Intro & Welcome

• Instructor Introduction
• Overview of course
  • Content
  • Structure and Navigation

Module 1: Minds and Machines

Core Idea: Empathy, understanding differences between humans and computers

• Imagining how the world “looks” to a computer
  • Allows for richer understanding of potential engineering problems
• Developing respect and understanding for diverse perspectives on problems
  • How our assumptions can affect generated solutions

Module 2: Algorithms

Core Idea: Understanding and developing algorithms

• Defining what is an algorithm
• Developing computational thinking skills
  • Practice understanding and developing your own algorithms

Module 3: AI & Machine Learning

Core Idea: Data can be used to train and change the behaviour of an algorithm

• Practicing training an algorithm by providing labeled data
• Understanding how data can be created from the real world
• Unpacking the process of how an algorithm is trained

Module 4: Creative AI

Core Idea: AI can be used to enhance human creative abilities ****

• Creating a story by using AI assisted tools to generate text, image and sound.
• Learning about the future potential of AI

Module 5: AI and Society

Core Idea: Discussing the positive and negative impacts AI is having on society

• Discuss potential pitfalls
  • Helps you become a better engineer
  • Protecting yourself and others from harmful effects
• Emphasizing the influence humans have on the development of new technolog
• Topics Include: Social Media, Bias, Automation

Module 6: Designing an App

Core Idea: Using what has been learned in the course to brainstorm and pitch an app idea. Optionally turn into a working prototype. ****

• Learning the engineering design cycle and how to apply it
• Generating solutions to real world problems by looking at the UN sustainable development goals