The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art · Courses
VIP
5 courses with the subject VIP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
VIP 381ASmart Cities1
The Autonomy of “Smart” Cities is a cross-disciplinary course that is dedicated to finding technology-based solutions to some of the most pressing issues that are currently facing our cities. This course will focus on closed-loop systems in order to explore a more sustainable transportation, energy, and urban agricultural structures that promote the autonomy of our communities and enhance the livability of our cities. Students will be expected to develop complete solutions (design and implementation) integrating ideas and concepts from different disciplines such as: design, ML, Robotics, IoT, hardware design, vision, lighting, and control theory. Example Projects: - Self-Drive: an autonomous vehicle project. - Net-Zero-Surrey: designing a sustainable transportation solution for more livable future cities. - Urban Agriculture: enabling the urban community to produce their own food. - Robotics Arms: modeling human motion with robotics arms. - Drones: sling load and cooperative drones Advisors: Neveen Shlayan, Mili Shah, Dirk Luchtenburg, Ben Davis. 216
The Solar Decathlon course forms a cross-disciplinary team that engages in a design phase and a build phase of highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. Students are expected to prepare creative solutions for real-world issues in the building industry. The focus of this course will be High-performance building design includes comprehensive building science, energy efficiency, optimized structural and mechanical systems, indoor air quality, resilience, and water conservation while maintaining the highest spatial design standards. Engineering students will be working closely with Architects to design an efficient and innovative system to support the functional and aesthetic characteristics of their projects while experimenting with the use of standard as well as unconventional materials. Students will be taught the basics of statics, strength of materials, structural analysis and design. Teams will be expected to participate in the Solar Decathlon Design and Build Challenge. Course Objectives: - Introduce students to state of the state-of-the-art industry standard technology to better prepare them to enter the workforce. - Allow students to engage with their specialized knowledge and skills in the contexts of a team-based research project. - Provide students with the opportunity to conduct research at an early stage to better prepare them for possible academic careers. - Enable students to work in multidisciplinary teams in the pursuit of designing effective solutions to modern complex issues. Advisors: Cosmas Tzavelis, Lorena Del Rio, David Wooton, Neveen Shlayan.
The goal of the VIP is to successfully participate in the Formula SAE® competitions that challenge teams of university students to conceive, design, fabricate, develop, and compete with small, formula style vehicles. Formula SAE® is an engineering education competition that requires performance demonstration of vehicles in a series of events, both off track and on track against the clock. Each competition gives teams the chance to demonstrate their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world. Teams are to assume that they work for an engineering firm that is designing, fabricating, testing, and demonstrating a prototype vehicle. Enrollment is based on a rolling application process with a decision made before the beginning of each semester. 217
Students must be pursuing their undergraduate degree in order to enroll in VIP for credit.
VIP 381DFrontiers of Bioengineering1
This interdisciplinary VIP will focus on building models for biological systems that focus on finding creative solutions to common problems in healthcare. This will include both computational and physical explorations of various body systems. The goal will be to have a better understanding of complex biological environments through creating databases of information in which to improve society. Students must be pursuing their undergraduate degree in order to enroll in VIP for credit. Enrollment is based on a rolling application process with a decision made before the beginning of each semester.
Compete in the IGVC event and conduct autonomous vehicles research at Cooper Union. No prerequisite courses required, but AI/ML/etc. are helpful for the technical team. 218
