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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)

fundamentals of thermodynamics, chemistry, flow and transport processes as applied to energy systems, analysis of energy conversion in thermomechanical, thermochemical, electrochemical, photoelectric processes in transportation systems, efficiency, environmental impact and performance, fossil fuels, hydrogen, nuclear and renewable resources, fuel reforming, hydrogen and synthetic fuel production, fuel cells and batteries, combustion, hybrids, catalysis, supercritical and combined cycles, photovoltaics, different forms of energy storage and transmission and optimal source utilization and fuel-life cycle analysis

mechanisms by which amino acid sequence of polypeptide chains determine three-dimensional conformation, sequence determinants of secondary structure, folding of newly synthesized polypeptide chains, folding intermediates aggregation & competing off-pathway reactions, unfolding and refolding of proteins in vitro, role of helper proteins, protein recovery problems, diseases associated with protein folding defects: readings, projects, study materials, related resources

experimental & theoretical aspects of chemical reaction kinetics, including transition-state theories, molecular beam scattering, classical techniques, quantum & statistical mechanical estimation of rate constants, pressure-dependence & chemical activation, modeling complex reacting mixtures, uncertainty/sensitivity analyses, reactions in gas phase, liquid phase, on surfaces with examples from atmospheric, combustion, industrial, catalytic, biological chemistry: readings, study materials

quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation systems analysis (urban, air, ocean, highway, pick-up and delivery systems) and in the planning and design of logistically oriented urban service systems, unified study of functions of random variables, geometrical probability, multi-server queueing theory, spatial location theory, network analysis and graph theory and relevant methods of simulation.

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)

roles of today's professional engineer, team-building skills, written and oral communications, job placement skills, trends in engineering & construction industry, proposal preparation, project evaluation & management, professional ethics & negotiation, large scale projects

circuit level design issues of high speed communication systems, wireless & broadband data link applications, transmission lines, high speed & low noise amplifiers, VCO's, mixers, power amps, high speed digital circuits, frequency synthesizers: labs, study materials

project-oriented course to teach new methodologies for designing multi-million-gate CMOS VLSI using high-level synthesis tools in conjunction with standard commercial EDA tools, modular & robust designs, reusable modules, correctness by construction, architectural exploration, meeting the area, timing, power constraints within standard cell & FPGA frameworks: labs, quizzes, readings, related resources

• Microelectronic Design - Integrated Circuit Design Process, Microelectronics Fabrication Process, Integrated Circuit Packaging, Integrated Circuit Realisation, Computer Aided Design

• Microelectronic Technologies and Applications - CMOS Digital Logic, Time Delay and Power Dissipation Considerations, SPICE Exercise
• Advanced Electronic Design Automation - Introduction to electronic design automation & SPICE concepts, Semiconductor modelling in SPICE
• Digital IC Design - Best practice digital design, Digital designers guide, Control circuitry design, Full custom design