Engineering+

Exploring Sustainability Through the Engineering Grand Challenges (Honors)

Examine the different facets of sustainability (environment, economy, equity) as solutions to our most pressing engineering problems. Explore different engineering majors through the lens of Engineering Grand Challenges. Registration limited to Honors College students only.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Jason Ideker CRN: 18650

Learning From Failure: The Role of Engineering Failures on System Design (Honors)

Explore the role and importance of considering large systems and system interactions when troubleshooting failures in systems. Examples will be used in which large engineering system failures have occurred in our society. Registration limited to Honors College students only.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Toni Doolen & Wade Marcum CRN: 18649

Engineering for People, Climate, and Ecosystems

Examine engineering problems at the interfaces between humankind, climate, and ecosystems — and explore solutions.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Frank Chaplen CRN: 18201

Engineering for a Resilient World

View Oregon State’s various engineering majors through the lens of resilience, while developing a systems perspective on global risks and stressors affecting natural resources, infrastructure, and society.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Meghna Babbar-Sebens CRN: 18214

Engineering Systems for a Better World

Learn how to see the systems all around you — the people, technology, energy, and information — that play a key role in building and maintaining a better world.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Paula de Szoeke CRN: 18226

Engineering for Underserved Populations

Design and evaluate sustainable solutions in energy, water, health, housing, and transportation to help meet basic needs for underserved people around the world.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Nordica MacCarty CRN: 18227

Clean Water – The Key to Health, Prosperity and Social Justice

Explore OSU's engineering disciplines through the lens of clean water and discover how engineering has both created and solved some of the world's biggest water contamination issues that disproportionately affect certain segments of society.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Tyler Radniecki CRN: 18228

Engineering for Health

Discover the roles engineers play in designing and manufacturing medical devices. Learn about some key medical devices, how they work, and how they improve health and well-being.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Christine Kelly CRN: 18229

Energy is Essential

Investigate the interactions of energy, climate, communities, and industry, and what they mean for engineers.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Leila Ranjbar CRN: 18230

Power to the People: Energy Access and Environmental Justice

Learn about the global challenges of access to power and energy infrastructure, and investigate disparities in safe electricity resources. Explore the intersectionality of this problem — with a diverse and inclusive engineering workforce, modern smart grids, and microgrids.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez CRN: 18231

Stone Age to Information Age: Materials that Drive Engineering

Immerse yourself in engineering disciplines with hands-on experiments measuring material properties (mechanical, electrical, etc.) and discussion of how, over the ages, the discovery of new materials has led to advances in engineering and design.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Albrecht Jander CRN: 18233

Sensors in the Wild: Electronics for Health, Environment, and Infrastructure

From wearable devices to smart buildings to global monitoring, explore how sensors and sensor systems are used across engineering disciplines for measuring the world around us.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Matt Johnston CRN: 18234

Automating the Future: Using Sensors for Control

Learn how to solve real-world problems by designing sensors that enable signal processing devices to interact with the world autonomously. Students of engineering will create most future innovations; you will start on this early by exploring how to solve real-world problems by thinking critically, creatively, collaborating with others, and using methods that apply to nearly all disciplines of engineering.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Jason Clark CRN: 19920

Engineering and Nature

Nature has been on this planet for over 3 billion years. Learn how engineers can use nature as inspiration in problem solving.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Sarah Oman CRN: 19973

Trash to Treasure: Engineering a Circular Materials Economy

Our society is facing a convergence of social-justice and environmental issues the likes of which we have never seen before, from production of green-house gases resulting in climate change to the accumulation of waste plastics in our oceans; there has never been a greater need for technological innovation to manage our waste. Discover how engineers of various disciplines are developing new technologies to birth a circular-materials economy that will enhance our society’s environmental sustainability and social equity.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Lucas Ellis CRN: 19990

Materials for a Green World

Examine how materials selection impacts sustainability of the built environment. Explore different engineering majors through the lens of Engineering Grand Challenges.

Campus: Ecampus Instructor: Brian Baker CRN: 18271 or 20151

Software Design Studio

Experience your first day on the job as a junior Software Engineer, and earn hands-on training in the tools for success. Collaborate to design creative solutions to real-world challenges.

Campus: OSU-Cascades Instructor: Yong Bakos CRN: 17837

Design Across Disciplines

Learn how to thrive in a world faced with multidisciplinary design challenges and opportunities.

Campus: OSU-Cascades Instructor: Rebecca Webb CRN: 17838

Solving Computational Sustainability Problems

Apply problem-solving strategies for developing algorithms to solve computational sustainability problems related to climate, water, energy, agriculture, forestry, and social/human factors.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Jennifer Parham-Mocello CRN: 18262

Design Engineering and Problem Solving

A variety of topics and skills to help you succeed as an Engineer at OSU, with an emphasis on computer science/software engineering. Topics include data, abstraction, design, logic, and documentation/dissemination — the so-called "soft skills" of engineering.

