Week 1

Course introduction, establishment of expectations, and icebreakers.

Response 1: Winner (1980), “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”

Week 2

Political artifact discussion, introduction to the semester project, exploring CU library resources, and building a foam-core flyer.

Response 2: O’Connor, Peck, and Cafarella (2015), “Struggling for Legitimacy”

Week 3

Charting your trajectory through your engineering experience and building your journey map.

Response 3: Leydens and Lucena (2018) Chapter 1 & IDEO: Shopping Cart Design Process

Week 4

Exploring the barriers to rendering social justice visible in engineering practice and education.

Response 4: Produce your own journey map through engineering and to analyze a previously completed engineering project or problem with the context discussed by Leydens & Lucena in mind.

Week 5

Uncovering engineering assumptions and norms and a discussion about chosen political artifacts for the first milestone of the semester-long project.