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Managing complexity: a systems approach

develop skills of thinking systematically and creatively about issues of complexity, appreciate and manage these issues in ways that can lead to improvement, recent and innovative advances in systems thinking applied to topical areas of concern

Symmetry, Structure, and Tensor Properties of Materials

derivation of symmetry theory, lattices, point groups, space groups, and their properties, use of symmetry in tensor representation of crystal properties, including anisotropy and representation surfaces, applications to piezoelectricity and elasticity: readings

Programming Courses

  • Introduction to Symbolic Programming - Functions, Expressions and Procedures, Words and Sentences, BooleansRecursion, Higher Order Functions, Lambda, Input/Output, Lists, Trees, Fractals, Box and Pointer Diagrams
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming - Functional Programming, User Interfaces, Programming Methodology, Building Abstractions with Data, Representing State, Social Responsibility, Evaluators, Logic Programming
  • Data Structures and Advanced Programming - Object Oriented Programming, Testing, Data Structures, Algorithms, Asymptotic Analysis, Sorting, Garbage Collection

Advanced Analytic Methods in Science and Engineering

comprehensive treatment of the advanced methods of applied mathematics: series solutions of linear homogeneous ODE, WKB method, asymptotic expansion of integrals, boundary layer theory, small non-linear oscillations

Lectures

relationships between our collective social and cultural structures and the individual: visual communication, art & ideas, photo history, html & webdesign, Art and Photo History, photography master workshops, Media Theory, Suggested reading list

Open Web Mapping

design, develop, and implement custom web mapping applications using open standards and open source software, open source software packages for web mapping, pointers to commercial solutions where appropriate

Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System

detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to "fly humans to the moon and return them safely to earth", How the systems worked, the technical and social processes that produced them, mission operations, and historical significance: readings, related resources (Apollo Lunar Landing Audio/Video Clips)

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

Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion

fundamentals of thermodynamics, chemistry, flow and transport processes as applied to energy systems, analysis of energy conversion in thermomechanical, thermochemical, electrochemical, photoelectric processes in transportation systems, efficiency, environmental impact and performance, fossil fuels, hydrogen, nuclear and renewable resources, fuel reforming, hydrogen and synthetic fuel production, fuel cells and batteries, combustion, hybrids, catalysis, supercritical and combined cycles, photovoltaics, different forms of energy storage and transmission and optimal source utilization and fuel-life cycle analysis

Kinetics of Chemical Reactions

experimental & theoretical aspects of chemical reaction kinetics, including transition-state theories, molecular beam scattering, classical techniques, quantum & statistical mechanical estimation of rate constants, pressure-dependence & chemical activation, modeling complex reacting mixtures, uncertainty/sensitivity analyses, reactions in gas phase, liquid phase, on surfaces with examples from atmospheric, combustion, industrial, catalytic, biological chemistry: readings, study materials

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