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The calendar below provides information on the course’s lectures (L), recitation (R) and project presentation (P) sessions. SES # TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS L1 Administrative & Introduction Makefile Primer GNU Makefile Documentation CVS Documentation PS 0 Out R1 Course Goals & Content, References & Recitations; Compilation; De...
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Programs that Function as Applets and as Applications The following example shows how you might write a Java® program, so that it can function either as an applet or as an application. The program can run as an applet because it inherits JApplet and it can run as an application because it has a main routine. The code c...
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Topics 1. Custom Painting (Ref. Java® Tutorial) So far, we have seen user interface components that display static content. The individual components posessed sufficient knowledge to draw themselves and so we did not have to do anything special beyond creating the components and describing their layout. If a component ...
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Contents - Creating and Destroying Objects - Constructors and Destructors - The new and delete Operators - Scope and the Lifetime of Objects - Data Structures for Managing Objects 1. Creating and Destroying Objects - Constructors and Destructors (Ref. Lippman 14.1-14.3) Let’s take a closer look at how constructors and ...
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Topics 1. Introduction Java® uses a stream-based approach to input and output. A stream in this context is a flow of data, which could either be read in from a data source (e.g. file, keyboard or socket) or written to a data sink (e.g file, screen, or socket). Java® currently supports two types of streams: - 8-bit stre...
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Table of Contents - Overview of make - An Introduction to Makefiles - Writing Makefiles - Writing Rules - Rule Syntax - Using Wildcard Characters in File Names - Searching Directories for Prerequisites - Phony Targets - Rules without Commands or Prerequisites - Empty Target Files to Record Events - Special Built-in Tar...
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Topics 1. Introduction Graphical programs require a very different programming model to the non-graphical programs we have encountered in the past. A non-graphical program typically runs straight through from beginning to end. By contrast, a graphical program should be capable of running indefinitely, accepting input t...
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Inheritance, Polymorphism and Virtual Functions (Ref. Lippman 2.4, 17.1-17.6) Inheritance allows us to specialize the behavior of a class. For example, we might write a Shape class, which provides basic functionality for managing 2D shapes. Our Shape class has member variables for the centroid and area. We may then spe...
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This lecture is courtesy of Petros Komodromos. Topics - Introduction to Java® 3D - Java® 3D References - Examples and Applications - Scene Graph Structure and basic Java® 3D concepts and classes - A simple Java® 3D program - Performance of Java® 3D {{< anchor “1” >}}{{< /anchor >}}1. Introduction to Java® 3D Java® 3D i...
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Topics 1. Interfaces An interface declares a set of methods and constants, without actually providing an implementation for any of those methods. A class is said to implement an interface if it provides definitions for all of the methods declared in the interface. Interfaces provide a way to prescribe the behavior that...
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Topics Related Links Java® Beans trail in the Java® Tutorial- a good introduction to Java® Beans. Java® Beans Development Kit (BDK)- provides a basic development support tool (called the BeanBox) as well as several examples of Java® Bean components. This link also provides links to various commercial development enviro...
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Topics 1. Java® RMI (Ref: Just Java® 1.2 Ch 16) The Java® Remote Method Invokation (RMI) framework provides a simple way for Java® programs to communicate with each other. It allows a client program to call methods that belong to a remote object, which lives on a server located elsewhere on the network. The client prog...
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Topics 1. Member Access (Ref. Lippman 13.1.3, 17.2, 18.3) Types of Access Privilege Member Access Under Inheritance Key Points - Private members are only accessible within the class that they are declared. They are not accessible by derived class definitions. - Protected members are not accessible by objects. They are ...
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How to Use make Introduction make is a command generator which generates a sequence of commands for execution by the UNIX® shell. These commands usually relate to the maintenance of a set of files in a software development project. We will use make to help us organize our C++ and C source code files during the compilat...
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Topics 1. Threads, Processes and Multitasking Multitasking is the ability of a computer’s operating system to run several programs (or processes) concurrently on a single CPU. This is done by switching from one program to another fast enough to create the appearance that all programs are executing simultaneously. There...
