Socio-Environmental Responsibility in Engineering and Computing

Catalog description

Students explore the first two phases of the design thinking process -- empathizing with a community and defining a problem -- by engaging with a local community and actively listening to community stakeholders. Students practice civic engagement and service to others by proposing an engineering and/or computing design solution to the identified problem. The design solution is required to take into account interdisciplinary research and multiple considerations, including societal, environmental, cultural, historical, ethical, and economic factors. Students reflect on their experience with the early steps of the design thinking process and present their initial design. Students analyze and facilitate discussions on interdisciplinary readings and case studies exemplifying existing solutions and their impact on communities. SI-01, SI-02.