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Welcome to this module on strategic procurement of medicines and pharmaceutical products, as part of equipment management in supply chain. This is Module 9 of the Masters in Health Supply Chain Management.  The aim of this module is to equip you with the skills on how to make strategic procurement decisions. This module builds on Semester I Module 2 on health product and technologies, selection, quantification and procurement. The module is designed to address issues related to procurement planning, health commodities tendering processes, contract and risk management and quality assurance by regulatory bodies.

This course is aimed giving students background to the world of information and infromation systems. Trading on line and management of electronic payment systems. Students will be prepared to carry out business online and pay for the goods on line.

The module will be assessed by doing one assignment,  two continous assessmnt  and a final exam

attendance is highly recomended

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Food Hygiene and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) is  a four credit course and one of the components of the module of Food Safety and Quality Management System. It aims to equip the students with knowledge and skills that are required to apply in agri-food chain to control food safety hazards and associated risks.

The course will deepen knowledge and skills of the students in the following

1. Food Safety hazards and risks

2. Implementation of prerequisite food safety programs to control food safety hazards and risks

3. Implementation of Food Safety System based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) to identify, evaluate and control food safety hazards

This module introduces students to the key concepts and topics of monetary theory and policy. The module covers structure of central banks around the world, monetary policy goals and tools, transmission mechanisms of monetary policy and implications of policies in macroeconomic set up.

Monetary Policy aims to impart students the monetary mechanisms and transmission. Specifically, it intends to teach the instruments of monetary policy, the strategies for a financial stability-oriented monetary policy, the ultimate goal and final targets of monetary policy, and the conduct of monetary policy around the world.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completing this course, students should be able to:

1. outline and give a detailed justification of the main goals of monetary policy
2. Review the instruments available to the central bank for the achievement of the goals of monetary policy.
3. Give an overview of the implementation of monetary policy in practice.
4. Consider a number of issues relating to the optimal design of monetary institutions and the conduct of monetary policy.
5. Give practical issues relating to the design of the monetary policy framework, notably the interplay between monetary and fiscal policy; monetary policy games; central bank independence, and monetary policy operating procedures.
6. Evaluate the ability of different monetary policy instruments to achieve the monetary policy goals;
7. Review and assess the experience of a range of economies in conducting monetary policy;
8. Explain the difficulties in designing optimal monetary policy and assess alternative solutions to these problems.
9. Research and investigative skills such as problem framing and solving and the ability to assemble and evaluate complex evidence and arguments of monetary policy.
10. Communicate the monetary policy skills in order to critique, create and communicate understanding and to collaborate with and relate to others. 
11. Personal effectiveness through task-management, time-management, teamwork and group interaction, adapting to new situations, personal and intellectual autonomy through independent learning.
12. Practical/technical skills such as modeling skills (abstraction, logic, succinctness), qualitative and quantitative analysis and general IT literacy.

Brief description of aims and content

This module is intended to help the BDT students to understand the general principles, terminology, diagnostic procedures, and basic concepts of pathology; to identify pathological processes at the cellular and gross anatomical level and correlate these with the clinical symptoms and signs. It also introduces the student to the detailed pathology of diseases that affect the respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, gastro-intestinal, endocrine, urogenital, musculoskeletal, dermatological and haematolymphoid systems, and forensic medicine especially those with direct or indirect relationship with oral diseases or treatments.

Learning Outcomes

The module learning outcomes for this module include: Knowledge capability, Technical capability, Professional work practices, Communication skills, Reflective capacity

A.    Knowledge and Understanding:

By the end of the module, the student will be able to:

                         1.          Describe the sequence of events involved in pathological processes including: cell injury, repair and healing, infection, inflammation, ischaemia and infarction, haemostasis, neoplasia.

                         2.          Recognise macroscopic and microscopic appearances of normal and abnormal tissues, and identify the pathological process involved.

                         3.          Describe (tissue) pathology of common infectious and communicable diseases.

                         4.          Explain alteration in growth control and mechanisms of neoplasia.

                         5.          Describe the key pathological features of common diseases affecting the major organ systems.

                         6.          Demonstrate knowledge of the common effects of pathological processes in different organ systems

                         7.          Demonstrate knowledge of the common medical emergencies which may happen in dental clinical settings

Polymers and Composites  is taught to third year students in materials science program. 

Aims of the module

The module introduces fundamental concepts of polymeric and composite materials, their structure and properties, as well as the most important polymerization processes and composite reinforcements.

Learning outcomes

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in:

• The different classifications of polymeric materials
• The physical and chemical basis of polymers
• How polymers are made and manufactured
• Polymers processing and processing instrumentation
• The foundation of composite materials
• The classification of composite materials
• The particle-reinforced and fiber-reinforced composites.

Polymer Physics is taught to third year and fourth year students in material science program. 

Aims of the module

The module provides a wide range of topics within the field of polymer physics including an in-depth coverage of polymerization processes, structure and properties of polymers, describes the importance of the processing-properties-performance relationships in polymeric materials and identifies practical materials engineering problems in polymer technologies.

Learning outcomes

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in:

• Classification of polymer materials
• Bonding and structure of polymers
• Types and mechanism of polymerization
• Different polymer chain models
• Thermodynamics of Dilute Polymer Solutions
• Glass-rubber transition behavior
• Mechanical behavior of polymers
• Properties of different kinds of polymers
• Role of polymers and polymer technologies in a number of issues of current importance
• Polymers and environment.

