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FFC 100B – Grand Challenges Initiative: Grand Challenges in Science and Technology

 The GCI is a unique two-year project that is part of the curriculum for all incoming first-year students in Fowler School of Engineering and Schmid College of Science and Technology majors. You’ll work with a small team of 4-6 fellow students and a research mentor to take on one of our most pressing problems, from reversing climate change to improving data security to developing new health technology—and many more. 

Can we predict critical medical conditions before they occur? How do we stem the loss of biodiversity? What is the role of artificial intelligence in creating a safer future? Solving these “grand challenges” will require breakthroughs that leverage innovative thinking across disciplines. In this course, small teams of students work together to understand a current challenge facing society, propose a potential solution, and effectively communicate what they have learned.

Please note: Instructors will be listed in early August

• FFC 100B-01 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m.)

• FFC 100B-02 (Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00-5:15 p.m.)
• FFC 100B-03 (Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30-6:45 p.m.)
• FFC 100B-04 (Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30-3:45 p.m.)
• FFC 100B-05 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30-9:45 a.m.)
• FFC 100B-06 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m.)
• FFC 100B-07 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30-12:45 p.m.)
• FFC 100B-08 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:15 p.m.)
• FFC 100B-09 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30-3:45 p.m.)
• FFC 100B-10 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00-5:15 p.m.)