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ABE 532 - Advanced Contextual Design

Last offered Spring 2025

Official Description

Contextual Engineering addresses the loss of infrastructure usability, sustainability, and resiliency in non-industrialized societal settings that often results from disconnects and differing objectives among stakeholders. Using case studies and technical infrastructure designs, the impacts of globalization, Western attitudes, power dynamics, and place-based knowledge are explored and applied to infrastructure design and implementation processes, particularly when serving rural societies. Application of these concepts will then be conducted for specific design efforts associated with the student's own engineering discipline.

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Schedule and Instructors

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Advanced Contextual DesignAW76256PKG41500 - 1550 F    Ann-Perry Witmer
Emily Lawson-Bulten
Advanced Contextual DesignAW76256PKG41300 - 1450 M W F    Ann-Perry Witmer
Emily Lawson-Bulten