Anthropology is unique in its people-centered, ethnographic approach to understanding social life and worlds. We begin with a critical eye on colonial era articulations of the method of participant observation, then explore alternative ways of knowing. Throughout, we explore the tensions, contradictions, and creative potentials of producing critical knowledge with people. Students cultivate skills for field and archival work, with forays into digital spaces. Fieldwork exercises allow students to practice ethnographic approaches and challenge more experience-distant, quantitative methodologies.

Lectures and readings focus on bridges, railroads, power plants, steamboats, telegraph, highways, automobiles, aircraft, computers, and the microchip. Historical analysis provides a basis for studying societal impact by focusing on scientific, political, ethical, and aesthetic aspects in the evolution of engineering over the past two and a half centuries. The precepts and the papers will focus historically on engineering ideas including the social and political issues raised by these innovations and how they were shaped by society as well as how they helped shape culture.

Lectures and readings focus on bridges, railroads, power plants, steamboats, telegraph, highways, automobiles, aircraft, computers, and the microchip. We study some of the most important engineering innovations since the Industrial Revolution. The laboratory centers on technical analysis that is the foundation for design of these major innovations. The experiments are modeled after those carried out by the innovators themselves, whose ideas are explored in the light of the social environment within which they worked.

Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social sciences students. Topics will be drawn from current issues and events, and will include discussion of how computers work; what programming is and why it is hard; how the Internet and the Web work; security and privacy.

An intro. to computer science in the context of scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The goal of the course is to teach basic principles and practical issues, while at the same time preparing students to use computers effectively for applications in computer science, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and other disciplines. The course uses the Java programming language to introduce fundamental programming concepts, including conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and object-oriented programming. Add topics include algorithms and data structures; theory of computing; hardware and software systems; and machine learning.

This course covers mechanics, energy, waves, and introductory thermodynamics within the framework of understanding and developing engineering solutions to grand challenges; i.e. the focus is on the role an engineer plays in responding to grand challenges and the physics foundations that are at their disposal. The laboratory component comprises projects designed especially for the engineering-minded student, focusing on design and building, problem solving, and entrepreneurship. An intense homework studio accompanies the class. This course can be used to satisfy BSE freshman year requirements.

This is an introductory course for single variable calculus. The material will be presented in a manner that shows how calculus combined with analytic geometry is the language of expression for quantitative ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics itself. We will cover differential and integral calculus, series and sequences, as well as Taylor series to discuss topics such as information and probability, the physics of planetary motion and statistical mechanics, and development of computational algorithms. This course can be used to satisfy BSE freshman year requirements.

This course will present the fundamentals of multivariable calculus from an engineering perspective, using examples from all 6 engineering departments. As a first introduction to functions of many variables, it will cover key topics important to the various engineering fields, including vectors and vector valued functions in 2 and 3 dimensions, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, optimization, and the calculus of vector fields.

The class mission is to give students an understanding of the sources and processes associated with creativity, innovation, and design - three interdependent capabilities essential to our own well being, as well as to the well being of society. We will study the internal and external factors that relate to our own ability to create, innovate, and design. We will also understand the factors that impact a group's ability to act creatively, to innovate, and to produce practical and appealing designs. The class will consist of readings and case studies as well as individual and group projects.

This class examines the entrepreneurial mindset, and how to put that mindset to work to create value in the world. The class also covers core 'hard skills' of innovation and entrepreneurship (including market evaluation, product testing and iteration, and business modeling). In this class students work in groups assigned to 'solving' some of the biggest global problems using tools learned in the class.

Join Tiger Challenge, a team-based course aimed at equipping participants with the capacity to design equitable and joyful societies. Through design thinking and social entrepreneurship, we tackle complex societal problems in education, health, equity, sustainability, and civic life. Learn to create innovative, resilient solutions while gaining practical skills and tools to address wicked challenges. With support from mentors and partners, you'll engage in hands-on projects, impact evaluations, and collaborative community engagement.

