PHYS 499 - Applied Physics Capstone (3 credits)

(Prereq: Senior standing or permission of the instructor) This course is a capstone experience for applied physics majors and serves to integrate the knowledge and skills that students have developed over a college career. Specifically, students will demonstrate throughout the course the ability to apply the principles, concepts, and processes of physics; communicate and synthesize scientific knowledge; identify and use appropriate tools to solve problems; and develop, test, analyze, and interpret models of physical systems. To accomplish this, each student will complete and report on an independent research project and solve a series of open-ended problems in the context of applied physics. F, S.