Imperial College London

This course teaches students to consider the challenges posed by climate change, and the technologies and systems that are required to mitigate it. Students are introduced to key mitigation technologies and given the skills to perform basic economic analysis of the options. Lectures cover technoeconomic assessment and emissions estimation methods, possible future technology developments, and approaches to systems thinking, as well as the policy background on climate change. 

This class consists of an extended laboratory, over 10 weeks, to investigate how a particular processing parameter influences the structure, properties and performance of a material. Each group of students is asked to determine the processing parameters that optimizes the performance of a material for a particular application. Students design and perform a systematic series of experiments to meet the objective, each student produces an individual report on the investigation. 

The course develops the tools required for the application of new energy and renewable energy systems to the problems faced by climate change and global energy security while transitioning to a zero emissions economy. The focus is on the application of materials for the development of new energy recovery systems such as nanostructured surfaces for solar harvesting, solar fuels, batteries/capacitors, and fuel cells/electrolysers. Biomass as a potential alternative to clean energy is also discussed along with its different scenarios and the associated advantages and risks. 

The course teaches students a thorough understanding of high-performance and energy-efficient computer architecture. Students learn principles and techniques for evaluating architectural proposals, explore how knowledge of computer architecture informs software performance engineering, and gain a deep understanding of topical trends in advanced computer architecture, compiler design, operating systems, and parallel processing

In his course, students examine the current scientific view of the origin of the Earth, the universe, matter, and life, as well as the evidence upon which these views are based. The course also covers the development of these views in different cultures and areas of uncertainty. Through team-based and independent research students learn to explain the status and results of scientific research into origins questions, and to critically evaluate the scientific evidence for these conclusions. They also consider where results and conclusions are uncertain, and where our knowledge is currently limited, as well as research an unfamiliar topic, communicating the results of this research to a non-specialist audience. 

Students usually work in groups of four throughout the year on a major design, make, and test activity. This is based on a project brief approved by the department, or is an agreed subtask of a wider research team. The group is required to develop the brief as a product specification, in collaboration with the supervisor acting as client. The group must also keep full records of the subsequent design, manufacture and test activities in compliance with industrial standards, including the use of logbooks, design review, formal reports, and  both poster and oral presentations. The project culminates in the high profile DMT Exhibition. Throughout the project, each student is required to work to processes detailed in a Quality Plan that their group must write and maintain.

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of continuum mechanics that underpin the theoretical understanding of many engineering disciplines and to demonstrate how problems in continuum mechanics can be solved using numerical techniques. Particular attention is paid to the theory and implementation of the finite element method. The course provides the theoretical basis for higher level courses on applications of finite element methods and finite volume methods and is a companion module to Fluid Mechanics and Stress Analysis. 

This course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the chemistry and materials science principles related to Bioengineering. It covers the main functional groups in organic molecules, their roles in building more complex structures and functionalizing surfaces; the main techniques for identifying and characterizing engineered molecules; the foundations of classical thermodynamics and applications in biomedical engineering and molecular sciences; chemical kinetics, Fick's laws and steady state diffusion; and the wet lab skills of students, including preparing a range of biomaterials and practice with the main techniques used for classifying such materials.

This course instils the principles of digital logic design and computer fundamentals. It provides a basis for students to understand what happens inside digital computers and how they communicate with the real world. It illustrates how both digital computers and complex medical instrumentation are built up from simple logic circuit elements. It relates logic and digital systems to the fundamentals of computer programming. Lastly, it provides the basic skills of programming in the ANSI C language and Matlab to convey a sense of the professionalism required of programmers in order to write reliable C code for safety-critical applications, such as medicine.

In this course, students develop their understanding of electronics components and systems architecture and how these are used in different types of biomedical instrumentation. Students then use this knowledge during a practical task to develop an instrument prototype following a set of bioengineering/biomedical specifications.