http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33982 Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41943 3.91J / 1.593J Mechanical Behavior of Plastics, Spring 2003 Roylance, David Relation among chemical composition, physical structure, and mechanical behavior of plastics or synthetic high polymers. Study of types of polymers; fundamentals of viscoelastic phenomena such as creep, stress relaxation, stress rupture, mechanical damping, impact; effects of chemical composition and structure on viscoelastic and strength properties; methods of mechanical property evaluation. Influences of plastics fabrication methods. Emphasis on recent research techniques and results. Individual laboratory projects investigating problems related to current research. Thu, 29 May 2003 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41935 MAS.622 / 1.126J Pattern Recognition & Analysis, Fall 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory. Fundamentals of characterizing and recognizing patterns and features of interest in numerical data. Basic tools and theory for signal understanding problems with applications to user modeling, affect recognition, speech recognition and understanding, computer vision, physiological analysis, and more. Decision theory, statistical classification, maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation, non-parametric methods, unsupervised learning and clustering. Additional topics on machine and human learning from active research. Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41865 1.138J / 2.062J / 18.376J Wave Propagation, Fall 2004 Akylas, Triantaphyllos R. Li, Guangda Mei, Chiang C. Rosales, Rodolfo This course discusses the Linearized theory of wave phenomena in applied mechanics. Examples are chosen from elasticity, acoustics, geophysics, hydrodynamics and other subjects. The topics include: basic concepts, one dimensional examples, characteristics, dispersion and group velocity, scattering, transmission and reflection, two dimensional reflection and refraction across an interface, mode conversion in elastic waves, diffraction and parabolic approximation, radiation from a line source, surface Rayleigh waves and Love waves in elastic media, waves on the sea surface and internal waves in a stratified fluid, waves in moving media, ship wave pattern, atmospheric lee waves behind an obstacle, and waves through a laminated media, etc. Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39819 1.264J / ESD.264J Database, Internet, and Systems Integration Technologies, Fall 2004 Kocur, George Survey of information technology covering database modeling, design, and implementation with an emphasis on relational databases and SQL. Internet technologies: http, html, XML, SOAP, security. Brief introduction to components and middleware. Introduction to design and implementation of multi-tier architectures, benchmarks, and performance. Data networking protocols and technologies. Students complete project that covers requirements/design, data model, database implementation, web site, and system architecture. Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:58:59 GMT