SCI 004, INTERNSHIP, 0 Credits

Provides basic personal and professional skills that can be used within and outside of a work setting. Through practice, this experience guides students in building and maintaining positive professional relationships, networking/mentoring relationships, and enhances students’ understanding of the connection between theory and practice in their respective disciplines.

Available via Ecampus

SCI 410, SCIENCE INTERNSHIP, 1-12 Credits

This course is repeatable for 12 credits.

SCI 470, FOUNDATIONS OF INNOVATION, 2 Credits

Learn the basic language and the initial skill set needed to address how scientific ideas and research results become innovations – solutions that address societal and market needs. Acquire the skills to become innovators and to create value for all types of academic, small-company, industrial, governmental, and non-profit research and development organizations. Students work in areas aligned with their scientific interests either individually or in a team. CROSSLISTED as CH 470/SCI 470.

Equivalent to: CH 470

Recommended: Science and engineering majors

SCI 472, RESEARCH TO INNOVATION, 2 Credits

Produce a first-pass product-market gap analysis on one example application of a science technology platform in a given market. Define a platform in collaboration with research faculty or from work completed in CH 470/SCI 470. Assess the opportunity – if any – that a product might have for application in a chosen market before planning and conducting scientific research. CROSSLISTED as CH 472/SCI 472.

Prerequisite: SCI 470 with C or better or CH 470 with C or better

Equivalent to: CH 472

Recommended: Science and engineering majors

SCI 474, INNOVATION TO IMPACT, 2 Credits

Build on skills gained in CH 472/SCI 472 to conduct and refine a first pass product-market gap analysis on one example application of a technology platform for a market segment selected from a defined technology platform. Investigate and determine the opportunity – if any – that a product might have in a chosen market before proposing and executing a research plan. CROSSLISTED as CH 474/SCI 474.

Prerequisite: SCI 472 with C or better or CH 472 with C or better

Equivalent to: CH 474

Recommended: Undergraduate juniors and seniors in STEM majors

SCI 499, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits

This course is repeatable for 16 credits.

Available via Ecampus

SCI 551X, INTRODUCTION TO NMR THEORY, 2 Credits

Examines the basic principles of NMR spectroscopy and provides the theoretical background to understand how NMR experiments work. Explores commonly used theoretical models of NMR and applies these models to analyze NMR experiments, including multidimensional experiments. Examines fundamental topics in NMR including nuclear spin quantum mechanics, the vector model, nuclear spin relaxation, product operators, Fourier transform, pulse sequence analysis, and multi-dimensional NMR.

Recommended: Physical Chemistry course

SCI 552X, APPLICATION OF NMR TO BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES, 2 Credits

Examines the application of NMR spectroscopy to the study of protein structure and function. Topics covered include protein structure determination, protein dynamics analysis, and interaction analysis.

Prerequisite: SCI 551X (may be taken concurrently) with C or better

Recommended: Physical Chemistry course

SCI 570, FOUNDATIONS OF INNOVATION, 2 Credits

Learn the basic language and the initial skill set needed to address how scientific ideas and research results become innovations – solutions that address societal and market needs. Acquire the skills to become innovators and to create value for all types of academic, small-company, industrial, governmental, and non-profit research and development organizations. Students work in areas aligned with their scientific interests either individually or in a team. CROSSLISTED as CH 570/SCI 570.

Equivalent to: CH 570

Recommended: Science and engineering majors

SCI 572, RESEARCH TO INNOVATION, 2 Credits

Produce a first-pass product-market gap analysis on one example application of a science technology platform in a given market. Define a platform in collaboration with research faculty or from work completed in CH 570/SCI 570. Assess the opportunity – if any – that a product might have for application in a chosen market before planning and conducting scientific research. CROSSLISTED as CH 572/SCI 572.

Prerequisite: SCI 570 with C or better or CH 570 with C or better

Equivalent to: CH 572

Recommended: STEM graduate students

SCI 574, INNOVATION TO IMPACT, 2 Credits

Build on skills gained in CH 572/SCI 572 to conduct and refine a first pass product-market gap analysis on one example application of a technology platform for a market segment selected from a defined technology platform. Investigate and determine the opportunity – if any – that a product might have in a chosen market before proposing and executing a research plan. CROSSLISTED as CH 574/SCI 574.

Prerequisite: SCI 572 with B or better or CH 572 with B or better

Equivalent to: CH 574

Recommended: Graduate students in STEM