This class introduces students to the interdisciplinary nature of 21st-century engineering projects with three threads of learning: a technical toolkit, a social science toolkit, and a methodology for problem-based learning.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
305 years, 6 months
Units & Quizzes
11
Unlimited Lifetime access
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Certificate of Completion
Students encounter the social, political, economic, and technological challenges of engineering practice by participating in real engineering projects with faculty and industry; this semester’s major project focuses on the engineering and economics of solar cells. Student teams will create prototypes and mixed media reports with exercises in project planning, analysis, design, optimization, demonstration, reporting and team building.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction to course, content, process, solar energy Unlimited
- Case Study 1: An Ethical Engineer Unlimited
- Photons, Semiconductors, and Energy Unlimited
- History of Boston Transportation, 1630-2007 Unlimited
- The Solar Cell Lecture Unlimited
- Platforms and Learning Curves Unlimited
- Moving Towards Sustainable Materials Use Unlimited
- Engineering the Future of Solar Electricity Unlimited
- Project 1A: Electricity Generation System Constraints Unlimited
- Progress and Future of Structural Steels Unlimited
- Project 1C: Engineering the Future of Solar Electricity Unlimited
