Science Postgraduate Degrees

...2 sessions / week. 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session This course is taught in two six-week components. The first component...

...simple molecules and bonds, and the behavior of electrons in solids and energy bands. Introducing the variation principle as a method for the calculation of wavefunctions...

...errors and accuracy of quantitative predictions: thermodynamic ensembles, Monte Carlo sampling and molecular dynamics simulations; free energy and phase transitions...

...fatigue damage and dislocation substructures in single crystals, stress- and strain-life approach to fatigue, fatigue crack growth models and mechanisms...

...such as lightweight structural panels, energy absorption devices and thermal insulation. The applications of cellular solids in medicine include increased... Learn about: IT risk, Tissue Engineering...

...shielding methods, and electric contacts. Emphasis on underlying science of a given process rather than a detailed description of the technique or equipment...

...and device design principles of LEDs, lasers, photodetectors, modulators, fiber and waveguide interconnects, optical filters, and photonic crystals...

...to the structure and properties of metals. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Fundamentals of Material Science (3.012) Microstructural Evolution...

...techniques (controlled potential, controlled current) and a.c. techniques (voltametry and impedance spectroscopy). Applications of the following will also be discussed...

...1.5 hours / lecture This course covers the derivation of symmetry theory; lattices, point groups, space groups, and their properties; use of symmetry...

...The second objective is to expose students to a wide range of applications for these methods and models, and to integrate this material with their introduction... Learn about: Operations Management...

...It covers the influence of processing and structure on mechanical properties of synthetic and natural polymers: Hookean and entropic elastic deformation...

...at students aiming to study mechanics (solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, energy methods etc.), and the course introduces some of the mathematical tools used in these subjects... Learn about: GCSE Mathematics...

...Equations or 18.034 Honors Differential Equations This graduate level course focuses on nonlinear dynamics with applications. It takes an intuitive approach...

...modeling of seabeds and ice covers, seismic interface and surface waves in a stratified seabed, Parabolic Equation and Coupled Mode approaches to propagation...

...using notions from feedback control. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session 18.03 Differential Equations Biology (GIR) One of the following courses...

...(Department of Ocean Engineering) as 13.021. In 2005, ocean engineering became part of Course 2 (Department of Mechanical Engineering), and this subject was renumbered... Learn about: Fluid Mechanics...

...thickness problems for sub-cavitating sections, unsteady flow problems, and computer-aided design of low drag cavitation-free sections. It also covers...

...This course was originally offered in Course 13 (Department of Ocean Engineering) as 13.022. In 2005, ocean engineering subjects became part of Course...

...2 hours / session 2.006 The grade will be based on homework and class participation and a term project as follows: The homework assignments will apply... Learn about: Fluid Dynamics...