This course examines the policy, politics, planning, and engineering of transportation systems …
This course examines the policy, politics, planning, and engineering of transportation systems in urban areas, with a special focus on the Boston area. It covers the role of the federal, state, and local government and the MPO, public transit in the era of the automobile, analysis of current trends and pattern breaks; analytical tools for transportation planning, traffic engineering, and policy analysis; the contribution of transportation to air pollution, social costs, and climate change; land use and transportation interactions, and more. Transportation sustainability is a central theme throughout the course, as well as consideration of if and how it is possible to resolve the tension between the three E’s (environment, economy, and equity). The goal of this course is to elicit discussion, stimulate independent thinking, and encourage students to understand and challenge the "conventional wisdom†of transportation planning.
Students obtain basic knowledge of the multidisciplinary aspects of the use of …
Students obtain basic knowledge of the multidisciplinary aspects of the use of undergrounds space. Based on knowledge about the characteristics of several construction technologies they are able to asses their applicability in different situations. This may be different geological or physical conditions. They are able to analyze and structure the complex decision making process that is related to the use of underground space and define an integral approach
EME 812 explores the main physical principles of core solar energy conversion …
EME 812 explores the main physical principles of core solar energy conversion systems, including direct power conversion photovoltaics, concentrating photovoltaics (CPV), and thermal conversion to electricity via concentrating solar power strategies (CSP). It also covers the fundamentals of enabling technologies such as light concentration, solar tracking, power conversion cycles, power conditioning and distribution. Learning in EME 812 relies on analysis of design and performance of existing solar plants that have been deployed in areas such as the southwestern USA, Spain, and North Africa.
Solar thermal energy is a vast renewable energy resource that has been …
Solar thermal energy is a vast renewable energy resource that has been harvested by human civilizations for centuries. Now as energy conversion technologies quickly develop, we look at solar thermal energy as a significant contributor to the future world's energy profile. Solar heat, when properly collected and stored, can provide cost-effective benefits to a wide array of industrial and residential applications. In EME 811, Solar Thermal Energy for Utilities and Industry, we talk about both the main principles of solar thermal energy conversion and some implementation scenarios, such as utilization of solar heat in buildings, solar cooling, solar desalination, solar drying, and chemical processing.
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential …
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).
Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.
VISUAL CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST MOVING IMAGES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES TO SMARTPHONES: …
VISUAL CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST MOVING IMAGES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES TO SMARTPHONES: This course examines changing technologies of image capture/(re)production/circulation in the Middle East from the turn of the century through today. We examine historical moments through an appreciation of changing technological advancements of visual material. From changing printing practices on postcards, consumer grade cameras, increasing photographs in periodicals, TVs & VHS, leading up to networked technologies and the digital morass in which we now live. Across the course, emergent technological capabilities of visuality become entwined in issues of nationalism, revolt, consumerism, tourism, changing gender roles, and boundaries of sexuality. The second half of the course focuses on the contemporary landscape of smartphones/internet/apps/digitality and the dizzying array of visual material in which we now drown. From protests to citizen journalists, emergent political movements and social media on smartphones, from Grindr to surveillance, selfies, & sex. Finally, there is an emphasis for students to develop and integrate visual material in their developing research agendas. We will explore some visual methods across the course and you will learn how to create a digital story paying special attention to not simply using visual material as the "representation" of your argument.
This is a service-learning vocal music course designed mainly for music students …
This is a service-learning vocal music course designed mainly for music students who wish to learn and perform the genre of Classical Art Song and use the knowledge to serve the community as a vocal performer or music educator. The course will review the literature of Art Song from classical to modern time periods, studying the unique styles and various forms of Art Song including German Lied, French mélodie, English Art Song as well as African-American Spiritual. Selected art songs by great composers in each period will be discussed in the course modules.
This course deals with the principles of infrastructure planning in developing countries, …
This course deals with the principles of infrastructure planning in developing countries, with a focus on appropriate and sustainable technologies for water and sanitation. It also incorporates technical, socio-cultural, public health, and economic factors into the planning and design of water and sanitation systems. Upon completion, students will be able to plan simple, yet reliable, water supply and sanitation systems for developing countries that are compatible with local customs and available human and material resources. Graduate / Professional and upper division students from any department who are interested in international development at the grassroots level are encouraged to participate in this interdisciplinary subject. Acknowledgment This course was jointly developed by Earthea Nance and Susan Murcott in Spring 2006.
