Development Engineering Applications

Topics

• Demonstrate a habit of asking relevant questions to solve complex problems and designing research and methodologies to answer questions. Apply a range of leadership skills including motivating others, resolving conflict, developing theories of change, and building greater awareness of self. Employ empathic listening to understand problems, concisely and precisely express ideas to diverse stakeholders using verbal, written, and electronic methods, and show ability to incorporate feedback to improve project outputs. Demonstrate complex problem-solving skills through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities in the context of progressively more challenging problems and projects. Apply a wide variety of methods for creatively framing and solving problems, use a human-centered process to uncover the needs of diverse stakeholders, and engage in divergent and convergent thinking as well as iterative solution testing. Apply the tenets of entrepreneurship including collaboration, value creation, resilience, and risk-taking to advance the project. Identify all the stakeholders involved in a project, and effectively engage with them to understand and describe their needs and capabilities. Apply the tenets of systems thinking to understand and influence complex systems, design an innovation that takes into account the larger context surrounding the challenge, its various constitutes, and the interrelationships between system components. Demonstrate the ability to function effectively in multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams that include students and mentors from various colleges and representatives from partnering organizations.
• By the end of this class, students can expect to develop solutions to complex, real-world problems that are either actively implemented or implementation ready.

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes