BUDDHISM & DAOISM IN CHINA

Prerequisites: one course on Buddhism or Chinese religious traditions is recommended, but not required, as background.
In this course we will read English scholarship that probes the complex relationships between Buddhism and Daoism in the past two millennia. Students are required not only to be aware of the complementarity and tensions between them, but to be alert to the nature of claims to religious distinction or mixing and the ways those claims were put forward under specific religio-historical circumstances. The course is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in East Asian religion, literature, history, art history and anthropology.

• Department: Religion
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• 4 points

MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
This class explores the strategy and operations of globalized enterprises that either manufacture a product or provide a service. The course bridges academia with the rapidly changing industrial world. Outsourcing and off shoring are two of many options for developing and manufacturing the products required. Financial measurements are reviewed but found to be insufficient to measure a business operation. Other methods are explored. The methodology, technology, ethics and dynamic strategy currently practiced by industry are examined. The dynamic of new product development is studied, as it is an absolute and continuing need for a company to remain competitive. Technical entrepreneurship is also explored, as it is a significant method of bringing new products to market.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheldon Weinig
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ANALOG ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3331 and ELEN E3801.
Differential and multistage amplifiers; small-signal analysis; biasing techniques; frequency response; negative feedback; stability criteria; frequency compensation techniques. Analog layout techniques. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Dickson
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• 3 points

SOLAR THERMAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: MECE E3311 (Heat Transfer)
Fundamentals of solar energy transport: radiation heat transfer, convention, conduction and phase change processes.  Heat exchangers and solar collectors: basic methods of thermal design, flow arrangements, effects of variable conditions, rating procedures.  Solar energy concentration.  Piping Systems: series and parallel arrangements, fluid movers.  Thermal response and management of photovoltaic energy conversion.  Solar energy storage.  Solar cooling, solar thermal power and cogeneration.  Applications to the design of solar thermal engineering systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohammad M Naraghi
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• 3 points

RE FINANCE II: CASE STUDIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Patrice Derrington
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• 3 points

REIMAGINING EKPHRASIS

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
At least since the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos called "painting silent poetry and poetry painting that speaks," poetry has existed in conversation with a variety of other art forms, particularly visual art. In this class we will explore poetry as an interdisciplinary practice, with an emphasis on the work of artists who create in both the visual and textual fields. Among other key critical questions, we will consider: 1. How has an intersection with visual art been important to poetry historically? 2. How does visual experience relate to particular aspects of poetry writing? 3. How can we use visual art towards our own creative process in the future, either by using visual art in writing poetry or by incorporating illustration in the presentation of our written work? A mix of texts -- classic and contemporary poetry, illuminated manuscripts, children's picturebooks, literature that we might consider visually driven, and related scholarship form the basis for our investigations, discussions, and creative work. Among these texts we will consider work by Etel Adnan, John Ashbery, William Blake, Tisa Bryant, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Robert Duncan, Matthea Harvey, Susan Howe, Bhanu Kapil, Douglas Kearney, Ezra Jack Keats, D.H. Lawrence, Tan Lin, Fred Moten, Maggie Nelson, Frank O'Hara, Adam Pendleton, Maurice Sendak, Cecilia Vicuña, Hannah Weiner, William Carlos Williams, and W.B. Yeats, among others. Our class will function as part seminar and part workshop. We will spend much of the class discussing texts and issues surrounding the course's theme, completing in-class writing exercises, and the other parts giving each other feedback on creative work. By the completion of the course, students will have turned in six reading responses, several independent writing projects, as well as a short critical paper and a short creative manuscript.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
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• 3 points

INTERPRETING BUDDHIST YOGA

A seminar exploring the meanings of Buddhist Tantra and being, time, space, gender, technology, and mysticism through traditional religious, modern, post-modern, digital, quantum, and Buddhist "hermeneutics," the science and art of interpretation. We will read ancient and modern classics on hermeneutics, by Schleiermacher, Gadamer, Heidegger, Barthes, and Ricouer; Indian and Tibetan works on their systems of interpretation, at least as sophisticated as anything from Europe; and contemporary works on how digital technology brings us into a world of new meaning for everything, including Buddhist yoga.

