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PHYS 110 1V - Society’s Grand Challenges

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

This course will introduce engineering as a field concerned with solving the challenges facing modern society. These challenges include finding clean water resources, improving solar power, developing medical technology, and rebuilding aging infrastructure, among others. The focus will be on the intersection of science, technology, and society (STS), and explore how scientists and engineers can work to build a more just and compassionate world. Students will engage in the engineering design process, evaluate various solutions to society’s challenges, and meet engineers who work in the Madison community.


Offered Fall

Prerequisite(s): First semester freshman or freshman transfer students; Math placement level 2 or higher.  


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