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    Electric Machines

    Electric Machines

    This course teaches the principles and analysis of electromechanical systems. Students will develop analytical techniques for predicting device and system interaction characteristics as well as learn to design major classes of electric machines. Problems used in the course are intended to strengthen understanding of the phenomena and interactions in electromechanics, and include examples from current research.

    Subjects:
    Building Services Engineering and Electrical Engineering
    Keywords:
    Electric machines Electric machinery
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Fundamentals of Photovoltaics

    Fundamentals of Photovoltaics

    Fundamentals of photoelectric conversion: charge excitation, conduction, separation, and collection. Lectures cover commercial and emerging photovoltaic technologies and cross-cutting themes, including conversion efficiencies, loss mechanisms, characterization, manufacturing, systems, reliability, life-cycle analysis, risk analysis, and technology evolution in the context of markets, policies, society, and environment.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
    Keywords:
    Photovoltaic cells Photovoltaic power systems Photovoltaic power generation
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    Courseware
     
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    Global Warming Science

    Global Warming Science

    This course provides students with a scientific foundation of anthropogenic climate change and an introduction to climate models. It focuses on fundamental physical processes that shape climate (e.g. solar variability, orbital mechanics, greenhouse gases, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and volcanic and soil aerosols) and on evidence for past and present climate change. During the course they discuss material consequences of climate change, including sea level change, variations in precipitation, vegetation, storminess, and the incidence of disease. This course also examines the science behind mitigation and adaptation proposals.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering
    Keywords:
    Global temperature changes Climatic changes Global warming
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    Courseware
     
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    Environmental Technologies in Buildings

    Environmental Technologies in Buildings

    This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introducing students to technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Students are challenged to apply these techniques and explore the role light, energy, and sound can play in shaping architecture.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
    Keywords:
    Buildings -- Environmental engineering Sustainable buildings -- Design construction
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Physics III: Vibrations and Waves

    Physics III: Vibrations and Waves

    Vibrations and waves are everywhere. If you take any system and disturb it from a stable equilibrium, the resultant motion will be waves and vibrations. Think of a guitar string—pluck the string, and it vibrates. The sound waves generated make their way to our ears, and we hear the string’s sound. Our eyes see what’s happening because they receive the electromagnetic waves of the light reflected from the guitar string, so that we can recognize the beautiful sinusoidal waves on the string.

    Subjects:
    Physics
    Keywords:
    Waves Vibration
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    Courseware
     
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    New Textiles

    New Textiles

    This project-based course will explore the future of textiles, focusing particularly on blending rich crafting traditions with new technologies. Topics will include textile-based electronics, textile fabrication, algorithmic pattern design, and composites. We will experiment with a wide range of fibers, yarns, and fabrics including traditional materials like wool and cotton as well as metal fibers and yarns, fusible plastics, papers, and resins. We will also explore techniques like felting, laser cutting, CNC knitting, digital printing, and CNC embroidery. Students will complete weekly hands-on assignments and a final project.

    Subjects:
    Textiles
    Keywords:
    Textile fabrics Textile fibers Textile industry
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Art of Color

    Art of Color

    This seminar introduces, through studio projects, the basic principles regarding the use of color in the visual arts. Students explore a range of topics, including the historical uses of color in the arts, the interactions between colors, and the psychology of color.

    Subjects:
    Coloration and finishing and Visual Arts
    Keywords:
    Color in art Colors
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Introduction to Convex Optimization

    Introduction to Convex Optimization

    This course aims to give students the tools and training to recognize convex optimization problems that arise in scientific and engineering applications, presenting the basic theory, and concentrating on modeling aspects and results that are useful in applications. Topics include convex sets, convex functions, optimization problems, least-squares, linear and quadratic programs, semidefinite programming, optimality conditions, and duality theory. Applications to signal processing, control, machine learning, finance, digital and analog circuit design, computational geometry, statistics, and mechanical engineering are presented. Students complete hands-on exercises using high-level numerical software.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Convex functions Mathematical optimization
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    Courseware
     
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    Differential Equations

    Differential Equations

    Differential Equations are the language in which the laws of nature are expressed. Understanding properties of solutions of differential equations is fundamental to much of contemporary science and engineering. Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) deal with functions of one variable, which can often be thought of as time.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Differential equations
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Calculus with Theory

    Calculus with Theory

    The course is taught using the textbook by T. Apostol, "Calculus" Vol. I Second Edition (1967) and the additional course notes by James Raymond Munkres, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Calculus Mathematical analysis
    Resource Type:
    Courseware