• Department: Religion
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO COMBUSTION

Prerequisites: Course in introductory thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer at the undergraduate level or instructor's permission
Thermodynamics and kinetics of reacting flows; chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel oxidation and pollutant formation; transport phenomena; conservation equations for reacting flows; laminar non-premixed flames (including droplet vaporization and burning); laminar premixed flames; flame stabilization, quenching, ignition, extinction, and other limit phenomena; detonations; flame aerodynamics and turbulent flames.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS

Recommended preparation: ELEN E3331, CSEE W3827, and ELEN E3106. Design and analysis of high speed logic and memory. Digital CMOS and BiCMOS device modeling. Integrated circuit fabrication and layout. Interconnect and parasitic elements. Static and dynamic techniques. Worst-case design. Heat removal and I/O. Yield and circuit reliability. Logic gates, pass logic, latches, PLAs, ROMs, RAMs, receivers, drivers, repeaters, sense amplifiers.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

SUFISM

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
This is a seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who wish to gain an understanding of the richness of Sufism (Islamic mysticism). We will examine the historical origins, development and institutionalization of Sufism, including long-standing debates over its place within the wider Islamic tradition. By way of a close reading of a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we will examine Sufi attitudes toward the body, Sufi understandings of lineage, power and religious authority, as well as the continued importance of Sufism in the modern world

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Ivanyi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ARCH VISUALIZATION SINCE 1900

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• 3 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Prerequisites: CHEN E4230 or instructor's permission.
Complex reactive systems.  Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles).  Reactions in solution.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

THERMOFLUID SYSTEMS DESIGN

Prerequisites: MECE E3100, E3301, E3311.
Theoretical and practical considerations, and design principles, for modern thermofluids systems. Topics include boiling, condensation, phase change heat transfer, multimode heat transfer, heat exchangers, and modeling of thermal transport systems. Emphasis on applications of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics to modeling actual physical systems. Term project on conceptual design and presentation of a thermofluid system that meets specified criteria.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites:
BCRS W2102
.
Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: Mechanics of solids, structural analysis, elementary computer programming (MATLAB) is recommended, linear algebra and ordinary differential equations.
Direct stiffness approach for trusses. Strong and weak forms for one-dimensional problems. Galerkin finite element formulation, shape functions, Gauss quadrature, convergence. Multidimensional scalar field problems (heat conduction), triangular and rectangular elements, Isoparametric formulation. Multidimensional vector field problems (linear elasticity). Practical FE modeling with commercial software (ABAQUS). Computer implementation of the finite element method. Advanced topics. Not open to undergraduate students.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent.
A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

BIOMECHANICS OF CELLS

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

SURVEY OF NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TR 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 6 points

SUST. ZONING + LAND USE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Martin
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• 3 points

PREMOD AMERICAN ARCH

AMERICAN ARCH I

Guiding ideals in American architecture from the centennial to around 1960.  The evolution of modernism in America is contrasted with European developments and related to local variants.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet W Foster
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• 3 points

QUES IN ARCH HIST I

ARCHITECTURE HISTORY I

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
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• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• Instructor: Mabel O Wilson
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• 3 points

PLANNG/MGT-URBAN HYDROLGC SYST

Prerequisites: ENME E3161 or the equivalent
Introduction to runoff and drainage systems in an urban setting, including hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, flow and water quality monitoring, common regulatory issues, and mathematical modeling. Applications to problems of climate variation, land use changes, infrastructure operation and receiving water quality, developed using statistical packages, public-domain models, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Team projects that can lead to publication quality analyses in relevant fields of interest. Emphasis on the unique technical, regulatory, fiscal, policy, and other interdisciplinary issues that pose a challenge to effective planning and management of urban hydrologic systems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Sri Rangarajan
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• 3 points

AFR AM PROPHETIC POL TRADITION

Through a wide range of readings and classroom discussions, this course will introduce students to the crucial role that the unique African-American appropriation of the Judeo-Christian prophetic biblical tradition has played -- and continues to play -- in the lives of black people in America.

