PRACTICE DESIGN. ENGAGE STAKEHOLDERS. CREATE SOLUTIONS WITH IMPACT.
Our team is excited to announce the new Socially Engaged Engineering & Design (SEED) Capstone course for the 2024 Winter semester. This 3-credit, elective course will provide students the opportunity to explore complex challenges, engage with real stakeholders, and design people-first solutions. The course is listed as ENGR 490 (class #33530) and ENGR 599 (class #33529) for special topics in engineering. Please note: there are no prerequisites for this course!
Offered WIN24, Tuesdays + Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:30pm @ C-SED, 3rd Floor G.G. Brown
Skills of Socially Engaged Engineering and Design (SEED):
- Engage with stakeholders to explore and understand a given challenge
- Perform primary and secondary research on contextual factors related to your challenge
- Learn and practice interviewing skills, defining key takeaways, ideating and prototyping
- Present a solution idea and summary of your process at the end of the winter semester in a design expo event.
- There may be an opportunity to continue your work in a funded Summer Fellowship program!
How does it work?
The SEED class will be hosted in a hybrid format, is group project based and requires significant independent teamwork outside of course hours. You will work on a team in this course.
Project topics and first stakeholder interactions will be provided, including the following topics:
- Sustainable Transportation on Campus
- Sensory Accessibility in U-M Green Spaces
Instructors
This course will be led by Charlie Michaels, Erin Moore, and Claudia Cameratti-Baeza from the Center for Socially Engaged Design.
Are you interested in joining the SEED Capstone course? Please get in touch with Erin Moore, mooerin@umich.edu