ICons 390BH - Integrated Discover Lab/Biomed

In iCons 3, interdisciplinary teams of students will design and lead research and design projects to develop and evaluate solutions to current societal problems in human health. The intent of this problem-based course is for students to use cross-disciplinary methods in an open-ended setting, driven by a need for advances in science and technology to confront unsolved challenges. Projects may incorporate techniques from life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, and computational sciences, supported by analysis tools associated with information science, mathematics, and statistics, according to student background and individual expertise. Students will be expected to identify important unsolved problems in biomedicine, justify their relevance to the scientific and broader community, design and carry out valid studies that leverage their distributed expertise, assess the impact of their work, communicate new insight to stakeholders, and reflect on how their experiences contribute to their educational growth. This course will meet two criteria of the university Integrative Experience requirement: applying GenEd skills in a more advanced setting (IE 2), and applying prior learning to real-world problems (IE 3). The requirement for reflection and integration (IE 1) will be met by iCons 489SH. The combination of these courses will fulfill the entirety of the IE requirement.

iCONS 189H and 289H Additional fees are associated with this section.