Actionable Engineering Diplomacy

Course Description

Approaches that leverage tools and techniques from complexity science with negotiation theory for use in solving practical problems with societal relevance.Systems thinking, policy relevance and effective implementation within the context of nonlinearity, uncertainty, and unpredictability associated with coupled natural, engineered, and human systems. Integration of numbers and narratives to create actionable technological solutions with a problem-driven strategy. Prerequisite: MATH 34 or graduate standing. Recommendations: ES 2 or COMP11, Probability and Statistics

Basic Enrollment Requirements: 

Academic Year (Fall/Spring): Unofficial Transcript – Bachelor’s Degree or progress towards a Bachelor’s Degree + 3.0 GPA.

Summer: None.

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Remission Eligible: Yes; first day of term; all university policies apply.