Engineering+ goes beyond the typical engineering curriculum, immersing you in a broad range of engineering disciplines and preparing you for success, starting in your first year.
Engineers don’t work in silos; they work with people of all expertise and backgrounds. Whether you know exactly what degree you want or are still exploring, Engineering+ exposes you to the ways engineers impact the world, so you can develop an interdisciplinary, inclusive mindset through your participation in classes, events, and more.
Courses
Over your first three terms, you’ll take three 3-credit courses that explore various intersections of engineering, society, and the environment.
Fall 2022
Materials for a Green World (Honors)
Examine how materials selection impacts sustainability of the built environment. Explore different engineering majors through the lens of Engineering Grand Challenges.
Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Jason Ideker
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.
Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Toni Doolen & Wade Marcum
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
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
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
Energy is Essential
Investigate the interactions of energy, climate, communities, and industry, and what they mean for engineers.
Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Leila Ranjbar
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
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
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
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
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
Automating the Future: Using Sensors for Control
Regardless of the discipline or application, sensors enable the computer world to sense the real world to learn, predict, verify, and control. In this course, you will learn to design, model, and simulate a wide variety of sensors for controlling future autonomous applications, including but not limited to: robotics, cyborgs, health monitoring, environmental monitoring, manufacturing, surveillance, land/sea/aerospace navigation, etc.
Campus: Corvallis Instructor: Jason Clark
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
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
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
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
Design Across Disciplines
Learn how to thrive in a world faced with multidisciplinary design challenges and opportunities.
Campus: OSU-Cascades Instructor: Rebecca Webb
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
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
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
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
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: Tim Alcon
Winter 2023
Spring 2023
Events
Throughout the year, Engineering+ offers events and activities on subjects like career exploration, professional development, community-building, and connecting with alumni and industry — all designed to complement your coursework and help you thrive. All engineering students of all years and majors, including first-year students, are highly encouraged to attend these events.
People
We are here to help. Reach out with any questions or to learn more.
Brett Jeter
Assistant Dean of Academic Programs
brett.jeter@oregonstate.edu
541.737.8765
