Prescribed for M.S. candidates; elective for others with the approval of the Department. Degree candidates are to conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit.
This Course examines the emergence and evolution of epidemiological methods (e.g., study designs) and concepts (e.g., confounding, bias, interaction, and causal inference) that constitute today’s epidemiology.
This course is designed to provide the doctoral students with the basic fundamentals of biology and physiology to facilitate their epidemiologic work.
All candidates for the M.P.H. and the M.S. degrees in epidemiology are required to write a master's thesis, usually based on an original analysis of previously collected epidemiologically relevant data. Students are responsible, with assistance from faculty, for finding a dataset and two readers, one of whom must be a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology. Students register for P9419 at least two semesters before the targeted graduation date and it is required that students obtain access to a dataset they will use for their thesis prior to the course. The course guides students through development of the master’s thesis proposal by reviewing critical elements in writing each element of a thesis, development of a study question, writing specific aims, study design and analysis.
This is the second course in a two-course series P9419-P9420 required of all candidates for the M.P.H. and M.S. in epidemiology. This course focuses on the Statistical Analysis, Results and Discussion sections of students' master's theses. Students will work closely with their first and second readers during the semester, but course instructors and teaching assistants will provide guidance on the selection and conduct of statistical analyses, and on transforming their thesis into a format appropriate for submission for publication.
Primarily for fellows in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program. Presentation and discussion of ongoing faculty and fellow research, plus guest speakers. Designed to provide constructive criticism of research in progress and to make fellows aware of current issues in psychiatric epidemiology.
The past two decades have witnessed both a maturation of the field of epidemiology and a proliferation of critiques of the field. The debates around these critiques were so fierce that Rothman and Poole labeled them the epidemiology wars". These wars have abated and spawned two different and sometimes opposing currents in epidemiology: a renewed interest in causal inference and an acceptance of social and lifecourse epidemiology.
The focus of this class will be on providing students with the knowledge, experience, and resources needed to select and apply advanced epidemiologic techniques. Core techniques have been selected based on their current and potential future use in the field of epidemiology.The course will be organized into four modules, each organized around a specific technique in relation to available alternatives for (1) working with missing data, (2) tackling non-linear trends, (3) placing non-independent observations in context, and (4) strengthening causal inference from observational data. This course is limited to Epi doctoral students only.
Independent research with individual faculty. Tailored to the particular interests and needs of the individual student. May include literature review, research projects, or other special studies that enrich the student’s program.
The Study Design course for Epidemiology doctoral students will provide formal instruction in core study designs including randomized control trials, cohort, case-control, and ecological study designs. The goal of the course is for students to master the choice of design, and its strengths and limitations, based on the research question. Students will practice writing the following sections of a research proposal: research design, including the rationale for the design, impact, significance and methods.
Plasma and Fusion Colloquium: All plasma and fusion graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend the department seminar as long as they are in residence. Interested undergraduates are also welcome. No degree credit is granted.
Students in the Biological Science PhD program only. Independent research in approved thesis sponsor laboratories.
Doctoral candidates are required to make an original investigation of a problem in biomedical engineering, the results of which are presented in the dissertation.
Open only to certified candidates for the Ph.D. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees. Doctoral candidates in chemical engineering are required to make an original investigation of a problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry, the results of which are presented in their dissertations. No more than 15 points of credit toward the degree may be granted when the dissertation is accepted by the department.
All doctoral students are required to complete successfully four semesters of the mechanical engineering seminar MECE E9500.
This proposed seminar is an investigation into the network of relations between three things: (I) the nature of a domain of entities, including their properties and relations; (II) the capacity to have mental states about them; and (III) the capacity to know and to make reasonable judgements about them.
As a subpart of this investigation, as a special case at one level up: we are sometimes concerned with the network of relations between: (I’) the nature of a domain of entities consisting of, or involving, intentional contents themselves, their properties and relations; (II’) the capacity of have mental states about them; and (III’) the capacity to know and make reasonable judgements about them.