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Senior Ammu Irivinti plays the copper pipe flute she built for the final assignment in the new course Archimedes\u2019 Lever: How Engineers Move the World. (Photo by Will Kirk)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI want to go for \u2018cool,\u2019 but relatively easy as I\u2019m not great at building stuff,\u201d said biomedical engineering major Ammu Irivinti \u201910 to her partner, freshman Amanda Ross. It was early October and the students were discussing the final project for Archimedes\u2019 Lever: How Engineers Move the World, a one-credit engineering course that debuted this fall, thanks to the generosity of John Holmes \u201952. For the assignment, pairs of students would build musical instruments on which to play an assigned five-note tune, both as a solo performance and in a round.<\/p>\n

On a December morning when the class gathered in Maryland Hall with their completed instruments, the students\u2019 creativity and construction skills were put to the test. Irivinti and Ross\u2019 copper pipe flute passed the sound check with flying colors, as did the flute made from an eggshell and a drinking straw, the shoebox and rubber-band guitar, and the drums constructed from painted PVC pipes.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents come here wanting to study engineering, but I\u2019m concerned they don\u2019t really know what it means to be an engineer,\u201d says Ed Scheinerman who, in addition to creating and teaching the class, is the Whiting School\u2019s vice dean for education and a professor of applied mathematics and statistics. \u201cI want them to \u2018think big\u2019 about engineering,\u201d Scheinerman says. \u201cI want them to understand that engineering is a force that moves the world and prepare them for leadership in the engineering profession and society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The class, named after the second-century B.C. mathematician, inventor, scientist, physicist, and astronomer who first explained the principle of the lever, boasted a roster of visiting scholars whose expertise was as diverse as Archimedes\u2019.<\/p>\n

For example, \u201cEngineers must know how to communicate,\u201d says Scheinerman. And that is the reason why, on an evening in early October, Caroline Bleggi \u201911 stood before her class in Maryland Hall and read one of Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets to Hopkins alumnus John Astin<\/a> \u201952 (A&S).<\/p>\n

Astin, a visiting professor of theater (who portrayed Gomez Addams on the 1960s television show The Addams Family), explained to the class, \u201cI\u2019m going to help you talk. You\u2019ll find that life is a lot easier if you\u2019re able to express yourself, if you can use the words you have.\u201d \u201cThis is so scary,\u201d Bleggi said before launching into, \u201cShall I compare thee to a Summer\u2019s day?<\/a>\u201d When she finished Astin smiled and said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to do it again and again and it will get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other class sessions featured history of science and technology professor Stuart Leslie speaking on the history of engineering; Linda Dillon Jones, JHU\u2019s director of human resources in the Center for Training and Education, discussing group dynamics and interpersonal relationships; and Andrew Douglas, the Whiting School\u2019s vice dean for faculty and a professor of mechanical engineering, who spoke to the students about energy before taking them on a tour of the rarely seen steam tunnels<\/a> beneath the Homewood campus.<\/p>\n

According to Scheinerman, engineering students need to think creatively, work collaboratively, and be open to new ideas. \u201cThey must develop skills that extend beyond their talent for solving differential equations,\u201d he says, \u201cif they\u2019re going to reshape the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo Caption: Senior Ammu Irivinti plays the copper pipe flute she built for the final assignment in the new course Archimedes\u2019 Lever: How Engineers Move the World. Photo by Will Kirk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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