This course surveys topics and classical problems in structural mechanics that are relevant to aerospace, including applications in both air and space. Aerospace structures often have a shared requirement for lightness or a high strength-to-weight ratio, which produces interesting design challenges not seen in other fields, drives use of less common materials and necessitates a greater amount of modeling and testing to support slimmer margins of safety. This course focuses on three topics: lightweight trusses, load bearing shell structures and laminated composites.

Fieldwork experience for qualified students. Coordinated through the University's Office of Internships. Prerequisite: LEGAL 250. Generally open only to Legal Studies majors. Individual faculty sponsorship required.

"With great power, comes great responsibility." As an incoming Computer Scientist, you will explore and discuss the ethical quandaries that continue to emerge in the field, particularly surrounding artificial intelligence. In this course, you will read articles and other media that touch on these ethical issues, and engage with them via small group discussion, presentations, and more.

Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in our everyday lives. New tools, like large language models, are released to the public daily. But how do these tools actually work, and what allows them to achieve such amazing results? In this seminar we will go beyond platitudes to understand what AI really is, how AI tools work, and how we can use this information to get the most from AI, while also protecting ourselves from potential harm.

Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in our everyday lives. New tools, like large language models, are released to the public daily. But how do these tools actually work, and what allows them to achieve such amazing results? In this seminar we will go beyond platitudes to understand what AI really is, how AI tools work, and how we can use this information to get the most from AI, while also protecting ourselves from potential harm.

Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in our everyday lives. New tools, like large language models, are released to the public daily. But how do these tools actually work, and what allows them to achieve such amazing results? In this seminar we will go beyond platitudes to understand what AI really is, how AI tools work, and how we can use this information to get the most from AI, while also protecting ourselves from potential harm.

Ever wonder how machines perform tasks or how today's AI runs on powerful hardware in distant data centers? In this seminar, we'll explore how core system components like CPUs, GPUs, memory, operating systems, and technologies like the internet and cloud power the tools we use every day. From converting language into 0s and 1s and back again to running complex apps, we'll uncover how computers really work.

In just the last few years, AI has gone from the realm of sci-fi to a tool that students and professionals use daily. In this age of rapid change, what are the impacts? How can AI help us as a society, change our way of life, or pose risks to the most vulnerable? In this seminar, we will delve into both the benefits and risks of generative AI, explore how the technology can be used ethically, and discover how these systems work and are likely to change in the near future.

This course focuses on past and contemporary Africanfuturism and Afro-Speculative fiction. While our focus is on literature and film we will also look at the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts out of which these African and Afro-American creators write. As a first year seminar course, we will develop discussion-based skills and argumentative essay form to explore how contemporary and historic writers interrogate the past and imagine the future. We will read examples of the following sub-genres: alternate history, horror, dystopian, and magical realism.