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Applied Environmental Toxicology
ESE 161
2025 Spring
Elsie Sunderland
Tuesday, Thursday
1:30pm to 2:45pm
This course will examine the theory and practical application of environmental chemistry and toxicology for assessing the behavior, toxicity and human health risks of chemical contaminants in the environment. The goals of the course are to: (a) illustrate how various sub-disciplines in environmental...
Applied Environmental Toxicology
ESE 161
2024 Spring
Elsie Sunderland
Tuesday, Thursday
1:30pm to 2:45pm
This course will examine the theory and practical application of environmental chemistry and toxicology for assessing the behavior, toxicity and human health risks of chemical contaminants in the environment. The goals of the course are to: (a) illustrate how various sub-disciplines in environmental...
Systems Development for Computational Science
APCOMP 207
2024 Fall
Ignacio Becker Troncoso
Tuesday, Thursday
2:15pm to 3:30pm
This is a project-based course emphasizing designing, building, testing, maintaining, and modifying software for scientific computing and data sciences. The class is focusing on a thorough introduction of the Python programming language with discussion of core concepts in object-oriented programming...
Data Systems
COMPSCI 1650
2024 Fall
Stratos Idreos
Tuesday, Thursday
9:45am to 11:00am
We are in the big data era and data systems sit in the critical path of everything we do. We are going through major transformations in businesses, sciences, as well as everyday life - collecting and analyzing data changes everything and data systems provide the means to store and analyze a massive ...
Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
SCI 6141
2023 Fall
Matthew Cunningham
Tuesday, Thursday
10:30am to 11:45am
This course recognizes plants as one of the most expressive materials of the artform — a living medium that distinguishes the discipline from the other applied sciences and fine arts. The goal of the course is to introduce the global potential of plants as a means of design for shaping the character...
Climate Positive Design Lab
SCI 6489
2024 Spring
Pamela Conrad
Wednesday
9:00am to 11:45am
As the climate and biodiversity crises escalate, our world faces unprecedented times. With the 1.5oC threshold quickly approaching and 75% of emissions coming from the urban built environment (UN Habitat), now is more critical than ever for designers, planners, and advocates to lead a climate positi...
Plants and Placemaking - New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
SCI 6379
2024 Spring
Matthew Cunningham
Monday
9:00am to 11:45am
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all within a backdrop of myriad inequalities—the power of plants in shaping human experience has been proven. Erosive pressures associated with changes to climate have placed global...
Decision Theory
APMTH 231
2024 Spring
Demba Ba
Tuesday, Thursday
11:15am to 12:30pm
ES 201/AM 231 is a course in statistical inference and estimation from a signal processing perspective. The course will emphasize the entire pipeline from writing a model, estimating its parameters and performing inference utilizing real data. The first part of the course will focus on linear and no...
Launch Lab/Capstone 1
ENG-SCI 292A
2025 Spring
Russell J Wilcox, Alan Maccormack
The MS/MBA Capstone is an intensive project that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across core disciplines developed in the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected to design, build and launch a new technology-based product/service venture...
Incentives in the Wild: from Tanking in Sports to Mining Cryptocurrencies
COMPSCI 37
2025 Spring
Yannai Gonczarowski
Monday, Wednesday
1:30pm to 2:45pm
How could it be that paving a new road might increase congestion for all drivers? Why would a professional sports team ever try not to score in a game that it wants to win? Why would any student rank high schools not in their order of preference when applying? And what are some incentive pitfalls th...
Construction Systems
SCI 6123
2023 Fall
Paxton Sheldahl
Wednesday
9:00am to 10:15am
This course introduces students to methods of construction: conceptually, historically, and practically. We will consider how construction techniques emerge in relation to architectural desires and technical criteria in order to emphasize the architect’s agency in shaping construction systems within...
Launch Lab/Capstone 1
ENG-SCI 292A
2024 Spring
Russell J Wilcox, Alan Maccormack
The MS/MBA Capstone is an intensive project that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across core disciplines developed in the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected to design, build and launch a new technology-based product/service venture...
Launch Lab/Capstone 2
ENG-SCI 292B
2025 Spring
Russell J Wilcox, Alan Maccormack
Monday
4:00pm to 6:00pm
The MS/MBA Capstone is an intensive project that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across core disciplines developed in the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected to design, build and launch a new technology-based product/service venture...
Launch Lab/Capstone 2
ENG-SCI 292B
2024 Spring
Russell J Wilcox, Alan Maccormack
Monday
4:00pm to 6:00pm
The MS/MBA Capstone is an intensive project that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across core disciplines developed in the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected to design, build and launch a new technology-based product/service venture...
Chemistry of Sports: Understanding How Exercise Affects Your Body
MIT ES .010
2024 Spring
Students apply chemistry knowledge to physical fitness through the study of three sports: swimming, cycling, and running. Classroom component focuses on nutrition, exercise, anatomy, physiology, and the chemistry of supplements and sports equipment. Laboratory component focuses on training for and c...
Introduction to Computational Design
SCI 6338
2023 Fall
Jose Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Tuesday, Thursday
12:00pm to 1:15pm
#GSD6338 is an introductory course on Computational Design, with a particular focus on architecture, landscape and urbanism.In this course, we will understand "Computational Design" as the set of methods borrowed from fields such as computer science, mathematics, and geometry, applied to solving des...
Enactive Design: Creative Applications through Concurrent Human-Machine Interaction
SCI 6365
2023 Fall
Jose Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Monday
10:30am to 1:15pm
Enactive Design is an advanced research seminar on human-computer interaction. We will explore the role of real-time, bidirectional communication between human and digital agents in a design context, and leverage the potentials of this interactive relationship to establish new creative domains.Digit...
Critical Thinking in Data Science
APCOMP 221
2025 Spring
Michael Smith
Tuesday, Thursday
9:45am to 11:00am
This course examines the wide-ranging impact data science has on the world and how to think critically about issues of fairness, privacy, ethics, and bias while building algorithms and predictive models that get deployed in the form of products, policy and scientific research. Topics will include al...
Solving and Optimizing
APMTH 22A
2024 Fall
Margo Levine
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
9:00am to 10:15am
This course covers a combination of linear algebra and multivariate calculus with an eye towards solving systems of equations and optimization problems. Students will learn how to prove some key results, and will also implement these ideas with code.Linear algebra: matrices, vector spaces, bases and...
Critical Thinking in Data Science
APCOMP 221
2024 Spring
Michael Smith, Simson Garfinkel
Tuesday, Thursday
9:45am to 11:00am
This course examines the wide-ranging impact data science has on the world and how to think critically about issues of fairness, privacy, ethics, and bias while building algorithms and predictive models that get deployed in the form of products, policy and scientific research. Topics will include al...