Courses

Engineering Italy gives UW Engineering undergraduate students the opportunity in their second year to take courses that will count toward engineering degree requirements while also exploring Italian language and culture during the quarter in Rome.

All UW Engineering first year students can apply to participate in the program in their second year. The program courses fulfills degree requirements for students majoring in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. AA 210: Engineering Statics is not a required course for other engineering degrees but can be counted toward engineering electives.

Engineering Statics

AA 210 (4 credits)

This course will be identical to on-campus sections of AA 210. Applies vector analysis to equilibrium of rigid body systems and subsystems. Includes force and moment resultants, free body diagrams, internal forces, and friction. Analyzes basic structural and machine systems and components.

Differential Equations

MATH 207 (3 credits)

This course will be identical to on-campus sections of MATH 207. Introductory course in ordinary differential equations. Includes first- and second-order equations and Laplace transform. (MATH 207 was previously numbered as MATH 307 prior to Autumn 2021.)

Beginning Italian

ENGR 296 (3 credits)

This course provides students with an introduction to conversational Italian. Students will learn practical language skills they will be able to utilize on a daily basis in Rome. The study of the Italian language is integrated with an overview of contemporary Italian culture throughout film, music and lectures that deal with cultural topics. Because of the practical nature of this course, it is not equivalent to any UW ITAL course numbers.

Exploration in Rome

ENGR 296 (5 credits)

This is a course of on-site learning. The students will explore the main sites of interest in the Eternal City from ancient Rome to the present day and the applications of STEM principles to real world examples, but also visit museums, churches and piazzas, and learn of architecture and art. The students will choose a topic or site in Rome and produce an independent research project on it.


Program course prerequisites

In order to take program courses, students must have received credit with a minimum grade of 2.0 in the program prerequisite courses of MATH 126 or MATH 136 and PHYS 121 or PHYS 141.

Typical weekly schedule

During the program, most weeks will follow a schedule in which program sessions are held in either the morning or afternoon.

  • Lecture sessions for AA 210 and MATH 207 are held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings

    • AA 210 and MATH 207 will be taught in intensive 5-week modules. AA 210 will be taught during the first half of the program and MATH 207 will be taught during the second half of the program.

  • Study session hours for AA 210 and MATH 207 will be held on Tuesday and Friday afternoons

  • Italian language course sessions will be held on Monday and Thursday afternoons

  • Excursions and occasional lectures tied to the Exploration in Rome course will be held on Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning