By Alvaro D. Engineering for Social Change has been a breath of fresh air in my engineering studies. Throughout this years I have learned technical skills and aptitudes that help me solve engineering problems, but that is not enough if you want to be a global engineer. This course has made me realize all the […]

By Abraham D. When you begin your studies as an engineering student at the University of Maryland you have all these great aspirations of what you want to accomplish as an engineer. As engineers progress through their careers they begin to consider the impact they will have on society and the legacy they will leave […]

By Jordan D. This course was very unique when compared to my previous mechanical engineering courses. I had expected this course to discuss engineering terms such as safety factors. This course was instead very similar to my general education class “Engineering Ethics,” where we studied engineering ethics by reviewing case studies. That class gave me […]

By Zelalem D. Engineering for Social Change? That was my first reaction when I first heard about the course. I honestly didn’t know what to expect until the first day of class.  From Engineering for Social change class, I have learned a lot about things that I unintentionally do every single day but can have […]

By Mitchell C. As I was signing up for classes for my first semester of my junior year and my first semester at the University of Maryland, I wanted to start it off by trying something different. I wanted to get away from all the numbers and equations, and Engineering for Social Change seemed to […]

By Amar C. I personally believe that this course has influenced myself in several ways. To begin with, I am an international exchange student whose home university courses do not seem anything like this one. There are not that dynamic and does not enable that much student participation as well as real project involvement. Therefore, […]

By Sulma C. Engineering for Social Change has been unlike any engineering course I have taken before. This course stepped away from the traditional engineering curriculum, which is rigorous and technical, and instead focused on the bigger picture— what it means to be an engineer. Through thought-provoking lectures and discussions, we learned about the future […]

By Zachary B. Throughout my four years as a mechanical engineering student at the University of Maryland, engineering has primarily meant, the application of mathematics and physical sciences to real world applications. I still do believe in this definition of engineering. What I had not previously considered though, was to what extent those real world […]

By Jaime B. This course allowed me to explore in an in-depth and hands-on way what it meant to have a professional mission for social good in the context of being an engineer.  I realize now this was the missing piece of my earlier explorations in to doing social good – they had all be […]

By Getachew A. This class is very different than any of the classes I have taken before. Prior to this semester, all of the engineering classes I was taking only taught me how to solve a certain problem using the given equations. There was usually only one way of attacking a problem, which is not […]