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Participants learn basic concepts, their theoretical foundation, and the most common algorithms used in machine learning and artificial intelligence. After completing the module, participants understand strengths and limitations of the different paradigms, are able to correctly and successfully apply methods and algorithms to real world problems, are aware of performance criteria, and are able to critically evaluate results obtained with those methods. More specifically, participants are able to demonstrate: 1) Understanding regarding basic concepts of neural information processing 2) Knowledge of unsupervised machine learning methods 3) Application to problems of statistical modeling, explorative data analysis, and visualization. Topics include 

1) Principal Component Analysis, Kernel-PCA 

2) Independent Component Analysis (Infomax, FastICA, Second Order Blind Source Separation) 

3) Stochastic Optimization 

4) Clustering, Embedding, and Visualisation (Central and Pairwise Clustering, Self-Organizing Maps, Locally Linear Embedding) 

5) Density Estimation, Mixture Models, Expectation-Maximization Algorithm, Hidden Markov Model 

6) Estimation Theory, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Bayesian Model Comparison

This course teaches students to acquire the knowledge and ability to design and analyze complex mechanical systems. This teaches students about the design process, product design specification, computer-aided design, design for manufacturing, equivalent stresses and failure criteria, transmissions and machine elements, prototyping, fatigue, shaft design, practical workshop skills, conceptual design, motors and batteries, design in plastics, ergonomics, and intellectual property.

This course covers the key concepts of the different modes of heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation) and principles of heat exchangers. It develops proficiency in applying these heat transfer concepts and principles, to analyze and solve practical engineering problems involving heat transfer processes. Topics include introduction to heat transfer; steady state heat conduction; transient heat conduction; lumped capacitance; introduction to convective heat transfer; external forced convection; internal forced convection; natural/free convection; blackbody radiation and radiative properties; radiative exchange between surfaces; introduction to heat exchangers and basic calculation of overall heat transfer coefficient. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course provides an overview of the theories and perspectives applicable to the study of communication and new media. Students apply various theories from both critical/cultural and social scientific approaches to analyze diverse digital phenomena and controversies. Students gain a foundational knowledge in how digital technologies affect interactions, how social media changes news consumption, how the conception of work changes in an era of crowdsourcing, and how media content can be made more persuasive.

This course provides students with the foundational skills needed to negotiate for ocean freight transportation. Students gain a solid foundation on how ocean freight transportation works and identify how the intricacies behind ocean freight contract negotiations will affect the profits and losses in international commodity trading.

This course examines how basic principles of behavior analysis (e.g. operant conditioning) can be used across a range of situations to modify behavior. Situations include classroom behavior management, physical activity and exercise, child safety, and sustainability.

Music and language are culturally ubiquitous forms of auditory-motor communication that share many structural features but also differ along several key dimensions. This course addresses the extent to which human processing and production of music and language relies on shared versus distinct mechanisms, at the levels of brain and behavior. Specifically, it reviews basic structural similarities and differences between music and language, and introduces state-of-the art research providing insight into how these structures are processed at the levels of brain and behavior. The course discusses basic cognitive neuroscience literature on music and language perception and production and provides opportunities to critically evaluate and engage with scientific literature. Moreover, students develop testable hypotheses regarding mechanisms of music and language processing, and generate practical experimental designs to test their hypotheses.

What is at stake in reading, writing, depicting and telling the histories of Berlin’s architectural and urban landscape? How do historical and analytical frameworks shape scholarly understandings of the city? How does the architecture of Berlin shape its history and theory? Conducted as a discussion seminar, this course uses recent architectural and urban histories of 20th century Berlin to explore different ways of narrating the city’s history. Each week, students will approach Berlin’s urbanity through different textual and visual media to discuss the themes and methods—from femininity to migration, politics to privatization—by which they narrate the entanglement of Berlin’s physical and social landscape. Over the course of the semester, students will develop their scholarly reading techniques, and their fluency in the multipolar and manifold circumstances of the city. The premise of the course is that engaging the narrative can lead to ‘changing the narrative,’ thereby opening the door for students to develop an original final project, situating their worldly experience in the past, present and future of Berlin.

Topics covered provide students with a comprehensive knowledge, theoretical and applied, to design and realize a full mechatronic system. The course content includes an overview of Control systems, modelling of dynamic systems, Laplace Transforms, Root locus, Steady state errors, final value theorem, Frequency response analysis, Bode diagrams, Compensation, and PID Controllers.

In this course, students examine the origins of the idea of human rights, how it became institutionalized in law and international politics, and how its history and prospects have become so fiercely contested today. Students reflect on the history of abolitionism, human rights, and humanitarianism in a global setting, and analyze the impact of modern international and multi-cultural perspectives on the evolution of human rights history.