Cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal physiology and anatomy including basic structural and physiological features from a systems engineering perspective. This is a new course offering, the Course Action Form is included in Appendix D. Neural and musculoskeletal systems, including basic structural and physiological features, from a systems engineering perspective. Mathematical and numerical techniques applied to chemical engineering problems in transport phenomena, chemical process dynamics and control, chemical reactor design and stability, thermodynamics, and staged operations. The analysis of computer algorithms from a practical standpoint. Algorithms for symbolic and numeric problems such as sorting, searching, curve fitting, and FFT considered.
Analysis includes algorithm time and space complexity.
Controllability, observability, stability. Realization of rational transfer functions. Scalar and vector field theory. Calculus of variations and optimization. Notions of stability for linear and nonlinear differential equations.