What is the IDEAS Seminar?
The first-year seminar is a core course for IDEAS students which emphasizes intense faculty mentoring within a small seminar environment. Students read novels, watch movies, and discuss a wide range of engineering disciplines and ethics. The topics explored enable students to develop, write, and present their individual interst areas, ultimately helping them to select their concentrations for their degree.
The first year seminar helps students become accustomed to thinking beyond the boundaries of traditional academic fields and see how disciplines interrelate. Through case studies, students view issues from multiple perspectives - engineering and otherwise. The seminar is an exploration of what it means to be an IDEAS student.