CHE 001 - Introduction to Chemical and Materials Engineering

Exposes students to topics in chemical and materials engineering. Students will learn about careers in chemical engineering, and materials science and engineering. Topics will include sustainability, polymers, catalysis, semiconductors, 3D printing, separations and engineering processing. Hear talks from industry professionals. First year students entering with declared MSE and CHE majors should take the course in their first year.

EE 005 - Designing and Building Electrical Engineering Systems

Hands-on, projects-based course on circuits design, computational thinking, and building engineering systems. Theoretical topics include basic RC circuits, programming logic in C, and introduction to signals. Practical topics include soldering, breadboarding, control of actuators, sensors, and interfacing electronic devices. Discuss soft skills like teamwork, communication, and studying strategies.

CE 120 - Strength and Sustainability of Materials

Explores the fundamental concepts of stress and strain. Analyzes stress-strain of structural elements subjected to axial, flexural, shear, torsional, and combined loading. Introduces Beam theory, introduction to principal stresses, beam deflection, column stability, and pressure vessels. Includes laboratory testing and data interpretation of conventional and non-conventional civil engineering construction materials subjected to different loading systems. Explores material applications, and their sustainability subjected to loads.

CE 180 - Design of Reinforced Concrete Structural Systems

Explores properties of concrete and reinforcing steel. Analysis and strength design of beams, slabs, compression members, and footings subject to bending moments, shear force, torsion, and axial loads according to provisions of the American Concrete Institute. A design project with a written report is required.

COGS 001 - Introduction to Cognitive Science

An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Basic issues related to cognition, including perception, memory, language, learning, problem solving, spatial cognition, attention, mental imagery, consciousness, brain damage, development, and artificial intelligence, are considered from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience.

COGS 110 - Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Consideration of philosophical and foundational issues in cognitive science, including the Turing Test, the Chinese Room argument, the nature of cognitive architecture, animal cognition, connectionism vs. symbolic artificial intelligence, and the possibility of thinking machines.

COGS 013 - Scientific Thinking

Explores science as an approach to reasoning, as a social process, and as coordinated cultural institutions. Both the benefits and the limitations of science are discussed. Established cognitive biases are described, common errors of thought (such as logical fallacies) are introduced, and the ways in which scientific methods work to overcome these problems are explained. Additional topics include: science and the media; science and society; and methods for detecting pseudoscience, hoaxes, and scams.