Blue CoLab II

Catalog description

Blue CoLab is a hands-on, team-based course that focuses on training and research in the technology and data science of real-time water monitoring. Blue CoLab 2, which is offered in Spring, is a companion course to Blue CoLab 1, offered in Fall. However, the courses are not required to be taken in sequence. Blue CoLab 2 will have a strong emphasis on the use of instrumentation and hardware to create data that enhances and informs the user experience with water, particularly drinking water. In addition, because Blue CoLab is also a full-time, 365 day/year program, students work directly with faculty and staff in the operation of Blue CoLab's real-time water and weather sensors, stations, and related technologies, as well as management and translation of the real-time streaming data they generate. With operating labs in Goldstein Academic Center, Choate Pond, and off-campus, students have workspace that allows them to experience operation of the full program while creating projects, apps and presentations that advance the Pace community's understanding of its own water. 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.