The Interdisciplinary component of GCSP is meant to expose students to other fields that complement our technical engineering work in order to prepare us to tackle complex challenges that overlap with public policy, business, law, ethics, human behavior, risk, the arts, and medicine. In order to meet the requirements, I completed FSE 150: Perspectives on Grand Challenges for Engineering and PUP 301: Introduction to Urban Planning. 

FSE 150 is a mandatory class by the GSCP that aims to introduce students to the 14 Grand Challenges and provides us with an insight to how we can complete the program. Amy Trowbridge, the instructor of the class and director of the GSCP, helped us create a plan to how to complete all of the requirements of the class while also learning what interdisciplinary global engineering really means and how the grand challenges tie into it. 

PUP 301 was an online class offered by the School of Geographic Sciences and Urban Planning. The goal of the course is to examine the history of planning in the United States, including physical, social, and economic planning. The course was an excellent introduction into how sustainability must be implemented into a city beginning in the planning stage. This course related directly to the challenge of restoring and improving infrastructure underneath the Sustainability theme.