Campus: Ecampus Instructor: Eric Vogel CRN: 20004 or 20005

Computational Engineering in Daily Life

Gain confidence using core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures, to solve real- life problems using computation. Programming Language: C++.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Yipeng Song CRN: 20186

Computational Thinking via Tinkering in Python

Learn programming in Python by taking apart code examples to dissect, reverse engineer, modify, and adapt them. Then, solidify your understanding of the patterns you've discovered by designing new programs from scratch.

Campus: Ecampus Instructor: Yong Bakos CRN: 20179 or 20181

Automating the Future: Using Sensors for Control

Regardless of the discipline or application, sensors enable the digital world to learn about and control the real world. In this course you will gain exposure to the wide variety of sensors being used to automate our everyday lives. Work in teams to build your own sensor prototype to collect and analyze key types of data for automation, and learn about the expansive opportunities available at OSU.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Brandilyn Coker  CRN: 38713

Energy is Essential

Investigate the interactions of energy, climate, communities, and industry, and what they mean for engineers.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Leila Ranjbar  CRN: 39053

Human Challenges in Software Design

Explore the social, environmental, and security challenges of designing software and the role of ethics in the engineering design process. While we'll examine these challenges through the lens of software engineering, they are not unique to digital technology. We'll also investigate the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges, making the class appropriate for all engineering majors.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Scott Kerlin  CRN: 39041 or 39050

Natural Infrastructure for Climate Resilience

Examine how design can incorporate natural infrastructure (e.g., plants, large wood, dunes, floodplains) to reduce risk of flooding, erosion, and rising temperatures in river and coastal environments. Design calculations, studios, and analyses will emphasize energy dissipation and climate resilience.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Desiree Tullos  CRN: 37955

Collaborative Problem-Solving for a Resilient World

Apply problem-solving strategies and computational methods in a collaborative setting. Work with other students that are assigned roles (e.g., engineer, designer, client, public) to address problems related to global and local risks associated with resiliency.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jeffrey Knowles  CRN: 37960

Engineering for a Distributed Food Production Chain

Smart, distributed food production requires solving chemical, mechanical, electronical, and computational problems. Learn how to address these challenges to help provide reliable and tasty food production in urban environments.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Matthew Shuman  CRN: 37965

Inclusive Engineering and Strategic Planning

Learn techniques including problem identification and definition, idea generation, team building, experimental design, and resource allocation. Explore inclusive professionalism, approaches to monitor and control complex systems, and implementation techniques crucial to push technology forward ethically in a globalized world.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Ingrid Scheel  CRN: 37970

Engineering Systems for a Better World

Learn how to see the systems all around you — the people, technology, energy, and information — that play a key role in building and maintaining a better world.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Paula De Szoeke  CRN: 37975

Our Energy Future: Design, Sustainability, and Society

Explore emerging and green energy technologies through engineering design principles, sustainability considerations, and societal impacts.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Natasha Mallette  CRN: 37980

Thinking and Working as a Product Design Engineer

Learn methods and processes to design products that satisfy human needs in a technologically, economically, and environmentally viable way.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Christopher Hoyle CRN: 37985

Putting People First: Human Centered Design

Apply design tools and techniques in a manner that considers people first. Start to think about how people interpret, use, maintain, and live with your product. Learn how to involve people throughout the design process.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Anthony Nix  CRN: 37990

Fresh Water for the Present and Future

Learn organized problem-solving and a variety of computational tools as we look at the supply and demand of water in the home, community, country, and planet. Work in teams to perform, check, and present engineering calculations as we examine ways to meet the growing demand for clean water.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jonathan Istok  CRN: 39068 or 39094

Applied Engineering Thinking

Investigate engineered systems of your choice (CBEE examples include wastewater treatment, cellulosic biofuel production, and CRISPR R&D) while applying the research-based engineering thinking techniques you’ll learn in the course.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Devlin Montfort  CRN: 40044

The Science, Engineering and Societal Impact of Nanotechnology

Learn to apply and evaluate nanotechnology solutions to today’s engineering grand challenges through student-driven exploration. This course surveys nanomaterial properties, manufacturing methods, characterization methods, with consideration of their impacts on health and safety.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Stacey Harper  CRN: 40041

Computational Foundations

Explore foundational engineering concepts such as design principles, usability, problem solving, computational thinking, logic. Gain knowledge of Boolean algebra, truth tables, circuit diagrams, and Python. Boost teamwork, communication, and technical writing skills through a group project.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Eric Vogel  CRN: 38255 or 38933

Our Embedded World

Learn about the embedded systems that control the devices and systems that make up our world. Gain familiarity with basic electronic circuits, develop your algorithmic thinking ability, and apply these concepts to build and program a microcontroller-based system.

