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Study for kikakaskihtân (You Can Do It)
Kent Monkman ~ Cree
2025
Kelly Robson
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![3. Science Fiction for Engineers
Science fiction has long imagined technologies that later became reality. But what can engineers learn from the genre today?
This course, offered by the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, unpacks the connections between engineering and fiction through topics ranging from AI to terraforming.
"Science Fiction for Engineers is a course for everyone who has read a story that makes them want not just to travel to the stars, but to help build the spaceship to get us there," says Shai Cohen, assistant professor, teaching stream, who teaches the course alongside sessional lecturer J. Coplen Rose. "It is also for anyone who sees a technological innovation being abused and wants to yell out, 'Haven't you read this book? Didn't you watch the movie? This is dangerous!
"We will be looking at a large number of [science fiction] stories and seeing how they relate to engineering – how they inspire us, how they warn us, what they tell us about where we will go and about where we have been."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b6tpa6ixjtq7jv6xi6oohmem/bafkreie423mj6iw5agbbi3voyvgyvptz2x4gy524cowspcfzmpdbhjfcdy)