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Contents - Local and Global Variables - Reference Types - Functions in C++ - Basic Input and Output - Creating and Destroying Objects - Constructors and Destructors 1. Local and Global Variables (Ref. Lippman 8.1-8.3) Local variables are objects that are only accessible within a single function (or a sub-block within a...
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Operator Overloading (Ref. Lippman 15.1-15.7, 15.9) We have already seen how functions can be overloaded in C++. We can also overload operators, such as the + operator, for classes that we write. Note that operators for built-in types may not be created or modified. A complete list of overloadable operators can be foun...
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Contents - Object-Oriented Design vs Procedural Design - The HelloWorld Procedure and the HelloWorld Object - C++ Data Types - Expressions - Coding Style 1. Object-Oriented Design vs Procedural Design Many of you will already be familiar with one or more procedural languages. Examples of such languages are FORTRAN 77, ...
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Physical Simulation Example The following example shows how you might integrate a numerical simulation with a Java® animation. Here, we have considered a simple spring-mass-damper system of the form d2x/dt2 + 2xw0dx/dt + w02 x = 0 and computed the solution numerically using an explicit Forward Euler time-stepping schem...
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Topics 1. Introduction Java® is an object-oriented programming language that resembles C++ in many respects. One of the major differences is that Java® programs are intended to be architecture-neutral i.e. a Java® program should, in theory, be able to run on a Unix® workstation, a PC or a Macintosh® without recompilati...
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Topics public class Point { private float mfX, mfY; public Point() { mfX = mfY = 0.0f; } public Point(float fX, float fY) { mfX = fX; mfY = fY; } public Point(Point p) { mfX = p.mfX; mfY = p.mfY; } // You will generally not need to write a finalizer. Member variables that // are of reference type will be automatically ...
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Topics - Introduction - Performance Criteria - Selection Sort - Insertion Sort - Shell Sort - Quicksort - Choosing a Sorting Algorithm 1. Introduction Sorting techniques have a wide variety of applications. Computer-Aided Engineering systems often use sorting algorithms to help reason about geometric objects, process n...
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Topics 1. CVS Resources Where to get CVS The latest version of CVS can be obtained by anonymous ftp: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ CVS references on the Web 2. Introduction CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a version control system which allows multiple software developers to work on a project concurrently. It maint...
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Static Member Data and Static Member Functions (Ref. Lippman 13.5) The Point class that we have developed has both member data (properties) and member functions (methods). Each object that we create will have its own variables mfX, and mfY, whose values can vary from one Point to another. In order to access a member fu...
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Topics 1. Introduction Templates allow us to write functions and classes that are based on parameterized types. For example, we may wish to write a function or class to run quicksort on (1) an array of _int_s and (2) an array of _float_s. Rather than writing two separate versions, one for _int_s and one for _float_s, w...
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Topics 1. Loading and Displaying Images (Ref. Java® Tutorial__) Images provide a way to augment the aethetic appeal of a Java program. Java® provides support for two common image formats: GIF and JPEG. An image that is in one of these formats can be loaded by using either a URL or a filename. The basic class for repres...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics - Course goals & content, references, recitations - Compilation - Debugging - Makefiles - Concurrent Versions System (CVS) - Introduction to C++ - Data Types - Variable Declarations and Definitions - Operators - Expressions and Statements - Input/Output Operators -...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Contents - Functions: declarations, definitions, and, invocations - Inline Functions - Function Overloading - Recursion - Scope and Extent of Variables - References - Pointers - Function call by value, References and Pointers - Pointers to functions - 1-D Arrays - Strings...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics - Classes and Objects - Classes: member variables & member functions - Classes: constructors & destructor - Constructor header initialization - Copy constructors - Member variables & functions protection: private, protected & public - Static class data and class fu...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics - Inheritance: public, protected and private derivation - Multiple inheritance - Inheritance: constructors and destructors - Inheritance: redefining member functions - Virtual functions and polymorphism - Abstract classes - File streams Appendix: Extra Material 1. ...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics - Function templates - Class templates - Sorting and searching algorithms - Insertion sort - Selection sort - Shellsort - Quicksort - Linear search - Binary search 1. Function Templates The template mechanism of C++ allows the development of general functions and c...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics - Introduction to Java® - Compiling and running a Java® application and a Java® applet - Data types - Variables, declarations, initializations, assignments - Operators, precedence, associativity, type conversions, and mixed expressions - Control structures - Commen...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics - Sun Java® Studio Standard 5 - Inheritance - Controlling access to class members - Strings - Packages - Interfaces - Nested classes and interfaces - Garbage Collection - Applets 1. Sun Java Studio Standard 5 Sun Java® Studio Standard 5 is an integrated Java® devel...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics 1. Exceptions Java® provides ways to manage exceptions, i.e. errors that may occur during the execution of a program that disrupt the normal flow of instructions. When an unexpected error condition happens during runtime a Java program “throws” an exception. This c...
