Introductory, Engineering & Technology, Software / Demonstrations

Integrated Chemical Engineering (Process Control by Design)

various chemical engineering problems in an industrial context, integration of fundamentals with material property estimation, process control, product development, computer simulation, integration of societal issues such as engineering ethics, environmental & safety considerations, impact of technology on society in the context of case studies: tools

Chemical and Biological Reaction Engineering

concepts of reaction rate, stoichiometry and equilibrium applied to the analysis of chemical and biological reacting systems, derivation of rate expressions from reaction mechanisms and equilibrium or steady state assumptions, design of chemical and biochemical reactors via synthesis of chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and mass and energy balances: readings

Process Dynamics, Operations, and Control

dynamic processes & engineering tasks of process operations & control, modeling static & dynamic behavior of processes (control strategies, design of feedback, feedforward, other control structures, model-based control, applications to process equipment): study materials

Revolutions in sound recording

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

Course Materials

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

Courses

  • 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

What is Engineering?

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

Nuclear Engineering Courses

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

Convex Optimization

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

Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems

applied linear algebra & dynamical systems, applications to circuits, signal processing, communications, control systems: Least-squares aproximations of over-determined equations, least-norm solutions of underdetermined equations, Symmetric matrices, matrix norm & SVD, Eigenvalues & eigenvectors, Matrix exponential, stability, asymptotic behavior, Multi-input & output, impulse & step matrices, convolution & transfer matrix, Control, reachability, state transfer, least-norm inputs, Observability & least-squares state estimation: support notes, MATLAB files

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