean and variance. Moments and generating function. Central limit theorem. 2 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113; corequisite: Ma 223. Usually given in both fall and spring semesters 108 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Ma 224.1 Probability and Statistics Ma 341 Differential Geometry Ma 370 Selected Topics In Ma 402 Numerical Analysis This course deals with sample Theory of curves and surfaces, Mathematics Techniques for the solutions of spaces, random variables, probability. curvature, torsion, mean and Gaussian This is a seminar course involving ordinary and partial differential Distribution and density functions. curvatures length, area, geodesics, discussion of topics in pure or applied equations, the classical problems of Expectation. Mean and variance. 1st and 2nd quadratic forms, conformal mathematics that will be chosen linear algebra, integration and systems Moments and generating function. mapping, minimal surfaces, tensor by mutual agreement between the of nonlinear equations. Error analysis, Central limit theorem. Point estimation. formulation and applications. students and the instructor. Students convergence and stability theory. Confdence intervals. Hypothesis tests. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 223 and will work independently on projects Course assignments will include use of Chi-square. ANOVA. Estimations, permission of instructor that may be of special interest to them. computing facilities. sampling theory. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 326 and 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 223 and 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113; Ma 344 Tensor Analysis permission of the mathematics faculty Ma 240 corequisite Ma 223 Tensor algebra, covariant and contravariant tensors, metric tensors, Ma 381 Seminar Ma 403 Special Topics in Applied Ma 240 Ordinary and Partial Christoffel symbols and applications. Individual investigation of selected Mathematics Differential Equations 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 326 topics in pure or applied mathematics, Introduction to the general theory of Ordinary differential equations of the centered on a subject to be agreed partial differential equations; existence frst order. Linear equations of higher Ma 345 Functions of a Complex on between students and the faculty and uniqueness of solutions; integral order with constant coeffcients. Variable leader. Emphasis will be on training in equations; computational techniques Power series solutions. Laplace Topological properties of complex independent reading of mathematical using fnite-element and probabilistic transformation. Fourier series. Partial plane, complex analytic functions, literature, oral presentations and group methods. Other current topics in differential equations: method of Cauchy-Riemann equations, line discussions of the theory and problems. engineering may be included also. separations of variables, applications to integrals, Cauchy’s integral theorem Credits and class hours to be 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 223 and vibration and heat flow. and formula. Taylor series, uniform determined by faculty on individual Ma 240 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113 convergence, residues, analytic basis. Prerequisite: Ma 223 continuation, conformal mappings and Ma 415 Wavelets and Ma 326 Linear Algebra applications. Ma 382 Seminar (continuation Multiresolution Imaging (same Field, vector space, linear 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 223 of Ma 381) as ECE 415) independence, subspace, basis, Credits to be determined by faculty on 3 credits. Prerequisites: ECE 114 and and dimension. Finite-dimensional Ma 347 Modern Algebra individual basis. Prerequisite: Ma 381 Ma 326 or permission of instructor vector space theory, including Sets and mappings, the integers: linear transformations, rank, well ordering, induction residue Ma 391 Research Problem 1 Ma 417 Mathematics of Medical matrix representation, coordinate class arithmetic, Euler-Fermat An elective course available to Imaging transformation, systems of linear theorems. Permutation groups: cyclic qualifed upper division students. Mathematical basis for various medical equations, and matrix algebra. decompositions. transpositions, Students may approach a faculty imaging methods including CT, MRI, Determinants, eigenvalues, and conjugate classes of permutations. member and apply to carry out PET. Radon transform, tomography eigenvectors. Inner product space Abstract groups: morphisms, independent research on problems (recovery from projections), inverse theory, including orthogonal matrices subgroups, cyclic groups, coset of mutual interest in pure or applied problems, artifacts and noise. and quadratic forms. Canonical form. decompositions. Factor and mathematics. Each student is Mathematical physics of related topics 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 223 isomorphism theorems. Direct products encouraged to do independent creative such as wave propagation, signal of groups. Sylow’s theorems. work with faculty guidance. generation and detection, quantum Ma 336 Mathematical Statistics 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 326 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 240 and mechanics. Statistical central limit theorem. permission of research adviser 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 240, Decision theory. Estimation: properties Ma 350 Mathematical Analysis I Ma 326 or permission of instructor of estimators, point estimation, Sets and functions, topological Ma 392 Research Problem 2 confdence intervals. Hypothesis properties of real line, continuity and Continuation of Ma 391 Ma 470 Selected Advanced Topics testing: simple and composite uniform continuity, differentiability, This is intended to allow students to in Mathematics hypothesis, Neyman-Pearson lemma, mean value theorems, the Riemann- continue ongoing research. Selected topics in Mathematics treated sequential methods, relationship to Stieltjes integral and Taylor’s theorem. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 391 and at an advanced level. estimation. Normal distribution tests: Metric spaces, connected and compact permission of research adviser Credits to be determined by t-test, chi-square, F-test. Introduction sets, uniform convergence. Mathematics faculty. Prerequisites: to non-parametric methods, regression 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 223 GRADUATE Ma 326 and permission of and analysis of variance. faculty member 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 223 Ma 351 Mathematical Analysis II Ma 401 Boundary Value Problems and Ma 224 Uniform convergence. Differentitation Orthogonal polynomials, Fourier series; of transformations, inverse and implicit properties of Legendre polynomials Physics Ma 337 Operations Research function theorems. Introduction to and Bessel functions. Applications Linear programming, simplex method, measure and integration theory. to the wave equation and the UNDERGRADUATE graphs and network theory, dynamic Applications to geometry and analysis. differential equations of heat transfer programming, game theory, queues, 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 350 in several dimensions. variational techniques, duality, Markov Ph 112 Physics I: Mechanics 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 223 and Static equilibrium, kinematics, chains, Monte Carlo simulation, Ma 352 Discrete Mathematics Ma 240 decision theory. Special topics Relations. Mathematical structures. Newton’s Law’s, non-inertial frames depending on student interest, possibly Number theory. Algorithms. Complexity of reference, system of particles, including language questions, integer of algorithms. Cryptology. Recurrence work and energy, linear and angular programming, nonlinear programming relations. Graph theory. A shortest- momentum, rigid body motion, and topics from mathematical biology, path algorithm. Planar graphs. Trees. conservation laws, oscillation. econometrics and other applications A maximal flow algorithm. Finite-state 4 credits. Prerequisites: Ma 110, Ma of mathematics to the sciences and automata. Languages and grammars. 111; corequisite: Ma 113 social sciences. Turing machines. The Church-Turing 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 224 thesis. Unsolvable problems. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 110 ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 109

Ph 165 Concepts of Physics I Ph 235 Physics Simulations Ph 346 Quantum Physics of Solids Biology An introduction to physics with an Students will be taught how to Why do silicon, calcite and copper emphasis on statics and dynamics. numerically solve ordinary differential have very different properties even Bio 101 Biology for Engineers I 2 credits. Cannot be used to satisfy any equations using 4th order techniques though they have similar densities of This course will examine in depth the degree requirement in the School of such as Runge-Kutta and Adams- electrons? The answer is quantum genetics, molecular and cellular biology, Engineering Bashforth-Moulton in the Python mechanics and its application to band pathology, toxins, microbiology and programming language. These theory. Band theory provides some environment as they relate to humans Ph 166 Concepts of Physics II techniques will be used to solve of the most direct tests of quantum and disease using organ-based or (continuation of Ph 165) diverse physics problems not amenable mechanics. The course will develop systems biology approaches (e.g., gastro­ Additional topics include optics, to simple analytical solution, such the theory to explain thermal and intestinal pulmonary, cardiovascular, waves and an introduction to structural as n-body gravitational motion, the electrical properties of everyday urinary endocrine, etc.) Major assign­ analysis. motion of charged particles in a materials. We shall see how quantum ments will be individualized to student’s 2 credits. Prerequisite: Ph 165. magnetic bottle, the behavior of a car’s mechanics and Fermi statistics interests and majors when possible. Cannot be used to satisfy any degree suspension on a bumpy road. Emphasis successfully explained these properties As such, this course will provide the requirement in the School of Engineering. is placed on physically accurate when classical physics could not. biological fundamentals for further modeling (e.g. satisfying conservation The course will provide the concepts study in biotransport, biochemistry, Ph 213 Physics II: Electromagnetic laws to high accuracy) and the and quantum mechanical training graduate school in biomedical Phenomena effective use of computer graphics/ needed to understand, for example, engineering, etc. Combined with Biology Oscillations; transverse and animation for the presentation of the workings of semiconductor 102 and Biochemistry, it will provide a longitudinal waves. Electric felds; results. (Students need not have devices. It will also provide theoretical solid foundation for medical school. Gauss’ Law; electric potential; signifcant programming experience for understandings of material properties 3 credits (includes lab experience). capacitance; D.C. circuits; magnetic this course.) like thermal and electrical conductivity, Prerequisites: Ch 110 and Ch 160 or felds; Faraday’s law; inductance; A.C. 3 credits. Prerequisites: CS102, Ph112, optical reflection and transmission permission of instructor circuits; electromagnetic waves. Ma113, and permission of instructor coeffcients that you have seen in 4 credits. Prerequisite: Ph 112; mechanics, E&M and modern physics. Bio 102 Biology for Engineers II corequisite: Ma 223 Ph 291 Introductory Topics covered will include: Drude and This course will provide human biology Physics Laboratory Sommerfeld Models; Bloch’s Theorem fundamentals to springboard into Ph 214 Physics III: Optics and Physical measurements and analysis and periodic potentials; the nearly free research projects at the intersection Modern Physics of experimental data. The experiments electron model; tight binding model; of biology and engineering Topics will Geometric and physical optics. Special test and apply some basic principles band structures; semiconductors include anatomy and physiology of theory of relativity. The quantum theory selected from the following felds: and insulators; band structure musculoskeletal and other major organ of light. The quantum theory of matter. mechanics, sound, electromagnetism, engineering. The mathematics required systems not covered in Bio 101, imaging Atomic structure. Nuclear structure optics and modern physics. Experiments to understand the concepts will be modalities, concepts behind diagnostic and radioactivity. and topics may vary each semester. developed as we go through the topics. and therapeutic surgical procedures, 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ph 213 Digital and analog laboratory instru­ 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ph 112, Ph 213, and their limitations, human body ments; computer acquisition and and Ph 214 repair, artifcial organs, tissue Ph 215 Microcontroller Projects analysis of data. Estimate of systematic engineering, immunology and cancer. in Physics and random error, propagation of error, Ph 360 Special Projects in Physics Students will develop an extensive This course will introduce students interpretation of results. This course Special projects in experimental or biological vocabulary and have to the Arduino prototyping platform, complements three lecture courses, theoretical physics. requisite knowledge for further study in diverse sensors and output devices Ph 112, Ph 213, Ph 214. Credits and prerequisites determined in biomechanics, rehabilitation medicine, that may be interfaced to the Arduino, 1.5 credits. Prerequisite: Ph 112; each case by the physics faculty. biomaterials, bioremediation, etc. and the programming languages corequisites: Ph 213, Ma 240 3 credits. Prerequisite: Sophomore (“Arduino” and “Processing”) required GRADUATE standing preferred, but freshman with for stand-alone operation or interaction Ph 327 Topics in Modern Physics AP Biology welcome with an attached PC. A typical project Seminar course with student Ph 429 Deterministic Chaos with will involve developing hardware and participation in several topics of Engineering Applications associated software that requires the current interest in experimental and A simple mathematical formalism Computer study of, and ultimately illustrates, theoretical science. explains how a nonlinear system with Science basic physics principles—for example, 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ph 214 no random element may be intrinsically the construction of a self-focusing unpredictable even when its governing CS 102 Introduction to Computer telescope. Ideally, student projects will Ph 328 Relativity and equations are known. The mathematics Science be integrated into the physics lecture Electrodynamics of chaos (including fractals) will be Introduction to Engineering Problem courses as demonstration apparatus. Introduction to tensures; formulation presented, with applications drawn Solving using algorithms and their The basics of circuit theory that are of electromagnetic theory. Special and from mechanical, biological, chemical design. Logics and basic analysis required for this course will be taught general theories of relativity. Topics processes; the weather; electric techniques are explored using to those who have not yet completed include space time transformations, circuits; lasers; general relativity; programming languages C and Python. Ph 213. (Students need not be skilled electromagnetic stress-energy models of war; the economy; the Students will also master one or programmers or have any prior momentum tensor, four space spread of epidemics, etc. more signifcant engineering design knowledge of circuits for this course.) curvature and gravitational feld 3 credits. Prerequisites: Ph 214, packages such as MATLAB, AUTOCAD, 3 credits. Prerequisites: CS102, Ph112, equations, description of basic Ma 113 (Ma 240 preferred) and CS 102 Solid Works, etc. Projects will be and permission of instructor experiments, gravitational waves, assigned. cosmological models. 3 credits. Prerequisites: none 2 credits. Prerequisite: PH 214 110 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Engineering Sciences ESC 120 Principles of Interdisciplinary EID 110 Engineering Electrical Engineering Engineering Design Graphics ESC 000.1–000.4 Engineering Survey of Electrical Engineering for the This course is for students who are Professional Development Seminars non-major. Signal and circuit analysis, well versed in basic AutoCAD and want The Engineering Professional Seminars DC and AC circuits, transients, frequency UNDERGRADUATE to develop their 3D modeling skills plus and Workshops offer students an response and flters, power systems. learn how to customize the system. Additional topics may be covered as Course work includes writing custom introduction to the profession of EID 101 Engineering Design time permits. AutoCAD menus and programs that engineering as well as aspects of and Problem Solving 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113 are useful for the various engineering their development as students. The Students work on cutting-edge, disciplines, using the Lisp programming Cooper Union’s CONNECT program is exploratory design projects in inter- ESC 121 Basic Principles of language. Students will be given a an integral part of these courses and disciplinary groups of 20 to 25. Each Electrical Engineering number of 3D modeling assignments provides intensive training in effective project has an industrial sponsor/ Selection of topics from ESC 120. This throughout the semester, building up communications skills. Additionally, a partner who is available for student/ class meets with ESC 120 for the frst to a fnal term project that utilizes their wide range of topics is covered including faculty consultation and support. Oral ten (10) weeks. 3D modeling skills as ethics, environmental awareness, and visual presentations as well as 2 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113 well as their programming and lifelong learning, career development, formal written reports are required for customization knowledge. interpersonal skills, work-place issues, all projects. Professional competencies, ESC 130 Engineering 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission and professional licensure. teamwork, human values and Thermodynamics I of instructor 0 credits. Attendance required by all social concerns are stressed in the Rigorous development of the basic frst and second year students. Pass/ engineering design. principles of classical thermodynamics. EID 116 Musical Instrument Design Fail grade based on attendance. Failing 3 credits. Prerequisites: none grade does not affect GPA or ability to Zeroth, frst and second laws of (same as ME 116) thermo-dynamics and their applications 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission graduate and does not appear on the EID 103 Principles of Design to open and closed systems. of instructor fnal transcript. Successful completion This course is designed to introduce Analysis of thermodynamic processes, will be noted on the fnal transcript. students from all disciplines to the properties of real substances EID 120 Foundations concepts of rational design. It is open and thermodynamic diagrams. of Bioengineering ESC 100 Engineering Mechanics to frst-year students and sophomores. 3 credits. Prerequisites: none An introduction to the engineering Equivalent system of forces, distributed In the frst part of the course students study of biological systems. Basic forces; forces in structure; friction forces. will learn by hands-on experience ESC 140 Fluid Mechanics and physiochemical and organization Particle and rigid body mechanics; the importance of giving attention Flow Systems principles applicable to biological kinematics, kinetics. Newton’s laws at the design stage to consideration Introductory concepts of fluid systems. Topics include membrane of motion; work and energy; impulse of accessibility, repair, replacement, mechanics and fluid statics. structure and function, physiology and momentum. choice of materials, recycling, safety, Development and applications of of the circulatory system, and an 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ph 112 etc. Students will develop the ability differential forms of basic equations. introduction to biorheology and to make observations and record them Dynamics of inviscid and viscous biological transport phenomena. ESC 101 Mechanics of Materials in suitable form for further analysis of fluids, flow measurement and 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ch 160 Introduction to solid mechanics; the design process. From this, concepts dimensional analysis with applications analysis of stress and deformation. of “good” design will be developed, in fluid dynamics. Friction loss and EID 121 Biotransport Phenomena Extension; flexure; torsion. and students will be introduced to the friction factor correlation; design of Engineering principles are used to Axisymmetric problems, beam theory formal design axioms and principles. piping systems. mathematically model momentum, elastic stability, yield and failure theory. This will lead to the second part 3 credits. Prerequisites: none heat and mass transfer processes that 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 100 of the course which will consist of occur in biological systems. After a a comprehensive, realistic design ESC 161 Systems Engineering general introduction to human anatomy ESC 110 Materials Science problem. Creativity, intuition and An introductory course to the and physiology, topics examined The objective of this course is to promote cultivation of engineering “common mathematical modeling of systems. include blood rheology, circulatory an understanding of the relationship sense” will be fostered within the Topics include mechanical elements system fluid dynamics, whole body between the molecular structure of a framework of design principles and and systems, electric circuits and heat transfer, vascular heat transfer, material and its physical properties. axioms. The course will constitute a analogous systems, fluid elements oxygen transport in tissue and blood, Topics include bonding in atoms and direct introduction to the disciplines and systems, analysis of systems pharmacokinetics and the design of an molecules, crystallinity, metals and in their interdisciplinary context. using transfer functions, state space artifcial kidney (hemodialysis). alloys, polymers, mechanical properties 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 101 of inorganic materials and composite equations, analog simulation and 3 credits. Prerequisite: junior standing digital simulation. Also covered are materials. EID 105 Drawing and Sketching block diagrams, Laplace transforms, EID 122 Biomaterials 3 credits. Prerequisites: none for Engineers (same as ME 105) and linear system analysis. Computer A study of both natural and synthetic 2 credits. Prerequisites: none ESC 110.1 Materials Science for projects will be assigned that will use materials, especially those for Chemical Engineers MATLAB software. orthopaedic applications. Mechanical Understanding relationships among 3 credits. Prerequisites: none properties, design considerations, atomic or molecular structures, physical bio-compatibility, potential for properties and performances of allergic response and carcinogenic substances. Bonding, crystallinity, metals, ramifcations, mechanical compatibility alloys and polymers. Mechanical and effects of long-term implantation. properties of inorganic and composite Metallics, ceramics and polymers. materials. Selection of materials for Relative advantages and disadvantages process equipment design, its effect on of various materials. Materials for economics. Design concerning effect of cardiovascular applications. Corrosion corrosion and its prevention. and chemical degradation. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 100 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of instructor ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 111

EID 124 Injury Biomechanics EID 160 Acoustics, Noise and EID 320 Special Topics in to present students with a unique and Safety Design Vibration Control Bioengineering perspective engineering. Frequency and severity of Interdisciplinary overview of acoustics Seminars on topics of current interest 3 credits. Prerequisite: material common injuries. Mechanisms and its applications in industrial and in biotechnology. covered in core engineering science of musculoskeletal, soft tissue environmental noise control, acoustics 3 credits. Prerequisites: a basic and mathematics in Freshman and and brain injuries. Injury criteria, of buildings, vibration systems and understanding of engineering Sophomore years reference values and their role in control. Topics include: sound levels, mechanics and materials and safety design. Experimental and decibels and directivity, hearing, hearing permission of instructor. May be EID 362 Interdisciplinary computational methods for safety loss and psychological effect of noise, repeated Senior Project I design and accident reconstruction. noise control criteria and regulations, Individual or group design projects in Automotive safety. Biomechanical instrumentation, source of noise, room EID 325 Science and Application of interdisciplinary areas of engineering. test dummies. Seatbelts, airbags, acoustics, acoustics of walls, enclosures Bioengineering Technology These projects are based on the and energy absorbing structures and and barriers, acoustics materials and The overall purpose of the course is interest of the students and must materials. Repetitive stress injuries structures, vibration control systems; to provide the student with a general have the approval of their adviser(s) and occupational health. Government design projects. overview of the scope of bio- and course instructor. Periodic and regulation and legal liability. Expert 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission engineering. The major areas in fnal engineering reports and formal witness practice and qualifcations. of instructor the course are design in biomedical presentations are required for all 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 100 and engineering, tissue engineering, projects. In addition to technical ESC 110 EID 165 Sound and Space medical imaging, cardiovascular, aspects projects must also address (same as ME 165) vision, rehabilitation, masculaskeletal some of the following: economic EID 125 Biomechanics 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission system, robotic surgery and feasibility environmental impact social An in-depth treatment of orthopaedic of instructor medical business. impact, ethics, reliability and safety. biomechanics, including freebody 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission 3 or 4 credits. Prerequisite: students analysis applied to the musculoskeletal EID 170 Engineering Economy of instructor are required to have completed system, applied statics, dynamics and Comparison of alternatives in monetary necessary preparatory engineering kinematics. Clinical problems relating terms; meaning and use of interest EID 327 Tissue Engineering courses related to the project topic to biomechanics. Lubrication theory rates; results evaluation including Tissue Engineering involves the applied to hard and soft tissues. intangibles; risk in alternatives; application of engineering and the EID 363 Interdisciplinary Senior Mechanical testing of tissue, including principles underlying the determination life sciences to gain a fundamental Project II (continuation of EID 362) both static tests and dynamics of economic life; depreciation and understanding of structure-function 3 or 4 credits. Prerequisite: EID 362 tests. Tensor treatment of kinematic depreciation accounting; fnancing relationships in normal and pathological motions. Extensive reference to current business ventures; fnancial statement tissues and the development of EID 364 Interdisciplinary literature. Muscle function, evaluation analysis; replacement of capital assets. biological substitutes to restore, Engineering Research Problem and testing. Exploration of the concepts 3 credits. Prerequisite: Ma 113 maintain or improve tissue functions. An elective course, available to of development of muscular power, This course will provide an introduction qualifed upper division students. work and fatigue. EID 176 Legal and Ethical Aspects to the science, methods and Students may approach a faculty 3 credits. Prerequisites: ESC 100 and of Engineering applications of tissue engineering. mentor and apply to carry out permission of instructor A survey of the courts and their Topics include quantitative cell biology, independent or group projects in jurisdiction; civil and criminal law; tissue characterization, engineering interdisciplinary felds. EID 131 Energetics equity jurisprudence; expert witness, design and clinical implementation. 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission (same as ME 131) contracts and the importance of 3 credits. Prerequisites: working of adviser(s) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 130 business law to the engineer. Other knowledge of engineering topics include patents, trademarks fundamentals, senior standing or EID 365 Engineering and EID 140 Environmental Systems and copyrights; product liability; unfair instructor approval Entrepreneurship Engineering (same as CE 141) competition; professional ethics and Students will learn the fundamentals 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission professional advancement. EID 357 Sustainable Engineering of being an entrepreneur and operating of instructor 3 credits. Prerequisites: none and Development a successful business. From its original Sustainable engineering is examined, idea to the open market, students will EID 142 Water Resources EID 300 Special Research Project starting with an analysis of resources, choose an engineering related project Engineering (same as CE 142) Students will work on individual (materials, energy, water) upon which or service and learn the principles of 4.5 credits (3 hours of lecture, 3 hours projects in engineering under manufacturing is based. Each resource accounting, marketing, managing, of laboratory). Prerequisite: ESC 140 supervision of faculty. Problems will is critically examined in terms of its fnancing, and continuing research. vary according to individual interest. availability and form and the ultimate Students are required to choose their EID 153 Mechatronics permission to register is required from impact of its usage on the state of the own service or product and write a (same as ME 153) the Offce of the Dean of Engineering. planet. A comparison of the design business plan as their fnal project. 3 Credits. Prerequisite: ME 151 Students on academic probation are and construction of contemporary and Lectures include case studies on the or ECE 121 or ChE 152 ineligible for registration. primitive structure is used to illustrate various projects and guest speakers 3–6 credits. Prerequisite: permission the differences between the required from the industry. Readings include of faculty and dean’s offce infrastructure and environmental articles from journals and textbooks. footprint, leading to a defnition of 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 101 EID 312 Manufacturing Engineering “green” design. The technologies (same as ME 312) required to support contemporary 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 101 lifestyles in the developed and the developing world are discussed within the context of manufacturing techniques, usage of natural resources and the generation of waste. Workshops, guest lectures and a term project incorporating the concepts of minimalism, materials usage, and aesthetic design are used 112 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

