Engineering & Technology, Video

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)

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

Civil Engineering Systems

  • Water Sanitation & Health - Water and excreta-related communicable diseases, Settled sewerage, Simplified sewerage, On-site sanitation, Case study, Water Supplies and Sanitation, Community sanitation blocks, Ecological Sanitation, technology selection,links, Hygiene and Hygiene Education, Gender, Energy and Health, History

  • Low Cost Waste Water treatment & Reuse - introduction to LIFE, BOD removal kinetics, Waste stabilization ponds, Effluent quality requirements, WSP in the UK & Europe, Rock filters, storage & treatment reservoirs, crop irrigation, aquaculture

Introduction to Structural Integrity

safe design and assessment of components and structures under load, aspects of stress analysis, materials behaviour and the mechanics of failure into the design process: Engineering for purpose, Environmental deterioration, Case study (The Silver Bridge)

Circuits and Electronics

fundamentals of the lumped circuit abstraction, resistive elements and networks, independent and dependent sources, switches and MOS transistors, digital abstraction, amplifiers, energy storage elements, dynamics of first- and second-order networks, design in the time and frequency domains, analog and digital circuits and applications: readings, labs

Wireless Communication (39 lectures)

Types of Wireless communication, modern wireless Communication Systems, cellular concept, Cell capacity and reuse, Interference and System capacity, Improving coverage and system capacity, Mobile Radio Propagation, Modulation, Equalization and Diversity, Coding, Wireless Networks, GSM and CDMA


Digital Signal Processing (43 lectures)

Digital systems, Characterization Description,Testing, LTI Systems Step & Impulse responses, Convolution, Inverse Systems, Stability,FIR & IIR, Discrete Time Fourier Transform, Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Z Transform, Discrete Time Systems in the Frequency Domain, Simple Digital Filters, Filters (all Pass, Com, Linear Phase), Complementary & Compensetary Transfer Functions, Stability, Continuous Time Signals, Analog Filter Design, Digital Filter Structures, Lattice Synthesis, IIR & FIR Filter Design


Structure and Interpretation of Systems & Signals

mathematical modeling techniques used in the design of electronic systems, Systems are defined as mappings on signals, notion of the state, Feedback systems and automata, equivalence of automata and concurrent composition. Hybrid systems, Difference and differential equations, frequency domain models for signals and frequency response for systems, Sampling, Applications (communications systems, audio, video, and image processing systems & control systems): Resources, Instructor guide

Metal Cutting

Metal cutting and metal removal processes, theoretical underpinnings of deformation behavior and material properties, analysis and description of cutting tool materials, forces, temperatures, and surface finishes generated during chip formation, Analytical procedures including upper-bound technique, slip-line field solutions, finite-element methods and general computational tools, Machinability of materials, modern trends in high-speed machining and tooling

Computational Science and Engineering

review of linear algebra, applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers, differential equations of equilibrium, Laplace's equation and potential flow, boundary-value problems, minimum principles and calculus of variations, Fourier series, discrete Fourier transform, convolution & applications

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