National University of Singapore

This course introduces fluid mechanics as applied to engineering. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid and flow, the course presents fluid statics, which cover hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies, surface tension forces, buoyancy, metacentric height, and stability of floating bodies. The course presents numerous examples of engineering applications pertaining to each aspect of fluid statics. In the section on fluid dynamics, the course introduces basic principles of fluid motion. Topics include continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations, and free-surface flows including hydraulic jumps, the momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach, flow measurements and common pressure instrumentation, velocity and volumetric measurements, analysis of engineering results, the dimensional analysis and similitude.

This course provides an introduction to instrument sound design using different forms of synthesis and signal processing with computers. Students develop skills in creating sounds they imagine. The course offers aural training in identifying synthesis types, filtering, and other common techniques used in instrument design as well as support in practical implementation of these techniques in software. Projects include designing a sample-based instrument and developing a sound library with different forms of synthesis. The course uses entry-level graphical synthesis environments. No experience with coding is required.

This course examines embryogenesis, starting from fertilization to birth in the case of animal development; and to germination, growth and differentiation in plants. It covers concepts, principles and mechanisms that underlie development in plants and animals. Different organism models are studied to demonstrate the rapid advances in this field of life sciences

This module examines the centrality of food, drink and dining practices in Tamil and other South Asian cultures. The module probes a fascinating facet of South Asian gastro politics by exploring such themes as the relationship between taste and nourishment, food and gender roles, the politics of commensality, and representations of eating and drinking across various visual media. The thematically organised lectures and tutorials incorporate perspectives from history, literature, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.

This course explores major political ideas and concepts from the modern Western tradition. Key political constructs such as power, authority, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in intellectual and historical context. Reading Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, among other influential writings, students are exposed to the broader themes and ideas that have shaped political life in the West since 1600.