This course is designed to provide students with an overview of community organizing and capacity building. There will be a focus on contextual frameworks and approaches used in community organization/building. Students will explore ways to conceptualize, promote and accomplish learning in various health promotion settings through community organizing and building across diverse groups and cultures, by advocating to influence public policy, and addressing ethical challenges that shape community organizing and capacity building.

This course will serve as an introduction to cell and tissue level mechanobiology with focus on human physiological and disease processes. The primary focus is to introduce principles of cell-level mechanics in the context of the biology of living organisms, what we term mechanobiology. In effect, we treat biological processes and regulation as another variable(s) that must be accounted for when modeling the mechanical/physical behavior of human tissues. A large amount of the basic principles in this field of study arose as a result of the intense research in the cardiovascular field.

Homeostatic mechanisms, input-output analysis, steady state and transient response, feedback concepts, system identification and simulation from actual operating data.

Biomedical Systems Models, dynamic programming, variational approach to optimal control problems, real-time parameter estimation, adaptive control methods and biomedical applications.

Successfulness in developing new technologies relies upon knowing which technology advance, the ultimate scientific limits of that technology, and the forecasted rate of technological change. This course presents curricula that explore the direction of technological change and how this affects the rate and extent of innovation.

This is an independent study project, topic to be selected in consultation with the instructor. Purpose is to integrate all materials learned in the program and apply these principles to the solution of an actual problem in biomedical engineering technology. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and completion of year 1 PBME studies.

An introduction to the history of film as art and industry from the invention of the moving picture to World War II. Emphasis is on the artistic development of the silent film in America and Europe, the rise of the American studio system, and the emergence of sound in film in the 1930?s. Filmmakers may include the Lumiere brothers, Georges Meliès, Buster Keaton, D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, King Vidor, Alan Crosland, Leni Riefenstahl, and others. Lecture. Viewing films outside of class is required. Does not fulfill Historical Survey requirement.

In 6 lecture modules and 4 observational visits to laboratories on UK campus, this course covers: effects of small size (1 nm to 100 nm) on the electro-optical properties of materials; fundamental principles of quantum mechanics; applying quantum mechanics to understand the changes in material properties like color, luminescence and electrical conductance at nanoscale; operating principles, basic theory and design issues in solar cells; nanotechnology applications for enhancing the performance of renewable energy generation and storage systems, especially solar cells and batteries.

Students will learn how to construct and maintain databases with applications to public health. They will also learn how to program in SAS, the leading statistical analysis system. SAS skills include report writing, MACRO writing, and Programming using SAS Intranet. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours per week.

A chronological survey of narrative film (primarily American) from World War II to the present, concentrating on both canonical films (such as Hitchcock?s Vertigo) and often overlooked examples of cult, low budget, and independent film. Many paradigms of the major genres are included: musical, film noir, gangster, screwball comedy, horror and science fiction, western, and more. This survey also examines more idiosyncratic work of auteur directors (Nicholas Ray, Jane Campion), films capturing a specific sociopolitical moment (e.g.