• Department: Religion
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Obery Hendricks
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• 4 points

POWER ELECTRONICS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3801 & ELEN E3331.
Introduction to power electronics; power semiconductor devices: power diodes, thyristors, commutation techniques, power transistors, power MOSFETs, Triac, IGBTs, etc. and switch selection; non-sinusoidal power definitions and computations, modeling, and simulation; half-wave rectifiers; single-phase, full-wave rectifiers; three-phase rectifiers; AC voltage controllers; DC/DC buck, boost, and buck-boost converters; discontinuous conduction mode of operation; DC power supplies: Flyback, Forward converter; DC/AC inverters, PWM techniques; three-phase inverters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

MASS ANNIHILATION IN THE 20THC

The idea of Europe implies the notions of "Civilization" and "Modernity," but also images of conquest, tyranny and mass annihilation.

This seminar will explore the "dark side of Europe:" the succession of genocidal episodes perpetrated during the long 20th century by Europeans in colonial expeditions overseas and in murderous campaigns on the subcontinent itself. The assigned literature ranges from anthropology, sociology and political science, to psychology and contemporary history. It contains a variety of perspectives on genocidal regimes and their perpetrators, as well as an array of descriptive accounts of episodes of mass anihilation. An overall theoretical framework is provided by Prof. Abram de Swaan's 
The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder
(Yale UP, 2015). The experience with mass violence of the Dutch - a nation with a relatively peaceful past and a self-image of righteousness - will serve as a touchstone for a subcontinent that at the dawn of the 20th century was considered the epitome of peace an progress.
Field: MEU

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Abram de Swaan
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• 4 points

THEORETICAL TURN

Seminar on issues in architecture theory and criticism that have emerged in the past two decades.  Topics include semiology, postmodernism, rationalism, typology, and Marxist cultural theory.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
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• 3 points

COLD WAR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

This course has three purposes: (i) to examine the role of culture and the arts as a reflection and enactment of Cold War politics; (ii) to provide an understanding of the arts as a cultural force in building ideas in foreign markets; (iii) to reframe the arts as a part of Cold War cultural battles.

• Department: History
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Phillips
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• 4 points

CHEMICAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: CHEM C3443 or equivalent, or instructor’s permission.
Process development for new compounds, including fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biologicals and agrochemicals. Experimental strategy and methods for process scale-up from bench to pilot plant. Evaluation of process economics. Hazard and risk evaluation for environmental and industrial hygiene safety. Capture and use of process know-how for process and plant design, regulatory approvals, and technology transfer to first manufacture.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Elias C Mattas
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: Probability and Statistics at the level of SIEO W3600 or SIEO W4150, and Deterministic Models at the level of IEOR E3608 or IEOR E4004, or instructor permission.
This course is required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. This course covers important issues in engineering economics and quantitative corporate finance. We introduce key measures and analytical tools to assess the financial performance of a firm and perform the economic evaluation of industrial projects and businesses. We study deterministic mathematical programming models for capital budgeting. We also cover important concepts in utility theory, game theory and real options analysis. This course is a good preparation for positions in investment banking, consulting, private equity, venture capital, and corporate finance, and for entrepreneurs. Students can take only one of IEOR E4003 and IEOR E4403, but not both.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Corequisites: IEOR E3106 or IEOR E4106: Introduction to Operations Research: Stochastic Models.

This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This course is also required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points.
This is an introductory course to simulation, a statistical sampling technique that uses the power of computers to study complex stochastic systems when analytical or numerical techniques do not suffice. The course focuses on discrete-event simulation, a general technique used to analyze a model over time and determine the relevant quantities of interest. Topics covered in the course include the generation of random numbers, sampling from given distributions, simulation of discrete-event systems, output analysis, variance reduction techniques, goodness of fit tests, and the selection of input distributions. The first half of the course is oriented towards the design and implementation of algorithms, while the second half is more theoretical in nature and relies heavily on material covered in prior probability courses. The teaching methodology consists on lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and both in-class and take-home exams. Homework almost always includes a programming component for which students are encouraged to work in teams.
Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Prerequisites: SIEO W3600 or SIEO W4150: Introduction to Probability and Statistics, computer programming language such as C, C++, Java or Matlab.
Corequisites: IEOR E3106 or IEOR E4106: Introduction to Operations Research: Stochastic Models.
This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This course is also required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. This is an introductory course to simulation, a statistical sampling technique that uses the power of computers to study complex stochastic systems when analytical or numerical techniques do not suffice. The course focuses on discrete-event simulation, a general technique used to analyze a model over time and determine the relevant quantities of interest. Topics covered in the course include the generation of random numbers, sampling from given distributions, simulation of discrete-event systems, output analysis, variance reduction techniques, goodness of fit tests, and the selection of input distributions. The first half of the course is oriented towards the design and implementation of algorithms, while the second half is more theoretical in nature and relies heavily on material covered in prior probability courses. The teaching methodology consists on lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and both in-class and take-home exams. Homework almost always includes a programming component for which students are encouraged to work in teams. Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION

Prerequisites: IEOR E3608: Introduction to Mathematical Programming or IEOR E4004: Introduction to Operations Research: Deterministic Models, IEOR E3106 or IEOR E4106: Introduction to Operations Research: Stochastic Models, familiarity with differential equations and computer programming; or instructor's permission.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE and OR.
One of the major discrepancies between traditional operations research models and the actual business decision making process is the presence of multiple agents and their mutual interaction. Competitors, consumers, and suppliers are agents seeking their self-interest, and their actions affect one's profit and optimal decision. This course exposes students to strategic thinking through game theory. Students will learn the theory of games and auctions and gain insights into their application to operations management. No previous knowledge of game theory is assumed; students who have taken a game theory class should consult the instructor prior to enrollment.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

NINE THOUGHT TRENDS IN CHINA

Prerequisites: fluency in Chinese (the course will be taught in Chinese, and a large number of readings will be in Chinese).
This is an elective course designed for both undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in the contemporary politics in China. The course focuses on nine major thought trends in China today that include 1) the Liberalism; 2) the New Authoritarianism; 3) the New Left; 4) Mao Left; 5) the Democratic Group within the Communist Party; 6) Governing through Confucian Theory; 7) Constitutional Socialism; 8) the so-called " Neither-Left and Nor-Right " Governing Theory; and 9) the New Nationalism Calling Tough Foreign Policies. China is deep in the social and political transition process, and the thoughts and actions of intellects themself have formed an important part in this transition. In this sense, the course not only helps understand the thoughts of intellects, but also better help understand today's China affairs as a whole.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Boshu Zhang
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• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTONICS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3401 or equivalent.
Planar resonators. Photons and photon streams. Photons and atoms: energy levels and band structure; interactions of photons with matter; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; thermal light, luminescence light. Laser amplifiers: gain, saturation, and phase shift; rate equations; pumping. Lasers: theory of oscillation; laser output characteristics. Photons in semiconductors: generation, recombination, and injection; heterostructures; absorption and gain coefficients. Semiconductor photon sources: LEDs; semiconductor optical amplifiers; homojunction and heterojunction laser diodes. Semiconductor photon detectors: p-n, p-i-n, and heterostructure photo diodes; avalanche photodiodes.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Qingmin Liu
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
PHIL V3411
,
V3415
,
G4415
.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS & LOGISTICS

Prerequisites:
IEOR 3608 or IEOR 4404 or permission of instructor.

Introduces quantitative techniques and state-of-the-art practice of operations research relevant to the design and both the tactical and strategic management of logistical and transportation systems. Discusses a wide variety of passenger and freight systems, including air, urban and highway traffic, rail, and maritime systems. Explores the practice of revenue management and dynamic pricing. Through case studies, analyzes successes and failures in third-party logistics, postal, truck and rail pickup and delivery systems. Investigates large-scale integrated logistics and transportation systems and studies the underlying principles governing transportation planning, investment and operations.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

AUTOMOTIVE DYNAMICS

Prerequisites: ENME 3105 or equivalent, recommended: ENME 3106 or equivalent
Automobile dynamic behavior is divided into three subjects: vehicle subsystems, ride, and handling. Vehicle subsystems include: tire, steering, mechanisms, suspensions, gearbox, engine, clutch, etc.  Regarding ride, vibrations and ride comfort are analyzed, and suspension optimization of a quarter car model is treated.  Regarding handling, vehicle dynamic behavior on the road is analyzed, with emphasis on numerical simulations using planar as well as roll models.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua B Browne
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• 3 points

ISRAEL 20 YEARS AFTER RABIN

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ehud N Sommer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MODELING & ID OF DYNAMIC SYST

