Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and remote sensing technologies as they are used in a variety of social and environmental science applications. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain a knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message, and develop sound practices for GIS project design and management. The class will focus on the application of GIS to assist in the development, implementation and analysis of environmental and social policy and practices at the global and regional scale.
This course is intended to provide students with the tools and knowledge required to assess modern military forces. It covers strategic nuclear forces, as well as conventional air, sea, and land forces. It addresses the technical capabilities of modern military forces, the command, control, communication (C3) and logistics infrastructure that support them, and some of the organizational/political factors that can affect force employment. It will also provide an overview of some defense analysis applications of commercial software such as Google Earth.
Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences.
Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.
Basic techniques of linear and non-linear inverse theory, and the validation of numerical models with sparse and noisy data. Includes discussion of genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming, theories of optimization, parameter tradeoffs, and hypothesis testing.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6200 or PEPM U6223 or EMPA U6010
Corporate finance is an introductory finance course; it is a core course for students taking the International Finance and Policy (IFP) concentration. The course is designed to cover those areas of business finance which are important for all managers, whether they specialize in finance or not.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
The course is primarily intended for graduate level students in economics but is open for enrollment by graduate students in political science as well as those with knowledge of econometrics and microeconomics. Explores several current topics in the theory of political economy as well as its historical evolution, drawing on both economic and political science literature. It will focus primarily on economic decision-making, taking into consideration political processes.
The use of quantitative research techniques, statistics, and computer software in designing public policies and in evaluating, monitoring, and administering governmental programs. Practical applications include research, design measurement, data collection, data processing, and presentation of research findings.
This course is about social science research methods, with a heavy focus on quantitative techniques. Students in this course will learn to formulate research and policy questions amenable to empirical inquiry, and to identify and apply appropriate methods of measurement and analysis to answer these questions. This course begins with the discussion on the formulation of research questions derived from policy and management objectives, followed by the collection and organization of data, and finally the presentation and analysis of facts. This course emphasizes the conceptual understanding of statistics that can be readily applied in the practice of public management and policy. In terms of statistical methods, the course covers descriptive statistics for univariate and bivariate analysis, such as concepts and measures of central tendency, dispersion and contingency tables, and inferential statistical techniques including chi square, difference in means, and simple and multiple regression analysis.
There are more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States and hundreds of thousands more internationally and the number is growing. The nonprofit sector includes an enormous diversity of organizations, ranging from complex health care systems, to education and arts institutions, to small community-based human service organizations. This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how to conduct the financial management of a nonprofit entity. Through the use of readings, case studies, a class project and lecture, we will study financial statements, financial analysis, and accounting for non-profit organizations and international NGOs. We will examine how the principles of financial management assist the nonprofit and NGO manager in making operating, budgeting, capital, and long-term financial planning decisions. We will also explore contemporary ethical, accountability, and mission issues facing national and international organizations.
Prerequisites: MECE E3311.
Corequisites: MECE E6100.
Application of analytical techniques to the solution of multi-dimensional steady and transient problems in heat conduction and convection. Lumped, integral, and differential formulations. Topics include use of sources and sinks, laminar/turbulent forced convection, and natural convection in internal and external geometries.
Prerequisites: ELEN E4314 and ELEN E6312.
Overview of communication systems, modulation and detection schemes. Receiver and transmitter architectures. Noise, sensitivity, and dynamic range. Nonlinearity and distortion. Low-noise RF amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Phase-locked loops and frequency synthesizers. Typical applications discussed include wireless RF transceivers or data links. Computer-aided analysis techniques are used in homework(s) or a design project.
(Seminar). This seminar explores the idea that motion and emotion are interrelated in the eighteenth century. That point may sound obvious enough, but in tracking it we will reject two common misperceptions about British literature from around 1680 to 1798. The first false assumption is that this literature is always static and inward looking. The false second assumption is that, because this period was the Age of Reason, people spent the whole century trying to be rational and not to feel very much. This century was in fact an age of exuberant mobility, much of it driven by economic change, military conflict, colonial expansion, and religious revival. Anglophone writers of the eighteenth century likewise became increasingly preoccupied by human feelings: what they are, how they motivate actions, how they inform social (especially gender-based) identities, how they should be managed, and how they should be performed or communicated. We will set out from the hypothesis that these two developments - motion and emotion - need to be understood together. We will focus on texts that depict travel (and that themselves traveled) through the British Isles, within continental Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean. Writing for the seminar will emphasize crossings: across waterways or turnpikes, across genres or periods, across nations or traditions.
Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6335 and instructor's permission.
Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics. Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report. Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).
Prerequisites: APPH E6335
Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy. Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.
Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6330 and instructor's permission.
Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Includes instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students shall participate in the clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: Radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. The students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.