EID 370 Engineering Management EID 374 Business Economics GRADUATE EID 448 Environmental and Sanitary An exploration of the theories In this course, the class will carry Engineering and techniques of management out a real-time forecast of the U.S. EID 414 Solid Waste Management (same as CE 448) beginning with the classical models of economy and explore its implications (same as CE 414) 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission management and continuing through to for the bond and stock markets. The 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of instructor Japanese and American contemporary course will build upon principles of of instructor models. The course is specifcally both macro- and micro-economics. It EID 449 Hazardous Waste directed to those circumstances will provide an introduction to the work EID 422 Finite Element Methods Management (same as CE 449) and techniques appropriate to the done by business economists and the (same as CE 422) 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission management of engineering. Lecture, techniques they use. Students will 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 122 or of instructor discussion and case studies will be used. become familiar with the database ME 100 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission looking for relationships between EID 458 Industrial Robots of instructor key economic variables, and studying EID 424 Bioengineering (same as ME 458) movements in interest rates over the Applications in Sports Medicine 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 151 EID 372 Global Perspectives in period 1960-present. The class will Application of engineering principles EID 470 Urban Security Technology Management be divided into teams of two students to athletic performance and injury. (same as CE 470) Current global political, social and with each team choosing a particular Topics include athletic training; 3 credits. Prerequisites: CE 122 or economic developments and future aspect of the economy to forecast. mechanical causes of sport injuries; ME 101 and permission of instructor trends as they relate to technology The class will also work with various methods of injury prevention; design management are discussed. Students leading indicators of economic activity of protective and prophylactic sport EID 488 Convex Optimization learn to address issues of international and will prepare forecasts of the key devices; proper application of wound Techniques (same as ChE 488) technology transfer, multinational components of gross domestic product dressing, taping and bandaging; 3 credits. Prerequisites: ChE 151 or ESC sourcing, quality control, diverse and other important variables. A formal frst aid for musculoskeletal sports 161, Ma 326 (co-enrollment is fne) and staff management, environmental presentation of the economic with injuries and healing and rehabilitation. permission of instructor considerations, etc. Working in invited guests from the Wall Street Students will work in teams on case teams on case studies and projects, investment world will take place. To studies and projects. students learn to conduct international put forecasting exercise in context, 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission negotiations and develop solutions there will be class discussions of of instructor to complex business problems. business cycles, credit cycles, long Special emphasis is placed on team waves in inflation and interest rates EID 425 Structural Dynamics cooperation and personal leadership. and the impact of the Internet on the (same as CE 425) Oral presentations and written reports economy and the stock market. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CE 122 are required. 3 credits. Prerequisite: either S 334, 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 101 S 347, EID 170 or permission EID 430 Thermodynamics of of instructor Special Systems EID 373 Patent Law (same as ChE 430 and ME 430) In this course a student will study EID 376 Economics of 3 credits. Prerequisite: ChE 131 or patent law in detail: the requirements Alternative Energy ME 130 for obtaining a patent (“utility, novelty The goal of this course is to explore and non-obviousness”); “trade secrets” the economics of alternative energy EID 438 Industrial Waste Treatment as an alternative to patent protection; technologies. As always, engineering Design (same as CE 440) computer software and “business considerations determine the feasibility 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission methods” as patentable subject matter. of any technology while economics of instructor The class will focus on the theoretical determine the practicality (patent cases from the U.S. Supreme of the technology in the likely EID 439 Water and Wastewater Court and the Federal Court, the patent environment of the next fve years. Technology (same as CE 441) statute, 35 U.S.C.) and the practical The students participating in this 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission (analysis of issued patents; individual course will explore a wide range of instructor and group exercises in drafting and of alternative energy technologies. critiquing patent claims, familiarity It is expected that their analyses EID 440 Advanced Fluid Mechanics with the Manual of Patent Examining will combine both economic and (same as ChE 440 and ME 440) Procedure). The course is open to juniors, engineering principles in an interesting 3 credits. Prerequisite: ESC 140 seniors, graduate students and faculty. and creative way. Each student 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission will choose a particular technology EID 441 Advanced Heat and Mass of instructor to analyze in depth: wind, solar- Transfer (same as ChE 441) photovoltaic, passive solar, geothermal, 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 440 bio-fuels, etc. There will be periodic or ChE 440 presentations of their work to the class as a whole. One goal of these EID 446 Pollution Prevention of class discussions will be to highlight Minimization (same as CE 446) the advantages and disadvantages 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of the various technologies. At the of instructor end of the semester, there will be a formal presentation of the students’ EID 447 Sustainablitiy conclusions to an audience of Cooper and Pollution Prevention faculty, industry experts and Wall (same as ChE 447) Street analysts. 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission 3 credits. Prerequisite: EID 170, EID of instructor 374, or permission of the instructor ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 113

FACULTY Christopher Lent, Assistant Director Toby J. Cumberbatch Alan N. Wolf of Academic Computing Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor and Chair of Physics B.Sc.(Hons.), M.Sc., Ph.D., University B.S., SUNY at Stony Brook; Administration Paul Tummolo, Manager of Multimedia of Manchester Institute of Science and M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas; Teresa A. Dahlberg Brian Cusack, Senior Systems Technology; C.Eng. J.D. Yeshiva University (CSL) Dean, Albert Nerken School of Software Engineer Engineering Fred L. Fontaine David M. Wootton Chief Academic Offcer Wayne Adams, Senior Technician Jesse Sherman Professor Professor of Mechanical Engineering of Electrical Engineering and B.S.M.E., Cornell University; Dennis Delgado, Technical Assistant Anita Raja, Chair of Electrical Engineering M.S., Massachusetts Institute Associate Dean of Research John Enxuto, Technical Assistant B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union; of Technology; and Graduate Programs M.S., New York University, Courant Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Nelson Figallo, Technical Assistant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; George W. Sidebotham Constantine Yapijakis Marget Long, Technical Assistant Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Acting Associate Dean Professor of Civil Engineering Christopher Lent Lawrence Mesich, Technical Assistant Vito A. Guido Diploma, National Technical University Professor of Civil Engineering of Athens, Greece; Director of Academic Computing Keith Ng, Senior Academic Support B.S.C.E., M.S.C.E., Ph.D., Polytechnic M.S., New York University; Assistant to the Dean for for Architecture and Engineering Student Advisement University; P.E. Ph.D., Polytechnic University; P.E. C.V. Starr Research Foundation Andrea Newmark Gerardo del Cerro, Director, Associate Professors Assessment and Evaluation Jamshed Bharucha, C.E.O. Professor and Chair of Chemistry Yashodhan C. Risbud, Director B.A., Queens College, CUNY; Melody Baglione Daria Sapienza Robert Dell, Reasearch Fellow M.S., Ph.D., Columbia University Associate Professor of Administrative Associate to the Dean Sarah Lerner, Secretary Assistant O. Charles Okorafor Mechanical Engineering Jennifer Margherito Professor of Chemical Engineering B.S.M.E., Michigan Technological Administrative Associate B.Sc., University of Lagos; University; The Aba and Leja Lefkowitz to the Associate Dean M.A.Sc., Ph.D., University Ph.D., University of Michigan Program for of British Columbia Maureen Deol, Secretary, Professional Development George J. Delagrammatikas Electrical Engineering, Anita Raja Associate Professor of Mathematics and Physics Faculties Richard Stock, Director, Professor of Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Elizabeth Leon, Secretary, CONNECT Program B.S., Temple University; B.S.M.E., Massachusetts Institute Chemical Engineering and Coordinator for Professional M.S., University of Massachusetts of Technology; Chemistry Faculties Development Seminar Amherst; M.S.M.E., Ph.D., University Ph.D., University of Massachusetts of Michigan John Osburn, Associate Director Maria Jimenez, Secretary, Amherst Civil and Mechanical CONNECT Program Robert P. Hopkins Engineering Faculties George W. Sidebotham Associate Professor of Mathematics Professor of Mechanical Engineering B.S., St. Joseph’s College, Indiana; Professors B.S., Trinity College; M.B.A., Fordham University M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Audio-Visual Resource Stuart Kirtman Om Agrawal Access Center (AVRAC) Richard J. Stock Associate Professor of Professor and Chair of Mathematics Professor of Chemical Engineering Electrical Engineering B.A., Kalahandi College, India; Paul Tummolo, Multimedia specialist and Chair B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union; M.A., Sambalpur University, India; B.Sc (Hons), University of Ph.D., Brown University Sara Foley, Senior Audio-Visual M.A., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook Nottingham, England; Technician Marcus Lay Jameel Ahmad M.S., Ph.D., West Virginia University Associate Professor of Chemistry Bernie Brandell, Technician George Fox Professor of Urban Robert Q. Topper B.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia Infrastructure Design, and Chair Professor of Chemistry of Civil Engineering Daniel H. Lepek B.S., Florida State University; Department of B.S., Punjab University, Pakistan; Associate Professor of M.S., M. Phil., Ph.D. Yale University Information Technology M.S., University of Hawaii; Chemical Engineering Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Cosmas Tzavelis B.E., The Cooper Union; Robert P. Hopkins Professor of Civil Engineering Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Paul M. Bailyn Chief Technology Offcer and Diploma, National Technical University Technology Professor of Mathematics Director of the Computer Center; of Athens, Greece; B.M.E., The Cooper Union; Eric G. Lima Associate Professor of Mathematics M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia M.S., Ph.D., New York University, Associate Professor of University; P.E. Gearoid Dolan, Senior Academic Courant Institute of Mathematical Mechanical Engineering Associate (Art) Sciences Leonid Vulakh B.A., SUNY Purchase; Professor of Mathematics B.E., The Cooper Union; Jeff Hakner, Assistant Director Irving Brazinsky M.A., Ph.D., Moscow State University, Ph.D., Columbia University of Telecommunications Professor of Chemical Engineering USSR Ian Hochstead, Information Technology B.Ch.E., The Cooper Union; Carl Sable Support Specialist M.S., Lehigh University; Chih-Shing Wei Associate Professor of Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute George Clark Professor of Mechanical Computer Engineering John A. Kibbe, Associate Director of Technology Engineering and Chair B.S.E.E., Princeton University; of Administrative Systems B.S., National Chung Hsing M.S., Ph.D., Columbia University Joseph C. Cataldo University, Taiwan; Professor of Civil Engineering M.S., SUNY at Buffalo; Ph.D., Georgia B.C.E., M.S.C.E., Ph.D., City University Institute of Technology of New York; P.E. 114 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Ruben Savizky Svetlana Bashkova Adam Hapij Martin Luchtenberg Associate Professor of Chemistry Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor B.E., The Cooper Union; B.S., M.S., Riga Technical of Civil Engineering M.S. Delft University of Technology, M.S., Ph.D., Yale University University, Latvia B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union; The Netherlands M.S., City College of New York P.E. Ph.D., Berlin University of Technology, Robert W. Smyth Ph.D., City University of New York Germany Associate Professor of Mathematics William Hyman B.S., The Cooper Union; Peter Bastos Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Ericson Mar M.S. New York University; Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Engineering Adjunct Associate Professor Ph.D., Rutgers University B.S., Rutgers University; B.S., M.E., The Cooper Union of Mechanical Engineering M.S., Sc.D., Columbia University B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Philip Yecko M.S. Stevens Institute; Ph.D. University of Nijmegen, Holland Associate Professor of Physics Lawrence S. Hausman Robert Marano S.B., Massachusetts Institute Alan D. Berenbaum Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor of Technology Adjunct Professor of of Electrical Engineering of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Columbia University Computer Engineering B.E., The Cooper Union; B.E., The Cooper Union; B.A., Yale University; M.S., Polytechnic University M.S.E.E., University of Pennsylvania M.A., Princeton University Timothy R. Hoerning Keith Ng Assistant Professors Scott N. Bondi Adjunct Professor Adjunct Instructor of Civil Engineering of Electrical Engineering B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Benjamin J. Davis Adjunct Professor of B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Assistant Professor of Mecha nical Engineering Karl Orishimo B.S., Polytechnic University; Chemical Engineering Neil Jackman Adjunct Associate Professor of M.S., Ph.D., Georgia Institute B.S., Cornell University; Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering of Technology Ph.D., U.C.L.A. Electrical Engineering B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania; B.E., SUNY; M.S., Univeristy of Virginia Sam Keene Michael Brodsky M.S.E.E., Columbia University; Assistant Professior of Adjunct Professor of Physics Tom Panayotidi M.S., St. Petersburg Technical Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering B.S., Boston University; University, Russia Kevin S. Kolack B.S., M.S., Eng. Sc. Doctorate, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of M.S., Columbia University; Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Columbia University Ph.D., Boston University Technology B.S., University of Virginia; Katherine Panchyk Tom Carberry Ph.D., Indiana University Oliver Medvedic Adjunct Assistant Professor of Graphics Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Adjunct Assistant Professor of Steven Kreis B.S., City College of New York B.A. Hunter College Chemistry Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics David Petrillo Ph.D., Harvard Universtiy B.S., Fordham University B.S., University of Missouri; Adjunct Instructor of Mechanical Ph.D., New York University M.S., Hunter College Stanislav Mintchev Engineering Dong Chang Assistant Professor of Mathematics Ian J. Kremenic B.S., Lehigh University B.S., George Washington University; Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering Adjunct Professor B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union; Yashodhan C. Risbud M.S., Ph.D., New York University, of Biomedical Engineering Adjunct Professor Courant Institute of Mathematical Ph.D., Columbia University; P.E. B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union of Electrical Engineering Sciences Sean Cusack Michael Kumaresan B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Adjunct Assistant Professor Adjunct Instructor of Math Ryan Ronan of Computer Science B.E., The Cooper Union Adjunct Professors Adjunct Instructor of Math B.S., The Cooper Union M.S., Imperial College of Science, B.E., The Cooper Union Brian Cusack Technology and Medicine As of time of publication, Vincent Salvatoriello for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Adjunct Associate Professor Jonathan Kupferstein Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering semesters only of Mechanical Engineering Adjunct Professor of Electrical B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union B.S., M.S., New Jersey Institute of Engineering Zinoviy Akkerman Technology Partha P. Debroy B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Adjunct Professor of Physics Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology M.S., Novosibirsk State University, Adjunct Professor of Physics Lembit Kutt B.S., M.S., Calcutta; Omar A. Sharafeddin Russia; Adjunct Professor of M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Ph.D., Institute of Semiconductor Mechanical Engineering B.S., Baylor University; Physics, Russia B.E., The Cooper Union; Robert Dell Ph.D., University of Houston M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia Michael Bambino Adjunct Professor of Mechanical University Stanley M. Shinners Adjunct Professor of Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, Center for Innovation and Lawrence Lennon Electrical Engineering B.E., The Cooper Union Applied Technology Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering B.E.E., CUNY City College; Master of Industrial Design, Pratt B.S., SUNY Oneonta; B.E., The Cooper Union M.S.E.E., Columbia University; P.E. Institute M.F.A., SUNY New Paltz M.B.A., New York Universtiy M.S. Polyytech Institute of NYU, P.E. Susan Slome Robert Barrett Gabriel Giraldo Adjunct Professor of Math Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct Instructor of Physics Christopher P. Lent B.S., M.E., Rutgers University Graduate Preparatory Accelerated of Industrial Engineering Adjunct Associate Professor Program, New York University, B.E., Pratt Institute; of Computer Science Jeff Hakner Courant Institute M.S., New York University B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Adjunct Professor of Electrical Ph.D., State University of New York, Engineering Erik Lessac-Chenen Stony Brook B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics B.S., Stanford University M.S. New York University ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 115

Robert Smilowitz Emeriti Jorge Ortega, Senior Laboratory Donald Toman (EE’55) Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering Technician Senior Staff Consultant (retired) B.E., The Cooper Union; Eleanor Baum Mechanical Engineering Laboratories Lockheed Martin Ph.D., University of Illinois; P.E. Dean Emeritus Luis Vega, Technician Richard Tomasetti, B.E.E., CUNY City College; Daniel M. Speyer Civil Engineering Laboratories P.E. Chairman M.E.E., Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Adjunct Professor of Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Inc. New York Michael Westbrook, Technician Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering Laboratories Willard Warren (EE’50) B.E., M.E., Ph.D., New York University John L. Bové Willard Warren Associates Professor of Chemistry Emeritus Brian Yudin, Technician Leonid Srubshchik and Adjunct Professor Student Shop/ME Design Studio Philip Weisberg (EE’89) Adjunct Professor of Mathematics B.A., M.S., Bucknell University; C.E.O. B.S., M.S., Rostov State University, Ph.D., Case-Western Reserve FX Alliance USSR; University Engineering Advisory Council Ph.D., FSU Institute of Mathematics, Marie Wieck (BSE’82) USSR Shang-I Cheng Vice President, WebSphere Platform Joel R. Alper (CE’58) Professor of Chemical IBM Thomas Synnott, III President and CEO, Comtech Mobile Engineering Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Datacom Corporation (Retired) B.S., National Chekiang University; Industrial Engineering M.S., Ph.D., University of Florida Robert M. Aquilina (CE’78) Technology Transfer B.A., Williams College; Co-chairman and General Management Advisory Board M.A., Ph.D., Yale University Wallace Chinitz Adviser Professor of Mechanical Engineering Nina Tandon Flag Telecom Robert Aquilina (CE’78) Emeritus Co-chairman and General Management Adjunct Professor of B.M.E., CUNY City College; Kevin Burke (EE’72) Adviser Electrical Engineering M.M.E., Ph.D., Polytechnic University President and C.E.O Flag Telecom B.E., The Cooper Union Con-Edison Ralph L. Knapp M.S., MIT Mike Borkowsky (ME’61) Professor of Electrical Engineering Tara Chklovski, Ph.D. Ph.D. Columbia University Vice President Emeritus Seth Dubin, Esq. Bristol-Meyers Consultant (retired) Leonard Tevlin B.E., The Cooper Union; Law Partner Adjunct Professor of Physics M.S., Columbia University Mark L. Epstein (A’76) Saterlee, Stephens, Burke and Burke B.S., Moscow University; Ossa Properties, Inc. Jean Le Mée M.Phil, Ph.D., New York University Jack D. Goodman (ME’51) Professor of Mechanical Engineering Stanley Lapidus (EE’70) President Kevin Tien Emeritus Chairman and C.E.O. Sprague-Goodman Electronics, Inc. Adjunct Instructor of Electrical B.S., Ecole Nationale de la Marine Helicos Biosciences Engineering Marchande, Nantes; Dr. Russell Hulse, Ph.D. (BS’70) Barry E. Negrin (ME’89) B.E., The Cooper Union M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Nobel Laureate Partner M.S., Columbia University Associate Vice President Melvin Sandler Levisohn, Lerner, Berger and for Strategic Initiatives Steven Ungar Jesse Sherman Professor of Langsam, LLP University of Texas–Dallas Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering Lawrence Ng (EE’78) Electrical Engineering B.E.E., M.E.E., Ph.D., Polytechnic Thomas Iovino, P.E. Senior Vice President for Business B.E., The Cooper Union; University C.E.O., Judlau Contracting Inc. M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University Development Gerry Weiss Stanley Lapidus (EE’70) Moneyline Network Joseph Viola Professor of Electrical Engineering Chairman and C.E.O. Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus Helicos Biosciences of Civil Engineering B.E., The Cooper Union; Jay LeBoff B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union; S.M., Harvard University; President and C.E.O. P.E. D.E.E., Polytechnic University; P.E. C.E.O. Hotseat Chassis Inc. Samuel Wiener Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Jay Moskowitz (Phy’70) B.S., M.A., Brooklyn College; Technicians SPD Control Systems Corp. M.S., Pace University Frank Napolitano (ME’88) Estuardo Rodas Hui (Grace) Yu President, Lakeside Energy, LLC. Mechanical Engineering Technician Adjunct Professor of and Project Coordinator Eduardo F. Palacio (EE’75) Mechanical Engineering Vice President for Programs, B.S., Wuhan Institute of Patrick Chiu, Technician ITT Electronic Systems Chemical Engineering; Chemistry Laboratories M.S., Huazhong University Gerry Posner of Science and Technology; Sinisa Janjusevic, Technician C.E.O., Bolder Sensors Ph.D., Hong Kong University Student Machine Shop Chairman, Aegis Software Systems of Science and Technology; Victoria Joyce, Technician Steven Silberstang (CE’70) Ph.D., Boston University Chemistry Laboratories President, Foolhardy Investors Lori Zaikowksy Dionne Lutz, Technician Joel Spira Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Kanbar Center for Biomedical Chairman and Director of Research B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Stony Brook Engineering Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. University Aladino Melendez, Technician Nina Tandon (EE’01) Electrical Engineering Laboratories Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union 116 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Advanced Placement Credit The Faculty of Humanities and FACULTY OF Social Sciences rarely grants AP credit. However, a student who HUMANITIES AND has attained a grade of 5 in an AP course may petition the dean for permission to waive a core requirement and to substitute an SOCIAL SCIENCES appropriate elective course.

