3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
This course provides an introduction to, and references for, each of four distinct approaches to SE concepts and tools. Individual assignments and team projects will be based on readings from these multiple approaches and selected case studies. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own prior expertise and examples to the discussions and projects. While the course will discuss quantitative topics (including cybernetics, feedback control systems, and statistical process control), the course itself will emphasize a more interdisciplinary conceptual integration rather than stand-alone analysis of these topics.
Learning Outcomes1Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
2Function on multidisciplinary teams.
3Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.
4Understand professional and ethical responsibility.
5Communicate effectively.
6Acquire the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
7Recognize the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
8Acquire knowledge of contemporary issues.
9Prepare graduates to design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems that include people, materials, information, equipment and energy.
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