Prerequisites: APMA E2101, ELEN E3801 or corequsite EEME E3601, or instructor's permission
Generalized dynamic system modeling and simulation. Fluid, thermal, mechanical, diffusive, electrical, and hybrid systems are considered. Nonlinear and high order systems. System identification problem and Linear Least Squares method. State-space and noise representation. Kalman filter. Parameter estimation via prediction-error and subspace approaches. Iterative and bootstrap methods. Fit criteria. Wide applicability: medical, energy, others. MATLAB and Simulink environments.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

PROGRAMMING & PROBLEM SOLVING

Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
and
CSEE W3827
.
Hands-on introduction to solving open-ended computational problems. Emphasis on creativity, cooperation, and collaboration. Projects spanning a variety of areas within computer science, typically requiring the development of computer programs. Generalization of solutions to broader problems, and specialization of complex problems to make them manageable. Team-oriented projects, student presentations, and in-class participation required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
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• 3 points

ADORNO,PHILOSOPHY&PSYCHOANALYS;

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Whitebook
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• 4 points

POLITICS IN RUSSIA

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL SYSTMS OF SOUTH ASIA

POLITICL SYSTEMS OF SOUTH ASIA

This course first compares the post-independence political histories of South Asian countries, particularly India and Pakistan.  It then explores selected topics across countries: social and cultural dimensions of politics; structures of power; and political behavior.  The underlying theme is to explain the development and durability of the particular political regimes – democratic or authoritarian – in each country.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Philip K Oldenburg
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

TRANSNATL MIGRATION/CITIZENSHIP

TRANSNATL MIGRATION/CITIZENSHP

This course will read recent scholarship on migration and citizenship (with some nod to classic works); as well as theoretical work by historians and social scientists in the U.S. and Europe on the changing conceptual frameworks that are now shaping the field.  The first half of the course will read in the literature of U.S. immigration history.  The second half of the course is comparative, with readings in the contexts of empire, colonialism and contemporary refugee and migration issues in the U.S. and Europe.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mae M Ngai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
(or equivalent), or the instructor's permission.
Team project centered course focused on principles of planning, creating, and growing a technology venture. Topics include: indentifying and analyzing opportunities created by technology paradigm shifts, designing innovative products, protecting intellectual property, engineering innovative business models.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Reinisch
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS

This is a lecture class that seeks to introduce students to social scientific analysis while discuss the shifting dynamics of political representation in Latin America. In analyzing political representation in the region, it focuses on demands for political inclusion by different actors and how they were resisted or accepted by established elites in a process that moved from regime change to electoral rotation in power. The course covers these political dynamics and their institutional consequences since the onset of the twentieth century, starting with the Mexican Revolution, until the contemporary period where democracy is the predominant form of government and elections a crucial tool for social and political change. While analyzing the politics of Latin America, we will cover important political science concepts associated with democratic representation, social inclusion and the rule of the law, such as social movement mobilization, political regime change, presidentialism, political party systems, political identities, state capacity, and institutional weakness.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

JAPANESE POLITICS

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Takako K Hikotani
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• 4 points

KOREAN POLITICS

• Department: Political Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stephen Noerper
  Info
• 4 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3401 or equivalent.
Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PERCEPTION

This course addresses the fabulously rich range of issues about the nature of perception, including: perceptual mental representation and its content; computational explanation; justifying beliefs; knowledge and thought about perception; and perception of music. Perception is an interdisciplinary subject par excellence. Readings will be drawn from philosophy and psychology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICS

This course aims to teach students what, if any, answers social scientists have to the questions that concern anyone with an interest in African politics: 1) Why have democratic governments flourished in some countries and not others? 2) What institutions may enable Africans to hold their leaders accountable? 3) How do people participate in politics? 4) In what ways do aspiring African political leaders build public support? 5) To what extent does persistent poverty on the continent have political causes? and 6) Why is violence used to resolve some political disputes and not others?

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kimuli Kasara
  CULPA: 26 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas L Morgan
  Info
• 3 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

PRINCIPLES OF PROCESS DESIGN

Prerequisites: CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140.
The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants.  Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes.  Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity.  Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

Prerequisites: Computer programming or instructor's approval.
This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. In this course we will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we will consider include: simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications we will review topics of interest to OR/FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor outside the University within the New York City Metropolitan Area unless otherwise approved by the Program. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree. Instructor permission required. Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 2-6 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites:
CHNS W3302
or the equivalent.
Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Wei Shang
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 3 points

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT

Prerequisites: For senior undergraduate Engineering students: SIEO W3600: Introduction to Probability and Statistics and IEOR E3608: Introduction to Mathematical Programming; For Engineering graduate students (MS or PhD): Probability and Statistics at the level of SIEO W4150, and Deterministic Models at the level of IEOR E4004. For Healthcare Management students: P8529: Analytic Methods for Health Services Management.
Develops modeling, analytical and managerial skills of Engineering students. Enables students to master an array of fundamental Operations Management tools adapted to the management of manufacturing and service systems in banks, hospitals, factories, and government. Special emphasis is placed on healthcare systems. Through real-world business cases, students learn to identify, model and analyze operational improvements and innovations in a range of business contexts, especially healthcare contexts.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CRIME/PUNISHMENT-JEWISH CULTRE

CRIME/PUNISHMNT JEWISH CULTRE

Explores ethical, cultural, and political dimensions of Jewish criminal punishment from the Bible through modernity, with focus on death penalty and running reference to Foucault's Discipline and Punish. Topics include: interaction between law and narrative; Jewish power to punish; Sanhedrin trial of Jesus; ritualization of execution; prison; torture; martyrdom.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

STUDIO I- HISTORIC PRESERVATION

STUDIO I- HIST PRESERV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MR 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly K Yao
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 6 points

TISSUE ENGINEERING

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

BUDDHISM & NEUROSCIENCE

BUDDHISM AND NEUROSCIENCE

With the Dalai Lama's  marked interest in recent advances in neuroscience, the question of the compatibility between Buddhist psychology and neuroscience has been raised in a number of conferences and studies. This course will examine the state of the question, look at claims made on both sides, and discuss whether or not there is a convergence between Buddhist discourse about the mind and scientific discourse about the brain.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: B.S. in Engineering or Applied Sciences; Professional experience recommended; Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra.
Introduction to fundamental methods used in Systems Engineering. Rigorous process that translates customer needs into a structured set of specific requirements; synthesizes a system architecture that satisfies those requirements; and allocates them in a physical system, meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives throughout the product life-cycle. Sophisticated modeling of requirements optimization and dependencies, risk management, probabilistic scenario scheduling, verification matrices, and systems-of-systems constructs are synthesized to define the meta-work flow at the top of every major engineering project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMP LITERATURE

MODERN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

(Lecture). In the period since 1965, fiction has become global in a new sense and with a new intensity. Comparison is built into it. Writers from different national traditions have been avidly reading each other, wherever they happen to come from, and they often resist "national" and regional labels altogether. If you ask the Somali writer Nuruddin Farah whether the precocious child of
Maps
was inspired by Salman Rushdie's
Midnight's Children
, he will answer (at least he did when I asked him) that he and Rushdie both were inspired by Sterne's
Tristram Shandy
and Grass's
The Tin Drum
. At the same time, the human experiences around which novelists organize their fiction are often themselves global, explicitly and powerfully but also mysteriously. Our critical language is in some ways just trying to catch up with innovative modes of storytelling that attempt to be responsible to the global scale of interconnectedness on which, as we only rarely manage to realize, we all live. This course will begin with the Sudanese classic
Season of Migration to the North
, a rewriting of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," and will end with the British novelist Zadie Smith. In between we will discuss novels by Gabriel García Márquez, Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, W.G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, and others. Requirements: two short papers (6-8 pages) and a final for undergraduates; one longer paper (12-15 pages) and no final for graduate students.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
  CULPA: 35 Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1.5 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 3 points

RE ENTREPRENEURIALISM FOR ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

IMAGINING THE ULTRAREAL

IMAGINING THE UNREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL

Prerequisites: One year of general college chemistry.
Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

