Applications of Neurodiversity-Inspired Science and Engineering

3 credits · Graduate School

Real-life applications of NISE are explored to inspire thesis projects and to gain appreciation for the connections across the broad swath of STEM disciplines involved. For example, students will learn about new artificial-intelligence approaches modeled on autistic visual thinking, virtual reality environments to develop social skills for the workplace, eye-tracker enabled apps for assessing visual cognitive skills, business approaches for matching neurodiverse individuals to jobs, and data visualization tools invented and commercialized by autistic developers. [3]