Engineering - ENGRI

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<p>Can any engineers comment on the "Introduction to Engineering" (ENGIR) courses?</p>

<p>I'm interested in doing either "Computing in the Arts," "Biomaterials for the Skeletal System," or "Computation, Information, and Intelligence."</p>

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ENGRI 165: Computing in the Arts; 3 credits Over the centuries, artists in a wide variety of media have employed many approaches to the creative process, ranging from the philosophical to the mechanical to the virtual. This course unravels some of the mysteries going on inside software used for art and music. It looks at ways of breaking things apart and sampling and ways of putting things together and resynthesizing, and explores ideas for creation. This course does not teach software packages for creating art and music.</p>

<p>ENGRI 119: Biomaterials for the Skeletal System; 3 credits Biomaterials are at the intersection of biology and engineering. This course explores natural structural materials in the human body, their properties and microstructure, and their synthetic and semisynthetic replacements. Bones, joints, teeth, tendons, and ligaments are used as examples, with their metal, plastic, and ceramic replacements. Topics include strength, corrosion, toxicity, wear, and biocompatibility. Case studies of design lead to consideration of regulatory approval requirements and legal liability issues.</p>

<p>ENGRI 172: Computation, Information, and Intelligence; 3 creditsIntroduction to computer science focusing on current methods and examples from the field of artificial intelligence. Topics include game playing, search techniques, problem-space, machine learning, information retrieval and web search, natural language processing, machine translation, and the Turing test. This is not a programming course; rather, “pencil and paper” problem sets are assigned since the class is centered on algorithmic concepts and mathematical models. Some knowledge of differentiation is required.

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<p>I'm doing bioengineering and might go into a carrier in the field of biomedical engineering. However I'm also very interested in most of the other ENGRI courses. Which should I choose?</p>

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<p>My roommate took computing in the arts his freshman year and loved it. If Baily is teaching the course, go for it, he's a very good professor. The class is fairly laid back and you are not expected to be a hardcore programmer (although if you are he allows plenty of opportunities to show what you can do, because some of the projects are open ended). My roommate was a com sci major, so he enjoyed the computing part of the class...but he said there were also people who's projects reflected more artistic ability, and less programming skills who did really well in the class. I remember him telling me that that is the favorite class he's taken.</p>

<p>The biomaterials class sparks my interest, as a BEE major, but I'm not sure who teaches it, nor do I know anyone that took the class.</p>

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<p>Check the course info here: <a href="http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/RSF7/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/RSF7/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I found it pretty useful and chose lab-based intro engr courses.</p>

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<p>I took 172 my freshman year and ended up TAing for it last semester. It was probably my favorite course at Cornell and it was what convinced me to affiliate with CS.</p>

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<p>From what I've heard from BEE friends, biomaterials is one of the more boring ENGRIs just because there isn't as much hands on stuff as some other classes like lasers. Even so, if it interests you then go for it, none of them are really bad.</p>

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<p>If you're thinking about taking ENGRI in the spring, consider ENGRI 127: introduction to engineering entrepreneurship. I didn't go to class after the second week and still got an A.</p>

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<p>They don't have that next year. At least its not on the list they gave us. :(</p>

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<p>how the hell did you only get an A in ENGRI 127? If you couldn't get an A+, god help you</p>

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<p>I'm confused because according to the list I received in my mail, there is ENGRI 127 (Intro to Entrepreneurship) for the Spring of 2008... HOWEVER, online, on <a href="http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/orientation/ENGRI_list.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/orientation/ENGRI_list.cfm&lt;/a> there isn't. Which should we believe?</p>

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<p>172 sounds like fun...i think ill do that.</p>

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<p>thx people :)
i've chosen 165 to be my first choice, 172 second and 119 third</p>

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<p>I kind of want to take all of these choices; they all sound so fun. :(</p>