HAPI Themes
Human Artifacts, Processes & Interactions (HAPI) Themes
See the HAPI themes manual here
One of iFoundry’s core principles is that a broad understanding of human beings and society is an integral part of engineering education. To paraphrase Max Weber, we aim to cultivate specialists who have both the “vision and the heart” to be thoughtful practitioners of engineering, capable of dealing with the complex challenges ahead in their careers. We encourage our students to approach their campus and college general education requirements in this spirit, by exploring coherent themes within their campus and college general education requirements, known as HAPI themes.
The HAPI Themes manual details how this thematic treatment of requirements helps students explore other disciplines, and cross-disciplinary connections to enrich and deepen their engineering education. The document defines HAPI themes, and presents the two types of HAPI themes at opposite ends of the spectrum: Traditional Disciplinary Themes and Mixed Interdisciplinary Themes. It concludes with a number of sample themes. As iFoundry grows, we expect that students will grow with it and make these humanistic pursuits their own, by defining interdisciplinary and disciplinary HAPI themes custom-tailored to their own passions and interests.
Recommendations for creating a HAPI theme (as pdf flyer)
Guidelines and Theme Approval (as pdf flyer)
