Design Engineering

Answering the call of twenty-first century research to recognize the powerful synergy between art and science, this multidisciplinary course is team-taught by teachers in both disciplines. Students explore the space where science and art overlap by working individually and collaboratively on a series of projects and research-based experiments. Equal time in the classroom, laboratory, and art studio enables students to learn the science, practice visualizations, and produce viable, creative, and whimsical solutions to scientific problems. Projects may include designing vehicles in which fluid dynamics serve as inspiration for beautiful line patterns and vice versa, creating structures that recognize the relationship of form and function in architecture, mapping the mathematics in nature, and manipulating waveforms in the production of music and optical effects.