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ways in which technology has influenced the music industry and how this has changed the way we listen to music and buy records, brief history of the recording industry from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century, changes in technology highlighted

electrical science and linear circuits, electric circuit study applets and interactive examples and exercises, EIT review slides

• Electrical Networks 1 - Current, Voltage, Power, Passive Sign Convention, Resistive Networks, Ohm's & Kirchhoff's Laws, Nodal and Loop Analysis, Op-Amp Circuits, Operational Amplifiers, Superposition, Thévenin's and Norton's Theorems, Capacitance and Inductance, First and Second Order Transient Circuits, AC Steady-State Analysis

• Circuits - basic analysis, design and measurement of linear analog systems important across engineering disciplines, AC steady-state analysis, Laplace transforms, linear circuits
• Electrical Networks 2 - AC Steady-State Analysis, Steady-State Power Analysis, Polyphase Circuits, Magnetically Coupled Networks, Variable Frequency Network Performance, Laplace Transform & Application
• Electrical Power Plant - Nuclear, fossil and solar energy sources, Analysis and design of steam supply systems, electrical generating systems and auxiliary systems, Power plant efficiency and operation
  

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

how and why machines work, conceived, developed (drawn), utilized, hands-on experiences of taking things apart mentally and physically, drawing (sketching, 3D CAD) what they envision and observe, understanding the physics and history of machines: tools, study materials, animations, course download

theory & application of atomistic computer simulations, predict properties of real materials, energy models from classical potentials, first-principles approaches, density functional theory & total-energy pseudopotential method, errors & accuracy of quantitative predictions, free energy & phase transitions, fluctuations & transport properties, coarse-graining approaches & mesoscale models, case studies from industrial applications of advanced materials to nanotechnology: readings, labs, course download

concepts & methods (practical uses, problem types, Optimum design concepts, constrained and unconstrained, Lagrange multipliers, Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions, graphical solutions, Design optimization systems, identification problems, optimization, Math foundation, minimization, multiple variables, mechanical systems, Sequential programming, Sensitivity analysis, multicriterion problems, response surface methods

engineering problem solving: virtual laboratory (WWW-based engineering/science experiments for beginning science & engineering students), topics, projects, readable references

nuclear links & downloads, reference info: nuclear reactor analysis, engineering physics (nuclear, computer systems, optics and solid state laboratories, power plant systems & operation, reactor safety design, reactor heat transport system design, reactor heat transport system simulation & analysis, Fourier transforms), introduction to statistical mechanics & thermodynamics

recognizing & solving convex optimization problems in engineering: Convex sets, functions, optimization problems, Basics of convex analysis, Least-squares, linear and quadratic programs, semidefinite programming, minimax, extremal volume, Optimality conditions, duality theory, theorems of alternative, applications, Interior-point methods, signal processing, control, digital & analog circuit design, computational geometry, statistics, mech engineering