Carlos III University of Madrid

This course is an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) including the history and key concepts of AI, the social and media transformations it brings, and practical uses of AI tools for text, image, and audio production. It examines ethical considerations, AI regulation, and the role of AI in news verification and disinformation. 

This course offers a study of the principles and techniques of statistical graphics and data visualization. It discusses how to select and create effective visual representations for univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data. Topics include: graphical perception; the grammar of statistical graphs; exploratory data analysis; advanced data exploration such as maps and network charts; practical applications in statistics. 

This course explores how culture influences management and organizational practices in international contexts. It discusses cultural dimensions, global mobility, ethical challenges, and research paradigms in cross-cultural studies. Students gain skills to analyze cultural differences, manage diverse teams effectively, and understand the impact of culture on human resources and leadership practices. 

Pre-requisites: Human Resource Management. 

This course focuses on contemporary fiction that looks to our future as radically dystopian. It explores the reasons for dystopia and the way we construct, through film and literature, images of an uncertain future and the challenges we face as a society. This course also discusses speculative fiction, specifically the impact of scientific and technological development on our society as constructed and proposed through literature and film.   

Pre-requisites: Advanced knowledge of Spanish 

This course examines gender studies within the field of media including how gender shapes representation, identity, and power through film, visual culture, and digital media. Topics include: gender as social construction, performance, and technology; representations of violence; the impact of new media, social networks, and AI on gender identities and narratives. 

This course offers a study of the fundamentals of kinematic and dynamic behavior of rigid bodies, the theory of machines, and mechanisms. Other topics include: kinematics of planar mechanisms; dynamics of planar mechanisms; energy and power. 

Pre-requisites: Physics I; Calculus I; Calculus II; Linear Algebra 

This course offers a study of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome from 3700 BCE to 476 CE. It focuses on the historical evolution of political institutions, the global influence of actors, institutions, and processes, the socio-political context of the economic systems in these societies, and how social movements changed social structures. This course also analyzes changes in cultural expressions (art, literature, religion) and their link to historical and political processes.

Topics in this aerospace structures course include: structural description of the aircraft; structures in the aeronautical sector; bending and shear of open and closed, thin-walled beams; torsion of beams; torsion on multiple-cell, thin-walled beams; bending of thin plates; shells; theory of laminate; composite beams and plates; sandwich structures.

Pre-requisites: Physics I; Mechanics Applied to Aerospace Engineering; Introduction to Structural Analysis

This introductory course explores the historical evolution of political institutions and ideas from antiquity to the present. It analyzes power, legitimacy, and governance through key political theories, systems, and actors at both national and international levels. Students practice critical research methods, comparative analysis, and effective communication of historical and political arguments. 

In this course, students gain practical tools to understand and improve industrial operations. This course offers a study of organization of industrial firms, focusing on operations, production, and supply chain systems. It discusses demand forecasting, inventory management, warehousing, and the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tool. as well as different production coordination approaches, including push, pull, and Just-In-Time (JIT) systems, and product and process design.  

Pre-requisite- Introduction to Engineering Management