Graduate Engineering Core Effective Fall 2024
Santa Clara Engineering offers a wide range of general Graduate Engineering courses, of which the majority are designated with the prefix ENGR/GREN. Currently, the classes are listed as ENGR. The GREN subject will be available next year and will replace Engr. Note that some ENGR/GREN courses are not included as part of the graduate core but are designed to be elective courses that are accessible to and of interest to students from many engineering programs. This includes the Co-op Education Courses ENGR/GREN 289 and ENGR/GREN 389. The Graduate Core is one of the distinguishing features of the Master’s program at Santa Clara University. Because of its breadth and interdisciplinary nature, the Graduate Core requires courses that transcend departmental boundaries, and address questions that relate to the societal impact of engineering, as well as ways in which this impact can be shaped.
The Graduate Core is required for all M.S. degree-seeking students in all departments and programs in the School of Engineering. The components that are associated with this requirement are designed to broaden the scope of the student’s knowledge, and develop professional skills essential for operating effectively in a global environment including the ability to communicate clearly, to function on interdisciplinary and diverse teams, and to make ethically and socially responsible decisions.
All core courses must be taken at SCU and transfer credit cannot be approved for core courses. B.S./M.S. students may start to take the core courses while they are undergraduate students.
In order to fulfill the Graduate Core requirement, students must take one course selected from each of the following two areas:
- Engineering and Society
- Professional Development
Below are the lists of all classes approved for the graduate core in these two areas.
GRADUATE CORE AREAS AND TOPICS
- Engineering and Society
- BIOE 210 Ethical Issues in Bioengineering (2 units)
- CSEN 269 Computing for Good: Project Design and Implementation (2 units)
- CSEN 288 Software Ethics (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 245 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Silicon Valley (3 units)
- ENGR/GREN 272 Energy Public Policy (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 303 Gender and Engineering (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 336 Engineering for the Developing World (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 337 Social Entrepreneurship- Innovating with Impact (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 342 3D Print Technology and Society (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 344 Artificial Intelligence and Ethics (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 345 Space Ethics (2 units)
- Professional Development
- ENGR/GREN 269 Human Resources Development and the Engineering Manager (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 270 Effective Oral Technical Presentations (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 271A. Effective Written Technical Communication I (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 271B. Effective Written Technical Communication II (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 285 Managing Business Relationships (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 302 Managing in the Multicultural Environment (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 304 Building Global Teams (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 306 Engineering and the Law (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 330 Law, Technology, and Intellectual Property (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 332 How Engineers, Businesspeople, and Lawyers Communicate With Each Other (3 units)
- ENGR/GREN 349 Ethical Decision Making for Technology Leaders (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 358 Global Technology Development (2 units)
- ENGR/GREN 373 Technology Entrepreneurship (2 units)