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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

invention, design, innovation and diffusion as ongoing processes with a range of factors affecting success at each stage, factors that motivate individuals and organisations to invent, creative process by which individuals come up with ideas for new inventions and designs, obstacles that have to be overcome to bring an invention to market, factors that influence the successful diffusion of an innovation into widespread use

mechanical behavior of structures and materials from the continuum description of properties to the atomistic and molecular mechanisms, elastic and plastic deformation, creep, and fracture of materials including crystalline and amorphous metals, ceramics, and (bio)polymers, design and processing of materials from the atomic to the macroscale to achieve desired mechanical behavior

Virtual World, Notes (The Design Process, Multiview & Pictorial Sketches, Solid Modeling, Geometry and Constraints, Auxiliary & Section Views, Dimensioning, Tolerancing, Standard Conventions, Working Drawings, Symbols and Schematics, Technical Presentations, Data Presentation), Games and Quizzes, Pro-Engineer Tutorials

• Electric and Magnetic Circuits - elementary electric charge, Coulomb's law, electric field and electrostatic potential, work, energy and capacitance, dielectrics, voltage, current, resistance, power, Ohm's law, DC series/parallel circuits, Kirchhoff's laws, capacitors and R-C transients, magnetic field and magnetic flux, forces on a charge and current carrying conductor, series magnetic circuits.

• Waves, Fields, and Optics - mechanical and electromagnetic wave phenomena, derivation of wave equations and wave velocities, energy and momentum carried by waves, wave reflection in terms of impedance mismatch, standing waves, radiation of electromagnetic waves, geometrical and physical optics.
  

• Engineering Problem Solving - Review, Graphing techniques, Problem solving strategies, Translation and reduction of "word problems" to algebraic equations, complex numbers, Elements of linear algebra, Coordinate transformation problems, Applications, non-linear equations

• Oral and Written Communication - political, rhetorical, ethical and interpersonal challenges of communicating in a professional environment, practical demands of writing technical correspondence and reports, development of communicative judgement, case studies
• Engineering Design - design techniques, concepts and processes, examples, Definition of engineering design, Design Process, Reporting and communicating, Understanding the problem, Functions and specifications, Finding answers, generating ideas, design alternatives, Managing, Sustainability, Ethics, Concurrent design processes
  

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

major art works & monuments of ancient Near East (primarily Mesopotamia), Egypt & Classical Greece, sculpture, pottery, seals, architectural remains & wall painting of these cultures, understanding of those civilizations, political & religious ideologies that shaped them, evolution of their art styles

Italy, Florence and Tuscany, The Medici Family, Copernican System, Ptolemaic System, Johannes Kepler, Galileo's Telescope

prehistory to the late middle ages: resources (ancient European and Mediterranean studies, museums, maps)