Material for energy and environmental sustainability is taught to third year students in materials science program. It is an advance module that introduce energy material and material selection concepts and their applications for environmental sustainability.

Aims of the module

This module introduces the student to the concept of sustainability and its link to material and energy use with the emphasis on the related climate change and environmental issues.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student should be able to:

• Understand and apply the concept of sustainability to  climate change mitigation
• Understand global energy landscape and energy security and associated material challenges
• Understand the concept of sustainable energy and materials
• Understand the energy and materials flows and their socioeconomic drivers
• Conduct material Life cycle assessment (LCA) and Eco-audit
• Understand and apply an eco-informed material selection for various applications  
• Understand the effect of non-renewable energy use on the climate change, air pollution and environment and the way to mitigate them
• Understand the challenges related to nuclear waste disposal and the way to mitigate them
• Conduct material selection and design sustainable energy conversion systems
• Conduct material selection for energy sustainable efficiency buildings and transportation
• Understand and apply the concept of industrial energy efficiency and related material challenges
• Conduct material selection and design sustainable energy storage systems
• Understand nanotechnology concepts applied to material efficiency enhancement
• Apply nanotechnology concept to heat transfer enhancement
• Understand and apply material efficiency concept to various systems

The module is divided into 8 chapters, which are also divided onto various topics as indicated at the Beginning of the chapter.

Aims:

The course will cover some mathematical techniques commonly used in theoretical physics. This is not a course in pure mathematics, but rather on the application of mathematics to problems of interest in the physical sciences.

Content:

Depending on your initial preparation, to be assessed by a preliminary test that will not count for your final grade, we will cover some or all of the following topics: • Vector calculus in curvilinear coordinates; • The theory of analytic functions; • Linear algebra, vectors and tensors in physics; • Special functions and their physical applications; • Partial and ordinary differential equations; analytical and numerical methods for their solution. This is a course in mathematical physics, so the emphasis will always be on physical applications.

The course is divided into five broad topics, each taking 2-4 weeks or so. 

2. LINEAR VECTOR SPACES

1. THEORY OF ANALYTICAL FUNCTION

3. FUNCTION SPACE, ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS, AND FOURIER ANALYSIS

4. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

5. SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

Details are in the attached course outline (and in the online MSc syllabus here https://eaifr.org/degree-programmes/masters-programme/ or here: https://eaifr.org/media/2825/syllabusmsc.pdf 

The course is in two almost independent parts: Electrodynamics (Part 1) and Special Relativity (Part2)

Part 2 has already been taught by Prof. Gazeau. The syllabus is below.  Part I will be taught also. 

PART I: ELECTRODYNAMICS

Review of the Coulomb, Gauss’s laws and surface integral, Bio-Savart law, Ampere’s law and line integral, Faraday law. The Divergence Theorem. Conservation of charge and the equation of continuity. Stokes’ Theorem and the meaning of the curl. Simple examples of curl in cylindrical polar coordinates. The displacement current. A more comprehensive study of Lorentz force, Electrostatics, Magnetostatics and Faraday’s law. Maxwell’s equations (non-relativistic form). Conservation laws. Then solving Maxwell’s equations: Retarded solutions, Radiating Systems and Plane waves. This would include boundary problems in electrostatics; the green function; momentum of distributed charges. Electromagnetic waves and their propagation. Generation of electromagnetic waves, Hertz’ experience, qualitative and quantitative transport of electromagnetic waves. Electric and magnetic fields in matter: vector fields E, B, H, D, P and M. Retarded potential. Electrodynamics in relativistic notation. Lorentz transformation for electromagnetic field. Energy and momentum fields. The electromagnetic mass. The dynamics of relativistic particles and fields and the radiation of moving charges once more. Energy transport and the vector electromagnetic energy transport (Poynting Vector).

PART II: SPECIAL RELATIVITY -- Taught already by Prof. GAZEAU

Given the transformation properties of Maxwell’s equations one introduces the concept of Lorentz transformations in general and shows that they preserve the Minkowski metric. Consequences of this are elaborated including: simultaneity of events, length contraction, time dilatation, composition of velocity, transformation of acceleration. These are corroborated by the experiments of Fizeau and Michelson-Morley.

Relativistic properties of particles including the differences between rest mass and relativistic mass are explained, transformations of energy and momentum are given, and relativistic equations of motion the relativistic expression of energy, particle with zero proper mass and conservation laws of energy and momentum are discussed.

Aim

This module follows the introductory course of Quantum Mechanics I. It aims to continue the development of non-relativistic quantum mechanics as a complete theory of microscopic dynamics, capable of making detailed predictions, with a use of the mathematical methods learnt in previous courses.

Content

The module covers fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics: wave properties, uncertainty principles, Schrödinger equation, and operator and matrix methods. Basic applications of the following are discussed to investigate the rules of quantum mechanics in a more systematic fashion by showing how quantum mechanics is used to examine: the motion of a single particle in one dimension, many particles in one dimension, and a single particle in three dimensions, and angular momentum and spin. The course also examines approximation methods: variational principle and perturbation theory.