Civilization Engineered: Data-driven Solutions for Communities

3 Credits.

Modern civilizations are inundated with data, which presents challenges related to the quantity and quality of data, but also opportunities for engineers to improve people's lives through data-informed design. Increasingly, data is being leveraged to help create solutions for society's grand challenges in the areas of sustainable and resilient cities, human safety and security, decision-making in healthcare, future energy infrastructure, even space exploration and habitation. This course will take a deep-dive into data - how to collect, process, visualize, model, and interpret it – with the goal of designing and evaluating solutions for the grand challenges that will impact our collective future. Coding will be emphasized in this class. The ePortfolio tag(s) on this course signify that there are one or more assignments offered in the course that provide students with the opportunity to be assessed for proficiency in completion of the relevant ePortfolio requirement(s).