ESD.172J X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy (MIT)
In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the public's imagination and revolutionized an industry, leveraging a $10M prize purse into over $100M in innovation. Building from that success, the X PRIZE Foundation is now developing new prizes to focus innovation around "Grand Challenge" themes, including genomics, energy, healthcare, and education.
This course will examine the intersection of incentives and innovation, drawing on economic models, historic examples, and recent
21W.730 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Social and Ethical Issues (MIT)
This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and speakers-to engage with social and ethical issues they care deeply about. Over the course of the semester, through discussing the writing of classic and contemporary authors, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social issues such as free speech, poverty and homelessness, mental illness, capital punishment and racial and gender inequality. In addition, we will analyze selected documentary and f
21W.784 Becoming Digital: Writing about Media Change (MIT)
"Becoming Digital" traces the change in practice, theory and possibility as mechanical and chemical media are augmented or supplanted by digital media. These changes will be grounded in a semester length study of "reports from the front." These reports, found and introduced by students throughout the semester, are the material produced by and about soldiers and civilians on the battlefield from the introduction of wet photography during the Crimean and Civil Wars to contempor
STS.010 Neuroscience and Society (MIT)
This course explores the social relevance of neuroscience, considering how emerging areas of brain research at once reflect and reshape social attitudes and agendas. Topics include brain imaging and popular media; neuroscience of empathy, trust, and moral reasoning; new fields of neuroeconomics and neuromarketing; ethical implications of neurotechnologies such as cognitive enhancement pharmaceuticals; neuroscience in the courtroom; and neuroscientific recasting of social problems such as addicti
Tree Id Class with Dan Williams at UGA's Oconee Forest Park
Dan Williams with the University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources teaches tree identification classes open to the public at Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick in Athens, GA.
Blackboard 9 - SafeAssign
Checking for plagiarism in the latest version of Blackboard.
2.58J Radiative Transfer (MIT)
This course investigates the principles of thermal radiation and their applications to engineering heat and photon transfer problems. Topics include quantum and classical models of radiative properties of materials, electromagnetic wave theory for thermal radiation, radiative transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media, and coherent laser radiation. Applications cover laser-material interactions, imaging, infrared instrumentation, global warming, semiconductor manufacturing, combustion
3.A08 Attraction and Repulsion: The Magic of Magnets (MIT)
This Freshman Advising Seminar surveys the many applications of magnets and magnetism. To the Chinese and Greeks of ancient times, the attractive and repulsive forces between magnets must have seemed magical indeed. Through the ages, miraculous curative powers have been attributed to magnets, and magnets have been used by illusionists to produce "magical" effects. Magnets guided ships in the Age of Exploration and generated the electrical industry in the 19th century. Today they store informatio
CMS.876 History of Media and Technology: Sound, the Minority Report -- Radical Music of the Past 100
This course looks at the history of avant-garde and electronic music from the early twentieth century to the present. The class is organized as a theory and production seminar for which students may either produce audio/multimedia projects or a research paper. It engages music scholarship, cultural criticism, studio production, and multi-media development, such as recent software, sound design for film and games, and sound installation. Sound as a media tool for communication and sound as a form
Introduction to Fluid Power: Trainers Guide
Trainers guide. This unit contains information on basic hydraulics and is based on a range Certificate II and III units from the following Training Packages: * Aviation: National Aerospace Training Package Aircraft Maintenance Engineering. * Automotive: The Automotive Industry RSR Training Package. * Polymer: Plastics, Rubber and Cablemaking PMB98. In this unit, you will learn about: * what hydraulics is * how hydraulics works * the components which make up a hydraulic system *
Introduction to Fluid Power
This is the complete unit. Each topic can be download as an individual item. This unit contains information on basic hydraulics and is based on a range Certificate II and III units from the following Training Packages: * Aviation: National Aerospace Training Package Aircraft Maintenance Engineering. * Automotive: The Automotive Industry RSR Training Package. * Polymer: Plastics, Rubber and Cablemaking PMB98. In this unit, you will learn about: * what hydraulics is * how hydraulics wor
SRXIND005A: Promote compliance with laws and legal principles: Trainers guide
Trainers guide. This resource forms the trainers guide for the unit of competency, SRXIND005A: Promote Compliance with Laws and Legal Principles. It is part of the National Community Recreation, Fitness, Outdoor Recreation and Sport Industry Training Package. The resource primarily consists of guidance to the learner on how and where to find information and giving them tasks to apply the information. This is achieved by introducing various aspects of the law via a simulated dialogue with a "me
SRXIND005A: Promote compliance with laws and legal principles: Study guide
Study guide. This resource forms the study guide for the unit of competency, SRXIND005A: Promote Compliance with Laws and Legal Principles. It is part of the National Community Recreation, Fitness, Outdoor Recreation and Sport Industry Training Package. The resource primarily consists of guidance to the learner on how and where to find information and giving them tasks to apply the information. This is achieved by introducing various aspects of the law via a simulated dialogue with a "mentor",
Liaise with the media to promote the organisation
This unit covers the knowledge required to prepare and distribute a media release, and prepare a media interview. It is set in the context of promoting a sporting organisatioin. This support the unit of competency SRXMKT002A: Liaise with the media to promote the organisation.
SRXIND005A: Promote compliance with laws and legal principles: Course content
Course content. This resource forms the course content for the unit of competency, SRXIND005A: Promote Compliance with Laws and Legal Principles. It is part of the National Community Recreation, Fitness, Outdoor Recreation and Sport Industry Training Package. The resource primarily consists of guidance to the learner on how and where to find information and giving them tasks to apply the information. This is achieved by introducing various aspects of the law via a simulated dialogue with a "me
SRXIND005A: Promote compliance with laws and legal principles
This resource forms the unit competency, SRXIND005A: Promote Compliance with Laws and Legal Principles. It is part of the National Community Recreation, Fitness, Outdoor Recreation and Sport Industry Training Package. The resource primarily consists of guidance to the learner on how and where to find information and giving them tasks to apply the information. This is achieved by introducing various aspects of the law via a simulated dialogue with a "mentor", supplying definitions of terminology
Orientation to the alcohol and other drugs sector
This resource applies to all workers who may be working primarily with clients with AOD issues and provides a basic introduction to values, services and approaches applied to work in the alcohol and other drugs sector. It contains activities and resources to facilitate self-paced learning. Topics include: assessing clients, the sector, service provider, client and you, historical perspectives, statutory frameworks, drug identification 1, harm minimisation and models of treatment.
Working effectively
Provides an introduction to the Forest and Forest Products Industry, covering rules and responsibilities, awards and agreements, and how to plan a day's work.
Furniture making and design toolbox - Drawing room
resources
This group of resources forms part of the Furniture making and
design toolbox. These resources all relate to the unit of competence "LMFFM3011A:
Produce manual and computer aided drawings". The content is divided into three
sections. "Ask an expert" contains useful tips about good work practice in drawing
for the funiture making industry and the differences between manual and CAD drawing.
"Techniques" contains specific information about the drawing methods and conventions
Furniture making and design - Task: Be prepared
This task contains information and activities about the
importance of being prepared for work in the furnishing industry. The learner is
required to get everything ready in preparation to make a bedside cabinet.
