Engr 450F
Engineers in the Community (Engineering Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management)
A senior design-style course where your client is a community-focused organization that addresses equity gaps here in St. Louis. This course requires regular group meetings with community partners and instructors and also meets intensively over the break week, filled with site visits and guest speakers. This class fulfills the requirements for 4501, 4502, and 4503. Expanding the themes currently taught in these courses to introduce parallels in a local community, students will consider how engineers can make a positive impact. Graduating seniors will have priority. Please note that students enrolled in this section will not be excused from this course to take evening exams in other courses. Do not enroll in this course if you have evening exams that will conflict with scheduled class times in this course.
Instructors
Atia Thurman, Krone, Matteucci, Sandra Matteucci, Seema Dahlheimer, Tucker Krone
Reviews
This class should be renamed "History & Race in St Louis". Easy, boring, and I didn\'t learn anything worthwhile. You also get assigned a 1-semester co-op, which is a wildcard in terms of difficulty, time commitment, and relevance. The class has political undertones &the instructor didn\'t make me feel comfortable enough to share my dissenting views.
5/13/2024
This class is a joke. The professor didn't show up or left early half the time despite meeting only once per week. Krone's classroom policies and attitude give the impression that he doesn't trust his students or treat them as equals. The assignments are all meaningless busy work which makes sense bc the course doesn't teach you anything useful.
4/23/2024
Received so many nice and helpful emails from Sandra throughout the semester. The class is heavily dependent on the quality of your other group members which you have no control over. That said, even if you have a terrible group it is probably still better than taking the single credit ethics. Just such a pleasure to take such an impactful class.
1/2/2024