When engineering meets art
Music blared, LEDs blinked, and jaws dropped Tuesday at the SEAS Design and Project Fair, a celebration of creative problem-solving by students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The festival carries ideas from one scientific field to another and allows them to cross-pollinate. It also provides an incentive for harried students in the last few weeks of the semester to generate a polished and presentable final product. But most importantly, said Fawwaz Habbal, executive dean for education and research, the fair encourages “anyone, whether it’s for homework or their own self-expression, to go ahead and create something.” Visitors entering the Science Center Plaza tent met hundreds of students from ES 50: “Introduction to Electrical Engineering,” a course that attracts undergraduates from all concentrations with its lively teaching staff and emphasis on creativity. They were joined by students from more than a dozen SEAS courses in engineering sciences, applied mathematics,...