Master of Development Engineering Concentration Areas
AI/Data Analytics for Social Impact
In this concentration, you will take elective classes focused on how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data tools and analytics give the social and civic sector actionable insights. Classes may focus on data-intensive approaches to international development, applied machine learning, mapping poverty using satellite imagery and applications of information & communication technologies for development.
Examples of elective courses in this concentration area include:
(note – class offering at each specific year may change)
- INFO 203: Social Issues of Information (3 units)
- INFO 233: Social Psychology and Information Technology (3 units)
- INFO 247: Information Visualization and Presentation (3 units)
- INFO 254: Data Mining and Analytics (3 units)
- INFO 251: Applied Machine Learning (4 Units)
- INFO 257: Database Management (3 units) INFO 271B: Quantitative Research Methods for Information Systems and Management (3 units)
- INFO 272: Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems and Management (3 units)
- INFO 283: Information and Communications Technology for Development (3 units)
- INFO 288: Big Data and Development (3 units) INFO 188: Behind the Data – Humans and Values (3 units)
- IND ENG 135: Applied Data Science with Venture Applications (3 units) PB HLTH 290: Applied Impact Evaluation (3 units)
- CYPLAN 257: Data Science for Human Mobility and Socio-Technical Systems (4 units)
- PBHLTH 272B: Applied GIS for Public Health Practice (3 units)
- CE 263N: Scalable Spatial Analytics (3 units)
- ENERES 131: Data, Environment and Society (3 units)
- ESPM 271: Advanced Remote Sensing of Natural Resources (3 units)
Energy & Water Systems and the Environment
Students, choosing this concentration area, will take courses on core natural resource challenges—water and energy systems and their impact on the environment—and on life cycle assessment, water resource management, agricultural impact, and energy technologies and policies.
Examples of elective courses in this concentration area include:
(note – class offering at each specific year may change)
- CE 206: Water Resources Management (3 units)
- CE 210: Control of Water-Related Pathogens (3 Units)
- CE 268E: Civil Systems and the Environment (3 units)
- CE 290: Emerging Technologies for Water Sustainability (3 units)
- CE 263N: Scalable Spatial Analytics (3 units)
- CE 107: Climate Change Mitigation (3 units)
- CE 110: Water Systems of the Future (3 units)
- DevP222: Economic of sustainable resources development
- DevP227: Principles of natural resources management.
- MBA 212: Energy and Environmental Markets (3 units)
- ESPM 157: Data Science in Global Change Ecology (3 units)
- ESPM 163AC: Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment (3 units)
- ESPM 271: Advanced Remote Sensing of Natural Resources (3 units) ENERES C100/C200: Energy and Society (3 units)
- ENERES 131: Data, Environment and Society (3 units)
- ENERES C176/276: Climate Change Economics (3 units)
- ENERES 221: Climate, Energy and Development (3 units)
- ENERES 254: Electric Power Systems (3 units)
- ENERES 275: Water and Development (3 units)
- ARESEC 249: Agricultural, Food, and Resource Policy Workshop (3 units)
- ARESEC 261: Environmental and Resource Economics (3 units)
- ARESEC264: Empirical Energy and Environmental Economics (3 units)
Sustainable Design Innovations
In this concentration, you will take elective classes focused on building depth in sustainable designs with a social entrepreneurship theme in products, services, and system design. Classes may focus on principles of green design, the science of sustainability, sustainable economic models for consumption, circular economy, green chemistry, and product design skill sets. At the systems level, this concentration will look at sustainable and resilient communities, studying topics such as spatial modeling, affordable housing, public transportation, and equitable development.
Examples of elective courses in this concentration area include:
(note – class offering at each specific year may change)
- ME 290H: Green Product Development: Design for Sustainability (3 units)
- DEVENG 290: Innovation in Disaster Response, Resilience & Recovery
- PB HLTH 220C: Health Risk Assessment, Regulation, and Policy (3 units)
- DEVP 222: Economics of Sustainable Resource Development (3 units)
- CE 256: Transportation Sustainability (3 units)
- CYPLAN 256: Healthy Cities (3 units)
- CYPLAN 204C: Analytic and Research Methods for Planners: Introduction to GIS and City
- CYPLAN 257: Data Science for Human Mobility and Socio-technical Systems
- LD ARCH 130: Sustainable Landscapes & Cities (3 units)
- CYPLAN 254: Sustainable Communities (3 units)
- CE 268S: Buildings and Sustainability (3 units)
- PB HLTH 290: Greener Solutions: A Safer Design Partnership (3 units)
- ESPM 260: Governance of Global Production (3 units)
- ESPM 261: Sustainability and Society (3 units)
- CE 295: Energy Systems and Control (3 units)
- CE 186: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems (3 units)
- CE 107: Climate Change Mitigation (3 units)
- ENERES C176/276: Climate Change Economics (3 units)
- ENERES C100/C200: Energy and Society (3 units)
- ESPM 163AC: Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment (3 units)
- CE 268E: Civil Systems and the Environment (3 units)
Healthcare Transformations
In this concentration, you will take elective classes focused on the rapidly evolving landscape of global healthcare technologies and practices. Classes may focus on biomedical device design, health policy, health impact assessment, and the digital transformation of health care.
Examples of elective courses in this concentration area include:
(note – class offering at each specific year may change)
- BioE C106A: Introduction to Robotics (3 units)
- BioE C137: Designing for the Human Body (3 units)
- BioE 110: Biomedical Physiology for Engineers (3 units)
- Devp 229: Quantitative methods and impact evaluation (3 units)
- PBHLTH 181: Poverty and Population (3 units)
- PBHLTH 212A: International Maternal Child Health (3 units)
- PBHLTH 213: Global Health Ethics (3 units)
- PBHLTH 272B: Applied GIS for Public Health Practice (3 units)
- PBHLTH 226C: Economics of Population Health (3 units)
- PBHLTH 252C: Intervention Trial Design (3 units)
- PBHLTH W226: Health Economics (3 units)
- PBHLTH 223: Strategic Management and the Health Sector (3 units)
- PBHLTH 223D: Foundations of Health Policy and Management (3 units)
- PB HLTH 220C: Health Risk Assessment, Regulation, and Policy (3 units)
- DEVP 232: Foundations of Public Health (3 units)
