Department: School of Engineering

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DESINST110A Design for Living & Learning Design for Living & Learning is a 2 quarter course open to pre-assign residents of the Lantana Design House. Through hands-on activities, readings and lectures you will learn how to design experiences that meet the hidden needs of your fellow residen...
DESINST110B Design for Living & Learning Design for Living & Learning is a 2 quarter course open to pre-assign residents of the Lantana Design House. Through hands-on activities, readings and lectures you will learn how to design experiences that meet the hidden needs of your fellow residen...
DESINST200 Forget all the Jargon, Let's Innovate The global pandemic, the U.S. unemployment, and the movement to fight racism, has shown us that the world can rapidly change, and when it does that organizations and people that innovate thrive. Design thinking, innovation, agile and many other appro...
DESINST203 Designing the Taboo This class weaves together a designer's mindset with analogous practices to build space where interpersonal conflict can burn safely and productively to create restorative change. Students will identify a wildfire in their own lives or communities (m...
DESINST205 Art as Activism Art is a form of revolution and reflection. From literary and performing arts to murals and large scale conceptual sculptures- artists have often created a pathway for society to engage in a dialogue on the complicated nuances of social justice issue...
DESINST210 Design Decoded: Human Interaction is a Digital versus Analog World When we digitize an interaction, what is lost, and what is gained? This course will explore how digitization has direct implications for human interactions across selected industries/practices, consider its potential cultural, neurocognitive, and soc...
DESINST213 Designing With/By/For Joy In this class, you'll use the joy as the tool to build your design practice. We will explore what it means to center joy in design processes, spaces, systems, and experiences. We'll do this by parsing Joy through four lenses: Understanding, Ritual, B...
DESINST220 Designing Futures of Work Livelihoods are under threat for millions of people all around the world due to factors spanning globalization, climate change, automation, and more. This was true in 2019, but it is even more true now. The impact of Covid 19 especially on the liveli...
DESINST221 Designing Organizational Culture From COVID-19 to racial injustice, lack of diversity to economic inequality, our current state of unsettledness makes the importance of organizational culture clear while demanding a proactive reworking of these cultures to respond to the needs of th...
DESINST222 DESIGNING FOR COMMUNAL SAFETY How might we design for communal safety beyond the prison industrial complex? Through recognizing the prison industrial complex as a design problem, we will explore both how established institutions (like prisons and policing) are impermanent and the...
DESINST225 Designing Towards an Antiracist Stanford In this class, we will explore complex concepts of systemic and interpersonal oppression and racism, understand how these concepts manifest on our campus and in our communities, then design and prototype meaningful interventions for impact. We will s...
DESINST230 Community College: Designing for Policy, Ethics, AI/ML tech, Culture, the Environment Let's design the world we want for ourselves and the next generation. Let's make space for a variety of Black & Brown voices with diverse expertise to imagine this future. Let's design, build, and test solutions to our world's most pressing problems...
DESINST232 REIMAGINING CAMPUS LIFE The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new normal. In-person exchanges at work, school and social gatherings were quickly replaced with virtual interactions. Even as we cautiously emerge from lockdown, some of the fragmented, unequal, and occasionally aw...
DESINST235 Portfolios are for Everyone Whether you are a scientist, a historian, a medical student, a journalist, an entrepreneur, or a designer, in the near future you will find yourself telling your story to potential collaborators, funders, employers, and others. You can no longer rely...
DESINST240 Designing Machine Learning: A Multidisciplinary Approach A multidisciplinary, human-centered approach to designing systems of machine learning and AI intended to empower a new and more diverse generation of innovators.As machine learning makes its way into all kinds of products, systems, spaces, and experi...
DESINST242 Deconstructing Impact: Lessons with Leaders We all want to have impact - even Stanford's purpose is to 'prepare students to...contribute to the world.' But words like impact, purpose, change, and even innovation have lost their teeth. In this intimate seminar, students will put the bite back i...
DESINST243 FLIGHTS IN FUTURES We can - and must be - the dreamers, the inventors, the artists, the creators, the pioneers, the shapers of our own tomorrows. We can - and must be - the dreamers, the inventors, the artists, the creators, the pioneers, the shapers of our own tomorro...
DESINST250 Oceans by Design Marine ecosystems - on which global and human health rely - are degrading rapidly from the cumulative effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, and habitat destruction. Multidisciplinary problem solving is required to address social, ecologi...
