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Sustainability Design Thinking
Available- Catalog Number
- CEE 176G-01
- Course Cost
- $4116.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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Application design thinking to make sustainability compelling, impactful and realizable. Analysis of contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to promote sustainable design of products and environments by holistically considering space, form, environment, energy, economics, and health. Includes Studio project work in prototyping, modeling, testing, and realizing sustainable design ideas.
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Details
- Units
- 3
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Glenn Katz, Colin Ong
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Mon, Wed 2:30 PM - 4:20 PM
- Cross Listings
- CEE 276G
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Technology Entrepreneurship
Available- Catalog Number
- ENGR 145S-01
- Course Cost
- $5488.00
- Population
- Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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How does the entrepreneurship process enable the creation and growth of high-impact enterprises? Why does entrepreneurial leadership matter even in a large organization or a non-profit venture? What are the differences between just an idea and true opportunity? How do entrepreneurs form teams and gather the resources necessary to create a successful startup? Mentor-guided projects focus on analyzing students' ideas, case studies allow for examining the nuances of innovation, research examines the entrepreneurial process, and expert guests allow for networking with Silicon Valley's world-class entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. For undergraduates of all majors with interest in startups the leverage breakthrough information, energy, medical and consumer technologies. Limited Enrollment.
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Details
- Class Number
- 22786
- Units
- 4
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Rebeca Hwang
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
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Technology Entrepreneurship
Available- Catalog Number
- ENGR 145S-02
- Course Cost
- $5488.00
- Population
- Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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How does the entrepreneurship process enable the creation and growth of high-impact enterprises? Why does entrepreneurial leadership matter even in a large organization or a non-profit venture? What are the differences between just an idea and true opportunity? How do entrepreneurs form teams and gather the resources necessary to create a successful startup? Mentor-guided projects focus on analyzing students' ideas, case studies allow for examining the nuances of innovation, research examines the entrepreneurial process, and expert guests allow for networking with Silicon Valley's world-class entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. For undergraduates of all majors with interest in startups the leverage breakthrough information, energy, medical and consumer technologies. Limited Enrollment.
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Details
- Class Number
- 15648
- Units
- 4
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Pedram Mokrian
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
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Accounting for Managers and Entrepreneurs
Available- Catalog Number
- MS&E 140-01
- Course Cost
- $4116.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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Non-majors and minors who have taken or are taking elementary accounting should not enroll. Introduction to accounting concepts and the operating characteristics of accounting systems. The principles of financial and cost accounting, design of accounting systems, techniques of analysis, and cost control. Interpretation and use of accounting information for decision making. Designed for the user of accounting information and not as an introduction to a professional accounting career.
Details
- Class Number
- 22880
- Units
- 3
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- John Lord
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Mon, Wed 9:30 AM - 11:20 AM
- Cross Listings
- MS&E 240
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Organizations: Theory and Management
Available- Catalog Number
- MS&E 180-01
- Course Cost
- $5488.00
- Population
- Undergraduate
- Summary
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For undergraduates only. Classical and contemporary organization theory; the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations.
- Course Notes
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Restricted to undergraduates only
Details
- Class Number
- 16492
- Units
- 4
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Rosanne Siino
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Wed 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
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Discrete Probability Concepts And Models
Available- Catalog Number
- MS&E 20-01
- Course Cost
- $5488.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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Fundamental concepts and tools for the analysis of problems under uncertainty, focusing on structuring, model building, and analysis. Examples from legal, social, medical, and physical problems. Topics include axioms of probability, probability trees, belief networks, random variables, conditioning, and expectation. The course is fast-paced, but it has no prerequisites.
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Details
- Class Number
- 22860
- Units
- 4
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Ross Shachter
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Mon, Wed 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
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The Ethical Analyst
Available- Catalog Number
- MS&E 254-01
- Course Cost
- $4116.00
- Population
- Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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We raise awareness of ethically sensitive situations and provide principles and tools for forming coherent ethical judgments regarding individual, government, or organizational actions. Students learn ethical theories and tools from which they create their own personal ethical codes and test them against established ethical principles, class discussion, homework, class presentations, and situations from work and life. The course addresses personal life, human action and relations in society, technology, medicine, coercion, harming, stealing, imposition of risk, deception, and other ethical issues.
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Details
- Class Number
- 16584
- Units
- 3
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Dale Nesbitt
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Tue 10:30 AM - 1:20 PM
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Redefining Creativity: Designing Human Connections in an AI World
Available- Catalog Number
- MS&E 75-01
- Course Cost
- $4116.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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With the recent developments in generative AI, the value in human creativity is increasingly a focus. Course draws from lessons from creativity in the arts to teach engineering students methods for creativity derived from musicians and artists. For our engineering students to learn creativity as a skill that is distinguishable and differentiated from generative artificial intelligence, this course explores, for instance the anatomy of a Hollywood pop song and the process behind the creation of globally impactful art. Students learn how to transfer these skills into the creation of engaging entrepreneurial solutions, for effective storytelling, and in developing their unique personal and professional stories. Students learn skills to unlock creative power which they will apply in the course as a design vehicle for a wide range of applications in engineering, self-expression, technological exploration, and the development of solutions that are centered around human connection and emotional engagement with the user. Sessions are practical, drawing tools and lessons from interdisciplinary individuals with wide-ranging careers. No artistic or entrepreneurial experience necessary.
Details
- Class Number
- 20551
- Units
- 3
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Rebeca Hwang
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM
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Games, Competition, and Play
Available- Catalog Number
- SOC 130D-01
- Course Cost
- $4116.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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Dreamed up in the heat of the Cold War, game theory has encouraged generations of strategists in politics, law, the military, and academia to see conflicts as games with rules, players, choices, and payoffs. But game-theoretical situations hardly resemble the games people play in their everyday lives. During this course we study and develop social theory based on how people play games outside of behavior labs and thought experiments. What causes people to join games and how do games keep players engaged? Topics begin with traditional game theory and then expand focus to studies of competitions in settings as disparate as chess, mushroom hunting, schools, and markets.
- Course Notes
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Please enroll in this course via Axess/SimpleEnroll and use Canvas to enroll in the discussion sections.
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Details
- Units
- 3
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Nick Sherefkin
- Dates
- -
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Minds and Machines
Available- Catalog Number
- SYMSYS 1-01
- Course Cost
- $5488.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Summary
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An overview of the interdisciplinary study of cognition, information, communication, and language, with an emphasis on foundational issues: What are minds? What is computation? What are rationality and intelligence? Can we predict human behavior? Can computers be truly intelligent? How do people and technology interact, and how might they do so in the future? Lectures focus on how the methods of philosophy, mathematics, empirical research, and computational modeling are used to study minds and machines. Students must take this course before being approved to declare Symbolic Systems as a major. All students interested in studying Symbolic Systems are urged to take this course early in their student careers. The course material and presentation will be at an introductory level, without prerequisites. If you have any questions about the course, please email symsys1staff@gmail.com.
- Course Notes
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This course has a require lab section in addition to the main lecture section.
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Details
- Class Number
- 23304
- Units
- 4
- Interest Area
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- David Rose
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM