Intermediate

Comparative Physiology

Digestion, Transport, Secretion, Absorption, Hormonal Regulation, Chemical Communication, Storage & Release/ Action and Examples, Circulation, Design, Evolution, Mammalian Heart & vascular System, Regulation Blood Pressure/ volume, Anatomy, Detoxification, Osmoregulation, Mammalian Kidney, Muscle

Modern Poetry

covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners: Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Bishop, Frost, additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance, Diverse methods of literary criticism employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism

Numerical Methods in Engineering

Simultaneous Linear Equations, Interpolation, Nonlinear Algebraic Equations, Numerical Differentiation, Numerical Integration, Ordinary Differential Equations

Numerical Methods for Engineers

basic knowledge of numerical methods (root-finding, elementary numerical linear algebra, solving systems of linear equations, curve fitting, numerical solution to ordinary differential equations): homework solutions, example programs, supplemental material

Uncertainty in Engineering

probability & statistics with emphasis on applications, events & probability, Bayes' theorem, random variables & vectors, distributions, Bernoulli trials & Poisson point processes, full-distribution uncertainty propagation, second-moment representation, propagation, conditional analysis, random sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression

Protein Folding Problem

mechanisms by which amino acid sequence of polypeptide chains determine three-dimensional conformation, sequence determinants of secondary structure, folding of newly synthesized polypeptide chains, folding intermediates aggregation & competing off-pathway reactions, unfolding and refolding of proteins in vitro, role of helper proteins, protein recovery problems, diseases associated with protein folding defects: readings, projects, study materials, related resources

Integrated Chemical Engineering (Process Control by Design)

various chemical engineering problems in an industrial context, integration of fundamentals with material property estimation, process control, product development, computer simulation, integration of societal issues such as engineering ethics, environmental & safety considerations, impact of technology on society in the context of case studies: tools

Introduction to Bioengineering

science basis for bioengineering with particular emphasis on molecular cell biology and systems biology: Video interviews of a selection of bioengineering faculty from various School of Engineering Departments at MIT

Chemical and Biological Reaction Engineering

concepts of reaction rate, stoichiometry and equilibrium applied to the analysis of chemical and biological reacting systems, derivation of rate expressions from reaction mechanisms and equilibrium or steady state assumptions, design of chemical and biochemical reactors via synthesis of chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and mass and energy balances: readings

Project Management

theory, methods and quantitative tools used to effectively plan, organize and control construction projects, Efficient management methods revealed through practice and research, hands-on, practical project management knowledge from on-site situations

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