DESINST255 Design for Health: Navigating Futures in Virtual Reality For many people, participating in the American healthcare system is confusing, frustrating and often disempowering. It is also an experience fueled with emotional intensity and feelings of vulnerability. Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging technology...
DESINST260A Design for Pediatric Patients Feeding is a complex process involving coordinated interaction among several systems in the context of the parent-child dyad. A disruption in any of these systems places a child at risk for a feeding disorder. This two-quarter class will focus on the...
DESINST260B Designing for Pediatric Patients This two-quarter class will focus on the pediatric population who have feeding challenges in the neonatal ICU, the labor and delivery room, and at home once discharged. Students will practice design thinking methodology as a pathway for medical devic...
DESINST265 A deep-dive into the art and craft of ethnographic interviewing for innovation. Interviewing is one of the contemporary designer's most essential tools. What feels like a free-flowing conversation is in fact a highly structured, thought-through process with a beginning, middle and end. In this practice-based intensive, learn the...
DESINST270 Visual Design Fundamentals Introduction to the principles, tools, and techniques of visual design and visual communication. Students learn the fundamentals of line, shape, color, composition, and type and use these basic building blocks to communicate with clarity, emotion, an...
DESINST275 Conversations in the Wild: The Art of Navigating Difficult Encounters We face much uncertainty when we approach a stranger, friend, colleague, or a partner about difficult subjects--those scary or uncomfortable topics that are triggering, that can make us feel threatened in an instant, and can backfire, despite our bes...
DESINST278 DESIGN FOR BELONGING: AUTISM CARE Everybody's brain works differently and therapy models in autism are often designed to try to create an appearance of neurotypicality in those with autism. In this course we are asking: How might we embrace neurodiversity and help families and clini...
DESINST280 Designing Equity Tools Education systems in this country are not serving all students equally. This course is for students who wish to revolutionize the way we understand and provide for safe learning environments. In this course, students and instructors will explore oppo...
DESINST283 Designed To Play During this unique moment in time, with the pandemic still looming, and racial reckoning in America, the importance and the role of play in designing experiences is an essential tool that enables us to collectively navigate ambiguity, build trust and...
DESINST285 Designing for Digital Agency Emerging technologies pose great potential for the advancement of society, but they are increasingly replicating real-world structural inequities. There is an urgent need to prioritize equity and ethics as a prerequisite for designing emerging techno...
DESINST290 Designing for Equitable Futures Leaders can no longer set broad, linear vision for the future. Instead they need to be brilliant at noticing trends, cognizant of context and quick to adapt. In this class, we will test a futurist framework for K12 Leaders using a series of design ex...
DESINST295 Designing for More: Scaling Impact within Education When we seek solutions for grand challenges, we are wise to not assume we need to design the solution from scratch, but rather to first look for early signs where things are already working in the wider field--a phenomenon known as "positive deviants...
DESINST301A CREATIVITY IN RESEARCH Creativity in Research Scholars is for Stanford PhD students across all disciplines. In addition to their primary research activities, these individuals are learning and applying design thinking to push the boundaries of their work and create entirel...
DESINST301B Creativity in Research Creativity in Research Scholars is for Stanford PhD students across all disciplines. In addition to their primary research activities, these individuals are learning and applying design thinking to push the boundaries of their work and create entirel...
DESINST308 CIVIC DESIGN Planners, policymakers, courts, and designers are exhorted to 'involve the public' in decision-making, but how can this aspiration be made a reality? We will explore methods and case studies of how participatory design can be used for better communit...
DESINST310 Negotiation by Design: Applied Design Thinking for Negotiators Where many stakeholders are working within a complex scenario, the skilled negotiator is comfortable with the inherent ambiguity, at once nimble and careful in responding to new information and changing positions. In this advanced negotiation course,...
DESINST311 Design Abilities Studio In this Design Abilities Studio students will learn and practice several applied skills with hands-on activities that vary in length, duration, deliverables, and concept. This course focuses on developing core design abilities that make individuals b...
DESINST315 Coaching Design Thinking Design thinking is a team sport. The goal of coaching is to help participants practice the basics and develop skills of the game. This class will break down coaching into its components, parsing out the role of the coach at each stage of the Design T...
DESINST380 Introduction to Design Impact Design can change the world. But whether it's for better or worse isn't a static outcome. Your work - like you - will change with time. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes for the worse. This course will introduce you to the powers and responsibiliti...