Independent Study Only juniors and seniors in good academic AIMS AND OBJECTIVES standing are eligible for independent study. Independent study may be taken for a maximum of three credits per semester. The student must obtain permission of both the instructor and the The Cooper Union is committed to the principle that an educa- dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The major tion in the liberal arts provides the ethical, social and humanistic consideration in approving proposals for independent study is framework crucial to personal development and professional the educational value of the study project within the structure of excellence. Through their work in the humanities and social the degree requirements. The Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences, students gain a deeper awareness of the world in which Sciences insists on very high standards as a condition for approving they must live and act. They learn to think, write and speak clearly any independent study project. and effectively. Most signifcantly, an education in the liberal arts offers students the opportunity to become attentive to the social Minor Students who complete a minimum of 15 upper-division and humanistic implications of their professional work and to credits in a specifc feld of liberal arts may qualify for a minor in acquire the basis for a satisfying cultural and intellectual life. that feld of Humanities and Social Sciences. Minors are offered and may be designated on student transcripts in the following four Curriculum All students take a four-semester core curriculum felds: American Studies, Art History, Literature, and History and of required courses in the humanities and social sciences. In Society. Additional information is available from the office of the addition, students in the School of Art take a required sequence dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. in art history. The core curriculum is a prerequisite to all elective offerings in Humanities and Social Sciences. During the third and fourth years, students have considerable latitude to explore ACADEMIC REGULATIONS the humanities and social sciences through elective courses. All Credits Unless otherwise noted, HSS courses with the prefxes students are expected to take core curriculum courses at The HUM and SS carry three credits and courses with the prefx HTA Cooper Union. carry two credits. Prerequisites The prerequisites for all courses with the prefxes Transfer Credit Transfer credits may be granted for courses HUM and SS are HSS1, 2, 3 and 4. HTA 1, 2 and 3 or HTA 101 with a grade of B or better upon review by the office of the dean and 102 are prerequisites for HTA electives. Exceptions may be of Humanities and Social Sciences to determine that the work granted by special permission of the dean. accomplished meets the Faculty’s requirements. Students may Grades At the end of every semester, each student receives a be required to provide evidence of work completed in the course: grade for his or her semester’s work in each subject. Grades, with syllabi, papers, etc. In rare circumstances, the freshman and their official signifcance, are as follows: sophomore requirements may be waived if an equivalent course of A Outstanding performance study has been satisfactorily completed elsewhere. Eligible credits B Very good performance should be transferred during a student’s first semester at The C Average performance Cooper Union. Interested students should make an appointment D Passing but unsatisfactory with the dean or the academic adviser of the Faculty of Human- F Failure to meet minimum requirements ities and Social Sciences during the frst week of classes in the fall I Work of the course not completed and assignment of grade semester. and credit postponed. This designation will be given only in cases of illness (confrmed by authorized physician’s letter) or of other documented extraordinary circumstances beyond the student’s control, and only with the approval of the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 117

The deadline for removal of an I designation will be deter- Attendance Students are expected to attend all classes. No mined by the instructor, but will not be later than six weeks after more than the equivalent of one week of unexcused absences will the start of the spring semester for students who receive such a be permitted. In the event of absence a student should contact grade in the fall semester and not later than two weeks after the the instructor in advance. Students who miss more than the start of the fall semester for students who receive such a grade equivalent of one week of classes in any one course may receive a in the spring semester. If the I is not removed within the set time reduction of the fnal grade or, at the discretion of the instructor, limit, either by completing the work in the subject or by passing may be required to withdraw from the course. a reexamination, the I will automatically become an F unless the Lateness Students are expected to be punctual. Late students dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences extends may be refused entry to a class. Chronic, unexcused lateness may the time or the student withdraws from school. result in a reduction of the fnal grade or in failure. W Withdrawal (see below) WU Unauthorized withdrawal (see below) Academic Integrity The Faculty of Humanities and Social Indicators of plus (+) and minus (-) are used with the grades A, B, Sciences expects all students to demonstrate the highest levels C and D. (The grade of A+ is, however, not given.) These indica- of academic integrity. Violations of academic integrity have conse- tors are included in computing grade point averages. quences, including, but not limited to, failure for the course. Further information concerning the policy on academic integrity Change of Program is available from the dean’s office. Adding a Course A student is permitted to add a course only during the frst week of a semester, during the drop/add pe- Student Behavior Students are expected to conduct themselves riod, and only with the adviser’s approval. in accordance with the guidelines in the “Code of Conduct” (see Adding a course after the drop/add period is not permitted page 30). even if the student has been attending the class. Dropping a Course A student may drop a course during the ACADEMIC ADVISING AND SUPPORT frst week of the semester, during the drop/add period, with the Academic Advising In addition to the dean, an academic adviser adviser’s approval. is available in the office of Humanities and Social Sciences for A course dropped during the frst week of the semester will consultation by students in all three schools. Students are also be deleted from the transcript. encouraged to seek the advice of individual faculty members Withdrawing from a Course A student anticipating inability about general curricular and scholarly matters. A course to continue an assigned program should immediately see his or instructor may not sign add/drop forms, determine transfer or her adviser. After the drop/add period a student may withdraw AP credits, or pre-approve courses to be taken elsewhere. Such from a course through the eighth week of the semester. It is the questions must be referred to the dean’s office. student’s responsibility to obtain the necessary permission from the adviser and to notify the instructor in order to withdraw from The Center for Writing The communication of ideas in written a course. A grade of W will appear on the transcript. A student and oral form is central to an education in the liberal arts. All who stops attending a course without permission of the adviser humanities, social sciences and art history courses include a will receive a grade of WU. However, if the student is failing the substantial writing requirement and additional requirements for course at the time of the unauthorized withdrawal, the instructor presentations. The Center for Writing offers feedback, support, is free to record a grade of F. and instruction in all areas of written and spoken communica- A student is not permitted to drop or withdraw from a course tion. The Center is staffed by experienced teachers, writers and if doing so would impede satisfactory progress towards the de- editors, most with advanced graduate degrees. The Center offers gree. one-on-one and small group sessions; students may sign up for single appointments as needed or may enroll for regularly sched- Assignments Students are required to complete all assignments uled ongoing sessions. Center associates provide feedback, work and examinations on time. In the case of schedule conflict or an with students on issues of structure and argument and help all unavoidable delay in completing an assignment, the student should writers—regardless of level—to engage with their work more discuss the problem with his or her instructor. Failure to complete effectively. The Center also offers special support for non-native assignments on time may result in an F grade for the course. English speakers, students with learning difficulties, and students without a strong background in writing, as well as intensive support for students working on Fulbright and other grants. 118 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

COURSES Core Curriculum HSS 4 The Modern Context: Elective Courses Figures and Topics Courses in the Humanities, HSS I Freshman Seminar A study of an important fgure or HUMANITIES Social Sciences, Art History A literature course concentrating on topic from the modern period whose and Foreign Languages poetry and drama. Selected texts from influence extends into contemporary The Faculty of Humanities and Social Prior to registration each semester, antiquity and the Renaissance are culture. The fgures and subjects Sciences offers a varied and flexible students should consult the latest common to all sections, with works are chosen from a broad range of elective program that provides rigorous announcement of scheduled courses from other genres, periods and cultures disciplines (including literature, history, study while responding to the changing in the humanities, social sciences, chosen by individual instructors. The politics, technology and art history, needs of students. and art history. (Inquiries concerning course develops aesthetic appreciation among others). Through concentration courses in foreign languages should of literary texts and encourages a on a single fgure or focused topic HUM 105 Fundamentals of Music be directed to Professor Sohnya range of critical responses. Through students are encouraged to develop A study of the elements and forms of Sayres, Academic Adviser for HSS, close reading and extended discussion a deep awareness of works of great music and consideration of how they during the frst week of the fall students learn to articulate their signifcance and to understand them defne the stylistic characteristics of semester.) Some courses listed below responses in written and spoken form. in the context of modernity. Guided the literature of music from the late may not be offered every year and new 3 credits independent writing projects and oral Renaissance to the present. There will courses may be added each semester. presentations give students HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: an appreciation for what constitutes be extensive use of recordings, as well Old Worlds and New research in the humanities and as attendance at concerts and recitals. A study of texts and topics from 1500 social sciences. Recent topics have 3 credits to 1800, with emphasis on literary included Beckett, humanitarianism, expression and cultural context. the tourist, and Borges. HUM 107 Creative Writing Topics include the formation of states, 3 credits Starting with exercises and word exploration, the encounter with the New May be repeated for Free Elective games, then moving to, e.g., the World, the crises in religious orthodoxy, credit in the Schools of Art and objective poem, collage and concrete the origins of modern science and the Engineering. May be repeated for poetry, metrics, translations. As well beginnings of political and economic Elective credit in the School of as writing, students are expected individualism. This semester develops Architecture, provided the minimum to read widely in poetry and fction. both cultural and political understanding requirement of six elective credits Attendance at a poetry or prose reading through close reading, class discussion in Humanities and Social Sciences is is obligatory. Grade based on class and careful writing. fulflled by elective-level courses. performance and portfolio of work. 3 credits In both cases, permission of the dean 3 credits of humanities and social sciences HSS 3 The Making of is required. HUM 129 Environmental Literature Modern Society In this class, we will look at ways of A study of the key political, social Note: The Center for Writing provides imagining and approaching the natural and intellectual developments of targeted support for HSS Core courses. environment through writing, ranging modern Europe in global context. This Associates are available to work on from travelogue to activism. Readings course is organized chronologically, all aspects of essay writing, including will include essays, poetry and fction beginning with the Industrial and close reading, analysis, development by Wordsworth, Thoreau, Carson, French Revolutions. Students develop of ideas, planning and structure, Abbey and others. Topics for reading an understanding of the political writing in stages, arguments and and writing will center on such grammar and material bases of conclusions, and revision. Associates issues as encounters with nature, the present day by exploring the are also available to help students sustainability, species extinction and social origins of conservatism, prepare for presentations and public global warming. liberalism, feminism, imperialism and speaking in the HSS Core. Center 3 credits totalitarianism. In discussions and in associates can help you to organize lectures students learn to study and your thinking, to challenge yourself HUM 207 Music Cultures of the World to respond critically in written and and to create better, more engaged, spoken form to a variety of historical more interesting work through focused Examines music from a variety of documents and secondary texts. discussion and targeted writing work. musical cultures around the world, from Native American to Indonesian 3 credits Students from all writing backgrounds are encouraged to make use of the Gamelan music, including ethnic Center.Students may make one-time musical events in New York City. appointments or may choose to enroll 3 credits in ongoing sessions for a particular semester. Sessions tend to fll up quickly, and students are encouraged to make appointments in advance. Students working on specifc written or spoken communication issues (ESL, learning differences, writing skills diffculties) are strongly encouraged to enroll in ongoing sessions early in the semester. FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 119

HUM 208 Aristophanes HUM 312 Islamic Aesthetics HUM 323 Presence of Poetry HUM 331 Eros in Antiquity Athenian Old Comedy is one of the This course is an introduction to This will be a class in which the center This course will study the theory and timelessly funniest and widest-ranging Islamic aesthetics with emphasis on of attention is the poem itself. We will practice of love in the ancient world forms of comedy every produced. the nature and development of the concentrate on modern English and and its legacy in the modern. Working In this course we will read, perform arabesque and calligraphy as ornament American poetry. The common text will with primary textual sources, the (selections), and examine four plays by in art and architecture. Lectures be The Norton Anthology of Modern course will consider Plato’s erotic Aristophanes, the greatest of ancient will ask and attempt to answer the Poetry, 2nd edition, edited by Richard dialogues and writings from the comic playwrights: Frogs, Clouds, question of why a pragmatic and Ellman and Robert O’Clair (Norton, Neo-Platonic tradition extending up Birds, and Wasps, each named for the down-to-earth philosophy chose to 1998), but students are encouraged to Shelley’s poetry as well as Ovid’s characters assumed by its masked express itself in a most abstract visual to look into other anthologies and Amores and the Art of Love. These chorus. Aristophanes’ irreverent language, how much of the vocabulary into such studies as those of William major texts will be supplemented with portrait of the philosopher Socrates in of that language was originally Arabic, Empson in Seven Types of Ambiguity examples of erotic poetry from ancient Clouds will be weighed against Plato’s and how much was inspired and/ and Martin Heidegger in Poetry, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Archaic and more flattering, and ultimately more or acquired from the various lands Language, Thought. Classical Greece, and Rome, as well as influential version in the Apology, conquered by Islam. Digital image 3 credits works of visual art. which we will also read. Slides will be lectures will be accompanied by some 3 credits shown to recreate the stunning visual poetry, music, Qur’anic recitations and HUM 327 The History of the Cinema environment of Periclean Athens which flm viewings. A history of the motion picture from HUM 332 Ut Pictura Poesis literally and fguratively formed the 3 credits its origins until now, emphasizing A study of ekphrasis and other backdrop to the original performances the evolution of the language of interconnections between the visual of the plays. This broadly based course HUM 316 United States cinematic representation—in and the verbal arts from antiquity will encompass a little military and Cultural History feature, documentary, animated and to the present. Primary readings are political history, a little art history, This course traces the development experimental flmmaking. Canonical drawn from Homer, Hesiod, Plato, a little social history, a little literary over time of “America” as place, idea, works and the major fgures of the Aristotle, lyric poetry, tragedy, Virgil, criticism, and a lot of fun. nation and culture. It is concerned with silent and sound cinema are treated, Horace, Lessing, Keats and Ashbery, 3 credits tracing the emergence and contours including Griffth, Chaplin, Eisenstein, among others. of a widely-shared, if indeterminate Vertov, Renoir, Welles, Deren, 3 credits HUM 306 Native America and contested, sense of American Hitchcock and Godard. An examination of Native American identity and culture by studying 3 credits HUM 333 The Age of Augustus world views against a background of several enduring forces and themes Augustan Rome presents the only history. The stress will be on written in its formation. These include the HUM 328 History of the Cinema: serious ancient contender for literary texts drawn from oral cultures, encounters of Europeans and Indians, 1895–1945 comparison with the “Golden Age” including collections of traditional the institution of slavery, the West in This course surveys the history of the of Periclean Athens. In all categories songs and stories, as well as myth and reality, modernization and motion picture, along with some of of art, architecture, and literature, contemporary writers. In addition, we metropolitan life and the United States the discourses it inspired, from the the age of the frst Roman emperor, will watch videos and listen to music. in global culture. nickelodeon period through World Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE), rivals that of 3 credits 3 credits War II, considering avant-garde, high Classical Greece. The course thus documentary and commercial flms, combines the disciplines of history, HUM 307 Playwriting and HUM 319 Russian Art, Architecture with particular emphasis on the movie the visual arts, and literature, with the Theater Practicum and Literature as urban entertainment, expression heaviest emphasis on literature, to This course will introduce students to Survey of Russian arts from 1703, the of modernity and cult enthusiasm. arrive at a comprehensive picture of a two disciplines essential to creating founding of St. Petersburg, to 1924, the Important fgures include D.W. Griffth, relatively short, but disproportionately theater: acting and playwriting. To death of Lenin. This course is a study Fritz Lang, Dziga Vertov, Carl Th. consequential moment in the history of help guide the beginning of their of the history and ideology underlying Dreyer, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, civilization. practice in these disciplines, students the remarkable literary and artistic and Maya Deren. The transition 3 credits will read and critique contemporary achievement of Russia and, in its early from silent to sound cinema and the and master works, write plays of their phase, the Soviet Union. surrealist theory of flm spectatorship HUM 343 Decadence own, perform monologues and scenes 3 credits will be given particular attention. and Modernity written by master playwrights and 3 credits This course is concerned with major bring the work of their peers alive HUM 321 The Novel issues in the transition from 19th through in-class readings and a fnal This course concerns itself with HUM 329 The History of the Cinema: to 20th century European culture, staged reading performance open to particular trends, moments, issues or 1945 to the Present focusing on the interaction of politics the Cooper Union community. movements in the history of the novel A history of the cinema from World and aesthetics. 3 credits as a literary form. Because of the War II through the present day, with 3 credits nature and length of the material, any particular attention to the development HUM 311 New Media version of this course must be focused of neo-realist, new wave and third- HUM 345 Readings in Aesthetics This course considers what makes on a particular set of issues, literary- world movements. Topics include the Key aesthetic concepts in relation media “new” and why those historical phenomena or cultural impact of television, the influence of to artistic practice and audience characteristics are relevant in concerns. The course will typically take Pop Art and the development of digital reception. This course includes a contemporary society. We will consider as its subject four to six works that technology. Alfred Hitchcock, Jean- number of historical debates that how older media have been adapted illuminate or ask interesting questions Luc Godard, and Andrei Tarkovsky are remain ongoing and unresolved, and it to incorporate new media technologies about the topic at hand. Recent topics: among the major fgures treated. concludes with contemporary attempts and strategies, how video games Joyce’s Ulysses; New York City 3 credits to reestablish beauty and pleasure as and the Internet have changed our literature. aesthetic categories. expectations of media experiences, 3 credits 3 credits the impact of new media on artistic practice, the important of new media in contemporary cultural economy, and related topics. 3 credits 120 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

HUM 346 Western Theories of Art HUM 369 History of the Book HUM 379 Visual Culture HUM 387 The Life and Death This course examines the variety and An introduction to the creation, use An historical account of the developing of Socrates development of Western theories and meaning of “the book” over its wealth and intensity of visual experience Socrates, the son of a humble of art from antiquity to the present, long history from the clay tablet to in the United States in the last century stonemason, Sophroniskos, was one with special attention to theoretical the digital download. Readings and and study of the circulation of images of the most remarkable, controversial constructs of the past century. Topics discussions will bring together literary as a cultural sign system shaping class, and influential human beings who ever include connoisseurship and formalism; and cultural history, as well as aspects gender, race and sexual subjectivities. lived. Though he left behind no written modernist criticism; iconology, of politics, art history and the history 3 credits testimonial of his peculiar, singular Marxism and the social history of of technology. Topics will include the genius, we know quite a bit about him art; feminism; psychoanalytic theory; moves from oral to written HUM 381 Post-Colonial Studies through the accounts and recollections structuralism and post-structuralism; cultures,from the scroll to the codex, This course engages with the legacy of his contemporaries, critics and postmodern challenges to modernist and from public reading to reading as of colonialism in literature and theory. followers, primary among them, Plato, theory; and museology and a private experience; the emergence Topics include the relationship between Xenophon and Aristophanes. Based institutional critique. of printers and publishers; the colonizer and colonized, independence, almost exclusively on readings of the 3 credits invention of the library; censorship and apartheid and immigration in novels major ancient texts, the course focuses the spread of reading publics; the rise from South Asia, the Caribbean and less on the philosophy of Socrates, HUM 352 The Personal Essay of the novel and “popular reading”; the Africa. Works by Rudyard Kipling, E.M. as fltered through the great and not In this course we will study and discuss comic book; the paperback; and the Forster, Aime Cesaire, Salman Rushdie, unbiased lens of his most famous essays in Philip Lopate, ed., The Art of movement through digital technologies Nadine Gordimer, Jhumpa Lahiri and student, Plato, than on the man, his the Personal Essay, and to non-print books. Zadie Smith will be addressed. physical demeanor, his way of life, his we will also write our own, on any 3 credits 3 credits loves, his friendships and especially topics we choose, on all manner of his trial and death in 399 B.C.E. subjects—the daily round, pleasures HUM 373 Seminar in Humanities HUM 382 African-American 3 credits and pains, taking a walk, solitude, Seminar giving close attention to Literature friendship, in short, our personal special topics in the humanities. Under this rubric, courses may address HUM 389 Love in Western Art responses to any number of objects The seminar may be repeated for a range of issues, periods, themes and Literature and situations, multiplying ourselves credit with the permission of the dean or questions in African-American This course address the representation in the process. of the Faculty of Humanities and literature. Specifc topics and of love in Western art, with specifc 3 credits Social Sciences. descriptions will be detailed in the attention to the body, gender, and 3 credits relevant course bulletin each time identity. The course will be grounded HUM 353 Public Speaking: the course is offered. across two crucial poles: the so-called Contemporary Issues HUM 374 Contemporary Culture 3 credits Greek revolution as a founding moment Develops skills in persuasive and exposi­ and Criticism in the West, with its idea of Eros and tory speech-making—extemporaneous, A survey of the cultural climate since HUM 383 Opera the ideally beautiful body, and the rise written and memorized—on contem­ the 1950s, including the influence of This course will examine the history, of the individual in the Renaissance/ porary issues and topics. Students learn works by such writers as Benjamin materials and structures of opera, a Baroque period, with its concepts of how to research a speech, marshal and Bakhtin and the concern with rich and complicated art that is both subjectivity, self and vision (including arguments and use language effectively contemporary life in terms of musical and theatrical. We will address Shakespeare’s provocative formulation by speaking clearly and eloquently. fundamental shifts in community, such topics as the origins of opera of “a perjured eye.” Readings 3 credits representation, identity and power. in 17th-century Italy, the Baroque will include Plato’s Symposium, poetry 3 credits style, the art of bel canto, opera in the troubadour and Petrarchan HUM 356 Issues in and politics, Wagner’s revolutionary traditions, Ficino and the Neoplatonists, Contemporary Fiction HUM 375 Critical Theory ideas, realism and impressionism Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Study of literary topics including This course begins with the post World in music, experiments in tonality, Austen, Foucault, Derrida, Anne Carson partic­ular genres, themes, sensibilities War II generation of social thinkers and and opera in English. Several works and others. and critical approaches. The focus of critics, such as Barthes, de Beauvoir, will be considered in detail. Classes 3 credits this course will change in individual Foucault, Adorno, Horkheimer, Lacan, in will combine lecture-discussion and semesters. the development of what later became screenings of performance on DVDs. HUM 392 Ethics 3 credits known of as the critical theory of An interest in music is essential, but The course considers real-world ethical culture. We then proceed to more no ability to read scores or play an dilemmas in a philosophical context. HUM 357 Philosophy of Science recent critics, each time taking our clues instrument is required. Throughout the course, students will What, exactly, is science? What is from real life examples. This course 3 credits examine and critically evaluate a scientifc inquiry and explanation, and emphasizing learning how to “see” and variety of ethical theories with the aim how might it differ from other forms of think in “cultural practices.” It offers HUM 386 The Romantic Movement of gaining a fuller appreciation of the inquiry and explanation? In the course, a chance to have our understanding Beginning with an examination of complexities of diffcult or controversial we will investigate the nature and extended into everyday life and its ways Romantic aesthetic theory and its ethical situations. Particular emphasis status of scientifc knowledge. Along of making us cultural beings. application to some of the major poems will be placed on questions concerning the way, we shall ask such questions 3 credits of the period, the course will explore the nature and importance of value, as: What are scientifc theories? What writing by Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, virtue, relationships, commitment, duty, relations obtain between scientifc HUM 377 General Linguistics Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. moral disagreement, moral skepticism, theories and observed facts? How Survey of two major types of linguistic Philosophical and critical readings will and relativism. Student interest will are scientifc theories confrmed or study: diachronic or historical be drawn from Kant, Lessing, Burke, determine the ethical situations that disconfrmed? Do scientifc theories linguistics and synchronic or structural DeQuincey, Wollstonecraft and others. we explicitly discuss in key weeks of linguistics. The course concludes with 3 credits the course. presentation of recent linguistic theory, 3 credits with emphasis on cognitive grammar and biolinguistics. 3 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 121

