Curriculum Description:
Developing a student that is an expert at the postgraduate level in all three
areas of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons is not feasible. No student
will have the necessary prerequisites to successfully take sufficiently advanced
courses in all three fundamental areas. Instead, the approach of this program
is two-fold. One is to develop a graduate who has developed a basic knowledge
and comprehension level (as in Bloom’s hierarchy of learning) understanding
of each area. The second is to develop a graduate who is an expert in a specific
area of WMD technology. They will demonstrate the full spectrum of cognitive
learning of application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation through a Master’s research project.
The program is conducted over 6 academic quarters. All students will take
a series of broadening courses designed to develop a broad understanding of
combating weapons of mass destruction. These will primarily be taken in the
first quarter of the program. This first quarter is the same as the AFIT Graduate
Certificate program in Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction. The certificate
program consists of the following courses:
* NENG 597 Nuclear Weapon Technology
* CHEM 597 Chemical Weapon Technology
* BIOL 597 Biological Weapon Technology
* CWMD 597 Combating WMD Engineering Practicum
In quarters 2-4, students will concentrate in a specialty area, nuclear (N),
chemical (C), or biological (B). Students will take a three course sequence
focusing appropriately towards a research topic in that specific area. Their
progress will be mentored by a faculty member with specific expertise in that
specific area.
Students choose 3 of the 4 offerings in Chemical.
Chemical:
* CHEM 590 Environmental Chemistry
* ENVR 643 Environmental Transport Processes
* EVSC 560 Environmental Monitoring
* CHEM 685 Environmental Organic Chemistry
Additionally, students will take a three course sequence of courses with a
professional focus. These courses will have a management, business, leadership
or organizational flavor. Example sequences can focus on any of:
* Applied Decision Analysis
* Crisis Management
* Leadership and Management
* Organizational Management
Other sequences are also possible with faculty approval. These courses are
offered outside the Department of Engineering Physics and reflect the multi-disciplinary
nature of this program.
Students will also take a required math course (STAT 583 Probability and Statistics)
and two electives during the course of their program. They will choose the electives
from the following set of courses.
Chemical:
* MATL 525 Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials
* MATL 560 Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Materials
* NENG 681 Nuclear Chemical Engineering
* CHEM 560 Chemistry for Engineers
* CHEM 675 Upper Atmospheric Chemistry
* CHEM 720 Chemical Kinetics
* CHEM 750 Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Laboratory
* EVSC 666 Remote Sensing
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