ENGR3299 Special Topics in Design Engineering
Special Topics in Design Engineering classes (ENGR X299) typically cover a specific topic in Design Engineering and are intended to enhance and expand the selection of offerings from semester to semester.
Credits
Variable Credits ENGR
Prerequisite
ENGR2250
Notes
FA15: Investigating Normal: Adaptive and Assistive Technologies; 4 credits (Hendren)
This course satisfies the Design Depth Requirement.
Assistive technologies usually refer to prosthetics and medical aids: tools, devices, and other gear that either restore or augment the functioning of body parts. Historically, these have been designed for people with diagnosable disabilities. In this course, we look at medical as well as cultural tools that investigate the ?normal? body and mind, and we design our own devices?high-?tech, low-?tech, digital or analog?with these ideas in mind. Through readings, site visits, guest speakers, and projects, we investigate both traditional and unusual prosthetics and assistive technologies, broadly defined. We talk to end-?users, to engineers and industrial designers, to artists, and to others whose technologies assist with visible and invisible needs, externalize hidden dynamics, and create capacities far beyond or outside ordinary functionality. The course is organized to facilitate both functional projects in design-?engineering and projects that are much more speculative and experimental.
SP15: Investigating Normal: Adaptive and Assistive Technologies; 4 credits (Hendren)
This course satisfies the Design Depth Requirement.
Assistive technologies usually refer to prosthetics and medical aids: tools, devices, and other gear that either restore or augment the functioning of body parts. Historically, these have been designed for people with diagnosable disabilities. In this course, we look at medical as well as cultural tools that investigate the ?normal? body and mind, and we design our own devices?high-tech, low-tech, digital or analog?with these ideas in mind. Through readings, site visits, guest speakers, and projects, we investigate both traditional and unusual prosthetics and assistive technologies, broadly defined. We talk to end-?users, to engineers and industrial designers, to artists, and to others whose technologies assist with visible and invisible needs, externalize hidden dynamics, and create capacities far beyond or outside ordinary functionality. The course is organized to facilitate both functional projects in design-engineering and projects that are much more speculative and experimental.