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This course examines search methods; knowledge representation using logic and probability; planning and decision making under uncertainty; and machine learning.

This is research project conducted with the E3 Research Group. This project analyzes the cost and emissions benefits of using Gogoro scooter banks as vehicle-to-building resources.  The group will be formulating a linear program model and will be implementing it using Python. 
 

This course discusses political issues in contemporary Korea. Topics include political polarization, politics of gender, politics of youth, population crisis and Korean politics, Korea as an immigration-accepting country, North Korean in South Korean society, populism, emergence of cast society, center-periphery in Korean politics, and China, Japan, and the United States in South Korean society. 

This course examines the application of feedback control to continuous-time, linear time-invariant systems. It covers modelling of physical systems using state space, differential equations, and transfer functions, dynamic response of linear time invariant systems and the role of system poles and zeros on it, simplification of complex systems, stability of feedback systems and their steady state performance, Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion, sketching of root locus and controller design using the root locus, Proportional, integral and derivative control, lead and lag compensators, frequency response techniques, Nyquist stability criterion, gain and phase margins, compensator design in the frequency domain, state space design for single input single-output systems, and pole placement state variable feedback control and observer design.

This course examines selected topics in the theory of knowledge and of reality. For example: What is a physical object? Are you the same physical object now that you were 10 years ago? What makes the black squiggles you're now reading mean something? Are meanings ideas? Do deep metaphysical statements, such as ‘I am the only conscious being in the universe’ or 'Everything is fated', really say anything? Do males and females have different ways of knowing? What is time? Do humans have free will? Is cause-and-effect real, or just a way of looking at things? 

This course on leadership and organization management considers the characteristics of human interaction and cooperation that make organizations effective and efficient. Adopting a leadership perspective, the course covers organizational behavior, organizational management, organizational change, and organizational leadership in a range of environmental and cultural contexts. The course develops the concepts of leadership and organization management by introducing well-established theories and practices, progressively exploring their applicability under group and organizational situations of varying contextual uncertainty and cultural diversity. The course guides students towards a practical appreciation of human cognitive, emotional and behavioral characteristics in organizations by developing a framework for applying appropriative global leadership, strategic and operational leadership approaches. 

This course examines important topics related to e-commerce, including: history of e-commerce, unique features of e-commerce technology, Porter’s five forces analysis, business models for e-commerce, successful examples of e-commerce companies in various business areas, the new social, mobile and local marketing, and the ethical, social and political issues associated with e-commerce.

The course provides a critical understanding of the political rationale for economic development through community projects, along with the basic skills necessary for ensuring their community effectiveness as economic development facilitators. The emphasis worldwide is on promoting community enterprises and economic projects that are relevant to the circumstances of local communities. The course provides a critical understanding of the place of community entrepreneurship in community economic development and empowerment; and the critical role of community educators in the process.