DESINST390 Advanced Design Studio Advanced Design Studio will help magnify your design skills, expose you to design-related positions after Stanford, and coach you through working on a project of your own devising. As a key component of the project-based course, students will engage...
DESINST423 Design for Healthy Behavior Change In the U.S., 75% of medical expenditures are for illnesses that are predominantly lifestyle related such as type 2 diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. It has been shown as people modify their lifestyles with healthier habits, medical problems can...
ENGR1 Want to Be an Engineer? This course is designed for you if you are a new student who has a hypothesis that you want to be a scientist, mathematician, or engineer but don't yet know what you want to major in. As a scientist, you know that you need data to test your hypothesi...
ENGR10 Introduction to Engineering Analysis Integrated approach to the fundamental scientific principles that are the cornerstones of engineering analysis: conservation of mass, atomic species, charge, momentum, angular momentum, energy, production of entropy expressed in the form of balance e...
ENGR100 Teaching Public Speaking The theory and practice of teaching public speaking and presentation development. Lectures/discussions on developing an instructional plan, using audiovisual equipment for instruction, devising tutoring techniques, and teaching delivery, organization...
ENGR102W Technical and Professional Communication Effective communication skills will help you advance quickly. Learn the best technical and professional techniques in writing and speaking. Group workshops and individual conferences with instructors. Designed for undergraduates going into industry....
ENGR103 Public Speaking Priority to Engineering students. Introduction to speaking activities, from impromptu talks to carefully rehearsed formal professional presentations. How to organize and write speeches, analyze audiences, create and use visual aids, combat nervousnes...
ENGR105 Feedback Control Design Design of linear feedback control systems for command-following error, stability, and dynamic response specifications. Root-locus and frequency response design techniques. Examples from a variety of fields. Some use of computer aided design with MATL...
ENGR108 Introduction to Matrix Methods Formerly EE 103/CME 103. Introduction to applied linear algebra with emphasis on applications. Vectors, norm, and angle; linear independence and orthonormal sets; applications to document analysis. Clustering and the k-means algorithm. Matrices, lef...
ENGR110 Perspectives in Assistive Technology (ENGR 110) Seminar and student project course. Explores the medical, social, ethical, and technical challenges surrounding the design, development, and use of technologies that improve the lives of people with disabilities and older adults. Guest lecturers incl...
ENGR117 Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, s...
ENGR119 Community Engagement Preparation Seminar This seminar is designed for engineering students who have already committed to an experiential learning program working directly with a community partner on a project of mutual benefit. This seminar is targeted at students participating in the Summe...
ENGR120 Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering Lectures, problems, field trip. Engineering topics in petroleum recovery; origin, discovery, and development of oil and gas. Chemical, physical, and thermodynamic properties of oil and natural gas. Material balance equations and reserve estimates usi...
ENGR14 Intro to Solid Mechanics Introduction to engineering analysis using the principles of engineering solid mechanics. Builds on the math and physical reasoning concepts in Physics 41 to develop skills in evaluation of engineered systems across a variety of fields. Foundational...
ENGR140A Leadership of Technology Ventures First of three-part sequence for students selected to the Mayfield Fellows Program. Focuses on management and leadership of purposeful technology-intensive startups. Learning outcomes include entrepreneurial leadership skills related to product and m...
ENGR140B Leadership of Technology Ventures Open to Mayfield Fellows only; taken during the summer internship at a technology startup. Students exchange experiences and continue the formal learning process. Activities journal. Credit given following quarter.
ENGR140C Leadership of Technology Ventures Open to Mayfield Fellows only. Capstone to the 140 sequence. Students, faculty, employers, and venture capitalists share recent internship experiences and analytical frameworks. Students develop living case studies and integrative project reports.
ENGR145 Technology Entrepreneurship How does the entrepreneurship process enable the creation and growth of high-impact enterprises? Why does entrepreneurial leadership matter even in a large organization or a non-profit venture? What are the differences between just an idea and true o...
ENGR145S Technology Entrepreneurship How does the entrepreneurship process enable the creation and growth of high-impact enterprises? Why does entrepreneurial leadership matter even in a large organization or a non-profit venture? What are the differences between just an idea and true o...
ENGR148 Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions Examines how leaders tackle significant events that occur in high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Students prepare their minds for the difficult entrepreneurial situations that they will encounter in their lives in whatever their chosen career. Cas...
ENGR15 Dynamics The application of Newton's Laws to solve 2-D and 3-D static and dynamic problems, particle and rigid body dynamics, freebody diagrams, and equations of motion, with application to mechanical, biomechanical, and aerospace systems. Computer numerical...
ENGR154 Vector Calculus for Engineers Computation and visualization using MATLAB. Differential vector calculus: vector-valued functions, analytic geometry in space, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradient, linearization, unconstrained maxima and minima, Lagrange mul...
ENGR155A Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers Analytical and numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations arising in engineering applications are presented. For analytical methods students learn to solve linear and non-linear first order ODEs; linear second order ODEs; and Lapl...
ENGR155B Linear Algebra and Partial Differential Equations for Engineers Linear algebra: systems of algebraic equations, Gaussian elimination, undetermined and overdetermined systems, coupled systems of ordinary differential equations, LU factorization, eigensystem analysis, normal modes. Linear independence, vector space...
ENGR155C Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers Probability: random variables, independence, and conditional probability; discrete and continuous distributions, moments, distributions of several random variables. Numerical simulation using Monte Carlo techniques. Topics in mathematical statistics:...
ENGR159Q Japanese Companies and Japanese Society Preference to sophomores. The structure of a Japanese company from the point of view of Japanese society. Visiting researchers from Japanese companies give presentations on their research enterprise. The Japanese research ethic. The home campus equiv...
ENGR193 Discover Engineering: How to Aim High, Embrace Uncertainty, and Achieve Impact This weekly seminar will provide undergraduate and graduate students of all majors with practical leadership skills training (e.g. how to network, negotiate, advocate for yourself, assert influence) in order to make innovative and valuable contributi...
ENGR199 Special Studies in Engineering Special studies, lab work, or reading under the direction of a faculty member. Often research experience opportunities exist in ongoing research projects. Students make arrangements with individual faculty and enroll in the section number correspondi...
ENGR199A Additional Calculus for Engineers Additional problem solving practice for the calculus courses. Sections are designed to allow students to acquire a deeper understanding of calculus and its applications, work collaboratively, and develop a mastery of the material. Limited enrollment,...
ENGR199W Writing of Original Research for Engineers Technical writing in science and engineering. Students produce a substantial document describing their research, methods, and results. Prerequisite: completion of freshman writing requirements; prior or concurrent in 2 units of research in the major...
ENGR2 Stanford Summer Engineering Academy Offered in August prior to start of fall quarter for incoming first-year students participating in the Stanford Summer Engineering Academy (SSEA). This course is comprised of two parallel tracks: One focused on the development and practice of critica...
ENGR20 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Overview of chemical engineering through discussion and engineering analysis of physical and chemical processes. Topics: overall staged separations, material and energy balances, concepts of rate processes, energy and mass transport, and kinetics of...
ENGR202C Technical Communication for CEE SDC Students Students learn how to write and present technical information clearly, with a focus on how to draft and revise reader-centered professional documents. The course includes elements of effective oral communication and presentation.This offering for CEE...
ENGR202S Directed Writing Projects Effective writing is key to academic and professional progress. 202S provides individualized writing instruction for students working on important writing projects such as dissertations, grant proposals, theses, journal articles, and teaching and res...
ENGR202W Technical Communication To be effective as an engineer or scientist, you must communicate your cutting-edge research and projects effectively to a broad range of audiences: your professors, your fellow students, your colleagues in the field, and sometimes the public. ENGR....
ENGR203 Public Speaking Priority to Engineering students. Introduction to speaking activities, from impromptu talks to carefully rehearsed formal professional presentations. How to organize and write speeches, analyze audiences, create and use visual aids, combat nervousnes...
ENGR205 Introduction to Control Design Techniques Review of root-locus and frequency response techniques for control system analysis and synthesis. State-space techniques for modeling, full-state feedback regulator design, pole placement, and observer design. Combined observer and regulator design....
ENGR209A Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems Introduction to nonlinear phenomena: multiple equilibria, limit cycles, bifurcations, complex dynamical behavior. Planar dynamical systems, analysis using phase plane techniques. Describing functions. Lyapunov stability theory. SISO feedback lineariz...
ENGR21 Engineering of Systems A high-level look at techniques for analyzing and designing complex, multidisciplinary engineering systems, such as aircraft, spacecraft, automobiles, power plants, cellphones, robots, biomedical devices, and many others. The need for multi-level des...
