Blue CoLab I

Catalog description

This is a hands-on, team-based course in which students use and manage Blue CoLab's realtime water and weather sensing and related technologies, as well as real-time streaming data in projects aimed at the protection of human and environmental health. Blue CoLab allows students to advance their knowledge of a chosen specialty or a new specialty through project development and applications in areas, such as data analytics, Web presentation, data visualizations, data sonification (mapping data to music), mobile apps, application Programming Interface (API) development, etc. Lectures cover topics, such as sensor engineering, instrument deployment, user experience (UX), product development, relevant languages, and more. In addition, Blue CoLab students can utilize an on-campus data lab and a nearby offcampus tech lab. Assignments primarily include team projects culminating in team presentations. The work of each semester differs from and builds upon the work of previous semesters in the application of both CS and IT to the Blue CoLab mission; therefore, no two semesters are alike.