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Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessness

By Raúl Ordóñez, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Engineering Systems for the Common Good

What prompted the idea for the course?

As a control systems researcher, I have long felt that control systems – and systems science in general – have much to contribute to solving social problems.…

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