CSE 201 — THE FORGE: IMMERSIVE SYSTEM-BUILDING LAB I (CUR-036)
Summary 🔴 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: CSE 201
- Last Verified: 2026-05-28
Course access
- Level: red (
Program Restricted) - Rationale: Enrollment requires instructor/department permission or program cohort standing per catalog.
- Prerequisites:
- Instructor permission or consent
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/cse
- Last verified: 2026-05-28
Catalog description
First course in a two-course sequence. An immersive quarter focused on a comprehensive introduction to basic fabrication and microcontroller systems. The course will cover the basics of microcontroller board design (schematics, layouts, and PCB creation with KiCAD), firmware (how to program boards, simple and advanced toolchains with Arduino and Eclipse), and input and output devices (sensors and motors/actuators). It will also cover basic fabrication to interface and build complete systems with these microcontrollers, focused on Fusion360 and practical skills in computer controlled cutting (vinyl and laser cutters) and 3D printing. ( CSC 242 OR CSC 243) AND MAT 130 AND Instructor Permission are prerequisites for this class.
Hardware relevance
Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.
Documented resource links
CDM-001
- Relationship: uses_facility
- Rationale: DePaul's Intelligent Systems Engineering program page documents "The Forge" immersive sequence (catalog title of CSE 201) alongside the Idea Realization Lab makerspace as program fabrication infrastructure. University news identifies David Ramsay as director of the Idea Realization Lab and describes his multi-quarter, weekly project-building course whose work is showcased as Idea Realization Lab output. DePaul course catalog description references Forge / IRL fabrication pathway.
- Source URLs:
- www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-intelligent-systems-engineering
- www.depaul.edu/news/david-ramsay
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/cse
- Resource page: CDM-001
Notes
Catalog course key: CSE 201. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.