printer friendly pageMS&E 108: Senior Project
Restricted to MS&E majors in their senior year. Students carry out a major project in groups of four, applying techniques and concepts learned in the major. Project work includes problem identification and definition, data collection and synthesis, modeling, development of feasible solutions, and presentation of results. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). Satisfies the WIM requirement for MS&E majors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Chiu, S. (PI)
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Katila, R. (PI)
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Pelger, M. (PI)
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Shachter, R. (PI)
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Tse, E. (PI)
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Valentine, M. (PI)
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Gold, S. (TA)
MS&E 297: "Hacking for Defense": Solving National Security issues with the Lean Launchpad
In a crisis, national security initiatives move at the speed of a startup yet in peacetime they default to decades-long acquisition and procurement cycles. Startups operate with continual speed and urgency 24/7. Over the last few years they've learned how to be not only fast, but extremely efficient with resources and time using lean startup methodologies. In this class student teams will take actual national security problems and learn how to apply lean startup principles, ("business model canvas," "customer development," and "agile engineering) to discover and validate customer needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Teams take a hands-on approach requiring close engagement with actual military, Department of Defense and other government agency end-users. Team applications required in February, see
hacking4defense.stanford.edu. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Blank, S. (PI)
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Weinstein, S. (PI)
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Burnett, M. (TA)
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Instructors:
Blank, S. (PI)
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Weinstein, S. (PI)
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Burnett, M. (TA)
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Simon, N. (TA)
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Solorzano Cervantes, D. (TA)
MS&E 330: Law, Bias, & Algorithms (CS 209, CSRE 230, SOC 279)
Human decision making is increasingly being displaced by predictive algorithms. Judges sentence defendants based on statistical risk scores; regulators take enforcement actions based on predicted violations; advertisers target materials based on demographic attributes; and employers evaluate applicants and employees based on machine-learned models. A predominant concern with the rise of such algorithmic decision making is that it may replicate or exacerbate human bias. Algorithms might discriminate, for instance, based on race or gender. This course surveys the legal and ethical principles for assessing the equity of algorithms, describes techniques for designing fair systems, and considers how antidiscrimination law and the design of algorithms may need to evolve to account for machine bias. Concepts will be developed in part through guided in-class coding exercises. Admission is by consent of instructor and is limited to 20 students. Grading is based on response papers, class participation, and a final project. Prerequisite:
CS 106A or equivalent knowledge of coding.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Goel, S. (PI)
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Lin, Z. (TA)
MUSIC 146J: Studies in Ethnomusicology: Listening to the Local: Music Ethnography of the Bay Area (ANTHRO 146J, CSRE 146J, MUSIC 246J)
An introduction to music ethnography through student research on musical life in the Bay Area. Focus is on the intersections of music, social life, and cultural practice by engaging with people as they perform music and culture in situ. Techniques taught include participant-observation, interviewing and oral history, writing field-notes, recording, transcription, analysis, and ethnographic writing. Pre-/co-requisite (for music majors):
MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Christensen, K. (TA)
MUSIC 246J: Studies in Ethnomusicology: Listening to the Local: Music Ethnography of the Bay Area (ANTHRO 146J, CSRE 146J, MUSIC 146J)
An introduction to music ethnography through student research on musical life in the Bay Area. Focus is on the intersections of music, social life, and cultural practice by engaging with people as they perform music and culture in situ. Techniques taught include participant-observation, interviewing and oral history, writing field-notes, recording, transcription, analysis, and ethnographic writing. Pre-/co-requisite (for music majors):
MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ORALCOMM 130: ORALCOMM: Your American Life
This small seminar is designed for students interested in creating audio stories for radio or podcast. You will examine the craft elements of the medium, popularized by programs like This American Life, Radiolab and Serial, and then produce your own documentary, memoir, or investigative story. We will explore the basic principles of strong storytelling, and you will learn how to develop your material, choose an effective structure, blend dramatization and reflection, ground insights in concrete scenes, create a strong narrative arc, and manage elements such as characterization, description, and dialogue. We will also examine craft elements unique to the audio form, and you will learn skills for interviewing, scoring, and audio editing. Students will have the opportunity to work with special guests from some of the best narrative podcasts in America. No prior experience with story craft or media required. Cardinal Course/CEL/HAAS
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Warga, J. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 25: Organizing for Good
The extent to which organizations and their agents can and should "do good" in society and some of the barriers they face when trying to "do good." Topics include: corporate social responsibility; social entrepreneurship; NGO's and humanitarian organizations; and alternative forms of organization that are proving to be promising for "doing good" in a complex global world. Discussion of: role of meaning and purpose in work; responsibilities of organizations and their leaders; tradeoffs of various organizational structures and alliances; and the role of culture and cultural differences when operating globally, including in the transfer of practice from one nation to another.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hinds, P. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 70: Youth Citizenship and Community Engagement
Critical thinking about core concepts in community engagement such as community, self, and identity. The course aims to cultivate a critical consciousness about the meaning of charity, caring, social justice and the aims of engagement with communities to enhance self awareness, awareness of others who are different, awareness of social issues, and an ethic of care where students can be change agents. The meaning of youth citizenship as it relates to engagement with communities will be explored.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Carolissen, R. (PI)
OSPGEN 259: Community Health in Oaxaca
Close observation of clinicians at work in community health settings in Oaxaca and service with local community health organizations. Combination of classroom study and discussion with cultural immersion, language training, clinical shadowing, and community service. Topics include: Mexican healthcare system; cultural, socioeconomic and educational factors impacting health of Mexicans and Mexican immigrants to U.S.; Mexican cultural and health beliefs; Mexican migration as a multi-ethnic process.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Garcia, G. (PI)
PEDS 211: Medical-Legal Issues in Children's Health
(Same as
LAW 643) Explores the link between poverty and children's health and how the medical and legal fields can work together to improve health outcomes for low income children. Weekly class meetings covering medical legal issues such as asthma immigration, health insurance; intake interviews with patient families and analysis of their medical legal issues; group project focused on a medical legal policy issue; final paper cowritten by law and medical students. May be taken for 2 units (weekly 2.5 hour seminar meetings only), 3 units (participation in either intake interviews or policy work) or 4 units (full participation in all course components). Prerequisite: instructor consent. Preference to students committed to full participation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
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