Engineering

Design is often regarded as the central creative activity of engineering. This course develops a foundation for the skills of analysis, synthesis, and communication required to develop solutions to open-ended problems. It focuses on three things: (1) understanding an engineering problem, (2) finding a solution to it, (3) communicating that solution to others. This course is predominantly taught through interactive team-based design studio sessions with support from lectures on topics including the philosophy, history, and ethics of engineering design. A series of group activities with mini assessments will cover key skills like research, problem solving, and the graphic, verbal, or written communication of engineering concepts.

This special lab course nurtures international students' creative competency by offering them opportunities for learning in communities of research practice. The student's supervisor arranges the research topic. Students give three oral presentations during the study period. In the presentations, students integrate ideas and analyses on laboratory results into creative and academically coherent work. FrontierLab program coordinators and supervisors attend and evaluate the final oral presentation.

This course offers a study of concepts, definitions, and applications of nonlinear dynamics. Topics include: dimensional systems and bifurcations; systems in two-dimensions-- analysis in phase space, limited cycles, and their bifurcations; Lorenz equations and chaos; 1-D maps and route to chaos by period doubling, renormalization; fractals and strange attractors.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course is divided in two modules. The aim of the first module is to provide knowledge about vehicle dynamics. Theoretical and numerical approaches are discussed to this end, as tools that allow students to predict the performance of cars in terms of longitudinal dynamics, lateral dynamics, handling, comfort, and stability. The aim of the second module is to provide the theoretical basis and the practical skills required to design embedded hardware and firmware compliant with industrial standards (safety, interoperability, maintainability). In addition, model-based design and automatic code generation using Matlab/Simulink is considered.

This course provides an introduction to the Social Study of Science and Technology. This is an area in which Edinburgh has longstanding strengths and which the course draws upon. The course examines some of the different ways of analyzing and understanding technology in society. It explores both the consequences of technical innovation for society and the ways technology is itself shaped by cultural, economic, political, and organizational factors. Students learn about a range of analytic perspectives on Technology in Society - drawing upon history, economics, and the sociologies of work, gender, and science & technology themselves. Students explore these issues in various settings - at work and in everyday life and in developing as well as developed countries. In the second part of the course, students apply these perspectives to particular technologies or issues, working together in student-centered learning. 

The course contains the learning materials, practices and case studies to develop the knowledge and skills of the students in the field of data science and its application in the real business/work world. The students learn how to apply analytical techniques and scientific principles to extract valuable information from business data for decision-making, strategic planning. This course covers practical contents of statistics, machine learning, information visualization, and data analysis techniques through python programming language and other tools.

This course emphasizes hands-on laboratory experience and teaches students research background, relevant theories, and basic laboratory techniques relevant to their field of study. Students formulate a research plan, implement it by conducting experiment-based research, and convey the results in scholarly presentations. Students submit a written research report at the end of the course.

This course provides research training for students through the experience of belonging to a specific laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Students carry out an original research project under the guidance of assigned faculty members. Through a full-time commitment, students will be able to improve their research skills by applying the basic principles and knowledge from the literature related to the research questions, and by developing the skills to collect, interpret, and critique data in order to resolve a research question or evaluate a design for a research project. At the conclusion of the program, students submit their final work (paper, presentation, report etc.) as instructed by their lab supervisors

In this course students acquire a broad knowledge base and develop analytical and critical thinking skills. Students actively participate in seminars, read assigned texts and research papers, and analyze research data. Students also discuss results obtained in their own experiments with peers and senior laboratory members.

This course nurtures student startups based on their hands-on user-centered design projects. The course proceeds like a 3.5-month pre-seed accelerator for experiential learning with an academic and theoretical foundation drawn from social-technical system design theories and principles. The practical venture building projects are aided with lectures, sprint workshops, panel discussions and weekly readings. Entrepreneurial students learn underlying factors and forces for decisions in the entrepreneurship process and the principles for designing products, processes and people organizations under extreme uncertainty and resource constraints. The course is supported by a large international network of 150+ entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, design and manufacturing experts around the world.