University College London

The course provides a broad knowledge of the requirements of both conventional and renewable energy systems and an advanced understanding of the fundamental principles that underpin select key stationary and portable energy conversion and storage technologies. Students develop skills in the design of energy systems with an emphasis on sustainability, improving efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources.

This course explores contemporary metaethics, a discipline which asks philosophical questions about ethics. The four questions at the center of the course are: Are there truths about ethics – about what is good, bad, right, wrong, and so on? Are these truths objective? Are these truths part of the natural world? How does our ethical thought and language work? Students investigate these questions by learning about the major theories defended in contemporary metaethics, and as part of this they learn about various specific problems and questions investigated by contemporary philosophers in this area.

This course provides students with an understanding of modern dynamic mechanical systems and their interaction with the world. Movement, sensing, control, and stability are modelled and discussed through examples such as self-driving cars, magnetic levitating (mag-lev) trains and satellite systems. The course provides physical experience of dynamic, vibrational, and resonant behavior, as well as strategies to improve dynamic response, control vibration, and stabilize inherently unstable systems. Students become familiar with modelling and analysis of dynamic systems and the methods to control them.

This course provides introduces the main concepts and body of evidence that underlie our current understanding of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Universe. It offers exposure to the fundamental principles of special and general relativity and their significance to the evolution of the Cosmos. Topics such as stellar interiors, classification, and evolution along with galaxy dynamics are discussed in some detail. The course culminates with descriptions of current cosmological models and recent developments of the much discussed dark matter and dark energy mysteries, and what they entail to the evolution of the Universe.