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These notes were prepared by Petros Komodromos. Topics In this last recitation more information is provided for Swing components. 1. The JComponent Class Most Swing components that begin with J, except the top-level containers, are subclasses of the JComponent class. The letter J is used to differentiate the actual ext...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Course Description 1.151 is a first-year graduate subject, very similar in content to 1.010, which is a sophomore-level undergraduate subject. Both aim at introducing students to quantitative uncertainty analysis and risk assessment for engineering a...
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Course Description The main objective of this course is to give broad insight into the different facets of transportation systems, while providing a solid introduction to transportation demand and cost analyses. As part of the core in the Master of Science in Transportation program, the course will not focus on a speci...
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Course Description The class will cover quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation systems analysis (urban, air, ocean, highway, pick-up and delivery systems) and in the planning and design of logistically oriented urban service systems (e.g., fire and police departme...
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Course Description Approaching transportation as a complex, large-scale, integrated, open system (CLIOS), this course strives to be an interdisciplinary systems subject in the “open” sense. It introduces qualitative modeling ideas and various techniques and philosophies of modeling complex transportation enterprises. I...
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Reading material for this subject consists of three elements: - Text: Introduction to Transportation Systems by Joseph M. Sussman - A reader, and - Various handouts given in class Required Reading Text Sussman, Joseph. Introduction to Transportation Systems. Norwood, MA: Artech House Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 1580531415....
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Course Description This course examines the policy, politics, planning, and engineering of transportation systems in urban areas, with a special focus on the Boston area. It covers the role of the federal, state, and local government and the MPO, public transit in the era of the automobile, analysis of current trends a...
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Course Description 1.34 focuses on the geotechnical aspects of hazardous waste management, with specific emphasis on the design of land-based waste containment structures and hazardous waste remediation. Topics include: introduction to hazardous waste, definition of hazardous waste, regulatory requirements, waste chara...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Content The course covers two topic areas: - Investigation and remediation of contaminated sites - Design and construction of waste-disposal sites The course emphasizes the practical engineering aspects of these topics, but also covers theoretical as...
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Figure S4.1 shows how global food production, agricultural inputs, and total population have changed over the period 1960–2010, with all variables expressed as multiples of their 1960 values. The figure was constructed for this class and is based on UN Population Division Data and FAOSTAT data (see S1 and S3). Global p...
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Lambin and Meyfroidt (2011) from Class 2 and many others believe that rain forests should not be included in an inventory of available cropland. Nevertheless, rain forest is still being converted to cropland at high rates. These figures from Achard et al. (2002) show that the lost forest area in some areas of the Amazo...
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These UN population plots are based on historically reported population values before 2020 and on projections based on predicted trends in fertility (measured as total number of children per woman) starting in 2020 and ending in 2100 (UN Population Division, 2019). The total population (all genders and ages) in the des...
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This class introduces two opposing perspectives on food security while also considering the broader question of how society can best address critical human needs. Ehrlich and Ehrlich (2013) present a generalization of the Malthus (2008) argument that unrestrained demand will always exceed the capacity of finite natural...
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Instructor Interview Most of the students in Professor Dennis McLaughlin’s course 1.74 Land, Water, Food, and Climate come to it with established opinions on some very controversial topics: whether GMOs are safe, whether climate change is real (and really human-induced), whether organic agriculture is preferable to con...