HUM 394 World Religions HUM 442 Greek Mythology SOCIAL SCIENCES SS 321 The American Presidency An introduction to the fve major world The course will concentrate not just The nature and sources of the power religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, on the endlessly fascinating stories SS 305 Leonardo, Scientist of the American presidency, the Christianity and Islam. The course of the gods drawn from the classic and Engineer ways in which it is wielded and the considers ancient and contemporary sources, but on a critical analysis of This course uses the life and work of Constitutional restraints upon religious practices as it examines faith the question: How do the gods fare Leonardo da Vinci (1453–1519) to explore its exercise. and belief, ritual, scripture and scriptural throughout the course of western science, medicine, and engineering in 3 credits interpretation, religious art, orthodoxy history? Periods to be focused on Renaissance Europe. We will look at the and heresy, mysticism, and pilgrimage include the time of Homer, Hesiod social and economic life of the era and SS 323 Politics and Collective through a comparative lens. Focus is on and the Homeric Hymns; the Archaic examine the institutions and influences Memory origins, textual traditions and central period (the time of the Lyric poets); the that served Leonardo’s imagination, his The political uses of collective memory doctrines with further attention to high Classical period (the golden age inventiveness, and his arts. can range from defning national and religion “on the ground” as a living of Greek tragedy); the late Classical 3 credits social identities to shaping public and evolving phenomenon. and Hellenistic periods (the age of the opinion. In exploring the interactions 3 credits great philosophers and their schools); SS 308 Public Policy in between memory and politics, this the Augustan era of the Roman Empire Contemporary America course will focus on the nature HUM 395 Hip Hop and Culture (the time of Virgil and Ovid); and Issues such as conservation, and forms of collective memory, its In this class, we will trace the roots the Renaissance. environmental law and policy, mass development and reconstruction of rap music to West Africa rhythms, 3 credits transportation, transfer of development and its relationship to structures of Jamaican sound systems, and oral rights, incentive zoning and historic authority. Emphasis will be placed on expressive cultures in the American HUM 449 Homer and the preservation, beginning with an examples from recent political history. South; analyze some of the most Tragic Vision introduction to and general analysis 3 credits influential and iconic rap recordings An in-depth introduction to Homer’s of the policy process. across the decades; study the Iliad and to the major literary genre 3 credits SS 333 Politics of Ethnonational techniques and technologies that are it spawned, Greek tragedy. The Conflict used to create DJ-based music; consider methodology throughout will be close SS 318 Seminar in Social Science An examination of the movements for other pillars of hip hop culture reading, using comparative translations Seminar giving close attention to national liberation and independence (e.g. graffti and break dancing); and of select passages checked alongside special topics in the social sciences. that have become an increasingly examine the controversies that swirl the original Greek text, with the Recent topics have included important phenomenon in the second around hip hop culture and rap music. instructor’s guidance. This course sustainability and the economy.The half of the 20th century. Among the 3 credits is meant to “model” a particular seminar may be repeated for credit movements considered are those of approach to the study of literature in with the permission of the dean of Algeria, Nigeria, Cyprus, Bangladesh, HUM 430 Postmodernism translation. It presents an opportunity the Faculty of Humanities and Social Northern Ireland, Quebec, Lebanon and Technology for interested but “Greekless” students Sciences. Recent topics: sustainability; and the PLO. This course will explore postmodern to experience some of the most total war; human rights, law, and 3 credits theory and practice and its relationship important and influential works of society; Cooper Union world forum. to the problems and solutions posed by classical literature in a manner that 3 credits SS 334 Microeconomics technology in contemporary society. approximates as closely as possible The relationship between economic 3 credits the experience of those who do have SS 320 Comparative Politics theory and public policy, focusing knowledge of ancient Greek. Comparing political systems is at on the central axioms of modern HUM 431 Milton 3 credits least as old as Aristotle, whose library economics in the light of recent An in-depth study of Milton’s Paradise contained more than 135 studies of problems in energy employment Lost, the greatest epic in English, a HUM 450 Shakespeare constitutions of the ancient world. This and inflation. poem about devils and angels, small A course devoted to understanding course will compare contemporary 3 credits humans and immense immortals, how the plays work, what characters political systems and consider some appetite, food, lust, confusion, despair say and do, the imagery and thematics of the main challenges they face: SS 335 Science and Technology in and courage. Our focus will be on close of Shakespeare’s dramas and forging a common identity and sense of the Long 18th Century (1687–1839) reading, often explaining the poem line the performance practices of the community; meeting social and economic This course will examine the changing by line, in order to get at the riches Elizabethan and Jacobean era. Also to needs; and securing civil and political roles of science and technology in the within Milton’s creation. In addition be addressed is the cultural milieu of liberties and human rights. Recognizing West during the 18th and early 19th to Paradise Lost in its entirety, we the plays—the historical, political and that political societies of today’s worlds centuries. We will use a case-study will study some of Milton’s short religious world they inhabit—in order can differ dramatically, the course approach to consider such topics as poems, selections from Virgil, and, if to deepen our access to Shakespeare’s will begin by introducing concepts and color in theories (light and optics) and time permits, Milton’s dramatic poem language and to hear it with both his approaches that make it possible to color in practice (painting, dyeing and Samson Agonistes. ears and our own. compare systems as different as those glassmaking); geology mineralogy and 3 credits 3 credits of China and Great Britain. In addition the development of ceramic industries to the broader paradigms of system, in Europe; the invention, use (and HUM 99 Independent Study structure and function, we will also misuse) of the natural classifcations; (Humanities) consider forms of political culture and and automation and automatons: 3 credits socialization, interest articulation and Vaucanson’s duck, Jacquard’s loom, aggregation, party systems and policy­ Babbage’s Difference Engine. making. Several distinct systems will 3 credits be studied; these will be chosen not only for their geographical, but also for their political diversity, representing frst-world nations such as the United States, Britain and France, as well as post-communist and post-colonial states such as Russia, China and Nigeria. 3 credits 122 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

SS 337 American Foreign Policy SS 348 Global Cities SS 354 New York, 1820–1920: SS 362 Popular Culture In the 20th century, challenges to Considers specifc and general factors An Urban and Cultural History This course studies popular culture in Western liberalism came from fascism that contribute to the rise of global A presentation of two “maps” to the a primarily 20th-century context. Using and communism, while more recent cities—New York, London, Tokyo— city. The frst is a history of the built both creative and theoretical texts, it challenges have come from terrorist and how such cities impact other environment, focusing on the changing considers developments in contemporary movements on the one hand and the city-types, existing and emerging. systems of transportation, the popular culture including the rise of European Union on the other. This This course examines the forces development of building forms and the mass media and consumerism, the course examines American foreign underpinning globalization, way the city’s population and functions elaboration of pop-cultural theory and policy since the collapse of communism including the shift from industrial have been distributed in that space. the trend toward multiculturalism. We in the context of these changing to informational economies, the The second historical map is made will sharpen our critical perspective on challenges. development of new technologies up from people’s imaginative our cultural surroundings by questioning 3 credits and the emergence of new patterns responses to those changes, especially boundaries between the popular and of immigration, in order to understand as seen other cultural categories, notions of SS 342 Anthropology of Ritual the complexities of global processes in literature and visual iconography. creativity in the high and popular arts The study of ritual takes us to the heart in urban terrains. Among the areas singled out for and the bases of our own preferences. of anthropological approaches to 3 credits special examination are the Bowery 3 credits experience, performance, symbolism and the Lower East Side, Central Park and association. Once thought to be SS 349 American Cities and the “downtown” of amusement SS 367 Acting Globally “vestigial” organs of archaic societies, Examination of the crisis of urban and vice, wherever it happened to This course introduces students to the rituals are now seen as arenas through America seen through the lens of be at the time. developments sometimes called the which social change may emerge New York City. Individual topics will 3 credits post-postmodern era of globalization, and are recognized to be present in include urban poverty, relocation of with a particular focus on the study all societies. Throughout the course manufacturing and foreign competition, SS 358 Social History of Food of cultural impact. Our approach will we will explore varying defnitions of but students will be encouraged to A study of the transformations in food entail both the macro level discussion ritual and its universal and particular examine closely a particular aspect of production and consumption, 1492 of conditions and possibilities for aspects, while surveying ethnographic New York City’s problems. to the present. The course examines effecting a decent global future and the case studies from around the world. 3 credits the passage of “new world” foods into micro level of actual sites of responses 3 credits Europe and Asia, the rise of commercial to (1) technology transfer; SS 351 History of 20th-Century agriculture in the colonies, especially (2) cultural preservation, resistance, SS 345 The Raymond G. Brown Europe sugar, the rise of national cuisines, the odernization and integration; and Seminar A study of the dramatic ruptures of advent of restaurant culture and the (3) the new dialogues around A seminar in the social sciences on a Europe’s 20th century, haunted by perils of fast and industrial food. ecological sustainability. We study topic central to the interests of the late imperialism, war and genocide. Topics 3 credits analytical texts, autobiographies, flms Professor Raymond G. Brown. Recent include the First World War; modernity and proposals on how to humanize the topics: the credit crisis. and modernism in interwar culture; SS 360 American New World Order. 3 credits fascism, National Socialism and the Intellectual History 3 credits Holocaust; postwar displacements A study of major works in intellectual SS 346 Urban Sociology: and migrations; decolonization, the and literary history written from SS 368 History of Modern Asia Reading the City cold war and the postwar economic 1780 to the present, focusing on This course explores the history of Asia Focuses on the relationship between miracle; 1968 and 1989 in both East changing notions of the self, character from the later imperial eras of China, the built environment and human and West; and the ongoing challenges and community and the ways these Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia behavior, the design of public, urban of integration and multiculturalism. concepts have gained intellectual and into the modern era. A wide range of spaces as a reflection of and impetus 3 credits literary expression in the United States. political, social, economic and cultural for certain types of human interactions 3 credits issues are explored. While emphasizing and reactions. Another interest of SS 353 American Social History the distinctive nature of the region, the course will be to onsider the This course offers an introduction to SS 361 Urban Archaeology the course will stress the wide notion of community as it plays out the major themes in American Social An introduction to the new feld of diversity and inter-connectedness in the disciplines of sociology and History from the Late Colonial Period urban archaeology. Topics include of ideas, technologies and religions architecture—how they intersect, to World War Two. Over the last how archaeologists work in cities; through the region. and how they are changing in our few decades, social historians have the special problems and rewards of 3 credits postmodern, post-industrial terrain. introduced a broader cast of characters urban archaeology; and what can be Some of the broad areas of interest into the making of American society; learned about the development of SS 369 Psychoanalytic Theory of urban sociologists will also workers, immigrants, minorities and particular cities through this feld of An introduction to forms of be considered. native Americans are now seen more study, including changes in subsistence psychoanalytic thinking and theory 3 credits as active participants in the story of the patterns, the use of urban space and making, with special attention paid to United States rather than as passive the defnition of ethnicity and gender. the ways in which different theorists SS 347 Macroeconomics victims or marginal fgures. This course 3 credits conceptualize and invoke psychoanalysis The development of modern examines the changing role of such as a theory of mind, research tool, macroeconomic theory as it evolves signifcant groups and considers how therapeutic process and utopian vision. in response to a succession of they may have changed the shape of Readings include foundational texts economic problems and crises. the dominant political culture. by Freud, Ferenczi and Klein, as well Emphasis on the recent Keynesian/ 3 credits as responses to classical theory by monetarist debates and the role of Horney, Winnicott, Lacan and others. the Federal Reserve Bank. 3 credits 3 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 123

SS 371 Women and Men: SS 374 Contemporary Social SS 382 Game Theory SS 386 The Early Modern Power and Politics Psychology Since its introduction in 1943 by John Atlantic World An introduction to women’s and Utilizing a variety of social von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, This course examines the history gender studies, and to feminist theory. psychological perspectives, general the general theory of games has been of the Atlantic world from the mid- Students will examine the ways and issues such as human nature, instrumental to our understanding ffteenth century through the end of the historical basis for construction of socialization, attitude formation and of various social behaviors. With the eighteenth century. Incorporating gender and the interlocking of gender change, verbal and non-verbal language, key contributions of such renowned the histories of Europe, North America, with other forms of hierarchy, including interpersonal behavior and the art of scholars as John Nash, Robert Arrow, South America, and Africa, the course race, ethnicity, class and sexuality. persuasion will be explored with interest Thomas Schelling and John Harsanyi, will explore social, cultural, economic, Readings include classic texts and in cross-cultural comparisons. The among other Nobel Laureates, and political developments of the early current scholarship in literature, flm, core questions we will explore include: game theory has quickly gained a modern era as men and women came history and social science. What does it mean to be human? How large following among students of together to form the societies in the 3 credits is the self defned and determined? economics, evolutionary biology and Americas. Topics will include European- What impact do social groups, culture even political science. Though at Amerindian relations, European-African SS 372 Global Issues and the (built) environment have on times seemingly abstract, game theory relations, the slave trade, gender This course will examine current the development of the self and on our has shown us that it has practical structures, the development of an issues of global signifcance and their everyday behavior? value with applications in frm-level Atlantic economy, and the maturation implications for policy and decision- 3 credits management and strategic decisions of colonial societies. making. Among the trends we will making in military campaigns. The 3 credits consider are the tensions between SS 378 Time, Travel and course has two dimensions: the frst resource competition and authority; Communication in is to explore the theoretical basis SS 387 The History of the emergence of a global economy; Early Modern Europe of games; the second is to consider the Family in America the environment and sustainable This course is a history of early modern the application of these concepts in This course explores the changing development; demographic change; European technology with a strong economics and political science. construction and function of the family and the emergence of new security focus on design technologies and 3 credits across American history. We will issues, including societal and material culture. It will cover the time examine how women and men, sons environmental stress. period extending approximately from SS 384 Anthropology and the Other and daughters, experienced revolution, 3 credits the Age of Exploration through the This course provides an introduction to war, economic transformation, French Revolution (about 1500-1800). concepts in social-cultural anthropology. politics, sexuality, and religion. We SS 373 Modernity and Modernism: We will examine early modern ideas Students will rethink such concepts as will consider how the purposes Culture and Society in the about three critical aspects of modern culture, race, ethnicity, nationalism, and experience of family life have Weimar Republic life: time, communication and travel. transnationalism, gentrifcation, changed over time, as well as how This course explores the turbulent (Interpretation of these themes will power and memory. We will use these the ideologies or ideals about family and innovative interwar years 1918- be broad and may include not only concepts to address the questions pressed against the grinding wheel 1933 in Weimar Germany, paying carriages and bridges but also carriage of human universals and the origins of history to shape events. Our particular attention to cultural and upholstery and passports; not only of cultural differences. At the bases historical actors will include Native social politics. We will study the letters, newspapers and books but of these inquiries will be the question Americans, European colonists, diffcult establishment of the “republic also songs and emblems; not only the of the “Other.” Who are the “Others” rebels and republicans, masters and that nobody wanted” in the wake of shift from public to personal time but in culture or society? slaves, freedmen and immigrants, a lost war, a collapsed empire and a also calendar reform.) In addition to 3 credits free-love communities, patriarchal failed revolution; the chaotic period of readings (both primary and secondary) polygamists, Victorian lovers, Cold War rebellion and inflation until 1923; the and discussions (in-class and online), SS 385 Science and housewives, Baby Boomers, and our brief “Golden Twenties” of relative students will choose to study three Technology in the Modern World own contemporaries. stabilization and Neue Sachlichkeit artifacts that are relevant to the (1815 to the Present) 3 credits (New Sobriety) with its burst of social themes of time, communication and This course will explore the social welfare initiatives, architectural travel, research them and present their intellectual and economic relationships SS 388 Comparative Cities: and engineering innovations and fndings to the class. of science and technology in the New York/Berlin, 1848-1948 efflorescence of art, music, theater 3 credits modern West (i.e., after 1815). Using A comparative, team-taught urban and literature; and fnally the crises modifed case studies to provide history seminar on Berlin and New York of economic depression and political SS 381 Developmental Psychology “snapshots,” students will learn to from 1848 to 1948. The course examines polarization that culminated with Adolf The course will follow the unfolding of recognize changes to such factors the differing causes of urban growth Hitler’s appointment as chancellor of human development from conception as who participates, where work is and the way it was accommodated in Germany in January 1933. through adolescence by means of an conducted and the supports (social, novel forms of urban space, highlighting 3 credits array of analytic perspectives. We fnancial, emotional) necessary to the differences between a city that will examine and critique cognitive, individual and collective pursuits. became a capital of empire and psychoanalytic, information processing, 3 credits one given over to commercial and and psychosocial models of brain/body/ residential development, as well as mind growth. Reading assignments the very different ways that both cities will be from a textbook on child experienced periods of rebellion development as well as primary and war. sources, which will include academic 3 credits writing, memoir, and fction. We will also view educational and fctional flms, and may also include family video chronicles. 3 credits 124 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

SS 390 The Rise of the Modern City SS 394 American Radicalism SS 397 History of Industrial Design SS 421 History of the Modern in the European Middle Ages This course will examine cultural In tracing the history of industrial Middle East Explores how early medieval radicalism in American thought from design from its emergence at the This course considers topics in Middle landscapes with castles and small the Young Americans of the 1910s beginning of the Industrial Revolution Eastern history from the First World villages became wider communities— and the New York Intellectuals to the present, this will course will not War to the present. We examine a the frst modern cities. Focuses on the of the 1930s to the Beat poets of only examine aesthetics (of furniture century of political unrest that included major debates of the Middle Ages: the the1950s and the Neo-Conservatives and the decorative arts, typography, two world wars, colonialism, the Arab- tensions between country and city life; of the 1970s. Through fgures such as advertising, machinery, toys, etc.) but Israeli conflict, the rise of authoritarian the role of the church; Scholasticism; Randolph Bourne, John Dewey, Meyer also the social and political forces state structures, the Iranian Islamic the debate between reason and Schapiro, Lewis Mumford, C. Wright that have shaped the many styles. revolution, and the American war on faith; the role of the French cathedral Mills and Dorothy Day, we will trace Throughout, we will also demonstrate terror. in medieval life; the lay reaction to the rise and fall of the American avant- how movements in industrial design 3 credits ecclesiastical control and the rise garde, the quest for an indigenous relate to parallel developments in of communal Italian cities such as theory of culture, the social sources the history of painting, sculpture and SS 99 Independent Study Florence, Venice and Siena centered of counterculture, and the shifting architecture. (Social Sciences) around the civic palace; and the early meanings of the concepts “mass 3 credits 3 credits requirements for city beautifcation. We culture,” “consumer culture,” “kitsch,” will “visit” (virtually) the frst hospital, and highbrow/middlebrow/lowbrow. SS 398 Gender Studies universities and prototypical housing. Among the questions we will address Study of the “frst wave” of feminism, Everyday life will be illustrated from the are: Can one be a political radical and including Mary Wollstonecraft material remains of art and architecture a cultural conservative? A political and Abigail Adams, through the through a cross section of different conservative and a cultural radical? achievement of suffrage in 1920 and social environments. 3 credits then study of the more radical claims 3 credits of “second wave” feminists in the SS 395 Rome 1970s, with Marxist and Freudian SS 391 Introduction to The course focuses on how the city analysis. This course will conclude Mind and Brain of Rome changes through time and with contemporary post-feminisms” The goal of this is to introduce the the way its idea of eternity reflects and changing gender relationships. student to the basic principles on its culture and urban changes. 3 credits of psychology, to guide the student Monumental Imperial Rome will be through the brain and to provide a compared to the recent results from SS 420 Environmentalism basic understanding of the relationship excavations and research of the poorly in the Urban Context between the brain and mind addressing preserved archaic and Medieval The recent work of environmental issues of consciousness. The frst third Rome. Fifteenth-century Rome, with activists and scholars has produced a of the course will examine the brain its powerful popes, initiated a radical new urbanism in which the city form and underlying theories in psychology. urban transformation by attracting and function is intimately connected The majority the best architects and artists for the with natural processes. This rethinking of the course will be focused on next 300 years. With the monarchy of of the city has opened several new the relationship between the brain the end of the 19th century and then possibilities for looking at human- and consciousness including self- Mussolini, the city undergoes radical environment interactions. In particular, awareness, theory of mind, deception, changes once again. the everyday environment of the abstract reasoning, art, music, spatial 3 credits city may be examined as a site for abilities and language. Steeped in identifying the hidden geographies recent fndings in both psychology and SS 396 North American of raw materials, energy and waste neuroscience, the goal of this class will Environmental History flows. This course looks at three be to provide a modern foundation in This course examines recent historical central issues: (1) identifcation of the the mind and the brain. work that makes claims for the material and ecological processes that 3 credits “environment” being the major make possible city form and function determinant in the development of the possible; (2) interpretation of the SS 393 Darwin and His Times North American continent. We will city as a constellation of economic This course uses the life of Charles look at land use in pre-colonial times, institutions and social practices Darwin (1809-1882) to examine the the spread of slave-based extensive that transform nature over different nature of scientifc practices during the agriculture in the South, wood lot temporal and spatial scales; and (3) the nineteenth century and their changing, management in the north, mid- examination of the environmental and often revolutionary, role in contemporary western farming, western mining, the health impacts stemming from a city’s life. We will read closely Darwin’s parameters of nineteenth century urban role in production and consumption. writings on geology and evolutionary growth as well as the consequences Students will work on projects using biology, and we will consider of the arrival of the automobile. We the principles of ecological design in interpretations and implications of will also look at the growth of the the redevelopment of urban sites. “Darwinism.” Both readings and flms environmental movement over the last 3 credits will be assigned, two centuries. 3 credits 3 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 125

History and ELECTIVES HTA 220 Japanese Art HTA 233 History of Drawing A chronological survey of Japanese Our class will examine the changing Theory of Art HTA 209 Medieval Art art from prehistoric times to the 17th character and purpose of drawings, and Architecture century, examining the interaction from prehistory and antiquity through While contributing to the required Investigates the art, architecture of the uniquely Japanese aesthetic the Italian Renaissance, Northern curriculum of students enrolled in the and archaeology of medieval Europe sensibility with arts and cultural Europe, impressionism, Van Gogh, School of Art, courses in the History from Constantine (fourth century) to traditions transmitted from the Asian Cezanne, Picasso, and others from of Art are also available to students approximately 1450, a period when mainland. Although the primary the modern and post-modern periods. in the other schools. different cultures clashed and mixed emphasis is on painting and sculpture, Topics will include formal accounts, together to shape the eclectic Western attention is also paid to architecture, connoisseurship (particularly All HTA courses are normally offered medieval world that rose from Roman gardens, pottery, lacquerware and controversies around Michelangelo for two credits. In exceptional imperial ruins and ideals. This course woodblock prints. Museum visits are and Rembrandt’s drawings), technology circumstances, students may petition will follow a chronological sequence, an integral part of the course. (camera obscura, camera lucida), to take an HTA course for an additional but use recent data from medieval 2 credits fguration and abstraction, and credit. The student must get permission excavations to challenge traditional art actual practice at a place like from both the instructor and the dean historical statements. Early Christian, HTA 221 Buddhist Art in Asia Cooper Union today. of Humanities and Byzantine, Barbarian, Islamic, An historical survey of the 2 credits Social Sciences. Romanesque and Gothic periods are visual culture of Buddhism in its examined. chronological, geographical, material HTA 240 Issues in 2 credits and conceptual development from its Asian Contemporary Art CORE CURRICULUM origin in India, following the death of In this course, students will build a HTA 210 The Art and Culture Siddartha in the ffth century B.C.E., foundation in critical theory revolving HTA 101, 102 Modern to of Fifteenth-Century Florence through various parts of the world, around issues of race, nationality, Contemporary: An Introduction to This course examines the unique such as South East Asia, Central Asia, sexuality and gender as they relate Art History historical circumstances and artistic the Himalayan Mountain regions, and to the formation of an artist’s This two-semester art history core personalities that brought about a East Asia up to contemporary society in identity, and how that identity in turn course, developed as part of the new kind of art. Special focus will be and beyond Asia. The class introduces is reflected in the artist’s output. Foundation year for students in placed on the role of the Medici family the basic conventions and traditional Attention will be paid to Asian the School of Art but open to all as patrons. Painters, sculptors and visual strategies of Buddhist art in contemporary artists working outside students, is organized around a architects to be considered include various media through focusing on of their own cultures and to Asian- set of themes running through the Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, selected examples of representative American artists, in an attempt to history of modernity from the 18th Botticelli, Ghiberti, Donatello, the images, objects and monuments analyze the role of the Asian diaspora century to the present. Within specifc Pollaiuolo brothers, Brunelleschi from historical Buddhist art, while and its connection to contemporary themes, signifcant works, fgures and Alberti. Monuments such as investigating Buddhism as both a art production in Asia proper. Special and movements in art/design will be Orsanmichele, the Baptistry, the philosophy and a religion that has been focus will be paid to the contemporary presented chronologically. Students Cathedral and the Medici Palace will continuously reinterpreted. art of India, will be able to identify and critically be placed in their social context and 2 credits China, Korea and Japan, although other evaluate signifcant works, fgures and discussed in detail. nations and regions will also movements in art/design in the modern 2 credits. HTA 222 Asian Painting be discussed. period; be able to describe the main A chronological survey of Chinese and 2 credits social and political contexts for the HTA 211 The Renaissance in Italy Japanese painting and an exploration changes in art/design over the last two An investigation of the art produced of the aesthetic and spiritual values HTA 261 Special Topics in hundred years; and engage, in writing during the 15th and 16th centuries in that shaped the arts of the brush in Nineteenth-Century Art and class discussion, with theoretical Italy, where a revival of classical the Far East. Recent topics have included Charles perspectives on art/design production. learning led to an unprecedented 2 credits Darwin’s writings, the “Darwin The course will involve museum artistic flowering. In painting, the effect,” and the relationship between visits. Grading will be based on class course deals with the period from HTA 231 History of Industrial Design evolutionary theory and modern participation, papers, and exams. Fra Angelico to Titian; in architecture, In tracing the history of industrial art, and the history of the bather in 2 credits each semester from Brunelleschi to Palladio; and in design from its emergence at the European art, with particular attention sculpture, from Ghiberti to Michelangelo beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the work of Courbet, Manet, and Benvenuto Cellini. The course will to the present, this course will examine Daumier, Cézanne and Seurat. touch on such themes as the classical not only aesthetics (of furniture and 2 credits ideal, town planning, country villas, the decorative arts, typography, fresco painting, patronage, the advertising, machinery, toys, etc.) but HTA 263 African Art development of perspective, and the also the social and political forces An introduction to the stylistic, rise of the portrait. that have shaped the many styles. conceptual, functional and historical 2 credits Throughout, we will also demonstrate aspects of sub-Saharan African how movements in industrial design sculpture and architecture, the place of relate to parallel developments in these arts in the traditional context of the history of painting, sculpture, black African life and their relationship and architecture. to the worldview of the African. 2 credits 2 credits 126 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