ENGR210 Perspectives in Assistive Technology (ENGR 110) Seminar and student project course. Explores the medical, social, ethical, and technical challenges surrounding the design, development, and use of technologies that improve the lives of people with disabilities and older adults. Guest lecturers incl...
ENGR217 Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, s...
ENGR219 Community Engagement Preparation Seminar This seminar is designed for engineering students who have already committed to an experiential learning program working directly with a community partner on a project of mutual benefit. This seminar is targeted at students participating in the Summe...
ENGR231 Transformative Design In this course students are asked to experiment with transformations in their lives which both bring their actions and principles into fuller alignment and incorporate tools which give them more mastery in dealing with the negatives in their environm...
ENGR240 Introduction to Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems Miniaturization technologies now have important roles in materials, mechanical, and biomedical engineering practice, in addition to being the foundation for information technology. This course will target an audience of first-year engineering gradua...
ENGR241 Advanced Micro and Nano Fabrication Laboratory This project course focuses on developing fabrication processes for ExFab, a shared facility that supports flexible lithography, heterogeneous integration, and rapid micro prototyping. Team projects are approved by the instructor and are mentored by...
ENGR245 The Lean LaunchPad: Getting Your Lean Startup Off the Ground Learn how to turn a technical idea from a lab, research, or vision into a successful business using the Lean Launchpad process (business model canvas, customer development, running experiments, and agile engineering.) Hands-on experiential class. 15+...
ENGR248 Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions Examines how leaders tackle significant events that occur in high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Students prepare their minds for the difficult entrepreneurial situations that they will encounter in their lives in whatever their chosen career. Cas...
ENGR280 From Play to Innovation Focus is on enhancing the innovation process with playfulness. The class will be project-based and team-centered. We will investigate the human "state of play" to reach an understanding of its principal attributes and how important it is to creative...
ENGR281 d.media - Designing Media that Matters The combination of always-on smartphones, instant access to information and global social sharing is changing behavior and shifting cultural norms. How can we design digital experiences that make this change positive? Join the d.media team and find o...
ENGR289 Career Building: Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship, People, Innovation, Decision-Making and Impact This course is designed to enable graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in science and engineering to hone strategies for career success. Drawing strongly on entrepreneurial principles and lessons from industry, the course complements...
ENGR295 Learning & Teaching of Science This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergrad...
ENGR298 Seminar in Fluid Mechanics Interdepartmental. Problems in all branches of fluid mechanics, with talks by visitors, faculty, and students. Graduate students may register for 1 unit, without letter grade; a letter grade is given for talks. May be repeated for credit.
ENGR299 Special Studies in Engineering Special studies, lab work, or reading under the direction of a faculty member. Often research experience opportunities exist in ongoing research projects. Students make arrangements with individual faculty and enroll in the corresponding section. Pre...
ENGR2A SSEA Seminar: Developing Your Leadership Toolkit In this weekly seminar, SSEA students will learn practical leadership skills so they can successfully navigate academic and professional opportunities while at Stanford and achieve meaningful results. Mentorship and career exploration will also be de...
ENGR306 Capital-Formation Design Theory in Practice Wonder drives the best kinds of innovation and its injection into human endeavors can be designed and engineered. This course is for innovators of all academic backgrounds who have big ideas for creating new knowledge, agreements, products, services,...
ENGR311A Women's Perspectives Graduate seminar series, driven by student interests, with guest speakers from academia and industry. Previous themes have included Finding your North, Becoming Fearless, Daydreams to Reality, and Letters to My Younger Self. Discussion is encouraged...
ENGR311B Designing the Professional Wondering how to weave together what really fits you, is doable, and will be satisfying and meaningful? Have more questions than answers? Have too many ideas for your career, or not enough? This course applies the mindsets and innovation principles o...
ENGR311D Portfolio to Professional: Supporting the Development of Digital Presence Through ePortfolios This course guides graduate students in creating a professional ePortfolio and establishing an online presence. The course includes seminar-style presentations and discussions, opportunities for feedback with career mentors, classmates, alumni, emplo...
ENGR312 Science and Engineering Course Design For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science or engineering courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science and engineering learning to the design of effective course material...
ENGR313 Topics in Engineering and Science Education This seminar series focuses on topics related to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses based on education research. Each year focuses on a different topic related to STEM education. This course may be repeated for credit...