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In this section, Professor McLaughlin shares insights about facilitating a reading seminar focused on discussion. 1.74 Land, Water, Food and Climate is a reading seminar, which means the students read scientific papers that are current and suitable for their level of preparation. They read three or four papers every we...
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Overview How can we achieve a sustainable balance between food supply and demand in a diverse and changing world? What do we need to consider in our search for practical ways to reconcile food supply and demand? The readings and supplementary information provided in Section 2 make some points that we need to consider w...
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Farm Category, Area, and Production Distributions Recent refereed publications have started to provide a more accurate picture of the global farm system. The information cited here is peer reviewed and should be reproducible from cited data sources. This is in contrast to statistics found in many reports and articles i...
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Our analysis so far suggests that our water and land resources may not be sufficient to grow the additional food required to provide global food security throughout this century, at least with current technology and management practices. It seems quite possible that climate change may make things even more difficult. A...
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The three crop production systems described in the Section 4 Overview each include farms found in many different geographic regions. This makes it difficult to compile statistics that characterize each system as a whole. However, it is possible to identify a representative region or country in each production system so...
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In Class 11 we examine more closely the high input agricultural systems that now prevail in somewhat different forms in developed countries and a large part of the developing world. These systems, both the large and small farm versions, rely on modern high yield cultivars, extensive irrigation, and synthetic fertilizer...
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Course Description This course is an overview of engineering approaches to protecting water quality with an emphasis on fundamental principals. Theory and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water are discussed, as well as reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, c...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: Two sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Instructor Dr. Peter Shanahan Content The course examines the needs for water quality and how to achieve it by drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, and other water-quality control strategies. The emphasis of the course is on principles a...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 3 sessions / week, 1 hour / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session Texts Required Incropera, Frank P., and David P. DeWitt. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. 5th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN: 9780471386506. Including software tools, users’ guides ...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 3 sessions / week, 1 hour / session Purposes of This Course - To ensure that you are aware of the wide range of easily accessible numerical methods that will be useful in your thesis research, at practice school, and in your career, as well as to make you confident to look up additional m...
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Course Description This course aims to connect the principles, concepts, and laws/postulates of classical and statistical thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative knowledge of thermodynamic properties from a macroscopic to a molecular level. It covers their basic postulates of classical thermodynamics a...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session Vision The goals of 10.40 are to connect the principles, concepts, and laws/postulates of classical and statistical thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative knowledge of thermodynamic properties from a macroscopic to a molecular level. ...
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The design project is the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills acquired over the undergraduate years in the Chemical Engineering department. As a team, you will develop a solution to a real design problem. Progress Reports The progress reports consist of a meeting with the instructor with a one page summar...
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Course Description In the ICE-Topics courses, various chemical engineering problems are presented and analyzed in an industrial context. Emphasis is on the integration of fundamentals with material property estimation, process control, product development, and computer simulation. Integration of societal issues, such a...
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Course Description Studies synthesis of polymeric materials, emphasizing interrelationships of chemical pathways, process conditions, and microarchitecture of molecules produced. Chemical pathways include traditional approaches such as anionic polymerization, radical condensation, and ring-opening polymerizations. Othe...
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These notes are preliminary and may contain errors. SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES 1 Course Overview Polymer Design and Synthesis Reaction Types and Processes Introduction to Step Growth (PDF) Step Growth Polymerization 2 Molecular Weight (MW) Control Molecular Weight Distribution (MWD) in Equilibrium Step Condensation Pol...
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SES # TOPICS READINGS Part 1: What is Urban Design and Development? - Translating Values into Design 1 Introduction Questions of the day: What is urban design? What is urban development? How are they connected and how do they affect our lives? 2 Ways of Seeing the City Questions of the day: What are the visible signs o...
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Assignment In the United States, passing gun control measures over the past twenty years has proven very difficult. Yet, in a similar time frame, both the U.K. and Australia enacted significant gun control reforms. Why has it been so much harder to pass gun control legislation in the U.S. than other countries? Please w...
