Enhances the thesis research for students in the iCons program through peer student support teams and advanced scientific communication. The purpose of this course is to blend team-based learning and undergraduate scientific research to enhance students' communication skills and to promote integration of mulch-disciplinary approaches to solving scientific problems.

iCons III: "Team-Oriented Lab Discovery in Renewable Energy" involves student-driven, team-oriented laboratory projects focused on the interrelated principles of energy generation, conversion, storage and consumption, particularly emphasizing the science underlying renewable energy systems. Projects incorporate experimental techniques from the chemical, physical, mathematical, and life sciences. The intent of this course is to examine cross-disciplinary methods to address real world energy-related issues.

ICONS 388H Integrative Discovery Lab in Biomedicine and Biosystems. In iCons 3, students design and lead research and design projects to develop and evaluate solutions to current societal problems in planetary health using cross-disciplinary methods.

In this course, interdisciplinary teams of students design and lead research and design projects to develop and evaluate solutions to current societal problems using cross-disciplinary methods. Students identify important unsolved problems at the nexus of Food-Water-Climate, justify their relevance to the scientific and broader community, design and carry out valid studies or prototype designs 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.

iCons 2 engages students in written and oral communication skill-building, emphasizing the different demands placed on scientists when we interact with scientists from our own discipline, other disciplines, younger students, and with the general public. For most departments in the College of Natural Sciences and College of Engineering, iCons 2 fulfills the Junior Year Writing requirement. Students develop the ability to create, articulate and write logical arguments to scientists and non-scientists.