Principal Investigator
Prof. Amos Winter, Mechanical Engineering
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2015
Department/Lab/Center:
Mechanical Engineering
This proposal is to modify the Course 2 Global Engineering class to include curriculum geared towards undergraduates. Global Engineering teaches students about the rigorous technical and socioeconomic factors that are critical to designing technologies for developing/emerging markets. Students work in teams to create new technologies in partnership with international stakeholders. The educational objective of the course is to train global engineers who have the tools required to understand, tackle, and solve challenging technical problems in the developing and developed world. The proposed upgrades to Global Engineering will make it a CI-‐M class that seniors can choose as their design capstone. This will lead to UROPs, theses, and international careers for MIT undergraduates.