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Assignment In order to change policy, advocates must make smart decisions about when and where to push for policy change. Write a 5-page essay in which you compare and contrast the strategic choices made by proponents of immigration and same-sex marriage over the past 10–15 years. For instance, advocates have to make c...
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Course Overview This page focuses on the course 11.002J/17.30J Making Public Policy as it was taught by Prof. Christopher Warshaw and Leah Stokes in Fall 2014. This course aimed to get students thinking about politics and policy as a part of their everyday lives. We treated politics as a struggle among competing advoca...
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In addition to reading the material for each class session, students are expected to stay up to date with current U.S. public policy news. Suggested ways include reading a daily newspaper (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, or The Boston Globe) or listening to radio news. SES # TOPICS REA...
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Course Description This course introduces undergraduates to the basic theory, institutional architecture, and practice of international development. We take an applied, interdisciplinary approach to some of the “big questions” in our field. This course will unpack these questions by providing an overview of existing kn...
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Weekly Memos and Responses The class will be divided randomly into two groups: Group A and Group B. In each class, one group will write a memo, and the other will write a response to the memos written by their colleagues. The groups will alternate writing memos and responses. These assignments are to be based on the re...
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Course readings. SES # TOPICS READINGS 1 Introduction to International Development None Unit 1: Critically Conceptualizing, Contextualizing, and Historicizing International Development 2 Development and the Colonial Legacy Required Readings Acemoglu, Daron., et al. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An E...
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Course Meeting Times Seminar: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this course. Course Description This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, teneme...
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Project Assignment 3: Your Site Over Time © Sources Unknown. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see https://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. Framing Your Paper (PDF - 1.1MB) This is the third part of a four-part, semester-long project. The first part co...
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Project Assignment 4: Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends Guide to Architectural Styles (PDF - 3.0MB) This is the fourth assignment in a four-part, semester-long project. The task of the third assignment was to trace changes on your site over time using old maps, plans, prints, and photographs. Now the objective is t...
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What is your town’s Mitigation Plan? Decide on a town to research. We prefer that you use your hometown, if possible. As someone from the town, you will better understand town dynamics, town threats, town government, and maybe even town politics. Find a copy of your town’s mitigation plan, if there is one, and analyze ...
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Global Cityscope is divided into four modules that correspond to the four traditional phases of disaster management (sometimes called emergency management). Module 1 (Weeks 2–4): Disaster Mitigation Topics U.S. Disaster Policies: History and Institutions Mitigation Planning and Policy Strategies: Local, State, and Fede...
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Straw Towers - Building Straw Towers presentation - Straw Towers and Learning Environments summary (PDF) - Towers will be judged on: originality, hurricane resistance (using a fan), and height (to the top) - Straw Towers Results The results of the Straw Towers activity are written on the board. (Image courtesy of Eric ...
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In this section, Prof. Klopfer outlines his constructivist approach to teaching and explains the details of how students learn from experience in a video interview. Enabling Students to Learn Through Experience I use a constructivist approach in my classes; I believe that learning happens not from me telling things to ...
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In this section, Prof. Klopfer describes two recurring course assignments that integrated online and in-class activities in complementary ways. In the last section, two students from the class share their thoughts on these activities. For this class, we created two recurring assignments that integrated online and in-cl...
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Course Description This course is designed to prepare you for a successful student teaching experience. Some of the major themes and activities are: analysis of yourself as a teacher and as a learner, subject knowledge, adolescent development, student learning styles, lesson planning, assessment strategies, classroom m...
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[Skillful] = Saphier, Jon, Mary Ann Haley-Speca, and Robert Gower. The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills. Research for Better Teaching, 2008. ISBN: 9781886822108. [Tools] = Jones, Frederic H., Patrick Jones, et al. Fred Jones Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instructions, Motivation. Fredic H. Jones & Asso...
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Weekly Film Notes Students are required to prepare and submit notes on each film following each film screening. These notes are designed to ensure that students are watching films attentively with an active mind and to generate ideas for papers and class discussions. Paper 1: Observing City Scenes For the first paper, ...
