Today's Topics What are we going to study this course? Design Process OCourse information and requirement. How to be an engineer? Methods of learning A brief review of the machine history OHomework

Part Listening and Speaking Activities Introduction of functions Listen and speak Try to speak more Make your own dialogue What are they for? If you want to learn more

1. When you can measure what you are speaking about, and can express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowleage is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science. Lord Kelvin, a physicist

Too complex for complete analysis Separation into non-interacting subsystems distorts the results The most important properties are emergent Too organized for statistics Too much underlying structure that distorts the statistics Organized Complexity\(Weinberg) Copyright Nancy Leveson, Sept 1999

Table of contents PARTO- PRELUDE: REVIEW OF \UNIFIED ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS\ 0.1 What it's all about 0. 2 Definitions and fundamentals ideas of thermodynamics 0.3 Review of thermodynamics concepts

Medical genetics What is a population from a genetic perspective? A population in the genetic sense, is not just a group of individuals, but a breeding group

About this course 1. Who this course is for 2. What this course is about 3. Duration of this course 4. How to study this course 5. How to do well in assessment 6. Suggested further reading

Text A Pre-reading task Before reading the passage, read the questions carefully and then try to find the answers as you read the passage What may the following paragraphs tell us about?

Unit siⅸ Text A I. Pre-Reading Task 1. What makes human beings different from animals? A. The ability to use tools. B. The learning and sharing of behavior . The use of language. 2. Do you think animals have a culture? If yes, give an example

Culture means an entire way of life of a society, or of a people. Different cultures have their own patterns of life. It's rather than instinctive behavior. The diversity of culture shows different attitude to ideas of what is beautiful and ways to treat dead bod ies. But it has nothing to do with right or wrong, for it is simply that different people do the some things in different ways