Carlos III University of Madrid

This course is a study of industrial operations management. It begins with an introductory survey on supply chain management before continuing into a more in-depth look at various constituent factors. Topics of study include: procurement management and supplier relations, inventory management, production planning, enterprise resources, control of production, lean manufacturing, and current issues and trends in the field.

The course analyzes culture as an ethical construction, and ethics as cultural production. Topics include: culture, identity, and processes of subjectivation; ideology; hegemony, culture, and common sense; cultural criticism and emancipation; cultural distinction and exclusion; normative potential of the awareness of injustice in subordinate groups; ethical and epistemic decolonization processes; the multiculturalist program and its failures; interculturality and intersectionality.

This course offers an introduction to the design of medical instrumentation. Topics include: signal amplification; signal filtering; electrical safety; electrocardiology; electroencephalography; other biopotential recordings-- EMG, ENG, ERG, EOG; biopotential amplifiers; electrodes and electrolytes; sensors-- biophysics, design, applications; introduction to signal digitalization; therapeutic and prosthetic devices; pressure and sound measurements; flow and volume measurements; introduction to optical measurement systems. 

Prerequisites: Introduction to Bioengineering, Electronic Technology in Biomedicine, Measuring Instrumentation, Signals and Systems, or Digital Signal Processing.

This course offers an overview of tissue engineering in clinical medicine and biomedical research and examines the role of emerging technologies and engineering and life science disciplines in tissue engineering. Topics include: dynamic and structural interactions between mesenchyme and parenchyme, the role of the tissue microenvironment, stem cells, gene and cell-based therapies. Practical sessions at the bioengineering laboratories are also included.

The course offers an introduction to negotiation. Topics include: characteristics of a good negotiator; negotiation types; types of negotiations; positions when negotiating; the Harvard method; preparation for negotiation; development of the negotiation; closing the negotiations. 

This course offers a study of public management and administration. Topics include: political system and public administration; key factors in designing public administration structures; evolution of public management; strategies and instruments for the improvement of public management; conflict, interests, and power networks in public administrations; public values and organizational culture; public sector models and comparative public managements.

This course offers a study of the Spanish Golden Age. Topics include: the Modern Age and the history of Spain; novels of Captain Alatriste; Habsburg Spain and the Spanish monarchy; government and institutions; society and privilege; society and marginalization; women and their image in the Golden Age; Madrid, court of the Habsburgs; Culture and art-- from the Renaissance to the Baroque; culture and society-- education; written culture-- books, reading, and writing; culture and spectacle-- the theater in the Golden Age.

This course provides an intellectual and philosophical perspective on political activity and the conduct of citizens and politicians. Topics include: ethics and politics; law and political power; freedom, equality, and fundamental rights; obedience to law and civil disobedience; political models-- democracy, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism.

This course covers the concepts of complex numbers, systems of linear equations, vector space in Cn, matrix algebra, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, orthogonality, and normal matrices.