Amy Banzaert

Senior Lecturer in Engineering and Director of Engineering Studies

Researches engineering education and the development of consumer-oriented technologies that can benefit under-served populations worldwide.

Current and upcoming courses

  • The Climate Crisis and the Liberal Arts

    ES125H

    The humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences are indispensable to understanding the climate crisis. Drawing on perspectives from across the liberal arts, the course instructors will plumb the depths of the climate crisis and imagine the possible ways of responding to it. What can the role of climate in human history reveal about our uncertain future? How do social constructions, including race and gender, shape our understanding of this problem? How have diverse cultures of the world related to nature and climate and how can our own relationships to nature and climate inform our responses? Can the arts help us to reconceive the crisis? How can the sciences help us assess and adapt to our future climate? Can we leverage psychological processes to change individual attitudes toward the environment? By examining such questions, we aim for deeper knowledge, both of the climate crisis and of the power of liberal arts education. (ES 125H and PEAC 125H are cross-listed courses.)