ENTREPRENEURIAL BUS CREA-ENGIN

Prerequisites: Principles of Economics and Finance at the level of ECON W1105 and W2261 or their equivalents, or instructor permission.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:EMS.
The course exposes science and engineering students to knowledge and skills useful in the business world. Students will learn how to evaluate the commercial potential of new technologies and other innovations. Students will also gain an understanding as to what is required to launch a successful new company around an innovative technology, scientific breakthrough, or other new product or service. The course will also expose the student to the basics of venture capital and to the legal foundations of business organizations. Finally, the course will help students develop the skills and professional habits that are highly valued in the workplace, including active listening, presenting, business research, and teamwork. The topics covered include: (1) The external environment of a business, such as: Markets, customers, suppliers, investors, regulatory and legal framework, and financial foundations. (2) The internal environment of a business, such as: Organizational forms and processes, business ethics and law, and organizational behavior. (3) The technology-based business, from research commercialization and intellectual asset management to business start-up to mature business. (4) Case studies of how technology entrepreneurs succeed and fail. (5) Analysis of key issues in entrepreneurship. (6) Cultivation of skills needed to succeed as a science/engineering entrepreneur. The aim of the course is to cover these topics individually and to integrate them so the interdependencies are clear and critical success factors can be appreciated. The special circumstances of small international businesses will be specifically addressed.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Gulley
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• T noon-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Segal
  Info
• 3 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

Prerequisites: introductory genetics or the instructor's permission.
This course introduces basic concepts in evolutionary biology, from speciation to natural selection. While the lectures incorporate a historical perspective, the main goal of the class is to familiarize students with topics and tools of evolutionary genetics as practiced today, in the era of genomics. Thus, the focus will be on evidence from molecular evolution and genetics and exercises will assume a basic background in genetics. Examples will be drawn from across the tree of life, but with a primary focus on humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

STUDY CLOSED SOC-TIBET,XINJNG

A number of regions or countries in East, North East and South East Asia remain closed to foreigners or have political conditions that make it impractical, unethical or dangerous for foreigners to speak in depth with local residents. In many of these areas research by scholars or journalists is only rarely permitted if at all, and academic publications from within the country may be extremely limited in the issues they can discuss or the opinions they can express. These areas include Tibet and Xinjiang within the PRC, and its neighbours North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos. Is it possible to study such places to a reasonable academic standard without access to them? How should students and researchers approach the study of contemporary conditions in these areas? Can carrying out close readings of official texts from such countries lead to a reliable understanding of conditions there?

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert J Barnett
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY & DECISION THEORY

Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Collins
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY

A close reading of Jürgen Habermas's
Theory of Communicative Action
. Prerequisite: PHIL V3353 or PHIL G9755

• Department: Philosophy
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OR

DESIGN/AGILE PROJ MGMT ENG LAB

DAPME-Lab is an intensive project-based seminar in which students will learn and apply a multi-disciplinary approach to front-end and product design, strategy formulation and implementation, and agile application of tech-driven concepts in actual business settings. Taught by Prof. R.A. Farrokhnia, this course focuses on the practical development and execution of inventive design-centric solutions coupled with deep industrial, operational, and business analyses. Various topics in industrial product and web design as well as UX and UI will be discussed in interactive and collaborative lectures. Additional topics will include Scrum, Kanban, and the dynamics of entrepreneurial/venture-capital financing relevant to technical (co-)founders. Guest speakers, field trips, and interaction with domain experts will augment course curriculum and exercises. Class projects will encompass working with a Fortune 500 corporation as well as an entrepreneurial portfolio company of a prominent Venture Capital firm in New York (projects have been vetted and facilitated by the course faculty) - the class will also contribute to social good by working on a short project of a New York-based small or non-for-profit business (total of 3 class projects). Such endeavors will integrate classroom learning with best practices in lean startups, product development, team management, and business planning. Throughout the term, assigned teams will engage in Product Design Sprint and Agile Development, working on all aspects of exploration, ideation, design, refinement, prototype buildup, and validation. Acting as innovation-driven management consultants, teams will work simultaneously on engineering and tech-driven briefs (including field-testing) that would address real-life business challenges. The aim of the course is to ultimately empower students with the necessary skills and toolsets to transform a concept into a functional, well-designed, and value-add product. Students will be evaluated on a number of criteria, including individually on class and project-participation, collectively on team project performance, and quality and depth of teams' final presentations (no midterm or final exams). This course has limited enrollment by application, and will require the signing of Non-Disclosure Agreement for class projects. Proficiency in math, statistics, coding, and/or database management/analysis are recommended for admission consideration. TO APPLY: https://astro.ieor.columbia.edu/view.php?id=77645

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Amir R Farrokhnia
  Info
• 3 points

