This course focuses on robot manipulators with the course content divided into three parts. The first part is related to manipulator kinematics. Material covered in this first part will include position and orientation of a body, the Denavit-Hartenberg convention and kinematic analysis, inverse kinematics, and Jacobians. The second part of the course is based on the dynamics of robot manipulators. The final part of the course focuses on trajectory planning, linear and non-linear control of manipulators, and force control. (MCH 4001)
MEE480.4 Fundamentals of Robotics
MEE480.3 Introduction to Microcontrollers
This course aims to introduce the basics of digital design and embedded control systems. Students will have a sound knowledge of: design methods and the implementation of basic digital systems, microcontrollers, microcontroller architecture, assembly programming, and microcontroller peripherals. Student will have hands-on exercises in Lab. Projects related to microcontroller programming and interfacing. (MCH 3011)
MEE480.1 Special Topics in Theoretical Mechatronics
This course aimes to provide students with focused theoretical treatment of various advanced concepts employed in the design and analysis of mechatronic systems. Course content is mainly theoretical and focused topics related to mechatronics systems as determined by the course instructor. (MCH 4951)
PST380.30 Social Policies in Latin America
Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be offered every semester. This course studies the design, approval process, and evolution of the main social policies in Latin America, as well as the different types of Welfare State that frame them in the Latin American context. The focus of the course will be the relationship between social policies, states, and economic development. In this context, the course analyzes the rise, performance, and retrenchment of several social policy systems in the societies that have embraced capitalism, since the Industrial Revolution until the early 21st Century, and how this process has affected Latin America. The course will highlight the differences and similarities between Latin American and the First World in light of the process described above. The course will devote sessions to theorizing, to historical analysis, and to review of the current debate about the concept of the Welfare State, focusing on the Latin American and Chilean specifics. Meets with LAS 380.30.
(PUC ICP0134)
LAS380.33 United States Interventions In Latin America, 1898-1920
Taught in Spanish. The goals of this course are to help students understand the causes, motivations, and reasons for the USA’s interventionist policy in Latin America between 1898 and 1920, and the problems of Latin American defenselessness in the face of aggressive imperialism; and to achieve specific and detailed knowledge of each USA intervention in the period from the Cuban-Hispanic-American War to World War I (political, diplomatic and economic aspects of the cases of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia-Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, the War of 1914). May also be registered as HST 380.33.
Class taught at Universidad de Chile and may not be available every semester.
LAS380.32 Contemporary Latin American History
Taught in Spanish. The course takes a broad view of the history of the twentieth century in Latin America, focusing on both the common elements and the diversity of experiences that can be found in the different historical processes that have shaped the continent. Special emphasis will be placed on the cultural aspects of social and political processes that were significant during the twentieth century, approaching them from analytical perspectives of race, class and gender. Among the general contents of the course are the emergence of new political actors in the new century, the collapse of the oligarchic system, the rise of populism, authoritarianism and human rights, and the construction of historical memories post dictatorships in Latin America. Meets with HST 380.32. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (PUC IHI0224)
HST380.33 United States Interventions In Latin America, 1898-1920
Taught in Spanish. The goals of this course are to help students understand the causes, motivations, and reasons for the USA’s interventionist policy in Latin America between 1898 and 1920, and the problems of Latin American defenselessness in the face of aggressive imperialism; and to achieve specific and detailed knowledge of each USA intervention in the period from the Cuban-Hispanic-American War to World War I (political, diplomatic and economic aspects of the cases of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia-Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, the War of 1914). May also be registered as LAS 380.33. (UCH 386301SE241-1)
Class taught at Universidad de Chile and may not be available every semester.
HST380.32 Contemporary Latin American History
Taught in Spanish. The course takes a broad view of the history of the twentieth century in Latin America, focusing on both the common elements and the diversity of experiences that can be found in the different historical processes that have shaped the continent. Special emphasis will be placed on the cultural aspects of social and political processes that were significant during the twentieth century, approaching them from analytical perspectives of race, class and gender. Among the general contents of the course are the emergence of new political actors in the new century, the collapse of the oligarchic system, the rise of populism, authoritarianism and human rights, and the construction of historical memories post dictatorships in Latin America. Meets with LAS 380.32. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (PUC IHI0224)
HST380.13 Indigenous History of Chile and Latin America
Taught in Spanish. In order to analyze historical processes and understand them from a long-term point of view, this course studies several geographical and cultural areas of Latin America. The course will describe the main aspects and developments of the Mesoamerican region, the Caribbean, the Amazon and the Andean area, comparing them to the particular and diverse cultures that occupied the Chilean territory (desert, transitional desert, the valley region, the forests in the South and Polynesia). The course will study the different native groups who inhabited the Latin American continent as well as those who still have a significant presence in Latin America. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (PUC IHI0211)
GEO380.20 Housing and Urban Form
Taught in Spanish. This course approaches the issue of housing from the basic elements that make up the residential fabric of Chile and other countries. Topics of analysis include the relationship between public and private space, streets and road management systems, property subdivisions and construction classifications and the various forms of aggregation they create in Chile’s residential neighborhoods as well as in other countries. The ability to recognize, study and respond to these forms and the way they relate to one another constitutes the base of solid urban design. The course will also study the models and mechanisms of production that gave rise to social housing projects and middle class housing from the early twentieth century to the present, how they relate to their policy and planning context, and their impact on the spatial quality of the neighborhoods they comprise. The course’s starting point will be graphic analysis and breakdown of the residential fabric and its components on various scales, and from there, its morphogenesis, its evolution over time, and its regulatory and operational context. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester. (PUC IEU2029)