Engineering

This course provides hands-on experience in various aspects of biomedical engineering, including introduction to basic electronics, chemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, electrophysiology laboratory techniques. Students gain exposure to biological and chemical safety and other general safety issues. Students also receive training on laboratory skills, design of experiments, interpretation of data and technical writing. This course concludes with a student-driven design project.

This course examines the importance of the mining industry in our lives. It explores how commodities are extracted from the ground and who are involved at various stages of the mining operation. The topics covered include geology, mining, mineral processing, safety, the impact of mining on the environment, and economics. It also covers employability in the mining industry, which employs people of various backgrounds (e.g. geologists, mining engineers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, environmental engineers, process & chemical engineers, lawyers, finance, etc.)

This course introduces the foundations of reasoning under uncertainty, its characteristics and the effect of these on inference processes. Topics include modeling, using and designing fuzzy expert systems, Bayesian networks, stochastic knowledge, decision theory, Markov decision processes, and Kalman filtering.

This course examines heuristic search, games, and algorithms. Topics include the importance of heuristics in search problems, search algorithms, evolutionary programming, evaluating heuristics, and game problems. Students examine NP-completeness theory, classifying problems, graph matching, and information theory. 

This course exposes students to a range of state-of-the-art developments in biomedical engineering. It invites students from various disciplines to discuss the long-term societal impacts and ethical implications of these technological advances, particularly in human enhancements beyond therapy. The course starts by illustrating the many amazing designs in the human body and yet how vulnerable it is in terms of injuries, diseases and ageing. Examples on how modern biomedical engineering helps us face our human conditions are given, such as musculoskeletal prosthetics and orthotics, cardiovascular implants, neuro-engineering, stem cells and regenerative medicine, gene editing, bio-nanotechnology, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and senses and artificial senses. A historical account of human quest for “living” machine, including a brief coverage of modern movies on bionic human then follows. The course wraps up with some social, ethical and philosophical reflections on the above issues and on the meaning of being human, opening up questions concerning the perennial human quest of becoming super human.

In this course, students learn to implement imagen processing algorithms, inside a realistic audio-visual engineering working environment, design real production configurations, and determine the quality of systems and signals by means of specific measurement equipment. This course requires background knowledge in the fundamentals of engineering optics, digital signal processing, television, and digital imagen processing.

The course is designed to equip students with experience, knowledge, and skills for succeeding in globally interdependent and culturally diverse workplaces. Throughout the course, students will be challenged to question, reflect upon, and respond thoughtfully to the issues they observe and encounter in the internship setting and local host environment. Students will have the opportunity to cultivate professional and personal development skills as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Assignments focus on building a portfolio that highlights those competencies and their application to workplace skills. Students complete 45 hours of in-person and asynchronous online learning activities and 225-300 hours at the internship placement.

In this course, students gain the knowledge and the abilities needed for solving more difficult constructive solutions. Topics include the constructive invariants needed for developing constructive solutions with a higher complexity level, the common singular sections for the different constructive techniques considered out from the basic construction, and constructive solutions by using the current building regulations. The course includes a strong design approach and at the conclusion of the course, students design a building from the construction point of view. The course requires background knowledge in basic constructive systems, constructive materials, and technology. 

In this course, students learn the planning, design, construction, and operation of highways, traffic networks and their related infrastructure. The course is divided into the following activities: lectures, recitations (design case studies), laboratory and computer practice sessions. Students use CAD/BIM professional software for highway design. Topics include specialized vocabulary and regulatory knowledge relevant to highway engineering; the core concepts, principles, and terminology in highway design and construction; the basic characteristics of road transport supply and demand, and the main actors involved. Students gain the ability and skills to analyze, quantify and correct the traffic states in rural and urban roads, as part of the usual techniques of Traffic Engineering; skills to design urban and rural road segments, specifically including geometric design, pavement design, connections and road junctions design; the fundamental characteristics of air transport and aircrafts for its use in airport infrastructure design; and develop critical analysis capabilities, conceptual scalability, and depth of understanding applicable to this Civil Engineering specialization.

This course examines the technological properties and behavior models of concrete, steel rebars and steel tendons, both individually and globally, to resist mechanical and chemical actions. Students learn to understand and apply the European standard (EUROCODE 2, EN-1992) for the design and construction of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Additional topics include the different structural analysis methods for concrete structures according to European standard, competence in the project, design construction and maintenance of reinforced concrete structures of moderate complexity, and the behavior and design of statically determinate prestressed concrete members with pre-tensioned tendons, and of the materials and construction systems involved. This course requires students to have prerequisites and background knowledge.