Emphasizes the cultural context of technology. Extensively illustrated with slides and film. The methods, content and practice pertinent to the study of art and archaeology. Materials science provides one of the keys for interpreting objects in their historical and cultural context. Credit for this course or MSE 259 but not for both.
Laboratory exercises involving the materials science of art and archaeological objects.
Credit is allowed for this course or MSE 257, but not for both. Methods and modern techniques of engineering economic analysis for decision making, evaluations of economic alternatives, cost control, capital budgeting, managerial cost accounting, deterministic inventory theory and decision-making under uncertainty. MATH 129, ENGR 102. Science fiction is studied as a genre of film and print fiction in which we can imagine future societies and future science and technology in utopian and dystopian forms. Introduction to computer aided design concepts and techniques.