Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Simulation (AIMS) certificate undergraduate program is hosted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It requires 18 semester hours (s.h.) of credits, including two required courses (ME:4111 Scientific Computing and Machine learning and ME:4150 Artificial Intelligence in Engineering), three elective courses selected from this list, and a capstone design project.

Chemical and biochemical engineering (CBE) students can earn the AIMS undergraduate certificate without taking extra credits by course substitutions as below.

Required courses:

  • The following courses can be substituted for ME:4111: MATH:3800 Elementary Numerical Analysis
  • The following courses can be substituted for ME:4150: ENGR:2995 Intro to AI and Machine Learning or CBE:5120 Data Science in Chemical and Engineering Systems

Some BME courses can be substituted for AIMS electives.

  • CBE:3020 Applied Statistics for Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering 
  • CBE:3415 Statistical and Computational Analysis of Weather and Climate 
  • CBE:5120 Data Science in Chemical and Engineering Systems  
  • CBE:5412 Atmospheric modeling 
  • CBE:5415 Satellite image processing and remote sensing of atmosphere
  •  CBE:5417 Physical meteorology and atmospheric radiative transfer 

Note: Please get in touch with Prof. Xiao (shaoping-xiao@uiowa.edu) if students (especially in the “Computation, Data Science, and Machine Learning” focus area) want to use other CBE electives for substitution.

The following courses can be substituted for the capstone course.

  • CBE:4109 Chemical Engineering Process Design I
  • CBE:4110 Chemical Engineering Process Design II

Note: Please consult with Prof. Xiao before conducting the project. The final report with a paragraph emphasizing the AIMS component is required. 

The students need to declare the AIMS UG certificate through their MyUI account. Then, the students need to contact Prof. Xiao, the director of the AIMS UG certificate program, to discuss the plan of study before submitting the course substitution forms. Here is the guideline for submitting an online course substitution form through the College of Engineering website. Note: Multiple forms must be submitted if there is more than one substitution. 

  1. Find “Course substitution request form” in academic forms and click it.
  2. Login with your HawkID and password. 
  3. “Select your major or certificate” with “AIMS Certificate.”
  4. Click “Required Course” to substitute for a required course.
  5. Click “Elective Course” or “Capstone Course” for other substitutions.