CITY & COUNTRYSIDE IN CHINA

CITY & COUNTRY IN CHINA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENTREPRENEURS

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Orin Herskowitz
  Info
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT FOR MS&E;

Prerequisites: Must be registered in the Management Science and Engineering (MSE) MS Program
Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
  Info
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMNT FOR MSOR/MSIE

This course is for MS Program in IE and OR students only. Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
  Info
• 0 points

RACE, DRUGS, AND INEQUALITY

DRUG POLICY,HARM REDUCTION&COM;

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Through a series of secondary- and primary-source readings and research writing assignments, students in this seminar course will explore one of the most politically controversial aspects in the history of public health in the United States as it has affected peoples of color: intoxicating substances. Course readings are primarily historical, but sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists are also represented on the syllabus. The course's temporal focus - the twentieth century - allows us to explore the historical political and social configurations of opium, alcohol, heroin, cocaine, medical maintenance (methadone), the War on Drugs, the carceral state and hyperpolicing, harm reduction and needle/syringe exchange. This semester's principal focus will be on the origins and evolution of the set of theories, philosophies, and practices which constitute harm reduction. The International Harm Reduction Association/Harm Reduction International offers a basic, though not entirely comprehensive, definition of harm reduction in its statement, "What is Harm Reduction?" (http://www.ihra.net/what-is-harm-reduction): "Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs."[1] Harm reduction in many U.S. communities of color, however, has come to connote a much wider range of activity and challenges to the status quo. In this course we will explore the development of harm reduction in the United States and trace its evolution in the political and economic context race, urban neoliberalism, and no-tolerance drug war. The course will feature site visits to harm reduction organizations in New York City, guest lectures, and research/oral history analysis. This course has been approved for inclusion in both the African-American Studies and History undergraduate curricula (majors and concentrators). HIST W4588 will be open to both undergraduate and masters students. To apply, please complete the Google form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xaPFhQOzkl1NHnIjQIen9h41iel2hXAdhV59D5wH8AQ/viewform?usp=send_form. Questions may be directed to skroberts@columbia.edu.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
  Info
• 4 points

MODERN HOUSING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Gwendolyn Wright
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY

Prerequisites: APPH E4010 or eqivalent
Corequisites: APPH E4010.
Basic radiation physics: radioactive decay, radiation producing devices, characteristics of the different types of radiation (photons, charged and uncharged particles) and mechanisms of their interactions with materials. Essentials of the determination, by measurement and calculation, of absorbed doses from ionizing radiation sources used in medical physics (clinical) situations and for health physics purposes.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jerome Meli
  Info
• 3 points

CONCEPTS IN VIAR: PERFORMANCE

(Formerly R3006) This course explores strategies in the production of performance art, using the signifying system of the body as a conceptual framework for a series of workshops that give students tools to develop their own performance projects over the course of the semester. Students will engage with discourses of performance, from theatrical and choreographic models to social and relational practices, and become familiar with strategies for constructing and determining the role of the audience.  With attention to site- and situation-specificity, this course offers instruction in a variety of technical aspects of performance, such as the use of body, architecture, sound, light, costume, prop, sculpture, video, and methods of collaboration. The class includes group critique of performances presented in class, as well as the opportunity to workshop developing works with the support of the group. Students will become familiar with venues for performance, and the artists who are redefining performance in the art world today. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Laser
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

INTRODUCITON TO ROBOTICS

Overview of robot applications and capabilities. Linear algebra, kinematics, statics, and dynamics of robot manipulators. Survey of sensor technology: force, proximity, vision, compliant manipulators. Motion planning and artificial intelligence; manipulator programming requirements and languages.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

PRODUCT DESIGN FOR MFG

Prerequisites: Manufacturing process, computer graphics, engineering design, mechanical design.
General review of product development process; market analysis and product system design; principles of design for manufacturing; strategy for material selection and manufacturing process choice; component design for machining; casting; molding; sheet metal working and inspection; general assembly processes; product design for manual assembly; design for robotic and automatic assembly; case studies of product design and improvement.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Graham Walker
  Info
• 3 points

ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Prerequisites: An introductory course on Manufacturing Processes, and Heat Transfer, knowledge of Engineering materials, or the Instructor's permission.
Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media.  Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification.  Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points