Courses

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• MET CS 893: Agile and Advanced Software Engineering Methods
  Builds on previous design and programming courses and introduces students to the technological, social, and pragmatic aspects of developing open source software through direct involvement in an open source project. Students learn to use the tools, techniques, and strategies of open source developers. They become familiar with the open source movement, its philosophy, history and licensing issues. This is a project-based laboratory course. Students are directly involved with and integrated into an open source project. They are expected to be active participants in the project and contribute to the project in various ways.
• MET CS 894: Special Topics
  Contemporary software engineering takes several distinct and rapidly changing forms. First, Agile methods are based on the need for flexibility while applications are being built. Agile methods constitute a radical departure from pre-existing methods: They rely on newly developed technologies such as test-driven development, XUnit, and refactoring. A second form is the emergence of open-source development. This course teaches the architectural and operational implications of open source development and explores its relationship with agile methods. The course will also discuss aspect-oriented programming, the decomposition of applications into onshore and offshore components, design for security, and formal methods. Laboratory course.
• MET EC 101: Introductory Microeconomic Analysis
  One semester of a standard two-semester sequence for those considering further work in management or economics. Includes the economics of households, business firms, and markets; consumer behavior and the demand for commodities; production, costs, and the supply of commodities; price determination, competition, and monopoly; efficiency of resource allocation; market failures and governmental regulation; income distribution; and poverty.
• MET EC 102: Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis
  One semester of a standard two-semester sequence for those considering further work in management and economics. Includes national economic performance; problems of recession, unemployment, inflation, and trade and budget deficits; money creation, government spending, and taxation; economic policies for full employment and price stability; and international trade and payments.
• MET EC 201: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
  Determination of commodity and factor prices under differing market conditions of competition and monopoly.
• MET EC 202: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
  Determination of aggregate income and employment. Analysis of fiscal and monetary policy. Inflation and income policy. Problems of the open economy.
• MET EC 332: Market Structure and Economic Performance
  Discussion of selected makets determined by instructor. Introduction to antitrust and regulatory policy. 4 cr
• MET EC 341: Monetary and Banking Institutions
  Survey of commercial and central banking institutions. Examination of macro relations between financial organizations and principal objectives of stabilization policy. Recent monetary policy.
• MET EC 391: International Economics I
  The pure theory of international trade. Comparative advantage, gains from trade, and tariff and nontariff barriers to trade. Case studies in international economic policy.
• MET EC 392: International Economics II: Problems and Policy
  This course covers the basic issues of international finance. Topics include the balance of payments, balance of payments adjustments, theories of exchange rate determination, and case studies in international economic policy. 4 (four) credits, Prereqs: EC202.
• MET EK 100: SEP Advising Seminar
  The SEP Advising Seminar introduces Science and Engineering Program students to Boston University, the Science and Engineering Program and resources and services available to all SEP students. The seminar will provide students with a forum to learn about the unique academic support services, student activities, and career development opportunities available at Boston University. Guest speakers will address topics such as learning skills and strategies, research opportunities for students at Boston University, and ethical issues for scientists. Students will become familiar with theories of learning styles and career development and will have opportunities to complete learning style and career interest inventories. SEP students will be informed of BU academic policies, student obligations, and requirements to successfully transfer to either science or engineering programs at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) or the College of Engineering (ENG) in their junior year. The course is graded P/F. Successful completion of MET EK 100 is a requirement of the Science and Engineering Program.
• MET EK 127: Engineering Computation Using MATLAB
  This course provides an introduction to engineering problem solving using a modern computational environment. Basic procedural programming concepts will be presented, including input/output, branching, looping, functions, file input/output, and data structures such as arrays. Topics will inlcude: basic linear algebra concepts, such as matrix operations and solving sets of equations; numerical methods, such as least squares solutions and their use for curve fitting. Nine programming assignments aligned with ENG departments will reinforce these concepts and introduce SEP students to the various engineering disciplines.
• MET EK 311: Engineering Mechanics I: Statics
  Analysis of static systems. Equilibrium and friction. Vector treatment of particles and rigid bodies.
• MET EK 312: Engineering Mechanics II: Dynamics
  Continuation of ENG EK 311. Application of Newton's laws of motion. Energy and momentum methods. Vector analysis of dynamic systems.
• MET EK 317: Electric Circuit Theory I
  Introduction to electric circuits, including Kirchoff's laws, current-voltage relationship, equivalent circuits.
• MET EK 318: Electric Circuit Theory II
  Continuation of EK 317. Analysis methods for AC and DC circuits, transient behavior, operational amplifiers.
• MET EN 104: English Composition
  Required for all undergraduate degrees. Reinforces basic skills in communication necessary for college work. Instruction and practice in fundamentals of critical writing, reading, and thinking. Lectures combined with seminars on vital current social, political, psychological, and philosophical issues. Students choose their seminars. Frequent papers; individual conferences.
• MET EN 125: Readings in Modern Literature
  Representative fiction, poetry, and drama from modern Continental, British, and American writers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• MET EN 127: Readings in American Literature
  Selected American writers from the Colonial period to the present. Prose and poetry representative of the American tradition. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• MET EN 141: Literary Types: Fiction
  Representative English and American novels from the eighteenth century to the present. Required papers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.

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