ENG 298: Heroic Systems: Technology and Culture has been developed by the College of Engineering and iFoundry and is especially designed for  students to learn from the humanities and arts disciplines and to gain general education credit in the process.  Please consider this course for interdisciplinary learning and a deep study of history, culture, science, and politics.

ENG 298 HS has top engineering and interdisciplinary experts teaching students about the cultural and historical transformations of such life-changing heroic systems as transportation, electrification, telecommunications, medicine, and more.  CHP students would be a good fit for  ENG 298: Heroic Systems.

*Register now for  ENG 298: HS offered this SPRING 2017: https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2017/spring/ENG/298

*Contact Karen Hyman (kkhyman@illinois.edu), Associate Director of iFoundry, or Professor Stephen Levinson with any questions.

Throughout the nation’s entire history, large scale, engineered systems have improved the quality of life for the population at large.  This process is based on the natural progression from curiosity to science to industrialization to socio-economic progress.  Governments, universities, corporations and financial systems are all integral parts in the big picture.  This course will consider such heroic systems as transportation, banking, electrification, telecommunications, medicine, space exploration, social structures, and examine the limits to progress.  Often these developments are best understood by appeals to literature and history.  Thus, any students interested in interdisciplinary approaches that integrate the humanities, arts and sciences are encouraged to take this course.  Pending approval, students taking ENG 298 will earn General Education credit in the Humanities & the Arts.

Thanks to Karen Kapner Hyman of the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education for this information item.

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