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BME 595X Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers

This course is intended as an advanced course in cell and molecular biology for engineering students, with an emphasis on molecular approaches to manipulating cell responses for biomedical engineering applications. Course topics will include in depth exploration of the molecular basis of cellular function, including protein biochemistry, signal transduction, cell-extracellular matrix interactions and gene expression. An introduction to tools and techniques used in modern cell and molecular biology will also be provided.

NOTE: This course can be used to satisfy a life science requirement in the biomedical engineering program. It cannot be used to satisfy a biomedical engineering course requirement.

CS 5003. Foundations of Computer Science: an Introduction

This is the study of mathematical foundations of computing, at a slower pace than that of CS 503 and with correspondingly fewer background assumptions.  Topics include finite automata and regular languages, pushdown automata and context-free languages, Turing machines and decidability, and an introduction to computational  complexity.  Prerequisite: an undergraduate course in discrete mathematics.

ME 500 Applied Analytical Methods

The emphasis of this course is on the modeling of physical phenomena encountered in mechanical engineering, and on interpreting solutions in terms of the governing physics. In this manner, the course will expose students to a range of techniques that are useful to practicing engineers and researchers. Physical examples will be drawn from fluid mechanics, dynamics, and structural mechanics. The course will introduce analytical and numerical techniques as they are required to study such phenomena. Depending on the examples chosen, the techniques covered may include ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, Fourier series, transform methods, linear algebra, multivariable and vector calculus, calculus of variations, and numerical simulations.

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