All Courses
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Applied Human Factors Engineering
Course Description: Survey of human factors engineering/ergonomics, emphasizing the human-centered approach to system, product, workplace, and machine design. Discussions will include human factors research and design methodologies, human factors fundamentals (e.g., sensation and perception, information processing, anthropometry) and applications of human factors for the designs of workplace and environment.
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VT OpenFOAM Users Group
This is the Virginia Tech OpenFOAM Users Group. We hold monthly meetings of faculty and students who are interested in solving computational continuum mechanics problems with the open-source CFD toolbox OpenFOAM.
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Globl Change & Local Impacts
This course is an examination of the erosion of “the state” as basic guarantor of security and domestic services in some areas of the world, leading to mass flows of refugees particularly in the post-Cold War era. It analyzes various levels and reasons for unprecedented refugee flows; it identifies agencies and institutional ways in which they cope with this exodus, mostly from the southern to the northern hemisphere. We start with causes leading to failed or failing states, examine issues of sovereignty and security, and move to root causes of population displacements, what constitutes a ‘refugee’, the non-refoulement principle, relief agencies and measures, and public attitudes about refugees.