Campus: Cascades  Instructor: Kyle Webb  CRN: 38427

Computational Engineering in Daily Life

Gain confidence using core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures, to solve real-life problems using computations.

Programming language: C++

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Yipeng Song  CRN: 38447 or 39043

Computational Thinking via Tinkering in Python

Learn programming in Python by taking apart code examples to dissect, reverse-engineer, modify, and adapt them. Then, solidify your understanding of the patterns you’ve discovered by designing new programs from scratch.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Yong Bakos  CRN: 40406 or 40407

Take it apart! Reverse Engineering for Change

Ever take something apart to see how it works only to realize you could design it better? Explore engineering concepts while learning how products function and how we can design for change.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Sarah Oman  CRN: 58655

Materials and Software for a Greener World

Be successful both at Oregon State and in your engineering career. Uses effective teaming practices that account for social justice and equity. Analyze professional codes of conduct and ethical practices in engineering professions through the lens of multidisciplinary and societally relevant engineering challenges. Develop critical thinking skills to collaboratively identify engineering problems and to articulate possible solutions.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Scott Kerlin  CRN: 59632 or 59633

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Hands- on Data Measurement and Control

Learn experimental data measurement and simple control theory using an Arduino starter kit. Examine the physical phenomenon of each sensor, together with measurement reliability, accuracy, frequency, signal noise, and more.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Patrick Geoghegan  CRN: 58656

Computational Foundations

Explore foundational engineering concepts (design principles, usability, problem solving, computational thinking, logic). Gain knowledge of computer science & software engineering (overviews, Boolean algebra, truth tables, circuit diagrams, Python introduction). Boost your teamwork, communication, and technical writing skills by developing software and researching in a group, and start building skills to find a job.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Eric Vogel  CRN: 58635, 58636, 58649

Computational engineering for mechanical engineering methods

Explores core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Apply these concepts for solving representative mechanical engineering problems. Programming languages: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jayani Jayasuriya  CRN: 57259

Computational Engineering for One Planet

Familiarize yourself with core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Then put your new knowledge to the test, solving sustainability problems using computation. Programming language: C++.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jennifer Parham-Mocello CRN: 57267

Smarter World: Internet of Things

Explore programming by seeing how the Internet of Things is built. IOT improves health, environmental monitoring, and safety. This course uses hands-on experiments using electronics and programming. Focus on creating, not just learning. Programming languages: C

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Donald Heer  CRN: 57914

The Python Prescription

Explore the development and production of pharmaceuticals through data analysis and mathematical modeling. Build your computer programming and problem-solving skills through project-based learning in Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Adam Lambert  CRN: 57919

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Programming language:

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Deepak Sharma  CRN: 57921

Algorithms for modeling, visualizing, and testing creative engineering designs

Learn how to work smart so your computer can work hard by writing robust and logically structured code that does as much as you want in as few lines as possible. Convert engineering problems to programmatic algorithms by understanding and mastering the use of variables, methods, and conditional statements in your script. Programming language: Python

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jeffrey Knowles CRN: 57923

Computational Engineering for renewable energy

Explore the world of renewable energy through data analysis and Python programming. Gain programming and data analysis skills through project-based learning and design of new programs with applications in renewable energy. Programming language: Python

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Liney Arnadottir CRN: 57925

Computational Engineering and Clean Energy

Learn core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Then put these concepts to work with real world datasets from wind and wave energy, hydropower, solar, and more! Programming language: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Meagan Wengrove  CRN: 57927

Interactive Physical Computing

Build interactive systems that can sense and respond to the world around you. You’ll learn fundamental programming in the Arduino IDE to program CircuitPlayground boards to make light shows, songs, a smart plant, and handheld video game. Programming language: C/C++

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Chet Udell  CRN: 58509

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Programming Language: Python

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Sami Al-Abdrabbuh CRN: 58557

Coding for Visual, Interactive, and Generative Art

Explore core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Then put those concepts into action, creating computational artwork and data display supporting a new generation of visual code artists. Programming Language: Python

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Heather Knight CRN: 58566

Computational Engineering Big and Small

Explore core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Apply these concepts to engineering problems at a variety of length scales ranging from the nucleus to the solar system. Programming language: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Brian Woods  CRN: 59612

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Programming Language: Python

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Benjamin Smucker CRN: 59613

Virtual Architecture: Designing Sustainable and Scalable Software Systems

Transform creative solutions into real-world software systems together, with no prior experience required. Analyze workflows and data flows in ecology, manufacturing, agriculture, finance, and other domains. Design, build, and deploy real virtual servers; architect a real, online software infrastructure. Programming language: Python

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Yong Bakos CRN: 57812, 57815, 57817

Computational engineering for energy systems

Expand your knowledge of core programming concepts, including matrix operations, plotting, conditional statements, loops, and numerical problem solving techniques. Programming Language: Python

Campus: Cascades  Instructor: Kyle Webb CRN: 58625