Description
This course provides an overview of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines through the perspective of Engineering Design. The class includes lecture, outside readings, field trips and/or outside lecturers, and lab-based, hands-on projects (including those from mathematics, chemistry, physics, robotics, and nanotechnology). Students will expand their horizons in terms of thinking like a scientist, technologist, engineer, mathematician, and creative collaborator. Students also will create their own project that integrates STEM disciplines. All or part of their created project will be student-supervised as an activity in the class. Upon successful completion of this course, students will learn to recognize and apply concepts from multiple STEM fields within various engineering designs.