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The Energy Approach to Environmental Issues

Nov. 6, 2023

Introduction Many members of Generation Z who are interested in assisting in the fight against climate change have found themselves at somewhat of a crossroads. The issue is that no matter where we end up, there are a million different interconnected problems, all of which contribute substantially to habitat destruction,...

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Neoliberalism: It’s Time to Engineer Our Way Out of This (Herbst Fellow Essay)

Nov. 6, 2023

In almost every borough, suburb, and city block in America, quality of life is decreasing while cost of living is increasing. A stunning 69 percent of people can’t afford new median priced housing, driving over a third of American households to rent (United States Census Bureau, 2020). But the rental...

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ChatGPT is Forcing Us to Do Some Deep Reflecting: Are You Ready? (Herbst Fellow Essay)

Nov. 6, 2023

People are freaking out about ChatGPT’s ability to generate complex and unique texts that can be hard to distinguish from human writing (Dale, 2020). With ChatGPT gaining 100 million users in two months (The Economic Times, 2023) and becoming the fastest growing consumer application in history, many people feel like...

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Accessibility is a Major Component of Engineering Thus it Needs to be Embedded into the College of Engineering and Applied Science Curriculum

Nov. 3, 2023

As the builders of tomorrow, it is crucial that we learn to see our systems from different perspectives and understand the inherent biases of our worldview.