University of Edinburgh

This innovative course introduces students to important and emerging issues in urban cultures and societies in the opening decades of the 21st century. At its core, it explores the interaction between culture, space, and people.  To do so, the course explores developments in three important global cities: Seoul, Shanghai, and Edinburgh. Students engage with both textual and non-textual materials, including films, TV shows, music, webtoons, and design. Although the course is built round the cases of Seoul, Shanghai, and Edinburgh students learn how to situate the cases in a broader comparative perspective, within Asia and in Europe. This course draws on conceptual and analytical tools from the humanities and social sciences. The course introduces students to key concepts in urban studies. Next, it familiarizes them with a select number of contemporary developments in Seoul, Shanghai, and Edinburgh. The later part of the course is more practice-oriented, as students carry out a small research project in the city of Edinburgh, before reflecting on the possible links with the other cities.

A mobile robot is a machine controlled by software that uses sensors and other technology to identify its surroundings and move around its environment. This course provides a general understanding of mobile robotics and related concepts, covering topics such as sensing, computer vision (i.e., visual perception), state estimation (e.g., localization and mapping), and motion planning. The emphasis is on algorithms, probabilistic reasoning, optimization, inference mechanisms, and behavior strategies, as opposed to electromechanical systems design. Practically useful tools and simulators for developing real robotic systems are also covered in this course. 

This is an introduction course to the techniques and equipment used in the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of electrical power. It gives a basic understanding of how a power system operates and the problems facing electricity utilities. The design and main operating features of different types of motors and generators are also covered.

This course explores many ways in which humans and other species perceive and think about color. Color will serve as a sandbox to study how different psychological domains are inextricably linked and influence each other. Color is perfect for this - on one hand, a uniquely visual phenomenon that arises from computations performed by sensory neurons, while on the other hand, a conceptual and cognitive domain high in social and emotional salience and influenced by language-derived concepts.

This course is a practical integrative business course that requires teams of students to operate a simulated start up business. Acting as a board of directors students set the direction for the company to build up the business by making decisions related to its strategy, finance, market, operations, staffing, and innovation. It fosters interdisciplinary decision making in an inexact environment and prepares students for the problems and issues of working in a changing and uncertain world.

This course introduces python programming, software engineering and design techniques to engineering students. It also introduces the use of libraries like SciPy, NumPy and Matplotlib for solving equations (using appropriate numerical methods) and the use of JuPyter Lab notebooks to present calculations.