HTA 264 Black Artists HTA 282 Public Sculpture HTA 296 Synartesis HTA 318 Pre-Columbian Art and of the Americas in New York City A recurring seminar with a changing Architecture in Mesoamerica Studies the influence of African art and This course will examine trends focus taught by Professor Dore Ashton. A survey of the arts and architecture culture on black painters and sculptors that have informed the history of 2 credits of the pre-Columbian civilizations of in North and South America. Symbols, public sculpture in New York City, Mexico and Central America from the myths, religious rituals and deities including commemoration of historical HTA 297 History of Printmaking earliest times through the Spanish will be explicated in terms of the events, artistic and civic education Explores the history of printmaking and conquest. Visits to museums and correspondence they develop between for the masses, natural history in the its various processes from the 15th private collections are an integral part distant antiquity and the present, service of the nation, and the cult of century to the present with an eye to of the course. allowing, in some cases, for new great men and women. We will also the unique contribution of this graphic 2 credits creative possibilities. examine individual monuments such art to the history of visual language in 2 credits as Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Farragut both popular and fne art. While major HTA 323, 333 Islamic Monument (1880), Frédéric-Auguste printmakers (e.g., Durer, Rembrandt, Art and Architecture HTA 270 The Art of Greece and Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty (1886), Daumier, the Nabis, the German An introduction to the evolution of Rome the sculptural programs of Central Expressionists, Jasper Johns) will be Islamic aesthetics, history and philosophy An introduction to the sculpture, Park, Prospect Park, and Green- addressed, attention will also be given by examining samples of architectural painting, and architecture of ancient Wood Cemetery, the decorations of to the practical and popular use of monuments, painting, ceramics, Greece and Rome with attention to the Rockefeller Center (including Paul prints through the centuries. metalwork’s and calligraphy, as well impact of the classical imagination on Manship’s 1934 Prometheus and Lee 2 credits as literary texts, from the 12th century the art of succeeding ages. Lawrie’s 1937 Atlas), Isamu Noguchi’s and the Mongol invasion to the 2 credits News (1940) and the sculpture garden HTA 298 History of Graphic Design Reconquista and the fall of Granada in he created at his Long Island City A study of the history of graphic design the15th century. The course traces the HTA 273 Topics in the studio, and Richard Serra’s Tilted work arising out of the important cultural, development of the truly multi-cultural History of Photography Arc (1978). Emphasis will be placed political and social confgurations in art of this turbulent period, from Writing by the critics, historians and on reading works or art as primary Europe, Asia and the United States from Central Asia through Iran and Iraq photographers that have influenced texts; viewing sculpture, in local the time of the industrial revolution to and the Levant, to Egypt, the Maghrib, creation and reception of photography museums or in situ, will be a key the present day. Points of reference and Spain. throughout its history. Issues include component of the course. include posters, publications and 2 credits defnitions and redefnitions of art, 2 credits promotional pieces being drawn from documentary debates and revisionist an unusual collection. HTA 324 Arts of the Islamic Book canons and histories. HTA 283 The “Genius” 2 credits This course looks at the elements that 2 credits of the Baroque contributed to the evolution of Islamic This course examines the genius of HTA 313 Seminar in Art History book illustration from the 10th century HTA 274 History of Photography European Baroque art as distilled in A seminar based on a special topic to the 17th century, such as materials, (1839–1965) the work of its greatest exemplars. in the study of art history. The seminar styles, patronage, administration, A survey of the great artists and We will also address the ideology of may be repeated for credit with the choice of text and the relationship their work throughout the history the counter-reformation church, the permission of the dean of the Faculty between text and image, with special of photography with emphasis on emergence of Protestant capitalism of Humanities and Social Sciences. concentration on the Persian book. the images that were made. The and a pluralist, bourgeois society in the Recent topics: Picasso. 2 credits importance of key images is discussed. north, patronage and social identity, 2 credits This historical period was one of propaganda, religious faith, skepticism, HTA 327 The New York constant technical innovation and the sexual identity and the family, all HTA 315 Mysteries of Art Collector class studies the effect this had on the focused through the position of the Northern Renaissance Art This course investigates the history of work of the individual photographers. artist in society. In no other period This course examines some of the most art collecting as it unfolded in Manhattan 2 credits were body and spirit, sensual and hauntingly beautiful and enigmatic works and the surrounding boroughs. Beginning sublime, so closely intermeshed. Art in the history of art, from a period of in colonial times with Governor Morris’ HTA 275, 276 Twentieth-Century history resides precisely in the relation deep religiosity and aristocratic ideals, acquisition of 18th-century French Art History between our present interest in these emerging contrary middle-class values furniture and ending in the mid-20th Considers the flourishing “isms” of artists and the past conditions in which and exceptional artistic ambition and century with the formation of such public the 20th century, as well as historical they worked. self-consciousness. We will begin with institutions as the Museum of Modern events, intellectual currents and 2 credits a solution for the still unsolved riddle Art, the Whitney Museum of American conflicting aesthetic views, explored of the Ghent Altarpiece and the birth Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim in relation to such enduring artists as HTA 285: Single-Work Seminar of modern painting in the north, move Museum, the course will focus on both Picasso, Matisse, Malevich, Kandinsky, A seminar devoted entirely to a single through debates about disguised the men and women instrumental in Miro, Klee, Dubuffet, Giacometti, monument or work of art that had symbolism and new conceptions of the the establishment of these collections Pollock, Smith, Calder and others. a particularly profound and wide artwork in Robert Campin and Rogier and the specifc objects they collected. 2 credits each semester resonance in the socio-political, van der Weyden, the crisis of modernity 2 credits economic, and cultural milieu in which in Hieronymus Bosch and the emergence HTA 277 Contemporary Art it was created and whose range of of a new (sublime) order in the art of HTA 328 Dada and Surrealism Survey of the development of influence extended well beyond its Pieter Bruegel, among others. Since their appearance early in the contemporary art after Minimalism and historical time frame. The focused 2 credits 20th century, Dada and Surrealism Pop Art of the 1960s. Chronological nature of the course material allows have had a profound and lasting treatment includes canonical texts for both a breadth and a depth of HTA 317 Art and Architecture influence on the arts. This course of critical theory and issues such analysis to a greater degree than is of Ancient Peru explores the art and ideas of these two as genre, multiculturism and site possible in other elective art history Introduction to the ancient cultures movements within the social, political, specifcity crucial to the current courses. Past topics have included of Peru from about 3000 B.C.E. to intellectual and art historical context of practice of art. Recent topics: German Duccio’s “Maestà.” the Spanish conquest, as seen in the years 1914–1947. painting. 2 credits architecture, stone sculpture, ceramics, 2 credits 2 credits metalwork and textiles. 2 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 127

HTA 329 Nineteenth-Century HTA 335 Art and Architecture HTA 337 Russian Art and Culture HTA 99 Independent Study (History/ Printmaking of the Ancient Near East The class will survey the history of Theory of Art) The 19th century witnessed an From the temples of the land of Russian art, reaching back to its pre- 2 credits explosion of imagery, in part led Sumer to the tower of Babylon, this modern origins. It will address Russian by the technical developments in course provides an overview of the arts and culture in their specifc political ID 441 Interdisciplinary Seminar commercial printmaking and the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and ideological context(s). Special Shifting Territories advent of photography. This course will (modern-day Iraq) and Iran, as well as attention will be paid to examining the An interdisciplinary seminar shared by survey the major themes of the period, surrounding regions, from the Neolithic interdisciplinary character (art, archi- the Faculty of Humanities and Social including the changing cityscape, the period to the 1st millennium B.C.E.— tecture, design, flm and theater) of Sciences and the three schools. Each iconography of peasants and local some 10,000 years. We will study the Constructivism and Suprematism of the seminar is taught by a team of faculty landscapes, the influence of caricature architecture and artifacts excavated early 20th century. The course will also representing at least two of the four and the popular press and the at major sites in the fertile crescent address the impact of the historical divisions. The theme of the seminar development of Japonism. Classes will including Jericho, Uruk, Ur, Nineveh (or revolutionary) avant-garde on will be announced in advance. be based on the hands-on viewing of and many others. In addition, we will contemporary art practices. Students 3 credits original prints in the New York Public discuss major landmarks in the history will be required to prepare short in-class Library by artists including Eugene of civilization such as the development presentation on a specifc modern Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Charles of agriculture, the beginning of urban or contemporary artist, architect, or Meryon, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt settlement, the invention of writing, designer, who uses or used the construc­ and James McNeill Whistler. and the discovery of metallurgy, and tivist vocabulary in his or her work, 2 credits their impact on the manufacture of art and, as a fnal project, write a ten page and artifacts and their iconography. research paper. HTA 331 The Arts of China 2 credits 2 credits This course is a chronological survey of the arts of China from the pottery- HTA 336 Site-Specific Art HTA 340 The Artist in making and jade-carving cultures This course explores the history of Renaissance Italy of the Neolithic up to contemporary site-specifc art, a term that emerged in This course will focus on artists working works of art. A brief discussion of the 1960s to describe artworks created in the Italian peninsula between historical events as well as background in response to a place or a set of ca 1400 and ca 1600, with the goal of in Chinese philosophy, political conditions. The focus will be the role learning how and why they created systems and religious practices will of “site” in minimalism, land-art, post- the paintings, tapestries, sculpture, be presented in order to allow students minimalism, institutional critique, prints and decorative art that we now to recontextualize selected works new genre public art, and contemporary think as “Renaissance.” In addition within their originating culture. The participatory and social practices. Each to studying materials, techniques course is designed to provide students evolution of the term is also a critique and iconography, we shall consider with a foundation in visual literacy of of the site’s role in the previous moment: the important role of patronage, both China, facilitate written expression the site in minimalism is complicated sacred and secular. and familiarize them with New York by feminist performance work; land-art 2 credits City’s cultural institutions exhibiting is problematized by the post-minimalists Chinese art. and institutional-critical artists working HTA 341 Body Politics in Art 2 credits primarily in the city. In the 1990s Since 1945 site-specifcity also became a way to This elective will examine the multiple HTA 333 Islamic Art critique the monumentality of public and dynamic ways in which art since and Architecture sculpture that claimed to represent the Second World War has constructed See HTA 323 everyone: new-genre public art and understandings of the body. Over the community-based work comes out of course of the semester, we will meet HTA 334 Art and Architecture artists’ struggle to make work that a strange and motley assortment of of Islamic India responds to the social fabric of a site bodies: the diseased body, the heroic A chronological study from the 16th and not simply to its physical location. body, the queer body, the abject body, century to the 19th century of the We will read key historical and the body-as-machine. Not primarily development of the art and architecture theoretical texts closely, and student concerned with images of the human of the Mughals; and an examination of presentations will be a major part of fgure—although they will certainly the Arab, Persian, Indian and European the course. Material is organized make appearances from time to time— influences that shaped that culture. thematically and structured around the course will instead ask, “How does 2 credits feld trips to art installations art think the body? throughout New York City. 2 credits 2 credits HTA 400 Single-Artist Seminar A course devoted entirely to the life and work of one important artist, selected anew from across the spectrum of world art each time it is offered. The seminar is designed to allow for an in-depth experience in the discipline of art history that extends well beyond what is possible in period survey courses. Recent topics: Leonardo; Rembrandt; Degas. 2 credits 128 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

FACULTY Associate Professors James Hoberman Professor of Cinema Peter Buckley B.A., SUNY at Binghamton; Administration History M.F.A., Columbia University B.A., Sussex University; Gwen Hyman William Germano, Dean M.A., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook Assistant Professor of Humanities Cynthia Hartling, Sohnya Sayres B.A., University of Toronto; Administrative Associate Humanities M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia Gwen Hyman, Director, B.A., M.A.H., Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo University Center for Writing Julian Paul Keenan John Lundberg, Associate Director, Proportional-Time Professor of Social Sciences Center for Writing B.A., M.A., The College of New Paltz; Faculty Ph.D., SUNY at Albany Sohnya Sayres, Academic Adviser Maren Stange Heidi King Professor of Humanities Instructor in Art History Full-Time Faculty B.A., Radcliffe College; B. A., University of Geneva; M.A., Tufts University; M.A., Columbia University Professors Ph.D., Boston University Sarah Lowengard Associate Professor of Social Sciences Dore Ashton Visiting Distinguished Professors A.B.,Washington University; Art History Visiting distinguished professors M.A., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook B.A., University of Wisconsin; in the Faculty of Humanities and M.A., Harvard University; Social Sciences have included: Jeff Madrick Litt.D., Moore College Diane Ackerman, André Professor of Economics B.S., New York University; William Germano Aciman,Stanley Aronowitz, David M.B.A., Harvard University English Literature Garrow, David Harvey, Richard Howard, B.A., Columbia University; Tamar Jacoby, Floyd Lapp, W.S. Harold Ramdass Ph.D., Indiana University Merwin, Derek Mahon, Marie Ponsot, Assistant Professor of Humanities Hillard Pouncey, Jim Sleeper and B.A., Baruch College; Anne Griffn Alan Trachtenberg Ph.D., Princeton University Political Science B.A., Wellesley College; John Sarich M.A, Ph.D., New York University Adjunct Faculty Assistant Professor of Economics B.A., University of Michigan; Atina Grossmann Haitham Abdullah M.A., Ph.D., New School for History Social Research B.A., CUNY; Instructor in Art History Ph.D., Rutgers University B.F.A., University of Baghdad; Gail Satler M.A., M.F.A., City College of New York Professor of Sociology Mary Stieber Albert Appleton B.A., Stony Brook University; Art History M.A., Queens College; B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon; Associate Professor of Social Sciences Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center M.A., University of Pittsburgh; B.A., Gonzaga College; M.A, Ph.D., Princeton University J.D., Yale Law School Martha Schulman Instructor in Humanities Brian Swann Marek Bartelik Associate Professor of Art History A.B., University of Chicago; Humanities M.F.A., Columbia University B.A., M.A., Queens College, M.S., Columbia University; Cambridge University; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center Mary Taylor Ph.D., Princeton University Benjamin Binstock Assistant Professor of Social Sciences B.A., University of Southern Colorado; David Weir Assistant Professor of Art History B.A., M.A., University of California, M.A., New School for Social Research; Comparative Literature Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center B.A., University of North Alabama; Berkeley; M.A., University of Alabama; Ph.D., Columbia University Andrew Weinstein Ph.D., New York University Gail Buckland Assistant Professor of Art History Distinguished Professor in B.A., Brown University; the History of Photography M.A., University of Pennsylvania; B.A., University of Rochester M.A., New York University; Ph.D., New York University Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría Associate Professor of Social Sciences James Wylie M.A., Ph.D., New School for Associate Professor of Humanities Social Research; B.A., Boston University B.A., Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; M.A., Royal Conservatory of Music, Madrid 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 129

THE COOPER UNION Officers and Deans Anita Raja David Greenstein Associate Dean of Research and Director of Continuing Education/ Jamshed Bharucha, President Graduate Programs; Professor of Public Programs Trustees B.A., Vassar College; Computer Science B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Yale University; Richard S. Lincer B.S., Temple University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Ph.D., Harvard University Chairman of the Board M.S., University of Massachusetts Adrianne Greth Stephen P. Baker Amherst; Francois de Menil AR’87 Associate Director of Admissions Vice President for Student Affairs and Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Vice Chairman of the Board B.A., Temple University Community Relations; Amherst M.Ed., Temple University Robert Bernhard Dean of Athletics George W. Sidebotham Chairman Emeritus B.S., New York University Marina Gutierrez Acting Associate Dean, Albert Nerken Jamshed Bharucha Director Saturday Program; Saskia Bos School of Engineering (Fall 2014); Charles S. Cohen Co-Director Saturday Dean, School of Art Professor of Mechanical Engineering Joseph B. Dobronyi Jr. & Outreach Programs B.A., University of Groningen; B.S., Trinity College; Thomas Driscoll ME’77 B.F.A., Cooper Union, M.A., University of Amsterdam M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Mark Epstein A’76 M.F.A., Vermont College Chairman Emeritus Lawrence Cacciatore President’s Council Justin Harmon Raymond G. Falci ME’86 Chief of Staff and Secretary Vice President for Communications Alumni Trustee to the Board of Trustees Joel R. Alper CE’58 B.A. Princeton University Jeffrey Gural B.A., M.A., New York University Corice Canton Arman Jeffrey Hersch EE’87 Steven M. Hillyer Christopher Mark Chamberlin Lawrence S. Bacow Catharine Hill Robert Berne Director, The Irwin S. Chanin School Dean of Students Eric Hirschhorn ME’89 of Architecture Archive M.A.,The College of New Jersey; Kevin Burke EE’72 Malcolm King EE’97 Albert Carnesale ME’57 B.Arch., The Cooper Union John Leeper AR’85 B.A.,The College of New Jersey Vin Cipolla Stephanie Hightower Alumni Association President Teresa A. Dahlberg Tracy Day Director Outreach Program; Edgar Mokuvos, EE’78 Chief Academic Offcer; Susan Silver de Menil Co-Director Saturday Alumni Trustee Dean, Albert Nerken School Robbert Dijkgraaf & Outreach Programs Daniel Okrent of Engineering Elizabeth Diller AR‘79 B.F.A., University of Dallas, Bruce Pasternack ME’68 B.S., University of Pittsburgh Milton Glaser A’51, Trustee Emeritus M.F.A., Pratt Institute Kevin Slavin A’95 M.S., Ph.D., North Carolina Harold S. Goldberg EE’44 Alumni Trustee Robert P. Hopkins George J. Delagrammatikas Bernard M. Gordon Lee H. Skolnick AR’79 T.J. Gottesdiener AR’79 Chief Technology Offcer; Acting Associate Dean, Albert Nerken Alumni Trustee Russell A. Hulse PHY’70 Associate Professor of School of Engineering (Spring 2015); Johnny C. Taylor Jr. Benedict A. Itri EE’75 Computer Science Associate Professor of Monica Vachher Maurice Kanbar B.S., St. Joseph’s College, Indiana; Mechanical Engineering Rachel L. Warren M.B.A., Fordham University B.S.M.E., Massachusetts Institute Alex Katz A’49,Trustee Emeritus Jeremy Wertheimer EE’82 Stanley N. Lapidus EE’70 of Technology; Mindy Lang, Creative Director Devora Najjar ChE’16 Daniel Libeskind AR’70 Student Representative M.S.M.E., Ph.D., University B.F.A., The Cooper Union of Michigan Lisa Phillips E. John Rosenwald, Jr. Donna M. Lippman John Falls Patricia Rosenwald Director of Planned Giving Associate Dean of Admissions Moshe Safdie B.A., Cornell University; and Records; Director of William H. Sandholm CE’63 M.B.A., Emory Graduate International Student Advisement Ricardo M. Scofdio AR’55 School of Business B.A., St. John’s University Faculty Emeritus J.D., Fordham University M.A., Brooklyn College Arthur R. Thomson AR’64 James Luciano Willard L. Warren EE’50 William Germano Associate Director of Admissions Philip Zev Weisberg, C.F.A. EE’89 Dean, Faculty of Humanities B.A., College of St. Rose Irma Giustino Weiss A’45 and Social Sciences M.S., Sage Graduate School Professor of English Literature Jeanne Lunin, Director of Development B.A., Columbia University; Administration B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría Teachers College, Columbia University Mitchell L. Lipton Director of Assessment and Innovation; Sue McCoy Vice President for Enrollment Services; Associate Professor of Social Sciences Senior Systems Manager, Dean, Admissions and Records M.A., Ph.D., New School for Information Services B.A., SUNY at Binghamton; Social Research; M.P.A., New York University B.A., Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma Joseph McDonald de Madrid; Director of the Annual Fund William E. Mea M.A., Royal Conservatory of Music, B.A., Ithaca College Vice President for Madrid Finance & Administration Mary Ruokonen B.A., Widener University David Chenkin, Associate Registrar Director of Financial Aid M.B.A., Philadelphia University B.A., Brandeis University Carol Salomon, Acting Library Director M.A., Yale University Elizabeth O’Donnell A.B., Mount Holyoke College Acting Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin Dirrane Cove, Assistant Director M.L.S., Long Island University School of Architecture of Institutional Grants M.S., Long Island University University of Minnesota; B.A. Connecticut College B.Arch., The Cooper Union; R.A. 130 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Erin Stahl, Assistant Director Walton D. Ellison* Walter S. Kut* Cooper Union Alumni Association of Admissions Professor Emeritus of Physics Professor Emeritus 2013–2014 Executive Board B.A., Fairfeld University B.S., University of Colorado; of Mechanical Engineering M.A., Columbia University Ph.D., New York University B.S. in M.E., M.S., P.E. President John Leeper AR’85 Robert Thill, Director, Richard C. Extermann* Jean Le Mée Center for Career Development Professor Emeritus of Physics Professor Emeritus of Vice President/Alumni Activities B.A., California State University; Lic. es Sc., Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Rocco Cetera CE’99 M.F.A., Pratt Institute B.S., Ecole Nationale de la Marine William W. Flexner* Vice President/ Marchande, Nantes; Caitlin D. Tramel Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Faculty and Student Liaison M.S., Ph.D., Director of Alumni Affairs B.S., Ph.D. Lawrence Hausman EE’94 Carnegie Mellon University B.A. Simmons College; Stanley M. Forman Secretary & Treasurer M.Ed. Suffolk University Arsete J. Lucchesi* Professor Emeritus of Physics Robert Tan AR’81 Associate Dean Emeritus, Albert B.A., Ph.D. Emeriti Nerken School of Engineering Past Presidents Sue Ferguson Gussow Professor Emeritus of Mathematics President Peter Cafero CE’83 Professor Emerita of Architecture B.S., Queens College, CUNY; George Campbell Jr. MaryAnn Nichols A’68 Pratt Institute; M.S., New York University The Cooper Union; Trustees Philip Nudd* Alumni Trustees The Brooklyn Museum; Ronald W. Drucker CE’62 Professor Emeritus of Kevin Slavin A’95 B.S., Columbia University; Chairman Emeritus Electrical Engineering (Term ends September 2017) M.F.A., Tulane University Milton Glaser A’51 B.S.E.E., M.S., P.E. Ray Falci ME’86 Alex Katz A’49 Hans Haacke George Sadek* (Term ends September 2015) Clarence Michalis Professor Emeritus of Art Frank Stanton Professor Carroll L.Wainwright, Jr. M.F.A., Staatsexamen, Staatl of Graphic Design Edgar Mokuvos EE’78 Werkakademie, Kassel, Germany; B.A., M.F.A. (Term ends September 2016) Faculty/Administration Hon. D.F.A., Oberlin College; Melvin Sandler Atelier 17, Paris; Tyler School of Art; Richard L. Bory Jesse Sherman Professor of Nominating Committee Chair Pratt Graphics Center Dean Emeritus of Admissions Electrical Engineering Emeritus Karina Tipton CE’99 and Records John Q. Hejduk* B.E.E., M.E.E., Ph.D. Polytechnic Annual Fund Committee Co-Chair B.A., St. Bonaventure University; Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School University Darrell Low EE’89 M.Div., Christ the King Seminary; of Architecture Ricardo Scofidio M.S., Queens College, CUNY Professor Emeritus of Architecture Professor Emeritus of Architecture The Cooper Union Richard S. Bowman* The Cooper Union B.S. in Arch., University of Cincinnati Professor Emeritus of B.Arch., Columbia University; M.Arch., Harvard University; Comparative Literature R.A., N.C.A.R.B. Università degli Studi, Rome; Shang-I Cheng Hon. L.H.D., University of Illinois Michael G. Sundell* Professor Emeritus of at Chicago; Professor Emeritus of Humanities Chemical Engineering R.A.; N.C.A.R.B.; B.A., A.M., Ph.D. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., P.E. Fellow of the Royal Society; David H. H. Tung F.A.I.A. Wallace Chinitz Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Richard Henderson* Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Associate Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin B.C.E., M.C.E., Ph.D., P.E. B.M.E., City College of New York; School of Architecture Ysrael A. Seinuk* M.M.E., Ph.D., Polytechnic University Professor Emeritus of Architecture Professor Emeritus of Architecture B.Arch., Cornell University; Arthur Corwin Degree in Civil Engineering, R.A. Professor Emeritus of Art University of Havana; Ozenfant and Hans Hofmann, Joel W. Hollenberg* P.E., F.A.C.I., C.Eng., F.I.C.E., Schools of Fine Art; Professor Emeritus of F.A.S.C.E. The Cooper Union; Mechanical Engineering Fred Siegel B.F.A., B.Arch., Yale University B.E., The Cooper Union; Professor Emeritus of History M.S., Ph.D., Stevens Institute Richard G. Costello* B.A., Rutgers University; of Technology; Professor Emeritus of M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh P.E. Electrical Engineering Gerry Weiss B.E., The Cooper Union; Henry B. Hope Professor of Electrical M.S.E.E., New York University; Professor Emeritus of Engineering Emeritus Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Chemical Engineering B.E., The Cooper Union; B.Ch.E., M.A., Ph.D. Peter D. Eisenman S.M., Harvard University; The Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished Leo S. Kaplan D.E.E., Polytechnic University; Professor Emeritus of Architecture B.A., City College of New York, CUNY; P.E. B.Arch., Cornell University; M.A., Columbia University Chester Wisniewski M.S.Arch., Columbia University; Ralph Knapp Professor Emeritus of Architecture M.A., Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Professor Emeritus B.Arch., Syracuse University; England; of Electrical Engineering Taliesin. R.A., N.C.A.R.B. R.A., N.C.A.R.B., F.A.I.A. B.E., M.S. * deceased 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 131

