1 to 3 credits
Fall 2026 Lecture Upper Division
The main goal of this course is to encourage students to think like global engineers by focusing curricular activities on engineering case studies from a humanistic-engineering perspective. The case studies examined in the course may include past, present, and hypothetical engineering successes and failures; analyses will require engineering skills combined with understanding of cultural perspectives of local communities and cultural context (i.e., sociological, anthropological, and historical information and analyses that contribute to cultural understanding). This humanities-infused approach will encourage students to develop a new mindset--a way of seeing current and hypothetical engineering plans, projects, and impacts through local communities' pasts and presents, unique values, perspectives, and daily ways of life. Taught in Spanish.
Learning Outcomes1Discuss various approaches to engineering problems in class meetings or online discussion boards.
2Analyze global engineering problems from engineering and humanistic perspectives evidenced in written case study responses and assessments.
3Apply concepts of systems thinking and design thinking and express them in individual and group activities.
4Explain the application of humanistic fields of study to engineering problems.
Prerequisites
made by Purdue students.