User Oriented Collaborative Design, ENG 298 UCD, CRN: 53489, M, Th 2-4:50pm (more information)

Students develop detailed concepts and models of authentic new products and services using user-oriented, collaborative approaches to design and seeking holistic solutions integrating user and functional perspectives.

Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship, ENG 298 FBE, CRN:  53490, M, W 3:30-5:00pm (more information)

The course is designed to provide students with experience in planning and growing a business venture and building a student’s competence in the functional areas of business including accounting, finance, marketing, and strategy.

Introduction to Engineering Measurement techniques and methods, ENG 198 EM, CRN:  51367, MW 2-2:50 or F 2-3:50 (more information)

Historical context, classic results, and key people who have pioneered measurement philosophy and technology.  Methods related to the mechanical sciences.  Basic two-dimensional computer-aided drawing (CAD) skills.  Effective communication of data, along with precision, accuracy, tolerances in written and graphical forms.

Learning in Community, ENG 298, CRN: vary with partners and project options as do Days/Times of offerings (more information).

Each section of this service-learning course is dedicated to a nonprofit organization that has proposed a project of importance to their organization.  Throughout the semester, explore topics that will assist with the management and execution of the project.

Women, Science and Engineering, ENG 198  SV1 (same as GWS 199 SV1), CRN 52556, TR 9:30-10:50 (more information)

What does it mean to be a woman in science, engineering or a related field?  This is the central question the course will address.  Students will read across multiple disciplines and engage contemporary media to understand the evolving place of women within science and technology.

Minds and Machines, PHIL 199 1TM, CRN:  52272, MWF 2-2:50 (more information)

This course will be an introduction, targeted in part to students in engineering and the engineering sciences, to a connected set of issues in the branch of philosophy called “philosophy of mind”.  We will explore the suggestion, common in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, that the relation of the mind to the brain is analogous to the relation of a computer program to a machine that ‘runs’ it.

(re)Making Matter(s), ART 199 MP, CRN: 44619, TTh 9:30-12:10 (more information)

This class examines the rise of DIY culture, the proliferation of post-consumer/green design strategies and self-determined making popularized by such publications as Make and ReadyMade magazines. We’ll explore radical crafting’s roots as feminist and punk inspired opposition to globalized industrial production and ideas about the artist as bricoleur, making creative and resourceful (re)use of whatever materials are available, regardless of their original purpose.