Student Goals
When asked about their area of concentration, students responded:
Major Discipline:
Computational Engineering - 16
Aerospace - 13
Biomedical - 4
Mechanical - 2
Sub Discipline:
Machine Learning / Computer Vision / NLP - 4
Climate / Environment / Natural Disaster - 2
Software Engineering / Web Development - 2
Biochemistry / Computational Biology - 2
Finance - 2
Information Science - 1
Mathematics - 1
Robotics - 1
Quantum - 1
Virtual Reality - 1
When asked what their goals were for the course, students responded (some goals were edited for typos and readability):
Programming
Improve my programming skills
Learn that programming can be fun
Expand my programming knowledge
Learn how to code in python
Improve my programming skills
Further my computer science skills
Expand my programming knowledge
Development and growth of my programming skills and capabilities
Have a strong programming understanding of python
Become more efficient in coding
Learn new ways of programming
Learn new skills in Python and Linux
Improve programming ability
Improve understanding of software and data storage
Software Engineering
Learn about new technologies and tools and be able to apply them through the projects and homework
Learn how to incorporate these skills into real world problems and scenarios
Learn how to develop generally applicable software
Get a solid foundation for software engineering
Learn Software engineering
Learn how to actually use code I write and usefully apply it
Further explore software engineering
Learn software engineering concepts that will be useful when working with autonomous technology like drones
Gaining more knowledge in software engineering
Have the tools to be pretty creative in software engineering
Get a good taste of what software engineers do
Technologies / Applications
Learn how to develop a fully functional application that is packaged using Kubernetes
Learn how to connect to APIs and utilize flask
Further understand web-based services, and backend development
Don’t have much experience with web applications, so excited to learn a lot
Be able to create full-stack application
Understand how to work with/create APIs
Professional Development
Enhance my portfolio with topics I’m interested in through this course
Develop skills and portfolio projects for a career in Software Engineering
Develop software products for my own projects/ventures
Get into software engineering and possibly game development
Get a better idea of what I can later do as a career
Understand at the beginner level about the design and development of software that could be applied to the software used by various different companies
Learn applications that directly relate to what I could be doing in my future career
Design projects that can help me develop professionally
Gain confidence in my knowledge of software and similar topics
Better understand what I want to focus on
Understand some of the capabilities I have to do some things even if I might not want to pursue it as a career
Figure out if I am truly interested in software engineering and good at it
Narrow down my options of paths to follow with this broad major
Try new things, learn something new, gain perspective
Having a strong understanding of executing projects on my own
Find an appreciation for coding
Learn as much as possible
Internship in software engineering/development this summer
Data Science
Using my skills to analyze data
Someone Says This Every Year
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