Course Descriptions

Critical thinking and logical argumentation. Academic research. Annotations, citations, quotations. Identification of arguments, reasoning, logical cohesion. Debates. Evaluative summary. Interview.

The basic theories in Ethics (the Philosophy of Morality). The practical implications of these theories in particular professions and areas such as engineering, medicine, pharmacology, genetics, technological innovation, artificial intelligence and robotology, management, marketing, international relations, public services, media and law. The meaning and significance of virtue and values. Moral principles within particular professions and their foundation in Ethics.

The basic biological concepts of structure and function of the human body. Body systems, such as the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, digestive, muscular, skeletal and reproductive system.

Resources and scarcity; supply and demand; the mixed economy; market structure; national income, business cycles, unemployment and inflation; economic growth and productivity; money, banking and monetary policy; international trade and finance

Voltage and current, ideal basic circuit elements. Reference directions, power and energy. Ohm’s law and Kirchoff 's laws. Time-invariant resistive circuits with dependent/independent sources. Equivalent resistance calculations, Delta-to-Wye equivalent circuits. Node-voltage and mesh-current methods, source transformation, superposition. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits. The operational amplifier. Inductance, capacitance and mutual inductance. Natural and step response of first and second-order circuits.

Functions of several variables. Limits and continuity. Partial derivatives. Chain rule for partial derivatives. Directional derivatives. Local maxima and minima. Lagrange multipliers. Taylor’s formula. Double integrals in Cartesian and polar coordinates. Triple integrals in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Line integrals. Green’s theorem. Surface integrals. Stokes’ theorem. Divergence theorem.

Basic definitions of the theory of differential equations. First order differential equations. Integration factor method. Separable equations. Homogenous equations. Bernoulli equation. Second order linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Systems of first order linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Laplace transforms. Applications of Laplace transform to linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Convolution. Linear differential equations with variable coefficients. Euler equation. Ordinary and singular points. Series solutions of second-order linear differential equations.

History of occupational health and safety. Work law. Occupational health and safety law. National and international conventions. Occupational diseases. Introduction to the concept of hazard and risk

Phasor transform and sinusoidal steady state analysis of circuits. Ideal transformers. Power calculations for circuits with sinusoidal sources, complex power. Impedance matching for maximum power transfer. Laplace transform. Transient and steady state analysis of time invariant circuits using Laplace transform. Transfer function and impulse response. Convolution integral in circuit analysis. Frequency response and frequency selective circuits. Passive and active filter circuits. Two-port circuit characterization and analysis of terminated two-port circuits.

Introduction to laboratory equipment and measurements. Introduction to circuit simulation tools. Two-terminal passive elements. Experimental applications of the fundamental circuit principles and theorems: Ohm’s and Kirchoff’s laws, Thevenin, Norton and Superposition theorems. Usage of oscilloscope and signal generator. Capacitor. Inductor. Response of RC, RL, RLC circuits