| source Stanford (X) |
level |
department Electrical Engineering (X) |
Lectures/discussions on topics of importance to the electrical engineering professional. Continuing education, professional societies, intellectual property and patents, ethics, entrepreneurial engineering, and engineering management.
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The world may be made of earth, wind, fire, and water, but it runs on information. The mathematics of the Information Age include CD players, cellular phones, imaging, and the Internet. Behind-the-scenes look at how mathematics is used to shape and direct modern life and work.
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Preference to freshmen. Most engineering curricula present truncated, linear histories of technology, but the stories behind disruptive inventions such as the telegraph, telephone, wireless, television, transistor, and chip are as important as the inventions themselves. How these stories elucidate broadly applicable scientific principles. Focus is on studying consumer devices; optional projects to build devices including semiconductors made from pocket change. Students may propose topics of interest to them.
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Preference to freshmen. The design of a complete system by combining electrical engineering disciplines such as control theory, circuit design, microprocessors, and semiconductor devices. Based on radio-controlled toy cars, the design and construction of a robot capable of autonomously following a track. Teams compete in a race against the clock in a version of the DARPA Grand Challenge.
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Preference to freshmen. Possibilities and impossibilities of nanotechnology. Sources include Feynman's There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Drexler's Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, and Crichton's Prey. Assumptions and predictions of these classic works; what nano machinery may do; scenarios of a technology that may go astray. Prerequisites: high school math, physics and chemistry.
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Preference to freshmen. Forms of imaging including human and animal vision systems, atomic force microscope, microscope, digital camera, holography and three-dimensional imaging, telescope, synthetic aperture radar imaging, nuclear magnetic imaging, sonar and gravitational wave imaging, and the Hubble Space telescope. Physical principles and exposure to real imaging devices and systems.
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Preference to freshmen. Examples of societal networks include: transportation networks; electricity, water, and gas networks; recycling systems. The efficient operation of such networks and their dependence on their use of technology and on human actions.
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How everything from electrostatics to quantum mechanics is used in common high-technology products. Electrostatics are critical in micro-mechanical systems used in many sensors and displays, and basic EM waves are essential in all high-speed communication systems. How to propagate energy in free space. Which aspects of modern physics are needed to generate light for the operation of a DVD player or TV. Introduction to semiconductors, solid-state light bulbs, and laser pointers. Hands-on labs to connect physics to everyday experience.
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Preference to freshman. Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and fires, and how they affect people and society; great disasters such as asteroid impacts that periodically obliterate many species of life. Scientific issues, political and social consequences, costs of disaster mitigation, and how scientific knowledge affects policy. How spaceborne imaging technology makes it possible to respond quickly and mitigate consequences; how it is applied to natural disasters; and remote sensing data manipulation and analysis.
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Lectures/discussions on topics of importance to the electrical engineering professional. Continuing education, professional societies, intellectual property and patents, ethics, entrepreneurial engineering, and engineering management.
Score: 10.001205 Details | Listing | Web page