The Covid-19 pandemic and war in the Ukraine have demonstrated how suddenly life can be disrupted and also how dramatically entrepreneurial action can make a difference. The world's biggest problems are looking for new organizational and operational models that combine the advantages of business, government, and NGOs and can deliver effective responses. This course looks beyond entrepreneurship in profit motivated industries such as technology and financial services to the more complicated challenge of achieving social and policy objectives through entrepreneurial action.

Assumptions and practices by the nonprofit industrial complex, government agencies and affordable housing developers treat poor communities, especially poor communities of color as problems to be managed by those from outside these communities. The Reclamation Studio explores the humanistic design practices applied by social entrepreneurs from low-status communities near Princeton (our "clients") that counteract that history of systemic bias with innovative development projects designed to retain the talent from within their communities. Students will have the opportunity to learn from, and contribute to their efforts.

Students learn how to apply critical thinking and analytical skills to creating sustainable value-producing systems, organizations, and enterprises that are valued and supported by existing well-defined communities or groups. This class is for student entrepreneurs who feel deeply about a project they are already working on and want to figure out how to make the product or design valuable on an ongoing basis to a group or community. By the end of this class sequence students will have designed and created smooth functioning products, services, systems, or actions that actual groups or communities want and are willing to fund going forward.

This course provides students with tools and processes to develop humanistic innovations. The course will cover topics of design research, service design tools, and critical areas in preventing unintended consequences. "Smart" innovations will be the technical problem space for the course. The class takes a practice approach, with reading from articles and books and team assignments designed to practice the skills discussed. The course will provide new tools for students in entrepreneurship and design, new types of outcomes for the social sciences, and a human-centered view on innovation for those in engineering.

Venture capital is a driving force behind innovation and entrepreneurship, although the unique working details of venture capital firms and their processes are well-kept secrets. Early stage investors not only fund startups but also enable innovation through mentorship and partnership with the entrepreneurs. Understanding how these investors think and operate is critical to students who are interested in entrepreneurship, as well as to those who would like to pursue venture capital.

This hands-on course introduces students to analysis and actions required to launch and commercialize a tech company, through the use of Harvard Business School cases, visits from entrepreneurs, and two "field assignments". You will learn conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques for evaluating technologies, markets, and commercialization strategies. Additionally, you will learn how to attract and motivate the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners and venture capital), prepare business plans, structure relationships, refine product-market fit, and create and grow enterprise value.

The Leadership Development for Business course deals with the strategic, organizational and leadership challenges that global corporations face. The course provides students with a unique perspective on leadership vision, and how leaders recognize and capitalize on opportunities. We will focus on how leaders achieve results and make things happen working with and through others. This course presents innovative, practical and field tested methods used by successful business leaders to achieve sustained results. Classes will consist of a mix of classroom lecture, case study discussions and guest speakers.

This course explores the connections between design, socio-technical systems, and diverse worldviews in working towards more sustainable societies. The course will be of value to students across disciplines interested in contemporary sustainability issues and bold responses to those issues. We will take an expansive view of sustainability and design in this course, examining issues and possibilities spanning scales and technologies. This includes how to mitigate the environmental costs of AI, how cooperatives and community economies can transform traditional markets, and how decomposition and decay offer novel approaches to product design.

The mission of the class is to enable students to successfully create and lead enterprises by teaching the skills required to be a successful entrepreneurial leader. This course is designed to help students learn first-hand the skills and qualities necessary to successfully incubate an idea, inspire and motivate others, build effective relationships and manage teams, scale an enterprise, and navigate the many inevitable crises and watershed moments they would face as a founder. These skills can be leveraged in any professional setting, regardless of the career path the students eventually take.

A treatment of the theory and applications of ordinary differential equations with an introduction to partial differential equations. The objective is to provide the student with an ability to solve standard problems in this field.

A first introduction to probability and statistics. This course will provide background to understand and produce rigorous statistical analysis including estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and regression and classification. Applicability and limitations of these methods will be illustrated using a variety of modern real world data sets and manipulation of the statistical software R.

An introduction to probability and its applications. Topics include: basic principles of probability; Lifetimes and reliability, Poisson processes; random walks; Brownian motion; branching processes; Markov chains