This course examines engineering as a profession and the responsibilities of that profession to society. Ethical theories, cognitive biases, and quantitative decision-making concepts (risk-, cost-, benefit-, stakeholder impact- analysis) are introduced as frameworks to guide ethical decisions on technology implementation. A wide range of technologies are discussed and ethical issues facing engineers in implementing and maintaining technologies are examined, with some focus on energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Practical tools and strategies to express and implement one's ethical convictions in real-world situations are covered.

Known as "Bridges", this course focuses on structural engineering as a new art form begun during the Industrial Revolution and flourishing today in long-span bridges, thin shell concrete vaults, and tall buildings. Through laboratory experiments students study the scientific basis for structural performance and thereby connect external forms to the internal forces in the major works of structural engineers. Illustrations are taken from various cities and countries thus demonstrating the influence of culture on our built environment.

Weekly: two lectures, two preceptorials. An introduction to computer science in the context of scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The goal of the course is to teach basic principles and practical issues, while at the same time preparing students to use computers effectively for applications in computer science, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and other disciplines. Topics include: hardware and software systems; programming in Java; algorithms and data structures; fundamental principles of computation; and scientific computing, including simulation, optimization, and data analysis.

This course introduces computer science and technology-oriented students to issues tackled by Chief Technology Officers: the technical visionaries and managers innovating at the boundaries of technology and business. These individuals are partners to the business leaders of the organization, not merely implementers of business goals. The course covers companies from ideation and early-stage startup, to growth-stage startup, to mature company, covering the most relevant topics at each stage, including ideation, financing, product-market fit, go-to-market approaches, strategy, execution, and management. Exciting industry leaders guest lecture.

Based on the fundamental principles of light, electricity, and magnetism, this course develops the physical basis for imaging, the world of information, and electrical power fields that span engineering and underpin grand societal challenges. Applications include bioengineering, computation, data transmission, the electrical grid, and renewable energy. Quantum mechanical concepts will be introduced to understand modern engineering practice. The labs will enable students to develop an intuitive feel for basic concepts, as well as to test their own designs.

This course covers the basics of algebra with linear systems, vectors, matrices, matrix multiplication, systems of equations, matrix inversion, diagonalization, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, determinants, and some basic probability/Markov chains. These topics will be taught in the context of engineering problemsthat are centered around grand challenges facing society today, including information and security, bioengineering and health, structures and circuits, machine learning and the like.

The class mission is to give students an understanding of the sources and processes associated with creativity, innovation, and design - three interdependent capabilities essential to our own well being, as well as to the well being of society. We will study the internal and external factors that relate to our own ability to create, innovate, and design. We will also understand the factors that impact a group's ability to act creatively, to innovate, and to produce practical and appealing designs. The class will consist of readings and case studies as well as individual and group projects.

This class examines the entrepreneurial mindset, and how to put that mindset to work to create value in the world. The class also covers core 'hard skills' of innovation and entrepreneurship (including market evaluation, product testing and iteration, and business modeling). In this class students work in groups assigned to 'solving' some of the biggest global problems using tools learned in the class.

The course objective is to equip future leaders to successfully identify and navigate ethical dilemmas in their careers. The course integrates ethical theory and practice with practical tools for values-based leadership and ethics in professional life (e.g., public policy, for-profit and non-profit, business, tech, and other contexts). It also considers the role of religion as a potential resource for ethical formation and decision-making frameworks. The class explores contemporary case studies and includes guest CEOs and thought leaders from different professional spheres and backgrounds.

Technology and society are unthinkable without each other, each provides the means and framework in which the other develops. To explore this dynamic, this course investigates a wide array of questions on the interaction between technology, society, politics, and economics, emphasizing the themes such as innovation and regulation, risk and failure, ethics and expertise. Specific topics covered include nuclear power and disasters, green energy, the development and regulation of the Internet, medical expertise and controversy, intellectual property, the financial crisis, and the electric power grid.

Entrepreneurship is an ancient activity that appeared 8,500 years ago. Since that time entrepreneurs have used unique knowledge, technology, hedonistic delights, and relationships with elites to change what populations desire and consider acceptable behavior. Their accumulation of wealth, status, and well-being has put entrepreneurs in constant tension with whomever controls a society. Understanding how entrepreneurs, sometimes as individuals, but mostly as groups, have impacted our history is a key to understanding when and how societies can count on them to help solve the problems that plague us all.

This course invites students to explore the intersection of design, imagination, and future thinking. It provides an in-depth look at various design practices and their associated methodologies that are used to envision and shape potential futures. The first half of the course lays the foundation for understanding long-term thinking and introduces students to various design practices that help envision potential futures. The second half of the course focuses on the application of strategic foresight against an uncertain future.

Join Tiger Challenge, a team-based course aimed at equipping participants with the capacity to design equitable and joyful societies. Through design thinking and social entrepreneurship, we tackle complex societal problems in education, health, equity, sustainability, and civic life. Learn to create innovative, resilient solutions while gaining practical skills and tools to address wicked challenges. With support from mentors and partners, you'll engage in hands-on projects, impact evaluations, and collaborative community engagement.

Assumptions and practices by the nonprofit industrial complex, government agencies and affordable housing developers treat poor communities, especially poor communities of color as problems to be managed by those from outside these communities. The Reclamation Studio explores the humanistic design practices applied by social entrepreneurs from low-status communities near Princeton (our "clients") that counteract that history of systemic bias with innovative development projects designed to retain the talent from within their communities. Students will have the opportunity to learn from, and contribute to their efforts.

Students will design and develop novel public-internet technologies that reimagine the future of gig work. They will work with cooperatives of workers and drivers that envision a world where community-owned and open source alternatives are part of the gig work ecosystem. These new platforms aim to be more equitable for couriers, local merchants, and the communities around them by opening up the algorithmic decision-making processes to be defined by all stakeholders. Students will engage in hands-on design and implementation of components of an open-source ecosystem to enable co-ops to take local control of the digital infrastructure.

Students learn how to apply critical thinking and analytical skills to creating sustainable value-producing systems, organizations, and enterprises that are valued and supported by existing well-defined communities or groups. This class is for student entrepreneurs who feel deeply about a project they are already working on and want to figure out how to make the product or design valuable on an ongoing basis to a group or community. By the end of this class sequence students will have designed and created smooth functioning products, services, systems, or actions that actual groups or communities want and are willing to fund going forward.

Venture capital is a driving force behind innovation and entrepreneurship, although the unique working details of venture capital firms and their processes are well-kept secrets. Early stage investors not only fund startups but also enable innovation through mentorship and partnership with the entrepreneurs. Understanding how these investors think and operate is critical to students who are interested in entrepreneurship, as well as to those who would like to pursue venture capital.

The Leadership Development for Business course deals with the strategic, organizational and leadership challenges that global corporations face. The course provides students with a unique perspective on leadership vision, and how leaders recognize and capitalize on opportunities. We will focus on how leaders achieve results and make things happen working with and through others. This course presents innovative, practical and field tested methods used by successful business leaders to achieve sustained results. Classes will consist of a mix of classroom lecture, case study discussions and guest speakers.

The mission of the class is to enable students to successfully create and lead enterprises by teaching the skills required to be a successful entrepreneurial leader. This course is designed to help students learn first-hand the skills and qualities necessary to successfully incubate an idea, inspire and motivate others, build effective relationships and manage teams, scale an enterprise, and navigate the many inevitable crises and watershed moments they would face as a founder. These skills can be leveraged in any professional setting, regardless of the career path the students eventually take.

This course is designed to help SEAS graduate students cultivate ethical awareness, reflection, and practical tools regarding their research practices for future work at or beyond the University. It encourages graduate engineering students: to consider the social and ethical impact of their research; and to develop disciplines of 'ethical reflection and analysis' in their professional conduct and throughout the engineering process. Though specific Codes of Ethics within varying engineering societies are useful, they are not sufficient in preparing engineers for the social and ethical challenges that arise in today's complex systems.

The Paris Accord signaled global consensus on the need for a rapid switch to clean energy and industrial production. In recent years this resulted in ever increasing pledges by nations, states and organizations to reach net-zero by midcentury. Not well understood are the immense scale and speed of this transformation. Princeton's Net-Zero America study and similar efforts in Australia and elsewhere have provided highly granular insights on the implications for the environment, finances, jobs, and diverse stakeholder interests. Students will build on these insights with interdisciplinary case studies for ambitious zero emissions hubs.

Principles and design of solar energy conversion systems. Quantity and availability of solar energy. Physics and chemistry of solar energy conversion: solar optics, optical excitation, capture of excited energy, and transport of excitations or electronic charge. Conversion methods: thermal, wind, photoelectric, photoelectrochemical, photosynthetic, biomass. Solar energy systems: low and high temperature conversion, photovoltaics. Storage of solar energy. Conversion efficiency, systems cost, and lifecycle considerations.

This course introduces the fundamental physical mechanisms behind sustainable energy technologies and the basic concepts to evaluate and compare their efficiency, environmental impact, and costs. Among others, we will examine the potential of wind energy, photovoltaics, geothermal energy, biofuels, and nuclear energy. We will also examine the concepts of intermittency and dispatchability of energy sources and discuss the relevance of the electric grid, energy storage, energy efficiency, and green buildings. Taken together, this will help us assess energy scenarios and possible pathways to a net-zero carbon energy future.

A treatment of the theory and applications of ordinary differential equations with an introduction to partial differential equations. The objective is to provide the student with an ability to solve problems in this field.

A first introduction to probability and statistics. This course will provide background to understand and produce rigorous statistical analysis including estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and regression. Applicability and limitations of these methods will be illustrated in the light of modern data sets and manipulation of the statistical software R. Precepts are based on real data analysis.

This course focuses on analytical and computational tools for optimization. We will introduce least-squares optimization with multiple objectives and constraints. We will also discuss linear optimization modeling, duality, the simplex method, degeneracy, interior point methods and network flow optimization. Finally, we will cover integer programming and branch-and-bound algorithms. A broad spectrum of real-world applications in engineering, finance and statistics is presented.

An introduction to probability and its applications. Topics include: basic principles of probability; Lifetimes and reliability, Poisson processes; random walks; Brownian motion; branching processes; Markov chains.

STC 209 examines 'transformations' within and between visuals, sound, structure and movement as art and engineering forms. The course explores generative art and design that leverages parallels and interplay between design processes in engineering and the arts. Students will learn to work as artist-engineers, and will create ambitious open-ended design projects exploring these themes. Taught by faculty from CST, COS, MUS, CEE along with visiting artists, and guest faculty from the Lewis Center for the Arts.