THE COOPER UNION Student Equal Educational Opportunity and Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment Nondiscrimination Policies The Cooper Union is committed to providing a learning environment Policies free from unlawful discrimination and harassment and to fostering a nurturing and vibrant community founded upon the fundamental Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment dignity and worth of all of its members. Consistent with this com- Policies and Complaint Procedures mitment and with applicable laws, it is the policy of The Cooper Union not to tolerate unlawful discrimination or harassment in any The Cooper Union’s Equal Opportunity Officer has overall form and to provide students who feel that they are victims of dis- responsibility for the management of the College’s Equal crimination or harassment with mechanisms for seeking redress. Opportunity and Non Discrimination Policies and has been Continuing its long-standing policy to support actively equality designated to coordinate compliance activities under these policies of opportunity for all persons, The Cooper Union does not dis- and applicable federal, state and local laws. Students, faculty, criminate on the basis of age, race, religion, sex, color, sexual and staff may contact the Equal Opportunity Officer, Human orientation, national and ethnic origin, nor does it discriminate Resources Manager, Dean and Associate Dean of Student Affairs against qualifed persons with disabilities or any other legally pro- or their Academic Dean to inquire about their rights under the tected characteristic, in the administration of its admission and College’s policies, request counseling, or seek information about educational policies or scholarship, loan, athletic and other fling a complaint. school-administered programs. Rather, The Cooper Union affirms The Equal Opportunity Officer isWilliam E. Mea, that it admits students regardless of their age, race, religion, sex, Vice President for Finance & Administration. His office is at color, handicap or disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national 30 Cooper Square, 7th floor, New York, NY 10003 and origin or any other legally protected characteristic and thereafter he can be reached at 212. 353.4150 and [email protected]. accords them all the rights and privileges generally made available Complaints by students against students are governed by the to students at the school. College’s Code of Conduct and Student Equal Educational Oppor- Consistent with The Cooper Union’s policy of supporting cul- tunity and Non Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policies and tural diversity, no student shall be refused admission to or be dis- the Policy & Procedures relating to Misconduct Based Upon Sex. missed from The Cooper Union solely because he/she is unable Complaints by students against faculty or other college employees to participate in any examination, study, or work requirement due are governed by the Student Equal Educational Opportunity and to his/her religious observances and practices. It is the intent of The Non Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policies and the Policy Cooper Union to reasonably accommodate an individual student’s & Procedures relating to Misconduct Based Upon Sex. religious obligations and practices without penalty, based on good Complaints by faculty and other employees are governed by faith, effort and due notice to those relevantly concerned of the the Equal Employment Opportunity and Non Discrimination and anticipated religious observance date. It is the student’s obligation Anti-Harassment Policies, published in the Staff Handbooks and to provide prior notice of anticipated absences. Students absent the Policy & Procedures relating to Misconduct Based Upon Sex. due to religious observances and practices will be given an oppor- Links to those policies are available at: http://www.cooper.edu/hr. tunity to make up any examination, study, or work requirement Faculty and bargaining unit staff may also refer to their collective missed, without penalty. The College also modifes policies, prac- bargaining agreements. tices, and procedures for, and grants reasonable accommodations, All students, faculty and other employees are protected from and provides auxiliary aids and services to students with disabilities retaliation for fling a complaint or assisting in an investigation in accordance with the law. under the Non Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policies. The Discriminatory harassment poses a direct threat to the right of College’s policies apply to all students, faculty, other employees, every member of The Cooper Union community to be treated and applicants for admission and employment, and all such per- respectfully. Students, professors, staff, and administrators share sons are protected from coercion, intimidation, interference, or an obligation to maintain an environment in which members of retaliation for fling an internal or external complaint of discrimi- the community are free to pursue and to promote learning, scholarly nation or harassment or assisting in an investigation under any of inquiry, and artistic achievement without harassment. The harass- the above-named policies and applicable laws. ment of any student is unacceptable and will not be tolerated at The Cooper Union. 132 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Nothing in this policy shall abridge academic freedom or the • Otherwise adversely affects an individual’s academic experience. College’s educational mission. Prohibitions against discrimination Harassing conduct includes, but is not limited to: epithets, and harassment do not extend to statements or written materials slurs, or negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating, or hos- that are germane to the classroom subject matter. tile acts; and written or graphic material that belittles or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual or group and that is Definitions placed on walls or elsewhere on The Cooper Union premises or For purposes of these policies and procedures, discrimination, circulated in the school (including through e-mail and other elec- discriminatory harassment are defned as follows: tronic media).

Discrimination Requests for Disability Accommodation Discrimination is defned as: Students seeking reasonable accommodations, modifcations of • Treating members of a protected class less favorably because policies, practices or procedures, and/or auxiliary aids and ser- of their membership in that class vices for a disability should contact the Dean and Associate Dean • Having a policy or practice that has a disproportionately ad- of Student Affairs ideally at least six weeks before the beginning verse impact on protected class members, without sufficient of the semester. Such requests may also be given to the Equal justifcation; or Opportunity Officer. • Failing to reasonably accommodate, modify policies, practices, or procedures, or provide appropriate auxiliary aids and Inquiries About Policy services to students with disabilities. Inquiries concerning any policy, program or other activity at The Protected class” refers to any personal trait or category that Cooper Union may be referred to the following individual who has is protected by law, including an individual’s race, religion, sex, been designated by The Cooper Union to oversee the continued color, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, creed, genetic application of the School’s Non Discrimination and Anti-Harass- predisposition and carrier status, sexual orientation, alienage, ment Policies: citizenship status, veteran status, disability, or any other charac- Adele Stavish teristic protected by law. Human Resource, Acting Director The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Discriminatory Harassment 30 Cooper Square, 7th Floor Discriminatory harassment is defned as substantially interfering New York, NY 10003 with an individual’s educational or college living experience by 212.353.4156 subjecting him or her to severe or threatening conduct or to re- peated humiliating or abusive conduct, based on his or her mem- bership in a protected class. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking, intimate partner violence, and gender based harass- ment are addressed separately in the Policy and Procedure Re- lating to Conduct Based Upon Sex. Under this policy, harassment is verbal or physical conduct that belittles or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his or her race, religion, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition and carrier status, sexual orientation, alienage, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law, or that of his or her rela- tives, friends, or associates, and that: • Has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive academic environment; • Has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s academic performance; or 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 133

Procedures for Students with Concerns College’s discretion and as the College deems appropriate. The or Complaints About Discrimination and matter may be referred to the Student Judicial Committee, in ac- Harassment and Non-Retaliation Policy cordance with the procedures set forth in the Code of Conduct.

All members of the College community are expected to adhere to Complaints About Faculty and Employees the College’s policies and to cooperate with the procedures for The Cooper Union has established separate procedures to han- responding to complaints of discrimination and harassment. All dle student complaints about harassment and discrimination are encouraged to report any conduct believed to be in violation imposed on students by faculty or staff. of these policies. It is in the best interest of the entire Cooper Harassment and discrimination on the basis of race, reli- Union community for students to report incidents of discrimina- gion, national origin, sex, disability, and/or sexual orientation and tion and harassment. All students and applicants for admission any other characteristic protected by law is inimical to the Col- are protected from coercion, intimidation, interference, or retali- lege’s academic environment and strictly prohibited. Student ation for fling a complaint or assisting in an investigation under complaints about harassment and discrimination by staff or fac- any of the applicable policies and laws. Subjecting another to ulty should be fled with the Dean and Associate Dean of Student retaliatory, intimidating or coercive conduct for fling a complaint Affairs, the Equal Opportunity Officer, or the Academic Dean. or participating in an investigation is prohibited and may be ad- The Equal Opportunity Officer will investigate, or will appoint dressed as a separate violation. an investigator to investigate the matter and try to resolve the Any person who believes that he or she has been the subject matter as amicably and privately as possible. of discrimination or harassment may initially choose to deal with If this effort is not successful and if the Equal Opportunity the alleged offender directly through a face-to-face discussion, a Officer or the President deems it appropriate under the circum- personal telephone conversation, e-mail correspondence, or let- stances, a Hearing Board may be appointed by the President to ters. In many cases, this may effectively resolve the situation; review the complaint, conduct any additional investigation however, individuals are not required to address the alleged of- deemed appropriate, and make recommendations to the Presi- fender directly. Such an approach may be ineffective in correct- dent. ing the problem, or an individual may be uncomfortable in A Hearing Board is typically comprised of an Academic handling the situation alone. All students are strongly urged to Dean, a faculty member, and an elected student representative, promptly report concerns of discrimination and harassment all from schools other than that of the complainant, although the under the procedures outlined below. College retains discretion to alter the composition of a Hearing Board as it deems appropriate. Formal Complaint Procedures for Students In resolving any matter, the College retains discretion to Students who wish to make a formal complaint may do so in take any remedial action it deems appropriate, including, without accordance with the procedures set forth below. limitation, warning, demotion, transfer, suspension, training and termination. Complaints About Other Students Complaints against persons represented by a labor organi- The harassment of any student is unacceptable and will not be zation will be handled in a manner that is consistent with the tolerated at The Cooper Union. It is in the best interest of the en- applicable collective bargaining agreement. tire Cooper Union community for students to report incidents of discrimination and harassment. Any student who believes he or Complaints About Third Parties she has been subjected to harassment by another student should Student complaints of discrimination or harassment by third parties submit a complaint, if possible in writing, to the Equal Opportunity (e.g., visitors to the school or contractors working on school prem- Officer, the Dean and Associate Dean of Student Affairs or his or ises) may be fled in the same manner as complaints about faculty her Academic Dean. The College will then designate the appro- and employees and will be governed by the same procedures. priate person to address the complaint. After a complaint is made, it will be investigated and an attempt will be made to re- solve the matter as amicably and privately as possible. The pen- alties of expulsion, suspension, dismissal, warning, probation, or loss of privileges can be meted out to the offending student in the 134 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Independent Investigation and Review by Trustees The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, amended by Congress The Cooper Union, in its discretion, may conduct an investigation in 2008, prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities independent of or in addition to the procedures outlined above, in public accommodations. at any time. In addition, although the Board of Trustees will not The Age Discrimination Act of 1975, prohibits discrimination on typically be involved in the receipt, investigation and remediation the basis of age in programs and activities receiving federal fnancial of complaints of discrimination and harassment, the Board of assistance. The New York Executive Law, Article 15, Section Trustees or a committee authorized by the Chairman of the Board 296(4), prohibits an educational institution from denying the use of of Trustees is authorized to modify the procedures herein as it its facilities to anyone otherwise qualifed or permitting harass- deems appropriate under the circumstances, and to take remedial ment of a student or applicant on the basis of color, race, religion, action as it deems appropriate. disability, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, At the conclusion of the investigation under any of the pro- age, and marital status. cedures set forth above, the complaining party and the accused party will be notifed of the outcome of the investigation. Students The New York Education Law, Section 313, as amended, prohibits with questions as to the appropriate procedure in a particular educational institutions from discriminating against persons situation should contact the Dean and Associate Dean of Student seeking admission as students to any institution, program, or Affairs, the Equal Opportunity Officer, or their Academic Dean. course because of race, color, sex, religion, creed, marital status, age, sexual orientation, or national origin.

Non-Retaliation The New York City Human Rights Law, Section 8-107, prohibits Retaliation against students who complain about perceived discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, discrimination or harassment is strictly prohibited. Complaints of national origin, age, gender (including gender identity and expres- retaliation will be investigated and treated as violations of the sion), disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orienta- College’s Non Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy. tion, or alienage or citizenship status in public accommodations.

Any person wanting to fle an external complaint under any of Compliance with Laws Promoting Equal Educational these laws should consult the Web site of the relevant government Opportunity and Prohibiting Discrimination and Harassment agency listed below: In accordance with all applicable laws and pursuant to its own policies and operating procedures, The Cooper Union provides Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education for equal opportunity and prohibits unlawful discrimination and ed.gov harassment. The applicable laws include: New York State Division of Human Rights Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits dhr.state.ny.us discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, or New York City Commission on Human Rights national origin in programs or activities receiving federal fnancial nyc.gov/html/cchr/home.html assistance.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits discrimination against any person because of race, color, sex, religion, pregnancy or national origin in connection with employment.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the conduct or operation of a school’s educational programs or activities, including admission to these programs and activities.

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, prohibits the exclusion of any person solely on the basis of a disability from participation in or access to benefts of any federally fnanced program or activity; it also prohibits discrimination against any person solely on the basis of disability in any federally fnanced program or activity. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 135

Policy and Procedures for Faculty and Staff The Cooper Union provides training programs to educate Faculty and Staff Equal Employment Opportunity and faculty and adminis- trators about conduct that may constitute a Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment Policies violation of its policies and to inform them of the procedures that The Cooper Union is an equal opportunity employer and is com- are available to respond to alleged violations. mitted to providing a working and learning environment free from unlawful discrimination and to fostering a nurturing and vibrant Definitions community founded upon the fundamental dignity and worth of For purposes of these policies and procedures, discrimination, all of its members. The College does not discriminate against or discriminator y harassment, and sexual harassment are defned permit harassment of employees or applicants for employment as follows: on the basis of race, color, sex, gender (including gender identity and expression), pregnancy, religion, creed, national origin, age, Discrimination alienage and citizenship, status as a perceived or actual victim of Discrimination is defned as: domestic violence, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, • Treating members of a protected class less favorably because military status, partnership status, genetic predisposition or car- of their membership in that class; or rier status, arrest record, or any other legally protected status. • Having a policy or practice that has a disproportionately adverse Sexual harassment is strictly prohibited. In addition to the impact on protected class members, without sufficient justifcation. provisions contained herein, sexual harassment and other types • Failing to reasonably accommodate qualifed individuals with of prohibited misconduct based upon sex are described in the disabilities where doing so does not constitute an undue hardship. Policy and Procedure Relating to Misconduct Based upon Sex. • “Protected class” refers to any personal trait or category that is Harassment on the basis of any other protected character- protected by law, including an individual’s race, religion, sex, istic is also strictly prohibited. The Cooper Union reasonably ac- color, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, creed, genetic commodates employees and applicants with disabilities and also predisposition and carrier status, sexual orientation, alienage, provides reasonable accommodation of religious beliefs and citizenship status, veteran status, disability, or any other charac- practices in accordance with law. teristic protected by law. Nothing in these policies shall abridge academic freedom or the College’s educational mission. Prohibitions against discrimi- Discriminatory Harassment nation and harassment do not extend to statements or written Discriminatory Harassment is defned as subjecting an individual materials that are germane to classroom subject matter. to humiliating, abusive, or threatening conduct that creates an All members of The Cooper Union community are expected intimidating, hostile, or abusive work environment; alters the con- to adhere to these policies and to cooperate with the procedures ditions of employment; or unreasonably interferes with an individ- for responding to complaints of discrimination and harassment. ual’s work performance on the basis of that individual’s They also are encouraged to report any conduct they be- membership in a protected class. This includes sexual harass- lieve to be in violation of these policies. Management and super- ment, which is described in further detail below. In addition, sex- visory personnel in particular are responsible for taking ual harassment and other types of prohibited misconduct based reasonable and necessary action to prevent discrimination and upon sex are described in the Policy and Procedure Relating to harassment in the workplace and for responding promptly and Misconduct Based upon Sex. thoroughly to any such claims. Those individuals include any offi- Under this policy, harassment is verbal or physical conduct cer or dean having formal supervisory responsibility over employ- that belittles or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual ees. For the purpose of these policies, faculty are supervisors of because of his or her race, religion, sex, color, ethnicity, national other faculty when they are acting in a supervisory role as depart- origin, age, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition and car- ment chair, dean, academic vice president, or similar position. rier status, sexual orientation, alienage, citizenship status, vet- Employees may fle an informal or formal complaint under eran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by this policy as set forth below. Any individual found to have en- law, or that of his or her relatives, friends, associates, and that: gaged in discrimination or harassment will be subject to disci- • Has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or pline up to and including termination. Retaliation against anyone offensive work environment; who fles a complaint or participates in an investigation of a com- • Has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an plaint is prohibited and will be addressed as a separate violation individual’s work performance; or of this policy. • Otherwise adversely affects an individual’s employment. 136 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Harassing conduct includes, but is not limited to: epithets, Inquiries About Policy slurs, or negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating, or hos- Inquiries concerning any policy, program or other activity at The tile acts; and written or graphic material that belittles or shows Cooper Union may be referred to the following individual who has hostility or aversion toward an individual or group and that is been designated by The Cooper Union to oversee the continued placed on walls or elsewhere on The Cooper Union premises or application of the School’s NonDiscrimination and Anti-Harass- circulated in the workplace (including through e-mail). ment Policies: William E. Me Sexual Harassment Vice President for Finance & Administration Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sex- 30 Cooper Square, 7th Floor ual harassment when: New York, NY 10003 • Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implic- 212.353.4150 itly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; or • Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is Individuals and Conduct Covered used as the basis for employment decisions affecting that individ- These employee policies apply to all applicants and employees, ual; or and prohibit harassment, discrimination and retaliation whether • Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably inter- engaged in by fellow employees, by a supervisor or manager, or fering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intim- by someone not directly connected to The Cooper Union (e.g., an idating, hostile, demeaning, or offensive working environment. outside vendor, consultant or customer). Conduct prohibited by Sexual harassment may include a range of subtle and not so these policies is unacceptable in the workplace and in any subtle behaviors and may involve individuals of the same or differ- work-related setting outside the workplace. Any individual found ent gender. Depending on the circumstances, these behaviors to have engaged in sexual or any other form of harassment, or may include, but are not limited to: unwanted sexual advances or other inappropriate conduct, will be disciplined as appropriate, requests for sexual favors; sexual jokes and innuendo; verbal up to and including discharge. abuse of a sexual nature; commentary about an individual’s body, sexual prowess or sexual defciencies; leering, catcalls or touch- Non-Retaliation Policy ing; insulting or obscene comments or gestures; display or circu- The Cooper Union will not in any way retaliate against an individ- lation in the workplace of sexually suggestive objects or pictures ual who, in good faith, makes a complaint or report of harass (including through e-mail); and other physical, verbal or visual ment, or participates in the investigation of such complaint or conduct of a sexual nature. Sex-based harassment— that is, ha- report. Retaliation against any individual for, in good faith, report- rassment not involving sexual activity or language—may also con- ing a claim of discrimination or harassment or cooperating in the stitute discrimination if it is severe or pervasive and directed at investigation of same will not be tolerated and will itself be subject employees because of their sex. to appropriate discipline. Truly consensual romantic relationships are not sexual ha- Reports of retaliation should be made in the same manner rassment and are not prohibited by The Cooper Union policies. as complaints reporting discrimination and harassment and such Individuals should be aware, however, that romantic relationships complaints will be investigated. are susceptible to being determined after the fact to have been nonconsensual, and even coercive, whenever there is an inherent power differential between the parties. Therefore, any such rela- tionship with a subordinate employee or a student is strongly dis- couraged.

