OGI School of 03/04 Science & Engineering Catalog www.ogi.edu/catalog OGI School of Science & Engineering 20000 N.W. Walker Road • Beaverton, OR • 97006-8921 phone (503) 748-1027 toll free (800) 685-2423 fax (503) 748-1285 e-mail [email protected] URL www.ogi.edu www.ogi.edu/catalog 0803 TABLE OF CONTENTS | OGI WELCOME TO THE OGI SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LETTER FROM THE DEAN ................................................................................................................................................................. 4 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 MISSION........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 ACADEMIC CALENDAR ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 ABOUT THIS CATALOG ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 OVERVIEW ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS ................................................................................................................................................................. 6 DEGREE PROGRAMS......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................................. 6 STUDENTS NOT SEEKING DEGREES ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 ACCREDITATION.............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 ADMISSIONS ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 TUITION & FINANCES ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 COURSE NUMBERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 ACADEMIC POLICIES....................................................................................................................................................................... 8 THE CAMPUS..................................................................................................................................................................................10 OVERVIEW OF OGI ACADEMIC PROGRAMS BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PROGRAM.........................................................................................................................13 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM...............................................................................................................................................13 COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM.............................................................................................................................13 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM ...............................................................................................................................................13 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM ....................................................................................................................14 MANAGEMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM.....................................................................................................................14 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS/PROGRAMS/RESEARCH/FACULTY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING .............................................................................................................................................................15 COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING............................................................................................................................................23 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM IN SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING.............................................................................................41 ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS................................................................................................................................45 MANAGEMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................61 CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS AND COURSES PROGRAMS OF STUDY IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING ...........................................................................................................67 APPLIED COMPUTING COURSES........................................................................................................................................................67 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COURSES ....................................................................................................................................................67 GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES........................................................................................................................................................67 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS APPLIED COMPUTING......................................................................................................................................................................69 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING..............................................................................................................................................................69 COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING............................................................................................................................................71 ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS................................................................................................................................76 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSES ................................................................................................................................................79 APPLIED MATHEMATICS...................................................................................................................................................................84 MANAGEMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................85 OREGON MASTER OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ..................................................................................................................................88 Photography by Jerome Hart, David Moore, Rick Rappaport, Anne Rybak and Jeff Schilling. 3 OGI | LETTER FROM THE DEAN research support each year from government and industrial sources. In WELCOME fact, our Department of Computer Science and Engineering ranks an impressive HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 15th in the nation, based on federal research grants. OGI is small enough to The OGI School traces its origins to the early remain responsive to changing needs in 1960s, when Mark Hatfield, then Oregon’s the fields we serve, and to foster governor, and an advisory committee of collaborative, interdisciplinary research industrial and educational leaders across a broad — yet synergistic — range recommended creating an independent of scientific endeavors. institution for graduate education and research in the Portland area. In 1963 they Accredited M.S. degrees are offered established the Oregon Graduate Center for A LETTER FROM THE DEAN through four academic departments: Study and Research. In 1989, the center was It’s about the connections between a Biomedical Engineering (BME), Computer renamed the Oregon Graduate Institute of healthy environment and a healthy Science and Engineering (CSE), Science and Technology. population. It’s about computers that think Environmental and Biomolecular Systems Over the next decade, OGI awarded more like people do, and are reliable enough to (EBS) and Management in Science and than 1,000 graduate degrees, offered trust with the safety of our communities. Technology (MST). Students can earn hundreds of continuing education classes and It’s about helping our seniors live longer, accredited doctoral degrees through the workshops, and pursued more than $100 more satisfying lives. It’s about cultivating BME, CSE and EBS departments. Students million in research, most of it federally business leaders who can guide Oregon’s can also obtain an electrical engineering funded. Now in its third year as a school of high-technology companies through today’s M.S. or Ph.D. degree by selecting EE Oregon Health & Science University, OGI tough markets. At