EN.501.124 FYS: Design Cornerstone, 2 credits, Fall
EN.501.127 FYS: Designing a Just Future, 3 credits, Fall
This first-year seminar explores a deeper understanding of empathy’s potential and limitations within the broader context of design justice. Readings such as Sara Hendren’s What Can a Body Do?, Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the World We Need, and Kat Holmes’s Mismatch will provide a foundation for critical dialogue on principles of inclusive design, community advocacy, and ethical empathy. Come prototype tools for a more just and humane society.
EN.660.345 Multidisciplinary Engineering Design 1, 4 credits, Fall
In the first semester, 2nd through 4th year students with disparate engineering backgrounds will come together to tackle exciting design challenges with project partners from industry, medicine, or the social sector. Teams will work to understand the essential need behind a problem, generate creative ideas, prototype & test, and present a final solution. Students will also learn to collaborate among different working styles, and they will be exposed to new skill sets from different engineering disciplines. Some departments allow this course sequence to fulfill their capstone or design requirement. Check it out in our FAQ.
EN.660.346 Multidisciplinary Engineering Design 2, 4 credits, Spring
In the 2nd semester, teams implement project management and product development tools to refine and test their prototypes with the intent of handing off an implementable solution to their project partner by the end of the semester. Students who wish to join an existing team but did not take EN.660.345 MED 1 may be able to do so by reaching out to the instructor.
EN.660.347 Action Lab, 3 credits, Spring
Discover how playful experimentation, rapid prototyping and embracing risk and failure can grow your skills as a future engineer. We will explore the technical skills used in rapid prototyping and apply those skills to two central skill-building projects and one final project of your choosing. This course is designed as a hands-on, participatory workshop, where we’ll be making and tinkering together each week in order to develop our own unique approach to solving critical problems.
EN.660.392 Social Impact Design, 3 credits, Spring
Multidisciplinary teams of students collaborate with a Baltimore community partner to tackle a design challenge that addresses an issue of injustice. Students will first learn about the history and current context surrounding the design challenge before diving into responsible co-design with the community partner to create sustainable and adoptable solutions. Students from both WSE and KSAS may register.
