Global Arc

Before the naked city and joyless streets was the garden. This is its plot. Originally it was a "pleasant place," beyond which, in space and time, sprouted thorn and thistle. Later, much later, perhaps when it was already too late, came landscape (is it a noun or a verb, or both?). This course traces a serpentine path through the history of landscape, with occasional and revealing vistas to and from literature, the arts, and the sciences. "Down the Garden Path" suggests being taken in, willingly falling prey to the ruses that await us in the garden, and which are masked by its pleasures.

Seminar examines the origins of animation in art and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The class will focus on issues of agency, affect, empathy, projection and other psychological reactions occasioned by inanimate objects as they are probed by major figures in art and architectural historiography, aesthetics, cultural anthropology, ethnography, sociology, psychoanalysis and film theory. Seminar will also analyze specific case studies from modernist avant-garde and architectural movements in Germany and France during the first half of the last century.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to the foundational principles of engineering. The purpose of this course is two-fold. First, it provides a project-based introduction to engineering that mixes electronics, mechanical construction, and computational data analysis. Second, it provides a firm theoretical foundation for the project in both math and physics. In lab, students will have the opportunity to build, test, and iterate the design of a rocket. Complimenting the lab experience, students will engage in lectures and precepts to enhance their physics and mathematics content knowledge.

This course covers mechanics, energy, waves, and introductory thermodynamics within the framework of understanding and developing engineering solutions to grand global challenges; i.e. the focus is on the role an engineer plays in responding to grand challenges and the physics foundations that are at their disposal. A full-length laboratory comprises projects designed especially for the engineering-minded student, focusing on design and building, problem solving, and entrepreneurship. This course can be used to satisfy BSE freshman year requirements.

This is an introductory course for single variable calculus. The material will be presented in a manner that shows how calculus combined with analytic geometry is the language of expression for quantitative ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics itself. We will cover differential and integral calculus, series and sequences, as well as Taylor series to discuss topics such as information and probability, the physics of planetary motion and statistical mechanics, and development of computational algorithms. This course can be used to satisfy BSE freshman year requirements.

This course explores the fundamental principles of electricity, magnetism, and light. An underlying theme will be how the fundamentals both underpin grand societal challenges as well as enable engineering paths towards solutions and innovation. Broadly speaking, the course will focus on the application areas of information technology, energy and power, bio-engineering and sensors. The labs will enable students to explore basic principles as well as test their own designs based on those principles.

This course covers the basics of algebra with linear systems, vectors, matrices, matrix multiplication, systems of equations, matrix inversion, diagonalization, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, determinants, and some basic probability/Markov chains. These topics will be taught in the context of engineering problemsthat are centered around grand challenges facing society today, including information and security, bioengineering and health, structures and circuits, machine learning and the like.

This course will present the fundamentals of multivariable calculus from an engineering perspective, using examples from all 6 engineering departments. As a first introduction to functions of many variables, it will cover key topics important to the various engineering fields, including vectors and vector valued functions in 2 and 3 dimensions, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, optimization, and the calculus of vector fields.

Taken concurrently with EGR/MAT/PHY 192. An integrated course that covers the material of PHY 103 and MAT 201 with the emphasis on applications to engineering. Physics topics include: mechanics with applications to fluid mechanics, wave phenomena, and thermodynamics. The lab revolves around a single project to build, launch, and analyze the flight dynamics of water-propelled rockets. One lecture, three preceptorials, one three-hour laboratory.

Taken concurrently with EGR/MAT/PHY 191. An integrated course that covers the material of PHY 103 and MAT 201 with the emphasis on applications to engineering. Math topics include: vector calculus; partial derivatives and matrices; line integrals; simple differential equations; surface and volume integrals; and Green's, Stokes's, and divergence theorems. One lecture, two preceptorials.