Free The Digital Age Courses

Today's applications are increasingly mobile. Computers are no longer confined to desks and laps but instead live in our pockets and hands.

In a quest to understand how video games themselves are implemented, you'll explore the design of such childhood games as: Super Mario Bros., Pong, Flappy Bird, Breakout, Match 3, Legend of Zelda, Angry Birds, Pokémon, 3D Helicopter Game, Dreadhalls, and Portal.

This course, taught by Owen Carmichael, assistant professor at UC Davis, deals with the techniques for automated extraction of high-level information from images generated by cameras, three-dimensional surface sensors, and medical devices.

Introduction to the operation, physics, and application of lasers. The course covers diffraction-limited optics, Gaussian beams, optical resonators, the interaction of radiation with matter, stimulated emission, rate equations, and laser design.

Feedback control is an important technique that is used in many modern electronic and electromechanical systems.

Digital systems are an integral part of many areas of engineering and technology such as personal computers, digital signal processing, telecommunications, speech analysis and recognition, and control systems.

The Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series brings nationally recognized individuals to UC Davis and the College of Engineering to discuss the latest engineering advancements.

This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach.

Lectures from an Android class that I taught at Rose-Hulman.

In this course, students learn about the fundamentals of photoelectric conversion: charge excitation, conduction, separation, and collection.