SYDE 780Selected Topics in Engineering Sciences

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Engineering
Subject: Systems Design Engineering

When it runs

Ran in 1 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

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Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

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Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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(Big Data Analysis: Health&BME) This is a really useful course for understanding not only statistics for research, but also for learning about current issues and trends in medical research. The discussed research papers and case studies are very interesting and relevant to the current day. The deliverables aren't very time-consuming which gives more time to work on the final project (data analysis on a dataset of choice). I've never had the opportunity to do such a large-scale end-to-end analysis so I'm really glad I took this course, and wish I was able to choose a more ambitious and unique project like one that involved unstructured data (ex. geospatial, video, image, documents). Though,…

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In 42 terms, Fall 2006 to Winter 2024