First Year Seminar 191ENG37 - FYS- Engineering FYS

Fall
2026
11
1.00
Jonah Hanak

M 11:15AM 12:05PM

UMass Amherst
21074
jhanak@umass.edu
This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in engineering. The course will be an exploration of an exciting engineering-related topic of societal impact. This seminar will also introduce basic skills and available resources skills for life as a college student.

First-year (R1ST) Course Title: How Engineers think in numbers - without needing calculus
In this seminar, we?ll explore how real engineers estimate, sanity-check, and reason about the world using simple math you already know. No calculus. No formulas to memorize. Just smart thinking.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.