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"Do not allow yourself to think that the purpose of learning, say, the enzymes involved in cellular respiration is to answer questions on an exam. Think of the broader picture: about how elusive, complex, and beautiful nature is, and how bizarre our own role in the universe is. I regret that it took me so long to figure this out."
- Kevin Kennedy, 2014 UC Berkeley University Medal Finalist CE264 Behavioral Modeling for Engineering, Planning, and Policy Analysis (3 units) Syllabus Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 262 or City and Regional Planning 204 or equivalent. Description: Many aspects of engineering, planning, and policy involve a human element, be it consumers, businesses, governments, or other organizations. Effective design and management requires understanding this human response. This course focuses on behavioral theories and the use of quantitative methods to analyze human response. A mix of theory and practical tools are covered, with applications drawn from infrastructure investment and use, urban growth and design, health, and sustainability. Examples of student projects: 1) Transit Maps | 2) Water Bottles | 3) Air Quality CE156 Infrastructure Planning and Management (3 units) Syllabus Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Mathematics 1A-1B and Civil Engineering 93 (or equivalent). Description: This course focuses on physical infrastructure systems that support society, including transportation, communications, power, water, and waste. These are complex, large-scale systems that must be planned and managed over a long-term horizon. Economics-based, analytical tools are covered, including topics of supply, demand, and evaluation. Problem sets, case studies, and a class project provide for hands-on experience with a range of infrastructure systems, issues, and methods of analysis. Examples of student projects: 1) Delta | 2) Runway Safety | 3) Automated People Mover CE93 Engineering Data Analysis (3 units) Syllabus Course Format: Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: Engineering 7. Description: Application of the concepts and methods of probability theory and statistical inference to CEE problems and data; graphical data analysis and sampling; elements of set theory; elements of probability theory; random variables and expectation; simulation; statistical inference. Applications to various CEE problems and real data will be developed by use of MATLAB and existing codes. The course also introduces the student to various domains of uncertainty analysis in CEE. CE262 Analysis of Transportation Data (3 units) Syllabus Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: College calculus. Description: This course aims to strengthen and extend capabilities of all students to use probability and statistics to solve real-world transportation problems. A wide range of transportation applications are presented. Topics include probability, random variables, estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression. GMS200 Global Metropolitan Studies: Introduction to Theories, Histories and Methods (3 units) Syllabus Course Format: Three hours of discussion per week. Description: The 21st century will be an urban century with more people around the world residing in metropolitan regions than in any other form of human settlement. This urbanization is taking place in both the global North and the global South. Its implications are widespread: from environmental challenges to entrenched patterns of segregation to new configurations of politics and social movements. The Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative at UC Berkeley is concerned with this urban condition, bringing together faculty and students across campus to foster interdisciplinary thinking and solutions to contemporary urban concerns. In this course, methodological approaches from urban theory to governance to engineering will be presented by core GMS faculty. This course constitutes the core theory seminar for the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. GMS201 Research Seminar in Comparative Urban Studies (3 units) Syllabus Course Format: Three hours of discussion per week. Prerequisites: PhD candidate in Global Metropolitan Studies Designated Emphasis. Description: This course constitutes the core research seminar for the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. Students engage intensively with one another’s dissertation projects, using this as an opportunity to understand how research is undertaken in the various disciplines contributing to our understanding of urban and metropolitan processes. Students should make substantial progress with their dissertation projects in the context of the course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Faculty sponsor to student-led courses: • DeCal: Sustainable Transportation, Smartphones, and You! • Cal Climate Action Partnership Graduate Student Course Courses taught while on faculty at Boston University (2004-2008) • GE103 Economic Geography • GE365 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems • GE542 Models of Urban Transportation Systems |