Singapore

This course examines the start-up formation process, such as the forms and regulatory compliances of different business structures, types and sources of funding for starting up and growth, ultimately leading to a viable exit strategy for all stakeholders. Students learn the entrepreneurship development from a financing viewpoint and gain insights into the investment opportunities from the perspectives of both the entrepreneurs and investors, with respect to the funding cycles and expectations. Students assess a venture's financial health through understanding the financial statements, essential financial indicators, creating financial projections, capital budgeting techniques and preliminary valuation methods. This course is suitable for those who are planning to embark on and/or currently involved in startup creation, with or without prior knowledge of accounting and finance, and would like to gain a working knowledge of how to read the financial statements in ways that will support business activities and decision making from the perspective of a startup.

This course covers the strategic aspects of facilities management: strategy formulation, planning, studying options, delivery and review. Emphasis is on the strategy and business of the organization and how this translates into the outcomes for the physical workplace. Topics include strategic facilities management framework; the need for coordination between workflow and space; facilities management system and tools; the procedures; automation; integrated FM systems; and strategic FM case studies.

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of problem solving by computing and programming using an imperative programming language. It is and introductory course to computing. Topics include computational thinking and computational problem solving, designing and specifying an algorithm, basic problem formulation and problem solving approaches, program development, coding, testing and debugging, fundamental programming constructs (variables, types, expressions, assignments, functions, control structures, etc.), fundamental data structures (arrays, strings, composite data types), basic sorting, and recursion.

The course covers commodities markets with a primary focus on agriculture, metals and minerals and energy and chemicals. It focuses on fundamental concepts and terminology necessary for understanding commodity production, transportation, economics and marketing. Students learn about trading technology trends and innovation and look into sustainability challenges and legal aspects.

This course introduces the concept of modelling dependence and focuses on discrete-time Markov chains. Topics include discrete-time Markov chains, examples of discrete-time Markov chains, classification of states, irreducibility, periodicity, first passage times, recurrence and transience, convergence theorems and stationary distributions. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

Students learn how to convert raw materials into useful products through conventional and advanced manufacturing processes. The course covers the appropriate manufacturing pathways for producing specific products. Topics include an introduction to manufacturing, metal casting, powder metallurgy and processing, bulk deformation processing, sheet metalworking, machining, cutting tool technology, welding, and additive manufacturing.

This course equips students with knowledge on the unique properties of materials useful in engineering design selection. Topics include commonly used materials in different engineering designs and emerging materials and processes, and life cycle assessment. Students learn concepts of surface engineering, strengthening and hardening techniques, hardenability, heat treatment, friction and wear properties. The course introduces key material properties and testing such as tensile testing, compression testing, torsion test, 3-point bending test along with their specific relevance. Students learn the different ways of degradation of materials when it reacts with environment.

This course introduces students, without a background in sport psychology, to the basic concepts needed to understand sport psychology and its application. Topics include Psychological Skills Training, Peak Performance, Performance Profiling, Goal Setting, Performance Review, Motivation, Psychophysiology, Relaxation, Activation, Imagery, Self‐Talk, Concentration, Team Building, and, Competition Routines. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

Students taking this course build upon the Beginners and Elementary levels and expand command of written and spoken Spanish. Intermediate Spanish B.1.1. focuses on readings and discussions of Spanish culture and develops students’ vocabulary while reinforcing complex grammar and syntax. This course focuses on accurate written production with review of more complex grammar skills such as pretérito pluscuamperfecto and presente de subjuntivo. The course requires students to take Spanish 4 as a prerequisite.

This course surveys the history of modern Japan from the late‐Tokugawa period to the present. The course gives an understanding of major events and analyzes the modern history of Japan in transnational and comparative contexts. It explores a number of common themes of modern global history: nation building, colonialism, total war, and various transformations and social conflicts in the postwar period. Students think critically about diverse historical interpretations and controversies. The course includes a broad range of historical debates and viewpoints.