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Assignment For the 13 weeks of the class, we’ve seen films that I’ve selected, which often highlighted themes that I felt were particularly relevant to explore changing ideas about cities. We’ve also spent much of our time looking and some pretty old films, representing my idea that we, as scholars (and practitioners!)...
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Assignment Although this is a class about films, our first writing assignment is actually just about observation. Film is a wonderfully rich medium because it includes sound and vision in motion through space and time; but if you stop and think for a moment, you realize that actual real life features all of these eleme...
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Assignment In class, in the readings, and through films, we’ve explored different aspects of urban life—the ways that people in cities interact with each other and with public space; the challenges, opportunities, and contradictions confronted by city-dwellers; and even the possibility that the physical, social, and ec...
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Assignment One Theme, Three Films Throughout the class, we’ve used film as a way to explore and discuss a number of different “themes” related to cities. Some films (and some students) have been concerned primarily with physical aspects of the urban environment: The iconic landmarks; the legibility of the landscape; th...
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Overview Students are expected to watch films attentively, with an active mind; although all of these films are certainly entertaining, we are viewing them as more than entertainment. To help facilitate this, and to generate ideas for papers and class discussion, students are required to prepare and submit notes on eac...
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Course Overview This page focuses on the course 11.139 The City in Film as it was taught by Ezra Haber Glenn in Spring 2015. Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad, this course presents a survey of important developments in urbanism from 1900 to...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session Undergraduate Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session Film Screenings: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Course Overview Over the past 150 years, the world has moved from one characterized by rural settlement patterns and provincial lifes...
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11-139s15.jpg Description: With its futuristic buildings and multicolor neon lights, Beijing is beginning to resemble the city from “Blade Runner,” one of the films analyzed in this course. Image courtesy of Trey Ratcliff on Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. file 74 kB 11-139s15.jpg Alt text: A photograph of a city at night tim...
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11-139s15-th.jpg Description: With its futuristic buildings and multicolor neon lights, Beijing is beginning to resemble the city from “Blade Runner,” one of the films analyzed in this course. Image courtesy of Trey Ratcliff on Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. file 12 kB 11-139s15-th.jpg Alt text: A photograph of a city at nig...
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Required Texts [JD] = Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory & Practice. 3rd ed. Cornell University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780801477706. [Preview with Google Books] [DH] = Hurwitz, Deena, Margaret Satherthwaite, and Douglas Ford. Human Rights Advocacy Stories. Foundation Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781599411996. [BR] = ...
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Course Meeting Times 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hrs / session Prerequisites None Course Description This class is about figuring out together what cities and users can do to reduce their energy use and carbon emissions. Many other classes at MIT focus on policies, technologies, and systems, often at the national or interna...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session Course Description This course focuses on methods of digital visualization and communication and their application to planning issues. Lectures will introduce a variety of methods for describing or repre...
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In-Class and Take-Home Exercises by Week All screenshots of ArcGIS and ArcMAP software in the following files are © ESRI, and all screenshots of QGIS software are © QGIS. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see https://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. We...
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For full bibliographic information, see the Bibliography page. WEEK # TOPICS Readings 0 Getting Started Primary Readings Maantay and Ziegler, GIS for the Urban Environment, Chapter 1 Longley et al., Geographical Information Systems and Science, Chapter 1 Case Study Readings (optional, but helpful for homework) Maantay ...
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[For dates of reading assignments, see the Readings page.] “Addressing Brazil’s favelas | what3words” (YouTube). what3words, March 15, 2017. Aisch, Gregor, Robert Gebeloff, and Kevin Quealy. “Where We Came From and Where We Went, State by State.” New York Times, Aug. 13, 2014. Andersen, Jonas Lohmann Elkjaer, and Alex ...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Labs: 4 sessions / week, 2 hours / session Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this course. Description Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are tools for managing data that represent the location of features (geographic coordinate data) and...
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Course Meeting Times Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Labs: 4 sessions / week, 2 hours / session Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this course. Description Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are tools for managing data that represent the location of features (geographic coordinate data) and...
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