Courses

Electricity
Electric Charge and Electric Field: Electric charge, Conductors, insulators and induced charges, Coulomb's law, Electric field and Electric forces, Charge distributions, Electric dipoles
Gauss’ Law: Charge and electric flux, Gauss...

Mechanics
Properties of Vectors: Geometrical representation, multiplication (dot product and cross product), the three-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, Components of a vector, Direction Cosines, Linear Independence, Magnitude of a vector,...

Basic Laboratory experiments to expose students to handling various measuring instruments and to data and error analysis.

Study of the nutritional requirements in pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence and in the aged. Relationship between maternal diet and pregnancy outcome. Breast feeding, weaning, nutrition of premature infants Complementary feeding,...

Definition of advocacy. Identifying policy issues; Selecting an advocacy objective; Researching audiences; Developing and delivering messages; Understanding the Decision-making process; Building alliances; making effective presentations; Funding for advocacy...

The course will include improving the communication skills of students within the scientific context and lay public on nutrition facts. Writing an educational feature and publishing in any of the local mass media for the general populace and writing...

Effects of nutrition on growth and development, regulatory growth mechanisms, measurement of growth, reference standards in growth measurement. Influence of nutrition on body composition. Estimation of human energy requirements; concepts of energy balance,...

Quality Control for laboratory and Field data collection: General principles, setting up a quality control chart for the laboratory. Using the chart to identify questionable data; monitoring field data quality. Data analysis using software (Access, Epi-Info,...