First-Year Touchpoints
AI is being embedded early and across disciplines through three first-year courses:
- FE 1100 — Intro to Engineering with AI lectures and a KEEN mini-project
- ME 1720 — First-year design course with AI integration from the start
- CS 1973 — Python for non-CS majors, launching Fall 2026, building computational fluency with AI awareness
Our Curriculum Philosophy
We sequence AI integration intentionally. Early courses build the domain knowledge that makes AI judgment possible. Mid-program courses teach students to evaluate AI outputs. By senior design, students use AI the way industry does.
Some courses are AI-integrated — where students learn to use AI with engineering judgment, verify outputs, and connect to specific competencies. Others are AI-protected — where foundational skills like math, writing, and first-principles reasoning are the learning objective, and bypassing them would undermine the goal.