ENGR319 Robotics and Autonomous Systems Seminar Seminar talks by researchers and industry professionals on topics related to modern robotics and autonomous systems. Broadly, talks will cover robotic design, perception and navigation, planning and control, and learning for complex robotic systems....
ENGR350 Data Impact Lab In this lab, multi-disciplinary teams of students tackle high-impact, unsolved problems for social sector partners. Teams receive mentorship and coaching from Stanford faculty, domain experts, and data science experts from industry. Sample projects...
ENGR391 Engineering Education and Online Learning A project based introduction to web-based learning design. In this course we will explore the evidence and theory behind principles of learning design and game design thinking. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of the emerging field of th...
ENGR395 Summer Opportunities in Engineering Research & Leadership Summer First provides Fellows from a range of engineering disciplines the opportunity to gain exposure to the wealth of resources on campus, and explore the research environment(s) in their own doctoral programs. This experience effectively serves as...
ENGR40A Introductory Electronics Instruction will be completed in the first seven weeks of the quarter. Students not majoring in Electrical Engineering may choose to take only ENGR 40A; Electrical Engineering majors should take both ENGR 40A and ENGR 40B. Overview of electronic circ...
ENGR40B Introductory Electronics Part II Instruction will be completed in the final three weeks of the quarter. Students should not enroll in ENGR 40B without having taken (or enrolling concurrently in) ENGR 40A. Project on digital hardware and software implementations of a robotic car. Lab...
ENGR40M An Intro to Making: What is EE Is a hands-on class where students learn to make stuff. Through the process of building, you are introduced to the basic areas of EE. Students build a "useless box" and learn about circuits, feedback, and programming hardware, a light display for you...
ENGR42 Introduction to Electromagnetics and Its Applications Electricity and magnetism and its essential role in modern electrical engineering devices and systems, such as sensors, displays, DVD players, and optical communication systems. The topics that will be covered include electrostatics, magnetostatics,...
ENGR50 Introduction to Materials Science, Nanotechnology Emphasis The structure, bonding, and atomic arrangements in materials leading to their properties and applications. Topics include electronic and mechanical behavior, emphasizing nanotechnology, solid state devices, and advanced structural and composite mate...
ENGR50E Introduction to Materials Science, Energy Emphasis Materials structure, bonding and atomic arrangements leading to their properties and applications. Topics include electronic, thermal and mechanical behavior; emphasizing energy related materials and challenges.
ENGR50M Introduction to Materials Science, Biomaterials Emphasis Topics include: the relationship between atomic structure and macroscopic properties of man-made and natural materials; mechanical and thermodynamic behavior of surgical implants including alloys, ceramics, and polymers; and materials selection for b...
ENGR55 Foundational Biology for Engineers Biology, physics, and chemistry are the substrates for the modern engineer. Whether you are interested in developing the next generation of medicines or would like the next material or catalyst you design to be inspired by solutions found in Nature,...
ENGR60 Engineering Economics and Sustainability Engineering Economics is a subset of the field of economics that draws upon the logic of economics, but adds that analytical power of mathematics and statistics. The concepts developed in this course are broadly applicable to many professional and p...
ENGR62 Introduction to Optimization Formulation and computational analysis of linear, quadratic, and other convex optimization problems. Applications in machine learning, operations, marketing, finance, and economics. Prerequisite: CME 100 or MATH 51.
ENGR62X Introduction to Optimization (Accelerated) Optimization theory and modeling. The role of prices, duality, optimality conditions, and algorithms in finding and recognizing solutions. Perspectives: problem formulation, analytical theory, computational methods, and recent applications in enginee...
ENGR65 Modern Physics for Engineers This course introduces the core ideas of modern physics that enable applications ranging from solar energy and efficient lighting to the modern electronic and optical devices and nanotechnologies that sense, process, store, communicate and display al...
ENGR76 Information Science and Engineering What is information? How can we measure and efficiently represent it? How can we reliably communicate and store it over media prone to noise and errors? How can we make sound decisions based on partial and noisy information? This course introduces th...
ENGR80 Introduction to Bioengineering (Engineering Living Matter) Students completing BIOE.80 should have a working understanding for how to approach the systematic engineering of living systems to benefit all people and the planet. Our main goals are (1) to help students learn ways of thinking about engineering l...
ENGR90 Environmental Science and Technology Introduction to environmental quality and the technical background necessary for understanding environmental issues, controlling environmental degradation, and preserving air and water quality. Material balance concepts for tracking substances in the...