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This 90 minutes lecture to be delivered via telelink addresses a class of mit undergraduates unrolled in Engineering Design and Rapid prototyping Course. The students have been introduced to the basic optimization concepts of design variables design space, objective function, constraints and numerical search methods. Building on this elementary basis, the purpose of the lecture is to make the students aware of a reaud range of theoretical and practical issues that arise when optimization is applied in real-life engineering. To that end a gamut of topics is presented with emphasis on the qualitative exposition rather than in-depth mathematics. The topics include

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Unit eight Travel Teaching Period: 10(1-2) Reference Book: (New) Integrated Course 4 Students and teaching s book Teaching Method: Combining explanation and practice Objective:

Unit Six The pace of life Teaching Period: 10(1-2) Reference Book: (New) Integrated Course 4 Student's and Teaching,'s Book Teaching Method: Combining explanation and practice To understand the reading material (Text A Important Point: Understanding the reading material

Unit Two Smart Cars Texta Smart cars Reference Book: (New)Integrated Course 4 Students and Teachings Book Teaching Method: Interchange English Objective 1 understand the main idea and structure of the text

Unit seven Making a living Teaching Period 10(1-2) Reference book:(New)Integrated Course 3 Student's and Teaching's book Teaching Method: Combining explanation and practice To understand the read ing material (Text A)

Unit six The human touch Teaching Period 10(1-2) Reference book: (New)Integrated Course3 Student's and Teaching's book Teaching Method: Combining explanation and practice To understand the read ing material (Text A) Important Point: Understanding the read ing material

Unit Five How to Celebrate Holidays Teaching Period 10(1-2) Reference book:(New)Integrated Course3 Student's and Teaching's book Teaching Method: Combining explanation and practice To understand the read ing material (Text A) Important Point: Understanding the read ing material

Unit two Civil-Rights heroes Teaching Period 10(1-2) Reference book:(New)Integrated Course 3 Student's and Teaching's book Teaching Method: Combining explanation and practice To understand the read ing material (Text A) Important Point: Understanding the read ing material