SCIENCE EXPERIMENTATION AND ENGINEERING DESIGN

Catalog description

Scientific Experimentation & Engineering Design (SEED) is a general education science course that introduces integrative STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concepts and their applications. The course fosters 21st Century Learning through study and work in active, team-based experiential learning environments through all phases of near-space experiments using high-altitude balloon platforms. Near-space experiments require research question development, experiment hardware fabrication, experiment software integration, payload launch and recovery, data analysis, and formal experiments' results reporting. Science and Engineering Practices are central to students' experiences and work in this course, as the course models the interdisciplinary connectedness of academic fields, industry, and the community to encourage collaboration and discovery to effectively implement STEM concepts, practices, and innovation. (Cross-listed with STEM 2800 ).