Prerequisites: Restricted to International Fellows
This course will explore the international role of the United States by examining its evolution over time the interests and concepts that underlie it, the domestic debates that have shaped it, the historical turning points that periodically re-shaped it, and some of its most notable successes and failures
This course aims at familiarizing students with major issues surrounding global economic governance and its effects on developing countries. It will start with two general lectures that will deal with the objectives of international cooperation, the historical evolution of the current governance and typologies of the different rules, organization and governance structures that have been created at varied times. It will then deal in detail with major topics in the broad agenda of global economic governance, exploring both issues that are the subject of current debates as well as the institutional questions involved. "Global economic governance" is understood in a broad sense, to refer both to global and regional frameworks, as well as those rules of international transactions that have been left to bilateral agreements or are under the domain of national sovereignty. "Economic" is also understood in a broad sense, to include also social and environmental issues.
The course is aimed at exposing graduate students and practitioners from Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical Engineering, Applied
Mathematics, Physics and Materials with computational methods for
nonlinear PDEs with emphasis on continuum mechanics. Civil
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science students will benefit from the course by being able to analyze variety of nonlinear mechanics problems including deformation, fracture, stability, corrosion, fatigue, lifing, aging and crashworthiness of structures and materials; applied mathematics and physics students will be exposed to systematic approach aimed at formulation and numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for various engineering and applied science problems.
Prerequisites: ENME E4332 or equivalent, elementary computer programming, linear algebra.
The formulations and solution strategies for finite element analysis of nonlinear problems are developed. Topics include the sources of nonlinear behavior (geometric, constitutive, boundary condition), derivation of the governing discrete equations for nonlinear systems such as large displacement, nonlinear elasticity, rate independent and dependent plasticity and other nonlinear constitutive laws, solution strategies for nonlinear problems (e.g., incrementation, iteration), and 54 computational procedures for large systems of nonlinear algebraic equations.
Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6319 and instructor's permission.
Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.
In the last half-century there have been revolutionary changes in the social structures that all previous human societies took for granted. They follow from women's greatly increased access to education and the labor market, but go well beyond this to encompass all of social life. In emerging economics, change is happening far faster than it did in the industrialized West. And one result is that different groups of women lead increasingly distinct lives. Historically, it made good sense to think of women as a ‘sisterhood' with common concerns and interests. This is less and less the case. Different groups of women follow increasingly distinct paths in terms of work, family and marriage patterns, and self-identity. Making enormous strides in the workplace are young, educated, full-time professionals who have put children on hold, and who work in occupations that are highly integrated in gender terms. But for a second group of women such a life is unattainable: instead, they work part-time, earn less, are concentrated in heavily feminized occupations like cleaning, have children young and find self-worth outside the workplace. Concern over remaining gender-related inequalities and barriers can easily divert our attention from the extent of change in both developed and emerging societies. This course will explore these new global structures and their repercussions for men and women, developed and emerging countries; and will discuss how far current trends are likely to continue.
This course will relate selected aspects of globalization to women's labor force participation and teach students how to design policy under this agenda. With a case-study approach, we will explore how globalization has either fostered or inhibited the utilization of the female talent pool in certain contexts and brainstorm policy interventions from the perspective of a number of different entities (e.g. public/private sector, grass roots, etc.). Case studies will include some of the following geographies: the Middle East, India, Russia, Africa, China, Japan, and Latin America. We will wrap up the practicum by comparing the status of women around the world with that of women in the United States, focusing on lessons learned from a policy perspective. During each class we will invite outside experts in selected fields to both help students define a specific a problem statement and design policy that is responsive and will best achieve the desired set of goals.
Despite gains in recent years, gender disparities in leadership roles – particularly in the corporate and government sectors – remain significant. This 7-week course will explore policies within organizations, as well as governmental policies, designed to address gender disparities in leadership roles, examining questions such as: What are the goals such policies are/should be seeking to achieve? What are the best approaches – e.g. gender-focused vs. more broadly crafted policies? Which approaches are/are not working? What are the unintended consequences of policies designed for this purpose? How do we consider debates in popular culture (from Sandberg to Slaughter) in the context of organizational and governmental policymaking and use them to inform policymaking? What are the limitations on what policy can achieve? The course will begin by briefly exploring historical and current gender disparities in leadership roles and the diverse reasons behind them, examining the roles of women, men, culture and policy. We will explore the potential impact policy can have, identifying and recognizing limitations and challenges. Finally, we will focus the bulk of our time on policy approaches tried by governments and organizations (with a focus on corporations, as well as academia and non-profits) to attempt to address leadership gender disparities, exploring the questions above. The course will include accomplished women leaders from multiple sectors as guest speakers, and active student participation, including presentation of case studies, will be required.
This course introduces students to gender mainstreaming, gender analysis and intersectionality as theory and method, as well as the associated set of strategies, tools and skills applicable to international and public policy contexts. Through a combination of empirical research, structural theorizing, social critique, and case studies, students will become acquainted with the global dimensions of feminist organizing and policy-making necessary for working in a variety of specialty policy fields such as education, public health, international finance, sustainable development, peace and security, organizational management and economic development.