University of Edinburgh

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.

The course introduces students to a range of theories and concepts used in the academic study of public policy. It explores issues that cross the remits of different levels of government (local, regional, national, international/supranational). The course is presented in a way that facilitates a comparative analysis of political systems in different places and at multiple levels. It brings together academic expertise and practical experience, by inviting policy practitioners to present case studies.

This course examines the changing use made of the concept of time in economic theory and in UK economic policy-making from the 1930s. The policy areas covered include exchange rates, trade, labor markets, human capital, the distribution of income and wealth, housing, social security, health, the ownership and structure of utility industries, public investment, transport, and taxation.

This course develops an integrated understanding of modern approaches to some of the core areas of psychology (the remaining core areas are covered in Psychology 2B). Students are also presented with a broader historical, conceptual, and methodological framework of psychological as well as its ethical dimensions and transferable skills such as identifying and summarizing key literature.