Course 12.307 is an undergraduate course intended to illustrate, by means of …
Course 12.307 is an undergraduate course intended to illustrate, by means of 'hands on' projects, the basic dynamical and physical principles that govern the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean and the day to day sequence of weather events.ĺĘ The course parallels the content of the new undergraduate textbook Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics by John Marshall and R. Alan Plumb.
Web Accessibility for Developers is a technical book aimed primarily at programmers. …
Web Accessibility for Developers is a technical book aimed primarily at programmers. Learn how to develop accessible interactivity on the Web and gain expertise using WAI-ARIA, a W3C specification that enables optimal use of assistive technologies, like screen readers, when navigating the Web.
This complete set of course materials contains all files used for in-class …
This complete set of course materials contains all files used for in-class activities and labs, a full set of lecture slides, project assignments, and a test bank. Topics covered include:
HTML Basics CSS Images Page Layout Tables Forms Multimedia JavaScript
This open course for Web Technologies and Application Development was created through …
This open course for Web Technologies and Application Development was created through a Round Ten Affordable Learning Georgia Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials Creation.
The course includes original study guides, lectures, and examples within these topics:
HTML CSS JavaScript Dynamic HTML HTML Forms PHP User Experience Web App Security Web 2.0 Mobile Web
The website for the course also features student websites created during the KSU course with Dr. Zheng.
This is an activity about light. Learners will make their own spectroscopes …
This is an activity about light. Learners will make their own spectroscopes from easily obtainable materials and use prisms to observe different types of white light sources to see the colors that form the visible light spectrum. This is Activity 2 of the Sun As a Star afterschool curriculum.
This is an activity about what individuals already know about the Sun. …
This is an activity about what individuals already know about the Sun. Learners will brainstorm and share with the group their prior knowledge about the Sun. This is Activity 1 of the Sun As a Star afterschool curriculum.
Die Funktionsweise des Mikroprozessors wollen wir in unserem Kurs nachvollziehen. Dabei werden …
Die Funktionsweise des Mikroprozessors wollen wir in unserem Kurs nachvollziehen. Dabei werden wir wirklich ganz von vorne in den 50er Jahren anfangen und uns mit Logikgattern, Lochkarten, der Z3 und der von Neumann Architektur auseinandersetzen. Anschliessend werden wir uns - nur ein wenig - mit der Physik und Elektrotechnik des Mikroprozessors befassen und verstehen, dass er nichts anderes als eine sehr kompakte Z3 ist. Darüber hinaus werden wir uns in die Grundlagen von Betriebssystemen einarbeiten und verstehen, wie die Komponenten eines modernen Computers miteinander interagieren. Doch wer glaubt, dass wir in unserem Kurs nur graue Theorie wälzen, hat sich geschnitten. Im praktischen Teil werden wir selbst einen Mikroprozessor (Raspberry Pi) und Periphärie mit Assembler ansteuern und programmieren. An unserem Kursziele angekommen haben wir hoffentlich verstanden, wie ein Computer denn nun wirklich funktioniert und werden demnächst, wenn wir im Internet surfen, ein Spiel spielen oder ein Referat schreiben uns vielleicht öfter ein Mal erstaunt zurück lehnen und diesem Meisterwerk an Ingenieurskunst unsere Anerkennung zollen.
This open course for World Civilization I at Georgia Southern University (Armstrong) …
This open course for World Civilization I at Georgia Southern University (Armstrong) was created under a Round Eight ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. The course includes readings, films, research, writing guidelines, online resources, and publishing opportunities.
In this course we will read and write about works that explore …
In this course we will read and write about works that explore symbolic encounters in the American landscape. Some of the assigned works look at uneasy encounters between ordinary individuals and animals—wolves, eagles, sandhill cranes—that Americans have invested with symbolic significance; others explore conflicts between the pragmatic American impulse to impose order on unruly nature and the equally American inclination to enshrine the unaltered landscape.
This course takes rhetoric as a system for designing meaning that helps …
This course takes rhetoric as a system for designing meaning that helps us understand complex situations and ideas, enlighten and persuade others to act, and thus reshape our world. We’ll study rhetoric systematically and empirically, both analyzing how it works on us as readers, and testing how we can make informed rhetorical choices as we design our own texts.
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