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Modeling Class: Vesta Software Visualization

Explores crystal structure visualization using Vesta software for CCP and HCP arrangements.

Electrokinetic Devices: Streaming, Drawing and Waving Potentials

Explores electrokinetic devices, focusing on leveraging nanoscale structures to improve device performance and energy conversion.

Electrical Analogy for Radiation

Explores the electrical analogy for radiation resistance and exchange in two-surface enclosures.

Spelling Error Correction

Explores spelling error correction, including neologisms and borrowings, using edit distance and finite-state automata.

Landauer Formalism: Coherence Lengths

Explores Landauer formalism and coherence lengths in energy transport in nanostructures.

Homogeneous Catalysis Basics

Introduces the basics of homogeneous catalysis, focusing on reaction mechanisms and catalyst design.

Nanophotonic Engineering: Energy Devices

Explores nanophotonic engineering for energy devices, covering heat transfer, energy conversion, transport regimes, and surface polaritons.

Fracture Mechanics: Crack Growth and Stability

Explores crack propagation, stability, cohesive zones, and fatigue crack growth in materials.

Transient Heat Transfer

Covers exercises on heat and mass transfer, including multimodal heat transfer and transient conduction.

Neural Networks: Training and Activation

Explores neural networks, activation functions, backpropagation, and PyTorch implementation.

Ensembles and Partition Functions

Covers ensembles, partition functions, and distributions in statistical thermodynamics.

Velocity Boundary Layer Equations

Focuses on velocity boundary layer equations in laminar flow and covers mass and momentum conservation, Navier-Stokes equations, and the Reynolds number.

Creating Online Learning Platforms

Introduces EPFL's online learning platform and teaches students how to create open-ended lessons using Graasp and Firefox Drawing.

Radiation Metrics and Surface Properties

Explores radiation metrics, surface properties, and the interaction of thermal radiation with matter.

Heat Exchanger Design

Covers the design of a heat exchanger using exhaust gas to generate steam.

Electronic Band Structure: Kronig-Penney Potential

Explores electronic band structure, material properties, and density of states in periodic potentials, including energy levels and wavefunctions.

Crack Tip Plasticity in Materials

Explores crack tip plasticity in materials, emphasizing the importance of the plastic zone in crack resistance.

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Technical Writing

Explores the essentials of technical writing, emphasizing clarity, discipline, and effective communication of ideas through writing.

The Art of Science Communication

Emphasizes the importance of science communication, focusing on gaining support, building trust, and addressing misinformation.