Engineering+

Energy Production and Justice on Earth - Implications for Space Colonization

Explore the connection between energy production and social justice on Earth and how it impacts our future in space colonization. You’ll get a deep understanding of the ethical, environmental, and societal dynamics in today's energy landscape. You will also explore how equitable access to resources, sustainable energy solutions, and responsible community- building will be essential for human expansion beyond Earth. Join us and be part of the transformation as we work to create a blueprint for a brighter, more equitable, and responsible spacefaring future.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Lily Ranjbar  CRN: 35135

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: Ecampus  Instructor: Scott Kerlin  CRN: 35312

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: Scott Wright  CRN: 34819

System of Systems Engineering

In this course, you'll learn how to design, model, and simulate complex systems comprised of independent subsystems that must work together to achieve important real-world tasks. You will work in teams, learn graphical programming, test hypotheses, and contribute to technical reports.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jason Clark  CRN: 34824, 34838

Unlocking the Power of Sensor Technology

From wearable health devices, to robotics, climate monitoring, and the Internet of Things, explore the remarkable impact of sensors on our daily lives. How might these technologies transform your discipline? Join us on a journey of design thinking, unraveling complex issues, and seeking data-driven solutions, while using sensor kits to assemble your very own sensor system with your team. Explore the fusion of function and form, values and beliefs, and the profound connection between design and our own understanding of self. In this immersive narrative, the designs we create ultimately shape the world, and ourselves.

Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Chet Udell CRN: 34833

Designing Systems for a Better World

Analyze real-world problems using Systems Thinking tools and design sustainable solutions using Human-Centered Design and System Dynamics Modeling. Gain practical insights about how to tackle engineering challenges systematically to produce long-term benefits.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Sami Al-Abdrabbuh  CRN: 34848

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: Chris Hoyle  CRN: 34853

Fresh Water for the Present and Future

Learn organized problem-solving and a variety of computational tools (e.g. spreadsheets, 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: Lazaro Perez  CRN: 35324, 35338

Applied Engineering Thinking

Investigate engineered systems of your choice while applying the research-based engineering thinking techniques you’ll learn in the course. Student projects have included: astrophysics of meteorites, forest fire modeling and management, turbo-charged gasoline engines, wind turbine optimization and water treatment through restored wetlands.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Devlin Montfort CRN: 34867

Engineering Solutions for Health Disparities

Explore the interplay between engineering, health disparities, and social and environmental justice. You’ll have the opportunity to hone your professional skills, including data analysis, scientific literacy, and science communication. Assess publicly available data to identify health disparities, analyze trends, and brainstorm creative solutions. Join us as we explore how different engineering fields can make an impact in health disparities.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Kaitlin Fogg  CRN: 35665

The Engineer’s Mind: Problem Solving through Systems Thinking

This course will explore the nature of thinking and mental models, investigate how we think, whether we think differently from one another, and how social and personal background shape our thought processes. Then it delves into engineering thinking—its development, strengths, and challenges, as well as its place in society, innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building on this foundation, it will explore systems thinking, a powerful framework for approaching complex problems, any problem. Finally it will integrate systems thinking into engineering critical thinking in our rapidly changing world.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Mazdak Shadkam  CRN: 39281

Computational Foundations in Engineering

Explore foundational engineering concepts such as design principles, usability, problem solving, computational thinking, and logic. Gain knowledge of Boolean algebra, truth tables, circuit diagrams, and Python. Start building skills to find a job, and boost teamwork, communication, and technical writing skills through group projects focusing on design and use of software in diverse ways.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Randy Scovil  CRN: 34963

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: 35042

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Campus: Cascades  Instructor: Daniel White  CRN: 37326

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: Alex Guyer  CRN: 35054

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: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Dilan Senaratne  CRN: 35313

Computational Thinking by Tinkering with 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.
Programming language: Python

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Doshna Reddy  CRN: 35827

Sustainable Transportation - moving cooler

Explore the economic engine of transportation from a sustainability lens. Learn how to plan, design, and operate robust surface transportation systems while reducing or eliminating the negative impacts. Have fun in a team of students pushing the boundaries of what is possible for future transportation systems.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Ingrid Arocho  CRN: 15448

Engineering and Society

Examine ethical considerations in engineering and consider societal, environmental and economic impacts of engineering innovations in a variety of fields and technologies.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Elliott Clement CRN: 15454

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. Explore how all engineering disciplines play a part in human-machine systems and build your engineering skills while you build a trebuchet.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Cynthia Horta Martinez CRN: 15463

Engineering Clean Water for Environment, Health and Social Justice

In a rapidly changing world, access to clean water will be humanities most important challenge and threat. In this class, we will explore how every engineering field plays a critical role in helping to provide and preserve clean water for the planet. Through case studies, we will learn the broader impacts of engineering decisions on society’s most vulnerable populations. And through hands on learning will we will design, create and test emergency sand water filters that will help your community survive a Cascadia-event earthquake.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Tyler Radniecki CRN: 15464

Mission to Mars - Engineering Challenges

Travel on a Mars Mission and solve engineering challenges along the way. Learn about various space technologies and how different engineering disciplines play a role in your mission.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Goran Jovanovic CRN: 15465

Energy Production and Justice on Earth - Implications for Space Colonization

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

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Lily Ranjbar CRN: 15466

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: 15467 & 19312

Semiconductor Fabrication: How Chips are Made

Learn how computer chips are made and fabricate your very own OLED display. The US Government is investing $50 billion to revitalize the domestic semiconductor industry. Find out what it takes to be part of this high-tech industry.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Albrecht Jander CRN: 15468