Disability Accommodation Employees seeking an accommodation for a disability should contact the Director of Human Resources. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 137

Complaint Procedures for Faculty Grievance Procedure Under The Cooper Union’s and Other Employees and Applicants Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment Policies An employee of The Cooper Union who believes that he or she has Any employee who has witnessed, been subject to, or believes been discriminated against or harassed in violation of any provi- that he or she has been the subject of discrimination, sexual or sion of The Cooper Union’s NonDiscrimination or Anti-Harass�- any other form of harassment or retaliation by anyone at The Coo- ment Policies may ask the offender to stop his/her behavior. An per Union should, and is encouraged to, bring the matter to the employee should not feel obligated to confront the offender, attention of a supervisory staff member or the Equal Opportunity however, and may also attempt to resolve such grievance in the Officer referred to above or to other persons designated to receive following manner. complaints as set forth below. Individuals should not feel obli- Step 1. Informal Complaint gated to fle their complaints with their immediate supervisor be- Employees with complaints in which the immediate supervisor is fore bringing the matter to the attention of the other designated not directly involved generally should start at Step 1. Employees representatives. with complaints which directly involve the immediate supervisor or in which the employee is not comfortable presenting the com- IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES: Employees who have plaint directly to his/her supervisor should proceed directly to experienced conduct they believe is contrary to this policy have Step 2. an obligation to take advantage of this complaint procedure. An The complainant should present the complaint, if possible in employee’s failure to fulfll this obligation could affect his or her writing, to his or her immediate superior as soon as possible after rights in pursuing legal action. Also, please note, federal, state the date on which the alleged act of discrimination or harassment and local discrimination laws establish specifc time frames for took place, and should also forward a copy of any written com- initiating a legal proceeding pursuant to those laws. plaint in a sealed envelope marked “CONFIDENTIAL” to the Equal Opportunity Officer or to the Human Resources Manager. The Investigation and Confidentiality The complainant’s immediate superior or another individual A prompt, thorough and impartial investigation of the alleged in- designated by the College shall meet with the complainant for cident will be conducted to the extent possible, and appropriate purposes of initiating an investigation. An investigation may in- corrective action will be taken if warranted. To the extent consis- volve a review of documents and interviews with witnesses and tent with adequate investigation and appropriate corrective ac- the alleged offender. Once an investigation is completed, appro- tion, complaints of discrimi- nation and harassment will be priate remedial action will be taken. treated as confdential. At the conclusion of the investigation, the If the complaint is not satisfactorily resolved at Step 1, it complaining party and the accused party will be notifed of the may be presented as a formal grievance/appeal under Step 2. As outcome of the investigation. stated previously, if the complainant is uncomfortable presenting his/her complaint to his/her immediate supervisor, the com- Responsive Action plainant may immediately proceed to Step 2. Misconduct constituting harassment, discrimination or retaliation Step 2. Formal Grievance/Step Misconduct constituting harassment, discrimination or retaliation In the case where the complainant feels uncomfortable present- will be dealt with promptly and adequately. Responsive action ing the complaint to his or her immediate supervisor or when the may include, without limitation, training, referral to counseling, complainant is dissatisfed by the results of Step 1, the grievance monitoring the offender, and/or disciplinary action such as may be formally presented by the grievant to the Equal Opportu- warning, reprimand, withholding of a promotion or pay increase, nity Officer or to the Human Resources Manager. reduction of wages, demotion, reassignment, temporary suspen- The grievance should be written, if possible, and set forth sion without pay, or termination, as The Cooper Union believes specifcally the facts on which the grievance is based. The Equal appropriate under the circumstances. Opportunity Officer, or an authorized designee, will investigate the grievance and/or review the investigation already conducted and make a determination on the grievance and appropriate re- medial action. 138 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Separate Rights of Faculty and Bargaining Unit Staff The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, amended by Nothing herein precludes faculty and bargaining unit staff from Congress in 2008, prohibits discrimination in public accommo- seeking redress under their collective bargaining agreements. dations and in employment against a qualifed person with a disability and requires an employer to provide qualifed applicants Independent Investigation and Review by Trustees and employees with reasonable accommodations. The Cooper Union, in its discretion, may conduct an investigation The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, independent of or in addition to the procedures outlined above at prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of age. any time. In addition, although the Board of Trustees will not typ- The Age Discrimination Act of 1975, prohibits discrimination ically be involved in the receipt, investigation and remediation of on the basis of age in programs and activities receiving federal complaints of discrimination and harassment, the Board of Trust- fnancial assistance. ees or a committee authorized by the Chairman of the Board of The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Trustees is authorized to modify the procedures herein as it Rights Act (USERRA), prohibits discrimination in employment deems appropriate under the circumstances, and to take reme- based on past, current, or future military obligations. dial action as it deems appropriate in certain cases. The Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998, Compliance with Federal, State and Local Laws Promoting as amended, prohibit job discrimination and require affirmative Equal Employment Opportunity, Prohibiting Discrimination action to employ and advance in employment qualifed special and Harassment and Authorizing Affirmative Action disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam Era, recently separat- In accordance with all applicable laws and pursuant to its own edveterans, and any other veterans who served on active duty policies and operating procedures, The Cooper Union provides for during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign equal opportunity, prohibits unlawful discrimination and harass- badge has been authorized. ment, and takes affirmative action. The applicable laws include: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, prohibits Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of citizenship status. discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, or The prohibition extends to employers who hire only U.S. citizens national origin in programs or activities receiving federal fnancial or U.S. citizens and green card holders, as well as to employers assistance. who prefer to employ unauthorized workers or temporary visa Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits holders rather than U.S. citizens and other workers with employ- employment discrimination against any person because of race, ment authorization. color, religion, sex, pregnancy, or national origin. The Small Business Act of 1958, as amended, Section 15(g)(1), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended, requires federal contractors to afford maximum practicable busi- prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the conduct or ness opportunities to Small Business Concerns, including busi- operation of a school’s educational programs or activities, including nesses owned by disadvantaged individuals, disabled veterans, employment in these programs and activities. and women. The Equal Pay Act of 1963, prohibits discrimination on the basis The New York Executive Law, Article 15, Section 296(1), pro- of sex in rates of pay. The Lily Ledbetter Act of 2009 extends this hibits discrimination against any person in employment because protection. Executive Order 11246, as amended, prohibits of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, mil- discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, itary status, sex, disability, genetic predisposition or carrier sta- sex, or national origin and requires affirmative action to ensure tus, marital status, or arrest record. Section 296(4) prohibits an equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. educational institution from denying the use of its facilities to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, requires a federal anyone otherwise qualifed or permitting harassment of a student contractor to take affirmative action to employ and advance in or applicant on the basis of color, race, religion, disability, na- employment qualifed workers with disabilities. Section 504 pro- tional origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, age, and mar- hibits the exclusion of any person solely on the basis of a disability ital status. from participation in or access to benefts of any federally The New York Labor Law, Section 194, prohibits discrimination fnanced program or activity; it also prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in rates of pay. against any person solely on the basis of disability in any federally fnanced program or activity. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 139

The New York City Human Rights Law, Chapter 1, Section 8-107, makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an em- ployer to discriminate against any person because of his or her actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, gen- der (including gender identity and expression), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, alienage or citizenship status, partner- ship status or status as a perceived or actual victim of domestic violence. Any person wanting to fle an external complaint under any of these laws should consult the Web site of the relevant govern- ment agency listed below: Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs dol.gov/esa/contacts/ofccp/ ofnation2.htm#NewYork U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission eeoc.gov Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education ed.gov Veterans’ Training and Employment Service, U.S. Department of Labor dol.gov/vets New York State Division of Human Rights dhr.state.ny.us New York State Department of Labor labor.state.ny.us New York City Commission on Human Rights nyc.gov/html/cchr/home.html 140 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Policy and Procedure Relating to • where submission to the conduct is explicitly or implicitly made Misconduct Based Upon Sex, Including a term or condition of an individual’s education or other activities Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at the Cooper Union; or The Cooper Union is committed to providing a learning, working • where submission to or rejection of the conduct is used as the and living environment free from discrimination and harassment basis for academic decisions. based upon sex and to fostering a nurturing and vibrant Examples of sex-based harassment that may cause a community founded upon the fundamental dignity and worth of hostile environment include, but are not limited to: all of its members. The Cooper Union is further committed to • subtle or persistent pressure for sexual activity; complying with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, • unnecessary touching, pinching or brushing against a person; which prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational • requesting or demanding sexual favors concerning employment, programs and activities. As such, the Cooper Union prohibits any academic activities or other Cooper Union activities; form of misconduct based upon sex. Prohibited misconduct • unwelcome communications (verbal, written, electronic, etc.) based on sex may include, but is not limited to, acts of sexual of a sexual nature; harassment, non-consensual sexual contact or intercourse, • failure to accept the termination of a consensual relationship stalking, domestic or dating violence, sexual exploitation, and with repeated and persistent requests and behavior; other forms of misconduct; such misconduct may or may not be • verbal and/or physical aggression toward another based upon a sexual in nature. perception that the other fails to conform to stereotypical notions Students who believe that they have been subjected to of expected characteristics for males or females. misconduct based upon sex are encouraged to report such Sexual assault incidents to the Cooper Union and, where applicable, to local law Non-consensual sexual contact includes any intentional enforcement. Pursuant to the procedures detailed below, upon touching, however slight, whether clothed or unclothed, with any receiving a report, the Cooper Union will respond promptly and object or body part by a person against another person that is thoroughly and, when appropriate, will take steps to prevent without consent and/or by force.1 future incidents and to ameliorate the effects of past incidents, Examples of non-consensual sexual contact include, where possible. but are not limited to: Any attempt to violate this policy may itself be • intentional contact with the breasts, buttocks, groin, or genitals; considered a violation. The use of alcohol or other drugs will not • intentional touching of another with breasts, buttocks, groin, or be accepted as a defense or mitigating factor to a violation of this genitals; policy. This policy applies regardless of the complainant’s or the • making another person touch someone or themselves in a accused’s sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, age, race, sexual manner; nationality, religion or disability. Reasonable accommodations • any intentional bodily contact in a sexual manner. will be provided to individuals with disabilities when necessary to Non-consensual sexual intercourse includes any sexual allow them to fully utilize this procedure. intercourse, however slight, with any object or body part by a Nothing in this policy shall abridge academic freedom person against other person that is without consent and/or by or the Cooper Union’s educational mission. Prohibitions against force. discrimination and harassment do not extend to statements or Examples of non-consensual sexual intercourse in- written materials that are germane to the classroom subject clude, but are not limited to: matter. • vaginal penetration by a penis, object, tongue or fnger; • anal penetration by a penis, object, tongue or fnger; I. DEFINITIONS AND SCOPE • oral copulation (mouth to genital contact or genital to mouth Sexual harassment is defned as unwelcome sex-based verbal, contact). visual or physical conduct:

• that unreasonably interferes with, limits or deprives someone of the ability to participate in or beneft from the Cooper Union’s

educational programs, activities and/or employment; or 1 In addition to violating this policy, non-consensual sexual contact and non-consensual sexual intercourse violate New York State law. NYS Penal Code Section 130 sets forth the criminal offenses and penalties. http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article130.htm#p130.00.. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 141

Domestic violence includes the use of physical violence, coer- Intimidation means to unlawfully place another person cion, threats, intimidation, isolation, stalking, or other forms of in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening emotional, sexual or economic abuse directed towards (i) a cur- words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or rent or former spouse or intimate partner; (ii) a person with whom subjecting the victim to actual physical attack. one shares a child; or (iii) anyone who is protect­ed from the re- Consent is an active, knowing and voluntary exchange spondent’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of of affirmative words and/or actions, which indicate a willingness New York. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipu- to participate in the activity. Consent must be freely and actively late, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, given; it cannot be obtained by coercive use of force, threats or blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Do­mestic violence can be intimidation. Coercion, force, or threat of either invalidates a single act or a pattern of behavior in relationships. consent. It is the responsibility of the initiator to obtain clear and Dating violence includes violence committed by a affirmative responses at each stage of sexual involvement. The person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or lack of an objection is not consent. Consent to one form of sexual intimate nature with the victim. The existence of such a activity does not imply consent to other forms of sexual activity, relationship would be determined based on the reporting party’s nor does past consent to intimacy imply consent to future statement and with consideration of the length of the relationship, intimacy. Consent to engage in sexual activity with one person the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between does not imply consent to engage in sexual activity with another. the persons involved in the relationship. For the purposes of this In order to give consent, a person must be of the legal age of defnition, dating violence would include, but would not be consent. A person who is incapacitated for any reason cannot limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse. give consent. Consent can be withdrawn at any time. Dating violence does not include acts that meet the defnition of Incapacitation is a state where someone cannot make “domestic violence.” rational, reasoned decisions. A person may be incapacitated due to mental disability, Sexual exploitation includes but is not limited to: sleep, unconsciousness, physical restraint, or from the • invasion of sexual privacy and voyeurism (in-person or through consumption (voluntary or otherwise) of incapacitating drugs or audio or video recording); quantities of alcohol. • knowingly transmitting a sexually transmitted infection; Sexual activity with someone whom you know or, • exposing of a person’s body or genitals; reason­ably should know, is mentally or physically incapacitated • prostituting or soliciting another community member. (i.e., by alcohol or other drug use, unconsciousness or blackout) Stalking is a course of conduct directed at a specifc person that constitutes a violation of this policy. would cause a reasonable person to feel fear for her, his, or Evidence of incapacity may be detected by physical others’ safety, or to suffer substantial emotional distress.2 cues, such as slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, the odor of alcohol Examples of stalking include but are not limited to: on a person’s breath or clothing, inability to maintain balance, • constantly appearing at places the victim is known to frequent; vomiting, unusual or irrational behavior, and unconsciousness. • persistent unwanted communication or contact whether in The presence of one or more of these cues does not necessarily person, by telephone, text, or email; indicate incapacity, nor does the absence of these cues • persistent unwanted gifts; necessarily indicate capacity. • following or surveillance. Force is the use of physical violence and/or imposing on someone physically to gain sexual access. Force also includes Retaliation includes Intimidating, threatening, coercing, or in any threats, intimidation and coercion to overcome resistance. way discriminating against an individual because of the Coercion is unreasonable pressure. The use of individual’s informal or formal complaint or participation in a emotional manipulation to persuade someone to do something school or government investigation or proceedings related to they may not want to do, such as being sexual or performing sexual violence or other civil rights concerns. Federal civil rights certain sexual acts, constitutes coercion. Coercing someone into laws, including Title IX, make it unlawful to retaliate against an having sex or performing sexual acts does not constitute obtaining individual for the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege consent and is considered sexual misconduct. secured by these laws.

2 In addition to being a violation of this policy, stalking is a violation of NYS law. NYS Penal Code Section 120.45-120.60. 142 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

Truly consensual romantic relationships are not sexual harass­ Seeking medical attention will in no way obligate a victim to fle a ment and are not prohibited by The Cooper Union’s policies. complaint or press criminal charges. Conversely, electing not to Individuals should be aware, however, that romantic relationships seek medical attention or to contact police will not impact the are susceptible to being determined after the fact to have been Cooper Union’s investigation or Title IX grievance process. nonconsensual, and even coercive, whenever there is an inherent power differential between the parties. Theref ore, any such IV. HOW DO I REPORT AN INCIDENT? relationship between a faculty or staff member and a student is What if I want to speak to someone confidentially? strongly discouraged. The Cooper Union encourages any person who has experienced sexual violence to talk to someone about what happened, so II. JURISDICTION victims can get the support that they need, and so the Cooper Does this policy apply to conduct on and off campus? Union can respond appropriately. Different employees on This policy shall apply to conduct that occurs on Cooper Union’s campus have different abilities to maintain confdentiality. campus, at Cooper Union sponsored events, as well as off- • Some are required to maintain near complete confdentiality; campus when the accused is a matriculated Cooper Union talking to them is sometimes call a “privileged communication.” student. Each student shall be responsible for his or her conduct • Some employees are required to report all the details of an from the time of application for admission through the awarding incident (including the identities of both the victim and the of a degree, as well as during periods between terms of actual alleged perpetrator) to the Title IX Coordinator. A report to these enrollment, study abroad and leaves of absence or suspension. employees (called “responsible employees”) constitutes a report to the Cooper Union and generally obligates the Title IX III. MEDICAL ATTENTION AND Coordinator or his designee to investigate the incident and take EVIDENCE PRESERVATION appropriate steps to address the situation.

Victims of sexual assault are encouraged to seek prompt medical This policy is intended to make students aware of the various attention and to report sexual assault to the police. To gain reporting and confdential disclosure option available to them. assistance in getting to an emergency room, a victim can call 911 or notify Cooper Union’s security guards or the Dean of Students A. PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS office. The nearest emergency rooms to Cooper Union are at: Professional Counselors Professional, licensed counselors who Beth Israel Medical Center provide mental-health counseling to members of the school First Avenue and 16th Street community are not required to report any information about an 212.420.2840 incident to the Title IX coordinator without a victim’s permission.

Bellevue Hospital Following is the contact information for these individuals: First Avenue and 27th Street Nicole Struensee, LCSW 212.562.4347 646.734.6440 The hospital staff will collect evidence, check for injuries, address [email protected] pregnancy concerns and the possibility of exposure to sexually Nicole can be contacted directly or she can be contacted through transmitted infections. Victims are advised that the best way to the Office of Student Affairs which is located on the 3rd floor of preserve evidence of sexual assault is to avoid bathing or washing the Student Residence Hall at 29 Third Ave., New York, NY yourself before being examined. Similarly, clothing, towels, 10003. You can call the Office of Student Affairs at 212.353.4130. sheets and other items should not be washed or moved, if possible. The clothing worn at the time of the assault should be brought to the hospital in a sanitary container, such as a paper bag or a clean sheet. If the clothing worn at the time of the assault is still being worn, it is advisable to bring a change of clothes to the hospital, if possible. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 143

Victim Advocacy Services New York Presbyterian Hospital DOVE : Domestic and Other Bellevue Hospital Center : Violent Emergencies Program Sexual Assault Response Team SAFE Center 622 W 168th St., HP2 462 First Avenue New York, NY 10032 CD Building, Ground Floor #GA74 Contact: Alma Withim , LCSW Program Coordinator New York, NY 10016 Phone: 212.305.9060 Contact: Carla Brekke , Program Coordinator Fax: 212.305.6196 Phone: 212.562.3435/3755 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax: 212.562.6103 Safe Horizon Crisis Center E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Lafayette Street #3 Safe Horizon Crisis Center New York, NY 10007 2 Lafayette Street #3 Phone: 212.577.7700 New York, NY 10007 New York Asian Women’s Center Phone: 212.577.7700 39 Bowery PMB 375 External Resources New York, NY 10002 Additional confdential counseling is available through one of Contact: Julie Kim-Richards , Director of Client Services the following local services. External counselors will not report Phone: 212.732.0054 x113 any information to the Cooper Union. Fax: 212.587.5731 E-Mail: [email protected] St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital: Hotline: 888.888.7702 (24-hour Hotline) Crime Victims Treatment Center—Roosevelt Office 432 West 58th Street, Suite 114 Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project New York, NY 10019 240 W 35th Street, Ste. 200 Contact: Christine Fowley, LCSW New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212.523.9058 Contact: Ivana Chapcakova , Client Services E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: 212.714.1184 Fax: 212.714.2627 Bellevue Hospital Center: E-Mail: [email protected] Sexual Assault Response Team SAFE Center Hotline: 212.714.1141 462 First Avenue CD Building, Ground Floor #GA74 New York County District Attorney’s Office New York, NY 10016 1 Hogan Place, Room 231 Contact: Carla Brekke , Program Coordinator New York, NY 10003 Phone: 212.562.3435/3755 Phone: 212.335.9040—Social Services Fax: 212.562.6103 Phone: 212.335.9633—Counseling E-Mail: [email protected] B. REPORTING TO RESPONSIBLE EMPLOYEES Beth Israel Medical Center: A “responsible employee” is a Cooper Union employee who has Rape Crisis & Domestic Violence Intervention Program the authority to redress sexual violence, who has the duty to report Department of Social Work incidents of sexual violence or other student misconduct, or who 317 E 17th Street a student could reasonably believe has this authority or duty. New York, NY 10003 When a victim tells a responsible employee about an inci- Contact: Carole Sher , Program Coordinator dent of sexual violence, the victim has the right to expect the Cooper Phone: 212.420.4516 Union to take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate what Fax: 212.420.2036 happened and to resolve the matter promptly and equitably. E-Mail: [email protected] 144 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

A responsible employee must report to the Title IX coor- C. HOW WILL THE COOPER UNION RESPOND dinator all relevant details about the alleged sexual violence shared TO MY REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIALITY? by the victim and that the Cooper Union will need to determine If a victim discloses an incident to a responsible employee but what happened— including the names of the victim and alleged wishes to maintain confdentiality or requests that no investigation perpetrator(s), any witnesses, and any other relevant facts, in- into a particular incident be conducted or disciplinary action taken, cluding the date, time and specifc location of the alleged incident. the Cooper Union must weigh that request against the Cooper To the extent possible, information reported to a Union’s obligation to provide a safe, non-discriminatory environ- responsible employee will be shared only with people responsible ment for all students, including the victim. for handling the Cooper Union’s response to the report. A respon- If the Cooper Union honors the request for confdentiality, sible employee should not share information with law enforcement a victim must understand that the Cooper Union’s ability to without the victim’s consent or unless the victim has also reported meaningfully investigate the incident and pursue disciplinary action the incident to law enforcement. against the alleged perpetrator(s) may be limited. The following categories of employees are the Cooper Although rare, there are times when the Cooper Union Union’s responsible employees: may not be able to honor a victim’s request in order to provide a safe, non-discriminatory environment for all students. • Academic Advising Staff The Title IX Coordinator will evaluate requests for conf- • Student Affairs Staff dentiality once a responsible employee is on notice of alleged • Student Residence Assistant Staff (RA) sexual violence. When weighing a victim’s request for confdenti- • Student Peer Mentor Staff ality or that no investigation or discipline be pursued, the Title IX • Admissions Staff Coordinator will consider a range of factors, including the following: • Campus Security Staff • laboratory Technical Staff • The increased risk that the alleged perpetrator • Studio Technical Staff will commit additional acts of sexual or other violence, such as: • Deans (including Assistant and Associate Deans) – whether there have been other sexual violence • Officers of the College complaints about the same alleged perpetrator; • Faculty – whether the alleged perpetrator has a history of arrests or records from a prior school indicating a history of violence; Before a victim reveals any information to a responsible employee, – whether the alleged perpetrator threatened further sexual the employee should ensure that the victim understands the violence or other violence against the victim or others; employee’s reporting obligations – and, if the victim wants to – whether the sexual violence was committed by maintain confdentiality, direct the victim to confdential resources. multiple perpetrators; If the victim wants to tell the responsible employee what • whether the sexual violence was perpetrated with a weapon; happened but also maintain confdentiality, the employee should • whether the victim is a minor; tell the victim that the Cooper Union will consider the request, • whether the Cooper Union possesses other means to obtain but cannot guarantee that the Cooper Union will be able to honor relevant evidence of the sexual violence (e.g., security cameras it. In reporting the details of the incident to the Title IX Coordinator, or personnel, physical evidence); the responsible employee will also inform the Coordinator of the • whether the victim’s report reveals a pattern of perpetration victim’s request for confdentiality. (e.g., via illicit use of drugs or alcohol) at a given location or Responsible employees will not pressure a victim to by a particular group. request confdentiality, but will honor and support the victim’s wishes, including for the Cooper Union to fully investigate an inci- The presence of one or more of these factors could lead the Cooper dent. By the same token, responsible employees will not pressure Union to investigate and, if appropriate, pursue disciplinary action. a victim to make a full report if the victim is not ready to do so. If none of these factors is present, the Cooper Union will likely respect the victim’s request for confdentiality. If the Cooper Union determines that it cannot maintain a victim’s confdentiality, the Cooper Union will inform the victim prior to starting an investigation and will, to the extent possible, only share information with people responsible for handling the Cooper Union’s response. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 145

