First Year Seminar 191ENG37 - FYS- Engineering FYS
Fall
2026
12
1.00
W 4:00PM 4:50PM
UMass Amherst
21075
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.