Engineering for Global Sustainable Development

Through the lens of the United Nation's Global Sustainable Development Goals, this course explores how the different types of engineering disciplines can help meet global needs for energy, clean water, electricity, transportation, health, and housing. Together we'll design solutions for each area through hands-on experiments and consideration of the technical, social, environmental, and economic context in a specific village in the developing world.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Nordica MacCarty CRN: 15469

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: 16268

Sustainable and Resilient Design and Construction: The Bridge

Ever thought about how bridges are designed and constructed? This course explores how major bridges are designed and constructed and how engineers and scientists are pursuing methods to make the design, construction, and operation of these major engineering accomplishments more sustainable (e.g., meeting today’s needs without sacrificing future needs) and resilient (e.g., able to resist earthquakes, tsunamis, malevolent attacks). The class introduces critical aspects of the design and construction of bridges with engaging and fun studio activities that emphasize these critical aspects.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: David Trejo CRN: 16301

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

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: 15697

Exploring Sustainability Through the Engineering Grand Challenges (Honors College)

Examine how materials selection impacts sustainability of the built environment. Explore different engineering majors through the lens of Engineering Grand Challenges. Registration limited to Honors College students only.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Jason Ideker CRN: 15698

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: Ecampus  Instructor: Scott Kerlin CRN: 15497

Materials and Software for a Greener World

Be successful both at Oregon State University and in your 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: Ecampus  Instructor: Rita Ghantous CRN: 16398

Design Across Disciplines

Begin establishing the foundations necessary to be a successful engineer in any field.

Campus: Cascades  Instructor: R Webb CRN: 15213

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Campus: Cascades  Instructor: D. White CRN: 15212

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: 15491

Applied Engineering Thinking

Investigate engineered systems of your choice while applying the research-based engineering thinking techniques you’ll learn in the course. Student projects have included: astrophysics of meteorites, forest fire modeling and management, turbo-charged gasoline engines, wind turbine optimization and water treatment through restored wetlands.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Devlin Montfort  CRN: 17065

Computational Foundations in Engineering

Explore foundational engineering concepts such as design principles, usability, problem solving, computational thinking, and logic. Gain knowledge of Boolean algebra, truth tables, circuit diagrams, and Python. Start building skills to find a job, and boost teamwork, communication, and technical writing skills through group projects focusing on design and use of software in diverse ways.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Samarendra Hedaoo  CRN: 16321

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: Tingwei Zhang  CRN: 16427

Computational Thinking by Tinkering with 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. Programming language: Python

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Doshna Reddy  CRN: 16422

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: Ecampus  Instructor: Scott Kerlin  CRN: 73129, 73178

Computational Foundations in Engineering

Explore foundational engineering concepts such as design principles, usability, problem solving, computational thinking, and logic. Gain knowledge of Boolean algebra, truth tables, circuit diagrams, and Python. Start building skills to find a job, and boost teamwork, communication, and technical writing skills through group projects focusing on design and use of software in diverse ways.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Eric Vogel  CRN: 73130, 73179

Computational Thinking by Tinkering with 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. Programming language: Python

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Doshna Umma Reddy  CRN: 73131

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: 56057

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: Ecampus  Instructor: Scott Kerlin  CRN: 56618

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: Frank Chaplen  CRN: 56058

Computational Foundations in Engineering

Explore foundational engineering concepts such as design principles, usability, problem solving, computational thinking, and logic. Gain knowledge of Boolean algebra, truth tables, circuit diagrams, and Python. Start building skills to find a job, and boost teamwork, communication, and technical writing skills through group projects focusing on design and use of software in diverse ways.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Eric Vogel  CRN: 56046

Computational Engineering for Everyday Life

Explore core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Apply these concepts to problems in nature and industry that are relevant to engineers. Programming Language: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Ravi Balasubramanian  CRN: 55226

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: 55233

Embedded Computing

We will use programming to make small electronic gadgets and traditional computer programs. We used a flipped classroom approach. Programming languages: C.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Don Heer  CRN: 55605

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: 55610

Computational Engineering for Everyday Life

Explore core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Apply these concepts to problems in nature and industry that are relevant to engineers. Programming Language: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Ben Smucker  CRN: 56608

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: Jeff Knowles  CRN: 55614

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: 55616

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: 55618

Physical Computing

 Hone C/C++ concepts using a physical computing platform called Circuit Playground Express and the Arduino IDE to make physically interactive systems. Algorithmic music box, light shows, interactive hand-held game. Programming language: C/C++.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Chet Udell  CRN: 55967

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: Alex Guyer  CRN: 55993 & 56001

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: Sam Briggs  CRN: 55612

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: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Rebecca Hutchinson  CRN: 56609

Analyzing Systems for a Better World

Explore core programming concepts, such as variables, expressions, conditions, control structures, functions, and simple 1-d and 2-d structures. Then solve problems for systems that involve people, technology, energy, and information. Programming language: Python.

Campus: Corvallis  Instructor: Phillip Carleton  CRN: 58570

Computational Thinking by Tinkering with 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. Programming language: Python.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Doshna Reddy  CRN: 55549 & 55550

Computational Thinking by Tinkering with 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. Programming language: Python.

Campus: Ecampus  Instructor: Rita Ghantous  CRN: 55551

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: K Webb  CRN: 56024

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Campus: Cascades  Instructor: D White  CRN: 56039