The Cooper Union will remain ever mindful of the victim’s well-being, to policy violations. Generally speaking, students who report an and will take ongoing steps to protect the victim from retaliation incident or provide information relating to an incident will not be or harm and work with the victim to create a safety plan. Retaliation disciplined for a violation of the alcohol/drug use policy insofar as against the victim, whether by students or Cooper Union employees, it relates to the incident. will not be tolerated. Duty to Report Statistics The Cooper Union has a duty to report The Cooper Union will also: data about various forms of sexual misconduct in accordance • assist the victim in accessing other available victim advocacy, with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and academic support, counseling, disability, and health or mental Campus Crime Act (Clery Act). No personally identifable infor- health services; mation is disclosed, but statistical information is disclosed as • provide other security and support, which could include part of the Cooper Union’s Annual Security Report. The information issuing a no-contact order, helping arrange a change of living to be shared includes the date, location type (residence hall, or working arrangements or course schedules (including for public property, off-campus, etc.), and specifc crime category. the alleged perpetrator pending the outcome of an investigation) or adjustments for assignments or tests; and • inform the victim of the right to report a crime to campus V. COMPLAINT PROCEDURES The Title IX Coordinator is designated to investigate reported in- or local law enforcement—and provide the victim with cidents, address inquiries and coordinate the Cooper Union’s assistance if the victim wishes to do so. compliance efforts. The Cooper Union Title IX Coordinator is: The Cooper Union may not require a victim to participate in any William Mea, Vice President Finance and Administration investigation or disciplinary proceeding. Business Office: 30 Cooper Square, 7th Floor Because the Cooper Union is under a continuing obli- New York, NY 10003 gation to address the issue of sexual violence campus-wide, re- Email: [email protected] ports of sexual violence (including non-identifying reports) will Phone: 212.353.4150 also prompt the Cooper Union to consider broader remedial ac- tion – such as increased monitoring, supervision or security at The Deputy Title IX Coordinator is: locations where the reported sexual violence occurred; increas- Ann Marie Gong, Human Resources Manager ing education and prevention efforts, including to targeted popu- Email: [email protected] lation groups; conducting climate assessments/victimization Phone: 212.353.4145 surveys; and/or revisiting its policies and practices. The Title IX Coordinator and the Deputy Title IX Coordinator are If the Cooper Union determines that it can respect a available to answer questions about this policy and complaint victim’s request for confdentiality, the Cooper Union will also procedure and to receive complaints. Although students are take immediate action as necessary to protect and assist the victim. encouraged to submit complaints in writing (electronically or by hard copy), complaints can be submitted to the designated com- D. Anonymous Reporting plaint recipient orally as well. The complaint should clearly Although the Cooper Union encourages victims to talk to some- describe the alleged incident, when and where it occurred, and one, the Cooper Union provides an e-mail, [email protected], for the desired remedy, if known. Additionally, the initiator of a formal anonymous reporting. The system will notify the user (before s/he complaint should submit any supporting materials in writing as enters information) that entering personally identifying information quickly as possible. (This may include, but is not limited to, con- may serve as notice to the Cooper Union for the purpose of trig- temporaneous text messages, email correspondence, and/or social gering an investigation. media posts.) Will I Be Subject to Discipline if I Was Violating a Cooper Union Upon receipt of a complaint, the Title IX Coordinator will Policy When I Witnessed or Was Subjected to Sexual Miscon- open a formal investigation. A trained investigator appointed by duct? Students may be reluctant to report incidents because of the Coordinator will lead the investigation. The investigation concerns that their own behavior may be a violation of Cooper should be complete within 60 days of the receipt of the complaint, Union policies. Although some types of policy violations cannot be if not sooner. Should this process last longer than 60 days, the overlooked, the Cooper Union will consider the positive impact of Coordinator will communicate the reasons and expected timeline reporting an incident when determining the appropriate response to all parties. 146 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

If a community member decides not to fle a complaint Complaints against persons represented by a labor organization with the Cooper Union, the Cooper Union encourages the com- will be handled in a manner that is consistent with the applicable munity member to seek out the available medical and mental collective bargaining agreement. health resources listed above. Community members who wish to make a complaint at a later date may contact any of the staff B. COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIRD PARTIES mentioned above at any time. Please note that a delay in report- Student complaints of discrimination or harassment by third par- ing could weaken the information, or the Cooper Union’s ability to ties (e.g., visitors to the school or contractors working on school gather information, used to determine whether a person is re- premises) may be fled in the same manner as complaints about sponsible for sexual misconduct or gender-based discrimination. faculty and employees and will be governed by the same proce- Furthermore, the ability of the Cooper Union to take action may dures. If the accused is unknown or is not a member of the Coo- be limited by the matriculation status of the accused student. per Union community, the Title IX Coordinator will assist the com- plainant in identifying appropriate resources or local authorities A. COMPLAINTS ABOUT FACULTY AND EMPLOYEES if the student would like to fle a report. In addition, the Cooper Sexual misconduct, whether it imposes a requirement of sexual Union may take other steps to protect the complainant and the cooperation as a condition of academic achievement or not, is community. inimical to the Cooper Union’s academic environment. Student complaints about sexual misconduct by staff or faculty should be C. COMPLAINTS ABOUT OTHER STUDENTS fled with the Dean of Students, the Title IX Coordinator, or the It is in the best interest of the entire Cooper Union community for Academic Dean. students to report incidents of discrimination, harassment, and Interim Measures sexual assault. Any student who believes he or she has been sub- After reviewing the complaint, the Coordinator, or the investigator jected to sexual misconduct by another student should submit a in consultation with the Coordinator, may take interim remedial complaint, if possible in writing, to the Title IX Coordinator. The measures to protect the safety and well- being of the individuals Title IX Coordinator will then designate an investigator who has involved and the Cooper Union community. Interim remedial ac- been trained regarding investigation of claims of sexual miscon- tion is preliminary and only in effect until the process is complete duct. and a decision is rendered. Interim remedial measures may in- clude, without limitation, no contact orders, changes in housing Interim Remedial Measures After reviewing the complaint, the accommodations, changes in academic schedule and accom- Title IX Coordinator, or the lead investigator in consultation with modations, and suspensions. These actions may be instituted at the Title IX Coordinator, may take interim remedial measures to any point during the investigation process. protect the safety and well-being of the individuals involved and Mediated Resolution the Cooper Union community. Interim remedial action is preliminary Where appropriate, the Title IX Coordinator or investigator may and only in effect until the process is complete and a decision is attempt to mediate a resolution of the matter as amicably and rendered. Interim remedial measures include, without limitation, privately as possible. Complaints of sexual assault, however, will no contact orders, changes in housing accommodations, changes not be mediated. in academic schedule and accommodations, housing suspensions, Investigation and Adjudication campus restrictions and suspensions. These actions may be The Title IX Coordinator will investigate or will appoint a trained instituted at any point during the investigation process. investigator to investigate the matter. The investigator will pres- ent his fndings and recommendations to the Title IX Coordinator. Mediated Resolution Where appropriate and with the consent The Title IX Coordinator will evaluate the investigator’s factual of the Complainant, the Title IX Coordinator or investigator may fndings and make a determination using the preponderance of attempt to mediate a resolution of the matter as amicably and the evidence standard, which means that the William Mea will privately as possible. If a satisfactory resolution is reached, the determine whether it is more likely than not that a policy violation matter will be considered closed. If it becomes clear that a medi- occurred. If a policy violation is found, the Cooper Union will take ated resolution will not be possible, the matter will be investigated. appropriate remedial action, including, without limitation, warn- Complaints of sexual assault, however, will not be mediated. ing, demotion, transfer, suspension, training and termination. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 147

Formal Investigation The investigator will conduct a prompt and negligent, etc.), the accused student’s history of misconduct, the thorough investigation. During the investigation, the appointed ongoing impact on the complainant, and the ongoing impact on investigator will: the educational environment. Sanctions may include, but are not limited to, expulsion, revocation of degree, suspension, dismiss- • give the accused individual proper notice of the complaint al, revocation of honors or awards, warning, probation, loss of and investigation and provide an opportunity for the accused housing privilege, loss of other privileges, community service, individual to provide information; and/or mandated training and education. • interview the complainant, the accused student, and any material witnesses (the investigator will not interview witnesses Appeals After receiving written notifcation of the Title IX Coordi- whose sole purpose is to provide character information); nator‘s decision, both the complainant and the accused student • gather all relevant documentary and/or physical evidence; have two weeks to appeal the decision. During that time, both the •complete the investigation in a timely manner, without complainant and the accused student will have an opportunity to unnecessary deviation from the intended timeline; review the investigation report thoroughly, but copies of the re- • maintain communication with the complainant and the port will not be provided to them. In order to initiate an appeal, accused individual on the status of the investigation and the student must submit a formal letter of appeal specifying the overall process. grounds upon which the appeal is based and how those grounds The investigator will not consider information concerning the ro- materially affected the outcome and providing supporting infor- mantic or sexual history of either the complainant or the respon- mation to the Appeal Officer, Mitchell Lipton, Dean of Admissions dent, except as provided by the complainant or respondent relat- either by e-mail [email protected] or by mail 30 Cooper Square, ing to their shared sexual history. If either offers such information, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003 the other will have the right to respond. At the conclusion of the investigation, the investigator will prepare a written investigation The only accepted grounds for an appeal are: report and recommendation. If the complainant chooses not to \• new evidence, which was not available at the time the Title IX cooperate in the investigation, the investigator will still complete Coordinator completed his review, has come to light; the investigation and prepare a report based upon the informa- • an error in the process, as outlined by this policy, tion available. Only people who have a need to know about the which materially impacted the outcome. incident will be informed, and information will be shared only as • the sanction(s) imposed were not appropriate in light of necessary with investigators, the complainant, witnesses and the the evidence presented. accused person. Students should be aware, however, that infor- Disagreement with the fnding or sanctions is not, by mation collected during the investigation process may be sub- itself, grounds for appeal. poenaed in civil or criminal proceedings. Sanction(s) imposed by the Title IX Coordinator will re- main in effect while the appeal is pending. Determination of Responsibility and Discipline The Investigator’s Once the appeal materials are submitted, the other fact-fnding report and recommendations will be submitted to party and the investigator may submit materials in response to the Title IX Coordinator who will assess the information contained the appeal. in the Investigator’s report, conduct any further inquiry he may If the appeal letter does not bring forward sufficient deem necessary and then make a determination using the pre- grounds for appeal, the appeal will be denied and the matter will ponderance of the evidence standard; in other words, the Title IX be closed. Coordinator will determine whether it is more likely than not that After reviewing the Investigator’s Report and Recom- a policy violation occurred. If the Title IX Coordinator fnds the mendation, the Title IX Coordinator’s Determination, and the student responsible for violating the policy, he shall determine, materials submitted by the appealing parties, the Appeal Officer after consultation with the accused’s Dean of Students and/or may decide to: academic dean, the appropriate disciplinary sanction after con- • affirm the decision of the Title IX Coordinator In this case, sidering the relevant factors, which include the severity of the vi- the initial decision is fnal. olation, the circumstances surrounding the lack of consent (such as force, threat, coercion, intentional incapacitation, etc.), the accused student’s state of mind (intentional, knowing, reckless, 148 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

• remand the matter back to the Title IX Coordinator to: • The right to know what provisions of this Policy – reevaluate his decision in light of the Appeal Officer’s fnd- the accused student is charged with violating. ings or • The right to review the Investigator’s report and –reopen the investigation; or recommendations. • modify the sanctions imposed by the Title IX Coordinator. • The right to be informed of the Title IX Coordinator’s determination and disciplinary decision in writing to the The Appeal Officer’s decision will be transmitted in writing to the extent permissible by law. complainant, the accused student, and the Title IX Coordinator. • The right to appeal the fndings in accordance with the appeal guidelines established in this policy. Compliance with Sanctions and Accommodations At the con- • The right to privacy, and the assurance that information clusion of the Title IX Grievance Process, the Title IX Coordinator will regarding the complaint will be shared only with those be responsible for ensuring compliance with all assigned sanc- necessary. tions, and to make any accommodations with the goal of preventing the recurrence of sexual and/or gender-based misconduct. STUDENT RIGHTS – RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED STUDENT • The right to an investigation and appropriate resolution Ongoing Accommodations for the Complainant Regardless of of all credible complaints of misconduct based on sex. the determination, the Complainant may request ongoing or • The right to be treated with respect by Cooper Union staff additional accommodations. Such requests should be directed throughout the process. to the Title IX Coordinator. Determinations as to whether such • The right to be notifed of available counseling, mental and accommodations are appropriate or feasible will be made by the physical health services, on and off campus. Title IX Coordinator in consultation, where appropriate, with the • The right to identify witnesses and other parties, and to Dean of Students and/or the Academic Dean. Ongoing accom- request that the Investigator contact those individuals modations may include: moving the complainant’s residence, as part of the investigation. changing the complainant’s academic schedule, allowing the • The right to have an adviser present in a support or advisory complainant to withdraw from or retake a class without penalty, role during the investigation. The adviser is not permitted to providing the complainant with access to additional academic advocate or otherwise interfere with the investigation. support. If the adviser is disruptive, he or she may be asked to leave. • The right to have the Title IX grievance process fully explained, STUDENT RIGHTS – RIGHTS OF THE COMPLAINANT and to receive written notice of all alleged violations of this • The right to an investigation and appropriate resolution policy. of all credible complaints of misconduct based on sex. • The right to be notifed of possible sanctions that may result • The right to be treated with respect by Cooper Union staff if found responsible for violating this policy. throughout the process. • The right to review the Investigator’s report and • The right to be notifed of available counseling, mental recommendations. and physical health services for victims of sexual assault, • The right to be informed of the Title IX Coordinator’s gender-based discrimination and/or harassment and other determination and disciplinary decision in writing. misconduct based on sex on campus and off campus. • The right to appeal the fnding of the Title IX Coordinator • The right to identify witnesses and other parties, and to in accordance with the appeal guidelines established request that the Investigator contact those individuals in this policy; as part of the investigation. • The right to privacy, and the assurance that information • The right to have an adviser present in a support or advisory regarding the complaint will be shared only with those role during the investigation. The adviser is not permitted to necessary. advocate or otherwise interfere with the investigation. If the adviser is disruptive, he or she may be asked to leave. • The right to report the incident to off-campus authorities and/or law enforcement and to be assisted by Cooper Union staff in doing so. 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 149

VI. RETALIATION X. ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES Retaliation against any person in the Cooper Union community The government resources listed here may provide additional for making allegations of discrimination or misconduct based on assistance for students wishing to fle an ex¬ternal complaint of sex or for cooperating in the grievance procedures set forth gender-based misconduct or students with inquiries regarding above is strictly prohibited. the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations:

http://www.notalone.gov VII. ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ADJUDICATION U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights http://www.ed.gov/ocr In some unique circumstances, the Cooper Union may choose an US Department of Education | Office for Civil Rights alternative form of resolution to those contained herein. In such New York—Region II circumstances, the Cooper Union will attempt to gain approval 32 Old Slip, 26th Floor from both parties whenever possible. The alternative process will New York, NY 10005 adhere to the requirements of Title IX. 646.428.3800 [email protected] VIII. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW BY TRUSTEES U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov The Cooper Union, in its discretion, may conduct an investigation independent of or in addition to the procedures outlined above, US Department of Justice at any time. In addition, although the Board of Trustees will not Office on Violence Against Women typically be involved in the receipt, investigation and remediation 145 N Street, NE, Suite 10W.121 of complaints of discrimination and harassment, the Board of Washington, DC 20530 Trustees or a committee authorized by the Chairman of the Board 202.307.6026 of Trustees is authorized to modify the procedures herein as it deems appropriate under the circumstances, and to take reme- dial action as it deems appropriate.

IX. RECORDS DISCLOSURE Disciplinary proceedings conducted by the Cooper Union are subject to the Family Educational Records and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law governing the privacy of student information. FERPA generally limits disclosure of student information outside the Cooper Union without the student’s consent, but it does provide for release of student disciplinary information without a student’s consent in certain circumstances. Any information gathered in the course of an investigation may be subpoenaed by law enforcement authorities as part of a parallel investigation into the same conduct, or required to be produced through other compulsory legal process. Additional information about FERPA can be found at http://cooper. edu/students/registrar/registration/ferpa-rights. 150 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

INDEX Attendance Courses First-year application requirements, General, 22 Architecture, 45 14 41 Cooper Square, 6 Art, 22, 53 Art, 59 Honors, 76 Academic standards and regulations Engineering, 22 Art History and Theory, 125 Master of Engineering application General, 22 Humanities and Social Sciences, Biology, 109 requirements, 15, 75 Architecture, 37 22, 117 Chemistry, 106 Minors, 76 Art, 53 Awards and prizes, 20 Computer Science, 109 Mission statement, 68 Engineering 78 Biomedical Engineering, 82 Design, 61 Overview, 69 Humanities and Social Sciences 116 Books, materials and school supplies, Drawing, 60 Professional Development, 77 Accreditation, 5 17 Engineering, 94 Transfer requirements, 15 Brooks Computer Center, 70 Chemical, 94 Administration, The Cooper Union, 129 Engineering Sciences, courses, 110 Budget guide, 19 Civil, 96 Admissions, Engineering Master English profciency, 16 Calendar Electrical, 99 degree program, 15 Environmental Engineering, 82 Academic 2014–15, 2 Engineering Sciences, 110 Admission after three years of Examinations, fnal (Engineering), 79 Application, 10–15 Interdisciplinary, 110 high school, 15 Exchange programs (Art), 52 Changes, 22 Mechanical, 104 Admission, early decision Faculty Career Development, 8 Film and Video, 60 Art, 12 Architecture, 47 Center for Design & Typography, 57 Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering, 15 Art, 66–67 Center for Innovation and 118 Admission information Engineering, 113–116 Applied Technology, 71 Mathematics, 107 and application, 9 Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Materials and Painting, 62 Admission, rolling (Art), 12 128 Manufacturing Technology, 71 Performance, 63 Advanced Placement credit Fair Use, 26 Center for Signal Processing, Printmaking, 64 Engineering, 14 Fees and expenses, 16 Communications and Physics, 108 Humanities and Social Sciences, Film and Video Computer Engineering, 71 Sculpture, 65 116 Courses, 60 Center for Sustainable Engineering, Alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs, Credits Facilities, 57 Art and Architecture— policy on, 28 Architecture, 37 Financial aid, 17 Materials, Manufacturing Alumni Association, Cooper Union, 8 Art, 53 First-year application requirements, 9 and Minimalization, 72 Appeal (of academic standards and Engineering, 73 First-year orientation, 2 Center for Urban Systems regulations), 25 Curriculum First-year profle—Fall 2013, 9 and Infrastructure, 71 Application calendars, 9–15 Bachelor of Architecture, 35 Foundation Building, 6 Center for Writing, 118 Bachelor of Engineering, 72 Grades Certifcate in Art requirements, 50 Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 50 Architecture, 38 Change of program The Irwin S. Chanin School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Art, 54 Architecture, 39 Academic standards 116 Engineering, 78 Art, 54 and regulations, 37 Master of Architecture II, 40 Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering, 80 Accreditation, 36 Master of Engineering, 75 116 Chemical Engineering Application calendar, 10–11 Dean’s List (Engineering), 76 Graduation Courses, 94–96 Attendance, 22 Design and Typography, The Center for, Architecture, 40 Curriculum, 81–84 Awards and prizes, 20 57 Art, 55 Civil Engineering Courses, 45 Disabled Student Services, 8 Engineering, 76 Courses, 96–99 Faculty, 47 Disciplinary sanctions, 33 Fee, 17 Curriculum, 85–86 First-year application requirements, Dismissal, 22, 26 Graphic Design Code of Conduct, 30–33 10 Dismissal and academic probation Courses, 61 Computer Graduate Curriculum, 40 Architecture, 38 Facilities, 56–58 Brooks Computer Center, 70 Mission Statement, 34 Art, 55 Great Hall, 6 Computer Studio 57 Retention and graduation, 9 Engineering, 80 Health, 23, 24 Architecture, 43 Scholarships, 20 Drawing History of The Cooper Union, 4 Art, 57 Transfer requirements, 11 Courses, 60 Honors, graduation with Courses (Art), 59 Undergraduate curriculum, 35 Facilities, 56 (Engineering), 76 Continuing Education, 7 Electrical Engineering Housing, 7 Art, The School of Courses, 99 Fee, 16 Cooper Union, The Academic standards and Curriculum, 87 Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Calendar, 2 regulations, 53 Emeriti Faculty of Accreditation, 5 Application calendar, 12–13 Faculty and Administration, 130 Academic regulations, 116 Administration, 129 Attendance 22, 53 Trustee, Chairman, President, 130 Aims and objectives, 116 Alumni Association, 8 Awards and prizes, 20–21 Energy Engineering, 82 Attendance, 117 Career Development, 8 Bachelor of Fine Arts curriculum, 50 Awards and prizes, 20, 21 Facilities, 6 Certifcate requirements, 50 Engineering, The Albert Nerken Center for Writing, 117 Financial aid, 17 Courses, 59 School of Courses, 118-127 History, 4 Electives, 51–52 Academic standards, 78 Curriculum, 116 Mission, 3 Facilities, 56 Advisory Council, 77, 115 Faculty, 121 Programs, 5 Faculty, 66 Application calendar, 14–15 Minor, 116 Scholarships, 20 First-year application requirements, Attendance, 22 Immunization, Vaccination and, 24 Trustees, 129 12 Awards and prizes, 20–21 Independent study Mission Statement, 49 Bachelor’s degree programs, 72 Art, 53 C.V. Starr Foundation, 70 Nonresident study, 52 Courses, 94–112 Humanities and Social Sciences, Code of Conduct, 30 Retention and graduation, 9 Curricula, 72–74 116 Scholarships, 20 Facilities and Research, 70 Insurance, 24 Transfer requirements, 13 Faculty, 113–115 Fee, 16 2014–15 COURSE CATALOG 151

Interdisciplinary Engineering Residence (degree requirement) Courses, 110–112 Architecture, 40 International students, 16 Art, 55 Law, Preparatory studies, 77 Engineering, 73 Leave of absence Retention and graduation rate, 9 Architecture, 39 Safety, campus security and, 29 Art, 55 Sculpture Compulsory Medical, 24 Courses, 65 Discretionary, 24 Facilities, 57 Medical, 24 Sexual Assault, 140 Returning, 24 Sexual Harrassment, 140 Library, 6 Student Accident and Sickness Lubalin, Herb, Study Center of Design Enrollment Waiver, 17 and Typography staff, 67 Student Council, Joint, 7 Student life, 7 Master of Engineering program Student records, 23 Admission, 75 Student Residence, 7 Application requirements, 15 Student rights, 30 Courses, 95, 97, 101, 105, Thesis project (Master of Engineering), 107–109, 112 76 Curriculum, 75 30 Cooper Square, 7 Degree requirements, 75 Transcripts, 23 Fellowships, 76 Transfer application requirements Thesis project, 76 Architecture, 11 Mathematics courses, 107 Art, 13 Maurice Kanbar Center for Engineering, 15 Biomedical Engineering, 71 Transfer credit Mechanical Engineering General, 23 Courses, 104–106 Architecture, 37 Curriculum, 91 Art, 53 Medical, Preparatory studies, 77 Engineering, 77 Mobility Program (Art), 52 Humanities and Social Sciences, Nondiscrimination and 116 Anti-Harassment policies 131 Trustees, The Cooper Union, 129 Offcers, Cooper Union, 129 Tuition, 16 Orientation, new student, 2 Vaccination and Immunization, 24 Painting Video Courses, 62 Courses, 60 Facilities, 56 Facilities, 57 Photography Withdrawal Courses, 63 From Architecture course, 39 Facilities, 56 From Humanities course, 117 Physics, 108–109 From school, 39, 55, 80 Policy and Procedure Relating to Writing, Center for, 117 Misconduct Based Upon Sex, Including Sexual Assault and Sexual Harrassment, 140 Pre-medical, Pre-law, Pre-business, 77 Printmaking Courses, 64 Facilities, 56 Probation, academic Architecture, 38 Art, 55 Engineering, 80 Program changes, 23 Progress toward the degree Architecture, 37 Art, 52 Property, student, 22 Readmission Architecture, 40 Art, 55 Records, student, 23 Refunds, 17 Registration , 22 Regulations, general, 22 Religious observances, policy on, 26