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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

Geology of the National Parks

groundwater pollution, biodiversity, volcanic hazards, etc, what is and is not believable about science, those subjects on which scientists are usually correct and those on which scientists have no special expertise

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

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

Modern Physics

essential theoretical foundations of modern physics:

Classical mechanics -


Quantum Mechanics -

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

Computer Science

XML as a key enabling technology in Java-based applications. Students learn the fundamentals of XML and its derivatives, including DTD, SVG, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSL-FO, and XSLT, programmatic interfaces to XML like SAX and DOM, standard APIs like JAXP and TrAX, and industry-standard software like Ant, Tomcat, Xerces, and Xalan, including JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet, explores HTTP, SOAP, web services, and WSDL, projects focus on the implementation and deployment of these technologies: resources, software

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

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